Chords for Lake Shore Drive-Skip Haynes Interview on Wild Chicago 1990s

_ _ [Abm] [B] If you live in the city, you've heard [Ab] the song and the wild Chicagoan who wrote [Abm] it has quite a story to tell.
_ _ I recognize that song.
How are you, sir?
[B] I'm just fine, sir.
How are you?
Good.
That's like short drive.
Yes, it is.
And you would be Skip Haynes.
Yes, I am.
Just lucky we just happen to be passing by here.
It is.
It's just amazing.
You were part [Bb] of [Gb] Eliota, Haynes, and Jeremiah.
Jeremiah, yes.
Eliota, Haynes, and Jeremiah.
[Ab] You were born in [Eb] Chicago, weren't you?
Oh, yeah.
I'm a Chicago boy, even though I live [Abm] in Los Angeles.
I still have a dual citizenship, I guess you'd call it.
I [B] still have an address here [E] and in Los Angeles.
Now, what are you doing now?
I got into writing [Abm] books.
I wrote a book on how to stop [Ab] doing drugs because [Am] I was actually an expert [E] at doing drugs. _ _
[Dbm] _ _ [Abm] I bet every [Gb] Chicagoan could sing the [E] words to this thing.
[Dbm] I think so.
It's [Abm] mind-boggling to me anyway.
Because I always write on Lakeshore Drive.
It's the first thing I do when I come to Chicago.
Take a right because Lakeshore Drive has been very, very good to me.
So I write down it every time I come in.
It's kind of like rubbing Buddha's belly for me.
You know what I mean?
[Ab] Wow, this is like [Cm] being in a band again.
It's [E] cool.
_ [Dbm] Did you write the [Abm] song while driving on Lakeshore Drive?
No, actually, we're going [E] to pass.
It's pretty difficult, [Bb] isn't it?
We were driving [Abm] down Lakeshore Drive with my manager, [E] Arthur Belkin, [Bb] in [Abm] 1970, maybe.
At about 4 o'clock [E] in the morning in January in an Opel GT.
And we were faced.
We were drinking tequila and we were, dare I say it, snorting cocaine.
And we were loaded.
And we were going down [Gb] Lakeshore [Eb] Drive talking about how wonderful Lakeshore Drive was.
[Gb] Mostly because it was like four lanes wide and you could really blow in the middle of January.
Do three donuts, still make your exit, [Ab] not get killed.
We've heard right from that on this trip.
I said, well, it's not icy and I don't get high anymore, so we have a chance.
And I just sat down and really just wrote our [Abm] conversation.
And I went to the club the next day.
We [Bb] were playing at a place called the Gate of Horn, [Abm] which is on Briar and [Gb] Broadway.
And [A] I leaned out and I [Ab] played a tune.
And it was just our [A] conversation.
[F] I never intended the song [E] to be played again, ever.
You didn't think it was going to be a hit when you [Bb] first heard it?
Didn't think it was going to be a hit.
You know what happened?
We did [Bb] it.
A year later, we [E] forgot about it.
We didn't put it in [Bbm] the repertoire.
And Arthur, our manager, [Eb] just a year later, calls us up on a Friday morning and says,
you've got to learn Lakeshore Drive.
We said, why?
He said, because they just went on it on [Bb] the radio and there's a thousand reservations for the club.
And we [Gb] didn't know the [E] song, so we had to go downtown to go record.
[Bb] And the kid behind the counter didn't know us.
We had to buy our own album at list price to [F] learn the song.
[E] That's how much we knew Lakeshore Drive.
No matter where you used to be, I'm running Lakeshore Drive.
[Abm] And I saw the pretty blue lights on [E] Lakeshore Drive.
I saw five people get busted for [E] speeding.
Pretty blue lights.
[Abm] The cop car?
Yeah.
Which [E] instrument did you play?
Guitar, I'm [Bb] guessing?
I played guitar [Gb] and I was the lead singer.
John Jeremiah [E] played piano.
He did not sing on [Ab] it.
And Mitch Eliotto played bass.
Rock and roll.
Got it.
That was a rock and roll turn there.
[Abm] It sure was.
Equipment turn.
You have [A] to be very careful when you're driving with equipment.
Especially when there's a 110 pound [Ab] camera this far from your head.
You're [Bb] making the wrong kind of [E] turns.
[Bb] Close up.
[Abm] I guess it's pretty clear to you by now that the S-curve has been [E] straightened out.
Bummer.
[G] Me too, though.
See, I've been [N] straightened out too, so I can identify with that.
To me, it looks the same.
Obviously, it's massive.
[Eb] You know, there's new buildings and stuff.
But [Bb] it's still the same.
It's still my [N] favorite road.
Even though you're now in LA, Sunset Boulevard, does that hold a candle?
Two!
Two!
_ [B] [Bb] I don't think so.
At Sunset Boulevard, [N] Hollywood Boulevard, you've got people walking around there
that think Friday the 13th is a [Abm] documentary.
I [E] also wrote a song called Dangerous Dan.
[Bb] Dan Ryan.
But we never [Eb] recorded it.
It was Dangerous Dan Ryan.
If you'd stuck together as a [Bm] group, you might have covered every [Bb] expressway in the city.
It's possible.
It's possible.
If something works, beat it to death.
[Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] If somebody wants to listen to the Lakeshore [Bb] Drive CD, what do they do?
[Abm] They can go to any record store in Chicago or the [E] Midwest, and it's [Dbm] there.
It's out [Abm] nationally for the first time.
Thanks for not [E] pulling any donuts on that Lakeshore Drive.
I wanted to.
I [Abm] really wanted to. _ _