Chords for YO-YO MA

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_ _ [Bm] _ I met Bobby [Am]
at _ Tango Road, [E] right here, _ when [Am] we're all here together to celebrate Leonard
Bernstein's 70th birthday.
I'm not too sure what I want there yet, so let me think here.
_ [E] It's if you want the [B] last note to go to this note, just as the cello does, I mean the bass
[A] and the cello down there do it.
You see what I mean?
[G#] _ In other words, [E] that is doing [Am] the same thing.
Right, right, right.
Oh, I see.
Get it?
[G#m] Yeah.
So it's one, two, [Am] three, four.
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Is [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ this very different [F] from?
Trying to get him to understand why _ he felt that a diminuendo went here and what this
was all about.
I mean, because like Charles Ives said, you can put notes on paper, and that's one [G#] thing.
But then getting the notes to sing.
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_ _ _ _ The great thing about working with Bobby is that he will incorporate anything that happens
into the thing [E] that we're supposedly doing on stage.
It's all fine.
[G#m] And that's really [E] wonderful.
Bobby _ [F#] _ _
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ says, you know, [F#] you just have to remember one thing, to [B] not be self-conscious, always
to not [C#] judge myself when [B] you're on stage.
[B] Everything was [C#] okay.
That actually changed my life.
Hurt, slit, baby, don't say a word.
Papa gonna buy [E] you a mockingbird.
That [B] mockingbird won't sing.
Papa gonna [E] buy you a diamond ring.
That diamond ring turns to brass.
Papa gonna buy you a diamond ring.
_ And if that looking glass should break, Papa gonna [Em] buy you a chocolate king.
All [F#] you have to do [F#] to get on stage is to just [B] remember that and be yourself. _
And that was perhaps [C#] the biggest lesson, [E] _
performing lesson, of my life.
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When you're dealing with sort of super events, _ a big celebration like Dvorak's anniversary
in Prague, you actually have to expand yourself more in the Bobby McFerrin style.
You've got one shot at doing something.
Fabulous.
Let's invite all of that in.
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_ _ _ _ _ When I'm performing, [C#] this is the moment [F#] where I've got to tell you all this stuff.
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_ Vocabulary may not be good, [D#m] but I'll find the words within whatever I know to [B] tell you. _ _ _
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[Cm] _ [D#m] The most [G#] important thing about performing is _ to make magic, _ to make a [D#] special moment [C#] in time.
The [G#m] whole process, [A#m] to me, is [F#] never about proving something, [B] but it's about sharing something. _ _ _
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