Chords for Donovan - Interview 1966

Pop music is a _ [C#m]
conscience of all the young kids who are coming up in a _ society _ that _ _ [C#]
the
parents planned out for them to live _ _ and based all their beliefs on their fear of to live. _
Pop music to me is, _ no matter whether it's a bad thing or a good thing, it's a perfect
example of truth from [F#] the young and the people who write in it, _ [C#m] when they point out their
feeling [C#]
towards the kids, _ [D#] they point out the feeling that the kids feel and identifies
with [G#] it and it's the best and the most [F] successful communication [C#m] that any creative people in
that [C#] generation have got with the rest.
_ _ _ [C#] The young generation, they to me are beautiful, they're _ _ very [C#m] hungry for [C#] something real because
they know that what they're living in is not very real to them and it's not very beautiful
and the only thing you can feel happiness with is feeling at peace and at one with yourself
and with life and it's called love and I was singing for love about a long time ago and
I've always used it in words like peace [G#] but in their truest sense in the feeling that
you get from it.
The kids know that there is this feeling and when they hear it, it's a pop sound, it's
electric guitars jangling through a radio but it's [Am] something [B] that's just to them, [G#m] you
know, [G#] look over here and they get drawn towards it and they dig where it's at, whether it's
bad [C#] or good because it's this feeling that one, it's a free feeling, you know, things
are a bit too tight with the kids. _ _
The young generation, they're beautiful.
_ They have never been able to have a wild feeling, a feeling of being able to look at a sky and
soak in thousands of things [G#] _
and the people on the television, they don't want us [F#] to and _
there was definitely something [C#m] beautiful began here.
_ You see, the American blues music _ _ [F]
was from [C#m] Negroes and the American whites don't like
the Negroes but they like the music so they'd rather hear a white person sing their music
to them, the music of love and sex and the music of life but they don't want to know
Negroes to [C#] sing it because they don't like Negroes so [C#m] white boys like Mick Jagger [G] started
[C#] singing the blues and they could accept that.
_ [G#] This, because America made a lot of the scenes from London, very [C#] big, but it's a matured
pop music over here and there was a lot of intelligence gone into it as well.
It's a beautiful change.
All things came together [G#] and they're still coming together and they're still getting
fought because there's [D] this survival thing, this rebellious nature that they call, this
survival force that's getting forced through all these young girls and all the young boys.
Now this will get so big that they wouldn't be able to cope with it anyway, the populations,
the parents, they won't be able to put it down because it'd be too much.
Mainly they don't sort of understand it to put it down.
Oh, they don't understand it at all.
I mean if they understood half of the things that were getting said then they wouldn't
allow it to be said because it's a complete thing against what they believe their kids should understand.
[E] They haven't usually got the understanding themselves.
So it's good really, it gets a lot of things out, a lot of good things out.
They try to understand it but they can't really understand it because they're not looking
at the [Dm] essence of it, why [A] someone would create an act of [G] violence maybe to bring an act of
peace because things [A] are too tight for them.
[B] _ I don't know when this has ever been beautiful, [D] when it's ever been good.
But [G] right now [E] there's a big [C] explosion everywhere.
[D] _ People want and they're going to get it.
_ They want things [A] to look at that are lovely _ instead of ugly.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ But it's [A] alright, [D] everything's going to be beautiful.
[B] Everything will work out.
_ _ [N] _