Chords for Blossom Dearie - I'm Hip

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My guest today is a young lady who is a great musician.
She's a composer, a singer,
a fine pianist.
Her name is Blossom Deary.
Hi Blossom.
Hi Billy.
How you doing?
Good.
It's been a long time.
It has been a long time.
You know most people think of you as a singer,
which you're a great singer, but I know that you are writing a lot of material and playing and
performing a lot of material.
How did you get into such a compositional area?
Was this always
[Bb] true?
No, I think I started writing songs in the 60s when I went to London.
That's when I first
started writing songs.
I only write music and I do have some very good lyric writers.
[E] Why don't
you do one of the things that demonstrates what we're talking about?
I mean they _ have_
Just pick one of the tunes.
What should I do?
[Bb] I'm hip then?
That's nice.
The infamous I'm hip.
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[Bb] I'm hip, _ I'm no square.
[Eb] I'm [Bb] alert, I'm awake, [Dm] I'm aware.
_ [B] [Cm] I'm on top of every [Em] scene.
[B] _ Making the rounds, digging the sounds.
[Bb] I read People [E] magazine,
cause I'm [Gm] hip.
_ [Eb] _ [Gm] _ I'm dig, [Bb]
[Eb] I'm in [Bb] step.
When it was hip to [Gb] be hip, [Gm] I was hip.
I don't [Cm] blow, but I'm [Em] a fan.
[B] Look at me swing, ring-a-ding-ding.
[Bb] _ I even call my girlfriend [E] man.
[Bb] I'm [F] so hip.
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Every [Db] Saturday [Ebm] night, with [E] my suit [Db] button tight and [Gbm] my suede song.
[D] _ [Gbm] Get my kicks, [Em]
[D] digging arty French flicks with my shades on.
[Eb] _ [Bb]
Cause I'm too much, [Gm] I'm a gas.
[Gb] [Bb] I am [Bbm] anything but [Dm] middle [Cm] class.
When I hang [C] around the band, [B] popping [Db] my thumbs, digging the [Ebm] drums.
[Bb] _ Squares don't seem to [Gm] understand why I [F] flip.
They're not [Eb] hip, like I'm hip.
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[Bb] _ [C] _ [Cm] _ [Gb] _ [Fm] _ [Bbm] _ [Eb] I'm [Gb] hip, [Eb] I'm alive.
I enjoy any joint where there's jive.
I'm on top of every [Em] trend.
[B] Look [Db] at me [B] go, vo-de-o-do.
[Bb] _
Sammy Davis knows [E] my friend.
I'm so [F] hip.
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_ [Gm] I'm [Bb] hip, but not weird, like you [Gb] notice I [Eb] don't wear a beard.
Beards were in, but now [C] they're out.
_ [B] They have their day, now they're passe.
[Bb] _ Just ask me if [E] you're in doubt, cause I'm hip.
[F] _ [Gb] Now I'm deep [Ebm] into zen, _ [E]
[Db] meditation and _ macrobiotics.
[D] _ [Db] And as soon as I can, [D] I intend to get into narcotics. _
[Eb] _ [Bb] Cause I'm [Gb] cool, [Bb] as a kook.
I'm a cat, I'm a [Eb] cart, I'm a kook.
I get so much [C] out of life, [Bm] _ [B] really I do scuba-do. _
[F] _ One more time, play Mack the [Gm] Knife, [Bb] let her [F] rip.
I [Eb] may flip, but I'm hip.
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[Bb] _ [Cm] I'm hip.
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[Cm] I'm hip.
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