Chords for Little River Band 40th Anniversary

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_ _ [C] _ _ Hey everybody, _ don't you [Bb] feel that there's [Eb] something?
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_ _ _ [Gb] In a sense, LRB is the Crosby, [Ab] Stills, Nash & Young of Australia, the cream of that [G] country's
songwriters.
Groups like Axiom, Zoot and Mississippi are among the tributaries pouring into Little
River [C] Band.
We had track records, you know, I was known from the Twilights and Axiom.
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[F] And [B] Beeb was [Eb] known from the Zoot.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Bm] Graham was known from Mississippi. _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ Mississippi were
virtually just a [C] studio band, you know, three guys had put the album together in Australia
[Gb] and had won the Album of the Year award [C] and also Single [D] of the Year award by the Australian
music industry.
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And the guys wanted to put a band [Db] together to promote the album on stage.
So Graham rang me [A] up because he knew that I used to play bass, which [G] I didn't then.
But [E] anyway, we put a band together, became a six-piece band and [Gb] we played around Australia
for two years.
And [A] then we decided to go to England to see if [G] we could make it over there.
And we were there [A] for three months and [E] the band broke up, the money was gone.
It's just
[Am] impossible to live in London and play at the same time.
[Bm] And then Glenn Wheatley called me to say that a band called [Em] Mississippi were in town and
they'd broken up [G] in London.
Would I be interested in meeting [Bm] them?
And I said, OK.
So we got together [E] and it was early [Gbm] 75 [Bm] when we got back to Australia to start the band.
[E] It's the road sign from Melbourne to Geelong, down the Geelong [N] Highway.
What does the sign say?
Little River [G] exit, one mile.
And I said, ah, [Bm] Little River, sounds like a song.
[G] Sounds like
a band, Little River band.
[Gbm] Oh, OK, [Bm] fine.
No one jumped up and down about it, but it stuck
because I was a bit embarrassed that, why [Em] should an Australian band be called Mississippi?
_ We [Ab] decided that we'd had enough experience.
It had always been traditional for Australians
to go to England and then [Eb] try and get into America via England.
But [G] we'd come to realise
after going to England [E] in various bands that it was [Gb] wrong.
[G] So we decided to come back to
Australia and then go to [B] America straight from there.
[E] And from the day we arrived back,
it took us 12 months to actually get a release in America and be here [Em] playing.
It was quite
incredible.
And [B] we had a hit [Em] single just straight off the album, which was very good
for us.
It's called Curiosity Killed the Cat in Australian.
[Bb] Curiosity [Ab] killed the cat. _ _
I'm [Bb] telling you I know [Ab] where it's at.
[N] Glenn Wheatley's master plan was to synchronise Little River [F] Band's career at home and overseas.
You've got to give it to Little River Band.
I mean, you've got to give it to Wheatley.
He got [N] the international deals together so that when Curiosity Killed the Cat came out
here, it came out there at the [Bbm] same time. _ _ _
_ _ The day they started, they were as big [Eb] in
Dallas as they [Ab] were in Grafton.
[G] We want to be in a band that's respected and liked.
And we're certainly [Ab] building that sort
of foundation in America.
[G] I mean, the whole business right behind us, even other record
companies come up and say, do you wish we had you?
You know, and all that sort of stuff.
_ _ _ _ _ We've never [D] heard _ before.
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[B] We yell and scream for more.
_ [G] There were times when I thought we're not getting there.
[B] But it was by the [Gb] time that
we'd gotten into [G]
Reminiscing and I'm sitting [Bb] at my apartment in Marina Del Rey and it was
late in the [D] afternoon and I got the number that [G] we'd bolted into number three.
I had
this little [D] slight scotch.
[Gm] I sat there on my balcony.
I [C] just thought [D] we've actually
done it.
[N] We've actually cracked this market.
I mean, I'm now number three on that billboard
chart, the Bible of my life.
And it was a tremendous feeling.
And I knew from there
on we wouldn't look [G] back and we didn't.
[Bm] Reminiscing has [Gm] become one of the most listened to songs in pop [B] history.
It's been played
on American radio more than four million [G] times.
We'll go dancing in the garden, [Ab] walking through the park and [D] reminiscing.
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[D] As Little River Band boarded their [Em] tour bus in Phoenix and headed back out on the road,
I couldn't help [E] thinking about how much they'd matured in the years since I'd last seen them.
So many other bands have streaked [A] to the top only to crumble because they found success
shallow and hollow.
But LRB [Am] seems to have drawn strength from all they've achieved.
[D] Maybe it's their Australian perspective that's served them [Gm] so well.
Viewing [Gb] the fads, fancies
and fantasies of show business [A] far from the maddening [C] crowd.
Whatever the reason, the
fact remains, as Graham [A] Goble says, that Little River Band is a band who [G] cares.
[F] And that's
why so many [Gb] people care for LRB.
We get some very [F] flattering letters from people.
[Em] I would like to think we've got an [N] image that
we are concerned for the world and for the people in the world.
And I believe that [C] we
do [A] have a seriousness about our lyrics, [Am] but also a fun about them as well.
And so I'm
hoping that there's [E] an image that we are understanding and [G] we care for people, you know, we do.
Have you heard about the lonesome loser?
Beaten by the queen of hearts every time.
[C] Have you [G] heard about the lonesome loser?
[Cm] He's [G] a loser but he still keeps on trying.
_ _ [C] _ A generation of Australia's best singer-songwriter musicians came together and are proud to call
themselves Little River Band. _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ Sit down, take a look at yourself.
Don't you want to be somebody?
_ Someday somebody's gonna see you try.
You have to face up, [F] you can't run and [D] hide.
_ _ [A] _ _ [Em]
Happy anniversary baby, got you on my [G] mind.
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