Chords for Wilko Johnson Demonstrates His Guitar Technique 9.7.12

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I mean [N] I can't talk much about musical evolution _ _ because there's been more or less none.
I mean I
think I learned to do it by the time I was 18 and I never actually [E] see this thing unless I'm
actually playing you see.
_ _ _ _ [N] And as I said earlier, _ _ _ _ _ _ my _ technique of playing is all really deduced from
Mick Green.
Mick Green was _ the master of it _ and _ I ended up with my own method.
Some of this method
can be quite simple you see.
People say, bloody hell how do you do that?
And _ it's like _ riding a
bike.
It's easy to do but quite difficult to describe. _
Now _ let me show you.
This one's your
right hand here.
And [Gm] this right hand all the time, _ _ it's just [F#] going down up down up down.
[G] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D#] Now as you can see I've got my fingers lifted from the frets here so it's damp.
The sound
of the strings is [F#m] damp.
_ _ _ Now I'm making [G] this chord shape.
This is actually a G.
People normally make it that way.
And when we get this one [C] right, which is like [G] that, and we do a thumb _ [N] over the top of the G you see.
Now the advantage of this is you can lift and _ _ _ [G] place down your fingers and make _ short stabbing chords you see. _ _
_ Now so [N] with this hand just going down up down up down up, you can make these stabbing chords to
make a rhythm.
[G] And you can also, all you've got to do is finger the, [F] _ _ like that [N] little bit of licks and that.
Keep this hand doing the same one.
And it all happens like [G] magic.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I
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_ [N] mean so many [Bm] of my songs have been written just like that you see.
[G] I've got like _ _ _ _ _ _ a_
And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the same key and everything like that. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] It's just marvellous isn't [A] it? _ _ _ _ _
[G] It's a very similar thing right.
I just, how am I doing Bob?
Yeah good, keep going.
_ _ _ _ _ I _
_ [A] _ _ remember _ _ _ [B] when we were getting [N] famous, Mick Green turned it, and it actually spent the last four years in
_ Las Vegas playing for Englebert Humberding.
_ Anyway he came back to London and of course [E] I'd been _ _ _ advertising his name.
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And [G] we met and we made friends and I would start going [A] around to Mick Green's place. _ _ _ _
And _ [E] I remember one time and he started [A] playing this, and I go, God darling what's that?
He goes, just some old riff you know.
And I go show me, show me.
This is what he was doing.
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He said there's a lot of things going on there.
One thing the old fun's coming around here because it's going_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Right.
You've got this little thing up here on _ [G] this_ _ _ _
On _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [G] these terms you've got a higher [Am] one where you _ _ go_
[N] Like that.
And then you've got all the rest like_
And the whole thing fits together with the end. _ _
Right, go on.
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So [E] I'm a fiddler, I bet you're her, [C] and I'm [Em] going [A] back home.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I got a girl, _ _ the man's best friend, _ _ I'd have her now if she'd just come back again.
[D] But she left me in the [B] fall, _ [D] told me that I'd treat her [A] like a doll. _
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_ _ _ [E] The last time that I saw her, [D] she was buried in a bowl.
[E] I'm tired of whistling for her, and [Em] I'm going _ [A] back home. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Oh, Mick Green, _ _ _ he asked me in.
_ _ We watched the TV, and we drank a little gin.
[D] And then I'm floating down the [F] street, [Em] _ _ [D] smiling at the [Em] faces [A] that I meet. _ _
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_ _ _ [E] But that was back this morning, _ [D] now I'm dizzy, sick and stoned.
[E] _ When the world's not turning, [C] I'm [G] going [A] back home.
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