Chords for George Salazar - "Robbie" by Alexander Sage Oyen

_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Robby was a drummer _ in a rock band. _ _ _ _
_ _ Robby had a heart that he felt nobody could understand. _
_ Robby was a smart kid, _ I'm not really sure.
But my [C] mother says he was, so I guess I [Eb] believe her.
[Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] He left these old vinyls in my house,
Pink [Cm]
Floyd, The [Bb] Grateful Dead.
But Mom [Eb] never played a single one.
I asked her [Cm]
why, and [Bb] she said
that [Eb] they were her brother's records once.
Though they [Cm] have painful [Ab] stories [Bb] from long ago,
[Fm] to my uncle's [Eb] old stuff sits on the shelf
_ _ _ _ [Ab] with a history [Bb] that _ nobody [Eb] can teach. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ My mom told _ stories of _ Robby,
_ _ how [Cm] he played his drums so loud
and raked the house every day.
_ _ _ [Eb] Mom put this picture _ right next to one of me.
She [Cm] said there's some resemblance
that I guess I couldn't see.
_ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ Maybe there was something even then,
[Cm] my mother [Bb] just knew,
[F] that it was the music in our [Eb] _ hearts
that [Cm] connected us [Bb] through.
Maybe [Eb] just a twinkle in his eyes
_ _ [Cm] projected [Bb] on to me.
_ _ [Fm] _
I [Eb] was proud to share something _ _ _ [Bb] with _ [Eb] _
Robby. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] Mom said that [Eb] Robby [Cm] was never really [Eb] happy.
_ [Gm] He always seemed [Eb] _ to run with the wrong crowd.
_ [Gm] _ Mom said I always _ [Cm] blamed it on her _ parents,
_ [Ab] even though she never dared [Bb] to say it out _ loud.
_ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ January 21st, _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [Bb] 1980,
my [Eb] mother got a telephone _ call.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] She always knew that there was something _ _ wrong,
[Bb] _ but _ [Cm] she didn't see [Bb] this coming.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ Now I'm getting [Bb] older,
this [Gm] time of year's [Cm] the worst.
_ [F] My birthday's a few days away,
_ [Eb] _ January _ 21st.
_ _ Mom never made [Bb] a deal of it,
she [Gm] always [Eb] tried [Cm] to make me [Ab] _ _ [Eb] see.
_ _ _ Even though Robby, _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
now [Cm] she had [Ab] me. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
She [Ab] left those old vinyls in [Eb] my house,
I [Ab] tried to play one every year.
_ _ _ _ Do you remember what we [Cm] _ _ [Eb] once lost? _ _ _ _ _
To embrace the memory
[Bb] _ _
_ of when Robby was _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ me. _
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