Chords for The Last Word - Tedeschi Trucks Band
Tempo:
110.45 bpm
Chords used:
E
G
A
C
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
If you're ready, [B] say yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
[C#]
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.
[D#m] It's the Tedeschi Trucks Band, 11 [A]-piece monster, rolling down the road.
I mean, really, since we met, we talked about putting a band together.
You know, the way she sang and played and where she was coming from musically and what I was [D] doing.
There's a lot of common ground there.
It's something we've [E] wanted to do, [F#m] but we wanted to make sure [A] that we did it right.
We met on the road [Am]
[E] in 1999 at the Sanger Theatre.
She was opening for the Allman Brothers.
[F#] One of the first tours that I did with them.
[Am] We met on the road, doing what [D] we do.
That's been an easy transition.
A lot [A] of times when you're in [Am] relationships and you're a musician, you're trying to [E] explain what you're actually doing on the road.
It was nice not having to have that conversation. That's true.
That's true.
I'm just kidding.
[A] We have two kids, 11 and [D] 9 years old.
It makes touring [B] a little bit different.
If [C#m] you're going to be on the road doing [Am] it, you better [A] be making good music.
[E] You better mean it.
It better be good.
It makes the time away [A] from home tough, but it makes you dig in.
You're [B] not going to be out there spinning your wheels if you could be home.
We [D] have a very family-oriented band.
A lot of the [Am] guys in our band are fathers.
[E]
They know what we're [A] going through and we know what they're going through.
We all try to work [E] together.
[C#] Two [A] drummers, J.J. Johnson and Tyler [E] Greenwell.
Mike Madison and Mark Rivers [C] singing as [G#m] well.
[C#] Saunders Sermons on trombone.
[E]
Maurice Brown on trumpet.
Kevvy Williams on [E] tenor sax.
Tophie Burbridge [A] on clavinet, [Am] organ, flute, piano.
[G] [Am] Tim LaFave, our newest member.
Originally from Foxborough, Mass.
I guess me and Mike [E] have been together for probably close to a decade now.
Amazing musician, great singer, great songwriter.
When we put this band together, [D#]
[F#] I think one of the reasons it turned into a big band
is because we really wanted to find a place for [F#] Mike in it.
He was such a big part of what I was doing with my group.
He's great to be around.
Conceptually, he's great.
He's got a lot of great ideas and just a real talent.
He's amazing and I never had the opportunity to do this kind of a thing
where I could front and have so much support.
[F] Also, I get freed up to not sing all night, which is great.
So if I'm a little tired, I'm like, hey, Mike, get up there and sing.
He usually sings a couple songs a [D] night anyway.
I think it's nice for the audience to not have just [Am] the whole night
hearing a female voice [A] or a male voice.
It really breaks it up, which is [E] nice because some people prefer one or the other.
So a little bit for everybody.
I'm the only girl out of band [C] and crew.
How did you do it?
[G] I don't know.
I think growing up, I was lucky I had two older [C#] brothers
and all my friends were pretty much guys.
[C] A lot of my best friends were guys.
And she's feisty.
[E] She is unafraid.
She can punch hard, too.
If they're acting up, I beat them up.
She abuses the band.
Derek's like, honey, don't punch them.
They're sensitive.
I'm like, what?
They're a grown man.
[Em]
[E] We don't have a massive crew.
The band is a lot bigger than the crew,
[C#m] so they [E] shoulder a lot of the [E] burden and a lot of the weight.
[G] They work really hard.
But as far as the music that [E] happens on stage, it's happened pretty organically.
[Em]
You [D] know, over [G] time, you know where people's strengths are
and you know what you want to showcase
and you know there's certain things that it would be tough to go through a show without showing.
You know, Kofi is such an amazing [F#] B3 [Em] player on [Bm] flute.
You want to show these things [F#] and you want Mike Madison to step out front and [E] sing.
But then you realize there's a lot of things that you want to [G] showcase.
How [Em] much can you get in a two-hour set?
[C] I'm a little nervous.
[D]
[Em] I'm a little nervous.
[A]
Made Up Mind, it was [E] amazing right out of the gate, this record.
From the songwriting to the recording, it just kind of happened.
When the band showed up, we just hit the ground running.
It was the most enjoyable [F#] recording process I've had to date.
Everyone felt good about it right out of the gate, [E] you know.
We were originally rehearsing bass players to go on the road
[E] and we got through rehearsal early [Em] and decided,
we just wrote [D] this tune, maybe we should try [F#] it.
And after two [C] takes, I think that's that.
[A] So [Em] it just kind of started [F#] before we were planning on making a record
and it just went from there.
And you could feel that [G#] the band had been on the road for a while.
You could feel that the [D#] band knew the possibilities
and what it was supposed to sound like and what it could sound [G] like.
But not [F#] afraid to kind of stretch the boundaries
and try things that [G] we hadn't tried before.
[B] [G]
[B] [C]
[G]
2014 being my [B] last year with the Allman Brothers,
it's [Bm] exciting to know that there's extra months [G] that exist now that didn't before.
[Bm]
[C]
I [G] would love to spend two, three, four, five [C] weeks with the band
just writing and doing that thing.
And it's never really been an option before.
And the beauty is with [Bm] this band, everybody's gung [Em]-ho to do that.
Everybody loves working [B] and being out there,
but everyone wants to put the [G] time and energy in to make it great.
[Am] Everything is frozen, [Bm] burning just the same.
[G] As long as it's fun and the music [C] we're making is strong,
[Bm] I don't see any reason to
There's nothing else [G] I'd rather be doing, that's for sure.
[C]
[D] Oh, it's so heavy.
We're the Chideski Trucks [G] Band and look for us on Last.fm.
[C] Oh, it's so [D]
heavy.
I gotta [Bm] let a little be, [Am] let a [D] little go.
[G]
[Bm] For our song will [C] pass
Yeah!
Yeah!
[C#]
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.
[D#m] It's the Tedeschi Trucks Band, 11 [A]-piece monster, rolling down the road.
I mean, really, since we met, we talked about putting a band together.
You know, the way she sang and played and where she was coming from musically and what I was [D] doing.
There's a lot of common ground there.
It's something we've [E] wanted to do, [F#m] but we wanted to make sure [A] that we did it right.
We met on the road [Am]
[E] in 1999 at the Sanger Theatre.
She was opening for the Allman Brothers.
[F#] One of the first tours that I did with them.
[Am] We met on the road, doing what [D] we do.
That's been an easy transition.
A lot [A] of times when you're in [Am] relationships and you're a musician, you're trying to [E] explain what you're actually doing on the road.
It was nice not having to have that conversation. That's true.
That's true.
I'm just kidding.
[A] We have two kids, 11 and [D] 9 years old.
It makes touring [B] a little bit different.
If [C#m] you're going to be on the road doing [Am] it, you better [A] be making good music.
[E] You better mean it.
It better be good.
It makes the time away [A] from home tough, but it makes you dig in.
You're [B] not going to be out there spinning your wheels if you could be home.
We [D] have a very family-oriented band.
A lot of the [Am] guys in our band are fathers.
[E]
They know what we're [A] going through and we know what they're going through.
We all try to work [E] together.
[C#] Two [A] drummers, J.J. Johnson and Tyler [E] Greenwell.
Mike Madison and Mark Rivers [C] singing as [G#m] well.
[C#] Saunders Sermons on trombone.
[E]
Maurice Brown on trumpet.
Kevvy Williams on [E] tenor sax.
Tophie Burbridge [A] on clavinet, [Am] organ, flute, piano.
[G] [Am] Tim LaFave, our newest member.
Originally from Foxborough, Mass.
I guess me and Mike [E] have been together for probably close to a decade now.
Amazing musician, great singer, great songwriter.
When we put this band together, [D#]
[F#] I think one of the reasons it turned into a big band
is because we really wanted to find a place for [F#] Mike in it.
He was such a big part of what I was doing with my group.
He's great to be around.
Conceptually, he's great.
He's got a lot of great ideas and just a real talent.
He's amazing and I never had the opportunity to do this kind of a thing
where I could front and have so much support.
[F] Also, I get freed up to not sing all night, which is great.
So if I'm a little tired, I'm like, hey, Mike, get up there and sing.
He usually sings a couple songs a [D] night anyway.
I think it's nice for the audience to not have just [Am] the whole night
hearing a female voice [A] or a male voice.
It really breaks it up, which is [E] nice because some people prefer one or the other.
So a little bit for everybody.
I'm the only girl out of band [C] and crew.
How did you do it?
[G] I don't know.
I think growing up, I was lucky I had two older [C#] brothers
and all my friends were pretty much guys.
[C] A lot of my best friends were guys.
And she's feisty.
[E] She is unafraid.
She can punch hard, too.
If they're acting up, I beat them up.
She abuses the band.
Derek's like, honey, don't punch them.
They're sensitive.
I'm like, what?
They're a grown man.
[Em]
[E] We don't have a massive crew.
The band is a lot bigger than the crew,
[C#m] so they [E] shoulder a lot of the [E] burden and a lot of the weight.
[G] They work really hard.
But as far as the music that [E] happens on stage, it's happened pretty organically.
[Em]
You [D] know, over [G] time, you know where people's strengths are
and you know what you want to showcase
and you know there's certain things that it would be tough to go through a show without showing.
You know, Kofi is such an amazing [F#] B3 [Em] player on [Bm] flute.
You want to show these things [F#] and you want Mike Madison to step out front and [E] sing.
But then you realize there's a lot of things that you want to [G] showcase.
How [Em] much can you get in a two-hour set?
[C] I'm a little nervous.
[D]
[Em] I'm a little nervous.
[A]
Made Up Mind, it was [E] amazing right out of the gate, this record.
From the songwriting to the recording, it just kind of happened.
When the band showed up, we just hit the ground running.
It was the most enjoyable [F#] recording process I've had to date.
Everyone felt good about it right out of the gate, [E] you know.
We were originally rehearsing bass players to go on the road
[E] and we got through rehearsal early [Em] and decided,
we just wrote [D] this tune, maybe we should try [F#] it.
And after two [C] takes, I think that's that.
[A] So [Em] it just kind of started [F#] before we were planning on making a record
and it just went from there.
And you could feel that [G#] the band had been on the road for a while.
You could feel that the [D#] band knew the possibilities
and what it was supposed to sound like and what it could sound [G] like.
But not [F#] afraid to kind of stretch the boundaries
and try things that [G] we hadn't tried before.
[B] [G]
[B] [C]
[G]
2014 being my [B] last year with the Allman Brothers,
it's [Bm] exciting to know that there's extra months [G] that exist now that didn't before.
[Bm]
[C]
I [G] would love to spend two, three, four, five [C] weeks with the band
just writing and doing that thing.
And it's never really been an option before.
And the beauty is with [Bm] this band, everybody's gung [Em]-ho to do that.
Everybody loves working [B] and being out there,
but everyone wants to put the [G] time and energy in to make it great.
[Am] Everything is frozen, [Bm] burning just the same.
[G] As long as it's fun and the music [C] we're making is strong,
[Bm] I don't see any reason to
There's nothing else [G] I'd rather be doing, that's for sure.
[C]
[D] Oh, it's so heavy.
We're the Chideski Trucks [G] Band and look for us on Last.fm.
[C] Oh, it's so [D]
heavy.
I gotta [Bm] let a little be, [Am] let a [D] little go.
[G]
[Bm] For our song will [C] pass
Key:
E
G
A
C
D
E
G
A
If you're ready, [B] say yeah!
_ Yeah! _
_ _ Yeah!
_ _ _ [C#] _
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.
[D#m] It's the Tedeschi Trucks Band, 11 [A]-piece monster, rolling down the road. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I mean, really, since we met, we talked about putting a band together.
You know, the way she sang and played and where she was coming from musically and what I was [D] doing.
There's a lot of common ground there.
It's something we've [E] wanted to do, [F#m] but we wanted to make sure [A] that we did it right.
We met on the road [Am] _
[E] in 1999 at the Sanger Theatre.
She was opening for the Allman Brothers.
[F#] One of the first tours that I did with them.
[Am] We met on the road, doing what [D] we do.
That's been an easy transition. _
A lot [A] of times when you're in [Am] relationships and you're a musician, you're trying to [E] explain what you're actually doing on the road.
It was nice not having to have that conversation. That's true.
That's true.
I'm just kidding.
[A] _ _ _ _ We have two kids, 11 and [D] 9 years old.
It makes touring [B] a little bit different.
If [C#m] you're going to be on the road doing [Am] it, you better [A] be making good music.
[E] You better mean it.
It better be good.
It makes the time away [A] from home tough, but it makes you dig in.
You're [B] not going to be out there spinning your wheels if you could be home.
We [D] have a very family-oriented band.
A lot of the [Am] guys in our band are fathers.
_ [E] _
They know what we're [A] going through and we know what they're going through.
We all try to work [E] together.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] Two [A] drummers, J.J. Johnson and Tyler [E] Greenwell.
Mike Madison and Mark Rivers [C] singing as [G#m] well.
[C#] Saunders Sermons on trombone.
_ [E]
Maurice Brown on trumpet.
Kevvy Williams on [E] tenor sax.
Tophie Burbridge [A] on clavinet, [Am] organ, flute, piano.
[G] _ [Am] Tim LaFave, our newest member.
Originally from Foxborough, Mass.
I guess me and Mike [E] have been together for probably close to a decade now.
Amazing musician, great singer, great songwriter.
When we put this band together, [D#] _
[F#] I think one of the reasons it turned into a big band
is because we really wanted to find a place for [F#] Mike in it.
He was such a big part of what I was doing with my group.
_ _ He's great to be around.
Conceptually, he's great.
He's got a lot of great ideas and just a real talent.
He's amazing and I never had the opportunity to do this kind of a thing
where I could front and have so much support. _
[F] Also, I get freed up to not sing all night, which is great.
So if I'm a little tired, I'm like, hey, Mike, get up there and sing.
He usually sings a couple songs a [D] night anyway.
I think it's nice for the audience to not have just [Am] the whole night
hearing a female voice [A] or a male voice.
It really breaks it up, which is [E] nice because some people prefer one or the other.
So a little bit for everybody.
I'm the only girl out of band [C] and crew.
How did you do it?
[G] I don't know.
I think growing up, I was lucky I had two older [C#] brothers
and all my friends were pretty much guys.
[C] A lot of my best friends were guys.
And she's feisty.
[E] She is unafraid.
She can punch hard, too.
If they're acting up, I beat them up.
She abuses the band.
Derek's like, honey, don't punch them.
They're sensitive.
I'm like, what?
They're a grown man.
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] We don't have a massive crew.
The band is a lot bigger than the crew,
[C#m] so they [E] shoulder a lot of the [E] burden and a lot of the weight.
[G] They work really hard.
But as far as the music that [E] happens on stage, it's happened pretty organically.
[Em] _
You [D] know, over _ [G] _ time, you know where people's strengths are
and you know what you want to showcase
and you know there's certain things that _ it would be tough to go through a show without showing.
You know, Kofi is such an amazing [F#] _ B3 [Em] player on [Bm] flute.
You want to show these things [F#] and you want Mike Madison to step out front and [E] sing.
But then you realize there's a lot of things that you want to [G] showcase. _
How [Em] much can you get in a two-hour set?
[C] I'm a little nervous.
[D] _
[Em] I'm a little nervous.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ Made Up Mind, it was [E] amazing right out of the gate, this record.
From the songwriting to the recording, it _ _ just kind of happened.
When the band showed up, we just hit the ground running.
It was the most enjoyable [F#] recording process I've had to date. _
Everyone felt good about it right out of the gate, [E] you know.
We were originally rehearsing bass players to go on the road
[E] and we got through rehearsal early [Em] and decided,
we just wrote [D] this tune, maybe we should try [F#] it.
And after two [C] takes, I think that's that.
[A] So [Em] it just kind of started [F#] before we were planning on making a record
and it just went from there.
And you could feel that [G#] the band had been on the road for a while.
You could feel that the [D#] band knew the possibilities
and what it was supposed to sound like and what it could sound [G] like.
But not [F#] afraid to kind of stretch the boundaries
and try things that [G] we hadn't tried before. _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
2014 being my [B] last year with the Allman Brothers,
it's [Bm] exciting to know that there's extra months [G] that exist now that didn't before.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
I [G] would love to spend two, three, four, five [C] weeks with the band
just writing and doing that thing.
And it's never really been an option before.
And the beauty is with [Bm] this band, everybody's gung [Em]-ho to do that.
Everybody loves working [B] and being out there,
but everyone wants to put the [G] time and energy in to make it great.
[Am] Everything is frozen, [Bm] _ burning just the same.
[G] As long as it's fun and the music [C] we're making is strong,
[Bm] I don't see any reason to_
_ There's nothing else [G] I'd rather be doing, that's for sure.
_ [C] _ _ _
[D] Oh, it's so heavy.
We're the Chideski Trucks [G] Band and look for us on Last.fm.
[C] Oh, it's so [D]
heavy.
_ _ _ I gotta [Bm] let a little be, [Am] _ let a [D] little go.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] For our song will [C] pass _
_ Yeah! _
_ _ Yeah!
_ _ _ [C#] _
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.
[D#m] It's the Tedeschi Trucks Band, 11 [A]-piece monster, rolling down the road. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I mean, really, since we met, we talked about putting a band together.
You know, the way she sang and played and where she was coming from musically and what I was [D] doing.
There's a lot of common ground there.
It's something we've [E] wanted to do, [F#m] but we wanted to make sure [A] that we did it right.
We met on the road [Am] _
[E] in 1999 at the Sanger Theatre.
She was opening for the Allman Brothers.
[F#] One of the first tours that I did with them.
[Am] We met on the road, doing what [D] we do.
That's been an easy transition. _
A lot [A] of times when you're in [Am] relationships and you're a musician, you're trying to [E] explain what you're actually doing on the road.
It was nice not having to have that conversation. That's true.
That's true.
I'm just kidding.
[A] _ _ _ _ We have two kids, 11 and [D] 9 years old.
It makes touring [B] a little bit different.
If [C#m] you're going to be on the road doing [Am] it, you better [A] be making good music.
[E] You better mean it.
It better be good.
It makes the time away [A] from home tough, but it makes you dig in.
You're [B] not going to be out there spinning your wheels if you could be home.
We [D] have a very family-oriented band.
A lot of the [Am] guys in our band are fathers.
_ [E] _
They know what we're [A] going through and we know what they're going through.
We all try to work [E] together.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] Two [A] drummers, J.J. Johnson and Tyler [E] Greenwell.
Mike Madison and Mark Rivers [C] singing as [G#m] well.
[C#] Saunders Sermons on trombone.
_ [E]
Maurice Brown on trumpet.
Kevvy Williams on [E] tenor sax.
Tophie Burbridge [A] on clavinet, [Am] organ, flute, piano.
[G] _ [Am] Tim LaFave, our newest member.
Originally from Foxborough, Mass.
I guess me and Mike [E] have been together for probably close to a decade now.
Amazing musician, great singer, great songwriter.
When we put this band together, [D#] _
[F#] I think one of the reasons it turned into a big band
is because we really wanted to find a place for [F#] Mike in it.
He was such a big part of what I was doing with my group.
_ _ He's great to be around.
Conceptually, he's great.
He's got a lot of great ideas and just a real talent.
He's amazing and I never had the opportunity to do this kind of a thing
where I could front and have so much support. _
[F] Also, I get freed up to not sing all night, which is great.
So if I'm a little tired, I'm like, hey, Mike, get up there and sing.
He usually sings a couple songs a [D] night anyway.
I think it's nice for the audience to not have just [Am] the whole night
hearing a female voice [A] or a male voice.
It really breaks it up, which is [E] nice because some people prefer one or the other.
So a little bit for everybody.
I'm the only girl out of band [C] and crew.
How did you do it?
[G] I don't know.
I think growing up, I was lucky I had two older [C#] brothers
and all my friends were pretty much guys.
[C] A lot of my best friends were guys.
And she's feisty.
[E] She is unafraid.
She can punch hard, too.
If they're acting up, I beat them up.
She abuses the band.
Derek's like, honey, don't punch them.
They're sensitive.
I'm like, what?
They're a grown man.
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] We don't have a massive crew.
The band is a lot bigger than the crew,
[C#m] so they [E] shoulder a lot of the [E] burden and a lot of the weight.
[G] They work really hard.
But as far as the music that [E] happens on stage, it's happened pretty organically.
[Em] _
You [D] know, over _ [G] _ time, you know where people's strengths are
and you know what you want to showcase
and you know there's certain things that _ it would be tough to go through a show without showing.
You know, Kofi is such an amazing [F#] _ B3 [Em] player on [Bm] flute.
You want to show these things [F#] and you want Mike Madison to step out front and [E] sing.
But then you realize there's a lot of things that you want to [G] showcase. _
How [Em] much can you get in a two-hour set?
[C] I'm a little nervous.
[D] _
[Em] I'm a little nervous.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ Made Up Mind, it was [E] amazing right out of the gate, this record.
From the songwriting to the recording, it _ _ just kind of happened.
When the band showed up, we just hit the ground running.
It was the most enjoyable [F#] recording process I've had to date. _
Everyone felt good about it right out of the gate, [E] you know.
We were originally rehearsing bass players to go on the road
[E] and we got through rehearsal early [Em] and decided,
we just wrote [D] this tune, maybe we should try [F#] it.
And after two [C] takes, I think that's that.
[A] So [Em] it just kind of started [F#] before we were planning on making a record
and it just went from there.
And you could feel that [G#] the band had been on the road for a while.
You could feel that the [D#] band knew the possibilities
and what it was supposed to sound like and what it could sound [G] like.
But not [F#] afraid to kind of stretch the boundaries
and try things that [G] we hadn't tried before. _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
2014 being my [B] last year with the Allman Brothers,
it's [Bm] exciting to know that there's extra months [G] that exist now that didn't before.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
I [G] would love to spend two, three, four, five [C] weeks with the band
just writing and doing that thing.
And it's never really been an option before.
And the beauty is with [Bm] this band, everybody's gung [Em]-ho to do that.
Everybody loves working [B] and being out there,
but everyone wants to put the [G] time and energy in to make it great.
[Am] Everything is frozen, [Bm] _ burning just the same.
[G] As long as it's fun and the music [C] we're making is strong,
[Bm] I don't see any reason to_
_ There's nothing else [G] I'd rather be doing, that's for sure.
_ [C] _ _ _
[D] Oh, it's so heavy.
We're the Chideski Trucks [G] Band and look for us on Last.fm.
[C] Oh, it's so [D]
heavy.
_ _ _ I gotta [Bm] let a little be, [Am] _ let a [D] little go.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] For our song will [C] pass _