Chords for Patty Griffin Song "Had A Good Reason" Live Union Transfer Concert 2019 Tour Show

_ I started writing these songs at the _ end of 2016.
_ It all kind of started with [D#] _ _ one single event.
I had a [C#] trip over to London.
I had like this gig, one little gig over in London, a weird gig.
Not even a like, yeah, I'm looking [D] forward to it.
It was kind of like, OK, I'll go do this gig in London.
_ And _ so you [C#] get there early so you [B] can actually
sing when you get to the next _ _ [D#] location.
[C#m] So I try, when I fly [F#] over the ocean [A] and go to Europe,
I try to stay [B] awake all [A#] the time.
_ [C] _ _ [C#] _ _
Drink coffee all day long.
_ Europe, the [A#] coffee's pretty good there.
And [D#] I get to about 7 PM.
[B] _ And I'll be like, 4.30 or 5.
But I get to the PM part of the day. _ _
And take a sleeping pill.
15 hours.
And then you're in the day Europeans.
_ _ That's [D#] been [D] my plan that I find works for me.
Everybody gets it. _ _
_ So [E] I was in the middle of one of these [D] big, long, jet lagged sleeping [C#] concepts.
And I had a dream, a very vivid [B] dream,
in the middle of this night [G] [D] of Billie Holiday.
And I had [E] _ [D#] always been an admirer,
but [C#] never been in [G] the songs of Billie Holiday.
[C#] And I realized [C] that that [B] voice is so sad.
_ [D#] _ [A#] Sad, sad voice.
And you've got to be a grown up to be with that voice.
_ [E] _ _ But in this dream, she's really young.
And she was so pretty.
[F#] And she was smiling straight at me.
[N] And she turned, and she was singing to this audience.
And there was a bunch of people in a barn.
They were singing to her.
It was really, really [C] beautiful.
_ [B] I woke right up out of the dream.
And I started downloading [A#m] Billie Holiday like crazy
on my [D#] iPhone.
And I started listening [D] to her.
And I think more than musically, _ _ you know,
literal musical [A#] influence.
And I just love this [B] record called _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Let It Sing nowadays.
And [D#] her voice, she didn't [A] waste one single note.
And you got it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [D]
And also, her voice got so much [C#] more melody too, so fast. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You never go low.
She's going to carry you right down there.
Believe me.
She's going to go with you to [G] the _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ world.
And she's sure to give to you.
And so then I was thinking about _ Billie Holiday
being sad, why [B] she was sad.
And there's some [C#] very clearly [Bm] obvious reasons
why she might [C#] have been really sad, being born
when she was born _ and who she was.
But I also had heard that she was separated out
from her mother when she was really young.
Spent some time not [N] really getting
cared for by her [D] mom.
And as did Peter Piloff.
So, [C#] you know, second [D] words.
And so I [N] started thinking about actually those two.
And I love it.
I love it. _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Guess you're never [A] going to come back for [E] me, ma.
_ [A] _ Suitcase [Em] of pretty dresses.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ All I'm feeling was for me, ma.
_ [Am] Perfume for [E] the ladies.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ Was a cherry salad [A] dog.
I [E] wish you was.
[A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
Under [E] the [A] trophy.
We sing [E] along together.
Play the [B] sweetest sound.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[B] Maybe you are _ [C#m] losing right. _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ Shh.
[Bm] _ _ [B] _
_ [C#m] After all the night. _ _
_ _ [E] _ All I know is.
[A] _
_ _ [E] Easy.
[A] You had a [B] good reason.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[B] Guess _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ you're [Am] never going to see me [E]
shining.
[A] All the last people wondering [B] around.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ World is running.
It's a [F#] microphone in my [A] hand.
Singing to the [E] _ [B] beat.
Toes to the _ town.
[E] _ Sometimes I think I [A] see you out there smiling.
_ Your pretty [B]
sad eyes.
Singing long.
_ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] Stealing a [E] voice and a feeling [B] like I'll never come [A] down.
I used to think it might [E] be you.
I used to know [B] maybe you were.
Shh.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Wait.
[B] _ Lonely day [C#m] after lonely night.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _
All I know [A] you must have had a [E] good reason.
[A] You had a [B] good reason.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
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