Chords for Ray Stevens & Jeannie Seely - "Make The World Go Away" & Interview (Live on CabaRay Nashville)

Welcome to Ray Stevens Cabaret Nashville.
You know I could have been singing that song about our guest.
She's a songwriter and a great country music and grand old opera star.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're talking about Jeannie Seeley.
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Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well thank you for being with us.
Listen, I ask you.
It's a cool place.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I ask everybody this question and I'm going to, you're no exception, I'm going to ask you.
When did you come to Nashville and what brought you here?
I moved to Nashville in the fall of 65.
I had, I grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania.
And then when I got out of school I drove my little MGA Roadster to LA because I couldn't drive in the winter time.
So very simple.
So I recorded for Challenge Records out there.
Oh yeah.
And they brought me to Nashville to record in 64.
By 65 that recording contract was gone.
So I had enough money to get here but not to get home.
So the obvious thing to me was to move here.
Yeah.
Just get here and stay.
Right.
So that's what we did.
But I came of course because of not only country music and you got to be in Nashville,
but the Grand Ole Opry.
I grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry.
My heart has always been there since I found it when I was a little kid and it hasn't left.
How did you get the name Miss Country Soul?
Well, when I recorded for Monument, which by the way we go back to Monument.
That's right.
We were on Monument at the same time.
Yeah.
I remember when you used to come in the office, all seriousness stopped when you came in the office.
I'll tell you that.
But anyway, you remember Ed Hamilton who was National Promotion Man for Monument Records.
And Ed was on a promotion tour promoting not only my new record at the time but everybody else on Monument too.
And he had just left the station in Louisiana.
And this jockey played the record, my record of Don't Touch Me.
And he back announced it saying, that's the deep blue-eyed soul of Miss Country Soul, Jeannie Seeley.
And Ed liked the sound of it.
So he kind of said, let's go with that.
You've been a regular on the Grand Ole Opry for quite a while, haven't you?
I joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 16th of 1967.
Can you be more specific?
So, hey, I will never forget that day.
And the funny thing is, is 2017 is my 50th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Now you've done a few duets with some other famous country stars, haven't you?
I mean, when I say other, I'm including myself because I want to just say you never done a duet with me.
No, I don't know why that was.
Well, I don't either, but let's fix it right now.
Let's fix that, right?
We can do this, I [G] think.
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I like it so [F] far, right?
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Make the world [Gm] go away
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And get it off my shoulder
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Say the things you [Gm] used to say
_ [C]
And make the world go away
Pretty [Bb] good so far, huh?
[F]
Do you remember [Gm] when you loved me
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Before the world [F] took me astray
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[D] If you do, [Gm] then forgive _ me
[C]
And make the world [F] go away
[Bb] _ _ [F]
Make the world [Gm] go away
_ [C]
And get it off [C] my shoulder
[F] _ _
Say the things you [Gm] used to say
_ [C]
And make the world [F] go away
[Bb] _ [F] I'm _ [D] sorry [Gm] if I hurt you
_ [C]
I'll make it up day by _ [F] day
Say you love [Gm] me like you used [G] to
_ [C]
And make the world [F] go away
[Bb] _ [F] Make the world [Gm] go away
_ [C] _
And get it [F] off my shoulder _ _ _
Say the things [Gm] you used to say
[C] _
And make the world go [Ab] _ _ [F] away _ _ _ _
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