Chords for Stevie Ray Vaughan Biography · [vh1 Legends] · part 5/5

[Abm] On August 26th, 1990, Stevie [Eb] Ray Vaughan boarded a helicopter outside Chicago to be flown to Wisconsin's Alpine Valley.
[Bb] The open-air [Ab] arena was hosting a show featuring Eric Clapton, [Eb] Double [Ab] Trouble, [Gm] [Bb] Robert Kray, [Eb] Buddy Guy, and Jimmy [Bbm] Vaughan.
For the 60,000 [Eb] fans who attended, [E] it was a [Eb] blues lover's dream come true.
We went there, we did those two shows, it was great.
All the bands sounded great, [Gb] lots of people.
You know, [Ab] life couldn't be any [Gb] better.
We were really on that [Eb] night.
Really on.
At the end of the show, [D] as Vaughan [Bb] settled over the [Ab] crowd, the all [Ebm]-star lineup of guitar players returned on [Bbm] stage for this rousing final jam on [Eb] Sweet Home Chicago.
Stevie started playing, I'm like, God, it was like this, the first note he played was like this big, bent note, it was like, like, like that, and I was [Ab] like, it sounded like bigger than the whole place.
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It was Stevie's night, and I don't think anybody would tell you that.
He was just [Bbm] amazing.
He just played, he was like at [Ab] the top of his, he was [Ebm] happy, he was really happy all [Ab] day, and [Gb] just, [Bbm] you know, extra [Ebm] happy.
_ After the show, Stevie said [Eb] goodbye to his brother and the band.
Then he grabbed an empty [N] seat on one of the four helicopters waiting to fly the performers back to Chicago.
_ [F] _ _ [B] _ _ Guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed [Bm] early this morning when a helicopter flying him out of Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin, crashed into a fog [A]-shrouded hill.
[C] I looked out, the sun was coming up, and I thought, there's no way this is true, this couldn't happen.
[N] And I ran [B] from the room, I went, I called security [Em] and had them meet me at his room, Stevie's room, and I said, you've got to let me into this room.
And they let me in, and when they opened the door, you know, I looked in and there was the bed, you know, it was turned down, [N] little candy on the pillow, and I was just like, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I guess it's just something I'll, I'll never get over that.
I'll get better about it, but I'll never get over it. _ _
It's strange, you know, we'd done so much together.
_ I honestly, you know, for a while I felt like, wait a minute, I was supposed to have been on there too.
I [B] was supposed to have been on there too, what [N] happened?
You know, wasn't I supposed to go too?
[B] You know, I had such confusing [N] feelings, you know, that it was, _ _ I mean, there's really no way I can put it into words, it was [B] just like, it totally ripped my life [N] apart.
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_ _ _ _ In a night and a million years, could you have ever thought any of this would be [Bm] possible?
I thought we were [E] going [G] to go on like we'd always been going, you know?
[N] Stevie Ray Vaughan died on the same day his father had, four years earlier.
It was _ grave that taught my heart to fear.
Three days later, back in Dallas, he was laid to rest in a grave beside his father.
[Cm] Thousands who knew him and who were touched by his music, gathered to [Db] say goodbye.
I've met people since he died, and say, [Eb] I saw him, I don't even like blues music, I saw, this one man said [F] this, he said, I don't [Ab] even really like blues music, and I don't really care for guitar playing and all that stuff.
He goes, but I saw him on TV once, and he goes, when he died, he goes, I cried, and he goes, I'm not even sure [Fm] why. _
Stevie Ray didn't believe that death was the end.
Death was just [Gb] when people change, he [Ab] said.
You can't physically see them or talk to them.
They are there.
[Eb] For Stevie [Bbm] Ray Vaughan, blues was the essence [Fm] of life itself.
A musical tapestry of joys and [Ab] sorrows, tragedy and triumph.
For 35 years, he gave that music everything he had.
_ _ [G] [Abm] And for as [D] long as the blues can lend comfort [A] in a storm, Stevie Ray Vaughan will still be out there somewhere, playing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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