Chords for Laughter In The Rain - NEIL SEDAKA Live in Los Angeles

_ I can demonstrate it to you.
Songwriting is a very beautiful experience and a
very frightening one at the same time.
I usually sit at the piano with a blank
sheet of paper in [Db] front of me and I'm expected to come up with something fresh
and something new.
That is not very easy each time out of the box.
Let me show you
how I do it.
I start with a [F] beat. _
_ _ _ _ This is a pretty good beat. _
I give it a 92. _ _ _ _ _
I can
dance to it. _ _ _
An American dance beat. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] After I get the beat, _ [Db] I look for a melody with
my [F] voice.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] You _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [F] think it'll [F] make it? _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ Now [Ab] every melody has to have [Db] a drop-dead [G] chord.
Let me explain that.
[Db] When you hear
this chord, you should absolutely drop dead.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ Now doo-doo-doo is nice, [Db] but it don't make it.
_ So I said, [G] let me see,
strolling along country roads.
I think I'll call it Rocky Mountain High.
_ _ _ That's
been done before.
_ Let me try singing in the rain.
No, laughter in [F] the rain. _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [D] _ [F] Strolling along country [Gm] roads with my [C] baby.
It starts to rain, it [F] ends to pour.
Without an umbrella, we're [Bb] soaked to the skin.
[C] I feel the shiver [F] right up my spine.
_ [Dm] I feel the warmth of [G] her hand [Bbm] in mine.
[C] _ _ [Bbm] Ooh, [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _
[Fm] the rain, [Bbm] I'm walking [Eb] hand in hand with the one [Ab] I love.
_ _ [Bbm] Ooh, [Eb] how [Ab] I love the rainy days and [Db] the happy way I feel [C] _
inside.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] After a while, we run [Gm] under a [F] tree.
[C] I turn to her [F] and she kisses me.
Now with the beat of the [Gm] rain on the beat, [C] softly she breathes
and [F] I close my eyes.
[Dm] _
Sharing our love under [A] _ _ [Bb] stormy skies.
_ [Bbm] Ooh, _ _ [Ab] laughter [Fm] in the rain.
[Bbm] Walking [Eb] hand in hand with [Ab] the one I love.
_ _ [Bbm] Ooh, [Eb] _ _ [Ab] the rainy days and [Db] the happy way I feel [C] inside.
_ _ _ _ Pigeons, [F] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
sharing our love [G] under _ _ [Bb] stormy skies.
_ Ooh, [Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Fm] _ _ [Bbm] walking [Eb] hand in hand with the one [Ab] I love.
_ [Bbm] Ooh, _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ I feel [C] inside.
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _
_ _ [Bbm] Ooh, [Eb] how I [Ab] love the [F] rainy days and the [Db] happy way I feel [C] inside.
_ _ _ I'm feeling happy [F] inside. _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm feeling happy [Gm] inside.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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