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

_ _ _ [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, a drum machine, acoustic guitar, get a groove going.
But the more that I played it, the more I found myself thinking it's [C] not different enough,
[Em] not only to sound different and feel different, but to inspire me [F] to sing [Em] a little bit different.
And it was constantly frustrating to me because there was another way [E] to go, but I didn't
know what it was.
And then I noticed there was a bass at [Am] the studio, and I grabbed the
bass guitar and I thought [C] maybe that's what it is, it's bass guitar and [A] the drum [C] machine _ _
[B] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ going together.
[F] And [Em] for me that's when the whole thing started to go in the direction
I was looking for.
[C] The next step was [Em] to really just get on a microphone [Bm] [Em] and start playing
bass [D] and singing.
[C#m] So we just [Bm] set up a simple mic in the [G] studio, got the bass out, plugged
it straight into the board, [A#]
[B] no amp or anything.
[C] [Em] So it was [Am] great being [Em] able to play bass [C] and
sing at the same [E] time, it really helped _ shape the song.
[C] And [E] off we went.
And for me it just
started [Am] to be what I was trying to do.
It sounded [E] _ right.
[A] _ [N] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
Never live alone in the garden of Eden, never grow up, [A] never grow old.
Never revel in the
great wide open, only to live on a barren [C] dream.
Never give up and [G] I need you to [C] know
John, John here, [Am] John 316.
_ _ _ [Em] _ Matt's programming was [E]
fantastic.
The sounds that he had groove-wise were just right [Em] on.
[Cm] _ _ [F#] And I'm thinking of what, [C] even though they're like _ _ [F#m] crazy percussion [Em] playing in the background,
off mic, [Am] crazy shit sonic, nice landscape stuff.
[G] But [C] it's just all rhythm.
[A] It's sexy.
[G] Alright _ let's do that again. _
I'm a child of a bad seed [F#m] freedom, bad times [F] bad rock and roll.
[C] Never live alone in the
garden of Eden, never [N] grow up, never grow old.
Never revel in the great wide open, only
to live on a barren dream.
Never give up and I need you to know John, John here, John [C]
316.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [F#]
Dan's really good [Em] with coming up with intricate [C] parts too that can sit underneath [Am] the track,
just subliminally.
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ [N] Serious D.I.P. situation.
Yeah, we're the D.I.P. brothers, that's the name of us.
Dolphins in pain.
We are D.I.P.
_ [C] He had this kind of cool banjo idea that wasn't the traditional banjo playing, it was just
sort of single note percussive things to sit under the track and I think it turned out really [F] cool.
A little more aggressive, Pete.
A little more aggressive, you know?
Okay.
_ _ _ [C] Pffft.
[N] _ And I never been a leader to know from John, John here, John 360.
The lyrics [E] can be so rapid fire that I've got to remember to take a [G] break when I'm singing the song.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[G] I had [D] the idea that I wanted to [C#m] do [Bm] a modulation of the key, the song's in C [C] and I wanted to
_ [E] modulate up, but I then wanted to modulate back to the original key.
I like the [F#] quirkiness of all of that.
[N] It sounds like two things in the space of where there should be one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's interesting. _ _
[E] Damn it.
It was a little bit like a [Em] Rubik's Cube trying to get all the colors on one side.
Everything we tried would get us close and then the whole thing would unravel really
fast and we're sort of back to square one.
It was really getting frustrating for me because I knew we could do it.
It seemed [F#] like such a simple thing, but it became quite [E] complicated.
_ [B] And [A] we eventually [F]
figured out how to do it.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [A#] _ [D] _
Another rattle in [C#m] the crane, I [Bm] have a [Fm] mace. _
[Em] One of the things we definitely had to do [C] to elevate the last chorus was try and get
a gang vocal thing, so it's like a crowd singing the song.
[E] I always find there's nothing better to [Em] get a crowd singing a song than [C] a crowd singing a song.
People want to [Em] sing along.
[C] Four of us ended up around this microphone, but Dan didn't know the words and a few of
us [Em] didn't know the lyrics, so I sent an email of the lyrics to everybody and everybody was
reading their phones.
So, in the [N] footage, everybody's looking at their phones.
They're not doing email or text.
They're reading lyrics. _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] I'm going to move [F] on.
Broken [C] dreams.
Maddening.
_ [G] [Am] John, dear [F] John, resisting.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] John, [C] John, dear John, [F] [C] resisting.
_ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ [F] _