Jet Harris - from There to Here - Going Solo Chords

Jack Good picked me up and said,
come on, it's about time you did something with yourself.
So he took me under his wing and I came out with another brand new instrument,
which was then called the six string bass,
which [Bb] they've now named [Ab] the baritone bass.
[Bb] And _
[F] I had a hit with Jack, [Ab] with Bessame Mutu,
and then [Bb] another big hit [Ab] after that with Man With The Golden Arm.
You guessed it, [Eb] it's Jet Harris!
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] Man With The Golden Arm was a film by _ Sinatra [Ab] and Kim Novak about a [N] junkie.
And this music is Elmer Bernstein, by the way.
The B side, [Fm] which I sang on, _ was a thing called Some [F] People. _ _
[N] I had both sides in the charts at once,
and the B side was pulling the A side down.
[F] All the women, all the girls, was buying the singing one,
and all the blokes was buying this bass guitar.
And of course it went up to, I [Em] don't know, number eight or something.
And this was 13, Some [C] People, and it was dragging it down,
because it's what they asked for in the [Em] shops.
[E] _ _ Well, Jack Good, it was, made me a front man,
because on the records I was obviously playing [C] the tune,
so I had to go as a front man, but I wasn't happy with it.
_ Having been in the business since 1957 or so,
Jets still is like his first night's performance.
He will pace up and down and roll a cigarette
and then pace up and down a bit more.
But once I've spoken to the audience, I'm all right then, I think.
The shadows, that is, have [Am] been quite bluntly pinning.
_ [Db] _ _ [A] And then [Gm] of course when [A] he goes on,
you wouldn't [G] think he'd got a nerve in his body.
He's just [Ab] the ultimate [C] showman, fantastic on the mic.
And of course he's a great player, so the nerves always play a part.
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_ He was [Abm] on the NME Poll Winners concert,
and he was there as the _ Instrumentalist of the Year, that's right.
My band [A] called The Innocents were backing him.
[N] He said to the audience, he said,
Well, this is the record that's out, and it's not happening
cos you're not bleeding by any, he said.
_ _ [G] Three months ago, I saw the Innocents had a record release,
they didn't make [Eb] the charts, [G] thanks to you.
_ [Am] _ _ Cos Tony Meehan had already left.
I thought, what a great idea to make a record with [Ab] Tony.
And I'd be [Bb] blown if Tony [Dm] wasn't thinking exactly [F] the same [Gbm] thing in London.
[Dm] So we had a meet and got together and said, Yeah, we'll do one.
We came out with Diamonds, which _ [Eb] Jerry Lordner [D] had written for [G] me.
We're showing off a bit now, we're number one with Tony.
_ _ [Dm] Six weeks, number one. _
_ _ _ It knocked the shadows [G] off the top, it knocked Cliff off the top.
_ It was a million [Dm] sellers. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ NEMS record shop in Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool,
[Dm] I was just nearly 12 years old,
walked in with [C] my six and eightpence
and asked for [Cm] Diamonds by Jets, Harris and Tony Meehan,
which I'd [D] read in the paper was about to be issued.
[Abm] And I think, I'm sure it was served by Brian Epstein.
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This was [G] exactly [B] _ seven days before
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Please Please Me by The Beatles was released.
That was released [N] exactly the following Friday.
And The Beatles were not the big thing then, which they later became.
And so people like Brian Epstein were still [G] doing their day jobs in the record shop.
_ And then we went on to do another, Scarlet O'Hara.
That was also big, number two, that one.
[Cm] The third was Applejack.
And that's when Billy and myself, [G] Billy Davis, we got smashed up in a car.
I'd been voted musician of the year.
[C] The Beatles were there.
So after the Savoy, I went off with Billy.
She was working in Worcester.
We had a chauffeur-driven car for that.
And on the way home from [Cm] Billy's gig, _ _ _
we went into a mid and red bus.
_ And, well, that put me out of action [G] and Billy.
Billy broke her jaw.
_ I think she broke it on the back of my head, I'm not sure.
Because I took the ashtray, and I was asleep on Billy's lap.
And the ashtray was open, and I took that in the head.
_ And of course that put us out of action for a long time.
_ _ _ And _ I couldn't _ _ _ _ publicise Applejack, the third June.
_ But it still went to number four, which was great. _ _ _ _
But then that's when I went downhill.
I couldn't work.
I was too ill.
_ [B] I ran away [Am] from the _ Ready [Dm] Steady.
Was it Ready Steady Go?
Thank you, Lucky Stars.
So I went to the pub next [Am] door, round the corner.
I remember, and I stood [Dm] there and had a couple of drinks.
I thought, I'm not doing this.
I ran away.
They didn't find me for about three [Em] months.
I was down in Brighton, out of it.
[D] I mean, I used to get [Dm] arrested, _ _ regular.
_ [G]
The coppers told me [Am] they'd run me in for my own good,
because I was going to get run over [Dm] one day.
You're not stoned all the [A] time when you're an [F] alcoholic,
because you hate getting [Dm] stoned.
You just want to be _
[Am] at a certain level, like a dipstick in a car. _
[Em] But sometimes you always have that one too many,
and it goes [C] up there, and then that's fatal.
_ [G] I couldn't work, and the drinking got [C] worse.
_ And I just turned my back on show business,
_ because there was a huge court case over the crash, which we won.
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_ _ _ But the prize that I was offered _ didn't come up to what I'd lost,
because the case took three years.
I'd lost an awful lot of money.
But I just turned my back on it and got worse with the drink.
_ _ [Dm] And then, _ _ _ well, [B] _ _ Billy [G] and I split up,
well, because of my drink, of course. _
_ _ And I went on from there.
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Did various jobs, _ _ _ _ but [Cm] couldn't [Em] face the stage.
I tried a couple of [Dm] times, but I wasn't happy.
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[Ab] This is probably Jet's rarest record,
the [E] one that the fewest number of his [Eb] fans will have.
My Lady, Fontana label, [F] 1967.
A sort of comeback [N] record at the time.
_ It's one that a lot of his fans don't even know exists.
They remember all the instrumental stuff, but this is a [Abm] vocal record,
a bit of a quirky mid-'60s-type vocal record,
as many other things were at the time.
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Tragedy is always a part of rock & roll.
We have not too much tragedy.
In our career, we were always the goody [E]-goodies,
just the bad boys you want to hear about,
and Jet's one of those wonderful, lovable bad boys. _ _ _
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