Chords for Zach Bryan | My Opry Debut

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_ _ [Bb] When [Eb] I was 14, we started making these dumb songs [Cm] up, me and my [Ab] buddies sitting around.
And I just, I never really expected to [Bb] be a musician ever, but I always wanted to write songs.
That's what I wanted to do.
I [Cm] wanted to be a [Ab] songwriter.
This is the first bar I ever played a show at.
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The first time I heard about the Opry as a [Cm] person was, I [Ab] mean, my grandpa used to watch
it with me every single time we were in his RV.
The [Bb] Opry was the biggest freaking [Eb] stage that you could be on ever.
_ Hey, I'm Zach Bryan and this is my Opry debut. _ _ _ _ _
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_ My entire family up to this point has been in the Navy pretty [A] much.
My grandfather was, my _
[Gm] great-grandfather was, my uncles are, my mom was, my dad was.
[D] That's why I wanted to really bad.
I just wanted to be like my dad, I guess, like everyone else.
He was always surrounded by so many people who were in the Navy and they'd always be
at the house and they'd always be coming home from [A] deployments and all my friends would
be running to their dad's arms, you know, and [G] stuff like that.
So it was really cool being able to grow up like that.
They _ [D] say Navy brat and stuff, but I learned a lot about what it takes to be in the [Em] Navy
or be a good man, you know, so it was cool.
When I get off work every single day, [C] I play music all night long.
I was the only thing that, like, my buddies had.
We would always [D] just sit in the shop in Djibouti and _ make music.
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[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ That's insane.
_ _ I can't even imagine who's been here, you know?
_ _ _ _ All weekend has just been people talking about who's been on the stage and _ who's done what
on the stage and the parking lots and things like that.
It's just, _ _ it's beautiful.
The whole place.
I never thought I'd be here, is all I know. _ _ _
I always just played as a passion, you know, so I _ had no idea how it worked.
We'll go straight into the song.
Okay.
At the end of the song, applause, then we go into sweet.
At the end of sweet, _ _ [Em] applause, you'll walk over stage left and we'll rehearse that here
in a bit, okay?
[A] Yes, sir.
_ _ _ I was in Florida for [G] three months because we were getting training and so I was playing
these songs [C] and I'd go outside and I'd video them and I would just put them on all my [G] social
media, which is such a strange thing nowadays that that's even an [D] option.
I was playing all these songs and it blew up, like, more viral than I'd ever seen anything
in my entire life.
That's [G]
when it happened.
That's when I got [C] discovered.
And my friends were the only [G] reason it happened because they're the ones who were like, we
should record it [G] or I love this song or I [C] love that song.
I just was lucky to be able [Em] to do it.
I felt lucky that [Am] _
people were even willing to [G] listen.
Twelve-year artists [C] are just trying so bad for people to hear them [G] and here I am with
these people [C] who are willing to listen to me and I was just blown [G] away by that.
[Em] _ _ He's unstoppable and I don't mean that to be prideful.
[E] _ He really is.
_ He's just an [Db] amazing kid.
Always has been.
When he was 10 or 11, I bought him this statue that said, [E] Dream Big.
_ _ _ [Gb] He took it to a whole new level _ [Em] and he's just getting [E] started.
It _ [G] _
[Am] is a special, it is a special event [N] to _ making his grand old Opry debut tonight.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome for the first time, Zach Bryan. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I decided for the Opry tonight I was going to sing songs that meant something to me.
I didn't want to sing something that people wanted to hear, you know, so.
_ _ _ This is a song called Sweet D.M. _ and I appreciate you guys being here to listen, genuinely.
It means the world to me. _
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_ _ _ _ _ I'd be calling you right about now.
Tell you [G]
stories that look [D] pretty fine gal.
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Remind you of the things [D] that you're bores into.
[A] How he looks and he [G] acts and he talks like [E] you.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ That is, that's a legendary stage and I hope I did it justice.
But besides that, I had a really good time.
I think [F] everyone else did and [A] it really meant a lot to me that the Opry would [E] let me sing those songs here.
You know, because the stage is full of such talent and that's where I want to be someday.
But I know I'm not there yet.
So to be here to do that for everybody is just [D] unbelievable.
I cannot, can't even put it into words.
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I do _ [B] feel that my mom and my pops have [Gbm] really helped him because they were the only, like they really believed in him.
And I feel like once they were gone, they like worked [E] together and they were like, we got to get him to the Opry or to the masses, you know.
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[D] Sweet D and I miss you so. _
And you were _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ It's [Eb] breathtaking, literally.
My heart [B] started beating like, [Gbm] never felt it [Ab] before.
And _ besides that, [E] I just looked at everyone, [F] looked at my sister and [Gb] I was like, OK, guess we got to do it now, you know.
_ But it was, it's like I can't get over it.
I'm on a [E] high right now.
How he looks and he [G] acts and he talks like you. _ _ _
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_ Thank you guys so much. _ _ _
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