Chords for HELEN SHAPIRO - The Kids are Alright: The Story of Child Pop Stars
Tempo:
104.5 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
A
E
Gbm
Bb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E] [Db]
[A] When [C] 15 year old proto [Gbm]-pop babe Billie [Dbm] made it to number one, [A] she was treading a well-worn
[Gb] teen [C] wannabe [Db] path.
But [Ab] the early 60s were [Bb] different, simpler, [Eb] more innocent, [Ab] when all [Gm] Millie desired was
a boy [Eb] called Lollipop.
[Ab] [Bb]
[Eb] [Db] [E] And 15 year old Lulu just wanted to shout.
[Db]
[E] [Dbm] [E] And one 60s gal is the [Db] youngest female chart-topper [Bb] ever.
[Abm] [E] [Ab]
[Eb]
Eastender [Ab] Helen Shapiro was just 14 when she released her first hit single, Don't Treat Me Like A Child.
[Fm] Helen Shapiro was a shock to the [Ab] system for me.
[Gb] I heard this voice coming [Ab] out of the television one night, just belting out a song, and I went,
whoa!
You know, it's [Gb] almost like you wanted to look behind her [Ab] to see where the speakers [Eb] were.
When it [Ab] came out, this record, I didn't have a record player, I couldn't play it.
So we had to go around to our neighbours [Fm] to play it.
But I had a died happy just holding that first single [Eb] in my hand.
Helen [Ab] Shapiro was one of the last of that kind of light entertainment era.
There were a lot of kind of [Db] trembling-lipped female balladeers [Ab] around at that time.
And [Eb] she was young, more fun-filled than that.
[Ab] There wasn't [Db] anybody else around [D] doing [Gbm] that.
And I came along and obviously filled some gap.
[A] A [Ab]
few miles across London, [E] the promotion and publicity department swings into action.
[Am] I had to go up for these [Dm] publicity sessions, and they insisted that I [G] wear this school uniform,
even if it was weekends or [C] school holidays.
[Dm] I hated it.
I thought I was grown up.
I was 14.
I knew everything that there was [G] to know.
[E] [Am] In just three months, Helen had [D] scored two hits.
[G] But she was about to hear a song that would forever be her trademark.
[A] The first time I heard Walking Back to Happiness was when John Schroeder, the composer, played it on [Dbm] a piano.
[Gbm] And, um-cha, um-cha.
[Ab] And I thought, I [Gbm] can't sing [E] that.
[A] I thought it was so corny.
[E] But I was overruled in that, and I'm very glad that I was,
because Walking [Dm] Back went on to be [Ab] another number one.
So what do I know?
I [E] have loved you more [A] each day,
Walking back [Gbm] to happiness,
[A] Oop-pa [E]-ay-ay.
Yeah, I bought [Am] Walking Back to Happiness, yeah.
[E] I know all the words even now [A] to Walking Back to Happiness.
Walking [Bm] back to happiness,
[E] I [A] shared with you.
[Gbm] [A] I'm making [Ab] up [A] real things to say.
Oop-pa, oh yeah, yeah.
How could you not dance to that record?
[Gbm] I was a lump of wood.
[E] I didn't know what to do with my hands.
[Dm] They actually had to [E] say to me to smile.
[A] That's what I owe to you.
Helen Shapiro [Ab] received the award as Most Promising Newcomer.
The whole thing was just thrilling.
You don't think beyond the next week,
how long is this gonna last?
You have this boldness [Bbm] which comes from youth [Eb] and ignorance,
[Bbm] and that carried me [Ab] along.
I'm very glad I've left school,
although of course I miss being with my friends and girls of my own age,
[N] but on the whole I'm pleased about it.
I couldn't wait to leave school.
There was this discussion at one time of stay on for another year
and take some shorthand or something to have a second string,
and I thought, nah, I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna be a singer.
[B] Helen went on the road, and on tour she topped the bill
over a little-known [Bbm] Merseyside beat [Bb] combo, The Beatles.
I remember at the time, she was a big deal and The Beatles [A] kind of [Ab] weren't really.
So they were thinking, one day maybe we'll be as big as Helen [F] Shapiro.
During the tour, The Beatles [C] released [D] Please Please Me,
[C] and as their [Bb] popularity grew, they moved up the bill.
Toward the end of that tour, of course, they got so big, it [G] just got silly.
We [Ab] all knew they were gonna be big, but nobody could foresee how [Bb] big.
Whilst The Beatles' single rose to the top of the charts,
Helen's only reached No.
[F] 33.
[A] [Bb]
[Cm] Groups of guitars were on the way in and were then gonna [Bb] dominate the next 10 years.
I was reading [Gm] the NME, [A] it said it's Helen Shapiro has been at 16.
[Gbm] It was hurtful because I was still out there [Dbm] making records.
[Gbm] [Bm] [A] I
[Gbm] mean, obviously, coming [B] along at 14 [A] was a novelty,
and obviously that's gonna wear [Gbm] off.
By the mid-'60s, although still in her teens, [D] Helen's pop career was over.
But reluctant to leave singing [Gbm] altogether, she turned [E] to the cabaret circuit.
[A] From 65, I started doing more cabaret things, and some of those were really lovely,
and then a lot of those nice places closed.
So I found myself in social clubs, I worked in men's clubs.
I even found myself [Cm] in a couple of strip joints, [Am] which was awful.
[Gm] I thought [Am] all the time, I don't want to do this anymore.
I hated it.
I hated every minute of it.
[Ab]
[A] Almost on the point [Am] of finally quitting show business,
Helen's manager suggested a theatre role.
Helen [Bb] became a star in the West End [Ab] and continued to reinvent herself.
[A] [Db] [Dm]
[G] SINGS
This [A] time as a [Dbm] jazz singer.
I felt [Dm] like I was being [G] taken seriously [A] at last,
as a singer [Dbm] rather than a 60s pop star, [Dm] Helen Shapiro.
[G] Helen was a successful [Cm] jazz singer [F] for 17 years,
[G] but today her career [E] has taken her to a different stage.
[G] Well, I'm here to tell you how I found the Messiah, namely Jesus.
In 1987, my whole life was turned on its head.
[E] And for the better.
[C] Everything that I had done before then paled into [A] insignificance.
SINGS
[Gbm] I [Dbm] sing walking back on these [F] outreaches, and I get people joining [Bb] in.
SINGS
Cos [Gm] it actually has quite a lot of meaning to me now,
[Ab] ever since I became a believer in Jesus.
[Bb] So I'm very grateful for that.
SINGS
[Gm] [Ab] Praise the Lord.
[A] When [C] 15 year old proto [Gbm]-pop babe Billie [Dbm] made it to number one, [A] she was treading a well-worn
[Gb] teen [C] wannabe [Db] path.
But [Ab] the early 60s were [Bb] different, simpler, [Eb] more innocent, [Ab] when all [Gm] Millie desired was
a boy [Eb] called Lollipop.
[Ab] [Bb]
[Eb] [Db] [E] And 15 year old Lulu just wanted to shout.
[Db]
[E] [Dbm] [E] And one 60s gal is the [Db] youngest female chart-topper [Bb] ever.
[Abm] [E] [Ab]
[Eb]
Eastender [Ab] Helen Shapiro was just 14 when she released her first hit single, Don't Treat Me Like A Child.
[Fm] Helen Shapiro was a shock to the [Ab] system for me.
[Gb] I heard this voice coming [Ab] out of the television one night, just belting out a song, and I went,
whoa!
You know, it's [Gb] almost like you wanted to look behind her [Ab] to see where the speakers [Eb] were.
When it [Ab] came out, this record, I didn't have a record player, I couldn't play it.
So we had to go around to our neighbours [Fm] to play it.
But I had a died happy just holding that first single [Eb] in my hand.
Helen [Ab] Shapiro was one of the last of that kind of light entertainment era.
There were a lot of kind of [Db] trembling-lipped female balladeers [Ab] around at that time.
And [Eb] she was young, more fun-filled than that.
[Ab] There wasn't [Db] anybody else around [D] doing [Gbm] that.
And I came along and obviously filled some gap.
[A] A [Ab]
few miles across London, [E] the promotion and publicity department swings into action.
[Am] I had to go up for these [Dm] publicity sessions, and they insisted that I [G] wear this school uniform,
even if it was weekends or [C] school holidays.
[Dm] I hated it.
I thought I was grown up.
I was 14.
I knew everything that there was [G] to know.
[E] [Am] In just three months, Helen had [D] scored two hits.
[G] But she was about to hear a song that would forever be her trademark.
[A] The first time I heard Walking Back to Happiness was when John Schroeder, the composer, played it on [Dbm] a piano.
[Gbm] And, um-cha, um-cha.
[Ab] And I thought, I [Gbm] can't sing [E] that.
[A] I thought it was so corny.
[E] But I was overruled in that, and I'm very glad that I was,
because Walking [Dm] Back went on to be [Ab] another number one.
So what do I know?
I [E] have loved you more [A] each day,
Walking back [Gbm] to happiness,
[A] Oop-pa [E]-ay-ay.
Yeah, I bought [Am] Walking Back to Happiness, yeah.
[E] I know all the words even now [A] to Walking Back to Happiness.
Walking [Bm] back to happiness,
[E] I [A] shared with you.
[Gbm] [A] I'm making [Ab] up [A] real things to say.
Oop-pa, oh yeah, yeah.
How could you not dance to that record?
[Gbm] I was a lump of wood.
[E] I didn't know what to do with my hands.
[Dm] They actually had to [E] say to me to smile.
[A] That's what I owe to you.
Helen Shapiro [Ab] received the award as Most Promising Newcomer.
The whole thing was just thrilling.
You don't think beyond the next week,
how long is this gonna last?
You have this boldness [Bbm] which comes from youth [Eb] and ignorance,
[Bbm] and that carried me [Ab] along.
I'm very glad I've left school,
although of course I miss being with my friends and girls of my own age,
[N] but on the whole I'm pleased about it.
I couldn't wait to leave school.
There was this discussion at one time of stay on for another year
and take some shorthand or something to have a second string,
and I thought, nah, I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna be a singer.
[B] Helen went on the road, and on tour she topped the bill
over a little-known [Bbm] Merseyside beat [Bb] combo, The Beatles.
I remember at the time, she was a big deal and The Beatles [A] kind of [Ab] weren't really.
So they were thinking, one day maybe we'll be as big as Helen [F] Shapiro.
During the tour, The Beatles [C] released [D] Please Please Me,
[C] and as their [Bb] popularity grew, they moved up the bill.
Toward the end of that tour, of course, they got so big, it [G] just got silly.
We [Ab] all knew they were gonna be big, but nobody could foresee how [Bb] big.
Whilst The Beatles' single rose to the top of the charts,
Helen's only reached No.
[F] 33.
[A] [Bb]
[Cm] Groups of guitars were on the way in and were then gonna [Bb] dominate the next 10 years.
I was reading [Gm] the NME, [A] it said it's Helen Shapiro has been at 16.
[Gbm] It was hurtful because I was still out there [Dbm] making records.
[Gbm] [Bm] [A] I
[Gbm] mean, obviously, coming [B] along at 14 [A] was a novelty,
and obviously that's gonna wear [Gbm] off.
By the mid-'60s, although still in her teens, [D] Helen's pop career was over.
But reluctant to leave singing [Gbm] altogether, she turned [E] to the cabaret circuit.
[A] From 65, I started doing more cabaret things, and some of those were really lovely,
and then a lot of those nice places closed.
So I found myself in social clubs, I worked in men's clubs.
I even found myself [Cm] in a couple of strip joints, [Am] which was awful.
[Gm] I thought [Am] all the time, I don't want to do this anymore.
I hated it.
I hated every minute of it.
[Ab]
[A] Almost on the point [Am] of finally quitting show business,
Helen's manager suggested a theatre role.
Helen [Bb] became a star in the West End [Ab] and continued to reinvent herself.
[A] [Db] [Dm]
[G] SINGS
This [A] time as a [Dbm] jazz singer.
I felt [Dm] like I was being [G] taken seriously [A] at last,
as a singer [Dbm] rather than a 60s pop star, [Dm] Helen Shapiro.
[G] Helen was a successful [Cm] jazz singer [F] for 17 years,
[G] but today her career [E] has taken her to a different stage.
[G] Well, I'm here to tell you how I found the Messiah, namely Jesus.
In 1987, my whole life was turned on its head.
[E] And for the better.
[C] Everything that I had done before then paled into [A] insignificance.
SINGS
[Gbm] I [Dbm] sing walking back on these [F] outreaches, and I get people joining [Bb] in.
SINGS
Cos [Gm] it actually has quite a lot of meaning to me now,
[Ab] ever since I became a believer in Jesus.
[Bb] So I'm very grateful for that.
SINGS
[Gm] [Ab] Praise the Lord.
Key:
Ab
A
E
Gbm
Bb
Ab
A
E
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] When [C] 15 year old proto [Gbm]-pop babe Billie [Dbm] made it to number one, [A] she was treading a well-worn
[Gb] teen [C] wannabe [Db] path.
But [Ab] the early 60s were [Bb] different, simpler, [Eb] more innocent, [Ab] when all [Gm] Millie desired was
a boy [Eb] called Lollipop.
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ [E] _ And 15 year old Lulu just wanted to shout.
[Db] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [E] And one 60s gal is the [Db] youngest female chart-topper [Bb] ever. _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb]
Eastender [Ab] _ _ Helen Shapiro was just 14 when she released her first hit single, Don't Treat Me Like A Child.
[Fm] Helen Shapiro was a shock to the [Ab] system for me.
[Gb] I heard this voice coming [Ab] out of the television one night, just belting out a song, and I went,
whoa!
You know, it's [Gb] almost like you wanted to look behind her [Ab] to see where the speakers [Eb] were. _
When it [Ab] came out, this record, I didn't have a record player, I couldn't play it.
So we had to go around to our neighbours [Fm] to play it.
But I had a died happy just holding that first single [Eb] in my hand.
Helen [Ab] Shapiro was one of the last of that kind of light entertainment era.
There were a lot of kind of [Db] trembling-lipped female balladeers [Ab] around at that time.
And [Eb] she was young, more fun-filled than that.
[Ab] There wasn't [Db] anybody else around [D] doing [Gbm] that.
And I came along and obviously filled some gap.
_ [A] A _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ few miles across London, [E] the promotion and publicity department swings into action.
[Am] I had to go up for these [Dm] publicity sessions, and they insisted that I [G] wear this school uniform,
even if it was weekends or [C] school holidays.
[Dm] I hated it.
I thought I was grown up.
I was 14.
I knew everything that there was [G] to know.
[E] _ [Am] In just three months, Helen had [D] scored two hits.
[G] But she was about to hear a song that would forever be her trademark.
_ [A] _ The first time I heard Walking Back to Happiness was when John Schroeder, the composer, played it on [Dbm] a piano.
[Gbm] And, um-cha, um-cha.
[Ab] And I thought, I [Gbm] can't sing [E] that.
[A] I thought it was so corny.
[E] But I was overruled in that, and I'm very glad that I was,
because Walking [Dm] Back went on to be [Ab] another number one.
So what do I know?
I [E] have loved you more [A] each day,
Walking back [Gbm] to happiness,
[A] Oop-pa [E]-ay-ay.
Yeah, I bought [Am] Walking Back to Happiness, yeah.
[E] I know all the words even now [A] to Walking Back to Happiness.
Walking [Bm] back to happiness,
[E] I [A] shared with you.
[Gbm] _ _ [A] I'm making [Ab] up [A] real things to say.
Oop-pa, oh yeah, yeah.
How could you not dance to that record?
[Gbm] I was a lump of wood.
[E] I didn't know what to do with my hands.
[Dm] They actually had to [E] say to me to smile.
[A] That's what I owe to you.
Helen Shapiro [Ab] received the award as Most Promising Newcomer.
The whole thing was just thrilling.
You don't think beyond the next week,
how long is this gonna last?
You have this boldness [Bbm] which comes from youth [Eb] and ignorance,
[Bbm] and that carried me [Ab] along.
I'm very glad I've left school,
although of course I miss being with my friends and girls of my own age,
[N] but on the whole I'm pleased about it.
_ I couldn't wait to leave school.
There was this discussion at one time of stay on for another year
and take some shorthand or something to have a second string,
and I thought, nah, I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna be a singer.
_ [B] Helen went on the road, and on tour she topped the bill
over a little-known [Bbm] Merseyside beat [Bb] combo, The Beatles. _
I remember at the time, she was a big deal and The Beatles [A] kind of [Ab] weren't really.
So they were thinking, one day maybe we'll be as big as Helen [F] Shapiro.
During the tour, The Beatles [C] released [D] Please Please Me,
[C] and as their [Bb] popularity grew, they moved up the bill.
Toward the end of that tour, of course, they got so big, it [G] just got silly.
We [Ab] all knew they were gonna be big, but nobody could foresee how [Bb] big.
Whilst The Beatles' single rose to the top of the charts,
Helen's only reached No.
[F] 33.
_ _ [A] _ [Bb] _
[Cm] Groups of guitars were on the way in and were then gonna [Bb] dominate the next 10 years. _
I was reading [Gm] the NME, [A] it said it's Helen Shapiro has been at 16.
[Gbm] It was hurtful because I was still out there [Dbm] making records.
[Gbm] _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ I _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ mean, obviously, coming [B] along at 14 [A] was a novelty,
and obviously that's gonna wear [Gbm] off.
By the mid-'60s, although still in her teens, [D] Helen's pop career was over.
But reluctant to leave singing [Gbm] altogether, she turned [E] to the cabaret circuit.
[A] From 65, I started doing more cabaret things, and some of those were really lovely,
and then a lot of those nice places closed.
So I found myself in social clubs, I worked in men's clubs.
I even found myself [Cm] in a couple of strip joints, [Am] which was awful.
_ [Gm] I thought [Am] all the time, I don't want to do this anymore.
I hated it.
I hated every minute of it.
_ _ [Ab] _ _
[A] Almost on the point [Am] of finally quitting show business,
Helen's manager suggested a theatre role.
Helen [Bb] became a star in the West End [Ab] and continued to reinvent herself.
[A] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] SINGS
This [A] time as a [Dbm] jazz singer.
I felt [Dm] like I was being [G] taken seriously [A] at last,
as a singer [Dbm] rather than a 60s pop star, [Dm] Helen Shapiro.
[G] Helen was a successful [Cm] jazz singer [F] for 17 years,
[G] but today her career [E] has taken her to a different stage.
[G] Well, I'm here to tell you how I found the Messiah, namely Jesus.
In 1987, my whole life was turned on its head.
[E] And for the better.
[C] _ _ Everything that I had done before then paled into [A] insignificance.
SINGS _ _ _
[Gbm] I [Dbm] sing walking back on these [F] outreaches, and I get people joining [Bb] in.
SINGS _ _
Cos [Gm] it actually has quite a lot of meaning to me now,
[Ab] ever since I became a believer in Jesus.
[Bb] So I'm very grateful for that.
SINGS _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] Praise the Lord. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] When [C] 15 year old proto [Gbm]-pop babe Billie [Dbm] made it to number one, [A] she was treading a well-worn
[Gb] teen [C] wannabe [Db] path.
But [Ab] the early 60s were [Bb] different, simpler, [Eb] more innocent, [Ab] when all [Gm] Millie desired was
a boy [Eb] called Lollipop.
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ [E] _ And 15 year old Lulu just wanted to shout.
[Db] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [E] And one 60s gal is the [Db] youngest female chart-topper [Bb] ever. _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb]
Eastender [Ab] _ _ Helen Shapiro was just 14 when she released her first hit single, Don't Treat Me Like A Child.
[Fm] Helen Shapiro was a shock to the [Ab] system for me.
[Gb] I heard this voice coming [Ab] out of the television one night, just belting out a song, and I went,
whoa!
You know, it's [Gb] almost like you wanted to look behind her [Ab] to see where the speakers [Eb] were. _
When it [Ab] came out, this record, I didn't have a record player, I couldn't play it.
So we had to go around to our neighbours [Fm] to play it.
But I had a died happy just holding that first single [Eb] in my hand.
Helen [Ab] Shapiro was one of the last of that kind of light entertainment era.
There were a lot of kind of [Db] trembling-lipped female balladeers [Ab] around at that time.
And [Eb] she was young, more fun-filled than that.
[Ab] There wasn't [Db] anybody else around [D] doing [Gbm] that.
And I came along and obviously filled some gap.
_ [A] A _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ few miles across London, [E] the promotion and publicity department swings into action.
[Am] I had to go up for these [Dm] publicity sessions, and they insisted that I [G] wear this school uniform,
even if it was weekends or [C] school holidays.
[Dm] I hated it.
I thought I was grown up.
I was 14.
I knew everything that there was [G] to know.
[E] _ [Am] In just three months, Helen had [D] scored two hits.
[G] But she was about to hear a song that would forever be her trademark.
_ [A] _ The first time I heard Walking Back to Happiness was when John Schroeder, the composer, played it on [Dbm] a piano.
[Gbm] And, um-cha, um-cha.
[Ab] And I thought, I [Gbm] can't sing [E] that.
[A] I thought it was so corny.
[E] But I was overruled in that, and I'm very glad that I was,
because Walking [Dm] Back went on to be [Ab] another number one.
So what do I know?
I [E] have loved you more [A] each day,
Walking back [Gbm] to happiness,
[A] Oop-pa [E]-ay-ay.
Yeah, I bought [Am] Walking Back to Happiness, yeah.
[E] I know all the words even now [A] to Walking Back to Happiness.
Walking [Bm] back to happiness,
[E] I [A] shared with you.
[Gbm] _ _ [A] I'm making [Ab] up [A] real things to say.
Oop-pa, oh yeah, yeah.
How could you not dance to that record?
[Gbm] I was a lump of wood.
[E] I didn't know what to do with my hands.
[Dm] They actually had to [E] say to me to smile.
[A] That's what I owe to you.
Helen Shapiro [Ab] received the award as Most Promising Newcomer.
The whole thing was just thrilling.
You don't think beyond the next week,
how long is this gonna last?
You have this boldness [Bbm] which comes from youth [Eb] and ignorance,
[Bbm] and that carried me [Ab] along.
I'm very glad I've left school,
although of course I miss being with my friends and girls of my own age,
[N] but on the whole I'm pleased about it.
_ I couldn't wait to leave school.
There was this discussion at one time of stay on for another year
and take some shorthand or something to have a second string,
and I thought, nah, I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna be a singer.
_ [B] Helen went on the road, and on tour she topped the bill
over a little-known [Bbm] Merseyside beat [Bb] combo, The Beatles. _
I remember at the time, she was a big deal and The Beatles [A] kind of [Ab] weren't really.
So they were thinking, one day maybe we'll be as big as Helen [F] Shapiro.
During the tour, The Beatles [C] released [D] Please Please Me,
[C] and as their [Bb] popularity grew, they moved up the bill.
Toward the end of that tour, of course, they got so big, it [G] just got silly.
We [Ab] all knew they were gonna be big, but nobody could foresee how [Bb] big.
Whilst The Beatles' single rose to the top of the charts,
Helen's only reached No.
[F] 33.
_ _ [A] _ [Bb] _
[Cm] Groups of guitars were on the way in and were then gonna [Bb] dominate the next 10 years. _
I was reading [Gm] the NME, [A] it said it's Helen Shapiro has been at 16.
[Gbm] It was hurtful because I was still out there [Dbm] making records.
[Gbm] _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ I _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ mean, obviously, coming [B] along at 14 [A] was a novelty,
and obviously that's gonna wear [Gbm] off.
By the mid-'60s, although still in her teens, [D] Helen's pop career was over.
But reluctant to leave singing [Gbm] altogether, she turned [E] to the cabaret circuit.
[A] From 65, I started doing more cabaret things, and some of those were really lovely,
and then a lot of those nice places closed.
So I found myself in social clubs, I worked in men's clubs.
I even found myself [Cm] in a couple of strip joints, [Am] which was awful.
_ [Gm] I thought [Am] all the time, I don't want to do this anymore.
I hated it.
I hated every minute of it.
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[A] Almost on the point [Am] of finally quitting show business,
Helen's manager suggested a theatre role.
Helen [Bb] became a star in the West End [Ab] and continued to reinvent herself.
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This [A] time as a [Dbm] jazz singer.
I felt [Dm] like I was being [G] taken seriously [A] at last,
as a singer [Dbm] rather than a 60s pop star, [Dm] Helen Shapiro.
[G] Helen was a successful [Cm] jazz singer [F] for 17 years,
[G] but today her career [E] has taken her to a different stage.
[G] Well, I'm here to tell you how I found the Messiah, namely Jesus.
In 1987, my whole life was turned on its head.
[E] And for the better.
[C] _ _ Everything that I had done before then paled into [A] insignificance.
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[Gbm] I [Dbm] sing walking back on these [F] outreaches, and I get people joining [Bb] in.
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Cos [Gm] it actually has quite a lot of meaning to me now,
[Ab] ever since I became a believer in Jesus.
[Bb] So I'm very grateful for that.
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] Praise the Lord. _
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