Chords for Keith Moon

You want somebody that's got that little bit of madness within them.
There's always got to be a little bit of madness within [A] a drummer
because it's just that moment of where they just take the band to somewhere else
that you never [Dm] knew you were going to go [A] to. _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Never was this truer than with the drumming alchemist
who blended a short attention span, a healthy dose of [E] eccentric charm
and a large pinch of recklessness [D] and took his band to [E] a whole new level. _
_ [G] The Who's [A] Keith Moon.
He _ was [A] the craziest human being on the planet.
If you could live with him, _ he was the best drummer of all time. _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ Moon was the clown
_ _ _ and [A] in some ways [D] _ the centre of the anarchy in that. _
_ _ [A] _ [G] Keith Moon.
_ I [Em] watched him closely
and _ _ nobody could imitate [E] what the hell he was [G] doing
but it was so [D] unique and _ _ just_
there's no one like him.
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[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [G#] _ _ _
_ To [C#] me, he played [F#] his instrument _
[G#] like [C#] the person that he was.
Just kind [G#] of crazy and out of [F] control.
Nobody played like Keith. _
Everybody kind [B] _ of_
_ you know? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [A#] _
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_ That's what's so genius about it.
[E] That there it was sounding like complete random
when in fact it's not.
It's completely on the button all the time.
_ If creating Havoc was an Olympic [B] sport,
Keith Moon would have been weighed [E] down with gold.
No [Em] one knows what [G] it's like
to be [D] the bad man
_ to be [G] the sad _ man
_ _ [D] behind [A] blue eyes
He excelled at [E] launching TVs out of hotel windows,
_ [G] detonating cherry bombs down [D] lavatories
and finding new ways to trash his drum kit.
_to
[G] be faded
_ He [Em] was completely eccentric.
[A] He was everything in excess.
_ _ _ But [C] my _ _ dreams_
_ _ He could [G] be the most sensitive of the most.
The most arrogant, the most _ [D] gentle, the most aggressive.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] It was like walking through a minefield [Bm] with him _ _
blindfolded with a pair of [C] hotmail boots at all times
because you never knew when he was going to go off
in [D] one direction or another. _ _
_ _ Let's [A] never forget _
_ _ He's the archetype, he's the great genius of [N] the kit
And he also _ invented _ _ most of the rock and roll clichés
that people are still grasping towards
when they embark on their pop careers these days.
_ Moon was also the nervous flyer's worst nightmare.
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C]
I remember [D] him getting a hand [F] grenade.
[Cm] It looked [C] like a hand grenade, but it was a lighter.
He got [D] it like that and _ rolled it down the [Cm] aisle.
Can _ _
[C] you imagine the people that loved his oil hand grenade?
If you did that today [N] you'd_ _ _ _
_ And now for [C] Moon's pièce de résistance.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Cm] _ _ [A] You [A#] think about it, you have to get [C] up kind of a speed.
[C#] Well, it's probably [G] mainly true, isn't [Cm] it?
[F] It happens, but it's [Cm] not something I particularly care to do.
First of all, you have to get the Bentley into the [C] garden
to get so that the first wheels don't go over the edge of the [Gm] pool
and then you're stuck.
He drove [C] the roller into the swimming [F] pool. _
_ _ [C] _ _ Are these Lincoln Continentalists?
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ [G] _ _
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_ _ _ [G] That became a bit like televisions out the window.
That [C] became very much part of drumming law.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [E] Keith Moon effortlessly drew the gaze of the audience and the cameras.
Nobody ever thought of him [G#] as just the drummer.
_ [N] _ _