Chords for Steve Kilbey on Under The Milky Way for The Great Australian Songbook (Getmusic Interview)
Tempo:
67.925 bpm
Chords used:
F
G
Am
F#
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Am] Okay, I thought [Em] about this and I [Am] have to say it's a tie of three.
I once heard it walking past an adult
shop [G] on Hollywood Boulevard in LA [Am] when it first came out and then I
I didn't actually hear it playing but I [G] saw a choir singing it [Am] in
Tasmania on YouTube and then I saw a choir singing it on [G] a kids choir singing it in
[C] Philadelphia on YouTube so they were like [Am] three things
I saw never really [G] like and the choir in Tasmania was like this huge [Am] choir of hundreds and
Thousands of people kind of standing in this square singing it [G] very solemnly
[A] When I wrote under the Milky Way, [D] I wrote it with
[F] My girlfriend whose name is Corinne [Em] Johnson
And she's Swedish [Am] and I met her she [D] was in an all-girl band and we met in [F] Sweden and we fell in love
And we [Em] used to write some songs together.
We ended up [Am] eventually having a pair of identical [F#] twins together
[F] She is living in [G] Sweden now and the twins are living in Sweden.
[Am] They're like, they're [F#m] 20 years old now
[F] We one [G] night we were up at my mother's and I would run away from the washing up really [F] rapidly
and gone outside and smoked a special musicians [G] jazz cigarette as is my one [F] and
Perhaps I looked up at the [Am] wonderful glittering heavens and was [D] inspired
I don't know
[F] I'm not sure and I would have gone [Em] inside and and there was a [Am] room out the back that had an old piano in [F#] it
and I went out [G] and started playing the [F] piano and I
Was just [Em] sort of experimenting around with some [A] chords and I was doing it was pretty ordinary [F#] except I was doing a funny
[F] dropped bass thing [Em] on the
Second chord, [Am] which is kind of what gives the song
[F#] I guess it's people [F] don't understand that but it was a kind of a [Em] an unusual little musical thing [G] and then current came in
and [F] said what are you doing us?
I've got this little chord progression and
[G] I added some other chords.
We came up with a little melody and [F] some words
We didn't I'd say like three minutes.
[G] We stood on the porch and I said what about
Sometimes [C] yeah.
Yeah, that's a good [F] idea
And then she said I [G] was looking for she said what about destination I have despite [F] your
Destination we agreed on the lyrics within [C] three minutes.
That was it.
[G] I had a little
[A] Portable for record thing.
I did a dinky little version [C] when I got back to Sydney
I had an 8 [G]-track recorder of my own [Am] and I
Just I don't know.
I
[C] [G] Reset the song in because it was a kind [A] of a jazz song.
It was like
[C] And so [G] piano cause like a smoky I [A] imagine myself sitting in a bar and everybody's gone
I'm sitting there drinking and that was the place [F#] getting empty
But but then I sort of [F] re cast it in the mold [Em] for like a folk rock song as it is [Am] now
[F#] And that [F] strange bass note on the piano became [G] a note on the bass guitar [Am] and that completely changed [F#] everything and
[F] [Em] Yeah, and that was kind of it and then it just sat on [Am] a cassette remember those [F#] things Jefferson except and
[F] I said on the cassette for a [G] while until my manager heard it and he said when we're making stuff
He said you [F] should put that song on.
Yeah, that's a good song.
So we [G] did
When I wrote it it [F] didn't but since then it's a strange thing it has picked [G] up by
By Jimmy little the [F] aboriginal performer of doing it and
[G] It's sort of things like people would tell [C] me they're walking through the [F] streets of Wollomaloo and they've [Am] come across a whole bunch of
Aboriginal guys [F#] sitting round of kind of a [F] fire in the street and one of the songs [G] they sing
[Am] Along with knocking on heaven's [F#] door is under the Milky Way [F] and then
It was [Em] of use at the Commonwealth Games [Am] and as it go and then it was voted [D] the most popular Australian song of the [F] last
75 years beating [Em] the song in second place by [Am] twice as many votes
[F#] So as it's going it's [F] picking up this Australian [Em] identity and I keep joking
I'm [Am] gonna sell it to the bloody Liberal Party [F#] or something as the next Australian [F] anthem or there whatever it is because it's [Em] becoming so
Australian [Am] it's unbelievable
[F#] [F] [G]
I once heard it walking past an adult
shop [G] on Hollywood Boulevard in LA [Am] when it first came out and then I
I didn't actually hear it playing but I [G] saw a choir singing it [Am] in
Tasmania on YouTube and then I saw a choir singing it on [G] a kids choir singing it in
[C] Philadelphia on YouTube so they were like [Am] three things
I saw never really [G] like and the choir in Tasmania was like this huge [Am] choir of hundreds and
Thousands of people kind of standing in this square singing it [G] very solemnly
[A] When I wrote under the Milky Way, [D] I wrote it with
[F] My girlfriend whose name is Corinne [Em] Johnson
And she's Swedish [Am] and I met her she [D] was in an all-girl band and we met in [F] Sweden and we fell in love
And we [Em] used to write some songs together.
We ended up [Am] eventually having a pair of identical [F#] twins together
[F] She is living in [G] Sweden now and the twins are living in Sweden.
[Am] They're like, they're [F#m] 20 years old now
[F] We one [G] night we were up at my mother's and I would run away from the washing up really [F] rapidly
and gone outside and smoked a special musicians [G] jazz cigarette as is my one [F] and
Perhaps I looked up at the [Am] wonderful glittering heavens and was [D] inspired
I don't know
[F] I'm not sure and I would have gone [Em] inside and and there was a [Am] room out the back that had an old piano in [F#] it
and I went out [G] and started playing the [F] piano and I
Was just [Em] sort of experimenting around with some [A] chords and I was doing it was pretty ordinary [F#] except I was doing a funny
[F] dropped bass thing [Em] on the
Second chord, [Am] which is kind of what gives the song
[F#] I guess it's people [F] don't understand that but it was a kind of a [Em] an unusual little musical thing [G] and then current came in
and [F] said what are you doing us?
I've got this little chord progression and
[G] I added some other chords.
We came up with a little melody and [F] some words
We didn't I'd say like three minutes.
[G] We stood on the porch and I said what about
Sometimes [C] yeah.
Yeah, that's a good [F] idea
And then she said I [G] was looking for she said what about destination I have despite [F] your
Destination we agreed on the lyrics within [C] three minutes.
That was it.
[G] I had a little
[A] Portable for record thing.
I did a dinky little version [C] when I got back to Sydney
I had an 8 [G]-track recorder of my own [Am] and I
Just I don't know.
I
[C] [G] Reset the song in because it was a kind [A] of a jazz song.
It was like
[C] And so [G] piano cause like a smoky I [A] imagine myself sitting in a bar and everybody's gone
I'm sitting there drinking and that was the place [F#] getting empty
But but then I sort of [F] re cast it in the mold [Em] for like a folk rock song as it is [Am] now
[F#] And that [F] strange bass note on the piano became [G] a note on the bass guitar [Am] and that completely changed [F#] everything and
[F] [Em] Yeah, and that was kind of it and then it just sat on [Am] a cassette remember those [F#] things Jefferson except and
[F] I said on the cassette for a [G] while until my manager heard it and he said when we're making stuff
He said you [F] should put that song on.
Yeah, that's a good song.
So we [G] did
When I wrote it it [F] didn't but since then it's a strange thing it has picked [G] up by
By Jimmy little the [F] aboriginal performer of doing it and
[G] It's sort of things like people would tell [C] me they're walking through the [F] streets of Wollomaloo and they've [Am] come across a whole bunch of
Aboriginal guys [F#] sitting round of kind of a [F] fire in the street and one of the songs [G] they sing
[Am] Along with knocking on heaven's [F#] door is under the Milky Way [F] and then
It was [Em] of use at the Commonwealth Games [Am] and as it go and then it was voted [D] the most popular Australian song of the [F] last
75 years beating [Em] the song in second place by [Am] twice as many votes
[F#] So as it's going it's [F] picking up this Australian [Em] identity and I keep joking
I'm [Am] gonna sell it to the bloody Liberal Party [F#] or something as the next Australian [F] anthem or there whatever it is because it's [Em] becoming so
Australian [Am] it's unbelievable
[F#] [F] [G]
Key:
F
G
Am
F#
Em
F
G
Am
[Am] _ _ _ Okay, I thought [Em] about this and I [Am] have to say it's a tie of three.
I once heard it walking past an adult
shop [G] on Hollywood Boulevard in LA [Am] when it first came out and then I
I didn't actually hear it playing but I [G] saw a choir singing it [Am] in
Tasmania on YouTube and then I saw a choir singing it on [G] a kids choir singing it in
[C] Philadelphia on YouTube so they were like [Am] three things
I saw never really [G] like and the choir in Tasmania was like this huge [Am] choir of hundreds and
Thousands of people kind of standing in this square singing it [G] very solemnly
[A] When I wrote under the Milky Way, [D] I wrote it with
[F] My girlfriend whose name is Corinne [Em] Johnson
And she's Swedish [Am] and I met her she [D] was in an all-girl band and we met in [F] Sweden and we fell in love
And we [Em] used to write some songs together.
We ended up [Am] eventually having a pair of identical [F#] twins together
[F] She is living in [G] Sweden now and the twins are living in Sweden.
[Am] They're like, they're [F#m] 20 years old now
[F] We one [G] night we were up at my mother's and I would run away from the washing up really [F] rapidly
and gone outside and smoked a special musicians [G] jazz cigarette as is my one [F] and
Perhaps I looked up at the [Am] wonderful glittering heavens and was [D] inspired
I don't know
[F] I'm not sure and I would have gone [Em] inside and and there was a [Am] room out the back that had an old piano in [F#] it
and I went out [G] and started playing the [F] piano and I
Was just [Em] sort of experimenting around with some [A] chords and I was doing it was pretty ordinary [F#] except I was doing a funny
[F] dropped bass thing [Em] on the
Second chord, [Am] which is kind of what gives the song
[F#] I guess it's people [F] don't understand that but it was a kind of a [Em] an unusual little musical thing [G] and then current came in
and [F] said what are you doing us?
I've got this little chord progression and
[G] I added some other chords.
We came up with a little melody and [F] some words
We didn't I'd say like three minutes.
[G] We stood on the porch and I said what about
Sometimes [C] yeah.
Yeah, that's a good [F] idea
And then she said I [G] was looking for she said what about destination I have despite [F] your
Destination we agreed on the lyrics within [C] three minutes.
That was it.
[G] I had a little
[A] Portable for record thing.
I did a dinky little version [C] when I got back to Sydney
I had an 8 [G]-track recorder of my own [Am] and I
Just I don't know.
I
[C] _ [G] Reset the song in because it was a kind [A] of a jazz song.
It was like _ _
[C] And so [G] piano cause like a smoky I [A] imagine myself sitting in a bar and everybody's gone
I'm sitting there drinking and that was the place [F#] getting empty
But but then I sort of [F] re cast it in the mold [Em] for like a folk rock song as it is [Am] now
[F#] And that [F] strange bass note on the piano became [G] a note on the bass guitar [Am] and that completely changed [F#] everything and
[F] [Em] Yeah, and that was kind of it and then it just sat on [Am] a cassette remember those [F#] things Jefferson except and
[F] I said on the cassette for a [G] while until my manager heard it and he said when we're making stuff
He said you [F] should put that song on.
Yeah, that's a good song.
So we [G] did
When I wrote it it [F] didn't but since then it's a strange thing it has picked [G] up by
By Jimmy little the [F] aboriginal performer of doing it and
[G] _ It's sort of things like people would tell [C] me they're walking through the [F] streets of Wollomaloo and they've [Am] come across a whole bunch of
Aboriginal guys [F#] sitting round of kind of a [F] fire in the street and one of the songs [G] they sing
[Am] Along with knocking on heaven's [F#] door is under the Milky Way [F] and then
It was [Em] of use at the Commonwealth Games [Am] and as it go and then it was voted [D] the most popular Australian song of the [F] last
75 years beating [Em] the song in second place by [Am] twice as many votes
[F#] So as it's going it's [F] picking up this Australian [Em] identity and I keep joking
I'm [Am] gonna sell it to the bloody Liberal Party [F#] or something as the next Australian [F] anthem or there whatever it is because it's [Em] becoming so
Australian [Am] it's unbelievable
_ [F#] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
I once heard it walking past an adult
shop [G] on Hollywood Boulevard in LA [Am] when it first came out and then I
I didn't actually hear it playing but I [G] saw a choir singing it [Am] in
Tasmania on YouTube and then I saw a choir singing it on [G] a kids choir singing it in
[C] Philadelphia on YouTube so they were like [Am] three things
I saw never really [G] like and the choir in Tasmania was like this huge [Am] choir of hundreds and
Thousands of people kind of standing in this square singing it [G] very solemnly
[A] When I wrote under the Milky Way, [D] I wrote it with
[F] My girlfriend whose name is Corinne [Em] Johnson
And she's Swedish [Am] and I met her she [D] was in an all-girl band and we met in [F] Sweden and we fell in love
And we [Em] used to write some songs together.
We ended up [Am] eventually having a pair of identical [F#] twins together
[F] She is living in [G] Sweden now and the twins are living in Sweden.
[Am] They're like, they're [F#m] 20 years old now
[F] We one [G] night we were up at my mother's and I would run away from the washing up really [F] rapidly
and gone outside and smoked a special musicians [G] jazz cigarette as is my one [F] and
Perhaps I looked up at the [Am] wonderful glittering heavens and was [D] inspired
I don't know
[F] I'm not sure and I would have gone [Em] inside and and there was a [Am] room out the back that had an old piano in [F#] it
and I went out [G] and started playing the [F] piano and I
Was just [Em] sort of experimenting around with some [A] chords and I was doing it was pretty ordinary [F#] except I was doing a funny
[F] dropped bass thing [Em] on the
Second chord, [Am] which is kind of what gives the song
[F#] I guess it's people [F] don't understand that but it was a kind of a [Em] an unusual little musical thing [G] and then current came in
and [F] said what are you doing us?
I've got this little chord progression and
[G] I added some other chords.
We came up with a little melody and [F] some words
We didn't I'd say like three minutes.
[G] We stood on the porch and I said what about
Sometimes [C] yeah.
Yeah, that's a good [F] idea
And then she said I [G] was looking for she said what about destination I have despite [F] your
Destination we agreed on the lyrics within [C] three minutes.
That was it.
[G] I had a little
[A] Portable for record thing.
I did a dinky little version [C] when I got back to Sydney
I had an 8 [G]-track recorder of my own [Am] and I
Just I don't know.
I
[C] _ [G] Reset the song in because it was a kind [A] of a jazz song.
It was like _ _
[C] And so [G] piano cause like a smoky I [A] imagine myself sitting in a bar and everybody's gone
I'm sitting there drinking and that was the place [F#] getting empty
But but then I sort of [F] re cast it in the mold [Em] for like a folk rock song as it is [Am] now
[F#] And that [F] strange bass note on the piano became [G] a note on the bass guitar [Am] and that completely changed [F#] everything and
[F] [Em] Yeah, and that was kind of it and then it just sat on [Am] a cassette remember those [F#] things Jefferson except and
[F] I said on the cassette for a [G] while until my manager heard it and he said when we're making stuff
He said you [F] should put that song on.
Yeah, that's a good song.
So we [G] did
When I wrote it it [F] didn't but since then it's a strange thing it has picked [G] up by
By Jimmy little the [F] aboriginal performer of doing it and
[G] _ It's sort of things like people would tell [C] me they're walking through the [F] streets of Wollomaloo and they've [Am] come across a whole bunch of
Aboriginal guys [F#] sitting round of kind of a [F] fire in the street and one of the songs [G] they sing
[Am] Along with knocking on heaven's [F#] door is under the Milky Way [F] and then
It was [Em] of use at the Commonwealth Games [Am] and as it go and then it was voted [D] the most popular Australian song of the [F] last
75 years beating [Em] the song in second place by [Am] twice as many votes
[F#] So as it's going it's [F] picking up this Australian [Em] identity and I keep joking
I'm [Am] gonna sell it to the bloody Liberal Party [F#] or something as the next Australian [F] anthem or there whatever it is because it's [Em] becoming so
Australian [Am] it's unbelievable
_ [F#] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
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