Chords for Miranda Lambert-CBS Sunday Morning Show

Settling up.
Perfect.
That's it.
With Miranda Lambert. _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ The House That [C] Built Me is just one of the country hits bearing [F] Miranda Lambert's unique stamp.
And Lambert's spoken words are as distinctive as the one she sings.
Lee Cowan now with a summer song.
[C] [Ab] Are you ready for a [G] drinking song?
Is anybody drinking?
[E] _ _ _ Even [Ab] if you don't know country music, [Db] one look at Miranda [Eb] Lambert.
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[Bb] It's easy to see why she's the queen of [Ab] the country.
It's not just her blonde hair [E] or blue eyes.
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It's because Miranda Lambert's brand of [Eb] country _ _ _ [Db] is about more than [Ab] just pickups and partying.
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[Ab] _ I think [Db] a good [Ab] song makes people feel something.
And you said every time that you've opened your heart to do that, [N] you've ended up being successful.
Yeah, just being honest is what's got, that's my trick.
That's all I got.
It's just in it and it's in everyday life and it's in my music and you know it gets me in trouble sometimes.
But I just feel like that's how God made me.
It's just whatever I feel is on my face and out of my mouth.
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There's a tattoo on her forearm that she [B] says pretty much sums her up.
[Gb] I got this when I was [B] 22.
They're Colt 45s.
[Gb] Gun that went to the west.
[G] And a little angel wings.
So, a little bit tough, a little bit sweet.
You're looking at it.
[D] _ [G] Lambert made her name with [D] rippling anthems about heartache and revenge.
With songs like [A] Kerosene.
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Her fiery style was something country music hadn't seen in a while.
Did that make it hard in some ways because [Gb] country music didn't really know where to put you?
It took a minute, yeah.
It took a little bit.
But country radio too, at first I think it was like [N] too much.
People, they were afraid that people wouldn't respond, you know.
Were you ever afraid that people wouldn't respond?
No.
I was overly confident.
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[Em] _ The Academy of Country Music [B] has named her Female Vocalist of the Year [Abm] for the last [Em] five years in a row.
Lambert's four solo albums have sold more than a million copies each.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And this [Em] week, she's out with her fifth.
It's called [A] Platinum.
Named in [Bb] part, she says, for the color of her hair and her Airstream trailer.
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_ _ _ [Bb] Now 30, it's a softer [Eb] meringue.
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_ Singing less about revenge [F] and more about [Dm] reminiscing.
I feel like I rushed through a lot of my [N] 20s just in a hurry to get to the next thing, the next thing.
And now I feel like I'm excited to sort of slow down and enjoy the moment a little more in whatever I'm doing.
And you know, just hanging out a little bit more.
So how big is this town?
It's 3,100 people.
These days she's hanging out in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
She left her beloved Texas to move here and marry an Oklahoma native.
[B] But not just any native.
She hitched her wagon to fellow superstar [Gb] Blake Shelton.
They _ _ _ [Db] _ are country music's power [Abm] couple.
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_ _ _ [Gb] Stars in their own [B] right, but collaborators too.
They co-wrote [Ab] Lambert's hit single, Over You.
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Music's what drew us together in the first place, but we have a lot in common outside of that.
So that's why our relationship is strong.
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_ [B] _ _ _ But that [Abm] relationship has been tested [E] by the tableau.
[Gb] I'm alone and pregnant.
[Ebm] _ Don't I look [N] miserable?
You know, and it becomes funny.
Well, it seems like you've either break up or you're pregnant every six months or so.
We've had four babies in the last two months and we have $100 million divorces.
Blake's like, if one of us is getting $100 million divorce, then we're getting divorced.
Then there's the endless talk about her weight.
I've never been [E] afraid of talking about Spanx and eating junk food and drinking and whatever else.
I'm just am who I am, you know, and then all of a sudden it's a big deal.
You know, it's like I was just, all I did was cut out Cheetos and now the whole world's talking [Gb] about it.
_ Tishomingo offers a [Ab] sanctuary from it all.
She's turning an old downtown building into a bed and breakfast.
[G] And she owns the shop across the street called the Pink Pistol, where she offers a little bit of everything.
[F] I want people to come [D] here and see our little [Ebm] town.
I want people to see [Eb] what it's like living in the country in Oklahoma, you know, and to bring commerce to [Abm] Tishomingo.
For now, this is home.
Unless she ever does become a mom, [Dbm] then it's a different story.
[Abm] My mom's like, if you ever get pregnant, you better haul ass for the border.
We're not having an oaky.
_ It has to be born [E] in Texas.
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[G] _ Texas is her first love.
She was born in Longview, where she [Em] started writing and performing before she could drive.
[G] I wrote my first song when I was 14.
It was horrible.
It's about a girl going to Nashville to be a country star.
[Bb] Duh.
_ [F] _ She had plenty to write about.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] When she was six, [F] her parents found themselves bankrupt.
We [G] lost literally everything.
We were homeless.
[N] Just out of the blue?
Kind of out of the blue, yeah.
So when you see that happen, you sort of go into survival mode, even though you're a little girl.
You know, I could feel that.
I knew something was wrong.
Her parents got back on their feet and opened a private investigator business,
and for a time, would bring some of their cases home, taking in victims of domestic abuse.
They come over with black eyes and bloody noses, and it's like, [G] it's real.
That's real. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] Seeing and hearing about that [G] gave me the fuel to write about stuff like that. _ _
_ [F] Case in point, gunpowder and [C] lead.
Her first top ten hit.
_ _ [G] _ _ When I have a woman come up to me and say, gunpowder and lead saved my life,
I got out of there, I got the hell out of [Eb] there, he's going to kill me,
and I'll just get teary-eyed with them, you know, and I'll just know what they mean,
and that's all I need to say, [N] and that's what it's about, you [Abm] know?
Her music and her faith have both been constants in her life.
[D] You can pray with a beer in your hand.
_ [F] She makes a point to pray with her band before [Eb] every show.
[E] That foundation [N] is what always keeps me centered.
When I stray or get lost or act a fool, per se, you know, I come back to _ God,
and I have tattoos, I like to have cocktails, I cuss a lot.
I'm laying that on Lake Shelton.
But I do know when I need to rope it in.
_ That's equipment falling.
Well, hell's bells.
_ Lambert took it as a sign.
That was God saying, don't you forget about me!
_ Okay.
Keeping things in perspective is important.
In her few moments of free time, she's taking riding lessons.
Good, perfect, that's it.
It's hard, you know, it's a lot harder than I expected,
but it's a challenge, and I like a challenge.
The biggest challenge is riding this horse, last year's birthday present from her husband.
I'm learning to jump very slowly.
I have eaten dirt a couple of times, so that was fun.
_ But that's how you learn, right?
You get back on, try again.
Whether country girl or [Ebm] cover girl, _ [Gb] Miranda Lambert is comfortable in her own skin.
Doing [G] what she wants, how she wants.
We're not doing surgery here, [Dm] we're not saving lives [G] per se.
We're making music to make people feel good.
[Gb] You can't do it!
[B] Why?
[Gb] You can't _ do it!
If [B] _ _ [Gb] we're not having fun, how is anybody else [Gb] going to have fun listening to it or [B] watching it, you know?
[Gbm] You can't step through this [Gb] backyard, Miranda!
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_ [Gbm] _ And when it comes to fun, she says, there's no [Db] place like country.
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