Chords for Badfinger Doc 1 of 6

[A] No matter what you are, _ _ _ I will always [Bm] be with you.
At the dawn of the _ 1970s, they were poised [D] to be the next big thing.
[E] Badfinger, _ [D] [A] you.
_ [Gbm] Knock down the old gray [B] wall.
_ Badfinger [E] were handpicked for stardom by the Fab [A] Four themselves.
They had everything _ going that would make them a monster group.
Paul [Eb] McCartney penned their first big hit.
If you want it, here it is.
Harmony, come and get [Bb] it.
Time, _ [D] if [Eb] you want it, here it is.
They raised hopes with [B] four quick top ten hits, but [E]
Badfinger wasn't bound for [Gb] glory. _ _
Yes, I got it, what I [E] deserve.
Just seeing the band had a black cloud over them.
[F] Their songs made [G] millions, but bad management kept them starving artists.
They _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] were shoveling it in at one end and [C] getting dealt [G] out their share with the tweezers at the other end.
You're getting, you know that, don't you?
[F] _
I _ remember [Bb] _ finding out about [F] _ you.
As their business nightmare wore on, their music went unreleased and unheard.
[Bb] It was gone.
Couldn't go get it.
Couldn't get it.
That was the death [F] knells of the band right [C] there.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Badfinger _ _ _ [Bb] _ was [F] doomed and their leading voice was driven to despair.
[C] He was stifled mentally, _ [G] financially, _ _ [Gb] creatively.
_ His life.
[Db] No _ _ need. _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ Then the [Bbm]
unthinkable happened again.
[Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] Tommy would say one [B] day I'll be up where Pete is.
[Abm] It's a better place than _ [Gb] _ [Db]
down here.
He says I'm going to kill myself.
_ [Gb] _ _
I'm going to kill myself.
I'm going to do it tonight.
[Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ _ We lost bad thing.
I [G] think we lost innocence.
_ [Dbm] _ _ _
_ _ Badfinger is basically the [A] classic rags to riches story with [E] Shakespearean ending.
It was their [B] dream and then it was just taken away from them.
It was such a tragedy.
True rock and roll tragedy. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now the [Dbm] heartbreaking story of the greatest band that almost was the [A] tragedy of bad finger [E] behind the music.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
Are Pete [Gm] Pete your Tom Tom _ [Bbm] Stone?
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] And you are [A] my.
So this is a [Gm] stone _ _ [C] and Mike and the rest of the [F] boys.
The bad finger _ _ in _ [Eb] 1970 is their [Bb] power pop harmony.
[F] Sort up the charts.
No rock and roll band had a more promising future than bad fingers.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] I remember. _
Oh, _ I [F] do. _ _
But five short years after [Ebm] their first hit, [Bb] bad fingers, bright hopes were [F] crushed by bad management, betrayal, _ silence and [C] suicide.
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
Day _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ after [F] _ day. _ _
[C] The story of bad finger is a tragic drama [G] set to music, beautiful [Bb] music. _
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] You usually end up writing about what's happening [F] to you and how you feel at that particular time.
And I [Bb] feel a bit of a downer stage [G] in life.
You get [F] down the songs and _ really bubbling over.
You get good old happy [G] rockers _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ as rock music made its [G] transition from the _ [C] 1960s to [G] the 70s.
A new British quartet [Ab] were being hailed as the next Beatles _ as the first group signed to the Beatles own [Abm] label.
Bad finger where the airs apparent in rock's royal court.
I love the Beatles.
They were great.
I don't think there's anybody [E] better.
And it was so great to [Ab] be around.
And it was Alice in Wonderland for us.
Come on.
But [Ebm] Pete Ham, Tom Evans, Mike Gibbons and [Ab] Joey Mullen were not fated for superstardom.
They were talented.
They were blessed.
But [Bb] they were doomed.
_ _ Sad, sad story.
[Gb] _
_ [N] Great people.
Sad ending. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] Bad finger [C] sad story began in the early _ 1960s with a young [G] band from Wales called the [F] Ivies.
_ [C] Bad finger originated as the Ivies.
They lived in a small town called [G] Swansea.
It was a [F] port city [C] and many of the bands played there.
It was a bit like a [G] little Liverpool.
_ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ We covered like black American [Eb] music, [E] like [D] more down [A] stacks and all that good stuff.
_ And we were pretty good [Dbm] at it, too.
All we wanted to [G] do is to become _ [A] accepted on the Swansea circuit.
[D] If you like, and, you know, get as much work in [A] as we could and just enjoy [D] playing. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ In _
[D] 1966, 19 year old band [F] leader Pete Ham [Abm] and his teenage bandmates,
Dye Jenkins, [G] Mike Gibbons [D] and Ron Griffiths,
[A] caught the attention of [Dm] manager Bill Collins, who brought the Ivies to [Em] London.
_ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I said, now look, _ I can't promise you [A] lads anything _ _ except blood, sweat and tears.
He always [E] told us, I will not be a manager.
I will be one of the [B] band, so to speak, [Bb] but not play.
[Em] I'll just guide you.
He wasn't a manager [E] at all.
If you're going to run a band's affairs, you've got to be a businessman.
Bill wasn't a businessman.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ Collins [C] moved the four Ivies into [G] his house at Seven Park Avenue
in the London neighborhood of Golders Green. _ _
_ _ [C] There, Collins encouraged the [G] boys to focus on [C] songwriting.
Pete Ham didn't have to be pushed.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
Peter, [F] whatever the mood he was in, happy or sad, he'd go and write a song about it. _ _
Often the cramped [C] [D] makeshift recording studio in Collins' house
was the only place Pete could [G] find any privacy.
_ _ [C] That household was definitely _ _
_ [E] chaotic.
_ Everybody lived there.
All the roadies and their girlfriends.
People crashing as well in the living room.
You'd get [G] up in the morning, there'd be six bodies on the floor,
these people you didn't [Em] know. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] By 67, after a chaotic year of [G] gigging in clubs,
it was clear that Di Jenkins didn't [E] share the rest of the band's work ethic.
Di was more [G] interested in the dames, and he was politely asked if he'd step [E] down.
_ The band needed a new [G] guitarist.
They found one in 20-year-old Tom Evans.
A Liverpool native, Tom brought a new energy [Gb] to the [E] group.
Tommy was _ _ [G] schizophrenic.
He was _ the [Em] wildest, funniest guy in the world.
Sometimes, other times, he was the most [E] depressed, _ _ upset guy in the world.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
[F] Tom gave free [D] reign to emotions Pete would only reveal in [E] song.
[D] As [E] collaborators, they complemented each other perfectly. _ _ _ _ _
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