Chords for 13 year old Joe Bonamassa on Real life with Jane Pauley

_ _ _ _ _ The fantasies that 13 year olds have about what they'll do when they grow up
involve everything from playing major league sports to playing in a big-time
band.
Bill Schechner's found one young man too busy for fantasy, he's living it. _
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In the hallway crowd at school there is no reason to notice Joe Bonamassa.
He's
simply another 13 year old at an awkward stage of life.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Often doing well, _ _ sometimes messing _ _ _ _ up. _ _
_ Just _ one more kid until he picks up a guitar [Cm] and the boy lost in the crowd becomes the performer drawing a crowd.
[F] Smoke and Joe.
[Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ I feel secure with a guitar in my hand.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ A lot of people say [Ab] you have to say something when you [Eb] play guitar and [Fm] I feel that my hands are
doing the talking instead of my mouth.
[Eb] I feel really comfortable [Cm] because I have
something in my hand you know something [Gm] I've always had in my hand since I can _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ [Fm] remember.
Joe Bonamassa has been playing blues guitar since he was five.
[Cm] He's been
performing in nightclubs since he was nine.
_ [Fm] _ _ Nine W-O-U-R the [Cm] rock of Central New York.
He's [G] from Utica New York an [F] aging upstate town [Ab] that's not on anybody's
list of blues roots and [F] seldom sees a celebrity.
[Ab]
Maybe that's changing.
We've
got Smoke and Joe right here with us.
Welcome back.
When necessary he's Mr.
Showbiz.
What's coming up for you?
Well we're gonna go out west to San Francisco.
We're gonna do a little show with John Lee Hooker.
_ [C] _ When he [Ab] gets home he turns
normal which is how his parents try to [N] treat him.
Put that in your binder so you don't lose them.
We still make him clean up his room.
Oh yeah.
Take out the garbage.
All those kinds of things.
No he's not treated any differently around here.
No.
Because he's a [C] star when he's out there you know playing.
_ [Fm] _ [G]
Maybe it's [Bm] because there's no shortage of musicians [B] in this family.
[C] Joey
practices.
Next door his sister Lindsay [G] practices. _
[Bm] Even in the family archives [Ab] [G] Bonamassa's make music.
_ [Ab] Joey's great-grandfather [Ebm] played trumpet in a ballroom [F] orchestra.
Joey's [A] grandfather played
trumpet [Fm] in a swing band.
[C] Joey's father Lenny [Fm] played guitar in a rock group.
Lenny got Joey
his first guitar. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ I _ [Eb] see a God-gifted talent in [G] him.
He's like an acrobat [Cm] on a guitar. _ _
_ By the time he
was I would say seven years old he started walking [Abm] right by me.
_ [Cm] _ _ At that age Joey [C] was already listening
to recordings of modern blues [Fm] greats like B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan recreating their work
note for note phrase for phrase.
Lenny his first teacher had been left behind but [E] Lenny was [Cm] his dad.
_ Who's the better guitar player?
[Bb] Well [G] he's been playing longer than I have but I'm a little more technical than he is.
You're being polite.
Yeah.
You're better.
Yeah.
What is it like doing something with your father
being better at it than he is?
It feels good but daddy always encouraged me to become better than he was.
_ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ I [B] always dreamed about playing [Gm] you know in front of five ten thousand people in [G] an auditorium.
I just
kind of knew my you know my limitations as far as being a musician.
I think he's living my [C] dream.
_ _ [Bbm] _ [D] He made me an extremely proud [Gm] father.
[Am] He's also totally disrupted my life.
After the [E] first solo,
_ I'm going right back to the A.
[C] Is that right?
Several days a week amid the laundry in the Bonamas'
unfinished basement Joey practices with the Smoke and Joe band whose members are at least two [G] decades
older than [C] he is.
They play clubs together.
[Gm] They perfect songs together.
They rattle the [F] windows
[E] upstairs together.
[F] _ _
[Em] _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Do you ever get tired of all of this?
Sometimes you know I think I'd like to say you know okay
[N] that's that let's take a month off.
I've got an idea of my son not speak to me probably for a month.
I'm in a labor can I help you?
They've had to make some choices.
Joey's mother Deborah works in a New York
State office.
_ His dad passed up a better job to have more time for Joey's music.
Launching a career
is expensive.
It's almost a full-time job.
[Gb] Four o'clock now when I get out of work.
_ _ [D] Basically right now we [Gbm] don't have a social [N] life.
We've given up all of our weekends.
Our bank account is dwindling extremely fast.
But I also believe in his talent.
You know I think [Bb] people should see his [Bm] white plate.
_ What do _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
you _ _ _ _ _ [Em] hope will happen in your [Bm] life?
You know basically become big in the music business. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ One question remains.
If big trouble in Joey's life means lost school papers or being put on a
diet [Db] by his mom.
If he [B] hasn't yet had a date [E] much less a broken [G] heart.
It [Bb] seems like he's [N] never
really had the blues.
So can he really play them?
[C] _ _ _ _ Blues man BB [G] King has [F] been playing this music [C] most
of his life.
[F] _ [Gm] _
[A] He's [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
seen Joey perform.
Here's what he says.
[D] Playing blues [Db] music [C] it's timing.
_ You [E] don't always know [F] where [G] the children get this from.
You don't really know.
But all I know is he
got it.
I think that's the best I can say.
He does have it. _
Gonna find [D] my baby?
_ [E] I ain't got no [A] friend.
[Em] Agreement from another blues star John Lee Hooker.
Recently [E] Joey shared the stage with him [Em] in San Francisco. _ _
Really [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
really very very good.
He [Em] got a lot of technique to learn.
So he's just 13 years old.
What can you expect?
He's fantastic.
He's fantastic.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ 60 years separate them.
Six [Em] guitar strings connect them to each other [Gb] [Em] to a unique tradition.
[D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ Sometimes it gets that way where I think this is not happening to me.
I'm just a kid from York
County.
And I finally realized [Am] that I was up there [Em] playing the legend.
[Bm] _ _ [D] Oh what a kid.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ [C] _ [Bm] _ [N] _ _