Chords for Only A Memory - The Smithereens at BB King, New York NY 1/21/17

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh yeah!
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ You're all warmed up, [N] right?
How are you guys doing?
I don't _ _ know you guys. _ _ _ _ _
Throw that guy out.
How we doing, alright? _ _ _
Nice to see you.
_ _ [B] How are you folks in the back doing?
You're right [D#] up there, close to [A] the bar, aren't you?
_ [G#m] _
Yeah, good.
Good to see you guys.
_ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ This next song appeared in a motion picture
called Bold Dora.
_ _ Yeah!
You guys, where do you live?
_ We're on the road all the time, so I don't know anymore.
You ever hear of a TV channel called TBS? _
Raise your hand.
Come on, help us out here.
You get TBS?
You ever see it?
I guarantee you, if we turned the [D#] TV
set on right now, Bold Dora would be on.
[N] _ The fucking movie's on all the time, right?
Haven't seen a dime from it, right?
I _ _ _ _ _ _ _
remember _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
we were in the studio [A] at the Capitol Tower
recording [G#m] _ the Green Thoughts album,
the second album, recording this song.
And we got a phone call [G#] from the star and [Am] producer
of Bold Dora.
You ever hear of a guy named [G#] Kevin Costner?
[N] _ _
_ Costner?
_ Kevin Costigan.
_ Costner?
Yeah, Bob Costas.
_ _ Anyway. _ _
[B] We knew what he wanted.
He wanted, he heard an advance copy,
a cassette [F#m] tape of [A] the new album,
Green Thoughts, with this [B] song.
A song called Only a Memory, [Am] right?
And he wanted this song for [N] Bold Dora. _
So, because we're from Jersey,
we don't give a fuck about anything, right?
It took us like a dozen years
just to get our [G#] foot in the door of a
$2,000 record contract
[A] with Enigma [A#m] Records, right?
[A] They signed us for $2,000
in that year.
They had platinum albums [F] from the Smithereens,
Motley Crue, _ Striper,
and who [N] was the other group?
Poison, right?
What the fuck? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ They all bought Islands
[B] at Tahiti and we got like [N] four fucking
corned beef salons. _ _ _
Get the fuck out of here. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ [D] _
Anyway.
[F] So Kevin Costner keeps calling
the Capitol [D#] Tower and we keep like,
you [A] know, we keep ignoring his calls, right?
So finally we said,
you know, you can use it for the movie,
but you can't have it for the soundtrack album.
Do you remember how big soundtrack albums
were in [N] the 80s?
I think The Burglar, we were on that one.
That didn't do well.
It was a Wicker Goldberg movie.
[G] But _ I'm thinking of
The [Am] Bodyguard, actually.
[G#] That sold like 17 million copies worldwide, [G] right?
Nick [A] Lowe
had a song called What's So Funny
[G#] about peace, love, and [N] understanding, right?
Remember that one?
And _ _ _ _ somebody named
Curtis Stigers recorded it.
And Nick Lowe didn't even know about it.
He went to his mailbox in England and he opened up
an envelope from Arista Records and it was
a check for two million fucking dollars.
_ _ _ Anyway,
we refused to let them have
only a memory for the movie soundtrack of Bull Durham.
_ _ Green Thoughts went gold almost immediately,
but Bull Durham [A] sold like 18 fucking
million copies [N] within a week, right?
So what did we know?
Anyway, that being said, may we do this song for [D#] you?
_ Jimmy, you're going to start [G#] this one off.
Sing along if you know it. _ _ _
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Only [D#] a memory _ [E] [Bm] Broken bits
of [F#] you and me
[G#] _ [C#] _ Only [D#m] a memory
_ [Bm] _ Only [F#] a [C#] memory
_ [G#] _ _
Only [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ [G#] a memory
I have [F#] _
_ [C#] no [D#] fear _ [G#] Fade [F#] away _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] Disappear
[G#] Now [F#] I have
to [C#] learn [D#] again
_ [G#] No [F#] more friends
[C#] What's it so [F#] painful if _ only [D#] a memory
_ [F#] But our love was
not to be
[C#] _ _ Only [D#m] a [D#] memory
_ [Bm] Now that we [F#] are
used to be
[C#] _ _
Only [D#m] a memory
_ [Bm] _ _ [F#]
Only a [C#] memory [G#] Jimmy _ Jimmy
_ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
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_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Only [D#] a [D#m] memory
_ [E] Only a memory
What our [F#]
love
was gone to be
[C#] _ _ [F#] [G#m] Only a _ [D#m] memory [B] Broken bits
[F#] of you and me
[C#] _ [F#] _ Only [G#] a [D#m] memory
_ _ _ [F#] Only a [C#] memory
Put your [G#] hands together
[F#] _
_ [C#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _
_ [C#] _ _ [D#] _ _ _ [G#] _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ It should be my joke
If I tried
[G#] It should [F#] be round
One day right
[G#] I just [F#] must
be [C#] [D#] too late
[G#] _ [F#] I'm not good
at keeping a place
_ [D#m] Only a memory
_ [F#] What our love
was gone to be
[C#] _ _ [F#] Only [D#] a memory _ _ [B] Broken bits
[F#] of you and me
_ [F#] _ Only a [A#m] memory
_ [F#] _ _ Only a memory _ _ [D#m] _ Only a memory _ _ [B] _ [F#] Only a [B] memory Only a _ [F#] Only a [B] memory
[D#m] Only _ [B] _ _ [F#] a memory
Never seen then Never had Never been Never seen Never seen
But this is the man that _ _ [G#m] evacuates Bearing [F#] me Forever _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] Born
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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ Bye!
_ _ _ _ [D#] _
_ _ _ [N] _ Bye!
Bye! Bye!