Chords for Steve Earle - Remember Me (Live on KEXP)

_ _ _ _ So I'm trying to find [Ab] ways to play it on [C] guitar so at _ [Ab] least on this thing
I wouldn't have to [C] drag so much stuff around but I think I figured it out because it is about the song _ _ _ _ _ _
I got a little boy and his name is John Henry, and he's turned three years old on April 5th _ _ _
he's
When _ [Ab] you start having kids is at my age
You know the math is different
_ You know my older boys Justin and Ian are having to watch me
Be a way better father than I was when they were growing up, and that's not lost on me.
I you know it's a
You know I'd be letting I hear about it from time to time
_ _ _ _ and _
The other part of it is _ if I take really good care of myself _ _ and nothing weird happens
_ You know one of the things that we just can't calculate
_ Then I might live long enough to see him through high school get him into college.
That's just a fact and
_ It makes you think about it differently
I'm the I'm one of four smart guys that that dropped out of high school at the same time kind of my little group of
peers and I belong to a peer group of exactly four when I was growing up and
They're all gone except me, and I don't know why this I'm only 58
but it I am reached I have reached an age where I'm losing people and
_ so it makes you think about so I probably in a lot of ways wrote this song because I had to because and _
Because I needed felt like I needed to leave something specific behind just in case and _
Also John Henry has autism and he was diagnosed just before his second birthday, and we're on it
He's in a really good school, and he's gonna be okay.
I think he's like he still makes eye contact
And he's socially engaged.
He just doesn't talk
He's really smart, and he looks like his mother, and I think he's gonna be fine, and we have resources [C] to deal with it
But uh _ _
This is uh
_ This is for John Henry _
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Here we are sitting in the warm sunshine _
I'm holding your tiny hand in mine
_ God knows it ain't gonna [G] be any time before [C] you grow I _ _ _ _
Wasn't young when you come along _ _ _
_ Chances are long before that day comes
_ My time in this sweet old [G] world to be done
_ _ [C] _
_ _ You're _ _ looking at me
_ _ _ _ God _ _ knows more than a grown man can do
Not to break down [G] cry like a fool when you [C] _
smile at me _ I
Can only hope I do my best _ _
Whatever time it is you got left
_ _ Never things done
[G] _ Said you [C] remember me
_ _ _ _ Remember me on some sunny day _ _
Whenever things go in your _ way
Cuz on the day you were born I prayed that's the [G] way to be
_ _ _ _ [C] Remember me on _ stormy _ night
When there's no sign of shelter _ inside
And you sold your own through to the light cuz [G] that's all you see _
_ _ [C] Remember _ _ me
Now _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
you got angels watching over you
_ _ Your mama don't suffer fools
_ Ain't anything she wouldn't [G] do for you.
I [C] don't believe
_ One _ of these days you'll be alone _ _
You have to stand up on your own
Then when it's muscle and [G] blood and bone _ [C] Remember me
_ _ _ _ Remember me on some sunny day _
When _ everything's going _ away _
Some [F] of the day you were born I [C]
prayed that's the way
[G] _ _ Remember _ _ _ _ [C] me on a stormy night
_ When there's no sign of shelter _ inside _
And you sold your own through to the light cuz [G] that's all you see _ _ _ [C] Remember _ _ me _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ Remember me
Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ you very much you're listening to Steve Earl live here at ke XP he's gonna be over at
Silver platters record store the Queen Anne store at 630 this evening music millennium in Portland
_ Tomorrow night at 6 o'clock Monday night on TV on late night with David Letterman
The low highway is the new album this week on New West label again, sir.
Thanks for being here this afternoon.
Thank you and _
Just thanks for the music and your the voice and the commentary of what you observe that's going on.
It's thanks
It's my job.
I'm just glad I got one.
All right.
All right, just one more thing here on your quick visit to Seattle
_ _ Any particular food or you gonna have before you?
_ Well, I had a hangtown pride this morning and for breakfast and I'll probably have oysters again before I leave
I probably have 13 coins in my in my future before we leave town because we're gonna drive to Portland so that that's a possibility
That may happen.
It's always open.
It's always a possibility.
It is and it's fine dining 24 hours a day tonight at Silver Platters _
630 p.m. Thanks to our engineer Kevin.
It's 90.3 ke XP, Seattle _ _ _
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