Chords for Steve Earle Plays (and teaches) Sparkle and Shine

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_ _ Sunset in my mirror, pedal on the floor.
I'm in New York City and I won't be back no more.
[B] Won't be back [A] no more, boss.
Won't see me around.
[E] Goodbye, guitar town.
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_ _ _ _ My baby's sparkle and shine, sparkle and shine, sparkle and shine.
My baby's sparkle and shine, everyone knows she's mine.
_ She blesses all that she sees, a toss of her hair and a kiss in the breeze.
But she don't love no one but me and I can't believe she's mine.
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[Dm] Shimmering she moves, [Gm] _ sunlight all around her.
Even [D] when she's [Gm] blue, silver [C] clouds surround [F] her.
My baby's sparkle and shine, sparkle and shine, sparkle and shine.
My baby's sparkle and shine, [G] everyone knows she's fine. _
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_ _ My baby swings down the street with big tall high heel shoes on her feet.
Walks by, my heart's gets a beat and I [C] stumble in [F] like a fool. _
She give me something so sweet that I can't sleep, y'all, I can't eat.
_ Sparks fly whenever we meet and I'm breathless cause she's so cool.
[Gm] _ _ [Dm] Anywhere she [Gm] goes, I [E] can only [C] follow.
[Gm] She be [Dm] there I know, [Gm] I [C] awake tomorrow.
[F] My baby's sparkle and shine, sparkle and shine, sparkle and shine.
My baby's sparkle and shine, [Am] everyone knows she's fine.
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Everyone knows [F] she's mine. _ _ _ _
_ _ I think the thing that makes this is all the little hammer-ons and then of course going to the minor _ during the bridge when you go to the minor chords.
That's the, you know, I was [Gb] probably heard all of that whole samba craze stuff, the pop music that was affected by that.
In the 60s at the same time I was listening to all this folk stuff and jazz, the jazz that I listen to.
But that's, you know, that's kind of, it sort of changes gears there.
It kind of comes to, it's almost, it does have [B] a clave to it.
Well the Beatles did that kind of thing too.
Oh absolutely, that's why, yeah.
[Dm] _ It's like I, I don't, [B] _ it was amazing how, my theory's always been they got a hold of,
they were fascinated with chords.
You know, because I remember, I got off, I learned to play by getting a Mel Bay chord book and listening to Beatles and Stuntz records and trying to figure out,
and I didn't even get close sometimes.
Sometimes I just didn't have the wherewithal and it was years later when, you know,
I had friends that were professional musicians that were, had much stronger music theory than I did before I learned.
My wife is, you know, can read music and I read a little bit of treble clef from having played trumpet for like two years in middle school and that was it. _
Yeah, could I just see that bridge again where it goes to that?
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[D] _ [Dm] _ [Gm] Yeah, that nice.
_ Now that's, that's the way I write.
That's the melody and it comes through almost basically out of, _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [A] and I'm actually breaking [Bbm] the thumb pick, the thumb, the alternating thumb thing to make that work.
But it's almost one thing I learned from one of the [Gb] best solo performers I ever saw was Steve Goodman.
And of course he was a really great guitar player.
He knew exactly what he was playing, but he, he taught me that from [Ab] watching him, _
that once you'd established that groove, even if you don't have a band backing you up, that you can, you can walk away from it sometimes.
And people will keep the beat for you for a [Bb] while.
You have to get back to it and keep it going again.
But that's [F] kind of what happens there.
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[Gm] _ _ [G] And when I, what I play when I'm singing, you know, I can't ever guarantee it's going to be anywhere near, you know, even that [Gm] precise. _ _
[Dm] Shimmering she moves, [Gm] sunlight all [C] around [Gm] her.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ I don't have to play [Bm] at all because I'm singing part of it. Right.
As long as I get, you know, the beginning of the phrase and the end of the phrase, then it all holds together.
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