Chords for Vince Gill Performs 'Price of Regret' at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame Ceremony

So we're in for a terrific treat and I'm so grateful that Vince Gill did not have an accident,
did not get sick. _
I'm so grateful that he's home in Oklahoma.
Please welcome Vince Gill.
_ _ Now _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
the best singer you can get for free. _ _ _
_ _ I had no _ song in mind when I was [C#] coming here to help
host [C] this and I didn't know what to sing.
I've been making records for 42 years and
so I didn't know what to do.
And then seeing the story we just saw with Tom and the story that we
saw with Ada, [D] you know, it just dawned on me the fact that my father could go to the University of
Oklahoma to law school because he was white and she couldn't because she was black.
It just crawls
all over me.
And I wanted to sing a song tonight.
It's a new song you've never heard.
Hell, all of
my songs, maybe you've never heard [C#] any of my songs.
I don't know, but it's being a little
bit presumptuous.
_ [B] But, _ you know, _ it's interesting in life.
I've noticed creative people only see,
the only color they ever see [G] are the black and white notes on the piano.
You know, it's all we
know.
And _ _ I just don't understand our history, you know, and I think the words I'm sorry
could be used more than they are for the _ way that maybe our history has
has _ painted itself over the years.
And I wanted to sing this song because it
[Cm] _ kind of is about that, you know, if we don't ever find the place to treat each other the same
and be equal and be brothers and sisters, we're never gonna accomplish much.
And my father, like I said, he got to go to law school and he got to be a lawyer and became a
federal appellate court judge for the last 15, 20 years of his life.
_ [N] And one of the things that
I'm proudest of as just a guy that wanted to play and sing songs was I had some great success over
the years and my father was not bashful about bragging about me.
And he was all the time talking
trash about me in the office and my son did this and my son did that and my son did this.
And there's an African American lawyer that worked up there in his office.
And about 20 years ago,
I guess I was the first white guy ever on the cover of Jet Magazine. _
This is true.
This is not a joke.
_ And I had done a duet with Gladys Knight and I'll never forget it.
That magazine is one of my
proudest accomplishments was to be the first white guy ever on the cover of that magazine.
But here's
the great part of the story is that sweet lawyer, he came into my dad's office one day with that Jet
Magazine and he walked in and he dropped it down on his desk and he said, now your boy's done something. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] So let me just sing you this song.
It's called _ _ _ _ [G] The Price [F] of Regret.
[C] _ _ _
Everyone _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ knows _ the price of regret.
_ _ _ The [G] things in life _ we never [C]
forget.
_ _ _ Haunted _ by
_ what we've done wrong. _
_ _ [G] Yearning for _ the [C] pain to be gone. _ _
Some hide in a bottle.
_ Some hop a freight train.
_ _ _ [G] Some wave a Bible.
_ [C] Some just go insane.
_ _ _ Lay down your burden.
_ Or lay down your shame.
_ _ We're [G] all God's children.
We [C] all bleed the same. _ _
_ [D] _ _ [F] You're black and I'm white.
_ _ We're blinded by sight.
[C] Close your eyes and tell [G] me the color [C] of my skin.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [F] _
We let today
_ just _ pass away without [Cm] kindness and [F] forgiveness.
There's no [G] light. _ _ _
_ [C] Everyone's broken _ and everyone's
scarred.
_ Stuff we [G] thought we needed we [C] sell in the yard.
_ _ _ _ Brothers and sisters, _ I mean you no harm. _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Healing's waiting [C] in each other's arms. _ _
_ _ [F] _ You're black and I'm white.
[C] _
_ [F] We're blinded by sight.
Close your eyes and tell me the color [C] of my skin.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ If we let today _ just _ pass [C] away
_ _ without kindness and forgiveness, _ [G] there's no light. _ _ _
[C] Everyone _ _ knows the price of regret.
_ _ _ _ [G] Things in _ _ life [C] we never _ forget. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Wow, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ thank you so much Vince.
It was really