Chords for The Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo

Viva [G] Las Vegas, _ [C] Viva!
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ Viva Las Vegas, with your neon flashing
And your one-armed bandits crashing
All those hordes down the drain
_ _ Viva!
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_ [C] Viva [G] Las Vegas, [C] _
Viva!
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_ _ _ [Eb] We're gonna sing tonight!
All right, here we go! _ _ _ _ _
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[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ Come to me, girl
[Ab] Viva, hey!
Viva!
If [Cm] you ever lose
_ [Bb] I'm a-happy
[Ab] I'm gonna say
Come on, baby
[Eb] Let the music play
I'm [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
gonna be hungry
There's a way to make you smile
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There's a heart that's there [Cm] with you now
[Bb] I need a message
_ [Ab] For all the little girls
Come on, people!
[Eb] It took us a while
Everybody gonna sing [Cm] this song
For the world, [Ab] listen to the music
[Cm] For the world, [Ab] listen to the music
[Cm] For the world, [Ab] listen to the music
[F] For the sound
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_ _ [Eb] Listen to the music, I was just in my room, in the place where I was renting a room in this house.
_ _ And I would do that till all hours of the night.
And I started fooling around with the chord structure to listen to music.
_ _ Which, you know, just came when it came.
Best songs always write themselves.
I think you've probably heard that before, but it's definitely true.
_ And, um, so I got it pretty much structured, chord-wise.
_ And I called Ted Templeman up, our [G] producer, and I said,
You know, I think [D] this could be a single.
It's the only time I've ever said that about a song.
[E] Literally the only time I've ever said that about a song.
[Dbm] For the world, _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Dbm] _ listen _ [A] _ to the music _
_ _ _ _ [A] Listen to the _ music
[Gb] For the _ sound
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[A] _ _ [Dbm] _ The high watermark for recording at that time was the Beatles, George Martin.
So [Dbm] any phasing or a lot of combinations of acoustic and rhythm guitars and things,
a lot of that [A] came out of that George Martin style [Gb] of production. _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Gbm] For the sound
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_ [E] _ _ The way we got the [Gb] phasing was, we would record part of the [F] track,
or whatever track we wanted to phase, onto another tape recorder, _
and then [E] put it out of phase with the tape that was being [Dm] recorded [Gb] on,
and then record [Eb] that [E] onto another track,
[A] and that's how you get the out-of-phase sound.
For [Gb] _
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[E] the _ sound
On the [D] lazy flowing river
[A] _ _ _ Surrounding castles in the sky
_ _ _ And the crowd is [Bm] growing weaker
_ _ [A] Listening for the hammer sound
The _ _ [Dbm] _ _
words _ [A] _ _ in the song [Abm] were kind of utopian in nature,
in that it was the idea of, we get all the world's leaders together,
I mean, the words don't say this, but that was what I was thinking when I was [Gb] writing it.
We got all these world's leaders together, and instead of fighting and all this [D] war and all this other crap [Eb] we don't like,
we get them loaded, get them on a hill, play music, man, everything will work itself out.
_ Like I said, it was kind of idealistic.
_ And it didn't happen?
It didn't work.
What the hell?
I get it.
I _ [Ab] get _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ it.
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_ _ [Cm] When you go out and play for people every [Db] night,
_ _ [Cm] _ [G] the idea is [Ab] to get them up, you know, and then they go off
to wherever they're going to go to, and they say, wow, that was great,
that's what you wanted to feel, [F] they had a good time.
I [Ab] think we still have that philosophy, you know, we still want,
[Eb] that's what [C] we want our music to do.
_ _ There's plenty [D] of songwriters around with Gloom and Doom,
but the Doobie Brothers [F] are there to make people feel good.
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