Chords for Al Green 1/4

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I [Bb] write the things that mean the most to me [Ab] from deep within myself. _ _
Why I write the [D] things that I do, I don't know.
[Bm] But it seems to be the things that I want to say.
_ Oh, _ _ _ _ [Ab] what a wonderful [C] _ _ [Am] thing _ [Bb] _ _ _
love [Ab] _ is.
[Bb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ Tonight on Soul, in this evening's episode, [D] which we entitled Let's Stay Together,
Soul presents Michael Baker, Buddy Jarrett, and Daryl Neely on horns,
guitarist James Bass and Larry Lee,
organist Linda Harper [Ab] with Aaron Purdy on drums,
_ [C] _ and [B] William McBroom on bass.
And of course, the [Eb] music and the artistry of the incomparable [Bbm] Al Green.
_ [A] The _ love _ _ [Ab] that you're giving me, _ _ [Db] baby, _ [Bb] _ let me hold that. _ _ _
That kind of makes a fool _ _ understand.
_ _ Just let me know that I'm your man.
And _ [Db] _ so_
I _ _ _ _ walk the floor when _ [Ab] you leave. _ _ _
_ Baby, _ _ _ _ I swear I don't [Gb] know about you.
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_ [Gb] Let me tell you what I'm gonna do. _ _ _ _ _
I'm gonna try to make my dreams come true. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ [Bb] _ You've had such a success at what I consider a very early age.
Has it changed much of your life?
First, maybe you ought to tell the audience how old you are.
Is that cool?
_ Twenty-five.
Twenty-five?
Twenty-five.
How long have you been singing?
_ _ _ _ Well, I've been singing a long time.
_ I've been singing _ since I was about _ eight or nine.
_ _ I started _ singing_
I was born in Arkansas, _ you see?
And _ then I got interested in singing.
And when we moved to Michigan, _ _ _ _ I continued to sing.
And I sung spirituals with my brothers.
I have four other brothers.
The Green brothers.
Yeah.
And we did a spiritual thing for about five years.
And then you went out on your own.
Yes.
In that you were born in Arkansas and you moved to Michigan,
did you find singing made you part of an in-group?
Or did it kind of push you outside of what was going on then? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Well, I'm kind of a _ _ _ _ loner in a way _ _ _ because of the fact that I've always kind of been alone. _ _ _
I wanted to have a lot of friends.
Because I wanted to be in the in-crowd of things.
I wanted to be in the circle of things that's happening.
And like at lunchtime when I was a little kid, maybe in the fourth or fifth grade,
you know how kids get together and trade sandwiches?
And I'll take a piece of your peanut butter sandwich and we trade.
I never did do this.
_ _ Not because I didn't want to, but I was always the fellow that was always alone by myself.
For some reason. _ _ _ _
I don't know.
Maybe it affected me.
Who maybe has influenced you that you've seen or heard?
_ _ Influenced maybe the way you'd like to see your career, like you'd kind of like to be like? _
Sam Cooke was my favorite singer.
You know? _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ Yours too? _
_ _ _ I liked Claude Jeter.
He used to sing lead singing.
Used to be the lead singer for the Swan Symphony.
He's fantastic. _ _ _ _
He's got a lot of style.
Yeah, he's a professional. _
In fact, he's the uncle of my organ player, Miss Linda Harper.
Yeah.
Yeah, in fact.
_ _ Not only that, I liked some of the other people that was in the business at the time.
What about Claude _ influenced you?
His highs.
Like you say, hey, hello, _ _ Mary, don't you weep.
Let _ [E] _ _ _ _ me take a minute to say something and then we'll be right back.
And I'd like to say that _ [Gm] Soul is very privileged to have Al Green.
_ And he is opening our fifth year this year in 1973.
And we would love to hear from the people out there in television land.
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