Chords for Keith Urban - John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16 (Behind the Song)

_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] The first [Em] day of recording was interesting because we needed to figure out a starting
point for the song, a great groove from the drums was going to be the foundation to build
on.
And because I'd done it at CRS on acoustic guitar, which Dan had seen, he thought that
would be the ideal starting point.
It's a drum machine, acoustic guitar, get a groove
going.
But the more that I played it, the more I found myself thinking it's not [C] different
enough.
[Em] Not only to sound different and feel different, but to inspire me to [F] sing a little
[Em] bit different.
And it was constantly frustrating to me because there was another way to go,
but [E] I didn't know what it was.
And then I noticed there was a bass at the studio.
[Am] And
I grabbed the bass guitar and I thought, [E] maybe that's what [C] it is, it's bass guitar and [F] the
drum machine [E] going together.
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_ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ [Em] And for me, that's when the whole thing started to go in the direction I was looking for.
[C] The next step was to [Em] really just get on a [Bm] microphone and [A] start playing bass and singing.
[D] So we [C#m] [Bm] just set up a simple mic in the studio, [G] got the bass out, plugged it straight into
the [A] board [C] and off we went.
And for me, it just started [Am] to be what I was [C] trying to do.
And it sounded [Em] _ right.
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_ _ _ [E] Dan's really good [Em] with coming up with intricate [C] parts too that can sit underneath [Am] the track,
just subliminally.
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[C] _ _ _ He had this kind of cool banjo idea that wasn't the traditional banjo
playing, it was just single note percussive things to sit under the track.
And I think
it turned out [Am] really cool.
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_ _ _ _ The lyrics can be so rapid fire that I've got to remember to take a breath when [F] I'm
singing the song. _
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[C#m] _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ [E] One of the things we definitely [C] had to do to elevate the last chorus was try and get
[Em] a [C] gang vocal thing, so it's like a crowd singing the song.
I always find there's nothing
[E] better to get a [C] crowd singing a song than a crowd singing a song.
People [Em] want to sing
along.
[C] Four of us ended up around this microphone, but Dan didn't know the words and a few of
us didn't [Em] know the lyrics, so I sent an email of the lyrics to everybody and everybody was
reading their phones.
So in the footage, everybody's looking at their phones, they're not doing
email or text, they're reading lyrics.
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[Am] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [Em] So I sent an [Am] email to everybody and everybody [F] was [C] _ reading [Am] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ [G]
their [Am] _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] phones.
So in the footage,