Conversation chords by Marian McPartland, Steely Dan
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Verse 1
(E minor) You know, somebody made the
remark
that all your lyrics are like poetry.
And I sort of go along with that.
I mean, some of the things you write.
Oh, (F sharp major) thanks.
(E minor) It's much more
fun reading that
than Edna Vincent Millay, I can tell you.
(F minor) But she also (E minor) wro te dirty poems,
(F minor) though.
(E minor) Oh, well, see, I didn't.
That's one thing we have in common.
I didn't put (G major) any of those to music.
(F minor) She just didn't have a
(C sharp major) rhythm section
like we do.
Not (C major) like the one (F minor) you have, (E minor) wow. that tune,
(F minor) Josie, I mean, (E minor) the intro,
I'll just have to take
that and copy it down
because that is like a tune all in
itself. mean.
Oh, thanks.
No, I'm interested in how
does the writing go?
somebody (F minor) write (A major) something
and then the other (E minor) person says,
yeah, that sounds good?
Pretty much, you know,
we get (D major) to gether in a room
(F minor) and start playing
(E minor) and, you (F minor) know, when (E minor) one of us
will have an idea
usually for either (E minor) melody or lyrics
or sometimes both.
(F minor) Yeah, that's what I've (E major) wondered,
like some of the (F minor) songs, they,
it seems like the melody has to kind of wriggle (E minor) in (F minor) there sometimes,
like the word (E major) s.
(F minor) You know what I mean?
(D major) It isn't like a 4 -4 time or anything,
but it's amazing how everything
work (F minor) s.
Everything seems to...
(D major) Well I think (F minor) that's true.
think (D major) that's (F minor) one of
the hardest things is to...
you have to kind of (F sharp minor) pry (E major) the (E minor) music open
and shove the lyrics in sometimes.
We sort of decided (F minor) at some point
(E minor) that, you (D major) know, (E minor) we were going to try and
write these little (C major) stor (D major) ies,
little short story
(C major) kind of thing (D major) s for the
lyrics for these songs
so as not to have to write the same
kind of pop songs
over and over again.
And you know, some (E minor) times we'll have
a great (D major) idea for the thing
and then when you sit down to actually do (D major) it,
there's very few syllables to
do it (C major) in.
And so we occasionally (C sharp major) en d up with
some thing (C sharp major) s
where there's a lot of words
and a (C major) few notes.
Sometimes we have to (D major) sacrifice the
linear (E minor) narrative
(E minor) just to get the idea.
(F minor) so sometimes it seems like a story
with (D major) some pieces missing.
But most of our fans have done
a sort of analogous thing
(D major) to their own brains and psyches
over (C sharp major) the years.
So that they just absorb (E minor) the thing
the way it is.
Their receptors have been
(E minor) sculpted.
That's right.
Well, that's the best way,
if they're listening to you,
to think, well, being that you like Duke Ellington so much,
it wouldn't be a bad idea
if we did a Duke tune together.
What do you think?
How about Mood Indigo?
I just happen to love that tune.
Yeah, me too.
So I think it would make a nice duet.
(E minor) And shall I start it? Go ahead. OK.
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