Chords for "Got To Fly" original song by Annie Raines and Paul Richell.

Well, you want to know how I wrote this song.
I had written a story behind it.
I was in the front living room over here, and I was about 23 years old.
_ I had just moved back from living away from home for a couple of years, living on my own.
And I was grateful to be back, but I was really miserable living back with my parents again.
_ So, I was looking out the window at the chickadees and they were flitting around in the bushes.
And I thought, if I was a chickadee, I'd fly to Memphis, Tennessee, because that's where I wanted to go all the time.
So, that was the line.
So, I wrote it down.
I started playing it on the piano, and I started coming up with this little riff.
Da da da. _ _
Followed it up.
Gotta fly.
Gotta fly is just an expression that people use in those days.
Gotta fly.
Gotta go.
_ _ So, right around that time, I'm working out a couple of verses, but I can't think of any more birds.
Not that I have chickadees.
And my mother comes home.
I'm like, Mom, you know, I'm not going to get anything done.
We're just going to talk.
_ But right when she came to the door, I said, Mom, I need a bird that's three syllables.
And she was like, Aureole.
I'm like, no.
That's no good. _
Another one.
She was like, well, how about a mockingbird? _ _
Like birds, like lots of words.
Like if I were a mockingbird, I'd fly away.
That's perfect.
Aureole, see you later.
I just read it and I finished writing the words.
And then the song got back for a couple of years. _
_ _ _ So we recorded it twice.
Once for I Want You to Know in 96.
We recorded it as a trio with Ronnie Aureole.
And then we did it as a duo on the Metal Woodstock DVD.
And it's sort of one of the _ mainstays of our [F#] shows these days.
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_ I introduced it to my brother.
Homegrown song. _
_ But some of the connections I made in the song were with lines I'd read in books that really stuck with me.
Like Alice Walker talks about _ a couple of my familiars.
She says, can a [F#] person's soul just fly away if you won't leave a book with all people in it?
That was in there somewhere.
And Orson Scott Card, _ _ one of his album makers, series that I was reading at the time,
talked about transformation, [F] legends, transformation myths [C#] in African culture.
[G#] And how people would transform themselves into birds to escape [Bm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ oppression and trouble and situation.
So all that kind of came [Em] together in the song about a brooding moment. _
_ _ _ _ [F#] And [C#] _ _
_ [G#] _ [C#] then finally [G#m] with a song [F#] by Williamson Roof.
And away we go.
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[C#] _ If I was _ a mockingbird I would fly away without another [F#] word.
I got to fly away, got to fly away [C#] from here, away from here.
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Yes darling, _ [C#] _ [F#] I'm going to fly [C#] away from here.
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[C#] _ If I was a barnyard hen I'd lay no eggs in my heat, stay in the [F#] pen.
I got to fly, _ got to fly _ [C#] away from here, _ away from here.
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I'm going to spread my wings [F#] baby, I'm going to fly [C#] away from here.
[G] _ [F#m] _ [C#] _ [G#] _ _ _
[C#] The sky's a blue or green, the sky's a grey or big, I don't care because I'm going to [C#m] stay.
[F#] I got to fly, _ got to fly, _ _
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[G#] yes darling.
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[C#] _ If I was _ _ Chickadee I would fly all the way to Dennis, Tennessee.
[F#] I got to fly, got to fly away [C#] from here, away from here. _ _
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[C#] _ _ [G#] _ [Bm] _ [C#] _ If I was a mockingbird I would fly away without another [F#] word.
I got to fly, _ got to fly _ away [C#] from here, _ away from here.
[G#] I'm going to spread my wings baby, [F#] [N] fly away from [C#] here.
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