Chords for Moody Blues - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Tempo:
88.35 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
F
E
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Bb] [Bm] Music is the trouble that happens in our world
We treat so many people like we're in the [A] scene
[Bm]
I'm not the singer we know
The Moody Magic comprises John Lodge with fellow rock and roll legends
[E] Justin [A] Hayward, [Bm] Ray Thomas [A] and the thundering back [Bm] beat of Graham Edge
Together nearly three decades they've sold [E] over 60 million [Bm] albums
Spanning the psychedelic [E] 60's to the nervous [Bm] 90's
The tight [E] collaboration it [B] took to produce [E] 17 [B] albums
Almost caused [E] the band [B] to [A] implode
But the Moody's hung in to do it all over [E] again
[Bm] Behind their endurance, a driving need for self expression through [E] the [Bm] medium they mastered
The [E] magic of song writing and the discovery about [Dm] yourself
And what it reveals and the feelings that it gives to you
Is so wonderful that that's the one area of my life
That I still find challenging
The [Bb] [F] son of British [Eb] school teachers must have driven his career [Dm] guidance counsellor nuts
[Bb] Justin never considered any other [Eb] future
While other kids were declining [B] French verbs, he was practising riffs
I had a guitar when I was nine and formed a group when I was ten
And was playing enough at school even to be able to afford a nice [G] Gibson guitar
And then I turned professional, became a professional musician when I was 16
And I used to just send my songs like [Bb] a lot of kids still do today
Send my songs to people all over the place in [Ab] the hope that [C] somebody will hear them
In 1966 [D]
somebody did hear his tape
A fledgling London [A] band with [C] the bizarre notion that rock and roll
Could be more than [Dm] just four chords and repetitive lyrics
Joined the Moody's at 19, wrote Nights in White Satin a few weeks later
And then my [Em] life completely changed
[D] Their [E] mega hit was the stuff of [D] 60s pipe dreams
As we moved [C] towards recording an album [G] called Days of Future Past
And as our style kind of [F] changed into [Ab] developing [Em] what was a reflection of our own personalities
The five of us, it was a very, [D] very powerful combination
[Em] That debut album floated atop the [D] charts for more than 100 weeks in [C] 1967
As their [G] ethereal mind music became the anthem of an [F] era
But nervous record execs [E] turned down its mega hit single [Em] for [A] stateside release
In the rest of the world they released [C] Nights in White Satin and [N] it did very well
In America, the comment from the record company was that
It's a bit four and a half minutes long and you can't [A] dance to it
So [G] they [Am] released a song [Em] called Tuesday [F] Afternoon
[C] Five more [Bb] albums came in the next four [E] years
Containing [Em] whimsical, wonderful [G] reflections on life and [C] love
But touring and recording together had begun to [Em] take a toll by [G] 1972
As John Lodge [C] recalls, the boys in the band had simply become stir [Em]-crazy
We'd gone from [A] five to about [G] 60 people in the entourage
And we'd got to know each other so well
That our conversations were like numbers
We'd just say number one and everybody'd know what you meant
And I think as soon as that happens, that little spark goes
And then it's time to [F] [G] reevaluate and that's what we did
Oh, won't you tell me [Am] again
[G] Oh, can you feel it
During the musical years [Db] spanning pre-punk to retro rock
They focused on living normal lives
Justin and wife Marie dug in at their mansion located south-west of London
Two miles from where he met the other Moodies for the first time
[G] [Bbm] Like a lot of coach houses from really the 18th [Fm] century
It has that [Ab] spire and the [Db] tower on the top
The whole of the ground floor of the house was originally stables for horses
And the house itself is an old [G] converted coach house
[Bbm] It's got all sorts of nooks and crannies and unusual sort of twists and [C] turns
Across the top it has a [Fm] kind of gallery that you can walk from one part of the house to another
Which I love very much
And sometimes I remember when we used to have a [C] lot of people staying here in the 70s
I could still [Ab] go to bed and [Fm] up my one end of the house
And see what was still happening [C] in this huge lounge there and still be a part [F] of it
My pride and joy in the lounge is the Steinway that I've [Em] got there
It's a mahogany Steinway
It actually came [F] from the Decca studios where we used to record
It's a very [G] warm, [Em] comfortable [G] house
And there's [Ab] no kind of spookiness about this place
[Db] And it's got so many just wonderful memories
And ample reminders that Moody magic had just been put on hold
[F] This room is a special feeling for me, the music room
It's a vibe room, so many things have been done in this house and in this room
The Moody's worked independently on their own music
Though each had earned more millions than they could ever spend
Something else drove them to reunite in 1986
Something beyond their fans' [Em] wildest dreams
I'm going [Am] round this subway, [G]
subway, [D] subway
[Em] Their [C] evolution came full circle with a [F] 1992 mega concert with the Colorado [Cm] Symphony
Former [F] [C]
[G] hipsters openly smirked as the [C] Moody's blew away the MTV crowd
Wearing [F] bell bottoms and tied eyes
Classics [C] do indeed transcend time
There's so much demand and so many calls from people all over the place
People just wanted that show in their particular town with their own orchestra
So that's exactly what we've been doing now for nearly three years
It's touring with a different orchestra every night
All over America and Canada and [Fm] here in [C] Great Britain too and Europe
It's been absolutely fantastic
The [Bb] success of their synthesized orchestral sound
[F] Prompted the band to release a five [C] CD set
Appropriately entitled Time Traveller
It [Bb] makes you realize just how time [C] has passed and how [F] we've evolved as people
[C] When I [F] look at the [G] pictures in [C] Time Traveller of [G] us when we were 19, [Bb] 20 years [F] old
[G] And of course, [Bb] you know, we're definitely not thinking about what's going to be happening [C] in 30 years
Our ambition right now is to continue doing exactly what we're doing
And I think we appreciate it more now
It's [F] far away, you [Am] really mean it
[G] When you tell me what [C] we're doing
The Moody Blues Pure
We treat so many people like we're in the [A] scene
[Bm]
I'm not the singer we know
The Moody Magic comprises John Lodge with fellow rock and roll legends
[E] Justin [A] Hayward, [Bm] Ray Thomas [A] and the thundering back [Bm] beat of Graham Edge
Together nearly three decades they've sold [E] over 60 million [Bm] albums
Spanning the psychedelic [E] 60's to the nervous [Bm] 90's
The tight [E] collaboration it [B] took to produce [E] 17 [B] albums
Almost caused [E] the band [B] to [A] implode
But the Moody's hung in to do it all over [E] again
[Bm] Behind their endurance, a driving need for self expression through [E] the [Bm] medium they mastered
The [E] magic of song writing and the discovery about [Dm] yourself
And what it reveals and the feelings that it gives to you
Is so wonderful that that's the one area of my life
That I still find challenging
The [Bb] [F] son of British [Eb] school teachers must have driven his career [Dm] guidance counsellor nuts
[Bb] Justin never considered any other [Eb] future
While other kids were declining [B] French verbs, he was practising riffs
I had a guitar when I was nine and formed a group when I was ten
And was playing enough at school even to be able to afford a nice [G] Gibson guitar
And then I turned professional, became a professional musician when I was 16
And I used to just send my songs like [Bb] a lot of kids still do today
Send my songs to people all over the place in [Ab] the hope that [C] somebody will hear them
In 1966 [D]
somebody did hear his tape
A fledgling London [A] band with [C] the bizarre notion that rock and roll
Could be more than [Dm] just four chords and repetitive lyrics
Joined the Moody's at 19, wrote Nights in White Satin a few weeks later
And then my [Em] life completely changed
[D] Their [E] mega hit was the stuff of [D] 60s pipe dreams
As we moved [C] towards recording an album [G] called Days of Future Past
And as our style kind of [F] changed into [Ab] developing [Em] what was a reflection of our own personalities
The five of us, it was a very, [D] very powerful combination
[Em] That debut album floated atop the [D] charts for more than 100 weeks in [C] 1967
As their [G] ethereal mind music became the anthem of an [F] era
But nervous record execs [E] turned down its mega hit single [Em] for [A] stateside release
In the rest of the world they released [C] Nights in White Satin and [N] it did very well
In America, the comment from the record company was that
It's a bit four and a half minutes long and you can't [A] dance to it
So [G] they [Am] released a song [Em] called Tuesday [F] Afternoon
[C] Five more [Bb] albums came in the next four [E] years
Containing [Em] whimsical, wonderful [G] reflections on life and [C] love
But touring and recording together had begun to [Em] take a toll by [G] 1972
As John Lodge [C] recalls, the boys in the band had simply become stir [Em]-crazy
We'd gone from [A] five to about [G] 60 people in the entourage
And we'd got to know each other so well
That our conversations were like numbers
We'd just say number one and everybody'd know what you meant
And I think as soon as that happens, that little spark goes
And then it's time to [F] [G] reevaluate and that's what we did
Oh, won't you tell me [Am] again
[G] Oh, can you feel it
During the musical years [Db] spanning pre-punk to retro rock
They focused on living normal lives
Justin and wife Marie dug in at their mansion located south-west of London
Two miles from where he met the other Moodies for the first time
[G] [Bbm] Like a lot of coach houses from really the 18th [Fm] century
It has that [Ab] spire and the [Db] tower on the top
The whole of the ground floor of the house was originally stables for horses
And the house itself is an old [G] converted coach house
[Bbm] It's got all sorts of nooks and crannies and unusual sort of twists and [C] turns
Across the top it has a [Fm] kind of gallery that you can walk from one part of the house to another
Which I love very much
And sometimes I remember when we used to have a [C] lot of people staying here in the 70s
I could still [Ab] go to bed and [Fm] up my one end of the house
And see what was still happening [C] in this huge lounge there and still be a part [F] of it
My pride and joy in the lounge is the Steinway that I've [Em] got there
It's a mahogany Steinway
It actually came [F] from the Decca studios where we used to record
It's a very [G] warm, [Em] comfortable [G] house
And there's [Ab] no kind of spookiness about this place
[Db] And it's got so many just wonderful memories
And ample reminders that Moody magic had just been put on hold
[F] This room is a special feeling for me, the music room
It's a vibe room, so many things have been done in this house and in this room
The Moody's worked independently on their own music
Though each had earned more millions than they could ever spend
Something else drove them to reunite in 1986
Something beyond their fans' [Em] wildest dreams
I'm going [Am] round this subway, [G]
subway, [D] subway
[Em] Their [C] evolution came full circle with a [F] 1992 mega concert with the Colorado [Cm] Symphony
Former [F] [C]
[G] hipsters openly smirked as the [C] Moody's blew away the MTV crowd
Wearing [F] bell bottoms and tied eyes
Classics [C] do indeed transcend time
There's so much demand and so many calls from people all over the place
People just wanted that show in their particular town with their own orchestra
So that's exactly what we've been doing now for nearly three years
It's touring with a different orchestra every night
All over America and Canada and [Fm] here in [C] Great Britain too and Europe
It's been absolutely fantastic
The [Bb] success of their synthesized orchestral sound
[F] Prompted the band to release a five [C] CD set
Appropriately entitled Time Traveller
It [Bb] makes you realize just how time [C] has passed and how [F] we've evolved as people
[C] When I [F] look at the [G] pictures in [C] Time Traveller of [G] us when we were 19, [Bb] 20 years [F] old
[G] And of course, [Bb] you know, we're definitely not thinking about what's going to be happening [C] in 30 years
Our ambition right now is to continue doing exactly what we're doing
And I think we appreciate it more now
It's [F] far away, you [Am] really mean it
[G] When you tell me what [C] we're doing
The Moody Blues Pure
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Music is the trouble that happens in our world
We treat so many people like we're in the [A] scene
[Bm]
I'm not the singer we know
The Moody Magic comprises John Lodge with fellow rock and roll legends
[E] Justin [A] Hayward, [Bm] Ray Thomas [A] and the thundering back [Bm] beat of Graham Edge _
Together nearly three decades they've sold [E] over 60 million [Bm] albums
Spanning the psychedelic [E] 60's to the nervous [Bm] 90's
The tight [E] collaboration it [B] took to produce [E] 17 [B] albums
Almost caused [E] the band [B] to [A] implode
But the Moody's hung in to do it all over [E] again
[Bm] Behind their endurance, a driving need for self expression through [E] the [Bm] medium they mastered
The [E] magic of song writing and the discovery about [Dm] yourself
And what it reveals and the feelings that it gives to you
Is so wonderful that that's the one area of my life
That I still find challenging
The [Bb] [F] son of British [Eb] school teachers must have driven his career [Dm] guidance counsellor nuts
[Bb] Justin never considered any other [Eb] future
While other kids were declining [B] French verbs, he was practising riffs
I had a guitar when I was nine and formed a group when I was ten
And was playing enough at school even to be able to afford a nice [G] Gibson guitar
And then I turned professional, became a professional musician when I was 16
And I used to just send my songs like [Bb] a lot of kids still do today
Send my songs to people all over the place in [Ab] the hope that [C] somebody will hear them
In 1966 [D]
somebody did hear his tape
A fledgling London [A] band with [C] the bizarre notion that rock and roll
Could be more than [Dm] just four chords and repetitive lyrics
Joined the Moody's at 19, wrote Nights in White Satin a few weeks later
And then my [Em] life completely changed
_ _ [D] _ _ Their [E] mega hit was the stuff of [D] 60s pipe dreams
As we moved [C] towards recording an album [G] called Days of Future Past
And as our style kind of [F] changed into [Ab] developing [Em] what was a reflection of our own personalities
The five of us, it was a very, [D] very powerful combination
[Em] That debut album floated atop the [D] charts for more than 100 weeks in [C] 1967
As their [G] ethereal mind music became the anthem of an [F] era
But nervous record execs [E] turned down its mega hit single [Em] for [A] stateside release
In the rest of the world they released [C] Nights in White Satin and [N] it did very well
In America, _ _ the comment from the record company was that
It's a bit four and a half minutes long and you can't [A] dance to it
So [G] they [Am] released a song [Em] called Tuesday [F] Afternoon _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] Five more [Bb] albums came in the next four [E] years
Containing [Em] whimsical, wonderful [G] reflections on life and [C] love
But touring and recording together had begun to [Em] take a toll by [G] 1972
As John Lodge [C] recalls, the boys in the band had simply become stir [Em]-crazy
We'd gone from [A] five to about [G] 60 people in the entourage
And we'd got to know each other so well
That our conversations were like numbers
We'd just say number one and everybody'd know what you meant
And I think as soon as that happens, that little spark goes
And then it's time to [F] [G] reevaluate and that's what we did
Oh, won't you tell me [Am] again
[G] Oh, can you feel it
During the musical years [Db] spanning pre-punk to retro rock
They focused on living normal lives
Justin and wife Marie dug in at their mansion located south-west of London
Two miles from where he met the other Moodies for the first time
[G] [Bbm] Like a lot of coach houses from really the 18th [Fm] century
It has that [Ab] spire and the [Db] tower on the top
The whole of the ground floor of the house was originally stables for horses
And the house itself is an old [G] converted coach house
[Bbm] It's got all sorts of nooks and crannies and unusual sort of twists and [C] turns
Across the top it has a [Fm] kind of gallery that you can walk from one part of the house to another
Which I love very much
And sometimes I remember when we used to have a [C] lot of people staying here in the 70s
I could still [Ab] go to bed and [Fm] up my one end of the house
And see what was still happening [C] in this huge lounge there and still be a part [F] of it
My pride and joy in the lounge is the Steinway that I've [Em] got there
It's a mahogany Steinway
It actually came [F] from the Decca studios where we used to record
It's a very [G] warm, [Em] comfortable [G] house
And there's [Ab] no kind of spookiness about this place
[Db] And it's got so many just wonderful memories
And ample reminders that Moody magic had just been put on hold
[F] This room is a special feeling for me, the music room
It's a vibe room, so many things have been done in this house and in this room
The Moody's worked independently on their own music
Though each had earned more millions than they could ever spend
Something else drove them to reunite in 1986
Something beyond their fans' [Em] wildest dreams
I'm going [Am] round this subway, _ [G] _
subway, [D] subway
[Em] Their [C] evolution came full circle with a [F] 1992 mega concert with the Colorado [Cm] Symphony
Former _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] hipsters openly smirked as the [C] Moody's blew away the MTV crowd
Wearing [F] bell bottoms and tied eyes
Classics [C] do indeed transcend time
There's so much demand and so many calls from people all over the place
People just wanted that show in their particular town with their own orchestra
So that's exactly what we've been doing now for nearly three years
It's touring with a different orchestra every night
All over America and Canada and [Fm] here in [C] Great Britain too and Europe
It's been absolutely fantastic _ _
_ _ The [Bb] success of their synthesized orchestral sound
[F] Prompted the band to release a five [C] CD set
Appropriately entitled Time Traveller
It [Bb] makes you realize just how time [C] has passed and how [F] we've evolved as people
[C] When I [F] look at the [G] pictures in [C] Time Traveller of [G] us when we were 19, [Bb] 20 years [F] old
[G] And of course, [Bb] you know, we're definitely not thinking about what's going to be happening [C] in 30 years
Our ambition right now is to continue doing exactly what we're doing
And I think we appreciate it more now
It's [F] far away, you [Am] really mean it
[G] When you tell me what [C] we're doing
The Moody Blues Pure
We treat so many people like we're in the [A] scene
[Bm]
I'm not the singer we know
The Moody Magic comprises John Lodge with fellow rock and roll legends
[E] Justin [A] Hayward, [Bm] Ray Thomas [A] and the thundering back [Bm] beat of Graham Edge _
Together nearly three decades they've sold [E] over 60 million [Bm] albums
Spanning the psychedelic [E] 60's to the nervous [Bm] 90's
The tight [E] collaboration it [B] took to produce [E] 17 [B] albums
Almost caused [E] the band [B] to [A] implode
But the Moody's hung in to do it all over [E] again
[Bm] Behind their endurance, a driving need for self expression through [E] the [Bm] medium they mastered
The [E] magic of song writing and the discovery about [Dm] yourself
And what it reveals and the feelings that it gives to you
Is so wonderful that that's the one area of my life
That I still find challenging
The [Bb] [F] son of British [Eb] school teachers must have driven his career [Dm] guidance counsellor nuts
[Bb] Justin never considered any other [Eb] future
While other kids were declining [B] French verbs, he was practising riffs
I had a guitar when I was nine and formed a group when I was ten
And was playing enough at school even to be able to afford a nice [G] Gibson guitar
And then I turned professional, became a professional musician when I was 16
And I used to just send my songs like [Bb] a lot of kids still do today
Send my songs to people all over the place in [Ab] the hope that [C] somebody will hear them
In 1966 [D]
somebody did hear his tape
A fledgling London [A] band with [C] the bizarre notion that rock and roll
Could be more than [Dm] just four chords and repetitive lyrics
Joined the Moody's at 19, wrote Nights in White Satin a few weeks later
And then my [Em] life completely changed
_ _ [D] _ _ Their [E] mega hit was the stuff of [D] 60s pipe dreams
As we moved [C] towards recording an album [G] called Days of Future Past
And as our style kind of [F] changed into [Ab] developing [Em] what was a reflection of our own personalities
The five of us, it was a very, [D] very powerful combination
[Em] That debut album floated atop the [D] charts for more than 100 weeks in [C] 1967
As their [G] ethereal mind music became the anthem of an [F] era
But nervous record execs [E] turned down its mega hit single [Em] for [A] stateside release
In the rest of the world they released [C] Nights in White Satin and [N] it did very well
In America, _ _ the comment from the record company was that
It's a bit four and a half minutes long and you can't [A] dance to it
So [G] they [Am] released a song [Em] called Tuesday [F] Afternoon _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] Five more [Bb] albums came in the next four [E] years
Containing [Em] whimsical, wonderful [G] reflections on life and [C] love
But touring and recording together had begun to [Em] take a toll by [G] 1972
As John Lodge [C] recalls, the boys in the band had simply become stir [Em]-crazy
We'd gone from [A] five to about [G] 60 people in the entourage
And we'd got to know each other so well
That our conversations were like numbers
We'd just say number one and everybody'd know what you meant
And I think as soon as that happens, that little spark goes
And then it's time to [F] [G] reevaluate and that's what we did
Oh, won't you tell me [Am] again
[G] Oh, can you feel it
During the musical years [Db] spanning pre-punk to retro rock
They focused on living normal lives
Justin and wife Marie dug in at their mansion located south-west of London
Two miles from where he met the other Moodies for the first time
[G] [Bbm] Like a lot of coach houses from really the 18th [Fm] century
It has that [Ab] spire and the [Db] tower on the top
The whole of the ground floor of the house was originally stables for horses
And the house itself is an old [G] converted coach house
[Bbm] It's got all sorts of nooks and crannies and unusual sort of twists and [C] turns
Across the top it has a [Fm] kind of gallery that you can walk from one part of the house to another
Which I love very much
And sometimes I remember when we used to have a [C] lot of people staying here in the 70s
I could still [Ab] go to bed and [Fm] up my one end of the house
And see what was still happening [C] in this huge lounge there and still be a part [F] of it
My pride and joy in the lounge is the Steinway that I've [Em] got there
It's a mahogany Steinway
It actually came [F] from the Decca studios where we used to record
It's a very [G] warm, [Em] comfortable [G] house
And there's [Ab] no kind of spookiness about this place
[Db] And it's got so many just wonderful memories
And ample reminders that Moody magic had just been put on hold
[F] This room is a special feeling for me, the music room
It's a vibe room, so many things have been done in this house and in this room
The Moody's worked independently on their own music
Though each had earned more millions than they could ever spend
Something else drove them to reunite in 1986
Something beyond their fans' [Em] wildest dreams
I'm going [Am] round this subway, _ [G] _
subway, [D] subway
[Em] Their [C] evolution came full circle with a [F] 1992 mega concert with the Colorado [Cm] Symphony
Former _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] hipsters openly smirked as the [C] Moody's blew away the MTV crowd
Wearing [F] bell bottoms and tied eyes
Classics [C] do indeed transcend time
There's so much demand and so many calls from people all over the place
People just wanted that show in their particular town with their own orchestra
So that's exactly what we've been doing now for nearly three years
It's touring with a different orchestra every night
All over America and Canada and [Fm] here in [C] Great Britain too and Europe
It's been absolutely fantastic _ _
_ _ The [Bb] success of their synthesized orchestral sound
[F] Prompted the band to release a five [C] CD set
Appropriately entitled Time Traveller
It [Bb] makes you realize just how time [C] has passed and how [F] we've evolved as people
[C] When I [F] look at the [G] pictures in [C] Time Traveller of [G] us when we were 19, [Bb] 20 years [F] old
[G] And of course, [Bb] you know, we're definitely not thinking about what's going to be happening [C] in 30 years
Our ambition right now is to continue doing exactly what we're doing
And I think we appreciate it more now
It's [F] far away, you [Am] really mean it
[G] When you tell me what [C] we're doing
The Moody Blues Pure