Chords for Nancy Wilson Interview

You go out on the stage, that's a saint. _ _ _
Please welcome to the stage, Miss Nancy Wilcox.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
Every time you walk [C] on stage, whatever went on two, [Bb] three minutes before, [G] or two days before, is gone.
[D] The object of the game is when they say your [A] name to [Bm] become the person [Bb] they expect you to be.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ Come the new [G] year, Nancy Wilson [D] will celebrate 50 [Bb] years in show business.
[Em] [Gm] I've got you _ [F] under my skin.
What [Eb] years they were.
Song after [Bb] song, record after record, [Eb] award after [C] award. _
[D] You're really a part [Bb] of me.
As [Gm] a young girl, Wilson sang in church choirs.
In [C] high school and college, [D] she found out that she could make money by making music.
_ [Gb] And since then, [C] music has never stopped.
[F] But [C] why should I try to resist [Bm] when darling I'm_
Was there [D] ever any doubt in your mind as to what you would do when you grew up?
[Bb] I just always did it.
I don't think I ever sat down and said, I want to be.
I'm going to be.
_ The voice just had a life of its own and [G] it just happened.
I'm a writer, _ _ and I approve of [Am] the trend.
[Em] Look what I [D] found, me, got myself [A] a little friend.
[Dm] In the [Eb]
1960s, Nancy Wilson was second only to the Beatles [E] in sales for Capitol Records.
[Bb] Quite a career.
If [Eb] I am fancy [D] free, I love to wander.
[Eb] It's just a gypsy in my soul.
[E] Still, after making more than [Gb] 60 albums, [F] she felt that something was missing.
[Ab] Oh, the weather outside is [F] frightful.
And the [Db] fire is so delightful.
[G]
After all these years of singing and [N] making records, why at this point a Christmas [B] album?
I think probably because I am a grandmother.
_ _ _ And it's something that I_
Every Christmas_
I mean, Christmas is very special to me.
I've done Christmas songs.
And in a body of work like mine, it seemed kind of ridiculous that I did not have an album of [B] just Christmas.
And [Bb] then it worked out to [C] where it benefited others.
_ _ [B] _ That's [Em] because all the proceeds [Fm] go to the Manchester [Db] Craftsman's Guild in Pittsburgh,
teaching people work [Bb] skills and helping them to get jobs. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[D] There was one particular song very [Eb] special to her [C] that Nancy Wilson wanted [Db] to put on the CD.
[Bb] _ _ [Fm] _
[Bb] Well, my favorite song on the album is Sweet Little Jesus Boy.
That's my mom's song.
It was a song I did for my mom.
And she [C] got to hear it.
[Bbm] And she passed, [Gbm] [Bb] you [F] know, January.
Right after I had [B] finished recording it.
But she got [B] to hear it.
And I got to see her face [Ab] as she listened to it.
[Dm] Oh, _ [G] _ _
[Bb] _ _ sweet, _ [C] _ [C] sweet [Gm] little Jesus boy.
[Cm] Oh, little _ Jesus [Eb] boy.
_ Long [F] _
time ago.
[Ab] _ [Bb] For Nancy Wilson, [Em] her family has always been first.
Build your _ [Eb] dreams [Bb] to _ [D] stars above.
_ [D] _
She kept the music playing, but [G] knew when to put it in the [Am] background. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
I do [B] remember, you know, working one year.
It was just absolutely ridiculous.
And I said, this is not _ what it's about.
I don't want to work 52 weeks a year.
I don't want to work 48 weeks a year.
And then I just had to back off and say, OK, I'll put it in place.
I have to do this the way I have to.
Not because an agent says this or management says.
I need some space and time.
I want a life.
I want a family.
[C] And I fought for it.
And I won.
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moon dance.
With the stars up above in your eyes.
The fight was worth it.
[Ebm] Wilson's been happily married for over [Dm] 30 years to the Reverend [Em] Wiley Burton.
She has three children [Eb] and three grandkids.
All the leaves [Dm] on the trees are [Fm] falling to [Cm] the sound of the [Ebm] breezes that [F] blow.
[Gm] Wilson has worked with some of the great music makers of our time.
[Db] She has just recorded her second album with Ramsey Lewis.
[Gb] Too soon the [Em] time to go [B] will [Em] come.
Wilson [F] and Lewis were scheduled to record on September 11th.
[C] The [A] song, Did I Ever Really Live?
was recorded [F] the next day.
[E] Full of unexpected but inevitable [G] new meaning.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] My entire life has changed.
You look at [Bb] everything differently.
I will not ever [Db] be able to forget that [F] day. _
New York has taken on an entirely different meaning.
I love the city even more than ever.
[F] City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in [Dm] holiday style.
In the [Am] air [F] there's a feeling [Gb] of [F] Christmas.
[G] I mean I have a great feeling for it because I feel it's paying.
_ [Bb] _ [B] So New York is going to be fine.
[Cm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ Black, black [F] is the velvet of [Cm] the midnight sky.
_ No matter how terrible the news, [Gb] with Wilson singing you often think things are going to work out in the end.
[Bb] In [Em] 1968, after the [F] death of Martin Luther [B] King, I wrote the [B] lyrics of a song.
[Am] Nancy Wilson recorded it.
Black as [Em] soil, _ black as [Eb] _
soul.
_ _ [F] _ _ _
[Eb] Black as you and me. _ _
[Ab] _ It's beautiful, [Em] _ _ [G] _
[Gm] don't you [Eb] see.
I sang it about _ [Em] everything that you sang, about what was going on with Dr.
King.
Having gone to Selma, having marched, having, and then to have a, at that time, five year old little boy.
_ That I wanted to understand what was going on.
So I wanted to sing Black is Beautiful.
And I did it in front of audiences with a six foot by six foot portrait of my son's face.
And now that I have done that song with [Eb] tears down my face.
_ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ [F] It's so beautiful, [C] _
makes me cry.
[B] _ _ _ When she sings [Em] it now, her voice is deeper.
So [Am] is the feeling.
_ It's that way [Em] with Wilson's music.
The more she lives, the more she experiences, the more she can move us.
[G] You really are an actress and you really are telling a [Bb] story teller.
I'm a story [B] teller.
I believe in a song with a lyric.
I want you to, I want you to feel [Ab] something.
I want it to touch [Dbm] your heart.
I want it to get right into the marrow, you [A] know. _
And I [Bb] want you to understand the meaning of what I'm saying.
I want you to get it.
[B] I don't want you to ignore it.
And you [Dbm] don't know, you don't know, you don't know, you don't know, you don't know.
But don't miss the point.
[E] Above all, Wilson wants you [A] to enjoy it.
You don't know [B] how to live.
_ _ _ _ After all, she does.
How to live. _ _ _ _
[B] It must be fun being Nancy Wilson.
_ _ Yeah, it's kind of nice, yeah.
It's not bad, not bad.
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _