Chords for Al Green interview

_ _ _ _ _ _ I [Abm] like the creation part.
I can feel it from the sole of my feet
To the crown of my head [C] Come on. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] You start with something and you are like
[Bm] in the middle of the creation of it
and you don't [C] know if it's good, the sculpture
is going to be this way or that way. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] And how it comes out in the end
and it's created and that's it
and you look at it and you say, wow, [B] that's good.
I _ love that.
[Ab] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ The Reverend Al Green
is one of today's most celebrated artists
in contemporary gospel music.
[E] Winner of seven Grammy Awards,
Al still tours [Fm] internationally year after year.
Many people, however, know Al Green
from his early days as a pop soul star
and sex symbol.
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ Turn [Bb] around and make _
_ _ _ [C] a [Bbm] difference
In the mid-70s, Al Green said goodbye
to pop stardom when he answered a higher [Am] calling.
Al was [G] ordained a Baptist [F] minister in 1976,
[Em] the same year he founded [Am] a church
in Memphis, Tennessee.
I'm a reverend at the office when I go to work.
[G] I'm a reverend at the church when I go to [A] teach.
[B] I'm a reverend on the road when I [Am] go to sing.
_ So I just be [B] one person.
I keep it real simple.
I say, you know me.
I [Am] found the songs that you know.
I'm so [C] tired of you, I'm so [Cm] tired of you.
To know [C] that I'm still [Bm] here.
[Am] Shut up and [C] I'll be leaving next to you. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ Take [A] me to [E] the river.
_ _ _ Know [Abm] that I have to love you.
I was born again [Bbm] in [Abm] 1973.
_ _ _ Really in the middle of a _ career
that was [Am] unbelievable.
Singing about what people do.
[Bb] Talking about how I look.
I [Ab] really didn't want, but I could not help
[C] _ but receive [Dm]
what [A] had happened,
[C] what was going on in my life at the time.
And it was so amazing.
[Eb] Standing on a stage singing,
you ought to be with me.
You [Gm] ought to be with _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ me.
And you know why you're singing,
you ought to be [F] with me.
You know why you wrote, [Am] you ought to be with me.
You're teasing [Gm] with me, you're playing with me.
You ought to tease [Cm] with me a little bit.
You ought to be with me.
Now you [Bbm] didn't write it about a girl. _
[Bb] You ought to be with me. _ _ _
[A] And now you're going to try to [C] sing this
in a [E] pop atmosphere, _
_ [Am] knowing [Bb] that I'm here.
And I've been here all the time.
[D] _ _ Thank you, Lord. _ _
Let me tell you what he been.
He's been my shelter
_ in a time of a storm.
He's been [D] my father
when I was completely powerless.
He's been my mother
when mother was gone.
He's been my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ everybody. _ _
_ Somebody better than you.
I [E] found I had to, first of all,
_ convict the person,
_ the Al Green person.
And then after you convict him
and make him realize
what he needs,
what is imperative
in his life,
you strip him down.
_ _ All the glamour,
the fantastic, the _ superstardom,
all stripped him, stripped him, stripped him,
stripped him down to nothing, nothing.
And then
you start to build him up a little bit
with amazing grace.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm here.
You build him up
a little bit with,
[G] yield not, the Lord will make [Ab] a way. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You can see it building.
And then now you can come out
with the lover's reality.
[F] _ _ _ _ _
_ Now you can sing
Let's Stay Together
with [Bb] beauty [Dm] in it
instead of it.
[Gm] Yeah. _ _
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