Chords for Rick Danko - RARE TV APEARANCE - 1991

_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Gb] _ [D] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Dm] _ _
My bra was sweating [G] and my mouth gets dry. _
[F] _ _ Well, [C] fancy [Bb] people, they go drifting [F] by.
_ [Dm] _ Oh, the moment of truth, well, [G] it's right at hand. _
_ [F] _ Well, [C] it's one more [Bb] nightmare that you could stand.
[F] _ _ _ _ _
See [Gm] the man with his [D] stage fright,
[Gm] _ [Eb] _ Just standing [C] up there, _
[F] giving it all his might.
_ _ And he got [Gm] caught in the spotlight. _ _
[F] _ [Eb] _ _ But when we get to the [C] end, _ he wants to start [F] all over again.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] I said, [Gb] please don't make him [F] stop. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ Just [C] let him take it [F] from the top.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] Let him [Bb] start all over [F] again. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Eb] Oh, thank you very much.
This is a special night we've imported an audience.
_ _ All 12 of us who are here.
Did you ever get stage fright?
_ I was born with stage fright.
_ Once we lose those butterflies, _ _ we might have lost the game.
We've lost the edge.
_ Here you are, sort of an unknown Canadian band.
In fact, you didn't even have a name for yourselves, really.
You just listed on your first album, The Band,
you listed the members' names, and suddenly that became your name, The Band.
Our first album was called Music from Big Pink, which was this_
_ I started playing with Bob Dylan in 1965,
_ and I moved from Manhattan _ to the Catskill Mountains in 1966.
_ _ And I rented that house, a big pink house that sat in the middle of 100 acres.
And that became the name of the album.
And we called our first album Music from Big Pink, you know.
And _ _ we listed, it said The Band, and then it listed our five names, you know.
You guys were very explicit.
You said it's Music from Big Pink,
and that's where you recorded it, in this pink house and wrote it.
You called yourself The Band, and that's what you were.
And now here you go, suddenly playing before thousands of people with Bob Dylan,
who is known by everyone.
Was that a little intimidating?
Because you changed, The Band changed the way Dylan's music sounded,
and the audience [Fm] wasn't ready for that.
Well, Bob, you know, incidentally, I'd like to wish Bob a happy 50th birthday.
That's right, Friday [G] night.
What was it?
_ May God [Gbm] bless and keep you always.
May your wishes all come [G] true.
_ _ [C] May you always do for others.
May you stay forever young, Bob.
[Gb] Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
And it sounded just like Bob. _ _ _
You know, _ Bob has always had a _ _ great way of getting people to react, you know.
_ _ And, of course, me being _ a sideman, you know, playing with Bob,
those first two years from 65 to 66, people booed us all over the world.
Except for Paris, France.
I think they got it backwards for some reason.
They booed the acoustic version.
_ And cheered you.
And cheered the electric version.
Electric band.
But it might have had something to do with it.
The movie came out called The Last Walls, and we thought that was it, no more band.
But, in fact, The Band, or at least three of the members of The Band,
are back together under that name and recording.
Well, we're making an album _ with Sony, who just bought up CBS,
and I think they're figuring out _ something special to do with people that are our age, you know.
And they're looking further down the line, and _ there may be a little longevity here to this rock and roll. _
Well, obviously, Dylan is 50, and you guys are getting close.
So it's Rick Danko, [Ab] Lee Van Helm, and Garth Hudson _ are back together.
_ And the new album comes out in the fall.
It'll be out this fall, you know.
In fact, we can't get away from you.
You have another album with _ Eric Anderson.
Eric Anderson.
He's another one of those great poets from the 60s.
And he came to my house last fall, and we ended up _ spending about a month in my music room.
We wrote a bunch of songs.
I went to Norway, and _ Polygram, they documented it.
So that record comes out in the fall, and you guys will be appearing here in the New York area.
Eric Anderson and Jonas Fjeld and myself.
So it's got that New York dateline. _
We have Scandinavian _ television and Scandinavian press,
and they're also making a Norwegian documentary on the likes of us.
We're appearing at the Wetlands, which is _ down in the Lower Village in Manhattan, on the 29th of May.
Why don't you, before [F] we run out of time, give me a little sample of one of the songs from that Blue River.
Here we go.
That's from the new album, Rick Danko. _
[Dm] Play us out.
Just play us the commercial. _ _ _
_ Old man [F] go _ [G] to the river
_ [Bb] To _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Gbm] wash his _ bale [Dm] of woes
[F] _ _ He [Bb] _ _
_ _ [G] could go [F] _
[Em] if he wanted [Dm] _ _ to
[Bb] _
Well [B] it's just [G] a boat [F] _ _
to [Dm] row, you know _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ Listen to me [F] now, Blue [Bb] River
Keep right on _ [C] rolling _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] All along [Dm] the _ shoreline
[F] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ Keep [C] us safe [F] from the deep [Dm] and the [Bb] dark
_ We don't [C] want to stray [F] too far _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [F] Spent the day [G] with my old [Bb] dog Mo _
[C] _ _ Walking [Gb] down an old [Dm] dirt road
_ [F] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [G] What he's thinking about, [F] _ _ I [Dm] don't know
[Bb] But for him, [G] I'll bet the time _
[F] _ Well it goes [Dm] so _ slow
_ He's [G] just a dog, you know
_ Listen to me [F] now, Blue _ [Bb] River
Keep right on rolling _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm]
All _ [Dm] along the _ [A] shoreline
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C]
Keep us safe [E] from the deep [Dm]
and the dark
_ [Bb] We don't [C] want to stray [F] too far _ _
Young _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[F] man stand _ [G] with his axe [Bb] in his hand
_ [C] _ _ _
[Dbm] Believing that the crops are [Dm] all in _
[F] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ Firewood stacked [F] _ ten [Dm] by ten
_ [Bb] For the wife, the [B] folks, [G] the kids
_ [F] _ And all