Chords for Tribute To Matt

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A lot of folk performers in those [Gm] days, like McGinn, did [G] really get the attention they
[F] deserved.
They regarded [Gm] the media as the enemy.
We were all, you know, lackeys of the capitalist
press [N] and all that stuff.
_ _ _ And it wasn't until later, when he was established, and when the
entertainer in Matt [Gm] McGinn, rather than the politician, [A] came out to him, that he began
to be taken [G] more openly [C] by broadcasters [Ab] and by newspapers.
I mean, [B] there were very, [F] very
few film clips of [Ab] Matt McGinn singing, for the simple reason that [D] television wasn't interested
in [F] him.
He was too dangerous.
They massacre the young, even [Gm]
[F] they.
[C] They [Fm] massacre the [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ young,
[Bb] shall make them hold [F] their tongues, _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _
_ when I _ am [Bb] in.
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The most outstanding thing [N] about Matt, if you'd never seen Matt McGinn before, but you had seen other folk singers,
was the fact that he couldn't sing.
And he had no sense of timing, and no musical sense at all.
And so, when you _ backed him, as I did, and Sam Harvey, you had to_
Say you were _ doing_ You were_
You _ had to go up on his left and his right, with the bands, and go_ _ _
_ Right, _ he'd go_
And then his wife came to the [Ab] show, and she said_
I was to Matt_
She said, the show was very good, but they're too close to you.
_ Those two, the guitars and the banjos, the hairy ones, you should get them away,
it's too cluttered up.
And of course it was, she was [D] absolutely right.
[G] So he said, I want you behind me, and apart.
So he was the different key, we were playing_
And I remember, Sam Harvey used to shout over, Billy, pull him into G!
When I went D7_
And he'd [E] go_
And Matt would come off.
You see, I thought it went [G] great the night, did you feel that?
There was a sort of power in it, [C] you were being driven.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ Just a [C] magic shadow [D] show, [G] on the _
[C] [G] 12th of May.
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