Chords for Richard Clapton Capricorn Dancer 2UE 10 June 2010.wmv

Is it, what's the word for it, is it a bit spooky when you still hear the stuff that you wrote so long ago on the radio? _
No, not at all.
I don't know.
I really, over the years, I think I started out as a very rebellious enfant terrible, you know, in my early days.
You were a bit.
Yes, I was notorious for fighting with record companies and always getting myself into trouble.
As the years mellowed and now I have 20 year old twin daughters and as you know.
Yes.
You know, what was the Lion King, the Circle of Life?
That's the one.
Yes, and I've mellowed a lot to that and I mean, look, quite honestly, I remember in my bad old days, I went through a period where I couldn't stand to do Girls on the Avenue anymore.
I bet.
And I was told I was drunk one night and I did a bossa nova version of it on stage.
But then, I don't know, look, we grow up and grow out of all that.
Yeah, but there's so many performers have done that.
Yeah.
They said, look, please, I don't want to do that anymore.
Can you please listen to my new stuff?
And then the audience goes, okay, well, listen to the new stuff but can you just do a few of the old ones for us, you know?
Well, Tim, I have a nice house and it's the House of Girls on the Avenue built for us.
I love the song.
I've always loved that song.
I love that song.
But when, yeah, that's interesting because I've got kids about that age too and it is the Circle of Life.
It is.
And you see them doing all the same things that you did and you think nothing really ever changes.
Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way?
That's right.
What's the matter with kids today?
But it's not just you and your songs.
Gee, you've played with some wonderful musos, haven't you?
Oh, God, yeah.
You've been on stage with some wonderful –
Well, off-air just then, we were talking about my concert at the State Theatre last year.
Yeah.
And on the second night, Mossy, Ian Moss got up and played with me at the end of the scene.
And it just brings the house down.
I mean, Mossy used to play with me a lot but, you know, nowadays, as we all know, Mossy's pretty busy with his own career.
_ _ _ He doesn't play with me as regularly as he used to because I don't know whether people know
but that great Escape album with Iron Man Island and Best Years of Our Lives, that's all Ian Moss.
Like the backing vocals on Best Years of Our Lives are actually Ian Moss.
That's Mossy too.
Yeah, yeah.
What a wonderful player he is.
But he's not the only one.
Oh, no, no, no.
And then, you know, the Yenix Sessors who are still –
Yeah, the Farrises, yeah.
Yeah.
I still feel like they're my little brothers in many ways.
So I still see a lot of them.
So that's a 30-year friendship now.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
I met them in – I produced their album in 1980.
So 30-year friendship it is.
They're a bunch of manly bastards, you know.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
_ _ Did I just say that?
No, but see, now they're all family men.
I went over to Johnny Farris's, I don't know, three or four months ago for a dinner party
and he's got little kids running around now.
It's like the wild men of the 80s and here we are. _
The great old songs that we know, and you're going to do one of your absolute classics for us.
By the way, what's this nonsense about no one knowing how old you are?
I reckon you're my age.
I reckon you're 58.
Thank you, Tim. _ _
_ _ _ He won't say.
How about the pregnant pause?
What I love is the media every year, they're four or five weeks out either way.
Four or five weeks early, four or five weeks late.
And that's because you won't say.
I'm still not saying.
Well, [Eb] _ just sing a song then. All right. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ And Capricorn dancer, _ [Ab] _ _ _ riding the shelter, _
_ [Abm] you show me a sign, lead me on to [Ebm] the [Eb] tropical zone. _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ Diamonds scattered out to sea, [Ebm] _ [Eb] _ the sun keeps lighting down on me.
[Ab] _ There's crazy forces trying to chase [Abm] the wind.
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_ [Eb] _ watch the waves come tumbling down, [Ebm] _ [Eb] _ hearing all those different [Ebm] sounds.
[Ab] _ It cleared my head and eased my [Abm] worried _ mind. _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ And Capricorn dancer, _ [Ab] _ _ I'm riding the shelter, _
you [F] show me a sign, lead me on to the [Ebm] tropical [Eb] zone. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And Capricorn dancer, _
_ [Ab] I'm _ riding the shelter,
_ [F] you show me a sign, lead me on [Ebm] to the [Eb] tropical zone. _ _ _ _
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[Ebm] [Ab] Can you see _ _ that [Ebm] purple [Eb] _ glow?
Purple glow. _
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_ [Eb] _ _ Can _ _ _
[Ebm] [Ab] you see _ _ _ that [Ebm] [Eb] purple _ _ _ glow? _
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right.
_ _ _ One of our best ever.