Chords for THE BEATLES & DRUGS

Wasn't that spectacular?
I mean when you look back on it, [D#] I mean like anything it was great [B] then
But people just have this dream about pepper.
It was good [E] for them, you know
[A] I was very cross that the BBC in their infinite wisdom decided to ban some of the tracks and they wouldn't play
They wouldn't [F] play a day in the [F#m]
[Bm] life
Why I don't know they [A] wouldn't and they wouldn't play loose in the sky the diamond because [D] this rumor went round that [C] it was all
connected with drugs and
[A] Lucy in the sky actually stood for LSD, which wasn't true _ and that it was a an album which actually
[G#m] Was promoting the use [E] of drugs [F#m] amongst the young _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
I was aware of them smoking pot.
I
Wasn't aware that they did anything really serious
_ in fact, I was so innocent that I actually took John up into the roof when he was having a
LSD trip not knowing [G] what it was.
I never took it in the studio.
I once said it accidentally.
I thought it was taking some offers
_ _ [E] And I was not in a state of handling it, you know, [G] but I took it and I'm [D] _ _
so scared on the [G] mic
I said I don't know.
What was it?
No, [D] I said I feel ill.
I thought I felt ill and
_ _ And it was good.
I thought was uncracked, you know
I mean, [A] I said I must get some air and they all took me [F#] upstairs on the [B] roof and George Martin
It's looking at me funny, you know
[Em] And then it dawned on me.
I must have [D] taken acid
_ [F] So the only place I could take him to [F#] get fresh air [Dm] was on the roof
[A] _
And we went up there and it was a wonderful starry night and he [N] looked up went to the edge as a
18-inch [F#m] parapet and
Looked up at the stars that [Dm] isn't aren't they [D] fantastic?
[A#] And of course that to him they would have [D] been especially fantastic.
I suppose
[N] _
They were just look stars to me at the time Paul how often have you taken LSD?
_ _ _ About four times the man at the time the newscaster showed up and said is it true?
You've had drugs and I made a sort of lightning decision
I thought well, I'm either gonna sort of try and bluff this they're at my door.
I can't you know, go no, no
No, go away
_ _ Or I'm just gonna tell him and I thought sod it, you know
But I did talk to him beforehand and I said look, you know what's gonna happen here
I'm gonna get the blame for telling everyone I take drugs.
I said, but you're the people who are gonna
_ _ To distribute this thing.
I said I'll tell you I said but if you've got any worries about this having an effect on kids
Then you don't show it
Well, do you think you have now encouraged your fans to take drugs?
I don't think it'll make any [G#] difference
You know, I don't think my fans are gonna [N] take drugs just because I did, you know
But the thing is there's that's not the point
Anyway, you know I was asked whether I had or not and then from then on the whole bit about how far it's gonna go
And how many people it's gonna encourage is up to the newspapers and up to you, you know on television
I mean you're spreading this now at this moment.
This is going into all the homes, you know in Britain and
I'd rather it didn't you know, but you're asking me the question you want me to be honest.
I'll be honest, you know
I know it just seems strange to me because we'd been trying to get him to take him for about 18 months
And then he just seemed funny that one day he's on the television [C#] talking all about it
_ _ The problem was it then gave the press a field day to be on all our cases [A#] I
Personally didn't think it was any of their business
_ But you know once he said it
_ You know ever said anything in the Beatles the other three had to deal with it, you know
Which we did in with all love because you know, we loved each other
[F] But I could have done without it myself
[B] Now the point about the whole drug scene was the press
Asked Paul
_ Have you taken LSD?
This is how it all came out.
Otherwise, we didn't say a word about it, you know
I mean, it was just a personal thing, right?
Well, I think you see I
[N] Feel to this day that you know, we did take certain substances _ _
but never
to a great extent at the sessions at you know, we took a little but _
_ Whenever we'd over did our intake _
The music we made was absolutely shit
_ and we you know, we'd go home real happy with the tape and
we'd play it when we got home and
You play it the next day and it was just every time we'd come back to record again
We'd all look at each and say well we have to do that again
Because you know it didn't work.
It didn't work for that for the Beatles to be
Too deranged when