Chords for Interview with Ray Sawyer, Denmark 1988

Back then there was all this thing these things that were going on like Vietnam and things that were [D] bad and wrong [Bb] right now
I think the [Ab] people are more
wanting to get more [Db] together and _ _
We beat this [Gm] thing, you know [Eb] survive when don't kill us, you know
[G] _ _
[Gbm] Dr.
Hook was a band [G] that just [Fm] this is the 60s the late 60s and early [Bb] 70s
And we just rebelled against everything like [F] everybody else was
_ [Eb] And tried to say well we want to do it this [G] way
We're going to play our music like [Bb] this and this is the way we're going to act
You [A] can act and play yours [G] the way you want to and that's kind of the attitude that it was and I'm not saying that
we was all [Gm] that dirty and filthy [Bb] and _
Pro drugs [Am] as you might think we was more anti [Eb] drugs if you listen to the songs
Listen to the songs we said those words in the [Bb] songs like cocaine and and pot and all that [D] stuff
But we were saying that you're stupid if you do it if you listen [Cm] to the song
[Db] But isn't it still important to to [Gb] rebel against the authorities?
[Eb] Against the [Bbm] moralism the [Db] puritanism that still exists in the world.
[F] Yes, there is that rebellion going on.
Yes it is
The African thing the whole lot of things that are going [Gb] on that are bad
_ It's [Bbm] just that maybe I've done mine and it's [Dbm] somebody else's time to do that
The _ [Abm] _ [Bb] material for your two first [Fm] albums and are you still in touch with him?
_ _ [Bbm] Yeah, [Db] I wasn't even even even in touch with [Gb] him when he was writing my first two album
[Db] Nobody's ever in touch with shelves over saying he he's the [Eb] most elusive person.
I know I went out with him one night
We was in a bar.
[Bb] He got up to go the bathroom and I saw him three months later
[Db] _ _ [Gb] So he just [Bm] disappears and comes in and that's the kind of [Bb] person he is.
I never considered myself a writer
You know, I [G] write some songs [Dm] and some of them turn out good and [Gm] some of them don't
[Eb] Shell [G] Silverstein is a writer.
He [F] is a writer a poet [Bb] a lyricist and
[F] _ _
That's the reason that he had our [Eb] first two albums the whole first two albums was shell [Bb] Silverstein
I'm writing some songs.
I think I've got some pretty good songs that I've written.
I found some good [Gm] songs
What I [Eb] mean by find them you you have to look for them [Bb] you the song is the vehicle
[A] If you don't have a song
[Eb]
You can't have a hit you got to find the songs and that's what [Bb] I've been doing over the past
Four or four and a half [Gb] years now is looking for songs
_ [Abm]
In your [B] own name and then you [N] return to to dr.
Hook.
Why why is that?
Well, I was always both of those guys and the only thing I was [D] trying to do then was to say
_ Make a statement about country music at the time because that's what was [G] happening
country music
[A] _ started taking over
the [Db] world in [C] 1968 69
[G] 1972 or 73 it became [Am] the music of the world you had cowboys and [Eb] parents you had cowboys in Harlem
You had cowboys everywhere [Bb] now that is changing again
[Eb] And it's going towards [Dm] the rhythm and blues R&B [G] with the horns the fiddles and the steel guitars are going [Gm] away _
The horns [Bb] are coming back and that is the way my [G] next album is going to be
Directed but with the [Eb] horns and rhythm and blues
_ [C] But it'll be me, you know, [Bb] it'll have the ballads and and that
[C] But it won't have the crazies that we had in the [Ab] 70s because that was one thing.
This is another
This is a whole new thing.
This [E] is the 80s and the audience of all ages.
[D]
You still have them.
Yes.
[D] Yes
I don't know what it is about [Eb] dr.
Hook, but that it's always been that way with all [A] ages
We had grandmothers bringing their grandchildren and we had grandchildren bringing their granddaddies, you [G] know, so I don't know.
It's good.
It's really good
I love it.
People seem to like us and