Chords for Paul Simon - Mrs. Robinson (Dick Cavett Show 1970)
Tempo:
97.9 bpm
Chords used:
G
E
Em
C
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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When you're recording now
you I gather that you're kind of a perfectionist and that you find it hard to get it, right?
I mean, we're right where you want it
when that's it.
close enough
to the finished record in the case of bridge over troubled water
that I wanted it to be a piano
bothered to work out the guitar part
you I gather that you're kind of a perfectionist and that you find it hard to get it, right?
I mean, we're right where you want it
when that's it.
close enough
to the finished record in the case of bridge over troubled water
that I wanted it to be a piano
bothered to work out the guitar part
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G
E
Em
C
D
G
E
Em
_ _ When you're recording now
_ Are you I gather that you're kind of a perfectionist and that you find it hard to get it, right?
I mean, we're right where you want it
Well, there comes a point when that's it.
Yeah, you say I I accept that
That's close enough
It's very difficult to translate the song that's written on the guitar to the finished record in the case of bridge over troubled water
I always knew that I wanted it to be a piano
I always knew I never wanted to be played on the guitar and I never bothered to work out the guitar part
And I knew that I wanted it to be
For Artie and not for me to sing and so I never bothered to transpose it into a key that I could sing it
Do you like to listen to your records?
_ Does it mean anything to you to hear them?
_ Yes, it's each song means whatever whatever I was like when I wrote it.
I don't listen to the records very often.
No
How'd you get involved in the graduate mrs.
Robinson, how did that come about?
Oh, I I'm ran into Mel Brooks the other day.
Yeah, he said I had no idea how miserable that song had made his life _
His wife is it
So everywhere they went is You who?
_ _ _ And pointing out like best in _ _ _ _
Yeah
The graduate Mike Nichols called yeah and asked
_ he said he had a book and he was gonna make a film and it's called the graduate and he
sent us the book and
he was in the midst of the film then he was almost finished and
he convinced us to do the music and
The music was supposed to be
mostly original music _ _ but
_ What would happen is that in order to fill up a scene
we would take some piece of music and put it there just to hear what music would sound like and
A few of the times that we did that it was so effective _
Particularly Scarborough Fair, which I thought that worked very well in the movie Scarborough Fair scene _
_ _ [E] Mrs.
Robinson was made up on the spot.
That was originally supposed to be
That was a chase scene and they wanted guitar music and I was playing
I didn't know what I was playing.
I was just
riffing on guitar and _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Things [Em] _ _ _ like _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ that I was just playing a fill and
_ It wasn't working and I had been fooling [G] around with a song that was I was singing
_ [D] [Am] And [G] here's to you.
[Em] Mrs.
Robinson
[G]
Jesus [F#m] loves you [Em] more
[C] No for no particular reason I had nothing in mind just came into your head
Yes, completely just into my [D] head.
Whoa.
Whoa, and then the next line [Em] was God bless you, [G] please
Mrs. Roosevelt
Heaven holds a place for those [C] who pray
[N] It was mrs.
Roosevelt and then he said well
That would change the plot of the movie.
Yeah
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ And a political element that he didn't want in there and that's how that happened and since there was nothing but
That chorus and no words and we made it up on [E] the spot.
We sang
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ [C] And [Am] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] [G] here's to you
[Em] _ _ [G] Jesus loves you more
[C] And [N] pass it on the Roosevelt _
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that said and then the actual recording of that song was done after the movie was finished
The the hit of the song the song that became a hit was after the film.
Oh, yes
How did Joe DiMaggio get in there was he playing catch with mrs.
Roosevelt in your mind? _ _ _ _ _
It's very pleasurable to write in a stream of consciousness style and
_ Very often you find that what's in your mind is relevant
Although at the moment it doesn't seem so and so as I was writing up
I I I had no idea that I would say that but I but I said where have you gone Joe DiMaggio a
nation turns its lonely eyes to you and
Then the next line I didn't have but I made up one and I put it in and then I asked myself later
What it meant and I said well, it means something it'll mean something _
_ What do people stop performing like the Bob Dylan is sort of off disappeared and rarely comes out the Beatles don't like to perform much
Anymore and you two don't make very many appearances.
Don't answer that right now now a word from our local station
We'll find out when we get back _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Are you I gather that you're kind of a perfectionist and that you find it hard to get it, right?
I mean, we're right where you want it
Well, there comes a point when that's it.
Yeah, you say I I accept that
That's close enough
It's very difficult to translate the song that's written on the guitar to the finished record in the case of bridge over troubled water
I always knew that I wanted it to be a piano
I always knew I never wanted to be played on the guitar and I never bothered to work out the guitar part
And I knew that I wanted it to be
For Artie and not for me to sing and so I never bothered to transpose it into a key that I could sing it
Do you like to listen to your records?
_ Does it mean anything to you to hear them?
_ Yes, it's each song means whatever whatever I was like when I wrote it.
I don't listen to the records very often.
No
How'd you get involved in the graduate mrs.
Robinson, how did that come about?
Oh, I I'm ran into Mel Brooks the other day.
Yeah, he said I had no idea how miserable that song had made his life _
His wife is it
So everywhere they went is You who?
_ _ _ And pointing out like best in _ _ _ _
Yeah
The graduate Mike Nichols called yeah and asked
_ he said he had a book and he was gonna make a film and it's called the graduate and he
sent us the book and
he was in the midst of the film then he was almost finished and
he convinced us to do the music and
The music was supposed to be
mostly original music _ _ but
_ What would happen is that in order to fill up a scene
we would take some piece of music and put it there just to hear what music would sound like and
A few of the times that we did that it was so effective _
Particularly Scarborough Fair, which I thought that worked very well in the movie Scarborough Fair scene _
_ _ [E] Mrs.
Robinson was made up on the spot.
That was originally supposed to be
That was a chase scene and they wanted guitar music and I was playing
I didn't know what I was playing.
I was just
riffing on guitar and _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Things [Em] _ _ _ like _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ that I was just playing a fill and
_ It wasn't working and I had been fooling [G] around with a song that was I was singing
_ [D] [Am] And [G] here's to you.
[Em] Mrs.
Robinson
[G]
Jesus [F#m] loves you [Em] more
[C] No for no particular reason I had nothing in mind just came into your head
Yes, completely just into my [D] head.
Whoa.
Whoa, and then the next line [Em] was God bless you, [G] please
Mrs. Roosevelt
Heaven holds a place for those [C] who pray
[N] It was mrs.
Roosevelt and then he said well
That would change the plot of the movie.
Yeah
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ And a political element that he didn't want in there and that's how that happened and since there was nothing but
That chorus and no words and we made it up on [E] the spot.
We sang
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ [C] And [Am] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] [G] here's to you
[Em] _ _ [G] Jesus loves you more
[C] And [N] pass it on the Roosevelt _
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that said and then the actual recording of that song was done after the movie was finished
The the hit of the song the song that became a hit was after the film.
Oh, yes
How did Joe DiMaggio get in there was he playing catch with mrs.
Roosevelt in your mind? _ _ _ _ _
It's very pleasurable to write in a stream of consciousness style and
_ Very often you find that what's in your mind is relevant
Although at the moment it doesn't seem so and so as I was writing up
I I I had no idea that I would say that but I but I said where have you gone Joe DiMaggio a
nation turns its lonely eyes to you and
Then the next line I didn't have but I made up one and I put it in and then I asked myself later
What it meant and I said well, it means something it'll mean something _
_ What do people stop performing like the Bob Dylan is sort of off disappeared and rarely comes out the Beatles don't like to perform much
Anymore and you two don't make very many appearances.
Don't answer that right now now a word from our local station
We'll find out when we get back _ _ _ _ _ _
