Chords for Linda Thompson - What's In My Bag?

I'm [Bb] so tired [Am] of working every [C] day _ _ _ _ _
If you've [Bb] got the cap [F] there, Mr, you'll do [C] alright
I _ _ _ _ _ want [G] to see [F] the bright light [C] _ tonight _ _ _ _ _
[F] Give me a _ nation, don't be shy
The first thing I found was Hank [Ab] Williams, who [Eb] is the [G] quintessential [D] singer-songwriter.
I try so hard, my dear, to show
That you were my every [A] _ dream
_ Yet you're afraid each thing I do
The most [C] amazing songs, [Db] just what everybody [D] would aspire to.
And of course he died, [B] I think, [D] 29?
I think when he was 29, very young.
_ _ A bit [Am] of a tragic death [G] in the back of a car.
But [D] I think he's what everybody aspires to.
Leonard Cohen says in Tower of Song,
Hank Williams is 30 floors above me. _ _ _
_ He's just an amazing writer.
There's nothing complicated about it.
That's the hardest thing to do.
If you can say I love you in a song,
and people think, [Eb] wow, like they've never [C] heard it before.
[A] That's the nub of Hank Williams.
_ _ [Eb] _ I'm going to talk about nepotism now.
I'm going [Fm] to talk about my friend Nick Drake.
[Bb] I'm sure lots of people pick [Eb] Nick. _
_ We were great friends when we were all young in [Fm] London in the 60s.
[Bb] _ And [Eb] when he made these records, _ _ _ they just sounded extraordinary.
And the thing is, I think more than anyone,
almost anyone of his generation, of the [Fm] British people,
they still sound so new.
[F] They sound as if they were [Eb] recorded yesterday.
_ Who can _ know _ _ [Fm] the _ thoughts [Bb] of Mary Jane
_ [Eb] _ _ Why she _ _ flies, [Fm] _ _
goes [Ab] out [Bb] in the rain
[Eb] We just sort of thought he was a bit crazy,
but in those days you didn't do an intervention or anything.
[Eb] _ He went [Cm] all Howard Hughes with the long nails
[F] and not washing his face or [Fm] combing his hair and all [Eb] that.
But nobody [Bb] kind of [Eb] took enough notice, I think.
And he died [C] very sadly on [Fm] overdose of pills,
which [Bb] _ might have been accidental, who [Eb] knows. _ _
But he's a great, great guitar player, a great [G] singer.
I know it's a very weak [Bb] sort of voice, but it's so heartfelt.
And _ yeah, I love Nick.
_ _ [Fm] _ Yeah, he'd be _ _ _ [Eb] very old now, just like me.
So let's get rid of Nick.
But these people are all old, Nick, Hank Williams.
Who's next?
Oh, [G] this is someone even older. _
_ [Em] I'm very big on Eric Satie [G] music at the moment,
his famous _ Gymnopédie, I don't even know how to pronounce it.
_ But I love [D] Satie because _ he_
French music apart from [Em] Debussy and Satie and [D] Ravel,
I'm not so crazy about, but he was something very [B] unusual.
The music [Gbm] is very strange, very uplifting.
[E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] He was an eccentric, he didn't change his sheets on the bed for [Em] 40 years,
but he wore a clean white [Bm] shirt every day
[Em] and he'd throw it in the corner the next day,
[D] so he had like 17,000 shirts [Bm] all piled up.
And I love [E] an eccentric.
_ And [Gbm] I think _ French [E] music's not so good these days.
You [D] might be able to disabuse me [E] of that notion,
but certainly around this time, [Em] Satie's particular [D] period,
this is a great record.
[G] So _ we're in L.A., I [C] thought I should pick a Los Angelino.
[G] _ Then why must any of your children [Cm] die? _
So he asked [G] the Lord, and the Lord said,
_ [Cm] _ _ Man [G] means nothing, _ [Cm] he [G] means less [Cm] to me. _
[C] I like him because [Eb] he's grumpy, and he's not just a grumpy old man,
he's always been grumpy.
And people say I'm sort of doomy and gloomy when I write.
[D] But he is the master, [Cm] I love him.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Ab] _ Oh [F] God, all these handsome people.
This is Tim Buckley, _ and I shared a flat, an apartment with him briefly
when he moved to London, and this is live in London, 68.
So I guess we shared the apartment about then, _ a bunch of us.
But he was very handsome and a fantastic singer-songwriter again,
who died tragically young.
_ Oh, it's a happy [F] time inside my mind
When a melody does find a rhyme
And says to me I'm coming [Bb] home to stay _ _
Yeah, I didn't talk to him that much.
He was very sweet and we'd chat, but he was intimidating
because he was [F] _ 6 foot tall [C] and he was like a [Eb] pipe cleaner,
you know, with this fuzzy hair.
He was very otherworldly, I [F] thought.
And of course, unbeknownst to me, [D] he was on heroin.
And I knew loads of people on heroin at that time,
but I never noticed, I don't know.
[Fm] _ I guess they didn't shoot up in front of me.
But anyway, _ _ that was [Abm] sad and so incredibly sad
that his son died so young [C] too.
_ _ And if anything, Jeff was a better singer [Eb] than Tim.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ Oh, [Eb] what a _ _ guy, so young
_ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ See if I can find something happy. _ _ _
[F] Not [Em] a chance, I'm telling you.
_ [Db] OK, I'm very into Charlie Patton at the moment.
I mean, I [B] know the _ _ most, or probably the most [Em]
revered
of the bluesmen is Robert Johnson,
but Charlie Patton, no, [C] Robert [Db] Johnson revered Charlie Patton, I'm sorry.
Dead [E] by day
[Gb] _ _ And [B] women going crazy
Every [E] day of their life
_ _ _ _ Will you kill my [Db] man?
Charlie Patton was used to say, Robert Johnson,
best harmonica player I ever heard.
And if that isn't damning somebody with faint praise,
I don't know what is.
[E] If you've never heard Charlie Patton,
if you want to _ [Db] get into _ blues music,
I'm sure you don't, [B] because you're already terribly knowledgeable.
But this is a great, he is a great guy to start [E] with.
_ Fantastic. _
OK.
_ [Bb] Thank you so much for talking to us.
Oh, thank you.
And I'm sorry I was a bit nerve-wracked.
You are so sweet, you guys.
Now I've got to get a bloody cab.
_ [Eb] Dressed up in green velvet
_ _ Amoeba _ _ _ _