Chords for Bee Gees interview & acoustic performance on NBC Today Show 1993

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_ _ [F#m] _ Well, they've been around for years, but they became [N] superstars in _ 1977 with Saturday Night [Dm] Fever. _ _
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are, [Em] of course, the Bee Gees, and they've been staying alive in the music _ business for
four decades now.
With seven Grammy records and more than 100 million records already sold, they're still making music.
The Bee Gees have a new album out titled Size Isn't Everything.
_ Here's a cut called Paying the Price of Love. _ _ _
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right.
Barry, Robin and Morris, the brothers Gibb, also known, of course, better known as the Bee Gees.
Good [N] morning.
Good morning.
We had this big, hot disco production number planned for over here, and you guys wanted
to chill out on the sofa.
So, um_
So here we are.
Yes, we like to chill out on sofas.
_ _ Barry, you know, let me ask you this.
This may be a little obvious, but I don't know the answer.
Where did the name Bee Gees come from?
Well, Bee Gees comes from a gentleman called Bill Gates, who was, when we first did our
first professional performance, _ _ we _ _ got about five dollars for playing in the middle of
a _ _ _ speedway, a racing car speedway, _ _ between the races, not during the races. _ _ _ _
And after we finished singing, the crowd threw coins onto the track, so we would run out
and pick up the coins, and we made about five bucks on that first gig.
But the guy that was one of the racing drivers in one of the races was named Bill Gates,
and he was a DJ at Radio 4BH in Brisbane, _ _ and he asked us if he could manage us, and
he went and cut the first recordings we ever made at the radio station, _ which was approximately _ 1959.
And he came up with this name, the Bee_
Well, he was in a room, and there was my mother, Barbara, there was Barry, and there was a
brother's Gib, his initials, and another guy called Bill Good, so it became the Bee Gees.
I remember, we were little kids at the time.
Yeah, we were about five, six, seven years old.
Something like that, yeah.
Tell me about the title, the name, the _ size isn't everything, where does that come from?
Well, it's basically just_
It's not personal?
Yeah, no, it's not personal.
_ _ There are many connotations, _ _ _ but I guess the real connotation to us is it's a little bit
of a dig at the business, because _ the Bee Gees as a group have never _ actually been hyped.
We've always had to prove ourselves, and we've always been up against that sort of, a little
bit of adversity.
And over the decades, we've constantly had to prove ourselves, and we're still doing
that, but we actually think it's good for us.
It makes us hungry, it makes us make_
We try to make better records, we try to write better songs.
Well, speaking of all your work over the decades, you're gonna do a medley for us this morning.
Some of your big hits.
I should mention that.
Without further ado.
Oh, look, we've got guitars.
[G] There it is.
_ _ Stop. _
All right.
We'll do a segue.
_ Okay, you ready?
_ I am.
Okay, _ you start.
_ Let's start with our first [Am] one. _
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_ _ _ _ In the event of something happening to me, _ _ _ _ there is something I would like you all to
[D] see.
_ _ _ It's [G] just a _ photograph of someone that [Am] I knew.
_ [D] _ _ _ Have [G] you seen [C] my [D] wife, [G] Mr.
Jones?
_ _ _ Do you know what [C] it's like [D] on [F] the _ outside?
_ Don't go _ talking too loud, you'll [E] cause a _ landslide.
_ [Am] Mr.
_ Jones, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I keep straining my ears to hear a sound. _
_ _ _ Maybe _ someone is digging _ [D] _ underground. _
_ Or [G] have they given up and all gone [D] home [Am] to bed? _ _
_ _ [D] Thinking those who once _ existed must [G] be dead.
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_ [D] [G] Have you [D] seen [C] my wife, [G] Mr.
Jones? _ _ _
Do you know [D] what [C] it's [D] like [F] on the outside? _ _
Don't go _ talking too loud, [D] you'll [E] cause a _ landslide. _
[D] Mr.
[Am] _ Jones. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And _ _ _ _ then [G] we wrote. _
_ [E] _ Of _ _ _ course. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ How can you mend _ _ a broken heart?
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_ _ How can you stop the rain from falling down? _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ How [B] can you stop _ [A] _ _ the [D] sun from [B]
shining?
_ [D] _ [F#m] _ What [B] makes the world [D] go [E] _ round? _
_ And _ _ how can you mend _ _ this broken man?
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_ How can a loser ever win? _ _ _ _ _
[A] Please _ help [B] me mend _ [A] my _ _ broken [B] _
heart.
[F#m] _ _ _ And let [B] me live [D] _ [E] _ _ again. _
_ Da da da da da.
_ _ _ Da da da da.
[D] _ _ [G#m] _ _ Da da [F#] da da [E] da. _ _
_ Da _ _ da da da da.
_ _ And before that.
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_ _ _ [A] There's a light, _
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a certain kind of light.
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That'll never shine [A] on me. _
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I want my [D] life [A] to be. _
_ _ _ Live [E] with you. _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Live with.
_ _ _ _ [A] There's a way _
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everybody says.
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To do each and every [A] little thing.
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But what good [D] does [A] it bring? _
_ If I [E] ain't got you. _
_ _ _ Ain't [D] got you.
_ Baby, _ [A] you don't know what it's [E] like. _
_ _ _ Baby, [D] you _ _ [F#m] don't know what _ [A] it's like. _
_ _ To [E] love _ _ _ somebody.
To _ love [D] _ somebody.
_ _ _ The way I [A] love you.
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