Chords for Queens of Country Patsy Cline

[G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ Feeling so lonely _
_ _ _ There was no [F] one that could cry a song like she could.
There was no one that could make you feel the emotion.
Crazy [G] for feeling _ [Bb] so [B] blue
To me she was the [F] greatest voice of that era.
These records hit me so [Gm] hard.
Something about [Bb] Patsy Cline [Ab] for a woman in [G] the 50s was very progressive.
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Patsy Cline, you can put shoulder to shoulder with Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
_ _ [F] _ I never met another woman that could act out a singer.
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She [Cm] sells millions of records every [Db] year.
It's unbelievable [D] how many records she sells.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] Patsy didn't just [B] knock the door down, she kicked it in.
Got a feeling causing blue love
For a chance my baby said goodbye
[Em] Patsy was a fighter, feisty, [Gb] forthright and funny.
[G] You had to be to break through in 50s Nashville.
_ At the Grand Ole Opry, Temple of Country Music, Patsy scared the life out of newcomers.
One night I was changing [C] clothes and that door [N] popped open.
And it was Patsy.
And she had on this cowgirl outfit.
And she stood there with her hands on her hips.
She said, well you're a conceited little so and so.
You just waltz in here and do your bit and waltz out.
And I said, now wait just a damn minute.
And we just almost had it right there.
And she laughed.
She said, anybody that'll stand up to the Cline is okay.
So we're going to be good friends. _ _
Patsy Cline, isn't she great? _ _ _
She was a good looking, rough, rugged, one of the sanest people I've ever met.
She would cuss you out just as quick as somebody else.
And you didn't like it.
You knew where the door was and she'd tell you that.
Yeah, she could hold her own with a crew of sailors.
_ _ _ Patsy was born in 1932 in the depths of the Depression.
There are reports of her being sexually abused by her father.
It was a troubled childhood. _
It was like she preferred not to go there and I didn't ask.
_ When she was 14, her father left the family.
_ Patsy dropped out of school to work as a waitress and a singer.
She's our special guest tonight from Virginia.
And her name is Patsy Cline.
[E] Patsy Cline, how are you Patsy?
Nice to see you.
And the bell rings with me now, Ernest.
[D] This is the young lady you've been waiting for.
In the 1950s, [G] Nashville was very, very conservative,
even more conservative than most [Bb] of the nation.
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_ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ [F] [D] Women [Am] singers rarely [D] headlined shows
and the industry assumed that women wouldn't buy their records.
[G] The breakthrough of Patsy Cline [Bm] was really a [Db] watershed moment.
We have a young lady [Gb] that is fast [G] becoming
one of the leading [Db] sellers on phonograph [G] recordings,
Miss Patsy Cline. _ _
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Patsy was just breaking into the music [Em] business
[D] when she met her second husband.
[Gbm] I asked Patsy to dance.
[G] She said she couldn't while she was working.
_ _ [Bbm] Later on, I seen her dancing with somebody else.
I went back and I said, you said you couldn't dance?
She said, that was my husband. _ _
_ But then one week she showed up and her husband wasn't there.
So I went back and asked her to dance again and she did,
and that was that. _
_ [Dm] They both had a temper.
He said one time, if I hadn't taken up for myself,
she'd have killed me with a baseball bat.
I seen her knock the hell out of him with an iron one time.
They'd have a little fight and she would call
and the police would come out and arrest him.
They're just two crazy people having fun.
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[Cm] Patsy was always on the road, always working.
I remember very much missing her when she'd have to leave.
Kids cry and have fits and I do remember that.
I do remember that we weren't just waving bye.
_ It was very hard.
I think that was probably one of the things
that she really didn't [Bb] enjoy about the [Cm] business. _
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ Patsy came up the rank singing good old hillbilly country,
but [Ebm] now her producer, Owen [F] Bradley, was pushing her towards [Gm] pop.
From [Eb] what I understand from Owen,
she really saw herself as a hillbilly.
She didn't want to be_
she didn't want to sing pop songs.
She said, I've always done Western swing and it's kept food on my table.
[Bb] I said, [Eb] Patsy, honey, you listen to Owen.
[F] I said, you've got the talent, but [Bb] he's got the ear
and he knows exactly what the market needs.
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_ The weeping [E] ballads won.
[Eb] This was something quite new, a [F] sophisticated country pop sound.
[Eb] She had this [Bb]
huge heartache voice
[E] and they [Bbm] chose [F] heartache lyrics for her
because she [G] could just about weep in tune.
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And then they would take and [E] cushion the [Eb] sound of her records with strings
[G] and made it a [F] softer edged country music.
[Bb] Patsy made quite a lot of records that were quite elegantly arranged
and that didn't sound so country.
_ Patsy was taking country [Eb] music into the city.
She'd made the music modern.
Her look [F] was changing too, from cowgirl outfits to cocktail dresses.
[Dm] _ [Gm] I Fall To Pieces was a country [Fm] and pop hit.
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She [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ might not have liked the song much, but she liked it being a hit.
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_ [B] She had no money, old car,
and they were going to repossess her refrigerator.
She said, well, hoss, they ain't going to get my Frigidaire now.
Do you ever cut anything but hits?
Well, I don't know if I can help it.
Oh, my.
Prove it, girl, prove it.
All right.
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The number one jukebox hit of all time cemented her [F] crossover appeal.
_ It's become her signature tune.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [B] All _ [D] Patsy [Ab] Cline has to do is kind of [Bb] just barely whisper crazy
and it's like, oh.
Not everything's moonlighting roses
and falling in love for the first time with Prince [Cm] Charming.
Sometimes, you [C] know, love is really horrible
and [D] it makes you feel like you're going mad.
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There was so much [G] soul and life to her voice.
_ She lived all the songs she was singing, [Cm] heartache and love.
All the pain and trouble in Patsy's life came through when she sang these songs.
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It was all [Gb] inside and she let it out in [B] those songs.
It was there for [A] you to [Ab] hear.
Great singers have some gift.
[Dbm] You've got to believe that they've been crazy
or that they have fallen to pieces or [E] they've lived these songs.
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On the [B] _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ way back from a performance in Kansas [Ab] City in March 1963,
_ Patsy was killed in a plane [Bb] crash.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] She was only 30.
_ I remember Dad waking me [F] up to tell me that she [Ab] wasn't going to come home.
_ It's [Bb] something you don't really understand at [Eb] four years old, I don't think. _ _ _
_ Sweet Dreams was released [Ab] after her death. _
_ _ [Db] _ _ Some of the songs are [Ab] kind of sad.
_ They have a lot of emotion in them
and I do like to listen to them to kind of feel close
and to kind of see _ what she was like. _
It helps you to remember a lot about them.
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