Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
Alright?
One, two, one, two, three,
four.
D#m
F#
D#m
F#
C#
Verse 2
was eighteen years old
Hoping to become a rock and roll star
D#m
F#
B
Looking for pay dirt, celebrity gold
C#
F#
To become an idol with or without guitar
B
C#
I knew I could go far
He was gifted and confused
C#
F#
He was the man I'd seek,
B
C#
F#
I reckoned he'd give me a hit in a week
He wrote and produced Telstar, you see,
and the honeycombs, have I the right?
And Leighton's Johnny,
C#
F#
And made Heinz a star overnight,
B
C#
F#
surely he could do the same for me
His studio was in North London land,
three flights of stairs dark and gloomy
I'd be warned about his
C#
F#
He was awfully decent to me
Really didn't want to screw me
E
F#
E
He loved Barry and Holly
F#
E
His sound was weird,
F#
E
compressed and muddy
F#
E
With echo it sounded like
F#
E
a madman's folly
F#
E
F#
He said he thought I looked like Buddy
He put an old mic
wrapped in foam on the boards
To give him a thudding
that moved him more
B
C#
He stood in the bath
They never came out or
turned into smaches
But joy declined and his
story turned saddened
F#
B
C#
Madder and madder, a tragic end
he shot his landlady and then himself
And died a bankrupt, lonely guy
D#m
F#
B
My fading tape fell apart on his shelf
C#
F#
D#m
I've nothing to remember him by
B
C#
F#
But his magic music still gets me high
This song is for the big man Joe
A producer I was proud to know
E
F#
E
He stood in the path
F#
E
and he stabbed on the floor
F#
E
He stood in the path
F#
E
and he stabbed on the floor
F#
E
F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# D#m C# B E
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