Chords for My Generation: Judy Collins
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Judy Collins is an American folk icon, [Eb] a pioneer, author, activist, and part of American music history.
My Generation's Bill Boggs recently paid her a visit.
Woke [Ab] up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing I did was get set for my interview with the woman who made [Eb] that song famous,
[Ab] the incomparable Judy Collins.
[Eb] Judy Collins has been performing her entire life, and with Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger,
she pioneered the mid-20th century [Ab] folk [Eb] movement, singing with a voice [Ab] described as liquid [Db] silver.
[Cm] [Db] She's recorded [Eb] 50 albums, the latest, [Ab] the Lennon-McCartney [Bb] collection.
She's won two Grammys and does [Eb] 60 concerts a year.
To meet Judy, we headed to New [Ab] York's gracious Upper West Side, and the great singer's home.
So this has been home for quite a while.
It's been home for about half my life.
Well, yeah, [Eb] that's good.
Well, it shows.
It's filled with wonderful [Ab] things.
Those wonderful things [Eb] include Tiffany lamps and glass collectibles, a piano laden with family photos, gold records,
some photos of notable family friends, and career mementos.
You have said that you have to [Ab] perform, as you do, and you do a lot of concerts every year and so forth,
that you have to live like an athlete.
Well, you do.
Tell me a little bit about your routine, the do's and don'ts, and what you do so you can hit the mark when you need to hit the mark.
I exercise regularly, for the most part, five times a week, maybe six, maybe four.
What do you do?
Well, I run.
I have [A] a treadmill and a bike here at the apartment, but in the hotel rooms I run around the apartment, around the hotel room.
Around the room itself?
Around the room, [B] watching my favorite shows.
You run around the room?
I run around the room.
You have to make it accessible.
You don't crash into the bed or anything?
Hopefully they're giving you [D] pretty large rooms.
[Eb] Well, you know, you can do a lot with a small space.
I can run in here very easily.
You don't have to run [Bb] fast.
Away from the stage, Judy [Eb] Collins has faced tough times.
She writes about battling alcoholism and the tragic [Bb] suicide of her son, and offers advice in [F] her book, [Bb] Sanity and Grace.
But I have a lot of tools.
Don't stop talking [N] about it.
Even when people say, oh, so is she going to go into that again?
I don't want to hear about that.
Let it out.
Let people go in your life who don't want to hear about it.
And turn your attention to helping other people, if you can.
Do as much writing as you can.
Writing is very healing.
Get into your life.
Do the thing that had always helped me, which was singing, writing, reading, writing songs.
I eventually wrote a lot of songs in those first couple of years, which took me years to record them.
[A]
Amazing grace.
In concert, one of Judy's [G] great songs, offering a healing [D] message, [C] is the hymn, Amazing Grace.
[D]
That saved a [Dm]
[Cm] wretch like me.
When you're on stage singing a truly transporting song like Amazing Grace, the audience is with you.
You're sending it out to them.
They're sending something back to you.
Can you in any way describe what that feels like?
What a joy it is to sing.
What a privilege how much of a celebration it is to be able to sing.
That's the way I feel every time I sing.
Send [Ab] in the clouds.
[Bb] Don't [Ab] bother, [Eb] they're here.
[Bb]
[Bb] [Eb] What was there, just quickly, about Send in the Clouds that grabbed you?
The English horn.
[C] Da da da da, da da da da.
And of course the voice and [Eb] the English horn.
My voice and the English [Bb] horn.
And the lyric and the story.
[Eb] And it's obviously an [Bb]
ironic song.
Very, very ironic.
[Eb] Losing my timing this late in my career.
[Ab] What lines in that [Bb] song?
The transporting power of music.
And [Ab] Judy, you've been doing [Bb] it for a long time.
You're going to continue to do it, I sense, for a very long time.
I think so.
I [Eb] appreciate it.
Thank [Bb] you.
[Db] Thank [N] you so much.
No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you, Judy.
You are truly a music pioneer.
[D] [N]
Judy Collins is an American folk icon, [Eb] a pioneer, author, activist, and part of American music history.
My Generation's Bill Boggs recently paid her a visit.
Woke [Ab] up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing I did was get set for my interview with the woman who made [Eb] that song famous,
[Ab] the incomparable Judy Collins.
[Eb] Judy Collins has been performing her entire life, and with Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger,
she pioneered the mid-20th century [Ab] folk [Eb] movement, singing with a voice [Ab] described as liquid [Db] silver.
[Cm] [Db] She's recorded [Eb] 50 albums, the latest, [Ab] the Lennon-McCartney [Bb] collection.
She's won two Grammys and does [Eb] 60 concerts a year.
To meet Judy, we headed to New [Ab] York's gracious Upper West Side, and the great singer's home.
So this has been home for quite a while.
It's been home for about half my life.
Well, yeah, [Eb] that's good.
Well, it shows.
It's filled with wonderful [Ab] things.
Those wonderful things [Eb] include Tiffany lamps and glass collectibles, a piano laden with family photos, gold records,
some photos of notable family friends, and career mementos.
You have said that you have to [Ab] perform, as you do, and you do a lot of concerts every year and so forth,
that you have to live like an athlete.
Well, you do.
Tell me a little bit about your routine, the do's and don'ts, and what you do so you can hit the mark when you need to hit the mark.
I exercise regularly, for the most part, five times a week, maybe six, maybe four.
What do you do?
Well, I run.
I have [A] a treadmill and a bike here at the apartment, but in the hotel rooms I run around the apartment, around the hotel room.
Around the room itself?
Around the room, [B] watching my favorite shows.
You run around the room?
I run around the room.
You have to make it accessible.
You don't crash into the bed or anything?
Hopefully they're giving you [D] pretty large rooms.
[Eb] Well, you know, you can do a lot with a small space.
I can run in here very easily.
You don't have to run [Bb] fast.
Away from the stage, Judy [Eb] Collins has faced tough times.
She writes about battling alcoholism and the tragic [Bb] suicide of her son, and offers advice in [F] her book, [Bb] Sanity and Grace.
But I have a lot of tools.
Don't stop talking [N] about it.
Even when people say, oh, so is she going to go into that again?
I don't want to hear about that.
Let it out.
Let people go in your life who don't want to hear about it.
And turn your attention to helping other people, if you can.
Do as much writing as you can.
Writing is very healing.
Get into your life.
Do the thing that had always helped me, which was singing, writing, reading, writing songs.
I eventually wrote a lot of songs in those first couple of years, which took me years to record them.
[A]
Amazing grace.
In concert, one of Judy's [G] great songs, offering a healing [D] message, [C] is the hymn, Amazing Grace.
[D]
That saved a [Dm]
[Cm] wretch like me.
When you're on stage singing a truly transporting song like Amazing Grace, the audience is with you.
You're sending it out to them.
They're sending something back to you.
Can you in any way describe what that feels like?
What a joy it is to sing.
What a privilege how much of a celebration it is to be able to sing.
That's the way I feel every time I sing.
Send [Ab] in the clouds.
[Bb] Don't [Ab] bother, [Eb] they're here.
[Bb]
[Bb] [Eb] What was there, just quickly, about Send in the Clouds that grabbed you?
The English horn.
[C] Da da da da, da da da da.
And of course the voice and [Eb] the English horn.
My voice and the English [Bb] horn.
And the lyric and the story.
[Eb] And it's obviously an [Bb]
ironic song.
Very, very ironic.
[Eb] Losing my timing this late in my career.
[Ab] What lines in that [Bb] song?
The transporting power of music.
And [Ab] Judy, you've been doing [Bb] it for a long time.
You're going to continue to do it, I sense, for a very long time.
I think so.
I [Eb] appreciate it.
Thank [Bb] you.
[Db] Thank [N] you so much.
No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you, Judy.
You are truly a music pioneer.
[D] [N]
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_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ Judy Collins is an American folk icon, [Eb] a pioneer, author, activist, and part of American music history.
My Generation's Bill Boggs recently paid her a visit. _ _ _
Woke [Ab] up, _ it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing I did was get set for my interview with the woman who made [Eb] that song famous,
[Ab] the incomparable _ Judy Collins.
[Eb] Judy Collins has been performing her entire life, and with Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger,
she pioneered the mid-20th century [Ab] folk [Eb] movement, singing with a voice [Ab] described as liquid [Db] silver. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Db] She's recorded [Eb] 50 albums, the latest, [Ab] the Lennon-McCartney [Bb] collection.
She's won two Grammys and does [Eb] 60 concerts a year.
To meet Judy, we headed to New [Ab] York's gracious Upper West Side, and the great singer's home. _
So this has been home for quite a while.
It's been home for about half my life.
Well, yeah, [Eb] that's good.
Well, it shows.
It's filled with wonderful [Ab] things.
Those wonderful things [Eb] include Tiffany lamps and glass collectibles, a piano laden with family photos, gold records,
some photos of notable family friends, and career _ mementos.
_ You have said that you have to [Ab] perform, as you do, and you do a lot of concerts every year and so forth,
that you have to live like an athlete.
Well, you do.
Tell me a little bit about your routine, the do's and don'ts, and what you do so you can hit the mark when you need to hit the mark.
I exercise regularly, for the most part, five times a week, maybe six, maybe four.
What do you do?
Well, I run.
I have [A] a treadmill and a bike here at the apartment, but in the hotel rooms I run around the apartment, around the hotel room.
Around the room itself?
Around the room, [B] watching my favorite shows.
You run around the room?
I run around the room.
You have to make it accessible.
You don't crash into the bed or anything?
Hopefully they're giving you [D] pretty large rooms.
[Eb] Well, you know, you can do a lot with a small space.
I can run in here very easily.
You don't have to run [Bb] fast.
Away from the stage, Judy [Eb] Collins has faced tough times.
She writes about battling alcoholism and the tragic [Bb] suicide of her son, and offers advice in [F] her book, [Bb] Sanity and Grace. _
But I have a lot of tools.
Don't stop talking [N] about it.
Even when people say, oh, so is she going to go into that again?
I don't want to hear about that.
Let it out.
Let people go in your life who don't want to hear about it.
_ _ And turn your attention to helping other people, if you can.
Do as much writing as you can.
Writing is very healing.
Get into your life.
Do the thing that had always helped me, which was singing, _ writing, _ reading, _ writing songs.
I eventually wrote a lot of songs in those first couple of years, which took me years to record them.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ Amazing grace.
In concert, one of Judy's [G] great songs, offering a healing [D] message, [C] is the hymn, Amazing Grace.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
That saved a _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] wretch like me.
When you're on stage singing a truly transporting song like Amazing Grace, _ _ _ _ the audience is with you.
You're sending it out to them.
They're sending something back to you.
Can you in any way describe what that feels like?
What a joy it is to sing.
What a privilege how _ much of a celebration it is to be able to sing.
That's the way I feel every time I sing.
_ Send _ [Ab] in the _ _ clouds. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Don't [Ab] bother, _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] they're _ here.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ What was there, just quickly, about Send in the Clouds that _ grabbed you? _
_ The English horn.
_ [C] Da da da da, da da da da.
And of course the voice and [Eb] the English horn.
My voice and the English [Bb] horn.
And the lyric and the story.
[Eb] And it's obviously an [Bb]
ironic song.
Very, very ironic.
[Eb] Losing my timing this late in my career.
[Ab] What _ _ lines in that [Bb] song?
The transporting power of music.
And [Ab] Judy, you've been doing [Bb] it for a long time.
You're going to continue to do it, I sense, for a very long time.
I think so.
I [Eb] appreciate it.
Thank [Bb] you. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] Thank [N] you so much.
_ _ _ No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you, Judy.
You are truly a music pioneer.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ Judy Collins is an American folk icon, [Eb] a pioneer, author, activist, and part of American music history.
My Generation's Bill Boggs recently paid her a visit. _ _ _
Woke [Ab] up, _ it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing I did was get set for my interview with the woman who made [Eb] that song famous,
[Ab] the incomparable _ Judy Collins.
[Eb] Judy Collins has been performing her entire life, and with Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger,
she pioneered the mid-20th century [Ab] folk [Eb] movement, singing with a voice [Ab] described as liquid [Db] silver. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Db] She's recorded [Eb] 50 albums, the latest, [Ab] the Lennon-McCartney [Bb] collection.
She's won two Grammys and does [Eb] 60 concerts a year.
To meet Judy, we headed to New [Ab] York's gracious Upper West Side, and the great singer's home. _
So this has been home for quite a while.
It's been home for about half my life.
Well, yeah, [Eb] that's good.
Well, it shows.
It's filled with wonderful [Ab] things.
Those wonderful things [Eb] include Tiffany lamps and glass collectibles, a piano laden with family photos, gold records,
some photos of notable family friends, and career _ mementos.
_ You have said that you have to [Ab] perform, as you do, and you do a lot of concerts every year and so forth,
that you have to live like an athlete.
Well, you do.
Tell me a little bit about your routine, the do's and don'ts, and what you do so you can hit the mark when you need to hit the mark.
I exercise regularly, for the most part, five times a week, maybe six, maybe four.
What do you do?
Well, I run.
I have [A] a treadmill and a bike here at the apartment, but in the hotel rooms I run around the apartment, around the hotel room.
Around the room itself?
Around the room, [B] watching my favorite shows.
You run around the room?
I run around the room.
You have to make it accessible.
You don't crash into the bed or anything?
Hopefully they're giving you [D] pretty large rooms.
[Eb] Well, you know, you can do a lot with a small space.
I can run in here very easily.
You don't have to run [Bb] fast.
Away from the stage, Judy [Eb] Collins has faced tough times.
She writes about battling alcoholism and the tragic [Bb] suicide of her son, and offers advice in [F] her book, [Bb] Sanity and Grace. _
But I have a lot of tools.
Don't stop talking [N] about it.
Even when people say, oh, so is she going to go into that again?
I don't want to hear about that.
Let it out.
Let people go in your life who don't want to hear about it.
_ _ And turn your attention to helping other people, if you can.
Do as much writing as you can.
Writing is very healing.
Get into your life.
Do the thing that had always helped me, which was singing, _ writing, _ reading, _ writing songs.
I eventually wrote a lot of songs in those first couple of years, which took me years to record them.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ Amazing grace.
In concert, one of Judy's [G] great songs, offering a healing [D] message, [C] is the hymn, Amazing Grace.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
That saved a _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] wretch like me.
When you're on stage singing a truly transporting song like Amazing Grace, _ _ _ _ the audience is with you.
You're sending it out to them.
They're sending something back to you.
Can you in any way describe what that feels like?
What a joy it is to sing.
What a privilege how _ much of a celebration it is to be able to sing.
That's the way I feel every time I sing.
_ Send _ [Ab] in the _ _ clouds. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Don't [Ab] bother, _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] they're _ here.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ What was there, just quickly, about Send in the Clouds that _ grabbed you? _
_ The English horn.
_ [C] Da da da da, da da da da.
And of course the voice and [Eb] the English horn.
My voice and the English [Bb] horn.
And the lyric and the story.
[Eb] And it's obviously an [Bb]
ironic song.
Very, very ironic.
[Eb] Losing my timing this late in my career.
[Ab] What _ _ lines in that [Bb] song?
The transporting power of music.
And [Ab] Judy, you've been doing [Bb] it for a long time.
You're going to continue to do it, I sense, for a very long time.
I think so.
I [Eb] appreciate it.
Thank [Bb] you. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] Thank [N] you so much.
_ _ _ No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you, Judy.
You are truly a music pioneer.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _