Chords for robbie by alexander sage oyen (studio recording)

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_ [Bb] Ravi _ was a drummer in a [Db] rock band.
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_ Ravi [Bb] _ had problems he felt nobody could [Bbm] understand.
_ Ravi [Bb] was a smart kid, well I'm [Db] not truly sure.
But [Bbm] my mother says he was, so [Fm] I [Bbm] guess I believe her. _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ He left these old vinyls in [Db] my house, Pink Floyd, The Grateful [Bb] Dead.
[Bbm] But mom never played a single one.
I asked her why and she [Bb] said [Db] that they were her brother's records once.
And they [Bb] had painful stories from long ago.
So my [Bbm] uncle's old stuff sits on [Gb] the shelf, _ _ _ _ _ with a history [Bb] that nobody [Db] can know. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Grandma told _ stories about Ravi. _ _ _ _
How [Bbm] he'd play his drums so loud and wake the house at [Bb] 3 AM. _
_ [Db] _ Mom put his picture _ right next to one of me. _
[Bbm] She said there's some _ resemblance, but I guess I couldn't see. _ _
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Maybe [Gb] there was something [Bbm] even then, and my mother just [Eb] knew.
[Db] That it was the music in our hearts that [Bbm] _ connected us two.
Maybe [Gb] just the twinkle in [Bbm] his eye had projected onto [Eb] me. _
[Gb] But I was proud that I had shared something [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ with Ravi.
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[Fm] Well, mom said that [Bbm] Ravi was never really happy. _
[Fm] He always seemed _ _ [Ab] to run with the [Db] wrong crowd. _
_ [Fm] Mom sort of _ always [Bbm] blamed it on her parents. _
_ [Gb] Even though she'd never [Bb] dared to say it out [Ab] loud. _ _
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January _ _ _ [Db] 21st, _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] 1980, my mother got a _ [Db] telephone _ _ [Ab] call.
_ _ _ _ She always knew that there was something [Db] wrong. _
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But [Bbm] she didn't see [Db] that coming at all.
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And now I'm [Bbm] getting older, man this time of year's [Db] the worst. _
[Gb] My [Bbm] birthday's a few days [Fm] away, _
[Bbm] it's January [Gb] _ _ 21st.
Mom never made [Fm] a deal of it.
[Bbm] She always tried to make me _ [Gb] _ see.
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[Gb] That even though _ Ravi was [Ab] gone, _ _ [Db] well now she [Bbm] had me.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ He left those old vinyls in my house.
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I try to play one every year.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] To [Ab] remember [Db] the [Bbm] days gone _ [Ab] by.
_ _ From when _ _ Ravi _ _ _ _ _ _ was _ _ _ here. _
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