Chords for Smith & Burrows - Funny Looking Angels Track by Track (Part 1)
Tempo:
118.25 bpm
Chords used:
C
Am
G
Dm
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
In the bleak [Am] midwinter
So one of the Christmas covers that starts our record is In the Bleak Midwinter.
I can't remember if it was your idea or mine or ours.
It was my idea.
It was your idea of course.
Most of the ideas are Tom's.
Actually they really were.
It's one of those songs that everyone kind of knows.
It's a hymn.
I mean I think it's the only hymn, isn't it?
Technically a hymn, I don't know how you define a hymn.
I think it is what it's a hymn.
It's got to be a set.
It's like an antique song.
[Em] Is it?
Oh [Am] is that what it is?
No, I just made that up.
[Abm] But it's a beautiful melody.
It's just instantly [C] played the chords.
There's a thing that kind of developed for all of the songs that we did.
Kind of having like a drone note that kind of suspends through the whole song together.
Slight tension and that song seemed to work really well.
The kind of crescendo and grand opening.
I think it immediately felt like us to the opening of the record.
Even before we had the whole album.
[Am] And even though we made it in a room, [F] I don't know, half the size of this.
[C] Everything we did had a certain kind of bigness to it.
But it is generally quite an orchestral.
Yeah.
Sort of big wide screen.
We talked a lot about Simon and Garfunkel and their kind of drum sounds and [Fm] things on some of their [G] records.
Yeah, [C] that's in that song as well.
[Dm] [C] God damn [C] this [Am] snow.
That goes straight into When the Thames Froze.
Tom's tune.
And that's the main single for this record as well.
That song I've been trying to write for a while.
How long [G] for a while?
Three years Andy, I've been trying to write a Christmas song.
[Dm]
The first thing I wrote was the hmmm.
I definitely felt like for the first time, you know, with shops kind of closing down.
[C] People getting poorer.
And the [G] recession kind of brought it in.
So I remember feeling that and then writing some of the words that ended up in that song.
The first half of the song is kind of lonely and down.
And it kind of gradually gets bigger and then there's a big sort of sing along.
It was interesting, because Andy said it was my song.
And I wrote the chords and the [Am] words.
But I just recorded the piano pass.
And then I buggered off and I left you and Tim finish [G] it.
So a lot of it is actually Andy's as well now.
It really was kind of
[Am] It was the first time our songwriting had kind of combined a bit, which was nice.
[Em]
[B] Track three on our album is As The Snowflakes Fall.
And this is one that you've written most of. Yeah, definitely.
The opposite.
Most of, yeah, we ended up working on it together.
[G] So Tom had written [Am] When The Thames Froze.
And I was [Em] starting to feel a little bit inadequate in [Am] terms of the [E] creativity on this record.
Because I thought, I'd better write a song too.
And I was really struggling.
And then kind of just as the same with homework when I was at school.
[G] On the night before we were due to get in the studio, I managed to come up with something.
[Dm] And it was pretty good.
[A] And we recorded it.
And then, yeah, Tom and Tim [D] made it better.
[F] That's kind of how I feel that song went.
And it [C] ends up sounding [Dm] festive for sure.
[C] And [F] sad.
[C] I'm only good at [E] sad.
So we have two songs back to back there.
[Dm] Original [C] songs.
Original songs, Happy [A] and Sad.
Funny Looking Angels.
Angels.
It's a song, isn't it, by?
By a band called Delta.
Who are from Birmingham.
A band that probably most people would never have heard of.
One of those indie bands that were loved by few.
But for whatever reason, it never kind of got out of the starting box really.
So yeah, to me it was a nice nod to Birmingham, which is kind of the place that gave birth to me as a musician.
And also the title kind of played on my mind a bit.
Making this Christmas record.
And I don't know.
The idea of it being slightly tongue in [Bm] cheek.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
[E] And also a great song.
Brilliant song actually.
And [B] I got to sing it, which is nice of Tom.
Yeah, I mean, I only let Andy sing certain [E] things.
Yeah.
That's actually, it's actually been very diplomatic.
I think it's about half and half.
It is indeed, half and half.
[Bm] [D]
[Bm] Next up is Wonderful Life by Black.
[C]
Yeah, without [B] meaning to sound over dramatic, that's where our record started.
Yeah.
I also, another thing that like, another record that I thought about when we were choosing the covers,
and the way that we were doing them particularly, was those Johnny Cash American recordings.
And I don't know, I think this song, to me, is a nod to [Bm] some of those songs.
I'd sung it on stage with him a few times when he toured with Iron Arrows,
but I think anyone that might have heard us do that, it's very different to that.
Yeah.
It's quite ominous.
It's kind of sinister.
Tom sent me the demo for that version of it, and it just totally blew my mind.
[B] And I think that that was when I started to get really excited about the prospect of us actually making a record together.
Because up until that point, I was like, I think it's just [D] something that we're going to talk about in the pub for the next ten years.
So it was really cool when he sent that demo through.
I was like, oh no, maybe this will happen.
So one of the Christmas covers that starts our record is In the Bleak Midwinter.
I can't remember if it was your idea or mine or ours.
It was my idea.
It was your idea of course.
Most of the ideas are Tom's.
Actually they really were.
It's one of those songs that everyone kind of knows.
It's a hymn.
I mean I think it's the only hymn, isn't it?
Technically a hymn, I don't know how you define a hymn.
I think it is what it's a hymn.
It's got to be a set.
It's like an antique song.
[Em] Is it?
Oh [Am] is that what it is?
No, I just made that up.
[Abm] But it's a beautiful melody.
It's just instantly [C] played the chords.
There's a thing that kind of developed for all of the songs that we did.
Kind of having like a drone note that kind of suspends through the whole song together.
Slight tension and that song seemed to work really well.
The kind of crescendo and grand opening.
I think it immediately felt like us to the opening of the record.
Even before we had the whole album.
[Am] And even though we made it in a room, [F] I don't know, half the size of this.
[C] Everything we did had a certain kind of bigness to it.
But it is generally quite an orchestral.
Yeah.
Sort of big wide screen.
We talked a lot about Simon and Garfunkel and their kind of drum sounds and [Fm] things on some of their [G] records.
Yeah, [C] that's in that song as well.
[Dm] [C] God damn [C] this [Am] snow.
That goes straight into When the Thames Froze.
Tom's tune.
And that's the main single for this record as well.
That song I've been trying to write for a while.
How long [G] for a while?
Three years Andy, I've been trying to write a Christmas song.
[Dm]
The first thing I wrote was the hmmm.
I definitely felt like for the first time, you know, with shops kind of closing down.
[C] People getting poorer.
And the [G] recession kind of brought it in.
So I remember feeling that and then writing some of the words that ended up in that song.
The first half of the song is kind of lonely and down.
And it kind of gradually gets bigger and then there's a big sort of sing along.
It was interesting, because Andy said it was my song.
And I wrote the chords and the [Am] words.
But I just recorded the piano pass.
And then I buggered off and I left you and Tim finish [G] it.
So a lot of it is actually Andy's as well now.
It really was kind of
[Am] It was the first time our songwriting had kind of combined a bit, which was nice.
[Em]
[B] Track three on our album is As The Snowflakes Fall.
And this is one that you've written most of. Yeah, definitely.
The opposite.
Most of, yeah, we ended up working on it together.
[G] So Tom had written [Am] When The Thames Froze.
And I was [Em] starting to feel a little bit inadequate in [Am] terms of the [E] creativity on this record.
Because I thought, I'd better write a song too.
And I was really struggling.
And then kind of just as the same with homework when I was at school.
[G] On the night before we were due to get in the studio, I managed to come up with something.
[Dm] And it was pretty good.
[A] And we recorded it.
And then, yeah, Tom and Tim [D] made it better.
[F] That's kind of how I feel that song went.
And it [C] ends up sounding [Dm] festive for sure.
[C] And [F] sad.
[C] I'm only good at [E] sad.
So we have two songs back to back there.
[Dm] Original [C] songs.
Original songs, Happy [A] and Sad.
Funny Looking Angels.
Angels.
It's a song, isn't it, by?
By a band called Delta.
Who are from Birmingham.
A band that probably most people would never have heard of.
One of those indie bands that were loved by few.
But for whatever reason, it never kind of got out of the starting box really.
So yeah, to me it was a nice nod to Birmingham, which is kind of the place that gave birth to me as a musician.
And also the title kind of played on my mind a bit.
Making this Christmas record.
And I don't know.
The idea of it being slightly tongue in [Bm] cheek.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
[E] And also a great song.
Brilliant song actually.
And [B] I got to sing it, which is nice of Tom.
Yeah, I mean, I only let Andy sing certain [E] things.
Yeah.
That's actually, it's actually been very diplomatic.
I think it's about half and half.
It is indeed, half and half.
[Bm] [D]
[Bm] Next up is Wonderful Life by Black.
[C]
Yeah, without [B] meaning to sound over dramatic, that's where our record started.
Yeah.
I also, another thing that like, another record that I thought about when we were choosing the covers,
and the way that we were doing them particularly, was those Johnny Cash American recordings.
And I don't know, I think this song, to me, is a nod to [Bm] some of those songs.
I'd sung it on stage with him a few times when he toured with Iron Arrows,
but I think anyone that might have heard us do that, it's very different to that.
Yeah.
It's quite ominous.
It's kind of sinister.
Tom sent me the demo for that version of it, and it just totally blew my mind.
[B] And I think that that was when I started to get really excited about the prospect of us actually making a record together.
Because up until that point, I was like, I think it's just [D] something that we're going to talk about in the pub for the next ten years.
So it was really cool when he sent that demo through.
I was like, oh no, maybe this will happen.
Key:
C
Am
G
Dm
B
C
Am
G
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ In the bleak _ [Am] _ midwinter
_ _ So one of the Christmas covers that starts our record is In the Bleak Midwinter.
I can't remember if it was your idea or mine or ours.
It was my idea.
It was your idea of course.
Most of the ideas are Tom's.
Actually they really were.
It's one of those songs that everyone kind of knows.
It's a hymn.
I mean I think it's the only hymn, isn't it?
Technically a hymn, I don't know how you define a hymn.
I think it is what it's a hymn.
It's got to be a set.
It's like an antique song. _
_ [Em] Is it?
Oh [Am] is that what it is?
No, I just made that up.
[Abm] _ But it's a beautiful melody.
It's just instantly [C] played the chords.
There's a thing that kind of developed for all of the songs that we did.
Kind of having like a drone note that kind of suspends through the whole song together.
Slight tension and that song seemed to work really well.
The kind of crescendo and _ grand _ opening.
I think it immediately felt like us to the opening of the record.
Even before we had the whole album.
[Am] And even though we made it in a room, [F] I don't know, half the size of this.
_ _ _ [C] Everything we did had a certain kind of bigness to it.
But it is generally quite an orchestral.
Yeah.
Sort of big wide screen.
We talked a lot about Simon and Garfunkel and their kind of drum sounds and [Fm] things on some of their [G] records.
_ Yeah, [C] that's in that song as well.
_ [Dm] _ _ [C] God damn _ _ [C] this _ [Am] snow.
_ That goes straight into When the Thames Froze.
_ Tom's tune.
And that's the main single for this record as well.
That song I've been trying to write for a while.
_ How long [G] for a while?
Three years Andy, I've been trying to write a Christmas song.
[Dm]
The first thing I wrote was the hmmm.
_ I definitely felt like for the first time, you know, with shops kind of closing down. _ _ _
_ _ [C] People getting poorer.
And the [G] recession kind of brought it in.
So I remember feeling that and then writing some of the words that ended up in that song.
The first half of the song is kind of _ lonely and down.
And it kind of gradually gets bigger and then there's a big sort of sing along.
It was interesting, because Andy said it was my song.
And I wrote the chords and the [Am] words.
But I just recorded the piano pass.
And then I buggered off and I left you and Tim finish [G] it.
So a lot of it is actually Andy's as well now.
It really was kind of_
[Am] It was the first time our songwriting had kind of combined a bit, which was nice. _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] Track three on our album is As The Snowflakes Fall.
And this is one that you've written most of. Yeah, definitely.
The opposite.
Most of, yeah, we ended up working on it together.
[G] So Tom had written _ [Am] When The Thames Froze.
And I was [Em] starting to feel a little bit inadequate in [Am] terms of the [E] creativity on this record.
Because I thought, _ I'd better write a song too.
And I was really struggling.
And then kind of just as the same with homework when I was at school.
[G] On the night before we were due to get in the studio, I managed to come up with something.
[Dm] And it was pretty good.
[A] And we recorded it.
And then, yeah, Tom and Tim [D] made it better.
[F] That's kind of how I feel that song went.
And it [C] ends up sounding _ [Dm] _ festive for sure.
[C] And [F] sad.
_ [C] I'm only good at [E] sad.
So we have two songs back to back there.
_ [Dm] Original [C] songs.
Original songs, Happy [A] and Sad.
_ Funny Looking _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Angels.
_ Angels. _ _ _
It's a song, isn't it, by?
By a band called Delta.
Who are from Birmingham.
A band that probably most people would never have heard of. _
One of those indie bands that were loved by few.
But for whatever reason, it never kind of got out of the starting box really.
So yeah, to me it was a nice nod to Birmingham, which is kind of the place that gave birth to me as a musician.
And _ _ also the title kind of played on my mind a bit.
Making this Christmas record.
And I don't know.
The idea of it being slightly tongue in [Bm] cheek.
Yeah.
Yeah.
_ Absolutely.
Yeah.
[E] _ And also a great song.
Brilliant song actually.
And [B] I got to sing it, which is nice of Tom.
Yeah, I mean, I only let Andy sing certain [E] things.
Yeah.
_ That's actually, it's actually been very diplomatic.
I think it's about half and half.
It is indeed, half and half.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ Next up is Wonderful Life _ by Black.
[C]
Yeah, without [B] meaning to sound over dramatic, that's where our record started.
Yeah.
_ _ _ I also, another thing that like, another record that I thought about when we were choosing the covers,
and the way that we were doing them particularly, was those Johnny Cash American recordings.
And I don't know, I think this song, to me, is a nod to [Bm] some of those songs.
I'd sung it on stage with him a few times when he toured with Iron Arrows,
but I think anyone that might have heard us do that, it's very different to that.
Yeah.
It's quite ominous.
It's kind of sinister.
Tom sent me the demo for that version of it, and it just totally blew my mind.
[B] And I think that that was when I started to get really excited about the prospect of us actually making a record together.
Because up until that point, I was like, I think it's just [D] something that we're going to talk about in the pub for the next ten years.
So it was really cool when he sent that demo through.
I was like, oh no, maybe this will happen.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ In the bleak _ [Am] _ midwinter
_ _ So one of the Christmas covers that starts our record is In the Bleak Midwinter.
I can't remember if it was your idea or mine or ours.
It was my idea.
It was your idea of course.
Most of the ideas are Tom's.
Actually they really were.
It's one of those songs that everyone kind of knows.
It's a hymn.
I mean I think it's the only hymn, isn't it?
Technically a hymn, I don't know how you define a hymn.
I think it is what it's a hymn.
It's got to be a set.
It's like an antique song. _
_ [Em] Is it?
Oh [Am] is that what it is?
No, I just made that up.
[Abm] _ But it's a beautiful melody.
It's just instantly [C] played the chords.
There's a thing that kind of developed for all of the songs that we did.
Kind of having like a drone note that kind of suspends through the whole song together.
Slight tension and that song seemed to work really well.
The kind of crescendo and _ grand _ opening.
I think it immediately felt like us to the opening of the record.
Even before we had the whole album.
[Am] And even though we made it in a room, [F] I don't know, half the size of this.
_ _ _ [C] Everything we did had a certain kind of bigness to it.
But it is generally quite an orchestral.
Yeah.
Sort of big wide screen.
We talked a lot about Simon and Garfunkel and their kind of drum sounds and [Fm] things on some of their [G] records.
_ Yeah, [C] that's in that song as well.
_ [Dm] _ _ [C] God damn _ _ [C] this _ [Am] snow.
_ That goes straight into When the Thames Froze.
_ Tom's tune.
And that's the main single for this record as well.
That song I've been trying to write for a while.
_ How long [G] for a while?
Three years Andy, I've been trying to write a Christmas song.
[Dm]
The first thing I wrote was the hmmm.
_ I definitely felt like for the first time, you know, with shops kind of closing down. _ _ _
_ _ [C] People getting poorer.
And the [G] recession kind of brought it in.
So I remember feeling that and then writing some of the words that ended up in that song.
The first half of the song is kind of _ lonely and down.
And it kind of gradually gets bigger and then there's a big sort of sing along.
It was interesting, because Andy said it was my song.
And I wrote the chords and the [Am] words.
But I just recorded the piano pass.
And then I buggered off and I left you and Tim finish [G] it.
So a lot of it is actually Andy's as well now.
It really was kind of_
[Am] It was the first time our songwriting had kind of combined a bit, which was nice. _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] Track three on our album is As The Snowflakes Fall.
And this is one that you've written most of. Yeah, definitely.
The opposite.
Most of, yeah, we ended up working on it together.
[G] So Tom had written _ [Am] When The Thames Froze.
And I was [Em] starting to feel a little bit inadequate in [Am] terms of the [E] creativity on this record.
Because I thought, _ I'd better write a song too.
And I was really struggling.
And then kind of just as the same with homework when I was at school.
[G] On the night before we were due to get in the studio, I managed to come up with something.
[Dm] And it was pretty good.
[A] And we recorded it.
And then, yeah, Tom and Tim [D] made it better.
[F] That's kind of how I feel that song went.
And it [C] ends up sounding _ [Dm] _ festive for sure.
[C] And [F] sad.
_ [C] I'm only good at [E] sad.
So we have two songs back to back there.
_ [Dm] Original [C] songs.
Original songs, Happy [A] and Sad.
_ Funny Looking _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Angels.
_ Angels. _ _ _
It's a song, isn't it, by?
By a band called Delta.
Who are from Birmingham.
A band that probably most people would never have heard of. _
One of those indie bands that were loved by few.
But for whatever reason, it never kind of got out of the starting box really.
So yeah, to me it was a nice nod to Birmingham, which is kind of the place that gave birth to me as a musician.
And _ _ also the title kind of played on my mind a bit.
Making this Christmas record.
And I don't know.
The idea of it being slightly tongue in [Bm] cheek.
Yeah.
Yeah.
_ Absolutely.
Yeah.
[E] _ And also a great song.
Brilliant song actually.
And [B] I got to sing it, which is nice of Tom.
Yeah, I mean, I only let Andy sing certain [E] things.
Yeah.
_ That's actually, it's actually been very diplomatic.
I think it's about half and half.
It is indeed, half and half.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ Next up is Wonderful Life _ by Black.
[C]
Yeah, without [B] meaning to sound over dramatic, that's where our record started.
Yeah.
_ _ _ I also, another thing that like, another record that I thought about when we were choosing the covers,
and the way that we were doing them particularly, was those Johnny Cash American recordings.
And I don't know, I think this song, to me, is a nod to [Bm] some of those songs.
I'd sung it on stage with him a few times when he toured with Iron Arrows,
but I think anyone that might have heard us do that, it's very different to that.
Yeah.
It's quite ominous.
It's kind of sinister.
Tom sent me the demo for that version of it, and it just totally blew my mind.
[B] And I think that that was when I started to get really excited about the prospect of us actually making a record together.
Because up until that point, I was like, I think it's just [D] something that we're going to talk about in the pub for the next ten years.
So it was really cool when he sent that demo through.
I was like, oh no, maybe this will happen.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _