Chords for Ellen Reid Interview (1999)

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_ _ _ I am in fact singing more on this record.
Well, I am singing on this record.
It's the first time that I have had [Ab] leads on on a [Eb] record and I'm very excited about [Eb] it.
_ _ _ [F] And I'm singing in a way that I haven't ever sung before. _
When I've sung before, I've always sort of [E] belted it out [F] and sort of done the old Ethel Merman thing, but this time [Ab] Brad and Greg Wells said,
no, no, sing sexier, [Eb] sing softer.
So [F] it's almost like I'm whispering and telling dirty little [Bb] secrets.
It's kind of new for me, but it's going to be fun.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ Get [Abm] You In The Morning is a song that Brad and Greg wrote _ _ [Db] and _ _ [Abm] _ they basically coached me through the entire thing because I've never [Db] sung like this before.
[Abm] _ _ It's totally _ _ out of my realm [Db] of experience.
[B] But _ what does it what does the song mean [Bb] to me?
_ _ [Db] When I first [Abm] when I first sort of visualized the song,
_ [Eb] I just imagined myself as this _ [B] _ _
[Eb] secretary at a desk job sort of having this little [Db] secret that she's, [Abm] you know, she's cooking up for her boss or some guy at the water [Db] cooler.
And she can't [Abm] tell anyone.
It's all very, _ very secret and [Db] _ naughty.
[Abm]
But I have this friend who has a very, [Bb] _
very [Db] strong accent.
And he [B] said to me the other day, [Gb] you know, you know, I like that song you sing.
[Db] You [Abm] want him in the morning. _
And I sort of thought, [Bb] well, that that kind of [Db] says what the song's about.
[B] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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_ Out of the three songs that I sing on the [Bb] record, I co-wrote one of them.
It's called A Little Something and [Ab] it's my favorite song on the record.
But I think it's [Bb] _ it's it's different from from [Bbm] the rest of them, although it fits in with with the rest of the songs.
It's just [Eb] slightly different.
Maybe that's that's a good thing.
It's _ [Bb] _ I just I went in and into this little [Ab] tiny studio that Greg Wells had set [Eb] up and [Db] basically the size of a postage stamp.
And [Bb] Brad handed me the lyrics and I'd maybe read them once or twice.
And Greg set up some loops and played chords on his [Cm] on his keyboards.
And I just [Bbm] sang along what felt comfortable for me.
And it came together probably in under an hour.
_ _ [Gb] I like it. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] This was probably the [Fm] most fun of all the records [Bb] to make.
_ _ _ The [Bbm] first one was just nerve wracking and done in 10 days.
You _ know, our [Eb] first record, _ _ _ God Shuffle [Bb] the Seat.
That one was fun to do, too.
And A [Ab] Worm's Life was done in the Bahamas.
So [Cm] I guess there was good [Db] things about all of them.
But this one, I don't know.
I just felt that the [Bb] music was _ it was so different from anything that we'd done before.
_ And and because I had a [Ab] more