Chords for My Generation-The Small Faces-Part 4

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Yeah, Steve [G] came in with this [G] song, it was finished.
I think it was much slower.
It was much slower.
I can't picture how it would be now, but it would be a different [Eb] feel anyway.
And I looked at Ronnie and went
[G] What a love.
We started playing it like that
Rooty tooty dido.
And it was a hit, and it killed us.
Because then we were a joke band.
We were trying to be heavier, and now we were a joke band.
[Eb] [D] [G] Rock became intellectualised after Sgt Pepper.
It became the domain of the intellectuals and the middle class press.
And I think they were overlooked from that point of view.
For Ronnie Lane, you laughed at life.
You didn't let it get to you.
And Steve Marriott was the same.
And that kind of sensibility really informed a lot of the Small Faces music.
But made people believe, oh, they can't be serious.
This is Max Wall with pop songs.
Their music isn't intellectual.
It's not because it's without intelligence.
But it's not formed from intellect, first off.
It's instinct.
Whether they were Soul Boys or Soul Boys on acid
they still did everything [Am] very authentically as themselves.
Whatever style [G] they were in, whatever bag they were in
they never lost sight of being East End [D] Herberts.
[A] [B]
[E] Don't [Ebm] worry about the book [A] under itself
Right.
That is
Let me know you stopped in town
You famous whore
[Am] Kenny [E] Jones, Ian McClagan and Ronnie Lane tolerated [D] Marriott.
Marriott was a [Am] fireball.
He couldn't stop talking.
He was [G] constantly up to something.
He was somebody that I don't think you could [E] particularly [Am] relax with.
He would tire you out.
I did five years with that band.
When you go to bed, you sort of go
You'd be worn out.
He was lovely, but
he was very hard to take.
[E] [D] From the end of you, [B] there's nothing he [A] can't do
[B] Now we're [G] buried into it, [E] we can't [Dbm] go no more
[G] And as the sun sets over Thailand, we say farewell to the small faces.
Marriott started moving that way and the small faces started
the rest of them started moving that way.
He thought the pressure was too much on him.
He didn't think it was fair to drag the band down.
I don't know whether it's true, whether he just felt that was a good thing to say.
It was what Steve wanted to do, leave on that note.
He said he couldn't better that.
And that was the way to go to leave it.
He said, I've given them my absolute best and Ronnie too.
He said, that's it, I've had enough, I can't go on, I can't do this anymore.
[Gb] And he went off and that was humble pie.
It's like you lose your [G] best friend, [B] your brother, [E] your band member.
Not just that, but it's like [Abm] times four because the [B] whole band had to break up.
We had a magic mix [E] of four people.
It was very sad.
[B] To you I'm just a [Ebm] toy, but I'm the [Abm] boy who tells [Ebm] you when you should [Gb] play.
[Gb]
Yes, you hurt me, you hurt me.
[E]
[A] I'd be in the car [E] driving along, I've got the radio on.
And he's suddenly singing a song as [B] if he's there with me in the car.
People say [Ebm] that you're lucky, but I know [Abm] I am.
But it's very [B] difficult too, it's very hard.
[E] Because he's [Am] not here, is he?
[E] I'd like [B] to think that he would have gone on and [Ebm] still [Abm] wrote musicals.
[G] [Abm]
[Abm] [Gm] [Abm]
I was playing a gig [G] and [Abm] a guy came up to me [Ab] during the show.
[Db] He handed me a bit of paper and said, I've got Steve's number, he's in town and would like to speak to you.
And I hadn't seen him in ages.
And [Gb] I said, thanks for the number, I ain't going to call him.
I mean, I used to avoid him, you know.
[B]
I'd still avoid him because he was too much, you know.
[E]
[B]
[E] [B]
[E]
[B] I'll see him again.
We'll [E] reform the band.
[Gb] [B] And kick him out of it.
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[E]
[B] [E] [Dbm]
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Yeah, Steve [G] came in with this [G] song, it was finished. _ _
I think it was much slower.
It was much slower.
I can't picture how it would be now, but it would be a different [Eb] feel anyway.
And I looked at Ronnie and went_
_ [G] _ What a love.
We started playing it like that_
_ _ Rooty tooty dido.
And it was a hit, and it killed us.
Because then we were a joke band.
We were trying to be heavier, and now we were a joke band.
[Eb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] Rock became intellectualised after Sgt Pepper.
It became the domain of the intellectuals and the middle class press.
And I think they were overlooked from that point of view.
For Ronnie Lane, you laughed at life.
You didn't let it get to you.
And Steve Marriott was the same.
And that kind of sensibility really informed a lot of the Small Faces music.
But made people believe, oh, they can't be serious.
This is Max Wall with pop songs.
Their music isn't intellectual.
It's not because it's without intelligence.
But it's not formed from intellect, first off.
It's instinct.
Whether they were Soul Boys or Soul Boys on acid_
they still did everything [Am] very authentically as themselves.
Whatever style [G] they were in, whatever bag they were in_
they never lost sight of being East End [D] Herberts. _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] Don't [Ebm] worry about the book [A] under itself
Right.
_ That is_
Let me know you stopped in town
You famous whore
[Am] _ Kenny [E] Jones, Ian McClagan and Ronnie Lane _ tolerated [D] Marriott.
Marriott was a [Am] fireball.
He couldn't stop talking.
He was [G] constantly up to something.
He was somebody that I don't think you could [E] particularly [Am] relax with.
He would tire you out.
I did five years with that band.
When you go to bed, you sort of go_
You'd be worn out.
He was lovely, but_
he was very hard to take.
[E] _ _ [D] From the end of you, [B] there's nothing he [A] can't do
[B] Now we're [G] buried into it, [E] we can't [Dbm] go no more
[G] And as the sun sets over Thailand, we say farewell to the small faces.
Marriott started moving that way and the small faces started_
the rest of them started moving that way.
He thought the pressure was too much on him.
_ He didn't think it was fair to drag the band down.
I don't know whether it's true, whether he just felt that was a good thing to say.
It was what Steve wanted to do, leave on that note.
He said he couldn't better that.
And that was the way to go to leave it.
He said, I've given them my absolute best and Ronnie too.
He said, that's it, I've had enough, I can't go on, I can't do this anymore.
[Gb] And he went off and that was humble pie.
It's like you lose your _ [G] best friend, [B] your brother, _ _ [E] your band member.
Not just that, but it's like [Abm] times four because the [B] whole band had to break up.
We had a magic mix [E] of four people.
It was very sad.
[B] To you I'm just a [Ebm] toy, but I'm the [Abm] boy who tells [Ebm] you when you should [Gb] play.
_ [Gb] _
Yes, you hurt me, you hurt me.
[E] _
[A] I'd be in the car [E] driving along, I've got the radio on.
And he's suddenly singing a song as [B] if he's there with me in the car.
People say [Ebm] that you're lucky, but I know [Abm] I am.
But it's very [B] difficult too, it's very hard.
[E] Because he's [Am] not here, is he?
[E] _ _ _ _ I'd like [B] _ to think that he would have gone on and [Ebm] still [Abm] wrote musicals.
_ [G] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Abm]
I was playing a gig [G] and [Abm] a guy came up to me [Ab] during the show.
[Db] He handed me a bit of paper and said, I've got Steve's number, he's in town and would like to speak to you.
And I hadn't seen him in ages.
And [Gb] I said, thanks for the number, I ain't going to call him.
I mean, I used to avoid him, you know.
_ _ _ [B] _
I'd still avoid him because he was too much, you know.
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ I'll see him again. _
We'll [E] reform the band.
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [B] And kick him out of it.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _