Chords for The Making of "Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements"

[B] Ladies and gentlemen, The Replacements!
Oh, it's me!
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[Bb] _ [Ab] _ [G] Shot!
[Bb] Oil mask!
[G] On the ladder of [F] success!
[Ebm] Each ticket [F] costs only three [Bb] cents!
[Eb] We all have a son, you gotta know!
[Bb] The last one to stand _
[Ab] [Eb] is on the left!
[F] Son!
[Eb] _ [Bb] _ My name is Bob Mayer.
I am the author of Trouble Boys,
the true story of The Replacements from DeCapo [Fm] Press.
The story of the band, or what was known about the band, was really a sketch.
You know, the lovable losers, hard drinking, self-sabotaging, [Bb] great music.
But [Ab] I felt like that's all it was.
It was just [F] a sketch or an outline.
There had to be something more there.
So I began the process really of courting Tommy and Paul
and some of the key principals to be on board with the [Eb] project.
[Ab] Part of the thing that Paul said to me on that meeting was,
well, if you're going to tell a story, you really have to tell the whole story,
and it's going to be [C] difficult.
I didn't know quite how difficult [Eb] the process was going to be for me,
but over the next six years I would come to find out.
The Replacements story, their music, their personalities,
and I think the chemistry that occurred when they came together
really is a lot about desperation.
It comes from family backgrounds that were sort of steeped in alcoholism,
[Ab] abuse, a Midwestern repression.
And so all these things and the way they impacted them [Eb] individually
I think ended up [Gbm] impacting what the band [Ab] was.
The first section of the book is called Jail, Death, or Janitor.
Westerberg was once asked, you know, where do you see yourself,
what were your options if this band hadn't come along,
and those were the options, jail, death, or janitor.
There was a thrust there that I think a lot of bands didn't have.
It was almost the attitude that came [Db] before the music.
The great thing about The Replacements, and I think one of the reasons
why they've lasted so long, is they're a band that's wrapped up
in myth and romance and these wild anecdotes
and these sort of legendary stories, you know.
The [Fm] mythology and the extreme things they did are all true.
What I wanted to know was why.
[Db] It was a difficult book in the sense that I was trying to uncover
not just one mystery, but many mysteries.
I was trying to unlock the secrets of Bob Stinson's life.
I was trying to understand the internal life of the band,
the private life of their members,
the creative lives that they led in the studio and on the stage.
So it required a lot of legwork and a lot of tenacity
to ride with the story and to ride with the people
who were going to tell the story, because it was a matter of establishing [Eb] trust.
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ The book is about brotherhoods, I think, in a way.
It's about the brotherhood of the band.
It's about the brotherhood of Bob and Tommy Stinson.
[Ebm] And it's about the brotherhood of Paul and Tommy,
which is the brotherhood that in the end has lasted the longest
and probably gone through the most difficulty, but it's still there.
[Eb] In thanking Paul and Tommy, I said,
I hope that your story carries on well past these pages,
and I really hope it [Fm] does, and I think it will.
This is as raw, I think, and unvarnished and personal and intimate as it is.
It's more than a portrait of a band, a group of musicians,
it's as people [F] as you can get.
[D] Take a shot, take a shot, take a shot, take a shot,
take a shot, take a shot, take a shot.
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[Fm] _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] It's all right.
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