Chords for Story behind 10cc's Wall Street Shuffle then song
Tempo:
102.6 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
C
Dm
F
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
You would hang your head in shame and go back into the control room and the next person would go in and have a go at singing the song.
And that's the audition process for 10cc's lead vocals.
[Bb]
[C] [Dm] [Dm] [Bb]
[C] [Dm] Do the walls [Bb] reach your [C] fall?
[D] Hear the money [Bb]
[C] rustle?
Watch the green [Bb] bags [C] tumble?
Hear the [Bb] sterling come?
[Dm] [F] Eric and I tended [Bb] to write more, I think it was kind of a pop [F] influence.
Whereas Kevin and Lar were more into experimenting, but then they needed I think more [Fm] of our studying influence on them.
Sometimes the songs would benefit from our rearranging them.
They would do one brilliant part and never [Bb] ever repeat it, it would drive me mad.
So [F] you've got to repeat this at somewhere else, hey [Fm] maybe you could do it like this.
[Gm] Gotta make your mum bossy.
It's something that you get a [F] certain extent with the Beatles as well, you get those different voices and those different ideas coming through.
But with 10cc it was that kind of slightly [C] cut and pasty feel to their albums and even to their songs.
[F] It's in many ways quite ahead of its time, you get that quite a lot in modern pop songs nowadays.
You're just noticing shifts of mood really quickly and there are certain modern songwriters who have taken a lot from that.
Oh, I was you.
It's quite obvious that there are the two main inputs.
The traditional songwriting as represented by Graham and Eric and then the art [Gm] school background as represented by Lowe and Kev.
And when you bring more [G] than one source of material to a group, you make the group richer.
[F] And so 10cc had a wider and deeper catalogue than they would have had they been just one or the other.
You [Bb] bounce up, you weave [G] a deal, but you're [F] living on 10c.
You gotta tell it, you follow it, [G] and you make a big deal out of it.
To me if there [Fm] was one album that epitomised [F] 10cc it's Sheet [Dm] Music.
We've got lots of very, very good reviews [D] for that album.
And [C] I think rightly [G] so, he said modestly.
[C] After Sheet Music, which was a big seller, we had hits, big hits.
Worldwide we were getting bigger sales.
We were stone broke.
10cc were skint because our contract was paying us 4%.
I called Jonathan King, I said, Jonathan, we've been with you three years now, we've got two years to run on our contract.
4%, I'm sorry, we can't survive on it.
We're skint.
[D] And it's Parliament [Bb] on the Soul Train with a [C] groove that sure enough makes you want [Dm] to move [A] real smooth.
It's [Dm] called Aqua Boogie.
[C] [Dm]
[C] [Dm]
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
[F] [Bb] [G] [Bb]
[F] [Bb]
[F] [Fm] I'm going to be cool on Wall Street.
[Gm] Gonna be cool on Wall Street.
When you're in Mexico.
[Fm] Now don't drink your time for the bomb.
[Cm] Now wind up on Skid Row [D] with holes in their pockets.
[C] Now baby, you body [F] can you spare [C] a dime?
You [Em] ain't got [A] the time, you're doing [Dm] it now.
[Bb] [Dm]
Doing it now.
[Bb] [Dm]
[F] Oh,
[Bb] did your money [F] make you better?
[Dm] For the hour [D] when you can screw [Gm] me.
[Ab] Cause you think you're [F] good to [Dm] do the Wall [Bb] Street show.
[C]
[Dm] Let your [Bb] money hustle.
[C]
Bet you'd sell [Bb] your mother.
[C]
You can't buy [Bb] [C]
[Dm] [Gm]
[C] [C] [Dm]
[C]
[Bm] [C] [Dm]
[D] [C]
her.
[A]
[F] [Dm] Doing it [Bb] now.
[Dm] Doing it now.
[Bb]
[Dm] [F] You're [Bb] bouncing, you're wiggling [G] and you're living [F] on the street.
You can't do [N] it now.
And that's the audition process for 10cc's lead vocals.
[Bb]
[C] [Dm] [Dm] [Bb]
[C] [Dm] Do the walls [Bb] reach your [C] fall?
[D] Hear the money [Bb]
[C] rustle?
Watch the green [Bb] bags [C] tumble?
Hear the [Bb] sterling come?
[Dm] [F] Eric and I tended [Bb] to write more, I think it was kind of a pop [F] influence.
Whereas Kevin and Lar were more into experimenting, but then they needed I think more [Fm] of our studying influence on them.
Sometimes the songs would benefit from our rearranging them.
They would do one brilliant part and never [Bb] ever repeat it, it would drive me mad.
So [F] you've got to repeat this at somewhere else, hey [Fm] maybe you could do it like this.
[Gm] Gotta make your mum bossy.
It's something that you get a [F] certain extent with the Beatles as well, you get those different voices and those different ideas coming through.
But with 10cc it was that kind of slightly [C] cut and pasty feel to their albums and even to their songs.
[F] It's in many ways quite ahead of its time, you get that quite a lot in modern pop songs nowadays.
You're just noticing shifts of mood really quickly and there are certain modern songwriters who have taken a lot from that.
Oh, I was you.
It's quite obvious that there are the two main inputs.
The traditional songwriting as represented by Graham and Eric and then the art [Gm] school background as represented by Lowe and Kev.
And when you bring more [G] than one source of material to a group, you make the group richer.
[F] And so 10cc had a wider and deeper catalogue than they would have had they been just one or the other.
You [Bb] bounce up, you weave [G] a deal, but you're [F] living on 10c.
You gotta tell it, you follow it, [G] and you make a big deal out of it.
To me if there [Fm] was one album that epitomised [F] 10cc it's Sheet [Dm] Music.
We've got lots of very, very good reviews [D] for that album.
And [C] I think rightly [G] so, he said modestly.
[C] After Sheet Music, which was a big seller, we had hits, big hits.
Worldwide we were getting bigger sales.
We were stone broke.
10cc were skint because our contract was paying us 4%.
I called Jonathan King, I said, Jonathan, we've been with you three years now, we've got two years to run on our contract.
4%, I'm sorry, we can't survive on it.
We're skint.
[D] And it's Parliament [Bb] on the Soul Train with a [C] groove that sure enough makes you want [Dm] to move [A] real smooth.
It's [Dm] called Aqua Boogie.
[C] [Dm]
[C] [Dm]
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
[F] [Bb] [G] [Bb]
[F] [Bb]
[F] [Fm] I'm going to be cool on Wall Street.
[Gm] Gonna be cool on Wall Street.
When you're in Mexico.
[Fm] Now don't drink your time for the bomb.
[Cm] Now wind up on Skid Row [D] with holes in their pockets.
[C] Now baby, you body [F] can you spare [C] a dime?
You [Em] ain't got [A] the time, you're doing [Dm] it now.
[Bb] [Dm]
Doing it now.
[Bb] [Dm]
[F] Oh,
[Bb] did your money [F] make you better?
[Dm] For the hour [D] when you can screw [Gm] me.
[Ab] Cause you think you're [F] good to [Dm] do the Wall [Bb] Street show.
[C]
[Dm] Let your [Bb] money hustle.
[C]
Bet you'd sell [Bb] your mother.
[C]
You can't buy [Bb] [C]
[Dm] [Gm]
[C] [C] [Dm]
[C]
[Bm] [C] [Dm]
[D] [C]
her.
[A]
[F] [Dm] Doing it [Bb] now.
[Dm] Doing it now.
[Bb]
[Dm] [F] You're [Bb] bouncing, you're wiggling [G] and you're living [F] on the street.
You can't do [N] it now.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You would hang your head in shame and go back into the control room and the next person would go in and have a go at singing the song.
And that's the audition process for 10cc's lead vocals.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ Do the walls [Bb] reach your [C] fall?
_ _ [D] Hear the money [Bb] _
[C] rustle?
_ _ Watch the green [Bb] bags [C] tumble?
_ Hear the [Bb] sterling come? _
_ [Dm] _ _ [F] Eric and I tended [Bb] to write more, I think it was kind of a pop [F] influence.
Whereas Kevin and Lar were more into experimenting, but then they needed I think more [Fm] of our studying influence on them.
Sometimes the songs would benefit from our rearranging them.
They would do one brilliant part and never [Bb] ever repeat it, it would drive me mad.
So [F] you've got to repeat this at somewhere else, hey [Fm] maybe you could do it like this.
[Gm] Gotta make your mum bossy.
It's something that you get a [F] certain extent with the Beatles as well, you get those different voices and those different ideas coming through.
But with 10cc it was that kind of slightly [C] cut and pasty feel to their albums and even to their songs.
[F] It's in many ways quite ahead of its time, you get that quite a lot in modern pop songs nowadays.
You're just noticing shifts of mood really quickly and there are certain modern songwriters who have taken a lot from that.
Oh, _ I was you.
_ It's quite obvious that there are the two main inputs.
The traditional songwriting as represented by Graham and Eric and then the art [Gm] school background as represented by Lowe and Kev.
And when you bring more [G] than one source of material to a group, you make the group richer.
[F] And so 10cc had a wider and deeper _ catalogue than they would have had they been just one or the other.
You [Bb] bounce up, you weave [G] a deal, but you're [F] living on 10c.
You gotta tell it, you follow it, [G] and you make a big deal out of it.
To me if there [Fm] was one album that epitomised [F] 10cc it's Sheet [Dm] Music.
We've got lots of very, very good reviews [D] for that album.
And [C] I think rightly [G] so, he said modestly.
[C] After Sheet Music, which was a big seller, we had hits, big hits.
Worldwide we were getting bigger sales.
We were stone broke.
10cc were skint because our contract was paying us 4%. _
I called Jonathan King, I said, Jonathan, _ we've been with you three years now, we've got two years to run on our contract.
_ 4%, I'm sorry, we can't survive on it.
We're skint. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] And it's Parliament [Bb] on the Soul Train with a [C] groove that sure enough makes you want [Dm] to move [A] real smooth.
It's [Dm] called Aqua Boogie.
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Fm] I'm going to be cool on Wall Street.
[Gm] Gonna be cool on Wall Street.
When you're in Mexico.
_ [Fm] Now don't drink your time for the bomb.
_ [Cm] Now wind up on Skid Row [D] with holes in their pockets.
[C] Now baby, you body [F] can you spare [C] a dime?
You [Em] ain't got [A] the time, you're doing [Dm] it now.
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
Doing it now.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [F] Oh, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] did your money [F] make you better?
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ For the hour [D] when you can screw [Gm] me.
_ [Ab] Cause you think you're [F] good to [Dm] do the Wall [Bb] Street show.
[C] _ _
[Dm] _ Let your [Bb] money hustle.
[C] _ _
Bet you'd sell [Bb] your mother.
[C] _ _
You can't buy [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
her.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ [Dm] Doing it [Bb] now. _
[Dm] _ _ Doing it now.
_ [Bb] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] You're [Bb] bouncing, you're wiggling [G] and you're living [F] on the street.
You can't do [N] it now. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You would hang your head in shame and go back into the control room and the next person would go in and have a go at singing the song.
And that's the audition process for 10cc's lead vocals.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ Do the walls [Bb] reach your [C] fall?
_ _ [D] Hear the money [Bb] _
[C] rustle?
_ _ Watch the green [Bb] bags [C] tumble?
_ Hear the [Bb] sterling come? _
_ [Dm] _ _ [F] Eric and I tended [Bb] to write more, I think it was kind of a pop [F] influence.
Whereas Kevin and Lar were more into experimenting, but then they needed I think more [Fm] of our studying influence on them.
Sometimes the songs would benefit from our rearranging them.
They would do one brilliant part and never [Bb] ever repeat it, it would drive me mad.
So [F] you've got to repeat this at somewhere else, hey [Fm] maybe you could do it like this.
[Gm] Gotta make your mum bossy.
It's something that you get a [F] certain extent with the Beatles as well, you get those different voices and those different ideas coming through.
But with 10cc it was that kind of slightly [C] cut and pasty feel to their albums and even to their songs.
[F] It's in many ways quite ahead of its time, you get that quite a lot in modern pop songs nowadays.
You're just noticing shifts of mood really quickly and there are certain modern songwriters who have taken a lot from that.
Oh, _ I was you.
_ It's quite obvious that there are the two main inputs.
The traditional songwriting as represented by Graham and Eric and then the art [Gm] school background as represented by Lowe and Kev.
And when you bring more [G] than one source of material to a group, you make the group richer.
[F] And so 10cc had a wider and deeper _ catalogue than they would have had they been just one or the other.
You [Bb] bounce up, you weave [G] a deal, but you're [F] living on 10c.
You gotta tell it, you follow it, [G] and you make a big deal out of it.
To me if there [Fm] was one album that epitomised [F] 10cc it's Sheet [Dm] Music.
We've got lots of very, very good reviews [D] for that album.
And [C] I think rightly [G] so, he said modestly.
[C] After Sheet Music, which was a big seller, we had hits, big hits.
Worldwide we were getting bigger sales.
We were stone broke.
10cc were skint because our contract was paying us 4%. _
I called Jonathan King, I said, Jonathan, _ we've been with you three years now, we've got two years to run on our contract.
_ 4%, I'm sorry, we can't survive on it.
We're skint. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] And it's Parliament [Bb] on the Soul Train with a [C] groove that sure enough makes you want [Dm] to move [A] real smooth.
It's [Dm] called Aqua Boogie.
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Fm] I'm going to be cool on Wall Street.
[Gm] Gonna be cool on Wall Street.
When you're in Mexico.
_ [Fm] Now don't drink your time for the bomb.
_ [Cm] Now wind up on Skid Row [D] with holes in their pockets.
[C] Now baby, you body [F] can you spare [C] a dime?
You [Em] ain't got [A] the time, you're doing [Dm] it now.
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
Doing it now.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [F] Oh, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] did your money [F] make you better?
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ For the hour [D] when you can screw [Gm] me.
_ [Ab] Cause you think you're [F] good to [Dm] do the Wall [Bb] Street show.
[C] _ _
[Dm] _ Let your [Bb] money hustle.
[C] _ _
Bet you'd sell [Bb] your mother.
[C] _ _
You can't buy [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
her.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ [Dm] Doing it [Bb] now. _
[Dm] _ _ Doing it now.
_ [Bb] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] You're [Bb] bouncing, you're wiggling [G] and you're living [F] on the street.
You can't do [N] it now. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _