Chords for Sleepy Man: Roots Trio From New Jersey | Uncharted: The Power of Dreams

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_ Is [G] it a gift? _ _ _
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I don't know.
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[G] _ _ [C#] I started taking lessons, yeah.
I think I was six [C] then.
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_ _ To be honest, I remember him not sounding amazing right when he first started.
Once he got the roll pattern down and could get quick at that, he just took off with it.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And all of a sudden, boom. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I [Gm] mean, _ [A] I can't explain it.
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_ _ _ _ I [F] think they have all the ingredients to be [G] successful.
They're achieving those [A] dreams now.
Where are they going to be in the [D] next five years?
[F] He doesn't have to practice, which is [G] annoying.
Yeah, I guess you could say it was a little [A] hard for my brothers to try [D] to _ _ _ [G] catch up with me.
[A] _ His talent and raw ability kind of said to Robbie [F] and me that we have to up our game.
[G] We're not going to let our eight-year-old [C#] brother beat us at [D#m] playing instruments.
[C] So we really stepped it up after that.
[A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ It's _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ hard to play this [G#] type of music and [A#] [Am] fabricate it.
Whereas pop songs, you have tons of auto-correct.
You can do whatever you want on [A] it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The [Am] only sounds you hear is just strings vibrating on wood, which is such a cool sound
compared to a lot of the [D] newer electronic stuff you hear today.
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[G] And it's really real.
It's a very real type of music. _ _
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[Dm] _ [C] _ [G] I think Americana and [D] Roots [A#] music and that style, [G] they have a [A#] _ [B] certain complexity [E] to it.
_ [C] You hardly [G] really see an artist strip their act down and have just their instruments raw, [A#m] acoustic, _ [C] exposed, I guess.
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[G] _ _ When our kids were old enough, we said, as part of your education, we'd like you to take an instrument.
And I think you were kind of thinking piano for a while.
And then we just said, let's let them pick.
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_ _ Robbie got into the fiddling style, and Tommy got into the acoustic guitar.
And they're like, you need a banjo player.
_ _ We thought it [E] was really unique and really interesting compared to what our friends were listening to.
When he picked up the fiddle, I was like, what the heck?
It was a little weird, but it took some getting used to, I guess.
People are like, where are you from?
And then we [D] say New Jersey.
And they're like, how do kids from New Jersey end up playing this kind of music?
I introduced them to this Earl Scruggs. _
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_ He was a pioneer of the banjo. _ _
_ Earl [F#] Scruggs is more like _ [E] solos and I'll play something.
This is more like what he does.
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I'm [F#m] not a big fan when people say that [A] banjo is just for hillbillies.
Because [E] people just tie it [A] in with old rustic stuff.
But it's a really [E] cool instrument.
And it can be used for all different [A#m] styles and stuff.
Start from the [E] chorus. _ _
_ Say _ _ [D] _ _
[A] goodbye my son.
_ Say goodbye my _ [F#m] son.
_ [Am] Try to get the O's a little smoother.
[D] Yeah.
[A] _ _ We [E] started off becoming, as being perceived as kind of a novelty [F] act.
Early on it was a bit of a novelty, right?
There were no vocals.
It was all instrumental.
The songs kind of ran into each other.
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I'll play one of my newer stuff. _ _ _ _
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_ _ We have made a transition from all instrumental _ classical bluegrass
to the newer music.
Everyone's getting inspired by the things that they're doing
and even their [C#m] songs and their music that they're [D] writing.
They love bluegrass, [A] but they're taking that now
[E] and they're putting the Sleepy Man [B] sound together.
And [A] it's [D] so authentic.
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_ It does [D] scare me sometimes that maybe the [A] band won't work out.
Maybe it won't take off like you think it will. _
I think it would be cool if the band got big.
It would be really cool.
[D] Say goodbye my [A] son.
Together you and I.
All [D] our fears are [A] swept away.
Oh, oh. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ What is it all about, right?
Is it about famous and well-known?
Or is there an aspect where you're touching people's lives to it?
[E] God's giving these kids [A] a platform, and what are they going to do with it?
Oh, oh. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's conflicting [E] emotions.
We've [F#m] got to decide eventually whether we're going to go off to college,
keep the band [D] together, or what.
We'll leave [A] it up to them.
I'm just going to keep pushing at this and see where I go.
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