Chords for BBC News reports of Roy Orbison Death (1988)

[D] Roy Orbison was one of the legends of rock and roll, the generation of Elvis Presley and [A] Jerry Lee Lewis.
They called him the Big O.
He didn't have a stage act, just a voice.
_ [D] _ He _
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_ _ _ _ [Gbm] could sing like nobody else could sing.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] One thing I liked [E] about him,
he was, _ _ you'd think he was through, he'd go as high as he [G] could sing, and he'd fool you.
He'd go higher again and just thrill you.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ If you're lonely_
Behind the songs of loneliness and [C] heartache lay a life of private tragedy.
[F]
Roy Orbison lost his wife in a motorbike accident in 1966,
and two of his [Abm] three sons in a fire [G] two years later.
[Ab] But he kept on singing, and as he admitted in his last interview,
became an inspiration even to today's stars.
Quite a few.
Can you tell us a few of the names?
Well, Bruce Springsteen and_
Barry, yeah.
People like that _ are a bit embarrassed to say all the nice people.
They really have said good things about me.
The purity in his [C] voice is something that you don't hear much at all anymore,
[G] and how effortlessly he sings.
[D] George [C] Harrison remembers when the [G] Beatles were only the support band [C] for Roy Orbison.
Earlier [G] this year, he recruited him for his [Em] supergroup, The Travelling Wilburys,
[C] making sure Roy Orbison's career ended [D] on a high note and a hit record.
[G] _ I'm so [C] tired of [D] being lonely
[G] I still have [C] some love [D] to give
[G] _ Tributes to Roy Orbison, who died today.
[Ab] And that has died at the age of 52.
He had a heart attack at [F] his home in Nashville, Tennessee,
and died in hospital shortly [Gm] afterwards.
He became one of the biggest stars of the 60s,
and only [Fm] recently was in the charts again with Bob Dylan and George Harrison,
The Travelling Wilburys.
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_ [Gm] By the time he became a star in the early [D] 60s,
country-turned-rock singer Roy Orbison,
who'd once topped a bill that included a young Elvis [A] Presley,
had already developed an image like no one else in pop,
dressed in black and managing [D] to perform moving as few muscles as possible,
including his lips.
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His [Bm] three-octave voice produced a string of hits over that [A] decade,
which he sang to [Gbm] audiences until his death,
[D] touring in the early days with four of his most ardent [E] fans,
The Beatles, and remaining until the end a musician's musician. _ _ _ _ _ _
He could sing like nobody [G] else could sing. _ _
He had his own unique sound, and _ one _ thing I liked about him,
he was, _ you'd think he was through, he'd go as high as he could sing,
and [F] he'd fool you, he'd go higher again, and just thrill you.
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_ _ [C] After his star faded, Orbison concentrated on club work.
[F] Tragically, his first wife was killed in a motorcycle accident,
two of his three children died in a fire,
and [Gm] his hit-writing talent deserted [G] him.
But [C] a recent comeback included the [G] Travelling Wilburys,
an [Em] occasional supergroup [C] with ex-Beatle George Harrison and Bob [D] Dylan, amongst others.
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He will [G] be [Gm] sadly missed.
He leaves us a great legacy of marvellous music,
and what you could say of him was that he was definitely [G] one of nature's [C] gentlemen. _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] If you're lonely, [C] I pray, _ _ always [F] alone. _ _ _ _
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