Chords for Doug Seegers met Jill Johnson and Magnus Carlson on a broadcasted called Jills Veranda

_ _ We're from Sweden.
Business or pleasure?
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Both, actually.
We're here filming a documentary.
[Bb] Oh, you are?
Yeah. On what?
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Music business and the stories behind [Db] the songs and all that.
Well, let me tell you [Dm] what.
[C] There's a story that you need to [Ab] hear.
This gentleman [C] that plays right over here every day, you [B] have to hear him.
He has [Ebm] the most unique voice in country [Bb] music and down home [C] and just a pleasure to hear.
We're going to do that.
Can't [Bb] wait.
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[Ab] _ Now, everyone, we're going to do a little bit of a tour.
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We're going to shake hands.
Say hi to [Am] everybody.
Nice to meet you, sir.
[Bm] Your voice, [Em] man, that was_
Thank you, sir.
Do you play here every day?
Beautiful.
Or around here?
Uh, I kind of float around, you know, I float around a bit.
You know, [C] I'm [G] a homeless gentleman.
But I live in a place [Am] that's rent-free, [Em] under a bridge.
Oh.
That's all right.
That's okay until hard [Eb] weather hits, you know.
[G] I'm all right.
[Ab] What brought [G] you to Nashville?
When did you come here first?
[F] [G] Well, I've been here about 15 years now.
15, yeah?
I came down from New York.
Why [Eb] Nashville?
[N] Nashville is Music City, and I was raised on country [Em] music in New York.
Oh, so you've been playing your whole life?
Yeah, my mom and dad were in a [Eb] country band together.
And [C] I usually play out in my neighborhood where I haven't left in 15 years,
out in West Nashville, off of Charlotte Avenue.
[G] There's a little [Eb] place out [C] there called the Little Pantry.
[Em] It's a place in the basement of a church where they, every [A] Saturday,
they help all the homeless [N] people in town with some free food and some clothing
and stuff [Em] like that, you know.
It's a wonderful place.
And there's a lot of good musicians that hang out there, too.
[F] If you've got some extra time [B] before you go home,
then meet some of my friends over [Em] there.
And [A] I'm sure they'd love to meet you [Abm] guys.
And you guys are totally [Cm] welcome out there.
I'd [A] love to meet you all.
Yoda.
[Gb] That's crazy.
_ [A] _ [E] Crazy in love.
[N] I think we should go right now.
[G] _ Absolutely.
[Em] You're a call.
Let's get some food and some clothes.
[F] You're expecting us.
[Eb] Excellent.
New table.
Wonderful.
[Db] Well, [Eb] I'm a little bone [Ebm] weeble and the children found me a hole. _ _
We meet a man named Doug, and he's invited us to a mansion he usually goes to.
I wanted to see a Nashville movie, but this wasn't what I expected.
[Db] This is really the dark side of Broadway.
[E] But I got a real [Bm] feeling for [Ebm] this guy, so I really wanted to come along.
_ _ I ain't got a blanket or pillow, but I can't find me a bed.
I want to sit on the interstate in somebody's tool shed.
Well, my name [Bb] is Mr.
Weeble, [Ab] and my best friend's all from above.
[Ebm] I'm a [Ab] bummer.
I got [Eb] to go, baby.
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_ _ [Eb] When I started this three years ago, we had maybe 10 or 12 families
who would come through every week.
And now we have 140, 150.
So there's a big need.
There's a huge need.
Yeah, but it still works [Bb] out every week, so it's [N] good.
My grandmother was a musical genius.
She didn't play the guitar, but I'd be working on a Beatles song,
and if I needed to figure out the notes to the chord of a certain [C] Beatles song,
my grandma would say, play the song up to that point [Db] where you need the chord,
and then you stop playing, [A] and I'll hum [G] the notes to the chord.
Really?
[Ab] I'd get to [B] the part of that [N] song where I didn't know the chord,
and she'd go, all right, here's the chord, and I'll pick the notes out.
Hoo, hoo, hoo.
_ I always thought that was amazing. _
I love music.
I like Johnny Cash.
He had some rough times, too.
He [D] wasn't labeled.
[G] No, I just think the ones that are homeless, we get labeled.
_ _ [C] They're homeless, you know. _
[Bb] Don't talk to them, don't touch them.
We're human.
[D]
We have [N] feelings, and we don't bite _ in _ the heart.
_ _ _ _ _ Are you done?
Yeah, we're done.
_ _ [Abm] We're done. _ _
_ _ I'm going down to the river [Dbm] to wash my soul [Abm] again. _ _ _
_ _ I've been running [Dbm] with the devil, and I know that he's not [Abm] my friend. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dbm] I've been falling by the wayside, living in this world [Abm] of sin. _ _
_ I'm [E] going down to the river [Eb] to wash my soul [Abm] again. _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [Abm] I'm going down to the [Dbm] township to bury my head [Abm] in a creek. _
I'm _ _ going to [Dbm] jump in that water and baptize the boat [Abm] I feed. _ _
_ _ Because [Dbm] everywhere I've been walking, I've been getting in trouble [Abm] deep. _ _ _
I'm _ [E] going down to the river [Eb] to wash my soul [Abm] again. _ _
_ _ _ [Dbm] Well, _ it's so well going to hell [Ebm] in [Abm] a hand basket.
_ _ [Ab] [Dbm] If I don't get me some restoration stone, [Eb] I'm going to end up in a casket.
_ [Abm] Wow. _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ That's great.
Thank you.
Wow.
Thank you very much.
[Cm] Love that.
That was amazing.
Is [N] that, what song is that?
Is that your [C] own song?
Yeah.
It is?
It's my own [B] song. _
[Ab] _ [Bm] Amazing.
It's better than all the songs [Ebm] we've ever made.
I know.
[N] I know.
I know.
Thank you all very much for the feedback.
I appreciate that.
That was amazing.
That's worth a lot more money than me.
That was _ [Dm] the most [F] beautiful thing I've heard in I [Abm] don't know since when.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
You're going to [N] have a headache all day anymore.
And the lyrics, fantastic.
The words.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Straight both to the brain and the heart.
Thank you.
That was amazing.
That should be recorded.
You know, God gave us music.
God gave us a voice.
The greatest instrument there is in the world is your voice, your human voice.
You know, and people that think they can't sing are highly mistaken.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, because music is therapy.
That's what it's meant to be.
Yeah.
That's how I look at it.
That's true.
And that's how you feel it.
That's how you feel music.
If it's therapeutic, that's how you get to feel it.
[D] You know? _ _ _ _
That was so unexpected.
To meet Doug and he's singing a song