Chords for Valdy - A Good Song

[Em] _ _ Thank [A] you.
Well, I'd like to introduce [G] myself in song, if that's okay.
My [D] entire name is Paul
Voldemar Horsdal.
[G] _ But when I left home at the age of 18, dad [A] came out to the [G] front porch of the house
in Ottawa and said, [D] uh, if you go into show business, please don't use [A] the family name.
_ [G] _ And it was his
first, so that's [D] okay.
I became Voldy on my [A] porch as I was leaving home.
_ Yeah, that was 51 years ago,
and I still don't use my last name.
Voldemar Horsdal doesn't fit on our marquee very [G] well.
You know, besides this [A#] is a, what are we calling this now?
This is the, [Fm] the Voldrop experience,
isn't it?
_ Voldrop experience.
Voldy and Grey and Wardrop.
So that's a, that's coined by your host
here, Mr.
Paul Simmons.
The Voldrop experience.
Yeah.
In front of a wall of sound. _
[D] You'll _ notice
there aren't too many lights on in these amplifiers up here.
So your hair would be going back like
that were they on. _ _ _
Introduction, sir.
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _
[G] _ [D] I was in Calgary, [E] Alberta, playing at [A] the Black Knight
[D] Lounge, _ [A] Wales Hotel.
[Bm] _ _ [A] It's [G] downtown Calgary.
[D] At night, [Em] nothing goes [A] on downtown, [E] just as [F] all the
construction workers still hanging around [G] having a nail or, or some kind of a [C] drink in the bar,
and all of the working ladies who were [A] there trying to hustle all of these construction [D] guys.
You had hard hats and hookers [Bm] were the only people downtown, [A] and the hotel [G] wanted to change
that.
[D] So they got in [Em] a folk singer, [A] and they [G]
[D] put in, you know, [A] a bit of brass and a bit of [Bm] oak and
some ferns and [A] whatnot. _
[G] I played [D] there for two weeks, and we got [E] a lot more hookers and [A] a lot
[D] more hard hats in there.
_ [A] [Bm] It was very successful [A] in that [D] regard.
[G] _
[D] Up [E] on the seventh floor, there was a
[D] piano outside.
You'd get [C#] off on [A] the [Bm] elevator on the seventh [A] landing, and there [Dm] was a little
[G] spinet up there, [D] a little apartment [E] grand.
So I took my [D] door off, and I hauled that into my room,
and I [A] wrote a bunch of songs on that [Bm] piano.
[A] This is one of the ones that I [G] wrote.
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] I am not a free
_ [F#m] _ [A] [B] man, [Bm] _ [A] neither [G] am I [D] changed.
_ [Em] _ _ I am [D] not a wise [A] man, _ [Bm] _ _ [A] neither am [G] I _ [D] rearranged.
[Em] _ _ [A] I am [F] not a new man, [G] _ [D] but
[G] neither [C] am I _ old.
[A] _ [G] _ [A] _
[D] I'm not a rich [A] man, _ [Bm] but [A] still I cannot [G] be [Em] sold.
[A] _ [G] _ _ I [F] am one, _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] [G] you [C] are another.
_ _ [F#] [F#m] I [Bm] _
[Em] had a
_ _ [G] family.
Look, now I [C] have another.
_ [Em] _ [A] _ [Em] And [A]
[D] I'm not a good [A] man, [Bm] no, [A] but neither am [G] I cruel.
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ [B] And I'm not a [D] learned man by [A] any [Bm] means, but [D] neither [G] am I [D] a fool.
_ [Em] _ _ [A]
I am [F] not an ordinary sort [G] of man,
[C] but [G] neither am [C] I [Em] strange.
_ _ [A] _ [Em]
I [A] am [D] not your [A] man, _ [B] _ [Bm]
[A] but that [D] could still [G] be [Em] [A] changed.
No, [Em] _
I [A] am [D] not your [A] man, _ [B] _ [Bm]
[A] but that could still be [G] changed.
[D] _ [E] That's [Em] the most [A] hopeful line I've ever [D] written.
_ [A] That could [Bm] still be [A] changed.
[G] Yeah, [F#m] yeah, [Em] yeah, yeah, [D] yeah. _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ Thank you.
_ _ Well, _ I would like to invite Graham Wardrop to come up here, and we can continue the