Chords for Paul Cauthen - Discussing Life & My Gospel

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_ _ Bo [D] mentioned to me, he's [A] like, Paul, you ever been to Muscle Shoals?
I'm just like, dude, I'm crazy [D] about it.
[A] You know, I've never been up there.
_ He says, well, I feel like we need to cut the gut to the album there.
[D] At this [A] point, I am like, _ _ _ holy _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] moly.
Like, did I just get asked to go [F#] record [E] at Fame [A] Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
where Etta James and Aretha Franklin, _ _ _ Wilson Pickett, and [F#] the best have recorded.
[A] I was just like getting a candy store.
_ _ Don't [D] leave _
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] me hanging [E] up.
My [A] grandfather _ _ _ _ _ [D] was a [E] _ _ [A] song leader in the Church of [F#m] Christ.
_ [E] And [D] he taught me how to sing when I was little.
Gave [Bm] me an ear.
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He was just a _ _ _
[D] upstanding [E] man and a [A] very _ _ _ eccentric, _ _
[F#m] outgoing [E] _ [A] performer. _
_ And I mean, even some people _
[D] criticized [E] him in the Church of [A] Christ for being too _ _ elvishy
and [E] going around the church [A] and singing, you know.
_ He just taught me [Bm] to sing my ass [E] off, I guess.
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_ He holds his _
[F#m] _ [E] last _ [A] _ _
_ signature off his will [D] right there on my arm.
[E] _ _ [A] He's got a guitar.
_ I always [F#m] think of him, but [E] he's my dude.
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[D] _ _ _ Writing songs is kind of like putting together a puzzle.
And sometimes you [F#m] need certain puzzle [E] pieces in order to finish your song.
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[A] And so, I will wake up early in the mornings and I write all my ideas.
And I'll write my melodies and I'll get [D] my [Am] phone out. _
_ [A] I do voice memos. _
So I start whittling away and either sometimes I'll come with a cool _ first line. _ _
I'll come with a chorus or, you know, _ _ [E] I'll have the whole song.
Sometimes I'll finish a song in ten [B] minutes and it's just like,
hell yeah, [E] Grand Central on [A] the album.
Finish that in ten minutes.
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_ _ _ _ [F#] Biggest influence, I'd [Am] have to say, _ _ would be Elvis, Roy [E] Orbison,
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and Hemingway is pretty cool. _
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FDR and General Patton. _
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Those are my influences. _ _ _
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It's been a _ _ [F#m] pleasure to be able [E] to just [A] sing, you know.
And _ my cousins can't.
[D] Some of them [E] can't even sing [A] a note to save their life.
[F#m] It's [E] come from the same [D] cloth. _ _ _ _
I'm just [F#m] lucky when _ [E] you're_
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[A] _ Jesus was the first rock star.
_ _ [F#] Like, he ran [E] around and he was [A] known, you know what I mean?
And _ I [D] read and I [E] take these notes and I write them down.
I take the good things out of [A] religious books
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[E] and I try to take them into positive energy _
and _ _ help others and [G#] do unto others as [F#] I'd want [E] them to do unto me.
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And [D] I try to [A] _ shine as much light as I can
and I believe that _ positivity and peace and happiness _ is all God. _ _
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