Chords for Jeffrey Gaines - Hero In Me (Live from Good Morning America 1992)

[N] _ And now it is 45 minutes after every so [Eb] often a new performer slips onto the scene almost through the [E] back door and before you
[A] Know it just takes the country by [F] storm
Well such [E] might well be the case for a [Abm] young man that we're going to introduce you to this morning
His [Ebm] name is Jeffrey Gaines and his [Ab] debut album is causing quite a buzz in music circles in a few moments
You'll find out why [Eb] because he is going to perform the records [Ab] first single [E] hero in me
[Ab] But first I would like to take a few minutes to get to know him Jeffrey Gaines nice to [Eb] have you here
You know listening [E] to your music
It _ seems like it [A] has a lot of different [Eb] styles in it and you [A] go a lot of different ways
[Gb] Who did you listen [G] to who [F] influenced you?
[Eb] [C] Well, there's so many [A] things influenced me [G] because you know, [Ab] you know
I'm [A] like a fan of music and the reason I'm playing it is to kind [Gb] of
[G] Tip my hat to you know, my betters [F] and [Gb] you know, just kind of compliment everything [F] that I've enjoyed, you know
I grew up, you know with my family [Gb] exposed me to like a lot of soul and R&B [F] artists like, you know
Aretha Franklin Otis Redding Gladys [Gb] Knight and the pips
_ _ [Ab] My personal favorite from that period of things was a band called the Chambers Brothers.
Oh
Sure, _ [Gbm] I can Tina Turner, you know, but you know
But then I got into so many other sides of it, you know
And another side of your [Ebm] music that I see is a serious side
I [Bb] mean writing about you write [E] about unwanted pregnancies from both the men and [G] men's and the woman's point of view
Growing up with a father who is an alcoholic.
[D] I mean serious things.
So I get the point you want to say
[Eb] things
_ Yeah, I realized I realized that that is [Gb] probably the only thing that will last I mean there's no original
_ [Gm] chord configurations that I'll come up with because uh, you know, I'm probably more
You know as much as I enjoy [G] being a musician and playing and jamming with friends and stuff.
I'm probably
_ There's no there's nothing that original that I'm gonna come up with there
So, I mean what I [Ab] say what I think and [G] feel are gonna be the only things that will outlast me because the original thoughts
Yeah, well, I'm told that [Eb] you want to be a psychiatrist
_ _ _ Yeah, actually maybe you can help people, you know people listen to music and and [Db] many times they're inspired and get a lot of help
From it.
That's very true.
It really is [Ab] very true
I've been surprised [G] with you know, a lot of the letters that I've received, _ you know
And then in reading them back it has a you know an effect on me as well.
Absolutely
You used from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, right?
Yes [B] and still go home a lot of people when they hit the big time
They want to move to New York [Gb] or LA, but you like going back home
_ [C] _
I mean, it's like I like knowing I like being familiar
I like knowing where I'm at and you know, because in [G] this life of you know, I travel around [Gb] so often
It's a different place all the [G] time
It's always nice to go back to something that you know and say well, you know
I can touch it [Gb] feel it and you know, it doesn't change you also say you [Db] attribute a lot of your success to your mom
Yes, big influence very big influence, you know, just like in [Ab] you know in living by your instinct and you know trusting
_ _ [A] trusting that you know
[Eb] _
_ [Bb] There's so [A] much more energy [Ab] and power to things [G] that we ourselves can't you know get caught up in our own [Gb] control
You know just every now and again, you just have to let things [F] happen and trust that they are it's all [Gb] been mapped out
Well, they're [Eb] happening to you right now.
[Bb] That's for sure.
We're gonna take a break right [G] now
We're gonna come back and we're going to hear Jeffrey Gaines [B] sing about the hero in me when [Eb] good morning America continues
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ And now as promised [Gm] Jeffrey Gaines [C] sings hero in me _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Em] They've been _ suppressing their every _ [C] desire
[Em] They do [D] nothing on a whim
_ [C] _ _
_ [Em] She's lost her sparkle and he's lost the [C] fire
Their [A] future looks very dim and I [Em] say here
_ _ in my _ _ [Gb] _ _ [G] Security _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [C] I've _
_ [E] Simply [Em] let [Gb] myself go I've developed [G] a code _ _
_ [C] Dependency _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ And as [C] I grow older so many _ [A] places that I've [C] never been _ _ _ _ _
[Em] Well times tap on my [C] shoulder.
I hope it's [A] never too late to begin
[C] _ _ _ And [G] I sleep
_ And I'll [Am] dream of the person I might [Em] have been
Then I'll be free [D] again
_ And [G] now I'll speak
Like a [Am] someone who's been to the highest peaks
[Em] _
And [D] back _ again, and [G] I swear
_ _ _ [Am] That my gardens _ greener than any [Em] ones till I [D] believe again [G] the now
_ _ _ And the [Am] dream fades away
[Em] Yet I face the day _ and then [Am] realize
[D] _
That [C] there's got to be some hero [G] in me
_ [Am] _ _ [Em] There's hero in you and in [G] me _ _
[Am] _ _ [Em] Though sometimes it's [G] so hard to see
_ _ [Am] _ There's [Em] got to be some [G] hero _ [C] in we
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