Chords for Pee Wee Ellis Interview.

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[Ab] _ _ [N] began as a musician [Eb] very [Fm] early on in life.
_ [A] _ [B] I must have been 12 [D] years old.
[Db] My [N] stepfather was a _ manager [A] of [G] a local band in Lubbock, [E] Texas.
_ _ [F] _ He [Cm] _
_ hired a [D] band out for [A] _ _
functions _ and playing in local bars.
_ _ [G] _ _ Some of the musicians [N] were _ people _ coming off the road. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] Some of them [A] didn't last a whole night. _
The piano player, for [Gb] instance, [B] was up until [Ab] half the night and [F] the wine [Am] would take over.
Wine [A] took over.
_ He would come [B] wake me up out of my bed and I'd go play piano.
_ _ _ _ I could play the _ blues and _ boogie-woogie at F-shop.
[F] _ _ _ _ [A] I _ [G] learned a few _ _ songs.
[Gbm] _ _ _ _ Musicians that were _ [Abm] _ road _ _ [Gbm] _
musicians, they would come in from New [Am] York and Chicago.
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[Abm] I settled in Lubbock, Texas for some reason.
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My father would look after them.
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_ They showed me some things on the piano. _ _
_ One thing I regret is the guitar player [E] asked me if I wanted to learn guitar.
I [Gbm] said no for some stupid reason.
But I wanted to play saxophone because they had a lot of [Abm] keys on them.
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You weren't thinking about the money at that time.
I didn't know money was having [B] anything to do with it.
_ [E] _ It wasn't about money, [Eb] it was about love and [B] music.
_ _ Eventually, [Db] playing in high school, _ [Ab] _ [Gbm] my band director, [Db] Roy [Ab] Roberts,
had come [A] in from the Navy, an alto player.
_ [Ab] _ _ He [C] noticed [Dbm] that I was [Ebm] interested.
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[Db] He started me on clarinet [Gbm] _ _ _
going into [Abm] the sixth grade.
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[Eb] _ I had played _ [G] _ [C] _
clarinet, [B] ocarina, [A] and plastic horns. _
[G] _ It seemed a little [C] boring system as a clarinet.
[G] _ [E] So I kind of excelled at that.
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It went on for a couple of years and then I finally got a saxophone. _
He [A] played in the [Gm] combo, jazz combo.
_ _ He used to [Gb] take us out to [A] a town like [G] Amarillo and play _ dances.
_ [Ebm] He gave us $10 or [C] something.
My mother [Am] [A] and my three sisters [B] _
_ moved to [A] Rochester, New York.
_ It [Abm] was a bit of a culture shock.
[A] _ _ _ [G] [B] But [Am] we had a family there already.
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_ [A] _ That's when I met [Ab] Ron Carter [Em] and Chuck [A] Mangione and _ [Db] Gap. _ _
I started [Gb] playing.
I played with [Db] Ron Carter.
I [A] interviewed Ron a few months ago.
I just [Em] played with Ron [B] on my birthday.
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He's a nice man.
Nice man.
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] We played together for a while.
_ [B] _ _ _ [Gbm] Real gentlemen.
_ You told me about his new book.
He's got a new book.
[E] His [Abm] biography.
_ He [Gb] gave me a copy.
[Gbm] It's a great book.
[G] He told me to go and buy [Db] one. _
_ _ _ [G] I know him better than you do.
I think so.
[Am] _ _ _ [G] He gave me a book.
[C] He also [E] has a book of [Bm] bass [Am] solos.
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He's a nice guy.
[C] _ [E] Ron, [A] Jimmy Cobb, and Mulder [C] Miller.
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He really is in New York.
My _ [C] 69th birthday party.
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_ Why did you move to England actually? _ _
[Eb] Another great musician I worked [N] with, Van Morrison. _
Van Morrison had _ [C] _ a studio in [Gm] the southwest of England.
_ _ I was living with my wife in London.
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I've always wanted [C] to visit London.
_ [Eb] I've been in and [Bb] out.
[Am] _ The tour [Gm] ended in London with Bobby Bird and Jimmy. _
_ _ _ Bobby Bird, [Am] Maceo, Fred, and myself.
[Gm] We were on the road.
[Gb] The tour finished here.
_ [Em] I decided to stick around.
_ [D] _ _ _ I [Gm] stuck around for a while.
I started to work a bit. _ _ _
I _ [A] started getting gigs.
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I called Maceo.
_ I said, [A] come over [Cm] and play some more with me.
[Em] He [Eb] came over.
_ [B] We tried to get Fred to come [Am] over, but he was [Em] busy doing something else.
[Gm] Anyway, that _
_ [G] _ [Gm] went on for a little while.
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Eventually, [Eb] _ _ [F] the J.B. Horns was [Db] formed.
_ [Am] _ Not from that incident, [Em] but Maceo was working with James Brown still.
So Fred was living in L.A.
[Cm] I went to visit Fred.
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[Em] He said Maceo was coming in, [C] so we went to pick him up [A] at the airport.
[E] On the way from the airport to [Am] Fred's house, _
[G] we _ couldn't stop [Gb] laughing and telling jokes.
_ [G] I said, we ought to put a band together. _
_ We went to Fred's [A] house and spent [Bb] the rest of [C] the night _ telling [N] lies. _ _ _
_ [A] Some of it was true, [C] _ but laughing like crazy.
_ A couple of years later, _ [G]
J.B. Horns was [Cm] born. _ _ _ _ _
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