Chords for Ben E. King - Stand by me | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

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_ _ When [A] the night _ has come _ [F#m] and _ the land is [F#m] dark _ and the [D]
moon is [E] the only _ light [A] we'll see, _ _ _ _ _
no I won't be afraid, oh I [F#] won't be [F#m]
afraid just [D] as long _ as you [E] stand, stand [A] by me.
For me, the [E] song was about, I was [F#] newly married [Em] and I had this title in [G] front of me that said
all I wanted to say [N] and it took me no time at all to write.
No time at all, I mean, it just seemed to go from [E] line to line to line to line without
[C#] any problem at all.
[G] And it basically was [D#] a love song for me to [E] my wife and all at the time [D] that I said newly married.
[A] So darling, darling, stand by me, oh [G#m] [F#] stand _ [C#m] by _ [F#] me, _ [D] oh stand, _ [E] _ stand by [A] me, stand by me. _
If the sky falls.
_ I [Gm] lived in Harlem, my [D#] dad brought me to New York when I was about eight years [F#] old.
[F] And Harlem during that time was I guess the best of the best music because you had the
[C#] beginning of all [Dm] of it like _ _ [D#] Harlem which is [F#] the Apollo [A] Theater there, there was like
our Carnegie [D] Hall, you know, so we had that to look at and [F#] some of the best of the best
entertainers came to [C] that particular theater.
In [C#] almost every block, [G] or every like within the next two or three blocks away, there's
always a group, you know, and we challenge each other, you know, we go for blocks and
blocks away [C] and each one would be challenged by us.
Sometimes we win, sometimes we won't.
Then the more you lose, the better you become.
Because [F] now you're making sure you [D#] don't lose anymore, [E] you don't, you know, the battle,
I [D#] should win these battles, we should rehearse more, [F#] we should dress better, [N] we should smile
more, we should fix our hair. _
All the things that you think we do to make you a winner.
And that do prepare you in a way for if you decide to pursue a professional career, _ you
need all of that [C#] in this business that we're in [F#] now.
_ [B] That's the moon, who cares what [F#] picture you see?
_ _ When you're with your baby, [C#] let's roll in the baby.
_ I [B] was in there about two and a half years, very short lived.
And then you went solo.
Yeah, not by [G#m] choice. _ _
_ We was on the road as the Drifters with a hit [G] record, so we said, [F#] we're upset because
one of the guys happened to see one of the contracts for that engagement for that night. _
[D#] So he comes to us, he said, do you know how much we're making?
So we all got upset about it.
And we'd say, well, we get back to New York, we're going to set up a meeting, [B] get this
straightened out, we deserve more money.
And so they're looking at me saying, you talk.
_ I said, OK, what do you want me to say?
So they said, just tell them that we're [F#] not happy with the salary and whatever, whatever.
So I did, so I stood up, [G] made my little speech as best I could.
And he looks at me, he says, well, _ you [Dm] can't speak for the group, you speak for [F] yourself.
_ [Dm] So I repeated everything over and over again.
He said, well, if you're unhappy, you can [G#] leave.
_ _ _ So [G#m] now without turning around at the other guys, right, assuming they're going to come with me. _
And someone told me not too long ago, you should never assume.
_ _ Assuming they were going to go with [C] me.
I _ walked out the door like an idiot. _ _
[A] So I was really ready [F] to give it up.
Never, never thinking for a moment I'd be [B] a lead singer.
I know that you have been [G#m] killed.
_ _ Ten thousand's been a [E] scandal.
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_ _ _ [B] Stand by.
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_ Stand [Bm] by.
[G#m] Sam Cooke was with the Soulsters, a gospel group, [D#] and he had a song called, [F] I think it
was, Oh, [N] Lord, Stand By Me or something like that.
So I just took that section out and started writing my own words, you know, and newly
married with a cheap guitar.
[A] I went at it, wrote the song with only the only thing in mind, I'm going to write another
song [F#] for the Drifters [E] because they were still hot.
You know what I mean?
So I took this song [D#] down to the guys.
We were [E] still, we became friends again.
We all met at Lover Patterson's house again.
_ [E] We all apologized.
[A] And I said, I got a good song for you.
They did the song great, I think.
[F#] Yeah.
So [E] then the manager of [F#m] the Drifters said, _ [D] good song.
We don't need [Em] it.
_ So [E] I took the song [A] out of the office.
I will cry, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] shed [F#m] a tear, just as long _ as you [E] stand, stand by [A] me.
And I [F#] read somewhere that you cried in the studio.
Yeah, I was really sad when I did it because, and to this day, [Dm] it's never been done by a
group that I, to my knowledge, that had did it like the [A] Drifters when I first heard them
doing that, that I had wrote it for.
Yeah.
And I was sad because of that reason.
And I know that, um, _ _ I probably would never hear it [F#m] done by the Drifters, but yeah, _ that's
what I had in mind when I'm up there [D] singing it by myself.
_ [E] Yeah.
You felt lonely.
I felt lonely.
It didn't gel the [A] way I thought it would. _ _ _ _
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