Chords for Vince Gill At Guitar Center

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_ When I was a little kid, probably one or two [N] years old,
and I had my arm around a guitar,
maybe laying on a couch and taking a nap or whatever,
but I always had one near me,
and I always was beating on one.
My dad played a little bit, but not very well,
but he loved it, you know,
and I just remember him always either playing a banjo
or playing a guitar.
[G] There were three [Ab] guitars that I remember
were around when I was little.
One was a Gibson ES-125.
One was an Archtop Harmony,
and one was a little four-string [F] tenor guitar,
a little, like an ES [D]-125,
only with just the first four strings.
So when I was little, I only [G] had these first four strings,
and I could learn these rudimentary chords
with little tiny hands, you know,
and I couldn't get all the way up on all six strings,
but those three instruments are the ones I remember most.
I still have all but the tenor guitar.
I have the serial number of the tenor guitar,
and I'm hoping, hoping against hope
that someday it'll turn up.
You know, it'd be neat to [Dm] find that guitar,
but the other two I have that were my dad's
are obviously really special
because they're the instruments that got me going.
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_ _ _ _ If I could describe what it [D] feels like to play music,
I think it brings me the greatest peace.
I think peace more than anything else.
I, honestly, I wouldn't be perceived to be introverted
or shy, but I think I am a little bit, you know,
but I'm just good at making everybody feel comfortable.
I like to tell jokes and _ can have a great time,
but deep down, I'm just a little bit shy,
a little bit insecure,
and when I've always, you know, got a guitar in my hand,
I feel at peace more than anything else,
and all those years of being a kid
and trying to learn how to play,
if your buddies couldn't come out and play ball
or go do whatever you wanted to do,
man, the guitar never said no,
never let me down, it was always there,
and I'm gonna tell you something.
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the most familiar _ _ thing that I can feel in my life
is to have a guitar in my hands,
just noodle around and play some music.
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ What drives me still is [N] just the realization
that I'm getting better, you know,
and the accomplishments, you know,
whether it's Grammys or CMA Awards
or any of those kinds of things,
those are nice, but they're,
I think a lot of times when something like that happens,
you think it's never gonna happen again, _
so there's a real kind of weird mindset
to some of that stuff,
and I didn't know I'd ever win the first one.
I think, you know, every time you don't think
you're gonna win one, then you do,
you go, well, that's probably my last one.
That's just human nature,
but _ just the possibility
of still having my faculties about me,
my hands still feel good, my brain is normal,
I'm singing better than I ever have.
All of it is improving,
so when I can look at myself honestly,
I mean, my ears have never lied to me.
My eyes will lie to me all the time,
but my ears haven't,
and they tell me that all those things are true,
that I'm continuing to improve,
and it's interesting because I'm almost 60,
and I've done it professionally for over 40 years,
_ and the really _ great irony of all of it
is I'm at my best now.
I wasn't at my best 30 years ago,
or 20 years ago, or even 10.
The songs I [F] write, I feel like get better.
The subtleties with which I play _
[G] to inspire myself,
you know what I mean?
That's kind of the point of ever playing
in the first place is to do something that you like,
and so it may not be now
that I'm gonna try to learn a lot more stuff.
What I'm gonna try to do is just use what I need,
and that's the [N] real beauty to me of music
is what you don't play,
and when you're writing a song,
sometimes it's what you don't say.
Just play and write and sing what's necessary,
what really fits the space most,
and just trying to really _ _ honor what you need most,
_ and those subtleties and that ability to see yourself _ _ _
getting better at what you love doing,
_ that's never gonna be a drag.
When I see it going the other way, then we'll talk.
We'll have a new interview, but so far, I'm good. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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