Chords for Ricky Skaggs | Lyric Acoustic Microphone

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, my name is Ricky Skaggs, [B] an older gentleman these days.
[E] _ _ _ Almost 54 years I've [A] been playing music, so _ _ _ _ _ _ it's not unusual [F#] to see something hanging
around my neck [D] or sitting on my [A] lap like a guitar any time of the day.
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_ _ _ [F#m] _ Well, this is my studio [D] _ where we're at today [A] and _ _ _ _ I [F#] love _ [D] making music here.
This is [A] _ _ _ _ the most fun [B] place, it's the most _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ creative [A] _
_ place that I think I've ever been in.
There's just like [D] almost a portal [C] here, an [A] openness _ _ _ of creativity.
[F#] Everyone that comes in here [D] loves to be here, [A] they love to play here.
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_ _ _ _ _ Music is really art, I mean it truly is, it's a [C] gift.
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[E] _ Making [D] music [Am] for me, _ [Dm] it's not just a [Am] commercial [A] entity, it's an expression of my heart,
it's an expression of my life, my feelings, my faith. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [A] It's an [Am] expression of my love [D] for mankind and [C] for friends and for people,
[D] but more than anything it's my love for God.
[Em] I just [G] can't _ [D] _ remember a day without [A] music and I couldn't [E] imagine a day without music.
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[A] _ _ _ _ [E] This guitar is _ [G] a PRS _ [A] _
_ [B] Angelus cutaway.
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I started working with Paul Reed Smith [Am] _ _
about [E] almost six years ago I guess now.
He said, _ I'm [A] looking to get [E] _
_ involved in making acoustic guitars
and from all the _ scuttlebutt out [G] on the road, you're the [A] go-to guy.
[B] You're the guy [E] that _ knows about acoustic guitars.
I thought, I play [A] mandolin. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] I love this guitar and I love working with Paul.
He has _ _ a different way of [Am] carving the top.
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His _ tone bracing on the inside is different than [Am] anyone else's.
[Em] Sworn to secrecy, I'd have to kill you if I told [A] you. _ _ _
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[A] _ Well I've been test driving the Lyric for _ _ [D] about _ [A] four months now.
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[A] _ [Em] In every environment, [F#m] _ [A] at a church, _ _ [D] at a little [G] club, a casino.
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_ I've played it with symphonies now.
I've played it _ [Em] everywhere I can really play [B] it.
In every environment that I've been in, it's been great.
No feedback, _
_ [E] plenty of volume.
[F#m] My sound man has [B] been very, very happy with it. _ _ _
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[Em] Moving around all over the stage, [B] _ _ [E] _
my sound [B] doesn't change.
[E] I don't have to depend on standing in front of a mic.
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I love it.
It's really worked for me.
I think it could [E] work for anybody out there.
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ As [D] Bluegrass players, [E] _ [B] we are very critical _ [F#m] of our instruments. _ _ _ _
_ [Em] Get a great instrument.
Get something that really, really [B] sounds awesome.
And then _ amplify that.
This Lyric is _ the best I've found so [Em] far. _ _
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