Chords for MUSICMAKERS - Michael McDonald

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_ _ _ _ let you [F]
go.
_ _ _ _ _ There is something you [F] should know.
[D]
There was the hook line here.
If it was [C] up to me, I bring [Fm] you
down. Sorry.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ God, I don't remember it now.
But you know, the whole hook was
up to me, down, down, down.
And [Bb] we thought we [Ab] really had a hit
on our hands.
I [B] remember hearing [Eb] a guy who I'm a big [E] fan of
Oscar [B] Hammerstein, lyric [D] writer with Richard Rodgers for many
years.
[Gb] And he talked [B] about a song he had written _ [Bb] called _ _ _ _ [Eb] Let
the rest of the [Cm] world go by I believe it was.
_ [C] You know,
Sweet, sweet little nest somewhere [G] in the West.
And let
the rest of the world go by.
And he, you know, I think he
talked about the fact that [G] the lyric didn't make any [N] sense.
You
know, because, you know, in the physical nature of the words
don't make any sense, but that people all knew [Ab] what he meant.
He
said, and [Eb] that's really the beauty of [Bb] songwriting when you
you say something, and [Gb] the words only can [B] take you so far and the
rest of the idea kind of develops _ by, you know, leading
up to you with these words, but there's so [Eb] much more to it that
you understand without [Bm] having the words to really say that,
you [Cm] know, and I think that's what most songwriters strive to
is [Bb] to kind of bring the listener to that jump off point where
they can kind of, _ [C] there's only so much logic you can [Eb] explain
and then the rest of it, you got [D] to make up yourself and apply [Cm] it
to your own feelings about the subject.
You know, I think
that's what I [Em] like the most about songwriting. _
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When [Em] people come up to me and say, you know, [A] your music got me
through [E] some pretty rough times or anything like that, [Eb] it's very
meaningful [D] to as a [E] songwriter, because that's really [F] more than
the [Eb] money, more [E] than the, you know, celebrity [F] status that
might [B] come if you're lucky as [D] a songwriter or recording [B] artist.
I think for most people who really have a passion for what
they do, it's none of those things.
It's really the idea
[Bb] that somewhere _ somebody [B] is having a really [F] rough time [Bb] or
bad day or just a [E] normal day and your song comes on the radio
_ and all of a sudden they go through that metamorphosis that [D] I used
to go through where [B] I'd lean over and crank that song [E] up and
all of a sudden, you know, _ life was bigger somehow, better,
[G] fuller, you know.
I think there's [Bb] nothing more important than
following a passion and dedicating [E] your life to something
that you're going to be passionate about [G] because you'll [F] find as
you get older, especially that that is the whole [E] sum of your
life, really, the people you love and the passion you have for
what you do.
[F] You know, there's the songs that you work on for
months, maybe years without realizing it.
You know, you hear
some tape later and you go, gee, I was [G] writing that song [Gb] five
years ago, you know.
[E] Or there's the songs that seem to come in
like five [Bb] minutes, you know, and _ _ [F] they start with a melodic phrase
of some kind.
[E] You know, I walked back into my little room [C] one
night and _ _ just such [E] a song happened, which [C] was started [G] _
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with
this passage [C] here. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] _ [Em] _ And, [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ you know, just an idea and [G] a little music passage and you've got a song.
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