Chords for Rupert Holmes at Rockers On Broadway talks about & plays Escape (The Piña Colada Song) 10-15-12

control room to hear how it sounded and it was really sloppy.
It was a very bad take,
sounded terrible.
And I turned to the musicians I was working with and I said, yeah, I know
[F] we can do better than that.
And I looked and the drummer was unconscious.
[N] _ _ I'm not kidding.
From apparently having so much fun doing that first take or some fun he had on the way to
the studio that day.
And I was stuck with this track.
It went all over the place.
It
changed keys.
It had different bridges.
And I had nothing.
And I had to come up with a
tune that would be a kind of up-tempo tune for the album.
So I did something that's very
common nowadays but was like unheard of back then.
I found 16 bars of that first take that
were tight, that felt good.
And I duped those 16 bars onto another machine and we edited
those 16 bars together until we had four minutes of the same bloody 16 bars. _
_ _ And then I thought
I'm going to have to write a new song to fit this existing practice.
[Em] And [N] I knew it would
have to be a story song because the song itself was the same 16 bars over and over again.
So I finally wrote a [C] lyric.
I wrote about 15 attempts at it.
[F] I went with, that's the
law of the jungle.
[D] In [C] the school of the street.
[B] And I warmed up [Ab] for Billy Joel.
And [Ebm] so finally
I wrote a song and it [N] went, did you like Humphrey Bogart and getting caught in the rain?
And
on the way to the session to do the vocal, I thought, I _ live always. _
Just [F] kidding, bitch.
It's [Eb] 77777.
[D] I _
_ _ _ [F] _ was about to sing the [G] scratch vocal, the reference vocal on the tune.
[B] And
I thought, you know, I've done so many [F] movie references of, do you like Humphrey Bogart?
That's not good.
The people [N] in the song, they want an escape.
They want an escape.
When
you go on vacation to the islands, you never order a Budweiser.
You order a drink with
a _ parasol and a flag of all nations.
And if it's blue, that's really good.
And I thought,
what are [F] the escape drinks?
Mai Tai, [N] Daiquiri, Pina Colada.
Do you like Humphrey Bogart?
Do you like Pina Colada?
So I did that.
I said that phrase.
[D] And my record label came
to me and said, Rupert, you know, you [N] called the song escape, but the world is calling
it the Pina Colada song.
So could we just call it escape parenthesis the Pina Colada
[Ebm] song?
I said, compromise [B] my artistic [N] integrity.
_ So here's the Pina Colada song for you. _ _ _
_ _ _ And
by the way, this is my band and we've never played this before.
Are we doing it in C?
[D] The [Cm] last time I sang [Eb] in C was when [F] I recorded it 33 years ago.
I think some introductions
are [N] in order here.
Hi.
_ Okay, _ so we're going to try and wing this for you.
Okay, one.
_ [Bb] _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ [E] _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [C] I was [F] caught in a bucket.
We'd been [C] together too long.
_ [E] Like a [F] brown-eyed recording [Dm] of
a [C] favorite song.
[C] [E] So Washington [F] A and S, we met.
[F] I read the [C] paper, but I [C] [E] didn't know
[F] who you were talking to.
[F] It was a [C] letter I read.
[F] _ [C] [E] You like [F] Pina Colada?
[Dm] You can't [C] follow
me.
_ [E] [F] I'm the yoga.
[Dm] In the [C] house.
_ _ [E] _ [F] _
[G] [F] In the [C] tombs of the [F] cave.
[C] _ [F] All that you've ever thought
of.
[Gm] To [C] me, I'm just a small.
_ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ [F] _ [Cm] I'm a little picky [F] about my music.
[G] [F] I know that [C] sounds
kind [F] of big.
[C] But [E] me and my [F] old lady.
[G] _ [F] All the [C] music's ain't [F] old, don't [C] lose it.
[Em] So I wrote
[F] to the blue-belly.
Got a personal [C] hat.
_ [E] Though I'm [F] nobody's [G] poet, [F] I thought it wasn't [C] half
bad.
[F] Yes, I'm a Pina Colada.
[G] _ [F] Get drunk [C] with me.
[F] _ [C] [E] I'm a [F] Washington [G] fool.
[F] _ _ [C] [F] Hey, [C] I [E] got you
to [F] join the party.
[G] _ [F] Let's blow [C] this linty.
I don't want [F] to go to the party.
_ [Dm] Two [C] girls
went on a date.
_ [F] _
_ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] So I went with high hopes.
And [G] she walked into the [C] place.
I was [F] smiling
at [G] the curve [C] of her face.
It [Gm] was my own [F] lovely lady.
_ [A] She said, [C] how's you?
_ And I laughed [F] for
a moment.
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ She's pretty.
[F] _
[G] _ [F] Get [C] drunk with me.
[E] And [F] feel the ocean.
[G] And the [C] taste of champagne.
[E] If you let [F] me love you tonight.
[F] _ [D] _ [C] _ I'm [Gm] a little [F] drunk.
If you want to [Dm] come with [C] me.
Now this
is our last chorus.
[E] _ [F] _
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ [C] So if you feel like it, we can go home.
We'll [E] stop here and have [F] some
hand claps here.
_ _ [C] _ _ [C] Yes, I'm a [F] Pina Colada.
[F] Get drunk with me.
[C] And _ [F] feel the ocean.
And [Gm] the
[C] taste of champagne.
[C] _ [E] _ [F] _
_ And [C] _ _ [C] [E] I'm a [F] Washington fool.
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