Chords for Eddie Brigati - 1985 - Interview

[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ All right!
_ _ _ _ _ Felix on the hem and doggy.
_ _ Dino on her. _
[D] Gene on guitar.
_ _ [Fm] _
[D] On vocal and [F] guitar.
[D] _ [G] [F] Make up the [D] Rascals. _
[F] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ [F] _ [Bm] Everybody!
[Dm] _
The great thing I have to say about Rascals,
without their religious [Abm] connotations,
they were absolutely spiritual. _ _
_ _ The Rascals started out as a broad band.
Basically that's where everything happens,
at the canteen, the local canteen.
But it came from the [N] culmination of all the different lifestyles.
Four diverse people, completely diverse.
Dino was a big band drummer.
He worked at Metropole in New York.
And all the people _ used to come up and catch him in the lounge.
So if you know Dino and you know drummers,
you know that this twirl and stuff comes from Lionel Hampton.
And his cymbals are set up flat like Sonny Payne's.
And he'll crouch over the drums like Gene Krupa.
And he's got all those elements in him.
So if you really know what you're looking for,
you can detect that in all of our styles.
I'm basically a singer.
I'm a writer. _
I was the storyteller of the Rascals.
Felix _ developed the music and I had to give it the literal [Bb] life. _
[Eb] And I remember the first release of
[F] Need Them To Drop My Heart In Me,
when we wrote the song, Think Down.
[Gm] And it was on [Fm] the radio station.
That was the [Eb] radio station.
I was the world's biggest junkie.
[F] I'm 5'4".
I was the junkie dog.
[Eb] I was 10.
[C] And I was, you know,
wow, that's awesome.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ We [Eb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[C] have _ _ _ [Eb] _ communications en masse.
Like we take the Beatles.
The Beatles took _ [Gm] what was new at the time.
We had the Sputnik communication.
We had all these _ _ _ different _ _ international _ communications,
different things.
Radio, television was a super duper _ aspect
of what we're talking about as a catalyst.
And the Beatles were the first,
_ let's say, _ unofficial _ people to use it.
_ And it was a four-man group.
And we likened ourselves to them.
I thought when Ringo made it, I said,
I had a chance, because we're both uglies.
_ I said, my biggest _ accomplishment
is I'm a champion of the people.
Of the people.
And there's nothing that can buy that from you.
There's a lot of times where you feel down,
a lot of times you feel defeated.
But then you're riding down the street
and you hear your song,
or somebody will say,
my third child [F] was conceived on your song, Groovin'.
And I say, how do you know it was [C] that song?
The record was skipping.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Groovin'
Groovin' _
_ [Fm] On a Sunday afternoon _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Groovin' _
[Fm] _ Couldn't get [Eb] away
I _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ can't imagine [Fm] any other way
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ Our parents' generation,
they come from a theory [G] generation.
They wish, they wonder, they pray, they hope, [Eb] they imagine.
_ _ And they're guessing.
What happened was, I guess we put our brakes on.
Something told us inwardly to question it,
put your brakes on,
use the information _ [D] that we had to question the system. _ _
[C] How can I [D] be sure
_ [C] In a world [D] that's constantly changing
[Bb] How can [C] I [D] wish you _
[Bb] I _ [E] wish you [C] were [D] here
_ I _ _ _ [Gm] was in the under the air one morning coming home,
I was out for a couple days, _
_ and I wasn't really feeling well,
I wasn't feeling happy,
I was really depressed about the turn of events that had happened,
and this was after Rascals broke up and everything.
And I'm sitting there, and it's just getting daylight,
and I'm sitting underneath the L, _ _
and this truck pulls up,
and this guy's in the truck,
and he's got his cigarettes rolled up,
and big burly bald-headed guy,
_ and all of a sudden I heard those Swiss bells,
the beginning of that song.
_ And like I said, I was pretty blue,
_ and he sang from the top of his lungs,
It's a beautiful morning,
and it just blew my mind.
He took off with the truck, the light changed,
and I just [Fm] sat there,
it was like I'm texted on the radio,
and I sat and I listened to the record.
It's a [Eb] beautiful morning
_ [Gm] _ I _
[Fm] _ [Ab] think [Gm] I [Fm] saw [Eb] my shadow _ rise
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
Just taking some [Gm] clean [Ab] breaks
[Gm] At [Cm] the airport
And you [Fm] said it is [Cm] time
To put a smile [Fm] _ _ _ [Gm] on your face
A tough chance [Cm] to win
I don't like that different people speak for me,
_ and I have no choice to speak for myself.
I think they have their opinion,
and the lowliest [Bb] person,
or the person with the least amount of energy,
should have his opinion.
The germ of that song was written,
when the Doug Martin Luther King was killed.
_ _ And it was like an information,
it was almost like a pledge,
that people got to be free,
they have to be free.
All the world, all the parties in the city
People everywhere just [F] want to be free
[G] One, two, three,
To live, [A] _ [G] to live, [A] _
[G] _ to live, [A] _ [G] to live
_ _ _ Accomplished [N] _ way beyond
what we could ever dream to accomplish.
If anybody tells you they knew it,
they're lying.
_ There were no geniuses in the group.
We were just people.
We accomplished more than we ever really ever set out for.
Nobody knew it was going to be like that. _ _
It's a [Em] wrap!
Yeah, [Dm] we're going to wrap. _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] _ _ _ _