Chords for Guy Clark On Gigging: Play Freebird!

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_ [A] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ Well, [Gm] I guess it's kind of like you don't
_ [A] _ It's you know, you're telling a story and it doesn't you don't know if it's a funny story and so somebody laughs at it Yeah, right
_ [Eb] _ _ I thought I was dead serious
_ _ Yeah, I am
When it comes
When [Bb] you do that the thing with with Lyle Lovett and John High and Joe Elliott
_ _ _ _ It seems like you're just pulling songs out [G] of the air.
Oh, yeah, you're just pulling them out of there
Yeah, _ you know I [G] start where I feel like playing that night [D] and it just goes [E] I mean one night for some reason
_ _ I'm saying this song about a dog and everybody has
I _ _ was listening to the John Hines song
_ My dog and me
Which always I can't listen to that song.
I had a _
[Eb] _ Kick down hit by a car and that's all your mind.
They're hurt.
So I know that song always chokes me up [G] today
But [C] so I mean that how did that tour come about?
Did you just do a show together and it worked and so you're doing are you gonna keep doing that?
I you know, I don't know it started [Em] 10 or 15 years ago _
_ Then we were doing a thing for [C] the Country Music Hall of [Gm] Fame
_ [F] _ slash Marlboro country [Em] music
Whatever. _ Anyway _
_ We got together for that
to do this songwriter thing and
And played 10 or 15
dates around _ _ [Bb] and then it kind of sat for a while and I
_ Think it was Lyle had a charity thing
That he wanted to do and call everybody and said hey man, let's put this [E] back together for this and [G] _ then hi
I have one so we did it for that and
_ somebody at some point heard it and said man I can book that and
_ _ _ _ Probably out of Lyle's camp _ _ _
_ _ So
_ Anyway, we just started doing it and did it for two or three years
_ Like once a year.
_ I don't know
_ [Eb] What will happen next, you know, I mean it's hard work
[E] too [G] old for that shit
_ [Ab] Well, they like playing every night.
[E] I play every other night _
Chicago theater is a beautiful place to play
_ Now here's here's something that struck I was at another show of Chicago theater and here this is just kind of out of the air
People hollering songs out of the audience and a friend of mine.
I was with at this show said
Does anybody ever pay attention to somebody hollering a song out of the audience?
Sure.
Do you hear somebody yell a song?
You okay.
I'll play that.
Oh, I do all the time
Yeah, I just want to sometimes [G] I even encourage it just turns into
[Bb] Shout fest, you know, _
[B] it just kind of creates a little chaos _ _ _