Chords for Moody Blues On British Tv Documentary Of Progressive Rock
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D
G
F
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[Em] [D]
[G] [N] The Moody Blues, born in Birmingham, destined for outer space.
[D] [Em]
[D] [Em] I
[G] [D] just realised it was something that was totally different to anything else [Em] I'd ever heard.
Beauty [D] I'd always [Em] missed, with these eyes [D] before
[C] I hear it in supermarkets.
[G] I [F] still love it.
I can't say it [Em] anymore, cos [A] I love you
The melatron, [C] the sound of the voices again, that's classic Moody Blues.
[E] So [Eb]
[Ab] [Fm] was this.
The Moody's started life as an R&B band, [Db] but split after one hit.
Then immediately [Eb] reformed, with a new [G] singer, their original bass player, a new attitude and a [Fm] new look.
[N] And I think one of the parts of being able to make your own music was to dress exactly how you [E] felt.
[Gb] The grooving Italian waiter look was all the rage, as the boys enjoyed the delights of London.
[Db]
[Gb] But they were about to turn the world prog with their first album.
[N] The record company thought we were going to do a version of Dvorak's New World Symphony.
And as soon as we got in there we basically locked the doors and said we're going to do our stuff.
Days of Future passed, with the first time that an album being made, you know, with an orchestra, with no breaks.
It was continuous music, [Em] continuous theme.
[A]
[C]
[Em] [D]
Ah, the first [E] concept album, about a day [D] in the life of us all.
And featuring [Em] a classic song that would be a hit on three separate occasions.
[A] But what could have inspired young men from the West Midlands to conceptualise so freely?
[N] Three little letters, L, S and D.
Four of us dropped a tab together for the very first time.
We did it as friends and Mike, he was a great friend of mine, and we were all very happy.
Ray, Graham and myself went on a psychedelic journey, I suppose from the beginning of 1967, that influenced our lives very [F] much.
[G] [Ab]
[A] [G] Watch
[Cm] [C]
out, the waiter's on acid!
[Bb] Let's [F] go with a first [G] class class, [Bb] starting [F] work for the [G] second [C] class.
[Bb] And Mike's turned [G] into Terence [Bb] Stump!
But right now, man I'm turned [Dm] to
Lifestyles
[N] of indigenous people around the world, and what their so [C]-called medicine men were really all about.
Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door?
In the 1970s, the Moody's rode a permanent wave of [A] success.
[C] Their hold on the charts as permanent compromising as Justin's hairspray.
By 1974, we had [F] five albums in the US charts all in one week.
And I don't think anyone's ever done that.
We charted a 707 to fly us around.
[N] We had a string of record shops.
And we'd been working non-stop, and every album had gone platinum.
And we'd stop talking to each other.
[C]
The [Eb] [F] [Eb] Moody's split [D] in 1974, [Eb] but by the end of the decade [F] had returned, older and [Eb] bigger than [D] ever.
Today, it [G] seems the Moody's, like Justin's hair, will [C] always be with us.
[Eb] In fact, they go [Dm] from strength to [C] strength.
They've retained their [Cm] crazy fashion sense, [C] acquired an orchestra, [Eb] and NASA have [C] just released their greatest hits, [Cm] Honest.
[N] Hoot Gibson, who was their chief astronaut at NASA, he came to see us and told us officially that it had been on all of these missions,
and had done all of these million miles around the Earth.
Right, how's that tape recorder?
Is the RPM up to nominal?
Yeah, it works pretty good here at zero G.
It works better [Em] than it does down here on the ground.
Nights in [D] white satin, [Em]
never [Bm] reaching the [D] end.
[C] Letters [G] I've written
[F] [C] Major Tom to ground [Em] control, you couldn't send us up some Bowie, could you?
Beauty [D] I'd always [Dm] missed
Time for another ad break.
Sell out, man.
[Em]
[G] [N] The Moody Blues, born in Birmingham, destined for outer space.
[D] [Em]
[D] [Em] I
[G] [D] just realised it was something that was totally different to anything else [Em] I'd ever heard.
Beauty [D] I'd always [Em] missed, with these eyes [D] before
[C] I hear it in supermarkets.
[G] I [F] still love it.
I can't say it [Em] anymore, cos [A] I love you
The melatron, [C] the sound of the voices again, that's classic Moody Blues.
[E] So [Eb]
[Ab] [Fm] was this.
The Moody's started life as an R&B band, [Db] but split after one hit.
Then immediately [Eb] reformed, with a new [G] singer, their original bass player, a new attitude and a [Fm] new look.
[N] And I think one of the parts of being able to make your own music was to dress exactly how you [E] felt.
[Gb] The grooving Italian waiter look was all the rage, as the boys enjoyed the delights of London.
[Db]
[Gb] But they were about to turn the world prog with their first album.
[N] The record company thought we were going to do a version of Dvorak's New World Symphony.
And as soon as we got in there we basically locked the doors and said we're going to do our stuff.
Days of Future passed, with the first time that an album being made, you know, with an orchestra, with no breaks.
It was continuous music, [Em] continuous theme.
[A]
[C]
[Em] [D]
Ah, the first [E] concept album, about a day [D] in the life of us all.
And featuring [Em] a classic song that would be a hit on three separate occasions.
[A] But what could have inspired young men from the West Midlands to conceptualise so freely?
[N] Three little letters, L, S and D.
Four of us dropped a tab together for the very first time.
We did it as friends and Mike, he was a great friend of mine, and we were all very happy.
Ray, Graham and myself went on a psychedelic journey, I suppose from the beginning of 1967, that influenced our lives very [F] much.
[G] [Ab]
[A] [G] Watch
[Cm] [C]
out, the waiter's on acid!
[Bb] Let's [F] go with a first [G] class class, [Bb] starting [F] work for the [G] second [C] class.
[Bb] And Mike's turned [G] into Terence [Bb] Stump!
But right now, man I'm turned [Dm] to
Lifestyles
[N] of indigenous people around the world, and what their so [C]-called medicine men were really all about.
Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door?
In the 1970s, the Moody's rode a permanent wave of [A] success.
[C] Their hold on the charts as permanent compromising as Justin's hairspray.
By 1974, we had [F] five albums in the US charts all in one week.
And I don't think anyone's ever done that.
We charted a 707 to fly us around.
[N] We had a string of record shops.
And we'd been working non-stop, and every album had gone platinum.
And we'd stop talking to each other.
[C]
The [Eb] [F] [Eb] Moody's split [D] in 1974, [Eb] but by the end of the decade [F] had returned, older and [Eb] bigger than [D] ever.
Today, it [G] seems the Moody's, like Justin's hair, will [C] always be with us.
[Eb] In fact, they go [Dm] from strength to [C] strength.
They've retained their [Cm] crazy fashion sense, [C] acquired an orchestra, [Eb] and NASA have [C] just released their greatest hits, [Cm] Honest.
[N] Hoot Gibson, who was their chief astronaut at NASA, he came to see us and told us officially that it had been on all of these missions,
and had done all of these million miles around the Earth.
Right, how's that tape recorder?
Is the RPM up to nominal?
Yeah, it works pretty good here at zero G.
It works better [Em] than it does down here on the ground.
Nights in [D] white satin, [Em]
never [Bm] reaching the [D] end.
[C] Letters [G] I've written
[F] [C] Major Tom to ground [Em] control, you couldn't send us up some Bowie, could you?
Beauty [D] I'd always [Dm] missed
Time for another ad break.
Sell out, man.
[Em]
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [N] The Moody Blues, born in Birmingham, destined for outer space. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] I _
[G] _ [D] _ just realised it was something that was totally different to anything else [Em] I'd ever heard.
Beauty [D] I'd always [Em] missed, with these eyes [D] before
_ [C] I hear it in supermarkets.
[G] I _ [F] still love it.
I can't say it [Em] anymore, cos [A] I love you
The _ melatron, [C] the sound of the voices again, that's classic Moody Blues.
[E] So [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Fm] was this.
The Moody's started life as an R&B band, [Db] but split after one hit.
Then immediately [Eb] reformed, with a new [G] singer, their original bass player, a new attitude and a [Fm] new look.
[N] And I think one of the parts of being able to make your own music was to dress exactly how you [E] felt.
_ _ _ [Gb] The grooving Italian waiter look was all the rage, as the boys enjoyed the delights of London.
_ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ But they were about to turn the world prog with their first album.
[N] The record company thought we were going to do a version of Dvorak's New World Symphony.
And as soon as we got in there we basically locked the doors and said we're going to do our stuff.
Days of Future passed, with the first time that an album being made, you know, with an orchestra, with no breaks.
It was continuous music, [Em] continuous theme.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D]
Ah, the first [E] concept album, about a day [D] in the life of us all.
And featuring [Em] a classic song that would be a hit on three separate occasions.
[A] But what could have inspired young men from the West Midlands to conceptualise so freely?
[N] Three little letters, L, S and D.
Four of us dropped a tab together for the very first time.
We did it as friends and Mike, he was a great friend of mine, and we were all very happy.
Ray, Graham and myself went on a psychedelic journey, I suppose from the beginning of 1967, that influenced our lives very [F] much.
_ [G] _ [Ab] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Watch _
_ [Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ out, the waiter's on acid!
_ _ [Bb] Let's [F] go with a first [G] class class, [Bb] starting [F] work for the [G] second [C] class.
[Bb] And Mike's turned [G] into Terence [Bb] Stump!
But right now, man I'm turned [Dm] to_
Lifestyles _ _
[N] _ _ of indigenous people around the world, and what their _ so [C]-called medicine men were really all about.
Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door?
In the 1970s, the Moody's rode a permanent wave of [A] success.
[C] Their hold on the charts as permanent compromising as Justin's hairspray.
By 1974, we had [F] five albums in the US charts all in one week.
And I don't think anyone's ever done that.
We charted a 707 to fly us around.
[N] We had a string of record shops.
_ _ And we'd been working non-stop, and every album had gone platinum.
And we'd stop talking to each other.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
The [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] Moody's split [D] in 1974, [Eb] but by the end of the decade [F] had returned, older and [Eb] bigger than [D] ever.
Today, it [G] seems the Moody's, like Justin's hair, will [C] always be with us.
[Eb] In fact, they go [Dm] from strength to [C] strength.
They've retained their [Cm] crazy fashion sense, [C] acquired an orchestra, [Eb] and NASA have [C] just released their greatest hits, [Cm] Honest.
[N] Hoot Gibson, who was their chief astronaut at NASA, he came to see us and told us officially that it had been on all of these missions,
and had done all of these million miles around the Earth.
Right, how's that tape recorder?
Is the RPM up to nominal?
_ Yeah, it works pretty good here at zero G.
It works better [Em] than it does down here on the ground.
Nights in [D] white satin, _ [Em] _
never [Bm] reaching the [D] end.
_ [C] _ Letters [G] I've written_
[F] _ [C] Major Tom to ground [Em] control, you couldn't send us up some Bowie, could you?
_ Beauty [D] I'd always [Dm] missed_
_ _ _ Time for another ad break.
Sell out, man.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [N] The Moody Blues, born in Birmingham, destined for outer space. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] I _
[G] _ [D] _ just realised it was something that was totally different to anything else [Em] I'd ever heard.
Beauty [D] I'd always [Em] missed, with these eyes [D] before
_ [C] I hear it in supermarkets.
[G] I _ [F] still love it.
I can't say it [Em] anymore, cos [A] I love you
The _ melatron, [C] the sound of the voices again, that's classic Moody Blues.
[E] So [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Fm] was this.
The Moody's started life as an R&B band, [Db] but split after one hit.
Then immediately [Eb] reformed, with a new [G] singer, their original bass player, a new attitude and a [Fm] new look.
[N] And I think one of the parts of being able to make your own music was to dress exactly how you [E] felt.
_ _ _ [Gb] The grooving Italian waiter look was all the rage, as the boys enjoyed the delights of London.
_ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ But they were about to turn the world prog with their first album.
[N] The record company thought we were going to do a version of Dvorak's New World Symphony.
And as soon as we got in there we basically locked the doors and said we're going to do our stuff.
Days of Future passed, with the first time that an album being made, you know, with an orchestra, with no breaks.
It was continuous music, [Em] continuous theme.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D]
Ah, the first [E] concept album, about a day [D] in the life of us all.
And featuring [Em] a classic song that would be a hit on three separate occasions.
[A] But what could have inspired young men from the West Midlands to conceptualise so freely?
[N] Three little letters, L, S and D.
Four of us dropped a tab together for the very first time.
We did it as friends and Mike, he was a great friend of mine, and we were all very happy.
Ray, Graham and myself went on a psychedelic journey, I suppose from the beginning of 1967, that influenced our lives very [F] much.
_ [G] _ [Ab] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Watch _
_ [Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ out, the waiter's on acid!
_ _ [Bb] Let's [F] go with a first [G] class class, [Bb] starting [F] work for the [G] second [C] class.
[Bb] And Mike's turned [G] into Terence [Bb] Stump!
But right now, man I'm turned [Dm] to_
Lifestyles _ _
[N] _ _ of indigenous people around the world, and what their _ so [C]-called medicine men were really all about.
Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door?
In the 1970s, the Moody's rode a permanent wave of [A] success.
[C] Their hold on the charts as permanent compromising as Justin's hairspray.
By 1974, we had [F] five albums in the US charts all in one week.
And I don't think anyone's ever done that.
We charted a 707 to fly us around.
[N] We had a string of record shops.
_ _ And we'd been working non-stop, and every album had gone platinum.
And we'd stop talking to each other.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
The [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] Moody's split [D] in 1974, [Eb] but by the end of the decade [F] had returned, older and [Eb] bigger than [D] ever.
Today, it [G] seems the Moody's, like Justin's hair, will [C] always be with us.
[Eb] In fact, they go [Dm] from strength to [C] strength.
They've retained their [Cm] crazy fashion sense, [C] acquired an orchestra, [Eb] and NASA have [C] just released their greatest hits, [Cm] Honest.
[N] Hoot Gibson, who was their chief astronaut at NASA, he came to see us and told us officially that it had been on all of these missions,
and had done all of these million miles around the Earth.
Right, how's that tape recorder?
Is the RPM up to nominal?
_ Yeah, it works pretty good here at zero G.
It works better [Em] than it does down here on the ground.
Nights in [D] white satin, _ [Em] _
never [Bm] reaching the [D] end.
_ [C] _ Letters [G] I've written_
[F] _ [C] Major Tom to ground [Em] control, you couldn't send us up some Bowie, could you?
_ Beauty [D] I'd always [Dm] missed_
_ _ _ Time for another ad break.
Sell out, man.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _
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