Josie Chords by Steely Dan

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[G] _ [D] _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ We're gonna [F] break out the [D] hat and [F] hooters, when Josie comes home.
_ _ _ _ We're gonna rev up the [D] motor [F] scooters, when [G] Josie comes [Bb] home.
[F] We're gonna [C] fuck [Eb] in the streets, [Bb] _
[F] sleep on her feet naked. _ _
[G] Throw [Dm] down the [F] jam, put [C] the [Bb] girls' game back.
[F] Lay down the [C] law, baby, _ [D] Josie [F] comes home.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] [Em] Josie comes home [Fm] so good.
[Gm] _ She's the [G] pride [Dm] of the neighborhood.
_ [G] _ She's [Bb] the raw [C] pain, [Am] [Dm] my wife.
[E] She [Ab] plays like a Roman with [Cm] her eyes on fire.
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_ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ So [F] would you love to strive?
She'll never say no.
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Shine up the battle apple, we'll shake [G] them all down.
[F] _ We're gonna [C] fuck [Eb] in the streets, _
[F] strike at the stroke of midnight.
_ [Dm]
Damn tongue, her bones, [F] steal [C] the [Bb] girls' train away.
[F] Kick up the [C] traffic, [F] when [D] Josie [Dm] comes home.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Josie [G] comes home [F] so [Dm] bad.
_ [Bb] She's the [G] best friend [F] we ever had.
[G] _ She's [Dm] the [C] raw pain, [Am] my [Bb] wife.
[C] She plays like [E] a Roman with [C] her [F] eyes on fire.
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[Dm] _ Josie _ _ _ _ [G] _
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comes home [Dm] so good.
_ She's the [G] pride of [F] the [C] neighborhood.
[G] _ _ [Dm] She's the [Gm] raw pain, [Am] my [Bb] wife.
She [Em] plays like a Roman [A] with her eyes on fire.
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
Thank you.
Thanks very much, Josie.
Thank you.
Thanks so much.
But is there a relationship between you and your instrument one, just because it's an ex_
Like, say you have an _ expensive bass and a much less expensive, do you [Dbm] feel like [Ab] more
intimate with the more expensive one?
Well, _ you should, but, _ you know, you can have like a plywood bass and it's not as expensive.
That sounds great, but hopefully the more expensive instrument would be the better one.
Right, so you_
but you could call it the relations of production, really.
_ Well, let's look at [B] it this way.
Suppose the [A] bass was a hooker, right?
Let's say you got a thousand dollar a night hooker [C] versus a [B] hundred dollar a night hooker, right?
The hundred dollar a night hooker has what?
A heart of gold, right?
So which one, which one, you know_
Which one do you take home to mother?
_ _ [N] Speaking of mother, let's look at it from a Freudian angle for a second.
Like_
Funny that Tom made that jump right there to mother.
Yeah, that's why I was aware of that too, but _ if you look at the instruments, especially
like people have guitar players have, you know, 20, 25, 30, 75 instruments. _
Are these, you know, transitional objects, that is to say fetishes, which goes back to
something having to do with inadequate mothering or something like that?
_ Can you repeat that?
No.
Okay.
[A]
You mean in sort of the Winnicott sense of the transition?
Yeah, let's look at it [Eb] in an object relations_
Object relations sense.
He's coming from an object relations perspective on this.
In [Ab] other words_
Rather than say, you know_
You know how when you're young [E] and, you know, like some kids will have their blankie or
their teddy bear or, I mean, it's possible that, [N] you know, you're an adult but you still
have these things that you're attached to in a certain way which make you feel a certain
way, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, you have the need for the binky.
_ Binky, right.
That's the perfect example, right?
You need for the binky.
So is that, you know, is [G] that nice, you know, ESP base with [Gb] the [Fm] quilted maple [Eb] top there,
is that a binky?
Is that the question?
Binky number one.
Binky number one.
That's correct.
Cool.