Chords for Ian Thomas - EPK - LIttle Dreams

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_ _ [G] _ It all [D] began for me _ [C] _ _ _ [D] at 15, my first song.
[C] _ _ _ [Em] There was something about the process of writing a song.
It was like my subconscious was spitting stuff up into my consciousness and it was a drug.
I was at it [D] until the song was [Em] finished.
[E] It was such a gobsmacking experience, a sensation [Em] I'd never really [E] experienced before.
You pour your heart out into this song and your first songs, the [Em] lyrics are [D] really [Em] pretty
primitive, [E] _ but [C] it's you.
It's kind of [D] raw [Bm] you and then you [Am]
start to [D] learn to get a little more [Am] metaphorical and
not make it sound [D] so raw.
But that's [Am] where it began for me [D] and I've been going back to that well [E] now for nearly
50 years in songwriting.
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[Em] Music has brought me a lot of adventures.
[C] I've crossed Canada coast to coast, [Dm] I don't know how many times.
[G] I've played every [C] little whistle stop in Canada.
Back in the days when I was crossing [G] Canada with two trucks on the road, if you had an
open Wednesday night and you were in moose part [Fm] Saskatchewan at some rinky dink hole
in the wall, well that paid the gas for the day so you [Dm] stopped and you did that gig.
I've done gigs in Germany, going down the Rhine in the dining car with the [C] band thinking
wow this beats pulling [E] into Regina in a van.
[G] Great Britain, I did some promo tours in Britain.
Played New York City for the first time this year.
_ [Fm] Some of the boomers dates took us to [Eb] the Troubadour in LA, Sacramento, big open air show there,
Florida, Phoenix.
And touring in the 70s, my god we were all over the US.
It's been a real sort of geographical experience that way.
[Fm] But also music has brought me some other adventures.
[Cm] Film scores have taken me [Eb] to Prague where I [Bb] recorded orchestral music [Fm] for a film I was
doing at the [Cm] time.
So there's [Ab] been those sorts of experiences and flying down to LA to mix [F] movies or to
[Ab] master albums, flying [Cm] to New York to master [C] albums.
[A] _ _ So [F] it's really been a wonderful [C] adventure in terms [Dm] of some of the people I've met, some
of the people [C] I've toured with, and bands [D] as well, musicians and [Bb] friends.
[G] When you're on the road [C] there's a real sense of [D] family that occurs.
_ It's been [B] 23 years since [Bm] he had his last solo record.
_ _ [E] _ He [Bm] hasn't been out [D] of the business, he's been [E] busy with a lot of other projects including writing books.
In [B] producing this record, _ [E]
Ian comes to the table [Bm] with the songs just [E] about done.
So to give it some life, a little more life, we did [G] this live off the floor.
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do?
[Bm] _ But the musicians [D] we brought in, Kevin [G] Bright, Robbie [B] Foto, Shigeru Bright, Norton [Bm] Anderson,
myself on bass, having somebody else's [G] realization of the [A] song, of the part, is [Bm] really what makes this [D] special.
So in producing this, [G] this is half of the, _ [Em] I won't call it a battle, [B] but it's half of
the joy of doing that, seeing that [Bm] reaction. _
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So the songs for Little [Gb] Dreams, they came from pretty much the same well I always go to.
The title track for me was _ [D] one of the opening doors for it.
In some respects, all songs are, they're [E] little dreams.
You drift off _ [Em] into the great wherever where all the ideas are.
It's like that old Inuit [E]
soapstone [G] carving of releasing the figure that's trapped in
[E] the stone, except the stone is your head.
This is how the skipping stone has just been landing for me in a couple of [A] spots [E] on things
that have occurred in my life and my reference level in the last _ [A] couple of years. _ _
Trying to make some sense of it all.
Working on [Gb] this album with Ian means a lot to me.
It was a [G] real honor to produce this and it was a real honor to _ work on [D] his children,
[A] which all the songs are.
_ _ Of course, there's always a few laughs involved.
[Db] _ Actually, there's more laughs [G] than serious work, so it's [D] just a real pleasure.
_ [G] _ Many years ago, I was cycling with a guy named [C] Jim Ryan who was [D] in his 70s.
Now, I'm not that [Am] old yet, _ but he's the happiest [G] guy I ever met.
[D] I said, Jim, how do you do it?
He said, well, I was the only guy in my entire company [Am] to live on D-Day.
There were 200 of us.
[G] He takes this picture [D] around, wherever he goes, of the 200 guys.
Every [A] day when he wakes up, he picks a guy and he says, I'm going to [G] live today for you.
_ I thought, boy, [C] there's the motto [G] for life.
You [C] wake up every day, _ [D] you look [D] at the sun and you go, [F] okay, I'm going to make the most of this.
I'm not going to mope around.
I'm [G] going to make the most of this and just [C] _ enjoy [G] every moment I got.
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I think that's probably been [E] one of the [A] biggest lessons [Bm] I've ever had, was listening to that
[E] man talk, what [Bm] motivated him, and how he acted [E] on that motivation [B] to make every day [Bm] great.
_ _ [D] That's my [E] channel.
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