Chords for Carol Kaye - Most Heard But Least Known

Playing bass is pretty easy.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ La dee da da
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La dee da da
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_ [F] _ _ [G] _ Studio musicians did not get credits.
If the teenagers that [C] we sold to took one look at us,
I don't think the record companies could sell those [F] records saying that,
[G] well, this is the group [C] that sung on them, [G] but they didn't play on them.
We had people as old as your parents that played on the [F] records.
Would you buy that record?
[Gb] I don't think so.
Beach [Gm] Boys, right, right.
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_ _ [Db] _ _ [Bb] By [Eb] the time I was 14, [N] I was out there playing gigs.
Ba doo ba dee ba doo ba dee ba doo da da doo da da da da da
It was kind of fun because all of a sudden I started to play music
and it made me [Db] feel good. _
Blue skies, da doo ba dee [Cm] ba
You know, we [Bbm] played chords.
_ [Eb] It wasn't rock and roll, see.
I was just kind of a lonely kid, you know,
and all I had to do was to play music and they threw money at me
so I could afford to take care of my mother and myself.
_ _ What are you guys doing, huh?
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_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ By [G] playing bass, I thought, well, I'm carrying in four or five different,
[C] I mean, [G] guitars now.
If I just play bass, it's only one instrument to carry in.
The first part [F] of the beat goes on was like this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] When I'm cutting a record, I'm hearing everything that's going on
and I fit the bass line as a framework around the records.
You had a one-chord tune and you knew that that wasn't going to make it.
So about the third line I came up with [Eb] was
_ _ And the beat goes on
All of a sudden it came together, you know, [F] like an ah-ha. _ _
_ _ _ The drums keep pounding a [Eb] rhythm to the brain
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La da da dee
And [F] that's when I noticed, you know, with that beat goes on line,
how [C] important the bass line was, you know, that kind of [D] thing.
I did a ton of TV shows, MASH, Hawaii Five-O. _ _ _ _ _ _
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What happened was that [Bb] the movies were [C] dying by the [G] time that the TV got going, see,
but then they started to add the rock and roll [F] and the soul music to movies.
I'm the only bass player that I could cut those parts and make up parts too.
[G] They had a film called Duel.
They had me do [Gb] this.
_ _ _ The truck gears, I guess, you know, so I'm doing this for hours, you know.
I tell people, don't laugh, I got [Gm] paid a lot more doing that than_
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_ [F] _ _ People [Bb] say, well, you're a woman in the studios, [F] wasn't it hard?
And I say, no, I knew that women were out there playing.
You [Bb] know, you heard about this woman playing with that man.
There were women that did [F] work with the men, you [Bb] know,
so I never thought of myself as a woman.
[E] I mean, I thought that I had to play the [F] guitar and then I [D] had to play the bass.
A note doesn't have sex to it, [G] you know.
You either play it good or you don't play it good.
[E] So some people [C] can't handle that, you know, [Am] especially some men, you know,
because they want _ to think that it was a man that played the [D] bass because of the sexual thing.
But when you hear somebody with balls, that's_
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