Chords for Micky Dolenz on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

_ _ _ Mickey [E] Dolenz came a long way from bell-bottom teen idol drummer to solo [G] playing Lord of the Manor.
[Am] The former monkey lived in an aristocratic European [E] lifestyle for 10 years.
Home was, are you ready for this, a 25 [F#] room mansion in the [F] heart of England's green and pleasant [A] land.
_ [D] Many titled British [E] bluebirds would wish to live in [C#] such palatial [A] country comfort.
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It's a Georgian house.
I think it has 17 bedrooms, [E] but we only use [F#m] seven.
We shut [C#] off the rest.
[D#] It's what they call [G] a big country house _ [Gm] in the Midlands.
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_ It's not a large piece of property.
It's only about seven or eight acres, [Cm] mostly a bit informal gardens.
And [Gm] I have stables and grass tennis court and it's a lovely place.
It's [G] gorgeous.
The [Cm] quiet life of the landed gentry made his days of teeny-bopper frenzy seem a [Gm] long way off.
If you [Cm] think Mickey's manor is [G] spiffy outside, witness the splendor within.
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_ _ [G] _ [Cm] So just how did [G] his lordship spend his time?
Well, if I'm not riding or training polo ponies [Em] or something like that, I usually spend a lot of time in the billiard room,
which I've made kind of my office too.
And I'll read or work on a script [C] or play snooker or [D#] listen to music or something like that.
[G] Fate brought him to England.
[Em] He shrewdly spun monkey business into [Am] big business by [F#] stepping out of the [E] spotlight and going [Am] behind the cameras.
On The Monkees, I started directing _ and [Em] decided that's kind of what I wanted to do.
I [G] got my big break in England.
I went over to do a play, actually, as an actor and brought my [Am] reel, my directing reel, found an agent.
She [D#] got me a job at the BBC [G] and I just stayed.
I was very lucky.
I was fortunate I married an English girl so I could work over there.
I mean, I didn't marry her [D#] so I could work over there.
I married her so I could work [G] over there. _
_ _ I don't know why they do this, but it's good.
_ [A] _ Now, fate has brought him back stateside.
His open [D] sesame to becoming a busy Hollywood director was Aladdin and his magic lamp.
Disney asked him to be their vision behind the big screen movie extravaganza starring Barry Bostwick, Richard Kiley and Donna McKegney. _ _ _ _ _
[G] His return to the fast lane had [C] one unexpected [G] reward.
Mickey [C] saw firsthand how a very special [G] person had gone from [C] pigtails to [Gm] stardom.
Oldest [G] daughter Amy had [D] followed in her famous dad's footsteps [A] to become a successful television [D] actress.
I think it's fantastic.
And the fact that she's done it without any of my help.
I was in England [G] when she [A] decided she wanted to be an actress.
She's done it [G] entirely on her own bat and I think that's really good and very important for her.
She'll always know that she did it on her own.
I'm hoping she gives me a job.
For his two youngest daughters, the [C] transition from the British call of cricket to the American punch of polo wasn't without the odd hiccup.
They pick up some of the American inflections, [D] but their habits [Am] and behavior is [G] still English as it were.
They like [G#m] some things about California, but right [G] now they're all complaining about wanting to go back to England, _ which we don't have any intention [E] of doing in the near future.
They're _ _ happy wherever [D] we [G] are.
But soon as he'd gotten back used to driving on the other side of the road, [C] Mickey sought out a polo club.
[B] A dedicated weekend warrior, [G] he's back in the saddle demonstrating a well-practiced [Am] equestrian alan.
[G] I've been riding since I was a kid out here in California where I grew up.
And I didn't really start riding [Em] properly [A] until I got [B] to England where they do ride [Em] properly.
Polo and I really get along real [G] well because I used to play a lot of [Am] tennis when I was young.
[G] I still have [C] legs.
_ [G] But when your legs start [Em] going and you start looking [E] for other sports, so I use somebody else's [C] legs. _
[Em] Well, they say polo is about half as dangerous as war and a lot [E] more fun.
It's hard to see.
[C] It's a game where you really don't get a sense of it until you do [G] it. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [C] When you hear polo players sitting around in bars drinking beer, [G] _
they're not talking about the ball or their hitting or the mallet or their spurs or their boots or any of their [F#m] equipment _ [Em] _
or any of the other players [B] so much as they're talking about the ponies.
[G] That's the whole game, the ponies.
And a great polo player has become [Am] great for a number [G] of reasons.
One [A] of the main [G] reasons is his ability to pick and train and ride the horses.
But it [B] is flat [Em] out.
If you've ever been galloping on a horse, _ [D] imagine [A] having somebody gallop [N] up next to you and try to knock you down. _ _ _ _ _ _
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