Chords for Billy Connolly on Gerry Rafferty (Conan O'Brien, 2012)

_ _ Music has been a big part of your life.
Oh yeah.
And you started out as a banjo player.
Yes.
With Jerry Rafferty, who I always loved.
Oh, Jerry was lovely.
And I think we have a picture of the two of you guys.
We're in a group together.
Oh yeah.
The, what is it, the Humblebums?
We were the Humblebums, yeah.
Yeah, and.
That was in Amsterdam.
And you, and unfortunately, _ Jerry passed away.
Gee, last year, yeah.
He, well, I won't go into why he died.
It was kind of a terribly sad story, but _ he died.
And I was in the, we hadn't been together
for a long, long time.
We'd phone and stuff like that.
But I was in Australia and he was in his deathbed
and his wife called me and said,
do you want to talk to him?
And I said, yeah, sure.
She says, well, you can't, he's not really
in a sort of telephone state of mind.
She said, but you can text him.
_ And so we texted him in his deathbed
and we're gonna, and he's just anyway.
I've heard of people texting each other
and that it's a very powerful situation.
LOL, you know, it just seems like a.
I've never been in that position myself.
Yeah.
But I was trying to make him laugh, you know,
and I was reminding him of old times
and he was roaring and laughing
and we'd get carried away.
And then I just get, his wife didn't know
half the stuff I was texting about.
But we smoked the Bible once. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ You and Jerry Rafferty smoked the Bible once?
Well, it was the sixties, you know.
You know, the sixties doesn't just explain everything. _
_ _ _ I shot a camel.
What?
It was the sixties.
We were all doing it.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
_ [E] No, but you would have loved it.
We, we.
Yes, _ _ I would have.
You would have gone to hell with me.
[B] Yeah, yeah.
But in those days you did these sort of folk clubs
and they would say the fee,
it would be X amount of money plus accommodation.
Well, that meant the couch or the floor or something.
Right.
So we're in this guy's house and we were all drunk
and I had some hashish.
Goodness knows how it got in my pocket. _ _ _ _
Pakistani black hashish.
_ _ _ You're ducking under low bridges with this stuff.
And I got out towards the end of the night
and I said, anybody get any papers or skins,
as we used to say, us cooler guys. _
And nobody had any papers.
_ And I said, well, I saw a movie once
and it was a prison movie and they were smoking the Bible.
Apparently.
Using the paper, yeah.
If you get a page of the Bible,
you can get a reasonable cigarette paper.
So the guy who owned the house was up in his bed, drunk.
And I said, I'll go and ask him if he's got a Bible.
_ [C] _ [B] And I was kind of drunk as well.
I went into the room and I said,
you, you, he was sitting up reading, this guy, pissed.
I'll always remember it.
He was reading a book of war planes.
_ _ You know those books?
Maybe you remember them as a boy yourself.
They're long books.
How to spot war planes.
Silhouettes, [Bm] yeah.
Ah, I'm glad someone else remembers.
But that was his chosen reading.
He was sitting up [B] in bed.
Yeah, what's this trouble?
I said, you wouldn't happen to have a Bible, would you?
He says, yes, I've got a Bible.
I said, you want it?
I said, I just want a couple of pages. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ He said, yes, certainly.
Any particular pages?
I said, no, no.
He went, oh, it's a blank page.
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I didn't really need you to mime out
what happened after that.
And it was revelation.
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