Chords for Billy Cowsill -- Pre Blue Shadows Interview & Live Clip
Tempo:
81.125 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
D
G
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[A] My hands are shaking and my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
But do you think of me to have such luck
I [Gbm] mean, no, no, no, no, I'm off [Em] the clock
It's not [Eb] my music.
[E] If I didn't have my music, if I didn't have [G] music, I'd have a good job.
You know, I'd make some [D] money.
Mmm, [E] mmm, [A] yeah
But it [Abm] isn't like punching a clock.
Yeah, you bet your ass it is.
Every night we play is punching a clock.
You bet every [C] chord we hit is punching a [Bb] clock.
It's just a relative time [F] clock.
The chronology is different, but yet we're putting as much effort and calories
into a guy with a [N] pick in his hand, I mean a pick and a shovel [Em] in his hand,
than any of the working men, you know,
and you bet your ass it's punching the time [A] clock.
When you touch me, I am the boy that feels like God
He lifts me like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say he's my buttercup
I'm in love
I'm all shook [D] up
Mmm, [E] [A] mmm, yeah
[Dm] Mmm, [E] mmm, [A] yeah
I'm all shook up
It was late in the 1960s.
The Vietnam War raged [G] overseas.
I want this nation to be at [E] peace, and we shall be.
The Rolling Stones ruled the pop scene.
Please allow me [D] to introduce myself.
[A] And free love [E] prevailed.
Out of this era of cultural mixed metaphors
rose [D] an anomaly known as [C] the [G] Cowsills,
a family of six siblings and a mini [Am]-skirted mom
that would [D] spawn the Partridge [Am] Family [F] TV series in the early 70s.
[Bb] How [F] do I start [C] to love?
The [A] singing happened [E] naturally.
I was born and my mother harmonized,
and I was the first kid, and I started singing with her.
Then this other guy came along.
My father was [Eb] in the Navy and very prolific.
[E] In fact, he used to say,
Bill's head of production, and I'm head of reproduction.
He is Billy, the oldest of the group,
and leader of the Cowsills.
It's 25 years later.
I mean, we were playing bars when I was 14,
and my brother Bob was 13.
When Barry was 7, he started playing drums.
[A] When John started pounding on something,
[E] we gave him a stick and gave Barry a bass.
So we were playing joints in Newport, Rhode Island,
every summer for 3 or 4 or 5 years
before we even got [Db] near a record label.
Billy left the band or was kicked out by his father,
allegedly [Gb] for smoking pot, early in [G] the 1970s.
Many reports have held that Billy is bitter,
but his memories tend to be good ones.
That was a wonderful part of my life.
You know, when you start off from Newport, Rhode Island,
in the summer of 1967,
you go 40 days on the road in a bus with your favorite people.
You end up at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Elkis Summer's on stage handing you a gold record
with tits from hell.
I mean, what are you gonna
Oh, this is [E] awful.
I hate this, you know?
Devil won't be real evil
Like the [B] dark coral reef
Like the winds that bring high tide
He brings [E] sorrow and grief
Today, he lives in Vancouver, a father of two,
[Bm] and he makes a blue-collar [A] living
playing local clubs as a country artist.
Last [E] of that Mary took [B] me back
There he is broken, [E] he's fell
Oh, [B] devil woman
[Eb] Do you [E] dream of having a number one hit again [Em] sometime?
I would like one
Yes, I would like one last number one AM
top-down record
once before I die,
only so that this time I've got some publishing,
I can leave a little behind.
When my children graduate from high [N] school,
if they don't quit, you know, or college,
before they have to get that job,
they can [F] have a few G's to go see the world
and [C] decide what they want to [D] do, you know?
That's it.
The [E] bottom line.
Boom.
End [G] up.
[C] Hey, good-looking
What you got cooking?
[D] How's [G] about cooking something up [C] with me?
All right.
[N] Thank you.
It's gotta stop.
You've got a great idea.
I want shorter glass.
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
But do you think of me to have such luck
I [Gbm] mean, no, no, no, no, I'm off [Em] the clock
It's not [Eb] my music.
[E] If I didn't have my music, if I didn't have [G] music, I'd have a good job.
You know, I'd make some [D] money.
Mmm, [E] mmm, [A] yeah
But it [Abm] isn't like punching a clock.
Yeah, you bet your ass it is.
Every night we play is punching a clock.
You bet every [C] chord we hit is punching a [Bb] clock.
It's just a relative time [F] clock.
The chronology is different, but yet we're putting as much effort and calories
into a guy with a [N] pick in his hand, I mean a pick and a shovel [Em] in his hand,
than any of the working men, you know,
and you bet your ass it's punching the time [A] clock.
When you touch me, I am the boy that feels like God
He lifts me like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say he's my buttercup
I'm in love
I'm all shook [D] up
Mmm, [E] [A] mmm, yeah
[Dm] Mmm, [E] mmm, [A] yeah
I'm all shook up
It was late in the 1960s.
The Vietnam War raged [G] overseas.
I want this nation to be at [E] peace, and we shall be.
The Rolling Stones ruled the pop scene.
Please allow me [D] to introduce myself.
[A] And free love [E] prevailed.
Out of this era of cultural mixed metaphors
rose [D] an anomaly known as [C] the [G] Cowsills,
a family of six siblings and a mini [Am]-skirted mom
that would [D] spawn the Partridge [Am] Family [F] TV series in the early 70s.
[Bb] How [F] do I start [C] to love?
The [A] singing happened [E] naturally.
I was born and my mother harmonized,
and I was the first kid, and I started singing with her.
Then this other guy came along.
My father was [Eb] in the Navy and very prolific.
[E] In fact, he used to say,
Bill's head of production, and I'm head of reproduction.
He is Billy, the oldest of the group,
and leader of the Cowsills.
It's 25 years later.
I mean, we were playing bars when I was 14,
and my brother Bob was 13.
When Barry was 7, he started playing drums.
[A] When John started pounding on something,
[E] we gave him a stick and gave Barry a bass.
So we were playing joints in Newport, Rhode Island,
every summer for 3 or 4 or 5 years
before we even got [Db] near a record label.
Billy left the band or was kicked out by his father,
allegedly [Gb] for smoking pot, early in [G] the 1970s.
Many reports have held that Billy is bitter,
but his memories tend to be good ones.
That was a wonderful part of my life.
You know, when you start off from Newport, Rhode Island,
in the summer of 1967,
you go 40 days on the road in a bus with your favorite people.
You end up at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Elkis Summer's on stage handing you a gold record
with tits from hell.
I mean, what are you gonna
Oh, this is [E] awful.
I hate this, you know?
Devil won't be real evil
Like the [B] dark coral reef
Like the winds that bring high tide
He brings [E] sorrow and grief
Today, he lives in Vancouver, a father of two,
[Bm] and he makes a blue-collar [A] living
playing local clubs as a country artist.
Last [E] of that Mary took [B] me back
There he is broken, [E] he's fell
Oh, [B] devil woman
[Eb] Do you [E] dream of having a number one hit again [Em] sometime?
I would like one
Yes, I would like one last number one AM
top-down record
once before I die,
only so that this time I've got some publishing,
I can leave a little behind.
When my children graduate from high [N] school,
if they don't quit, you know, or college,
before they have to get that job,
they can [F] have a few G's to go see the world
and [C] decide what they want to [D] do, you know?
That's it.
The [E] bottom line.
Boom.
End [G] up.
[C] Hey, good-looking
What you got cooking?
[D] How's [G] about cooking something up [C] with me?
All right.
[N] Thank you.
It's gotta stop.
You've got a great idea.
I want shorter glass.
Key:
E
A
D
G
C
E
A
D
[A] My hands are shaking and my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
But do you think of me to have such luck
I [Gbm] mean, no, no, no, no, I'm off [Em] the clock
It's not [Eb] my music.
[E] If I didn't have my music, if I didn't have [G] music, I'd have a good job.
You know, I'd make some [D] money.
Mmm, _ [E] mmm, [A] yeah
But it [Abm] isn't like punching a clock.
Yeah, you bet your ass it is.
Every night we play is punching a clock.
You bet every [C] chord we hit is punching a [Bb] clock.
It's just a relative time [F] clock.
The chronology is different, but yet we're putting as much effort and calories
into a guy with a [N] pick in his hand, I mean a pick and a shovel [Em] in his hand,
than any of the working men, you know,
and you bet your ass it's punching the time [A] clock.
When you touch me, I am the boy that feels like God
He lifts me like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say he's my buttercup
I'm in love
I'm all shook [D] up
Mmm, [E] _ [A] mmm, yeah
_ [Dm] Mmm, _ [E] mmm, [A] yeah
I'm all shook up
_ It was late in the 1960s.
The Vietnam War raged [G] overseas.
I want this nation to be at [E] peace, and we shall be.
The Rolling Stones ruled the pop scene.
Please allow me [D] to introduce myself.
[A] And free love [E] prevailed.
Out of this era of cultural mixed metaphors
rose [D] an anomaly known as [C] the [G] Cowsills,
a family of six siblings and a mini [Am]-skirted mom
that would [D] spawn the Partridge [Am] Family [F] TV series in the early 70s.
[Bb] How [F] do I start [C] to love?
The [A] singing happened [E] naturally.
I was born and my mother harmonized,
and I was the first kid, and I started singing with her.
Then this other guy came along.
My father was [Eb] in the Navy and very prolific.
[E] In fact, he used to say,
Bill's head of production, and I'm head of reproduction.
He is Billy, the oldest of the group,
and leader of the Cowsills.
It's 25 years later.
I mean, we were playing bars when I was 14,
and my brother Bob was 13.
When Barry was 7, he started playing drums.
[A] When John started pounding on something,
[E] we gave him a stick and gave Barry a bass.
So we were playing joints in Newport, Rhode Island,
every summer for 3 or 4 or 5 years
before we even got [Db] near a record label.
Billy left the band or was kicked out by his father,
allegedly [Gb] for smoking pot, early in [G] the 1970s.
Many reports have held that Billy is bitter,
but his memories tend to be good ones.
That was a wonderful part of my life.
You know, when you start off from Newport, Rhode Island,
in the summer of 1967,
you go 40 days on the road in a bus with your favorite people.
You end up at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Elkis Summer's on stage handing you a gold record
with tits from hell.
I mean, what are you gonna_
Oh, this is [E] awful.
I hate this, you know?
Devil won't be real evil
Like the [B] dark coral reef
Like the winds that bring high tide
He brings [E] sorrow and grief
Today, he lives in Vancouver, a father of two,
[Bm] and he makes a blue-collar [A] living
playing local clubs as a country artist.
Last [E] of that Mary took [B] me back
There he is broken, [E] he's fell
Oh, [B] devil woman
[Eb] Do you [E] dream of having a number one hit again [Em] sometime?
I would like one_
Yes, I would like one last number one AM_
top-down record _
once before I die,
only so that this time I've got some publishing,
I can leave a little behind.
When my children graduate from high [N] school,
if they don't quit, you know, or college,
before they have to get that job,
they can [F] have a few G's to go see the world
and [C] decide what they want to [D] do, you know?
That's it.
The [E] bottom line.
Boom.
End [G] up.
[C] Hey, good-looking
What you got cooking?
[D] How's [G] about cooking something up [C] with me?
All right.
_ _ _ _ [N] Thank you.
It's gotta stop.
You've got a great idea.
I want shorter glass. _ _
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
But do you think of me to have such luck
I [Gbm] mean, no, no, no, no, I'm off [Em] the clock
It's not [Eb] my music.
[E] If I didn't have my music, if I didn't have [G] music, I'd have a good job.
You know, I'd make some [D] money.
Mmm, _ [E] mmm, [A] yeah
But it [Abm] isn't like punching a clock.
Yeah, you bet your ass it is.
Every night we play is punching a clock.
You bet every [C] chord we hit is punching a [Bb] clock.
It's just a relative time [F] clock.
The chronology is different, but yet we're putting as much effort and calories
into a guy with a [N] pick in his hand, I mean a pick and a shovel [Em] in his hand,
than any of the working men, you know,
and you bet your ass it's punching the time [A] clock.
When you touch me, I am the boy that feels like God
He lifts me like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say he's my buttercup
I'm in love
I'm all shook [D] up
Mmm, [E] _ [A] mmm, yeah
_ [Dm] Mmm, _ [E] mmm, [A] yeah
I'm all shook up
_ It was late in the 1960s.
The Vietnam War raged [G] overseas.
I want this nation to be at [E] peace, and we shall be.
The Rolling Stones ruled the pop scene.
Please allow me [D] to introduce myself.
[A] And free love [E] prevailed.
Out of this era of cultural mixed metaphors
rose [D] an anomaly known as [C] the [G] Cowsills,
a family of six siblings and a mini [Am]-skirted mom
that would [D] spawn the Partridge [Am] Family [F] TV series in the early 70s.
[Bb] How [F] do I start [C] to love?
The [A] singing happened [E] naturally.
I was born and my mother harmonized,
and I was the first kid, and I started singing with her.
Then this other guy came along.
My father was [Eb] in the Navy and very prolific.
[E] In fact, he used to say,
Bill's head of production, and I'm head of reproduction.
He is Billy, the oldest of the group,
and leader of the Cowsills.
It's 25 years later.
I mean, we were playing bars when I was 14,
and my brother Bob was 13.
When Barry was 7, he started playing drums.
[A] When John started pounding on something,
[E] we gave him a stick and gave Barry a bass.
So we were playing joints in Newport, Rhode Island,
every summer for 3 or 4 or 5 years
before we even got [Db] near a record label.
Billy left the band or was kicked out by his father,
allegedly [Gb] for smoking pot, early in [G] the 1970s.
Many reports have held that Billy is bitter,
but his memories tend to be good ones.
That was a wonderful part of my life.
You know, when you start off from Newport, Rhode Island,
in the summer of 1967,
you go 40 days on the road in a bus with your favorite people.
You end up at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Elkis Summer's on stage handing you a gold record
with tits from hell.
I mean, what are you gonna_
Oh, this is [E] awful.
I hate this, you know?
Devil won't be real evil
Like the [B] dark coral reef
Like the winds that bring high tide
He brings [E] sorrow and grief
Today, he lives in Vancouver, a father of two,
[Bm] and he makes a blue-collar [A] living
playing local clubs as a country artist.
Last [E] of that Mary took [B] me back
There he is broken, [E] he's fell
Oh, [B] devil woman
[Eb] Do you [E] dream of having a number one hit again [Em] sometime?
I would like one_
Yes, I would like one last number one AM_
top-down record _
once before I die,
only so that this time I've got some publishing,
I can leave a little behind.
When my children graduate from high [N] school,
if they don't quit, you know, or college,
before they have to get that job,
they can [F] have a few G's to go see the world
and [C] decide what they want to [D] do, you know?
That's it.
The [E] bottom line.
Boom.
End [G] up.
[C] Hey, good-looking
What you got cooking?
[D] How's [G] about cooking something up [C] with me?
All right.
_ _ _ _ [N] Thank you.
It's gotta stop.
You've got a great idea.
I want shorter glass. _ _