Chords for Spanky McFarlane and Curley Tait.mpg

It had to be you.
[G] _ It [E] had to be you.
_ _ _ [A] _ And we found somebody who_
[Eb] Curly used to manage to spank in our gang.
That's how we_
_ And then we stole him in this nightclub in Chicago.
All moved to New York and we had our little_
[B] But then Curly went on to live in Ferndale
and raise and train Arabian horses.
And they did horse shows.
And won some medals and things.
But what was interesting about it for me and Curly
was that he was doing the music for the horse show
with our good friend Michael Miller.
And what fun that must have been.
Like, here comes, I don't know, Skywalkers.
I'll be_
You know, they would try to_
A.G. is not my love.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ He should be released.
[G] _ I'll help you.
Thank you.
And there was _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] a voice.
I'd go up the stairs and_
That's how I got spanked in my first_ _ _
_ [Db] _ And I've been saying it ever since.
[G] _ I had, at the time, a group called
The [B] New Wine Singers.
Now, I'd already been through the Jamie Lynn Trio
and now The New Wine Singers.
All these girl singers in these groups would get pregnant.
But I mean, it was so weird.
It was like, okay, she's out, you're in. _
So, as long as I could, you know,
keep my knees together, I was going to have a job.
_ Oh dear.
Anyway.
_ So, we _ _ were a trio. _ _
We were a djent band.
We were comedians. _ _ _
Because we didn't have enough songs,
so we had to be comedians.
So, they put us [Gb] on for this whole six weeks,
and we were opening up all these job people.
All these people were coming to see the jobs.
And they were kind of like,
left over [G] from the evening there.
And they're like, hmm.
_ _ They see us and I'm up there pouring my jug
and doing my washboard.
That Coney Island washboard.
Gather my_
And they're going, hmm. _
_ _ Less, less.
[B] We were able to hone our craft in those six weeks.
And it really was fun.
And we_
We went on and Curly kind of was looking out for _ our_
We signed with Merck & Records.
[Eb] And had_
We needed to move to New York,
and we didn't see how to craft the deal.
We _ _ _ moved to this_
Well, first to the Chelsea Hotel.
Hmm. _
Leonard Cohen was living there.
[B] Janis Joplin.
Janis Joplin.
[Eb] It _ _ [G] _ _ was colleges then.
We would open for _ Richie Pryor.
Or [B] sometimes they would open for us.
I mean, whoever was around.
And the Furnace Association. _
_ [F] And_ Yeah.
_ [B] _ _ [G] I think_
_ I did.
You were involved in the first_ I did.
We were in Chicago.
[B] And we heard the news that_
_ _ _ Some weird mistake.
But when it's on CNN,
it was_
So I called his daughter.
She said, you have to come and see your dad.
And it was a private funeral. _ _
The comedians like_
Gary Shandling and Louis Black.
And all this_
His brother Pat Harlan was hysterical.
At least as funny as George's.
Anyway, George's funeral.
Not a solemn occasion.
It was hysterical.
Everyone got up and told the George story.
And one was funnier than the next.
And then we all ate.
And she had a tear.
_ _ _ _ My daughter was there.
And my third daughter was in this_
It's a box that the slaves used to play.
A cajon.
Right.
It's called a cajon.
_ When the slaves came over, they had a talking drum.
Well, of course, the one that took the drums. _ _
_ _ _ _ So it was my daughter, Eddie, Jimmy, on guitar, and me.
It was a_ Jimmy.
[Bb] _ _ [B] _ _
It was a historic moment.
His daughter knew that_ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [B] 1-3-5-8-7-6-5-4-3-5-2-3-4-sharp-5.
[B] I'm telling you, they were_
Missing [Eb] out.
And I hope to have it here in Kyrgyzstan.
With [G] all your faults, I [Em] love you still.
[A] It had to [D] be you, wonderful you.
It had to be you.
[G] _ _ _