Chords for Steep Canyon Rangers - Video Biography

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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ Call up the captain tell him [Dbm] I ain't coming in.
[E] He can dig his own hole, [Dbm] something else is happening
[E] This living that I'm making [Dbm] is doing a sin
[B] It's broken the laws of doing [E] and
Been _ hauling coal since I [Dbm] was big enough
[E] Ever since Bill Monroe laid down the fundamentals of [Db] bluegrass new generations have [E] embraced and reinterpreted this bedrock [Dbm] American music
Some are born [B] into the tradition others discover it and make it their own
[E] passion [Bb] of the [Db] converted
[Eb] They _ [Bb] _ [Eb] met [Bb] as undergraduates at the University of North Carolina and over [Fm] several [Eb] years their [Bb] informal jams led to a [Eb] busy touring [Bbm] schedule
Not content with merely reworking the standard repertoire
They made songwriting a vital part of their sound
Drawing from the bluegrass forefathers as well as writers like [Eb] Townsman's aunt John Prime
[Bbm] The Rangers deliver what few bluegrass groups can
New standards and a contemporary perspective on the age-old themes of love life [Eb] and death
[Bb] after releasing three acclaimed [Eb] albums since
[Bb] 2002 the steep Canyon Rangers now step forward with loving pretty women their most sophisticated and [Bbm] exciting recording today
The title track could have been in the repertoire of Reno and Smiley or John Hartford
But like most of their songs, it's a Rangers original
Testimony to why country standard time said some of their songs [Eb] are on [Bb] the way to becoming future bluegrass
Classes jam bass calls their music [Bbm] bluegrass of the highest order
No depression says they get the big things and the little things right and [Eb] a writer for the online [Bb] magazine pop matters
Called the steep Canyon Rangers raw and perfect [Bbm] band that would spend its last dollar to make and listen to its own [Eb] kind of blues _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] But
The [Bb] accolades and awards [Eb] can't truly measure the [Bb] experience of seeing the steep Canyon Rangers [Eb] live
They're [Bbm] masters of their instruments
Painstaking in their vocal range which surge with dynamics and emotion in the tradition of the Stanley or Osborne brothers
They're not brothers through a bloodline
But [Eb] their bond is strong as a band of very close friends who stayed together for nearly 10 years
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Plans to keep making vital music
[Eb] There's anyone will listen _ _
Graham sharp woody platt
[Bb] Charles R.
Humphrey the third Mike Gugino and Nicky Sanders [Bbm] are Canyon Rangers
But I came
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_ _ can make a living
Loving pretty women I could do just what I please I can make
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Ain't no good driving nails
_ _ Traveling [Gb] door-to-door
[E] And I do [B] what I got to do just like the day before
_ Well, I can't complain about scraping by _
While others [Gb] got it bad.
[E] I got [B] pennies in my pocket big dreams in my head
I can make _
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_ _ _ Cindy and Lisa to
There's [Gbm] Jessica and Kate
[E] But I've been working [B] seven days a week to switch and there was a
Well, I may not be a movie star
_ But I [Gb] take my time [E] I always [B] be a ramblin
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_ need a brand new spirit _ I
Need [Gb] a brand new song
[E] And I know it [B] when I hear it and I'll sing it all day long
_ all day long and everywhere I
Just [Gb] have one request
Let [E] me live to [B] love and love to live and leave it out to rest
If I could make a living
Loving pretty women _
I could do just what I please I can make I _ _
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Charles is on the base
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[D] _ _ _ [G] And Woody's on the [D] guitar _
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