Chords for Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - Inside the Goat Rodeo Sessions

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_ _ _ [G#] What's the name [E] of the album? _ _
_ _ [F#] Goat [N] Rodeo Sessions.
Oh, okay.
You know, it's like_
I [G] haven't told my mother yet.
[D] It encourages me to [A] play the music even more beautifully.
_ [C#] _ There [C#m] you go. _
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[G] _ _ From the Urban [Dm] Dictionary, a goat [F] rodeo is about the most polite term [C#] used by aviation
people and others in higher risk [F#] situations to describe a scenario [A#] that requires about
100 things to go right at [G#] once if you intend to walk away [A#m] from it.
[C#] This interview _ [A#m] is a goat rodeo.
This whole [F#] process.
Some more things are going to have to go, [C#m] right?
These arrangements are goat rodeos.
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_ [F#] _ _ [E] _ For [C#m] me, the goat rodeo [D] is about the [Bm] very happy mix of _ [G#] personalities.
That's right.
There was [E] nothing that could [F#] ensure that this was all going to work out [B] in terms of chemistry
and all that.
To me, that's the [F#m] goat rodeo [F#] moment.
Right, but at the [Bm] same time, I think a [D#] mandate of a project like this [N] is that each person's
own personal voice is entirely intact.
I'm not trying to sound like Yo-Yo, who's_ I am. _ _ _
I'm trying [F] to sound like Stuart, but I [A] can't. _
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Chris mentioned that he was working on this project with Edgar and Stuart and Yo-Yo and
said that we're thinking about having vocals and we'd love you to be involved.
And then I flew down to Nashville and just was immediately _ struck by the warmth of the quartet. _
And it was definitely a challenge to step into it.
A strange person comes in to sing on two songs and it could be this divide, but I felt very included.
_ _ _ _ With a hammer and nails and a fear of failure, we are built in a shell. _ _
_ Between here and heaven, between a weight and the weighting, we'll rest as long as people
shall be dead to [Gm] the world beyond.
Chris sent this to me in a text message, the first verse.
And I was like, wow.
And [E] she sent me the second verse in a text message.
Yeah, this is how we communicate in the modern world.
_ It's a forestrange hand to hold.
There's something weird and strange going on there. Oh, cool.
We built some really quirky [D] phrasing into the lyric.
_ You hear that melody so many times, it validates just taking certain [A] liberties with it in the second verse.
_ _ [D] All around, so fertile, we forget it, we've heard along the way and reach out for a strange
hand to hold.
Someone strong, but not bold enough to tear down the wall.
_ _ We ain't lost enough to find the stars ain't crossed.
While I move I fall hard, not soft.
Into [G] fall I'm [F#m] winning, streaming, not [F] summer, _ not [D] _ fall.
_ _ And it's war, not high, we all forgot and I [F] win.
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[F#m] _ I think we get a lot of pleasure in [Am] arrangements that have just enough twists and turns [A] that
you really can't let your guard down.
If I [A] trip on one thing, that's going to throw Chris, and then that's going to throw Yo-Yo,
and then Stuart's going to have to make up a whole new part.
So, [B] once you're actually participating, you're all in. _ _ _ _ _
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_ The [E] other thing about Go!
Roll Yo is how many [F#m] things have to happen for [C#] some [F#] incredibly beautiful music [E] to come up.
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_ _ [E] _ _ What really [G#m] brings the piece to life is once the people sit down and play it, and the way
they interact and what happens.
You can write a beautiful piece and we can [E] play it with no vision or insight, and it
will lay [Bm] there. _ _
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_ _ [B] You and I could have been separated by genre [C#m] forever.
If _ [D] not for the vision, it's bound to work.
It's just music.
Exactly.
[A] That's true.
It is.
It's just music at the end of the [F#m] day.
And it's wholly unnatural _ [A] for musicians like us to be separated.
_ These four guys are here because these four guys enjoy hearing the other four guys do
what they do best.
They can only enjoy the other three. _
Yes.
Right, right. _ _ _ _
That's very true.
You need to be more [D] self-deprecating, Chris, [A] really.
Sorry about that.
_ It's the other people.
The other people that we want to hear.
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