Come Dancing chords by Ray Davies

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Verse 1
Am 
brings up Come Dancing,
you know, later on.
Was that something that you wrote?
Because I heard that was
written
with your sister in mind.
G# 
It's another sister, the bullying,
Am 
F 
Jane Fonda -ish sister.
Bb 
She's a real bitch.
Am 
There's sometimes a sister,
but she's a very, don't
say that.
Bbm 
Cut that out. It's just a...
Am 
The bully or the bitch part? Both.
We couldn't use his name.
This is the other sister, Gwen,
who's about seven or eight
F# 
years older than I.
F# 
And she used to go dancing
at a local,
La Cana it was called I think,
F# 
and she showed me a snapshot
of her and her now husband  dancing,
and the whole idea for the song
F# 
Come Dancing
came from that photo
graph.
That's how I write a lot of songs,
F# 
I get an image, a visual image,
A# 
then it translates into music.
B 
So I wrote that about Gwen
and her husband Brian,
Am 
A# 
who is still alive.
Am 
in fact, aggravation came about
as watching Brian driving to
work on the North Circular.
E# 
went in the car with him one day,
F# 
Am 
and him ranting and raving about the
world
G# 
Am 
gave me the idea to write
the song.
Am 
So it's still kind of, yeah.
Interesting ways, I mean,
where you can get ideas for songs,
it's just not one way, I mean.
Yeah, and obviously the line,
B 
the first line of the song was down,
Am 
I heard down Columbus Avenue.
The guy, you know people
A# 
shout on the street corner,
this guy was shouting out,
F# 
Who needs it, man?
Am 
You know, who needs
it? Who needs what?
He just pissed off at the world.
He was just annoyed with the world
C 
and  he was shouting out,
Who needs it? Who needs it?
A# 
And that's how aggravation starts.
That's wild. Yeah,
B 
so I get these snippets from reality
A 
Am 
F# 
and turn them into my own drama.