Chords for Pat Martino - Open Road - A Documentary

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When he woke, he looked around, he didn't know anybody. _
_ _ _ _ So he looked at me, he says, who are you?
_ _ [N] I said, my name's Mickey, I'm your father.
_ _ Oh, he says, yeah, yeah, I remember now.
He looked around the house, started
to remember little things around the house.
He looked at his guitar. _
_ He said, what's that? _ _ _
You used to play, _ _ and you were good.
You were the best.
_ _ _ And now, he says, I know you're going to get better.
_ And you're going to be better than you ever were. _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ haven't [Gbm] heard a guitar player of any [Ab] real note that
has not copied some of his [A] stuff and been [Db] influenced
by him in the last 20 years.
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[Am] As unknown as he might [Ab] be among the [Am] general public,
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among [E] guitar giants, _ he's a name you reckon [Eb] with.
One that once you hear him play, you'll never forget it.
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_ Pat couldn't have been, I think he would be maybe
around 19 years old.
_ _ And it was hard to believe that he was that young,
because his playing ability was so much more advanced.
_ _ And he was just unbelievable.
His execution, he had speed.
Usually, you find a lot of jazz guitarists,
they're full of technique and no bottom [Db] to it.
Pat could get funky, [Eb] he could get classical.
[Abm] _ He [Gb] backed down from nothing.
We tackled [Fm] some dynamite [D] hard tunes.
And if it [Db] hadn't been for Pat, [F] Don and I
wouldn't have been [Ab] able to play these tunes.
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_ _ The first [Ebm] time I heard him play [Ab]
was actually
at a small [N] jazz club in Boston called Connelly's,
which no longer exists.
And he was playing with Brother Jack McDuff and the organ
groups at the time.
And I was a student at Berkeley School, a green young kid.
I remember seeing this guy walk out, _ a very _ thin,
frail-looking guy.
And it was a Les Paul guitar sitting in the bandstand.
And I knew how heavy those were.
I said, Jesus, that guy, boy, he's so small and light.
I bet he can't even pick up the guitar.
And within about _ a chorus or so, all my _ thoughts
were dispelled that this guy could play.
I mean, he blew me away completely.
What Pat would _ teach you, he would show you the things
that he was [F] developing at the time. _ _ _ _
OK, I can think this way. _ _ _
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_ _ [G] I can go on [N] forever _ _ like that.
It wasn't a guitar lesson.
_ My whole concept of the way he taught
was _ _ _ _ a master and an apprentice.
And that's the way Pat approached everything.
He says, Papa, I got some bad news to tell you.
I said, what is it? _ _
_ _ He said, they found a tumor on my brain.
What's involved in the operation is
to make a trapdoor in the skull, find
the group of abnormal blood vessels,
and then with a microscope actually close them
[Eb] off with a current.
And then when they're all closed off,
the actual malformation itself can be removed.
When he woke, _ _ _ _ he looked around.
He didn't know anybody.
_ _ _ _ _ So he looked at me and says, who are you?
_ _ I said, my name's Mickey.
I'm your father.
_ _ Oh, he says, yeah, yeah, I remember now.
_ But he didn't recognize his mother. _ _
Didn't recognize nobody else, just me.
I was [Bbm] extremely depressed [Eb] at the end [Bbm] of my surgery. _
I was bald of head and [Eb] bald of mind. _
And I needed a place to hide.
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_ _ When he came home, _ [Eb]
his memory was very, [Ebm] very bad.
He didn't remember dancing, [Db] no [Eb] friends, nobody. _ _ _
He didn't know [Am] that he ever played guitar.
He really didn't know what he was doing.
He didn't know nothing about the guitar. _ _ _
_ But every time he would pass _ the living room,
he'd look at the guitar.
He'd stop at that doorway and look back at the guitar
and wouldn't say nothing.
I wouldn't say, Pat, pick it up.
I wouldn't say nothing.
I'd wait for the time when he wanted to do it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the bottom line is proud.
And welcome back to [Gbm] New York.
[Am] Happy Martino's.
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_ Cheers.
_ _ [Gb] _ Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers. Cheers.
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