Chords for OLYMPIC GUITAR by Livingston Taylor

It used to be every four years, but of course now they stagger the winter in the summer Olympics and so every two years
_ I'm my friend _ _ and saddled with a pain.
I am saddled with the sadness
Because I've had a dream.
It's been a dream for many many years for me and that dream is that somehow somewhere someplace _
guitar playing
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an Olympic
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Wonder what that might possibly sound do not know
_ Just me one day stand _ the lights fade the spots find me center stage the hush
falls over the crowd the MC speaks into the darkness _ and
here _ for the United States of America on
freestyle _ guitar
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Livingston Taylor _ _ _ _ _
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Well Jeff Livingston's doing a little shuffle here in a major
Seems to be going pretty [D] smoothly
[A] _ [D] Now he's [A] scheduled to go to the four-chord
[E] _ [A] But after what happened at the [D] Nationals in [A] Louisville, [E] we got to [A] think he's not going to risk it here this evening
_ _ [D] _ [A] Wait a minute.
I am wrong.
He's going [D] for it.
All right.
He's got [A] a very difficult triplet maneuver up the neck
He's going to have to nail it
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_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ He's stuck It's
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Chip tonight Livingston is truly El Nino _
_ You know, these guitar players are awfully popular around the Olympic Village
Yeah, their van pulls up.
They go [E] up to their rooms.
They unpack their bags and the arcade _ begins
No, you're [E] right [A] You're right
With the proposed drug tests for next year.
I expect a lot of these guys [E] will never be back [A] again
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[E] _ _ _ Okay, got a [A] nice little retro disco thing [E] here on the five chord [A] this should help [E] with the Eastern European judges
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I'll tell you chip the whole Olympic community is just buzzing about the chances
for Livingston and James in the pairs competition
_ Heck if Leo Kottke hadn't broken the thumbnail.
I don't think Livingston would be here at all _ _ _
All right here comes the dismount _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Chip it's right on the bubble here
_ _ _ No chance of getting the gold from Eric Clapton
_ But if he can stick this ending could sneak in for a medal, [Em] he's gonna have to [E] nail the dismount here it comes _
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_ _ _ _ _ Mean can you recreate recreate it for me?
You're sitting in a motel six in Iowa
I you know, I just I just thought it would be funny.
I watched TV and I watched
And I watched the commentary I watched these ridiculous commentaries that they do on all sporting events
And I thought it would be humorous to have two guys doing a play-by-play at the Guitar Olympics
I think it's a great song.
I mean it's a good song.
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Give me
_ _ It's probably no coincidence that Livingston Taylor is playing a Taylor guitar _
Let's uh, let's go and I want to hear the lick in slow motion what [A] this one?
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_ _ [E] Now what what key is [E] that in you're playing it on the guitar?
_ _ first position chords first [Bb] position chords, and I never use any open tuning and
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That's a standard standard standard tunings and that songs in the key of a [N] key of a so now give it back to me at
the breakneck Livingston [A] Taylor at the Olympics _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [N] Livingston Taylor on that guitar
_ That's right spanking that bad boy _ _ _
When I get all they're gonna throw wood passing wood shed and all that guitar