Chords for Jewel At: Guitar Center

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_ [G] _ [Gm] _ _ [D] I [Em] started singing with my family when I was really [D] young.
[A] I think I started getting on stage [D] when I was five or six.
My parents had a show in a hotel.
I got up and sang with them as
part of their act.
And then my dadline became a duet when I was eight.
I learned to play guitar when I was 16. _
I had learned a few chords from kids in school.
I was going to Fine Arts High School in
Michigan at the time.
I came up with this genius idea.
I wasn't allowed to stay on campus for spring break.
You had to leave and I couldn't afford to get back home to Alaska.
So I was fascinated how down here in the states all the
states are so close together.
In a matter of hours you can be in a whole new state.
In Alaska you can drive for two days and be in the same mountain range.
_ _ So I was going to hitchhike [G] and hobo by train down to San Diego and then cross
the border there.
I thought I should probably street sing along the way and try to earn some money [D] as I went.
So that's what I did.
Because _ I wasn't good enough at guitar
and not knowing my chords, I started finding open tunings.
I would just sort of make them up.
I would tune my pegs around until it sounded
pretty to me.
_ It made it a lot easier because you didn't actually have to know
what you were doing because that on its own sounds pretty.
And then you could just do
really simple things like this.
[A] And it actually [G] sounded kind of elegant [A] and more fancy than it was.
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[D] And [G] for me it was memorizing shapes.
[A] I didn't have to memorize chords.
I just had to [Bm] remember two fingers [D] sliding down my neckboard,
which was a lot easier for me.
And because I play solo acoustic a lot,
you're able to pick out lead [Dm] melodies while you're finger picking
in a lot easier fashion than you would if you were doing sort of hammer and claw
in standard [A] tuning.
One night [G] my car got stolen
[A] and my guitar was stolen with it.
_ [Bm] And when you're living in your car, that [D] sucks on both fronts.
_ _ And my friend had told me about Taylor Guitars [Em] and that they
were in San Diego and I saved [D] up door money for [A] quite a while and I
saved up a couple [D] hundred dollars.
And I went in and I got a second guitar.
It's been my guitar ever since.
I really
loved this guitar.
I think just after all these years, the wood really sounds beautiful.
_ Touring is our biggest money maker for musicians and I don't tend to [A] do enough of it.
[D] It's too hard for me.
I just find it too difficult to be out there that long.
It's hard to sleep because you have to go to bed at the wrong hours, you have to be
awake at the wrong hours, and it just breeds an unhealthy lifestyle. _ _ _
I have a greatest hits record out right now that I've been promoting in a new song
called Two Hearts Breaking. _
I just wrote a children's book, switched into
country, which was really fun.
An amazing experience, an amazing community that's
been really [Dm] wonderful in embracing me.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ Success to me is getting to do something you love for a living.
[Bm] It's certainly a luxury I never thought I would be afforded.
It's something that everybody gets.
It's really [F#] a blessing in life to get to [E] do
something you enjoy and make a living at it,
[F#] whatever level [G] that gets to.
My career certainly [D] went farther [F#] than
it probably ever should have.
[B] I still pinch myself.
I feel really lucky every day that
[Bm] I wake up wanting to do what I'm doing.
[Gm] There were many days
[Fm] it wasn't like that for me and I [Em] certainly never thought I [D] would be this lucky. _ _ _ _
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