Chords for Crystal Gayle - Richard Leigh - Don't it make my brown eyes blue story

_ [D] _ _ _ I'll [E] get over you, [A] I'll get through, [D] I'm what I do
[Bm] This ballad was Crystal Gale's first number one hit as a [E] singer and writer Richard Lee's [Ab] first song to be cut.
I thought well, you know, I just sort of think in terms of something she could sing because she out-sung everybody in [Gb] town.
[Ebm] Don't know when [Abm] _
[Db] I've been so [Gb] blue, _ [Ebm] don't know [F] what's come [Bb] over you
[Ebm] _ Their second [Gb] collaboration proved [C] even more fruitful.
_ [B] I'm gonna make [Bbm] my brown [B] eyes blue
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I knew Brown Eyes was going to [Eb] be special, I didn't know how [Ab] special.
I just knew that I wanted that song first off of the album.
So I felt if I didn't release it, somebody else was going to record it and release it.
I can go anywhere that radio has been and I'll make a friend based on that song.
If someone finds out that I am the inventor of that [Bm] song, _ they'll want to shake hands with me and say,
how do you do, my name is _ _ Fritz so and so and I'm from wherever [Eb] and [Gb] we're friends. _
_ [F] Don't it make [Em] my brown eyes, don't it [Em] make my brown eyes, [F]
don't it make [C] my brown eyes blue
[Am] The song's catchy [F] title was inspired by a look of love, but not from a [C] woman.
My working title was Don't It Make [F] My Rainbows Blue and I looked down at my dog Amanda,
she looked up at [Bb] me and like this, big [B] brown eyes and she just sort of [Eb] shaking her head like that.
_ And I thought, gosh, that was so good.
And but as I was looking at her big brown eyes, brown eyes turning to blue.
[N] That'd be good.
And then I started to think, no, that's too commercial.
That's what I said, too commercial to myself.
And Amanda was still looking up at me with those big brown eyes and I guess she was just sort of nodding [E] just like that.
And I so she's really my co-writer on that and save the day.
And that's how it became brown eyes, blue instead of rainbows, [Gb] blue.
That's gospel truth.
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[Gb] Crystal Gale brought a sparkle [Ebm] to country music by [B] singing up a storm.
[Gb] It won her four gold, two platinum [Ebm] albums and the respect of Nashville's grand old Opry [Bb] legends.
With [Ebm] success came worldwide adulation [Gb] from fans and a [C] glitzy life she once [Ebm] only dared dream of.
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_ _ [Bb] The performer, whose albums are even popular on [B] the Moscow black market, got an early introduction to [Ebm] the music world.
Born in the [Bbm] backwoods of bluegrass country, [Bb] she was the youngest of eight [F] brothers and sisters, one of whom just [Eb] happened to be Loretta Lynn.
When I first started out in my singing, I was singing ever [Bb] since I was little.
My sister, Loretta, got my foot into the door as far as a recording contract.
And it didn't take me long to realize that being related [Bb] to someone as famous as my sister wasn't going to help me as much as I needed.
There's only one Loretta Lynn and my sister told me, don't sing any of my songs because they're only going to compare.
And then that's when I started doing my own style.
I grew up singing all different styles of music from folk, rock, pop, as well as country.
And I love the blues, but I love singing my sister's songs.
But she said, don't do that.
And I understood right away why.
_ As one of the biggest names in the country music capital, it seemed only natural when [Cm] Crystal made her home in the rolling [F] hills overlooking [Bb] Rhinestone City.
[Eb] I [F] knew that was [G] the place for me to go [D] to _ [Cm] record.
Country music [A] is really big here.
As [Gm] far as it's the roots, this is the main place.
I moved to [Bb] Nashville after my husband got out of college.
And we came here and Bill went to graduate school, law [Bb] school, Vanderbilt University.
And I started touring and working the road.
I was recording. _
I was working here and of course living here and working the road, you're not home a lot.
Well, then as the years have passed and I have two children, they're in school.
I feel very much a part of the [E] community.
I [A] love Nashville because it [Bm] is a big city, [A] but it doesn't have that hectic pace.
And I don't feel like [E] someone's going to run over me when I [Gbm] walk down the street.
[D] With her husband, [A] her children and a hit [E] career, you'd think Crystal's cup would [A] overflow it.
But [D] few fans realize this is one very busy bee.
Not even her charity work, [Gbm] for which she received the ultimate acknowledgement, [G] left her completely satisfied.
So she fulfilled [Gbm] a secret dream she'd had since childhood.
[Em] All my life I've wanted to have a little crystal [Bm] shop.
[D] Because I collect crystal.
I've [G] collected crystal for many years.
My first piece was a Waterford piece.
And from there I just started adding.
And this little crystal shop [Cm] I wanted to start turned into a [Bb] much larger shop, which I'm really excited about.
We have porcelain, we have fine jewelry.
We have about anything [Bb] that you would find in a fine [D] giftware shop.
I love to give gifts of crystal and I [G] could never find what I wanted.
And I thought, [D] you know, I'd love to just open up a shop and bring in [Cm] all the things that I [Am] love and I want to give people.
[Bm] Between recording albums and touring, [G] Crystal shimmers in her namesake store.
I love to just [A] see how [D] things are being [A] displayed.
Give [D] my two cents to [A] _
[E] everything.
It's just a [Gbm] shop that [D] in a way I can come in and it's got [A] an atmosphere [E]
that's quite a way to [A] go.
_ [D] Several things that you [A] need, don't they?
[E] Well, I have my own duster.
[B] I can help [Gbm] you.
Okay, that's great.
[G] The down-home star never gives the brush off to her fans when they [Gbm] come a-visiting.
When I'm out [Em] and people [Bm] recognize me, that's great.
I don't mind talking to people.
[Bb] When I'm home, you know, I'm no [Bb] makeup.
You know, my jeans and my sweatshirt.
That's a different crystal. _
That's where you want to kick off your shoes and have a little time of just being someone that no one knows.
But when I'm out [Gb] in the public, you know, I'm [Db] popular.
For the [Gbm] singing sensation who put [B] her own special sparkle on [Bm] country music, success is all or [B] nothing.
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