Chords for Crooked Still: Origins

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_ I'm gonna [F] be making a cake and a full big [Am] omelet.
_ [C] You know I'd rather stay _ in here hanging out with you.
I'm gonna be making a cake and a full big omelet.
_ _ _ Yeah, I grew up in Virginia and then I moved _ up north and went to college at Yale.
And then I was in grad school at MIT for biology when the band got together.
But I come from the bluegrass tradition musically, or the banjo tradition.
I guess it's broader than bluegrass and the Biloflex. _
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[F] _ Well, [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _
Brittany started [A] playing promotionally when she was 16 [G] and so did you really, when you were [C] much younger than I then.
Yeah, my [G#] sister and I started playing gigs when I was four.
But were you [G] playing bluegrass or were you playing in the fiddling _ school [F] tradition?
[Am] More, _ _ I guess more the latter.
I definitely wouldn't say I came from a straight ahead bluegrass tradition at [G] all.
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[C] Yeah, [E] I'd say the same basically.
Because I [C#] grew up with Darrell England, _ he's a little bit of bluegrass and he definitely can do that stuff.
But he does a whole lot of other things.
Yeah, it was more of a fiddle kind of _ _ _ _ _ Catholic [G] music.
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_ [F] _ _ _ You come out of New England [Am] Conservatory of Music, both you and Corey, [C] right?
_ You met there?
We did, in the Klezmer band.
In the Klezmer band.
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So were you singing in the Klezmer band?
I don't think of Klezmer as being [N] vocal.
Oh, man.
Ich hab' noch als Borscht nie gegessen.
_ [C] Keep going. _
And in a village, _
_ _ _ [F] _ in the big town, there [Am] lived a small _ [G] farmer. _
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[C] _ [F] This is the middle of 1999.
[A] I went to a party at Casey's [F#] house and [Gm] it was the first weekend [C] I was in Boston.
That's where I met Rashad, who was the original cello player. _ _ _
[Dm] So you were literally almost by [C] coincidence in Boston doing your work at MIT and fell into this scene.
_ [F] Yeah, kind of.
[Am] And were you already playing banjo with [G] your famous [C] four-finger technique?
I started that that same year, too.
I started [Bm] massively [C] reprogramming my right hand, making patterns and stuff.
So I just kind of started getting a lot worse at the banjo for a while.
[F] So only now in the last couple of [C] years I've started to get better again.
But it's good, it was worth it.
_ [A#] Yes, indeed.
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