Chords for Chris Norman, Smokie GOLD 1975 - 2015

_ So [Bm] if you think you [A] know how to love me and [Bm] you think you know what [A] I need
And [Bm] if you really really [A] want me to stay
[E] You hearing that on the radio.
I remember being in the summer of
[Bm] 1975 and I [A] had a little mini I was driving a mini and
[Bm] Hearing it come on the radio and saying that [A] was smoky number 16 or whatever number we [Bm] were at that time [A] and that was a fantastic feeling
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In
[E] 1975 [A] a predominantly white album was released with a distinctive [D] smoky logo over the entire cover
It was the breakthrough of a breathtaking [E] hit career
Which was to supply us all with a continuous [A] series of hits in Germany [E] alone
Unforgettable classics [A] like living next door to Alice lay back in the arms of someone
[D] Mexican girl and many others spent a total of 419 [E] weeks in the charts
Beginning [D] with the home country England [A] this wave of success reached almost every corner of the earth and turned [E] smoky into global stars
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ For the 40th anniversary of the debut album
Gold is the first best of album [Em] that actually includes all of the [G] smoky phases plus the original hits
From the founding of the band with Chris Norman then his sadly deceased
Successor Alan Barton up to the current lineup [A] with frontman Mike Kraft
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_ [C#m] _ On the CD [F#m] we also have some [Bm] rare tracks
[F#m] _ [C] Included we're happy to find
[G] the very [Am] first single
_ Smoky or not even [Am] smoky.
They're named kindness [C] at that time have released on [Am] RCA
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You
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_ [F] In addition to the 40th anniversary [C] album
We also have the first official smoky DVD with the original [F] hit clips and the career-defining
TV appearances on top of the pops or the old grey whistle test which [F] was also smoky's very first TV appearance
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Naturally the sensational [D] surprise reunion from [G] the 2004 comeback show [D] is also part of the DVD package
[G] _ _ Get whatever you never [A] need
_ I'm laughing all the time because I kept looking [G] around and seeing
The other guys [D] and which I hadn't been on stage with for [G] years, you know
Just before I [D] did lay back in the arms of someone they introduced him which I knew they were gonna do [D] and on they came
And that's the first time [A] I'd seen him, you know, so it was nice.
It was great fun
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_ [D] a further [G] bonus there are rarities thought until now by some to be lost an
[A] extensive smoky documentary and
previously unpublished home video [Bm] material from Pete [D] Spencer's private archive
accompanied [G] by a brand new Chris Norman song
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[G] I
Had this [A] song idea which I'd had for I'd written about two weeks before [G] at the same time
I was getting phone calls [A] about this [D] project about the four-year _
Celebration package [G] and so I started to [A] write the lyrics.
I [F#m] remember back when we started
[Bm] We were all together and all [Em] that stuff and then it [A] just came out
It was just like I was telling the [D] story about when we first met back then
So it just came it came like that and then I had this chorus [G] and I already decided I was gonna call the song 40
[D] Years on because that was the obvious thing.
So I wrote [A] them all down and then that was it.
That was the song and then
_ Sony heard it [G] and said _ that'd be great to put on this [D] for year anniversary thing
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I think it's [A] great that this
40 years package
Of the [G] smoky hits and everything from that [D]
time that we first started [A] is being released
I'm really happy about that and it amazes me [B] that it's 40 years already
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that the time's just gone so [A] quickly and
_ You know, I know if I [F#m] could go back and tell the 15 year old me when I was first starting that this would happen
[F#] _ [A] I would have been absolutely thrilled and delighted.
[F#m] So I just [Bm] hope that
everybody [A] enjoys listening and watching [E] DVDs and the
CDs and
[A] Gets many [B] hours of happy and [A] entertainment _
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