Chords for ZZ Top Inducts Cream into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Well, I'm really glad to be here tonight, not because [G] it's the place to be on a [Gb] Tuesday
night, _ _
_ [G] _ [A] [Ab] not because once a year this is the place to be, [G] not because _ _ [Ab] you get to see your
old [G] friends once again, you get to maybe meet somebody you didn't meet that [E] you'd heard
their work, [N] and _ not _ _ because we were in the studio and I'd do anything [F] to get out of the
studio, [N] but _ because tonight I get to hear Ginger Baker play drums. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Starting out in the 60s, there were [G] a hundred drummers in Dallas, and [Ab] when Ginger Baker
and the Cream came out, we all set our drums [E] up like [Eb] Ginger Baker.
We all [Gbm] had two bass drums now, [G] and we all had our tom-toms set [F] sideways, _ [E] and we all
put two cymbals on each stand.
[Gm] And it worked out good, [G] you went from club to club and the set was just right.
I mean, you could jam here, you could jam there, and it all worked out good.
But what I'm trying to say is that _ _ he was the one drummer _ that _ we all wanted to be like,
and we all studied his work and listened to the record and how did he do that, how did
he make [F] that sound.
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Sometimes [G] he would be playing a solo and it sounded [Fm] like he was sawing on something.
[Gb] _ _ _ And so when we get through introducing Cream, _ _ _ _ _ the [Ab] gentleman tries to lead me [Fm] back to my
table over [N] there.
I'm not going.
I'm going to be hiding over here behind an [G] amplifier and I'm going to be [Gb] watching [F] Ginger
Baker play [N] drums.
And he better do it like the records because I spent two, three, four hundred hours learning
those songs just like those records, and I'm going to know if he did it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, well this is going to be short.
About the same time Frank was listening, I was listening to Jack Bruce, I was much younger than Frank.
_ _ _ _ And I thought I could play the bass at the time until I heard Jack Bruce play and I had
to rethink that.
_ And the best compliment around then and now was to be a musician's band.
_ And every musician loved Cream and they still do.
_ That's all I got to say. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ There's only one name _ that rounds out this [E] trio and _ _ [Eb] _ _ we'll [F] _ discuss this backstage.
It was [Gb] _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ of [Dm] talented musicians [Gb] that made up _ three [F] guys that _ [E] expressed power. _ _
_ Eric Clapton being the third, following the two names that were previously mentioned, _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] [Ab] created a sound that [Gb] everybody in this [D] room [E] _ _ [Db] _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ certainly [D] [E] set the stage [Db] for _ [D] our outfit.
_ _ _ [F] And it's with great pleasure, _ _ _ [G]
[F] we _ bid [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] bad [Dbm] boys a very [N] good night.
_ Cream. Cream.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ _ this is really fantastic. _
I can't tell you.
_ _ _ I come from Glasgow in Scotland.
_ _ It doesn't seem so far away now.
I think _ that must be what rock and roll is about.
It brings people together.
_ And if the three of us can be together again, anybody can be together again, I'll tell you.
_ _ _ _ _ I'd like to thank everybody ever. _ _ _
_ _ _ But I'd mostly like to thank Amit, really, first of all, for believing in us enough to
record us and so on.
I'd like to thank Ginger for _ showing me some mad African rhythms that I can't get over.
And Eric for clearing my mind and teaching me the purity of the [A] blues and the honesty of it.
Thank you.
Thank [N] you. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I have to be honest and say that until very recently I just didn't believe in this institution at all.
_ I don't believe in institutions, I suppose.
And it seemed to me that rock and roll should never be respectable.
_ _ And then _ _ _ a friend of mine, not so long ago, Robbie Robertson, _ pointed out to me that _ _ _ minor and major miracles take place in here. _ _
It deeply moved me and I looked at this from a different point of view.
_ _ _ A lot could be gained by coming here tonight and a lot has been gained. _ _
I've been reunited with two people that I love very dearly.
_ _ _ It's very moving. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Yesterday, we played together for the first time in 25 years. _
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_ _ _ _ _ It was pretty amazing.
It was wonderful.
And we're going to play again in a little while.
I don't know how it'll be, but _ as Ginger says, or as I say to Ginger, apparently, whatever you do, don't worry.
_ _ _ _ _ _ The last time actually the three of us were together, we were on acid down at my house. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And this drug dealer came round the corner.
We were in the garden.
This drug [Bb] dealer that owed [A] me money or drugs [Bb] or something came round the corner.
_ And he stopped about 30 feet away and he couldn't get any closer.
_ He just, it was like a wall, like a force field.
And that _ _ kind of, that symbolizes to me what happens when the three of us get together.
And _ it can be good or bad.
You never know.
But I'm very, very grateful to be here [E] tonight.
[Ab] And I [F] want to thank Armit [E] too.
And I want to thank Tom Dowd.
And I thank Roger Forrester.
[Fm] I thank all [E] of you [N] for making this _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Yeah, I _ _ think _ everybody's said everything.
So I'll be very brief.
Just thanks very much.
It's nice to be here. _ _
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