Chords for Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell tribute by Melissa Etheridge | 8-8-2017

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_ I love her too so much. _
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_ I do appreciate that, Boise.
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Oh, [G] _ _ _ _
_ so today, you know, last couple years there seemed to be a lot of this. _
Oh, today we lost a musical [D] giant.
[G] _ _ [Gm] Glen Campbell passed away, you know.
_ _ And you might not think there's a lot in common with Melissa Etheridge and Glen Campbell,
but you would be very mistaken.
_ Although I [D] never met the man, _ _ [G] I did try the last couple years [Gm] of his life.
They were busy years for him.
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But when I was a child growing up in Leavenworth, Kansas, that's where I grew up, _ _ _
I used to go to my music store, [D]
and there was this [A] brand new kind [Gm] of guitar,
and it was called an Ovesi guitar.
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And the music guy, the owner of the store, [G] he said, I'll show you this guitar.
This guitar here is called the Glen Campbell.
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[Eb] _ _ [Ab] Glen Campbell had [Gm] his own guitar.
I was pretty impressed with that, and I said, someday, _ someday I'll have me an Ovesi,
and it'll be my own. _
_ And I watched his TV shows.
You know, Glen Campbell was [G]
insanely talented.
He was a member of the Beach Boys.
He was at one time, he was the [D] guitar player singing.
Cat, [G] that man, could play the guitar like no one else.
He was [D] amazing. _
And he [G] had a voice _ _ _ that would just go forever for days and days.
_ And he would sing.
_ And back when I was growing up in the 70s, his TV show was huge.
I used to watch it all the time, and I said, that's what I wanted to do.
And he seemed to be a kind guy.
He seemed to appreciate his audiences, and I learned a lot from that.
I did.
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some of my favorite [Gm] songs in the whole wide world, he sang.
_ It's true. _
_ There was a [G]
songwriter by the name of Jimmy Webb.
He was just one of the greatest _ songwriters.
Glen would always do his songs.
Like, MacArthur Park, and, no, nothing like that. _ _ _
He did, uh, he did the, uh, [Gm] uh, now I can't think of it because I'm playing this in my head.
_ Galveston, that's what that is.
[D] _ _ Jimmy Webb [G] broke MacArthur Park.
Never mind.
Just never mind. _ _ _
But Glen Campbell, you know, just like Greg Allman last month or so, and _ those that have gone too soon.
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[G] Music is a sacred _ art, I believe.
_ [D] _ And it's meant to heal, [G] and it's meant to make people feel.
It's meant to take them places that, [D] _ that just mere words or, [Gm] or actions can, you know.
It's [D] meant to relieve us.
_ And [G] I found all of those things in Glen Campbell's songs.
So I would like to send Glen Campbell off to his _ next hill in the sky. _
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And do one of my all time favorite [D] because I come from Kansas.
_ And this [G] song was about a town in Kansas, and I thought that just made [D] us all in Kansas famous, you see.
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_ This song, when [D] Glen would sing it, he would, _ _
[G] he would, he would put so much [D] feeling in it.
You were that man, you were that [G] man driving in the truck, you know. _
_ _ [D] Down the road, _
_ _ [G] down in Wichita. _
_ _ _ [D] I am a _ [C] limerick for a county. _
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_ [Gm] Dry like a _ [C] _
mornin', _ [Em] _ singin' [Bm] in the sun, [A] for another _ _ [E] home alone. _
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I hear you [Em] singin' in the [D] wire.
_ _ _ I _ _ [E] can hear you [A] in the wine.
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And the [E] Wichita _ line is _ [B] _
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You know I need a [C] small vacation, _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ but it [G] don't look like rain.
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It [Bm] snows that stretch down [A]
south, won't ever stand [E] the strain. _ _ _ _
_ And I need [D] you for a little thing. _ _
_ And I want you [A] for all time. _ _ _
[Am] And [C] the Wichita [B] _ line _ is _ _ _ _ still [C] _ _ _ online. _
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_ _ And I need you [D] for a little thing. _ _
_ And I want you [A] for all time.
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_ _ And the [B] Wichita line _ _ _ _ _ is still [C]
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