Chords for Billy Joel Town Hall hosted by Howard Stern // SiriusXM

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_ _ _ _ And we're here at a town hall.
We're at a place called the cutting room, which I really like I think the _
_ _ I liked it the second I walked in I actually liked the cutting room and I would do another show from the cutting room as
Long as Billy shows up.
This is a lot of pressure for me not for you
You wrote this song pressure, but this was this is what it's all about.
This is why he wrote it
You're turning 65 65 now when you think about that I say as a great artist
But as a man, I want to ask you man to man because when I turned 60 you said well, let's face it
You're on the back nine, which I thought was a great line.
There's a lot of benefits to this age.
What are the benefits?
Cuz I'm up.
I'm up peeing every 15 minutes now.
I used to write songs.
It was a struggle
_ I didn't like writing I liked having written right and sometimes it was a battle with the thing
I see this gigantic black beast with 88 teeth trying to bite my hands off
She's a fabulous actress and singer-songwriter currently starring on Broadway in a new musical if then John Travolta just he may really famous
[C] And _ _ she won a Tony for wicked not bad, you know, would you come on out?
Thanks
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[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ I
[G] Won is so _ [D] untrue I
[C#m] Have been told not that much but I've been told a couple times, you know, you changed my life and I'm like, yeah
It's so nice.
Wow, that's so cool
But I could turn around and with all of my heart and soul say the same thing to you.
_ [Bm] Oh
_ _ [G#] She takes [E] care of herself
[A] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#m] She [D] can wait if [G] she wants _ [Em] _ she's [A] ahead of [D] her time _ _ _ _
_ [N] He's really one of the most fascinating men I've ever _ been for that reason I really _ well
He's always got good food at his house.
That's true.
He has good food and I he always says, you know, you know
You know, there's some people like the people who wouldn't leave you have company and they don't know when to go home
And you got to stand up go.
Well, you don't want to be keeping you guys up
_ But Howard I was pointed out he goes, you know
You're good guess because you eat and you go and so when I heard his story when I was in high school and I was
Playing piano bars and and cover bands and stuff.
I was like, oh, he's a guy he did that path
[F] Oh, they say there's a heaven [G] for those who will [F] wait
Some [G] say it's better.
I say [A] it ain't I'd rather _ laugh with the sinners [F] than cry with the Saints
The [G] sinners are much more fun _ _ _
Really [D] good
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Whole little [G] good
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Whole good
[G] Die _ _
Whole little good die
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Billy how you feeling these days [F#m] about your radio channel here on Sirius XM.
I wanted to ask you about that
I find it remarkable that I can tune into that channel 24 hours a day and
There's songs some songs.
I've never heard before but you actually have a catalog that is so big
It can fuel an entire channel.
Is this the ultimate for you?
Do you tune in at all to listen to it?
I tuned in to listen
Listen for about 40 minutes and I said, okay, that's enough of him
_ _ It's hard for me to listen to myself.
I'm a critic of my own voice.
This was one of those quickly written songs
It just kind of popped out when I was doing the stranger out
_ _ [A] _ Crazy child [E] is so ambitious [G] for a juvenile
But [D] then if you're so smart tell [A] me why are you still so [B] afraid? _
_ [C#] Hmm Hmm
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Where's the fire?
[A] What's the hurry?
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Cool it off before [G] you burn it out.
You [D] got so much to do and [A] only so many hours of [G#m] a day
_ _ [C#] _ _ Hey, [E] I
Thought I had something to say I'm much less _
Ambitious or arrogant at this point in my life, but I don't I don't think I have that much to say anymore
But at the time I felt like I've got something to say and I was writing songs and writing words and and I realized people
Actually listening to my lyrics guiding their life
What are you crazy?
Don't listen to me.
I'm as lost as you are Billy boys to men is here boys to men Nathan Shawn _
Juan mark sold more than 34 million albums these guys
_ You were probably one of the only white guys
Black _ black radio, yeah, is that true?
Yeah
It's like [G#] when we were growing up in Philly like they played this some of the songs that well one of the songs in particular
That we're gonna sing today
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_ My
Favorite piano player singer was Ray Charles.
He was my favorite
[D#m] Is that why your daughter's middle name is?
Right. _
I named Alexa Ray after Ray Charles.
Yeah.
Yeah, Tony Bennett is I think the greatest interpretive singer of our time
_ the guy
_ Hits notes that are like in the stratosphere still _
full voice
_ _ He's _
Just a great musician
_ _ [Cm] Okay
[F] If [A#m] it's Chinatown [F#] or on _ [D#] Riverside, _ [G#] I [Gm] don't have any [Fm] _
[G#] reasons
[C#] _ I've left them all [A#] behind _
_ [C#] _ _ I'm in a New [D#] York state of mind
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[Fm] _ _ [Bm] Yes, this is really one of the most special broadcasts I've [C] ever done and [G] I'm gonna remember it forever
It's just a fantastic day for me and for everyone on [D] our crew and I hope you
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