Chords for CARLY SIMON on David Letterman Show

Back up to Albany.
Our first guest tonight has written and recorded songs like You're So Vain,
well not like, exactly that song, and Anticipation and Nobody Does It Better.
This right here is her
15th record album called Coming Around Again.
Folks, please say hello to Carly Simon.
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_ _ _ Yeah, you have to put [G] this on.
You want to do that?
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There, just clamp it [N] right onto something, but by all means be careful.
How are you?
It's a pleasure to meet you.
You know, we've wanted you to be on the program for
years and years and years, and now here you are, and thank God for it.
Excuse me one second.
_ [Bb] _ Perhaps it's somebody with some audio equipment that [Bm] works.
_ So, [Bb] how are you doing?
I'm doing [Dm] really well.
Are you in a good mood tonight?
Yeah,
sure.
When you check into a lovely hotel, you can't not be in a good mood, can you?
Do you like this better than your studio?
[F] _ [E] Yeah, I think so, and you're actually going to sing [G] here.
Have you ever sung before in like a hotel suite?
[D] Yes, in fact, that's where I sing.
You _ prefer this actually than appearing in front of a large group of people.
I like this kind of
informal, funky atmosphere.
Oh, excuse me.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to say funky.
Yeah,
that's a couple of decades ago, isn't it?
Yeah, and it also doesn't apply to this ravishing suite.
That's right.
I don't think it would be fair to Helen Hayes, seriously, to call it funky.
_ _ You were going to be on Miami Vice?
Yeah, well, I was asked to be.
I was asked to play Don Johnson's
wife.
Now, is that something that appealed to you when [G] you heard about it or not?
It was so
intriguing because I'd [Bbm] never been [Eb] asked to play anybody's wife.
On TV?
[D] On TV, yes, [Bb] and I really
wanted to.
I mean, I wasn't able to because I live [D] on Martha's Vineyard, and my kids go to school
there and so forth, but I thought I would [F] be [G] very good to [F] him and that he'd like me as a wife,
and then he would have trouble.
They'd have trouble getting rid of me because I tend to hang
out, you know, hang [F] in there.
So you'd take over the show, perhaps. _
Now, were your kids in favor
of this?
Did they [N] think that might be a good idea?
They wanted to very [Bb] much because they would be
taken out of school, and they were going to put them up in Miami for the six weeks [Db] that I would
have to be there.
Yeah, [Em] and how long, when [F] did you start living on Martha's Vineyard? _
June.
[B] I mean, I've lived there for years.
I [F] was practically born there, but then in June,
we moved [B] up intending to stay the entire winter, and that's what [Db] we're doing now.
Yeah,
and you did an HBO concert there in [D] front of, I mentioned this to you earlier, [Eb] if I, God forbid,
were a singer, it would be terribly difficult for me to go back to my neighborhood and have the
neighbors come out of their houses and watch me sing.
[Gb] I'd just feel like a dork.
[D] Well, _ you're not
a singer.
Well, no, I know, but to do anything, you know, even to [Bb] change a tire, I feel.
I know
exactly what you mean.
Yeah.
_ [N] Was that added pressure for you?
_ I suppose it was, although
it was less pressure than if it had been an [Gb] actual concert where anybody could have come,
[Bb] and there would have been, you know, the numbers, too.
I liked it being outside.
I liked it [F] being
on a beach.
I mean, the atmosphere really makes a large difference in how I come across or how
I feel internally.
So, well, it looked beautiful.
Now, were you comfortable [D] performing there?
That particular night, I was.
I never [Eb] know how I'm going to be from one night to the next.
I mean,
[F] I mean, I mean, how my psyche will [D] be.
The performance itself can be fairly consistent,
but sometimes my psyche will just not, will not really measure up to the performance, and then
it's a big weight on my mind.
Is it safe to describe your apprehension here as acute stage
fright, or would you rather not even talk about it?
My apprehension here?
No, no, as performing.
No, it's not.
It's not really stage fright at all, but we'll, we can discuss that some other time.
You don't want to talk about it at all?
You can't, you can't, for example, tell us, like,
the worst manifestation of it?
Well, it has [Bb] more to do with claustrophobia than it does to do with
stage fright.
I mean, in there, the green room, in there.
Well, yeah, especially with Hunter Thompson
and the shoegown.
But at least, but we were taking each other's pulses, and actually Hunter's was
tiny bit higher than mine, [F] which made me feel as if [G] I was the nurse. _
[D] It made me feel as if I,
as if I have to save him, and as long as I'm in that role, I'm [Eb] okay.
Here's a question you've had
a million times, the song [B] You're So Vain, written about anybody, a combination [E] of people?
[N] That's
fair to say.
A combination of people, okay.
Or the thing you said before.
What did I say before?
Anybody.
Anybody.
And you're going to sing here in a minute, and it's something from the album.
Yes.
And what are we going to hear?
It's called All I Want Is You.
Great.
You feel all right?
I feel
very good.
You look terrific.
Okay, we'll do that.
You guys ready, Paul?
Yeah.
Okay,
Carly Simon will sing right after this commercial.
[A] We'll be back, folks.
[E] Helen Hayes, sweet.
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