Chords for Crystal Gayle - burt reynolds - interview

_ [B] Crystal Gale
_ [E] _ _
[N] What were the first songs you got paid for?
Well, my uncles would pay me to sing.
I get a quarter.
_ _ Oh, you mean professionally.
Yeah.
_ _ _ Actually, the first song that I sang, probably professionally, would be Shake Me I Rattle,
Excuse Me I Cry, Please Take Me Home and Love Me.
I love that song.
And where was that at?
That would have been in Indiana, where I grew up. _
My brothers had bands, so they'd let me_
I wasn't supposed to go in the clubs, but I could have gone in the clubs.
And then sometimes we'd play little _ operas.
_ Do you remember what was the first time you got paid?
I had gone home.
There was a man that asked me if I wanted to get up and sing with his band.
And I went home and I swear I learned every country song there was.
I had like four Dolly Parton tapes and I learned every song on there.
I learned every Loretta Lynn song, every Tammy Wynette song, every Patsy Cline song.
And I was like, okay, I'm going to do this.
Figuring.
I sang all day that day.
I didn't have a voice.
By the time it was time to go sing, I get up there and I was going through my list.
And they're like, how about a standard?
Well, golly, that's a standard.
I mean, everybody sings that song.
And so I said, stand by your man, Tammy Wynette.
And they said, what key?
And I said, G.
I mean, it was just, I thought it was absolutely nothing.
I cried.
I didn't want to do it because [F] I've been used to doing. _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ Sing out, [Bb] Louise. _ _ _
[N] And your daddy?
My dad was a coal miner. _ _
_ That's just about the most famous thing in the United States.
Did I?
_ _ _ Here I am.
I just look like Peter Jennings in Nashville going, asking Crystal, girl, what's your daddy do?
I mean, everybody in the world knows your daddy was a coal miner.
When he was a coal miner, _ were you worried about black lung disease?
Well, you know, when I was real young, about four, we moved to Indiana.
Because of our dad's health.
Because, I'm sure it was a black lung.
But he couldn't work in the mines anymore at that time.
So we moved to Indiana and he worked in a mill then, which wasn't really any better, I don't think.
But, _ you know, we really didn't talk about the black lung.
And I'm sure that was part of the reason when he died.
Reeb McIntyre, it's your call. _ _
That's the name of the album.
_ Well, I might go a little different.
I might go to Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday, something like that.
Wow.
_ I love to hear their voices.
_ They wear _ so well.
_ _ Will you sing something for us?
I'll sing.
_ _ What would you like to sing?
Because I'm not going to mess up and tell you what I want you to sing.
Because I don't know what it is.
Well, you know, maybe he might know it since that's my [D] guitar player.
Oh, well then you actually may [Gbm] _ know.
Yeah, I might know one, you know.
[Ebm] _ _ Make your brown eyes blue.
My eyes used to be brown before that song.
Well, mine are and they'll turn blue before you finish the song.
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _
[Db] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Ebm] See, [Abm] Richie? _
[Ab] Bring your guitar [Gb] player, you get an intro.
[Ebm] Don't know [Ab] what I've [Abm] been through.
[Gb] _ [Eb] Don't know what.
[Abm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _ You found [Ab] someone new.
_ [B] And don't want to [Bbm] make my brown [B] eyes blue.
_ [Db] _ _ [Gb] _
[Eb] I'll be fine [Abm] when [Db] you're [Gb] gone.
[Eb] I'll just cry [F] all [Bb] night long.
_ _ [Ebm] _ Say it is [Ab] untrue.
_ _ [B] And don't want to make [Db] my brown [B] eyes blue.
[Db] _ _ [Ebm] Don't know [Ab] what [Abm] I've been through.
_ [Gb] _ [Eb] Don't know what.
[Abm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Gb] You found [Ab] someone new.
_ _ [B] And don't want to make my brown eyes blue.
_ [Db] _ _ [Gb] _ _
[Eb] I'll be fine [Abm] when [Db] you're [Gb] gone.
_ [Eb] I'll just cry [F] all [Bb] night long.
[Eb] _ _ [Ebm] Say it is [Ab] untrue. _
_ [B] And don't want to [Dbm] make my brown [B] eyes blue.
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ You ain't lost a step, [N] girl.
_ You ain't lost a step. _ _
Pretty, _ _ pretty, pretty.
That song actually was written, the writer Richard Lee,
he had a cat that had one brown eye and one blue eye.
So that's where he really came up with that idea.
Just looked at a dog, I said, cat.
Cat's always on my mind.
I'm an attack cat, so a cat's always on my mind.
_ I had to look out for him.
You know, usually when a dog has a brown eye and a blue eye,
these are not the things you will learn. _
He's deaf.
_ You had a Dalmatian.
Yeah, that was definitely true.
It's definitely true in Dalmatians when they have a blue eye and a brown eye.
They're deaf.
_ _ So that could have been an integral part of the subject of the song.
Make your brown eyes blue.
You can't hear anything.
_ _ Oh, that's true. _ _ _
I'm slow.
_ No.
A movie. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Of course, Co-Miner's Daughter.
_ If I'm all alone on an island, I can look back and see what it was like.
There you go.
It's like bringing the family with you.
_ Are you the baby that she's singing in the pines to you?
Well, actually, if you count the kids, I'm number eight.
There was only seven in the movie.
So how was she holding?
It would have been my sister Betty.
There's four girls and four boys.
_ _ It was a great movie.
It was a great movie.
It was a wonderful movie.
And _ _ _