Chords for Session Ten: Courtney Marie Andrews Interview (featuring "Woman of Many Colors")

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_ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ Hi, I'm Courtney and [E] I'm playing a fastback [Gb] session.
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I first started playing when I [Gb] was [A] _ _ _
_ [Abm] in middle [Dbm] school, [E] so 14 or 15.
[A] And I actually first started in a feminist punk band.
_ _ And I accidentally stumbled into songwriting _ because _ I wanted to play [E] guitar and sing,
but I didn't know what it meant to be a songwriter really.
[Gb] I, [E] my three girlfriends [A] and I were like, well, we have to have [E] songs.
Let's try and write them together.
Let's all go home and write a song and then we'll all get together.
And the only person that ever ended up bringing songs to the table was me.
And that sort of kind of made me stumble into songwriting.
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I would say that [A] _ as of late, _ the _ American ideology sort of inspires me.
Like the ideal American life or maybe the failures of American life.
And [E] I bartend on the side and I spend a lot of [A] the time sort of witnessing, [E] you know,
your average like, _ you know, American person and sort of [A] the dreams that they have.
And sometimes don't come true.
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I like the darkness [A] of those things as well.
I don't like just like, oh, _ everything's perfect and I'm a prince and you're a princess or [E] type
story or _
[A] whatever, vice versa.
I sort of like the deep [E] and dirty and gritty story of American folklore, I [A] guess.
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ I think when you're young, you often _ have this high expectation of how things should go.
_ And you think that dreams all come true by 24 [A] and that you're living the perfect life
and [E] have a dream home and everything just works out.
And I think as you get older, [A] you sort of realize that that's not the case.
And _ _ life is [E] very _ _ uncontrollable and some things happen and you have to sort of
_ go along with it and ride the waves of life.
And that sort of happens.
But [F] I think _ _ [E] that all ties in [A] with _ _ _ people that you meet and the stories that they tell _ often
are not _ happy ones.
You know, they're _ not that they're not happy.
I guess they're multifaceted.
They have many different _ _ sides and positions.
[Gb] But I think the darkness of [E] those American stories often [A] maybe inspires me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I like to touch on every feeling of life.
[E] So I don't think _ [Em] everything's not black and white, you know, [Bm] and either are songs.
They don't have to be.
And I think that's the beautiful thing about being a songwriter is that you can [Eb] sort of
[Bb] paint _ [Eb] several different _ pictures, [Bb] you know, [Eb] and stories.
_ And they don't have to always end happy or sad.
They can end somewhere in between as well. _
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[Eb] I know this town like I built it.
I know which roads will lead to where.
And I'll stay and visit as long as these roads know how to take me somewhere.
Of the places I've been, I've kept many in mind.
And I dream them all the same.
_ Of the ones I've dreamed, there's only one place that gave me my [Bb] name.
[Eb] I'm a woman of many stories.
If you listen, I'll tell you one. _
_ _ _ I've called many places my own, little darling, but I only come from one. _ _ _ _ _ _
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