Chords for Barney Bentall "Gift Horse" EPK

_ You let me know whenever.
I'm good, anytime.
I'm rolling. _
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_ [Eb] I first came out to [Bb] Vancouver because I wanted [F] to pursue a [Gm] career in music [Eb] and I set [F] _ [Gm] the
goal of two years.
We were always playing our own songs.
That's [Eb] one thing I'm very proud
of.
I [Bb] have a lot of respect for people who [F] go out and play cover tunes.
That's [Gm] not an
issue for me.
But [Eb] we just kept playing [G] our own songs and that's a pretty good [Bb] way to
get yourself fired from playing in bars.
[F] And then finally about 87, 88, around that time
[Gm] we signed with Sony.
At that time there were only five domestic acts on [Bb] the roster so you
got a lot of attention.
For [Eb] the next decade it was just a blast.
It was [F] so much fun.
I
really [Bb] got to know the country [G] of Canada.
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_ [F] _ _ [Gm] We had a really good run for [Bb] about a decade
and I got [Em] to this point where [Dbm] I felt [B] like I wanted a bit of a change.
In the early 90s
I bought [A] a quarter [B] section up in the interior [E] and I would go up there and be very [A] comfortable
there.
One thing led to another and a few of us bought a [Gb] work in cattle ranch.
And that
was a [Abm] weird, _ wonderful, [A] _
_ challenging [Abm] _ _ [Gbm] experience.
[E]
Grab a rope, _ [A] _ slap off the dust.
_ [Gbm] _ _ [B] You're getting back up [E] on the horse.
You know I would keep [Bb] playing.
I would keep doing [A] shows but I [Ab] wasn't making records.
I
[E] wasn't writing a lot.
And then [Dbm] I think I got to this [G] point where I realized [A] I missed [E] music.
It was a bit of [B] a slow removal [E] _ _ _
process.
I took myself away.
And it was kind of slow
in terms [B] of how I got back into it.
_ _ [E] An old Indian once told me never weaken.
_ [A] Then I heard the preacher say turn the other cheek
[B] and walk [E] away.
There [A] were people [B] that were really [E] supportive.
Johnny [G] Ellis who I made a lot of [E] the record
with.
[Em] I play with him live.
[E] He was really encouraging.
[A] Maybe we should get in there and [Gb] record.
And then I [A] started finding myself writing songs,
[Gb] collecting songs.
I remember there was one point where I went, you know what, [A] why don't
I do this?
I'm waiting in heavy at the bridal _ [E] room. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] A man is [B] what he thinks about all day [E] long. _
_ _ _ _ A man is [B] what he thinks about all [Dbm] day long. _
_ [B] _ _ Trying [A] to reach [E] him.
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It was kind of nice.
Nobody was pressuring me.
I mean some of the [A] people, Jim Cuddy was
pressuring [E] me a little bit.
Johnny Ellis, maybe we should get and finish this.
[A] And I
was waiting for [F] certain songs to come.
Then all of a sudden after [C] four or five sessions over the course [F] of two years, I thought I
think I've got a record here. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ Jim [G] Cuddy from Blue Rodeo produced part of the record Gift Horse.
_ Jim and I have been
friends since I guess [F] back around late 80s I would say.
I love playing with those guys and I think they [G] really have done so much for Canadian music.
When you get great musicians and when you feel good about the songs, you don't over
analyze, you get more relaxed and natural about it, then you have your best chance of
capturing it in a good way.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ Something I've [Eb] been doing recently, we've been playing, the [Bb] Legendary Hearts have been
[D] playing [A] the Clinton May Ball.
This is the longest running, _ _ consecutively running [D] event
in Canadian history.
It's [E] been such a blast.
It kept evolving to be more and more [A] kind
of old style country music type dance.
We would have these marvelous rehearsals.
We really thought that we should do [E] something with it, so that's when [A] we created the Grand Cariboo Opry.
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think [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
when you first release a record, when I first heard something live on the radio,
I [Bm] thought I had no idea what was going to happen, how far it was going to go.
As it
turned out, I like a really good Canadian rock and roll [D] career.
I'm comfortable with
that _ [Bm] largely because of my family.
It's more [B] realistic for me [Gbm] now in terms of my [Em] expectations
of what's going to [A] happen.
I know I can go out and tour there.
It's nice to have a record.
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_ There's been [A] very little kind of turbulence for the people who come see me.
I [B] play a lot
of the old songs, sort of [E] reworked ways. _
They've [Dm] been coming along on [F] the journey in a really great way. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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