Chords for Hall & Oates (Live on Rachael Ray 11-9-09); Pt. 1

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_ This may be one of our biggest days ever here at the show.
We are all so excited.
My next guests have touched millions of people
with their soulful rock music.
So we thought it would be fun to sit down,
do a little version of Storytellers of our very own.
Please welcome the most successful pop music duo
of all time, Daryl!
[F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ [A#] _ _
[A] _ [Gm] Welcome!
[C] _ [Gm] _ _ [F] Hello!
How [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A#] _ _ [Am] _
[G] _ _ [N] _ are you?
I love making you that happy.
Isn't that great?
Surprise!
They lost their minds.
How nice, right?
This is great.
Well, the [G] most successful,
you know what I learned this morning,
and we're gonna do something about it here on the show,
these guys are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Can you believe that?
So we wanna be the home of the petition
to get Hall and Oates in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
[N] We _ are putting it _ _ _ on our website
and we'll have it there for you
and we're gonna leave it up until it happens.
Oh, good, I like that.
You know, I like it.
You do like it.
Good thing you got nothing to worry about at this point.
Yeah, if those people at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
want any snacks from me.
There you go. _
There you go.
You know, I've always wanted to ask iconic musicians,
I mean, people like you guys,
everybody knows every word to every song.
Does it annoy the artist or flatter the artist
when we all mouth the words and try and sing along
while you're performing?
It's good because I forget the words,
so it's a good thing.
Sometimes I look out, wrong verse, wrong verse.
But it's okay with you guys.
Yes, absolutely.
You like to see people rock it out, sing it along.
Fantastic, I mean, our audiences are so good.
I mean, it's just great to do this live.
We've been doing it for so long, we just love doing it.
I like when people sing kiss on my lips
for kiss on my list.
Oh, I have a girlfriend here, you should,
she scrambles every song like an egg.
It's absolutely horrible.
So, you know, how did you guys first meet?
We met in Philadelphia.
We both had individual bands
and we had songs on the radio in Philly
and we met at a, WDAS was a local radio station.
It was kind of a teenage dance,
kind of a show where we'd lip sync our songs.
We were standing backstage and a gang fight broke out.
No kidding.
Well, it was still late. That's Philadelphia.
You're like, what do you mean?
Of course.
Every day, every day.
And we basically escaped down the service elevator
and that's how we met.
No kidding.
And, you know, how long after that
did you start working together?
Well, we were in school at the time.
We were just starting Temple University.
So we sort of were sharing apartments and stuff as students
and then really after college
is when we started working together.
Here you go.
Here you go.
It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
So, _ here's how this is gonna work.
They're gonna play a little bit,
we'll chat a little bit.
You guys have seen Storytellers, right?
We're gonna do our own little mini version of that here.
So, the quintessential song we were discussing this morning,
I agree, she's God.
Yeah.
Would you say this is the quintessential?
_ It really sort of defines us
because it's one of the few songs, not a few songs,
one of the songs, the early songs that we wrote together,
completely wrote together,
because we write separately a lot.
And it was the first song that put us on the map.
The first time the world heard about us
was through that song.
[A] Well, let's hear it.
All right.
_ And she's gone.
[C#m] Oh, why?
[A] Oh, why?
[E] I better run [A] out of faith.
She's gone.
[C#m] Oh, why?
[F#m] I [B] pray the [A] devil to replace her.
She's gone.
[C#m] [Em] What's [A] been wrong? _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And she's gone.
So, my friend, Ross, was telling me backstage
that there's actually a New York connection to that song.
Did you write it?
Yeah, I mean, we just moved to New York.
We just moved, I got the, well,
I met a girl at three o'clock in the morning
at a soul food restaurant in the village.
And I asked her.
No, he doesn't.
That's right.
Well, it was the 70s, and we started dating, and you know.
Dating.
Well, sort of.
It was the 70s.
Yeah.
[A] And she.
I love that word.
He's using his AM word.
I am, I'm using, yes.
We, so I asked her out on New Year's Eve.
She never showed up.
I sat around the house going, [C#m] he's gone.
And I'm thinking, well, if she's not coming tonight,
she's probably never coming.
Next morning, Darryl kind of heard what I was doing.
He sat down at the piano, and we just.
Yeah, I came up with that sort of, you know,
that piano figure that's sort of the signature figure.
I can't do it on the [E] piano, of course, but.
_ [F#] That [B] _ thing.
Di-di-di-di-di-di-di.
It [A] just happened.
[N] I love it.
That's my personal favorite.
[D#] I would still do it. _
[B] So, which one of you dated Sarah?
And did she have a nice smile?
She had a lovely smile, lovely smile.
Is it freaky to have such a huge song book
and have it based on your lives?
It is weird.
You know, we have this box set that we just have released.
And, you know, it sort of forced us to listen
to all the songs, because we don't do that, you know?
And it really is.
It really is.
Because all these songs are really a part of our lives.
I mean, a major part of our lives.
There's a truth in every song.
So, [G] it's like reviewing your life,
to listen to this box set and work on it.
Let's hear a little [A] bit of Sarah.
Okay.
[F] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C] _
[G] _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ [F#] _ [Dm] _
[G] _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ [F] Sarah, [Am] smile.
Won't [Gm] you smile a while?
[C] _ [F#] [Am] Won't you smile a while for me, Sarah, [Gm] please, girl?
[C] _ [F] Oh, smile.
[Am] Won't [Gm] you laugh a little while?
[F] Na-na-na-na.
[Am] Thank you for making me [Gm] happy.
You make me feel like a [C] man.
Keepin' me [Dm] from being [F] crazy, [Am] smile.
[Gm] Won't you _ [Fm] [N] smile a while for me, girl?
_ _ Is it [Bm] true that Man Eater was originally,
you guys were thinking about it for reggae?
Well, when I first got the idea for the song,
I started playing, you know, like,
August, you're gone.
[A] Watch out, boss, you're gonna chew your [G] heart out.
And then Darryl went,
hollow notes don't do [Bm] reggae.
He said, no, no, we got our neighbor though.
It's not our neighborhood.
So I went home. _ _
Oh, here she comes.
[A] Watch out, boys, she'll chew your heart.
[G] Oh, here she comes.
She's [F#] a man eater.
_ _ [N] _
_ She still wants to keep the reggae going on. _
You guys are gonna perform with the whole band.
They're gonna get the band to get _ in the kitchen
while they're getting ready
and all that [Cm] right after this. _ _