Chords for Livingston Taylor - Growing Up In The Taylor Family (3 of 10)
Tempo:
80.2 bpm
Chords used:
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Music first came in.
My parents had a lot of showtune sensibility.
I remember my earliest memories are listening to My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Carousel.
These tracks were playing all the time, and my parents were singing these songs out loud.
I remember this was [N] very much in the infrastructure.
The alternative sounds, the rock and roll, the rhythm and blues, that all came from my
brother Alex, as he would rebel and be this sort of wild, oldest child.
He was bringing in Ike and Tina Turner and Elvis Presley and Bobby Blue Bland and Ray Charles.
These were all the sounds that he was bringing in, and it was good.
I remember one time he brought in a record that was Sounds of Sebring.
It was just a record of the car race at Sebring, and it was just noise.
It was just cars running around.
He turned that up, and I just listened to this and thought, this is so out there.
What did your mom think of all that?
They were, again, they were very much locked in their own struggles, their own relationship
and the difficulties with that relationship.
Eventually my parents got divorced, and there was tension in that relationship.
Again, these are the recollections of, my recollections as a child.
I can tell you that personal recollections are enormously suspect.
With that caveat, the fact is that we were given huge quantities of free room.
We lived to the south of Chapel Hill.
We lived on 25 acres in a house that my parents built in the early 50s, 52, 53.
We lived in that house.
We used to go camping down, where there was a creek down at the bottom of a hill called Morgan Creek.
We'd go down there and go camping and fishing and sleep out in tents and build fires.
It was, my parents were remarkably encouraging, my mother in particular, of just go do stuff.
I think that if she actually saw how close we came to death on numerous occasions, she
would perhaps be more concerned.
She didn't see it.
We did survive for a while.
My brother Alex is gone.
It was adventurous.
I think there was a shuttle service to the emergency room at the University of North Carolina.
We were always breaking a bone or busting a head or getting badly burnt doing something or other.
It was that kind of chaos.
When I was 11, maybe 12, but I think perhaps 12, I came home and my mother had bought from
my brother Huey and I two engines, four horsepower, brand new, Briggs & Stratton horizontal shaft engines.
I took a look at that engine.
Huey did the same thing.
The next thing, we both had, we had both built these mini bikes and we cruised all over the place.
It was just like giving somebody keys to the city.
That's the kind of person my mother is here.
You need a tool, here it is.
Go to work.
She was raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Her father was a boat builder and a fisherman and had a fish market.
He was a handy fella and very much a project-oriented person.
Myself and my siblings are all project-oriented.
We get an idea, we do it, we get it to completion, and then we go on and do another one.
There was a time, I remember an event when I was perhaps six or seven years old.
We were in North Carolina and it was hot.
I wanted a swimming pool.
I went to my mother and I said, would it be okay if I dug a swimming pool?
Knowing that it was probably not possible, I studied and strained as I watched her face.
I was looking for signs of incredulity, of bemusement, of any of those indicators.
I remember to this day, as a little boy just studying her face, when I said, could I build
a swimming pool?
She looked back at me, sure, where would you build it?
I said, I think I'd build it in the front yard.
She paused for a moment.
She said, I think it'd be better if you built it in the field back there in the backyard.
I said, okay.
I went and I got a shovel and I probably dug two spades full of something and quit and
did something else.
But I'll never forget looking for that sign of bemusement or you can't do this.
It was not there.
It was a really pivotal point in my life, that notion that, sure, you can do this.
Go ahead, build a swimming pool.
Who knows?
Maybe it turns out, have a nice swimming pool.
Probably not, but again, from my mother and my father as well, although my father was
a little more distant, but certainly from my mother, no sense that we couldn't do things.
Go ahead, do them.
It might work out.
So all you kids have that?
Absolutely.
Can [G] do.
Can do and project oriented.
We can do projects, we can get to the end of them and then we can move on and do another one.
There's a phrase I'm fond of using, let somebody else do it right.
I want it done.
Get the job done.
If it's not any good, you're not going to make it better until you finish it and start another one.
You can't improve things until you know how to finish them and what's actually wrong with them.
My parents had a lot of showtune sensibility.
I remember my earliest memories are listening to My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Carousel.
These tracks were playing all the time, and my parents were singing these songs out loud.
I remember this was [N] very much in the infrastructure.
The alternative sounds, the rock and roll, the rhythm and blues, that all came from my
brother Alex, as he would rebel and be this sort of wild, oldest child.
He was bringing in Ike and Tina Turner and Elvis Presley and Bobby Blue Bland and Ray Charles.
These were all the sounds that he was bringing in, and it was good.
I remember one time he brought in a record that was Sounds of Sebring.
It was just a record of the car race at Sebring, and it was just noise.
It was just cars running around.
He turned that up, and I just listened to this and thought, this is so out there.
What did your mom think of all that?
They were, again, they were very much locked in their own struggles, their own relationship
and the difficulties with that relationship.
Eventually my parents got divorced, and there was tension in that relationship.
Again, these are the recollections of, my recollections as a child.
I can tell you that personal recollections are enormously suspect.
With that caveat, the fact is that we were given huge quantities of free room.
We lived to the south of Chapel Hill.
We lived on 25 acres in a house that my parents built in the early 50s, 52, 53.
We lived in that house.
We used to go camping down, where there was a creek down at the bottom of a hill called Morgan Creek.
We'd go down there and go camping and fishing and sleep out in tents and build fires.
It was, my parents were remarkably encouraging, my mother in particular, of just go do stuff.
I think that if she actually saw how close we came to death on numerous occasions, she
would perhaps be more concerned.
She didn't see it.
We did survive for a while.
My brother Alex is gone.
It was adventurous.
I think there was a shuttle service to the emergency room at the University of North Carolina.
We were always breaking a bone or busting a head or getting badly burnt doing something or other.
It was that kind of chaos.
When I was 11, maybe 12, but I think perhaps 12, I came home and my mother had bought from
my brother Huey and I two engines, four horsepower, brand new, Briggs & Stratton horizontal shaft engines.
I took a look at that engine.
Huey did the same thing.
The next thing, we both had, we had both built these mini bikes and we cruised all over the place.
It was just like giving somebody keys to the city.
That's the kind of person my mother is here.
You need a tool, here it is.
Go to work.
She was raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Her father was a boat builder and a fisherman and had a fish market.
He was a handy fella and very much a project-oriented person.
Myself and my siblings are all project-oriented.
We get an idea, we do it, we get it to completion, and then we go on and do another one.
There was a time, I remember an event when I was perhaps six or seven years old.
We were in North Carolina and it was hot.
I wanted a swimming pool.
I went to my mother and I said, would it be okay if I dug a swimming pool?
Knowing that it was probably not possible, I studied and strained as I watched her face.
I was looking for signs of incredulity, of bemusement, of any of those indicators.
I remember to this day, as a little boy just studying her face, when I said, could I build
a swimming pool?
She looked back at me, sure, where would you build it?
I said, I think I'd build it in the front yard.
She paused for a moment.
She said, I think it'd be better if you built it in the field back there in the backyard.
I said, okay.
I went and I got a shovel and I probably dug two spades full of something and quit and
did something else.
But I'll never forget looking for that sign of bemusement or you can't do this.
It was not there.
It was a really pivotal point in my life, that notion that, sure, you can do this.
Go ahead, build a swimming pool.
Who knows?
Maybe it turns out, have a nice swimming pool.
Probably not, but again, from my mother and my father as well, although my father was
a little more distant, but certainly from my mother, no sense that we couldn't do things.
Go ahead, do them.
It might work out.
So all you kids have that?
Absolutely.
Can [G] do.
Can do and project oriented.
We can do projects, we can get to the end of them and then we can move on and do another one.
There's a phrase I'm fond of using, let somebody else do it right.
I want it done.
Get the job done.
If it's not any good, you're not going to make it better until you finish it and start another one.
You can't improve things until you know how to finish them and what's actually wrong with them.
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_ _ Music first came in. _
My parents had a lot of showtune sensibility.
I remember my earliest memories are listening to My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Carousel.
These tracks were playing all the time, and my parents were singing these songs out loud.
I remember this was [N] very much in the infrastructure.
_ The alternative sounds, the rock and roll, the rhythm and blues, that all came from my
brother Alex, as he would rebel and be this sort of wild, oldest child.
He was bringing in Ike and Tina Turner and Elvis Presley and Bobby Blue Bland and Ray Charles.
These were all the sounds that he was bringing in, and it was good.
I remember one time he brought in a record that was _ Sounds of Sebring.
It was just a record of the _ car race at Sebring, and it was just noise.
It was just cars running around.
He turned that up, and I just listened to this and thought, this is so out there.
_ What did your mom think of all that?
They were, again, they were very much locked in their own struggles, _ their own relationship
and the difficulties with that relationship. _ _ _ _
Eventually my parents got divorced, and there was tension in that relationship.
Again, these are the recollections of, my recollections as a child.
I can tell you that personal recollections are enormously suspect.
With that caveat, _ the fact is that we were given huge quantities of free room.
We lived to the south of Chapel Hill.
We lived on 25 acres in a house that my parents built in the early 50s, 52, 53.
We lived in that house.
_ We used to go camping down, where there was a creek down at the bottom of a hill called Morgan Creek.
We'd go down there and go camping and fishing and sleep out in tents and build fires.
It was, _ my parents were remarkably encouraging, my mother in particular, of just go do stuff.
_ _ I think that if she actually saw how close we came to death on numerous occasions, she
would perhaps be more concerned.
She didn't see it.
We did survive for a while.
My _ brother Alex is gone. _ _
It was adventurous.
_ _ I think there was a shuttle service to the emergency room at the University of North Carolina.
We were always breaking a bone or busting a head or getting badly burnt doing something or other.
It was that kind of chaos.
When I was 11, maybe 12, but I think perhaps 12, I came home and my mother had bought from
my brother Huey and I _ two engines, four horsepower, brand new, Briggs & Stratton horizontal shaft engines. _ _
I took a look at that engine.
_ _ Huey did the same thing.
The next thing, we both had, we had both built these mini bikes and we _ cruised all over the place.
It was just like giving somebody keys to the city.
That's the kind of person my mother is here.
You need a tool, here it is.
Go to work.
She was raised in Newburyport, _ Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Her father was a boat builder and a fisherman and had a fish market.
He was a handy fella and very much a project-oriented person.
Myself and my siblings are all project-oriented.
We get an idea, we do it, we get it to completion, and then we go on and do another one.
There was a time, I remember an event when I was perhaps six or seven years old.
We were in North Carolina and it was hot.
I wanted a swimming pool.
_ I went to my mother and I said, would it be okay if I dug a swimming pool?
_ Knowing that it was probably not possible, I studied and strained as I watched her face.
I was looking for signs of incredulity, of bemusement, of any of those indicators.
I remember to this day, as a little boy just studying her face, when I said, could I build
a swimming pool?
_ _ She looked back at me, _ _ sure, where would you build it?
_ I said, I think I'd build it in the front yard.
She paused for a moment.
She said, I think it'd be better if you built it in the field back there in the backyard.
I said, okay.
_ I went and I got a shovel and I probably dug two spades full of something and quit and
did something else.
But I'll never forget looking for that sign of bemusement or you can't do this.
It was not there.
It was a really pivotal point in my life, that notion that, sure, you can do this.
Go ahead, build a swimming pool.
Who knows?
Maybe it turns out, have a nice swimming pool.
Probably not, but again, _ from my mother and my father as well, although my father was
a little more distant, but certainly from my mother, no sense that we couldn't do things.
Go ahead, do them.
_ It might work out.
So all you kids have that?
Absolutely.
Can [G] do.
Can do and project oriented.
We can do projects, we can get to the end of them and then we can move on and do another one. _ _
There's a phrase I'm fond of using, let somebody else do it right.
I want it done.
Get the job done.
If it's not any good, you're not going to make it better until you finish it and start another one.
You can't improve things until you know how to finish them and what's actually wrong with them. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Music first came in. _
My parents had a lot of showtune sensibility.
I remember my earliest memories are listening to My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Carousel.
These tracks were playing all the time, and my parents were singing these songs out loud.
I remember this was [N] very much in the infrastructure.
_ The alternative sounds, the rock and roll, the rhythm and blues, that all came from my
brother Alex, as he would rebel and be this sort of wild, oldest child.
He was bringing in Ike and Tina Turner and Elvis Presley and Bobby Blue Bland and Ray Charles.
These were all the sounds that he was bringing in, and it was good.
I remember one time he brought in a record that was _ Sounds of Sebring.
It was just a record of the _ car race at Sebring, and it was just noise.
It was just cars running around.
He turned that up, and I just listened to this and thought, this is so out there.
_ What did your mom think of all that?
They were, again, they were very much locked in their own struggles, _ their own relationship
and the difficulties with that relationship. _ _ _ _
Eventually my parents got divorced, and there was tension in that relationship.
Again, these are the recollections of, my recollections as a child.
I can tell you that personal recollections are enormously suspect.
With that caveat, _ the fact is that we were given huge quantities of free room.
We lived to the south of Chapel Hill.
We lived on 25 acres in a house that my parents built in the early 50s, 52, 53.
We lived in that house.
_ We used to go camping down, where there was a creek down at the bottom of a hill called Morgan Creek.
We'd go down there and go camping and fishing and sleep out in tents and build fires.
It was, _ my parents were remarkably encouraging, my mother in particular, of just go do stuff.
_ _ I think that if she actually saw how close we came to death on numerous occasions, she
would perhaps be more concerned.
She didn't see it.
We did survive for a while.
My _ brother Alex is gone. _ _
It was adventurous.
_ _ I think there was a shuttle service to the emergency room at the University of North Carolina.
We were always breaking a bone or busting a head or getting badly burnt doing something or other.
It was that kind of chaos.
When I was 11, maybe 12, but I think perhaps 12, I came home and my mother had bought from
my brother Huey and I _ two engines, four horsepower, brand new, Briggs & Stratton horizontal shaft engines. _ _
I took a look at that engine.
_ _ Huey did the same thing.
The next thing, we both had, we had both built these mini bikes and we _ cruised all over the place.
It was just like giving somebody keys to the city.
That's the kind of person my mother is here.
You need a tool, here it is.
Go to work.
She was raised in Newburyport, _ Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Her father was a boat builder and a fisherman and had a fish market.
He was a handy fella and very much a project-oriented person.
Myself and my siblings are all project-oriented.
We get an idea, we do it, we get it to completion, and then we go on and do another one.
There was a time, I remember an event when I was perhaps six or seven years old.
We were in North Carolina and it was hot.
I wanted a swimming pool.
_ I went to my mother and I said, would it be okay if I dug a swimming pool?
_ Knowing that it was probably not possible, I studied and strained as I watched her face.
I was looking for signs of incredulity, of bemusement, of any of those indicators.
I remember to this day, as a little boy just studying her face, when I said, could I build
a swimming pool?
_ _ She looked back at me, _ _ sure, where would you build it?
_ I said, I think I'd build it in the front yard.
She paused for a moment.
She said, I think it'd be better if you built it in the field back there in the backyard.
I said, okay.
_ I went and I got a shovel and I probably dug two spades full of something and quit and
did something else.
But I'll never forget looking for that sign of bemusement or you can't do this.
It was not there.
It was a really pivotal point in my life, that notion that, sure, you can do this.
Go ahead, build a swimming pool.
Who knows?
Maybe it turns out, have a nice swimming pool.
Probably not, but again, _ from my mother and my father as well, although my father was
a little more distant, but certainly from my mother, no sense that we couldn't do things.
Go ahead, do them.
_ It might work out.
So all you kids have that?
Absolutely.
Can [G] do.
Can do and project oriented.
We can do projects, we can get to the end of them and then we can move on and do another one. _ _
There's a phrase I'm fond of using, let somebody else do it right.
I want it done.
Get the job done.
If it's not any good, you're not going to make it better until you finish it and start another one.
You can't improve things until you know how to finish them and what's actually wrong with them. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _