Chords for Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

[C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] When Proko Harum started and [G] that era from then,
the whole atmosphere changed slightly
[Em] until things became [G] really a bit more [C] important
and a bit more [Am] serious and a bit [F] more artistic.
[N] Everyone had started becoming more experimental.
You know, the art was kind of [D] creeping in. _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ I [G] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] do remember having this musical idea,
which I worked out on the piano,
Air On G String, [C] which was a Bach [B] composition.
And [E] it came out, but I think when I got after about the first two bars,
I think I got it wrong, kind of thing,
or [C] didn't remember where it went,
but I just carried on in my own way.
_ [Em] And I wrote this sequence,
[Am] which had a bit of [C] Bach-like melody over the top,
[F] bit Air On G [Am] String-y, just [Dm] in that style.
And I think it was about then [G] that an envelope had either arrived
that morning [Em] or something,
[G] and [C] I opened it and it was some new lyrics from Keith.
[F] And the first one that I [G] opened was [C] A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
_ [Em] We skip the [Am] light fandango
[C] _ _
[F] Turns [Am] _ [Dm] cartwheels across the floor
[F] I _
[G] _ [B] was feeling [Em] kind of seasick
[G] _ _
[C] _ _ [Em] The crowd [Am] called out for more
[C] The _
[F] _ _ [Am] room was humming [Dm] harder
_ [F] _ _
[G] _ As the ceiling flew [Em] away
You know, I was [G] at a party,
just [C] a bunch of people sitting around and [Em] having a good time,
[Am] and [C] they were talking about [F] a friend of theirs.
Really, they were [Am] saying, you kind of look a bit strange,
[Dm] or you look [F] a little pale, or this.
[Dm] I overheard this little [G] conversation,
[F] and I turned that into that phrase,
A Whiter Shade [G] Of Pale.
As the [C] movie runs [Em] the [Am] play
[C] As [F] _ [Am] the miller [Dm] told his tale
[F] _ _
[G] Let her face at [Em] first just go steep
[G] Turn [C] the [F] whiter [C] shade of pale
[G] _
[C] I've always [Em] been very interested in [C] visual, you know,
in pictures, in [F] painting, in cinema.
I've always [Am] been interested in visual stuff,
[Dm] and so you try and come up with that in words.
[G] These are very abstract [Em] things,
but it's kind of what you're trying to express.
And that's the [G] way I work, basically, [N] with an idea,
building, going from a little piece, you know.
You could say if you were [Ab] a painter,
a few brushstrokes, and you look at it and you go,
[F] hmm, what is that, what could that [C] be?
Kind of like being in a, yeah,
Toulouse-Lautrec type picture.
[Em] She said there is [Am] no reason
[C] And [F] _
[Am] the truth is [Dm] plain to see
[F] _ _ [G] But [B] I wandered through [Em] my playing cards
[G] _ _ [C] _
[Em] Would not let [Am] her be
[C] _ [F] One [Am] of 16 [Dm] Vessel Virgins
[F] _ _ [G] _ _
[B] We're leaving for [Em] the coast
I [G] used to like, [C] I still do,
I used to like the surrealist [Am] painters very much.
[Dm] So [C] like a Dali painting, [Am] you might think,
[Em] I'd like, I'd like the song,
I'd like it to feel like a Dali painting looks.
You know, clocks dissolving and just fantastical things.
You know, the colors that somebody would use in a picture,
you try and come up with that in words.
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] As [Am]
a mirror [Dm] told his tale
[F] _ _ [G] _ [B] That her face [Em] had burst just [G] ghostly
_ [C] Turned the [F] water
[C] Shade of [G] fair
It [C] was out before [Em] the Sergeant Pepper album
and before a lot [Am] of other things.
[C] It was the very first [F] attempt to really [Am] go off
and into another angle.
I [F] think really there was no [Ab] fashion or style
that [G] was like the white shade of pale.
And which is possibly one of the reasons
that it [C] shocks and affected [F] everybody
[G] was that it wasn't like [C] anything else.
_ _ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _