Chords for Albert Hammond – The Air That I Breathe (The Hollies) | Het verhaal achter het nummer

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_ [A] _ If I could make a wish I [Db] think _ _ I'd_
When I was young, my [D] barber, he was a flamenco [Dm] player.
And I was, what, [E] eight, nine years old?
And he always said to me, let me teach you how to play a little guitar.
And I'd say, no.
I love Buddy Holly.
I love Johnny Cash.
I love Roy Orbison, Elvis, the Evelies.
Teach me three chords.
So he taught me A, D, and E.
[Ab] And with those three chords, I learned all these pop songs,
and I've gone around the world with three chords.
[Bb] I _ could make a wish [A] I think _ [D] I'd pass.
_ [Eb] _ Can't think of [Ebm] anything [Bb] I need. _
_ The original song was written _ [G] because this [F] girl that I met in Los [F] Angeles, I haven't
seen her since [D] the 70s, so I have no idea if she's still around.
[G] But she was so [Eb] kind.
I didn't have a place to stay, [Gm] and she offered me her place.
[A] And she said, and if you drive me [D] to work, you can have my Carmen gear, convertible [Ebm] Carmen
gear, during [Bb] the day, and then you pick me up.
I thought, wow, Southern California, convertible Carmen gear, a place to stay.
This is wonderful, you know?
There's [Ebm] nothing left to be [Bb] desired. _ _ _ _
Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak.
About a week later, [Eb] _ she said to me, well, are you going to drive me to work?
And I go, no, I'm not going to go today.
You take the [Bb] car.
I'm going to stay here.
I think I feel I'm going to write a song.
_ _ _ Sometimes all I need is [F] the air that I breathe and [Bb] to love you.
_ All I need [G] is the air that I breathe, yes, to [Bb] love you.
All I need is [F] the air that I breathe.
[Fm] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [E] So sleep, silent [Gm] angel, go [A] to sleep.
_ _ _ _ _ And she cried and I cried, and I didn't know the song [Fm] was going to be a big hit or [Gb] anything.
I just thought it was a great [G] song to put on my first album, the Never Rains album.
A few years later, Phil Eberle [A] did it.
_ _ _ He did an album of 10 [Db] songs.
Nine were his and one was mine.
And he sent the Hollies the whole album [D] and said, I know you love the Eberle [Gm] brothers
and [Bm] maybe you want to do one of these songs.
_ [Gb] And the Hollies chose [C] the one he didn't write.
_ _ _ _ _ Sometimes all I need is [G] the air that I _ breathe.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[C] _ _ _ But I'm a [G] creep, _ _ _ _ _ I'm a [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ loser.
[C] _
I _ _ _ don't [Cm] belong, _ _ [C] _ it's okay [G] for me.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And it was the publisher, he heard them on a [C] radio show in England saying,
you know, this song was inspired by the air that I breathe.
We just, you know, we took the [Cm] chords and we took the melody [Eb] and we just said,
[G] gosh, you know, this part with this part that we wrote sounds so good, you know.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] And suddenly I was sent a piece of paper to sign, you know, and I looked at it
and [Cm] it said you have a third of the song and I go, [C] what?
But I'm [G] a creep, _ _ _ _ _ I'm [B] a loser.
I felt very uncomfortable, you know, but there was nothing I could do.
It was a legal thing, [C] you know, I mean, they actually admitted to, you know,
so I said, okay, so now whenever they use creep for a movie or [D] for a game
or for whatever [G] it is, they write to me and they say, would you give permission?
And I always say, yeah, [B] sure.
All these lawsuits [Gb] and all these things, I think it's silly, you know, I really do.
It [C] shouldn't be about money and it shouldn't be about egos,
[G] it should be about [Cm] love and wonderful things.
That's what I feel.
_ [A] _ All I feel is the [E] air that I breathe [A] just to love you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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