Chords for Ozzy Osbourne on Discovering Randy Rhoads, The Osbournes, and God: Back & Forth (Part 3/3)

Were you ever a religious person?
Were you ever someone that really believed in God or anything like that? _
Today [F] I believe in a higher power, I call it God if you like.
But I don't believe there's a guy in a fucking clarinet getting blowjobs off of a gig with wings.
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_ _ [F] _ [Em] _ _ You've always been like a miner for finding amazing talent as far as guitarists go.
Talk a little bit about your relationship with Randy Rhoads.
You guys met [C#] through an audition, [Em] essentially.
No, I was working, I had a guy helping me out called Daniel Strumming.
He was my original choice for a bass player but it didn't work out.
He says, I [Bm] know an audition, and I was drinking heavily.
I was just, you know, I was just fucking out of it [C#] all the time.
[B] And this Daniel comes in and he goes, _ I've got this one guitar player [G#] you've got to_
I said, [F#m] you know Daniel, fuck off with the guitar player.
And I just want to go home.
I'm fucking [B] sozzled sitting on [C#m] a chair eating a pizza or something like that, I don't remember.
And _ [E] this little guy comes in with [C#] blonde hair and I said, is that [C#m] a chick?
_ _ [C#] _ _
He spoke, I went, [C] oh wow.
Suddenly my ears pinged back.
He says, well what do you want me to play?
I said, play [Bm] anything.
_ _ So he starts playing and I'm _ _ like_
[E] Even in my drunk and stoned [B] out super, I _ go_
Oh this is fucking one of the best things I've ever heard in my life.
These _ drugs are really good. _
I truly believe if he hadn't have got killed when he did_
He would [A] be up there with the [B] fucking _ _ big guys.
He was fucking [G#] phenomenal.
_ Now your relationship with Zach_
[C#] I was looking for a new guitar player and I put the word out.
There's like [D#] two or three big bins full of tapes and shit.
And me mum said [G] to me, _ _ [C#] you've got to start looking at these fucking tapes, you're clutching [B] them.
I picked up one and I go, _ _ [A] oh, and it was a picture.
_ [G#] _ The only [C#m] one that I picked up.
It turned out [B] to be the guy that I [F#] picked, Zach.
[G#m] So you found Zach from picking up a cassette with a [B] picture on it?
No, I picked up this cassette and I put it back.
[D#] _ [C] And I remember [G#] reading it or whatever. _
[Bm] I get back to LA, I start auditioning.
[B] I was going to [G] Zach, I'm _ _ [Am]
going_
I know you from somewhere.
I [B] just looked at him.
He goes, oh we've never [G] met.
I go, I know [C]
you from somewhere.
_ And when I got [F#] back to England, it was him on the [Em] _ fucking_
I _ had [B] thousands of tapes, the only one I picked up.
_ It was weird, I think it was The Force.
Right.
_ Talk a little about the No [G#] More Tears tour, No More Tours.
[B] You were going to retire.
I _ decided, you know, _ [F#] I don't want to die on the stage at that point. _ _ _ _ _
[B] I was very influenced _ _ _ with alcohol and very [Em] influenced with drugs. _
And I think really it was me saying to me, get it [F#] together.
I go, [Bm] _ _ yeah, you're retired, [C] now what?
[B] What do you do?
_ I had no reason to get up in the morning.
That's why people [D] die young.
_ [E] They're not going to the stage.
I could remember you obviously being away very active.
And then from like _
[F#] 92 to _ 94, _ I just remember you being_ Fucked up.
No, you weren't necessarily fucked up, but you were_ Well, that.
But you [E] were constantly [C#m] _ looking for something.
You bought the dirt bikes, you bought the air rifles,
[G#m] we got all the dogs.
It was this thing where I just felt like you were [C#m] bored.
Yeah.
_ I've got a [G#m] concentration [B] span about _ that much bigger than a fly.
_ _ I'm like, now what can I do?
_ _ _ I mean, rock and roll was made for me, being in a band.
I often think, what would I have been doing if you hadn't been for me?
I think I'd have fucking killed myself. _ _ _ _ _ _
When I _ _ got success, I could afford my own [C#] cigarettes,
have a beer, a bit of dough, _ and a house and a car.
I would never ever have got anything like that.
[B] Music has been the saviour of my life.
I look at where we live, [C#m] you know.
_ Somebody said to me [G#] recently,
_ coming from Lodge Road to [B] living in Beverly Hills,
did you ever dream you'd do that? _
I had no [Cm] idea.
And then we did the TV [G#] _
show, The Osborne.
_ [A#] That was another thing that was like_
[F#] What did you think about the show when [C#m] it happened?
For the first year, I suppose, it was fun.
But [B] then the cracks started to appear in the family and [C] the pressure.
[G#m] You know you couldn't go down the [Am] fucking street [B] around here.
I [G] know obviously being famous and doing [Am] what you do
kind of comes at a [B] prickly price.
Having no anonymity, does that _ [Bm] bum you out sometimes?
The truth [C] of the matter is [Em] this.
If I walk down [F#] the street and too many people recognise me,
I get pissed off.
[B] But the sad thing, from absolutely [A] honest,
if they don't [G#] recognise me, then I get pissed off as well. _
It's my ego, you know.
_ When people do recognise you,
_ _ _ what is it that kind of frustrates you?
_ If I'm in a hurry, if I've got to go to [B] a doctor
or I've got to see somebody in a hospital,
_ [F#] people don't consider that you have a life.
_ _ I mean, _ the one place that really [Em] gets me crazy
is [F#] when I'm having [B] a meal in some restaurant
and somebody comes up to me and goes,
[Bm] because _ that's my time.
_ I'm pretty OK with [B] people _ _ most of the times.
_ _ Your mum says to me,
the time you get to worry is when people don't ask you for an auditor.
I suppose there's some truth in that.
But [F#] saying that, if I saw somebody I really admired in a restaurant,
[C#] _ I would never ever [E] dream of going,
hey, so [C#m] we've got time to go there.
Never. _
In the media, when anyone ever seems to write [C#] anything about [E] you,
it's always prefaced with,
Ozzy Osbourne, [G#] the man that bit Dub's head off,
a bat, pissed on the Alamo, all that shit.
Yeah.
_ Does that annoy you?
It doesn't annoy me, but I think if_
_ [B] _
One of the first [A] questions I'm told,
I've got to ask this [C#] question,
[B] what do bats [B] taste like?
I feel like sometimes going,
why don't you fuck off?
If that's all you've got to ask me.
_ It's somewhat wrong.
_ Every now and then, somebody will surprise me
and give me a [Em] really good question
and I go, well, that's really cool. _ _ _ _ _ _
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