Chords for Sly Stone at his 70's home in Marin

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_ _ [G] Some people have asked, [C#] whatever happened to Sly Stone?
[D#] Or whatever happened [A] to Sly Stone?
[E] I [D] would say the same thing if I [B] heard and saw a [C#] person a lot on the radio and saw them
[C] on television a lot and then I didn't see them all of a _ [B] sudden.
And I _ think that is [C#] the basic [C] reason because it's nice to be missed [A] and [A#] _ makes you feel
[C#] like you're on the right track.
[B] If somebody says, well where is Sly?
I've been [G#] relaxing. _
_ _ You mean you've sort [B] of been on a break?
Yes.
Self-imposed?
Yes.
_ Being a superstar, _ [N] is there a certain kind of pressure that goes along with it?
The only way it crosses [C#] my mind is because I want to do [E] it right.
_ [Dm] So the only [C#m] bother is the bother that I put on myself to make [Cm] sure I must [B] do this, I must
do this, [E] I must do this.
[B] I surely need that also. _
Do you like being a superstar?
_ Well, I [C]
like [E] being right. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Cm] _ _ You got started [E] though at KSOL as a DJ [B] here in the Bay Area.
Yes.
How did you make the transition from [F#] being a DJ to singing?
_ [B] What made you decide that that was [A] okay?
I used to sing all the [F#] time anyway.
I brought a piano, I had a piano [C#] live in there.
And there were some times when, you know, like [C] some commercials, [E] I made them [D] up myself.
I played my piano [E] and I sang the commercials.
And [B] then some songs that I liked, I'd cut in on the [D] part and turn the record down. _ _
_ [B] Turn the record back up, you know.
If you were [Bm] just a disc jockey, say at KSOL still, and not Sly Stone, rock star, _ do you
think that pressures in lifestyle would be less maybe?
I think that [E] if I were doing [C] anything else, I'd [Bm] be bored. _ _
_ [C#] So I just take it [Bm] all in stride.
I have to do [C#] what I do anyway.
Because that's what I want to do so much, you know.
So [G] it's like [B] I'm trapped [E] doing what I want to do anyway.
[D] A lot of people get to be [C#] made happy by [B] being able to do what I want to do.
It seems to make a lot of, turn a lot of people on.
_ _ [C] That [B] is more fun.
You were one of the first black musicians to have a wide range of audience.
A lot of white people followed your music and bought your [C#] music.
Why do you suppose your music did [D#] that? _
[D] I think it has to do [F] _ with _ [E]
songs that involve everybody.
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[G#m] And a [C#] message that involves [E] everybody.
Everybody _ [D#] _
_ _ wants [C#] to be happy.
[B] _ _ [G#m] The songs [C#] that we do are songs that I feel should make everybody happy. _
_ I think that's [Bm] basically it.
[G#] You want to make people feel good with your music.
So you have [C#] up music, would you say?
[B] I'd say so.
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_ [G] _ [E] I like to do positive things.
I don't like to bring anybody down.
_ Because [F#] what you put into it is what you get out of it.
[N] You bring somebody down, you wind up down yourself.
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_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [G] You're recording a new [Em] album.
Yes.
_ And you do it at midnight, though I understand, right?
[A#] Well, the [D] phone stopped ringing.
[Bm] And things stopped happening that _ [F] _ _ _
have [C#m] reason to occur during the day and the evenings.
Okay, play it.
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_ _ [E] I like music.
And if I'm in a recording session, _ [D] the merrier I am.
Now [F] I can record it, too.
_ [C#m] It's just a natural feeling that I get.
_ Some people like to swim, so when they see water, they get turned on.
[G#] _ _ [A#] But [G] music does it for you.
[A#] Yeah, the most.
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