Chords for Stereophonics - I Saw Her Standing There [12 Hours to Please Me, 2013]

_ In 1963 Richard Langham was a fresh-faced Abbey Road engineer working on Please Please Me.
Before going on to the session we were told,
don't get too close to these people, you know, there's long hair, everything else, you know.
So we just turned up, cold day, cold February day,
set everything up roughly in the studio because they hadn't arrived.
We had no instruments or anything else, or amplifiers or speakers or anything.
And then finally they arrived.
And basically I think more for all of us was let's get this up and let's get on the road
because by this time probably half past ten, eleven, and the session was ten to one.
So we should have started bang on ten.
This is where the strict rules of the studio.
All sessions were logged on recording sheets.
If it was a false start, anything like that was all logged and everything was kept.
All takes were timed.
So if George suddenly said, oh that was good,
we might put that in with number four, how long was take four?
You could tell him whether the timings were the same and he'd know roughly that they would edit together.
And of course you didn't have any idea when you wrote that record that it's now a historical document.
No, no one told me when I wrote those fifty years later they'd be examined.
_ _ _ Around eleven thirty and with lunchtime looming, the Beatles turned next to I Saw Her Standing There.
Written by Paul McCartney, for a long time it was known simply as Seventeen.
One, two, three, four! _ _
[Gb] The studio recording shows that it was sometimes a bit tense.
Too [E] fast?
It worked.
Yeah, but I mean it's too fast anyway.
_ Today things are much more relaxed.
_ About to perform the song are the stereophonics.
[Gm] Kelly, this room, has it got a vibe to you?
Yeah, I mean we recorded a couple of tracks here before.
[Ab] Yeah.
[G] A few years ago and I mean [D] it's just one of those studios in the [G] world really.
There's a few in LA and this one which you [A] can't help, you know,
feeling the presence of the records that were made here really.
You chose [Ab] the track you're going to do, I [A] Saw Her Standing There, [Eb] particularly didn't you?
Yeah.
Why this track?
[Em] I remember on a cassette in my house when I was a kid [G] with all the early Beatles stuff
like I Want To Hold Your Hand and all stuff like that.
And this was one of the ones I remember as a kid.
I mean there's a lot of stuff on the album which a lot of people probably wouldn't be as familiar with
as they might think they would be on this record.
So I think this [Em] suited the kind of stuff we [Ab] were kind of doing as a cover band when we were kids
and stuff like that and this suited the sound of the band and the key and the voices and stuff.
So it's just a [E] simple kind of rock and roll song really. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ When she was just seventeen, [A] you know [E] what I mean?
And the way she looked was way beyond [B] compare.
_ _ So how [Ab] could I dance with [A] her?
_ [C] _ [E] When I saw [B] her [E] standing there
Well she looks at me
[A] And I, [E] I can see
That before too long I'd fallen in love with her
_ But she [Ab] wouldn't dance [A] with another
[Am] And [E] I saw [B] her [E] standing there
_ [A] Well my heart _ went out
_ _ And I held _ _ [B] my _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] And _ _ [A] we held each [E] other tight
And before too long I'd fallen in love [B] with her
But [E] I never danced [A] with another
[Am] _ [E] Since I saw [B] her [E] standing there Wow! _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ Well [A] my heart went boom
When I crossed that room
And I held _ [B] in my _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ And [A] we held each other tight
And before too long I'd fallen in love [B] with her
_ [E] But I never [Abm]
danced with [A] another
_ [Am] Since [E] I saw [B] her standing there
_ [E]
Since [E] I saw [B] her standing [E] there
Since I saw [B] her standing [A] there
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