Chords for The Band - The Making of "Rockin' Chair" & Commentary On Vocals

It's so rare with any band that you've got this sort of even distribution of talent.
Most bands have one talented guy or girl in them, maybe two.
_ You know, this was a band _ _ of which all five members contributed something very, very unique.
_ They were doing things with harmonies again that it almost didn't feel like they needed to blend octaves.
You felt that they just sang in unison and their voices were so distinct
that they just automatically went into the right place.
I think in that context when you have all these different voices coming and going,
it carries an album, it holds the interest. _ _
And, you know, I like that a lot, but I don't think when I first heard it I was really aware of what was going on.
I was just absorbing the sound.
I was just being carried along by what I was hearing.
The Staple Singers were one of our favorite groups, _ _ singing groups, ever.
You know, it was like we had early records of theirs that they don't even have.
You know, just because we thought there was something so special about the use of the voices.
[A] _ _ _
Wait in the water, _ children, wait _ in the water. _ _
He's gonna [E] trouble the [A] water, _ _ he's gonna [E] trouble the water.
[A] _ _ Wait _ in the water, _ _ wait _ in the water, _ children, [Bbm] [Am] wait in the water.
or an idea for a song. _
_ _ _ We'd take it as far as we could,
_ then we would start swapping it around.
People, different ones of us, would sing the lead. _ _
And then we would back up and start it again,
and somebody else would sing the lead.
_ And that's how we determined, really,
who would sing the lead
and who would sing the harmonies on our songs. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ Sound like we need to tune that guitar.
[F] Don't hang [Dm] around, [F] Willie boy.
_ _ [Bb] Don't you [Gm] raise the sails.
There's the [F] accordion.
[C] _ [Dm] _ [F] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ Bring the voices [G] with it.
_ [Bb] Wasn't [F] he seven [G] feet?
_ _ [Eb] Now the only [Gm] one that [C] was meant for me.
Tell them who was on top and the [Dm] bottom.
[C] Okay.
[F] _
Richard sang in the lead, [Bb] right?
Then here it switches.
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Richard's going up on top,
_ [Gm] and I'm doing the [F] tonic.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] And _ _ Rick's tying [Bb] it together.
Rick's in the middle [F] tying it together.
[Em] But Richard has got the [F] ability _ [C] [G] to_
_ _ [F] _ _ Now Richard [Bb] goes back and sings the song,
the body of the song.
Your heart's gonna [Gm] give right out on [F] you.
_ _ It's true.
_ [Dm] And I believe I [F] know what [G] we should do.
_ _ [Bb] Turn [F] the stern [G] and point the shore.
_ [Eb] These seven [Gm] feet won't [C] carry us home.
Here comes three parts again.
[D] Now Richard will [C] jump up.
[F] _
Oh, to be [Bb] home again.
_ [F] Down in old Virgin. _ _ _
With my very [Bb] best friend.
They call him Ragtime Willie.
[F] I can't wait [Bb] to sniff that air.
[F] Dippin' snuff, I [Bb] won't have no care.
[Dm] That big rockin' chair [G] won't go [F] nowhere. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] _
Hear the [Dm] sound of the drum.
That's why the voices [F] sound pretty [Bb] blabbering to Richard.
The same [Gm] Dutch moons on the [F] reef.
_ _ It's my belief.
We used up [G] all our time.
[Bb] This hill's [Dm] too steep [G] to climb. _
_ [Eb] And the [Bb] days that remain [C] ain't worth a [D] thing.
[E] _ [F] _ _ Oh, to be home [Bb] again.
_ [Gm] Down in old Virgin.
_ [F] _ _ With my very [Bb] best friend.
You can imagine if I [F] had tried to go home.
_ Would have been nice [Bb] just to see the folks.
[F] Listen once again [Bb] to the stay-ho-jo's.
[Dm] That big rockin' chair [G] won't go [F] nowhere. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [D] I love this part here.
[F] _ _
Me too.
You've been calling [Gm] on me.
And you know where I wanna [F] be.
Oh Willie, don't you want [Bb] to be here.
So [Gm] a lot of the times with the band,
_ [F] it was somewhere between real [Bb] harmonies,
and because of our lack of education in music,
[F] there would be things that just sounded interesting,
or it's what the only thing the person could hit.
You know, it was sometimes the limitation of the instrument
can [Bb] provide the originality [Gm] as _ [Cm] well.
[Dm] _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ Where do we go with that Chinese ending?
I don't know.
It seemed like a good idea at