Chords for Behind The Vinyl: "If I Had $1000000" with Steven Page former frontman of Barenaked Ladies

_ Well, let's put the needle on the record _ and the drum beats go like _ _ this _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Ah [E] if I had a million dollars by bare [D]-naked ladies from the album Gordon, [F#] although this version here is [A] the 12-inch single version.
[E] So it's _ _
[D] this was a
_ [F#m] Big thing in the 80s and [A] luckily we got [E] in
Just the very end of this where you still have your [F#] 12-inch singles of your songs
[E] One of the coolest [A] things in my entire career [E] was being signed to [D] sire records
um, _ [E] we were signed by Seymour Stein who signed
Talking heads and Madonna [D] and the Ramones and [G] you know an [F#m] absolute legend in the business and I grew [E] up
Looking [A] at this label
[D] _ [F#] spinning around [E] on my record player for a
_ Ton of the [B] records that I grew up with [D] so to be to have my own music [A] on that label was incredibly [E] exciting
_ _ [D] This I don't recall this this
[E] _ single artwork, _ it's I
[D] Inexplicable it looks to me like [A] this should have been to be my own Oh [E] artwork with the green [D] apple thing
But it's [A] not it's if I had a million dollars
I don't know what that means, but maybe that was our [E] at the time.
We did a lot
[D] _
[A] let's do stuff that we don't know what it means [E] because it's
_ like
_ absurdist I guess _
_ _ _ _ [D] More asinine _
[E] this song
_ [A] _ _ Is one of these [F#m] songs like it was [A] a huge thing for [D] us, but was never really I [E] mean
It was this this one single [A] here, which was released in the UK
[F#m] _ But [D] in Canada and the [E] US it was never actually a [A] single it [F#m] wasn't a hit
_ _ [D] _
But [Em] it's the kind of song that just about [A] everybody knows [B] _ and for a long time because it's
[D#] _
_ [F#m] fun
_ It was the [E] kind of thing that we [A] tried to shy away from you know
We played it in all the shows, but it wasn't necessarily what we wanted to be known for
[E] _ Till later we [D] realized that it was [F#] kind of our greatest success [G] to have a [E] song that
_ Everybody's grandma knows or is the theme [F] song to your?
[A] _
first [E] year of university [F] or your family camping [Dm] trip or whatever [F#] else and
[A] _ _ _ [E] You know it's like writing a campfire [D] song you can't just will those [E] they kind of happen [A] and
_ [E] We were really _ [D] really lucky to be [A] able to have a song like that.
That's in
_ _ [E] the public [D] mind like that
_ _ _ [A] This recording we'd done this song a bunch of [E] times in the studio
[D] _ _ And the song [A] changed every time we [E] performed it whether it was in the studio or on stage.
There was lots of banter and
improvisation and that was a big [D] part of what
_ [E] Bare Naked Ladies was [A] about on stage to
_ [F#m] and myself trying to [D] make each other laugh or you [E] know sparring off each [A] other and _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ It's [E] still odd sometimes in like in this [A] version of the song
[F#m]
That stuff [G#] about the pre-wrapped [D] bacon and whatever [E] is like.
It's just what we [A] said
It's not even right like I [Em] think I meant individually [D] wrapped bacon
_ But we were just [A] talking and we just chose we [E] probably did three or four takes [F#m] and chose the one that we liked the most
I [G] think actually our producer Michael Philip boy [F#m] about a [E] chose the one he liked the most _ [B] and
that was the one and
[A] _ It becomes
_ [B] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ Ingrained as the kind of the main [A] that's how the song goes
_ [E] So there's some people who can kind [D] of sing our improvs back at [F#] us better [A] than we can probably
[E] _ _ _ [D]
But then to [A] cap it off
_ _ _ We went we have recorded the [E] album
Outside [D] of Montreal and then came back to Toronto to [F#m] mix it and when we're getting ready to mix [E] the record we had
_ [D] _ _ Tons of our musical friends [A] from Toronto
_ _ _ [E] _
Including [D] Bobby Wiseman from Blue Rodeo [E] playing the accordion and
_ _ _ _ Singing backup vocals, you know him and
_ Blair [D] Packham and the Rio [E] statics and all kinds of [F#m] people that were friends of ours.
We got to have a choir of
_ [D] The people who [E]
helped us [F#m] get to where we were
_ Along the way we got to have them come and sing [D] with us, which was a great [E] feeling _
_ [A] _ [F#m] if I had a million [C#m] dollars _
[D] _ in
[E] 2016 dollars I'd be [A] _
_ [D] able _ [G] to maybe buy [A] a house that the song would end there in Toronto _ _
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