Chords for MELANIE Hippie/Oddball? PART 1
Tempo:
128.7 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
Db
Gb
Eb
Bb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Maybe you'll recognize the song we're about to play.
Are we playing that?
[Db]
You've got a brand new key.
Eyes the voice.
Maybe you wonder where the singer has been for a while.
It's called Brand New Key.
This song was a big hit back in [Gb] the early 70s.
Remember those days?
Remember the days of flower power and psychedelic colors?
[Db] Remember laugh-in, protest music?
Remember the days of Woodstock?
And right in the middle of it all was our guest today.
Please welcome Melanie.
[Ab]
[F]
[C] Hi, welcome.
Hi.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
[Ab]
[G] [Bb] [Gb]
Melanie is our guest today.
Boy, just thinking about those days takes me back.
I know it does you too when you think about come back.
It's the story of anything that I ever do.
Let me take you back.
That's right.
I mean, it really jogs some cobwebs loose.
I mean, gee.
Cobwebs?
I [Bb] mean, I'll go back, but there's not any cobwebs.
I don't know.
We're probably close to the same age.
I mean, [B] you know, Carly Simon and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell in this whole era of all
this great music.
Well, they were older women when I was at Woodstock.
You were the baby, weren't you?
I was the baby.
I was the flower child.
You were the baby of Woodstock, the darling of Woodstock.
Yeah.
Oh, God, it was hard to live down too.
Why?
Well, I wasn't really a hippie.
I was an oddball.
And that was the difference.
You see, I didn't quite fit in the little niche of the communal, let's do everything.
So you didn't live in a commune or anything?
No.
Now I do.
I have a family.
Great kids.
Very communal.
But you know, the older generation, you know, being an oddball and being a hippie was sort
of one and the same.
Yes.
It started out that way, but then there were subtle differences that were recognized by
the underground press.
And I wasn't exactly fondly recognized.
But yeah, I was right in there.
How old were you when you got your first big break?
Well, I guess I was 18 [Em] and it was Woodstock.
That was [B] pretty big.
The biggest, the biggest.
How did you come to play at Woodstock anyway?
My publishing company was in the same office building as some of the people who were running it.
And I just very naively went down and said, I love the sound of Three Days of Peace, Love and Music.
Can I be in that show too?
And they said, okay.
That's all there was to it?
Yeah.
And I wasn't on the poster, but they said I could do it.
And I was writing some music in England and I had to fly into Woodstock to perform there.
I had no idea.
I mean, especially coming from a whole other country, I had no idea what I was about to fly into.
But I hear that you didn't come with a sontourage of agents.
No, she came with your mother.
My mother was there.
She drove me up and then at one point we couldn't go any further.
And so we called the people and they said, yes, go to this motel and we'll arrange transportation
there.
I went to the motel and there before my very eyes were all the superstars of the ages.
You know, Janis Joplin was hanging out and Jimi Hendrix and everybody in the world.
Richie Havens was playing.
Yeah, he was sort of more in my echelon of things.
But, you know, I'm talking these were major people at that time.
I was relatively unknown.
Along with Richie Havens, we were kind of the FM people.
You know, I've always wanted to ask somebody who's actually been at Woodstock since I've
heard all these years that there was so much pot being smoked there that you were just
high sitting in the audience.
Maybe I was.
I don't know.
That could be.
Every once in a while, you know, I get that feeling.
I don't know.
But I I think there was.
Oh, definitely there was.
But I again, I was alone there.
No, I had to leave my mother behind at the hotel because they only allowed managers and
bands to fly in the helicopter.
So they said, you are not a manager.
You're her mother and you're not a band.
So they left her.
I was there all by myself in amongst superstars, thousands and thousands and thousands of God
knows how many people.
And they put me in this artist area.
I had no backstage pass.
The motorcycle guys were hired to control people then kept pulling me out of the crowd
into out of the artist area, putting me into the crowd.
Now that you look back at the time, it probably didn't feel this way.
But do you I mean, now do you look back and go, I was part of a phenomenon?
Oh, I knew it then.
Oh, did you?
Oh, yeah.
I had my first out of body experience.
That's why I said it is possible that I was getting residual effects from these things
that were going on.
But, oh, I totally I mean, I never was the same.
Melanie, Connie from Zephyr Hills is on the phone with to talk to you.
Go ahead.
Melanie, I just want to tell you how much we missed you.
And I've got your record that's got brand new key.
And I think it's called Living Bell on it.
Yes, that's one of my favorite songs.
And it's one of mine.
And I played the record so much that it's warped and I'm going to have to go out and buy a new one.
But I just want to let you know that I'm glad you're back and I appreciate seeing you on TV today.
Great, Connie.
Buy a CD player, OK?
You know, these days just bring up great memories and people do sort of wonder where you've been.
And before you tell us where you've been and tell us about your new cause, I do have to ask something else.
Now that I have you a chance in person to ask you this [Bm] brand new key.
Any hidden meaning there?
People who were smoking all sorts of mind altering substances said, oh, there's there's a deep meaning to I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, like existential meaning of life or something.
Yep, that's what it was.
Are we playing that?
[Db]
You've got a brand new key.
Eyes the voice.
Maybe you wonder where the singer has been for a while.
It's called Brand New Key.
This song was a big hit back in [Gb] the early 70s.
Remember those days?
Remember the days of flower power and psychedelic colors?
[Db] Remember laugh-in, protest music?
Remember the days of Woodstock?
And right in the middle of it all was our guest today.
Please welcome Melanie.
[Ab]
[F]
[C] Hi, welcome.
Hi.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
[Ab]
[G] [Bb] [Gb]
Melanie is our guest today.
Boy, just thinking about those days takes me back.
I know it does you too when you think about come back.
It's the story of anything that I ever do.
Let me take you back.
That's right.
I mean, it really jogs some cobwebs loose.
I mean, gee.
Cobwebs?
I [Bb] mean, I'll go back, but there's not any cobwebs.
I don't know.
We're probably close to the same age.
I mean, [B] you know, Carly Simon and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell in this whole era of all
this great music.
Well, they were older women when I was at Woodstock.
You were the baby, weren't you?
I was the baby.
I was the flower child.
You were the baby of Woodstock, the darling of Woodstock.
Yeah.
Oh, God, it was hard to live down too.
Why?
Well, I wasn't really a hippie.
I was an oddball.
And that was the difference.
You see, I didn't quite fit in the little niche of the communal, let's do everything.
So you didn't live in a commune or anything?
No.
Now I do.
I have a family.
Great kids.
Very communal.
But you know, the older generation, you know, being an oddball and being a hippie was sort
of one and the same.
Yes.
It started out that way, but then there were subtle differences that were recognized by
the underground press.
And I wasn't exactly fondly recognized.
But yeah, I was right in there.
How old were you when you got your first big break?
Well, I guess I was 18 [Em] and it was Woodstock.
That was [B] pretty big.
The biggest, the biggest.
How did you come to play at Woodstock anyway?
My publishing company was in the same office building as some of the people who were running it.
And I just very naively went down and said, I love the sound of Three Days of Peace, Love and Music.
Can I be in that show too?
And they said, okay.
That's all there was to it?
Yeah.
And I wasn't on the poster, but they said I could do it.
And I was writing some music in England and I had to fly into Woodstock to perform there.
I had no idea.
I mean, especially coming from a whole other country, I had no idea what I was about to fly into.
But I hear that you didn't come with a sontourage of agents.
No, she came with your mother.
My mother was there.
She drove me up and then at one point we couldn't go any further.
And so we called the people and they said, yes, go to this motel and we'll arrange transportation
there.
I went to the motel and there before my very eyes were all the superstars of the ages.
You know, Janis Joplin was hanging out and Jimi Hendrix and everybody in the world.
Richie Havens was playing.
Yeah, he was sort of more in my echelon of things.
But, you know, I'm talking these were major people at that time.
I was relatively unknown.
Along with Richie Havens, we were kind of the FM people.
You know, I've always wanted to ask somebody who's actually been at Woodstock since I've
heard all these years that there was so much pot being smoked there that you were just
high sitting in the audience.
Maybe I was.
I don't know.
That could be.
Every once in a while, you know, I get that feeling.
I don't know.
But I I think there was.
Oh, definitely there was.
But I again, I was alone there.
No, I had to leave my mother behind at the hotel because they only allowed managers and
bands to fly in the helicopter.
So they said, you are not a manager.
You're her mother and you're not a band.
So they left her.
I was there all by myself in amongst superstars, thousands and thousands and thousands of God
knows how many people.
And they put me in this artist area.
I had no backstage pass.
The motorcycle guys were hired to control people then kept pulling me out of the crowd
into out of the artist area, putting me into the crowd.
Now that you look back at the time, it probably didn't feel this way.
But do you I mean, now do you look back and go, I was part of a phenomenon?
Oh, I knew it then.
Oh, did you?
Oh, yeah.
I had my first out of body experience.
That's why I said it is possible that I was getting residual effects from these things
that were going on.
But, oh, I totally I mean, I never was the same.
Melanie, Connie from Zephyr Hills is on the phone with to talk to you.
Go ahead.
Melanie, I just want to tell you how much we missed you.
And I've got your record that's got brand new key.
And I think it's called Living Bell on it.
Yes, that's one of my favorite songs.
And it's one of mine.
And I played the record so much that it's warped and I'm going to have to go out and buy a new one.
But I just want to let you know that I'm glad you're back and I appreciate seeing you on TV today.
Great, Connie.
Buy a CD player, OK?
You know, these days just bring up great memories and people do sort of wonder where you've been.
And before you tell us where you've been and tell us about your new cause, I do have to ask something else.
Now that I have you a chance in person to ask you this [Bm] brand new key.
Any hidden meaning there?
People who were smoking all sorts of mind altering substances said, oh, there's there's a deep meaning to I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, like existential meaning of life or something.
Yep, that's what it was.
Key:
Ab
Db
Gb
Eb
Bb
Ab
Db
Gb
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Maybe you'll recognize the song we're about to play.
Are we playing that? _
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
You've got a brand new key.
Eyes the voice.
Maybe you wonder where the singer has been for a while.
It's called Brand New Key.
This song was a big hit back in [Gb] the early 70s.
Remember those days?
Remember the days of flower power and psychedelic colors?
[Db] Remember laugh-in, protest music?
Remember the days of Woodstock?
And right in the middle of it all was our guest today.
Please welcome Melanie. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] Hi, welcome.
Hi. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb]
Melanie is our guest today.
Boy, just thinking about those days takes me back.
I know it does you too when you think about come back.
It's the story of anything that I ever do.
Let me take you back.
That's right.
I mean, it really jogs some cobwebs loose.
I mean, gee.
Cobwebs? _
I [Bb] mean, I'll go back, but there's not any cobwebs.
I don't know.
We're probably close to the same age.
I mean, [B] you know, Carly Simon and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell in this whole era of all
this great music.
Well, they were older women when I was at Woodstock.
_ _ You were the baby, weren't you?
I was the baby.
I was the flower child.
You were the baby of Woodstock, the darling of Woodstock.
Yeah.
Oh, God, it was hard to live down too.
_ _ Why?
Well, I wasn't really a hippie.
I was an oddball.
And that was the difference.
You see, I didn't quite fit in the little niche of _ the communal, let's do everything.
So you didn't live in a commune or anything?
No.
Now I do.
I have a family. _ _ _
Great kids.
_ _ Very communal.
_ _ _ But you know, the older generation, you know, being an oddball and being a hippie was sort
of one and the same.
Yes.
It started out that way, but then there were subtle differences that were recognized by
the underground press.
And I wasn't exactly fondly recognized.
_ _ _ But yeah, I was right in there.
How old were you when you got your first big break?
_ _ Well, I guess I was 18 [Em] and it was Woodstock.
That was [B] pretty big.
The biggest, the biggest.
How did you come to play at Woodstock anyway?
_ _ My publishing company was in the same office building as some of the people who were running it.
And I just very naively went down and said, I love the sound of Three Days of Peace, Love and Music.
Can I be in that show too?
And they said, okay. _ _
That's all there was to it?
Yeah.
And I wasn't on the poster, but they said I could do it.
And I was writing some music in England and I had to fly into Woodstock to perform there.
I had no idea.
I mean, especially coming from a whole other country, I had no idea what I was about to fly into.
But I hear that you didn't come with a sontourage of agents.
No, she came with your mother.
_ _ My mother was there.
She drove me up and then at one point we couldn't go any further.
And so we called the people and they said, yes, go to this motel and we'll arrange transportation
there.
I went to the motel and there before my very eyes were all the superstars of the ages.
You know, Janis Joplin was hanging out and Jimi Hendrix and everybody in the world.
Richie Havens was playing.
Yeah, he was sort of more in my echelon of things.
But, you know, I'm talking these were major people at that time.
I was relatively unknown.
Along with Richie Havens, we were kind of the _ FM _ people.
You know, I've always wanted to ask somebody who's actually been at Woodstock since I've
heard all these years that there was so much pot being smoked there that you were just
high sitting in the audience.
Maybe I was. _
I don't know.
That could be.
Every once in a while, you know, I get that feeling.
I don't know. _ _ _
But I I think there was.
Oh, definitely there was.
But I again, I was alone there.
No, I had to leave my mother behind at the hotel because they only allowed managers and
bands to fly in the helicopter.
So they said, you are not a manager.
You're her mother and you're not a band.
So they left her.
I was there all by myself in amongst _ superstars, thousands and thousands and thousands of God
knows how many people.
And they put me in this artist area.
I had no backstage pass.
The motorcycle guys were hired to control people then kept pulling me out of the crowd
into out of the artist area, putting me into the crowd.
Now that you look back at the time, it probably didn't feel this way.
But do you I mean, now do you look back and go, I was part of a phenomenon?
Oh, I knew it then.
Oh, did you?
Oh, yeah.
I had my first out of body experience.
That's why I said it is possible that I was getting residual effects from these things
that were going on.
But, _ oh, I totally I mean, I never was the same. _ _ _
Melanie, Connie from Zephyr Hills is on the phone with to talk to you.
Go ahead.
Melanie, I just want to tell you how much we missed you.
And I've got your record that's got brand new key.
And I think it's called Living Bell on it.
Yes, that's one of my favorite songs.
And it's one of mine.
And I played the record so much that it's warped and I'm going to have to go out and buy a new one.
But I just want to let you know that I'm glad you're back and I appreciate seeing you on TV today.
Great, Connie.
Buy a CD player, OK? _ _ _ _
You know, these days just bring up great memories and people do sort of wonder where you've been.
And before you tell us where you've been and tell us about your new cause, I do have to ask something else.
Now that I have you a chance in person to ask you this _ [Bm] brand new key.
Any hidden meaning there?
People who were smoking all sorts of mind altering substances said, oh, there's there's a deep meaning to I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, like existential meaning of life or something.
Yep, that's what it was. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Maybe you'll recognize the song we're about to play.
Are we playing that? _
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
You've got a brand new key.
Eyes the voice.
Maybe you wonder where the singer has been for a while.
It's called Brand New Key.
This song was a big hit back in [Gb] the early 70s.
Remember those days?
Remember the days of flower power and psychedelic colors?
[Db] Remember laugh-in, protest music?
Remember the days of Woodstock?
And right in the middle of it all was our guest today.
Please welcome Melanie. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] Hi, welcome.
Hi. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb]
Melanie is our guest today.
Boy, just thinking about those days takes me back.
I know it does you too when you think about come back.
It's the story of anything that I ever do.
Let me take you back.
That's right.
I mean, it really jogs some cobwebs loose.
I mean, gee.
Cobwebs? _
I [Bb] mean, I'll go back, but there's not any cobwebs.
I don't know.
We're probably close to the same age.
I mean, [B] you know, Carly Simon and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell in this whole era of all
this great music.
Well, they were older women when I was at Woodstock.
_ _ You were the baby, weren't you?
I was the baby.
I was the flower child.
You were the baby of Woodstock, the darling of Woodstock.
Yeah.
Oh, God, it was hard to live down too.
_ _ Why?
Well, I wasn't really a hippie.
I was an oddball.
And that was the difference.
You see, I didn't quite fit in the little niche of _ the communal, let's do everything.
So you didn't live in a commune or anything?
No.
Now I do.
I have a family. _ _ _
Great kids.
_ _ Very communal.
_ _ _ But you know, the older generation, you know, being an oddball and being a hippie was sort
of one and the same.
Yes.
It started out that way, but then there were subtle differences that were recognized by
the underground press.
And I wasn't exactly fondly recognized.
_ _ _ But yeah, I was right in there.
How old were you when you got your first big break?
_ _ Well, I guess I was 18 [Em] and it was Woodstock.
That was [B] pretty big.
The biggest, the biggest.
How did you come to play at Woodstock anyway?
_ _ My publishing company was in the same office building as some of the people who were running it.
And I just very naively went down and said, I love the sound of Three Days of Peace, Love and Music.
Can I be in that show too?
And they said, okay. _ _
That's all there was to it?
Yeah.
And I wasn't on the poster, but they said I could do it.
And I was writing some music in England and I had to fly into Woodstock to perform there.
I had no idea.
I mean, especially coming from a whole other country, I had no idea what I was about to fly into.
But I hear that you didn't come with a sontourage of agents.
No, she came with your mother.
_ _ My mother was there.
She drove me up and then at one point we couldn't go any further.
And so we called the people and they said, yes, go to this motel and we'll arrange transportation
there.
I went to the motel and there before my very eyes were all the superstars of the ages.
You know, Janis Joplin was hanging out and Jimi Hendrix and everybody in the world.
Richie Havens was playing.
Yeah, he was sort of more in my echelon of things.
But, you know, I'm talking these were major people at that time.
I was relatively unknown.
Along with Richie Havens, we were kind of the _ FM _ people.
You know, I've always wanted to ask somebody who's actually been at Woodstock since I've
heard all these years that there was so much pot being smoked there that you were just
high sitting in the audience.
Maybe I was. _
I don't know.
That could be.
Every once in a while, you know, I get that feeling.
I don't know. _ _ _
But I I think there was.
Oh, definitely there was.
But I again, I was alone there.
No, I had to leave my mother behind at the hotel because they only allowed managers and
bands to fly in the helicopter.
So they said, you are not a manager.
You're her mother and you're not a band.
So they left her.
I was there all by myself in amongst _ superstars, thousands and thousands and thousands of God
knows how many people.
And they put me in this artist area.
I had no backstage pass.
The motorcycle guys were hired to control people then kept pulling me out of the crowd
into out of the artist area, putting me into the crowd.
Now that you look back at the time, it probably didn't feel this way.
But do you I mean, now do you look back and go, I was part of a phenomenon?
Oh, I knew it then.
Oh, did you?
Oh, yeah.
I had my first out of body experience.
That's why I said it is possible that I was getting residual effects from these things
that were going on.
But, _ oh, I totally I mean, I never was the same. _ _ _
Melanie, Connie from Zephyr Hills is on the phone with to talk to you.
Go ahead.
Melanie, I just want to tell you how much we missed you.
And I've got your record that's got brand new key.
And I think it's called Living Bell on it.
Yes, that's one of my favorite songs.
And it's one of mine.
And I played the record so much that it's warped and I'm going to have to go out and buy a new one.
But I just want to let you know that I'm glad you're back and I appreciate seeing you on TV today.
Great, Connie.
Buy a CD player, OK? _ _ _ _
You know, these days just bring up great memories and people do sort of wonder where you've been.
And before you tell us where you've been and tell us about your new cause, I do have to ask something else.
Now that I have you a chance in person to ask you this _ [Bm] brand new key.
Any hidden meaning there?
People who were smoking all sorts of mind altering substances said, oh, there's there's a deep meaning to I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, like existential meaning of life or something.
Yep, that's what it was. _ _ _