Chords for Paul McCartney Talks Songwriting with Mary McCartney - Rare Wingspan Extra 2001

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_ _ What about writing the songs?
How did you go about that?
I just was sitting around and would just make them up on my guitar.
Stay there a minute.
Okay.
_ _ _ _ _ _ A guitar very similar to this one.
_ And I would just be sitting around and _ _ _ _ just kind of make things up.
One of [N] the best writing stories is Picasso's Last Word.
Oh yeah.
_ What happened was we were in Jamaica on holiday, like we were saying before,
_ _ and we heard that Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen were in town
filming a film called Papillon.
Dustin invited us back to his house for dinner one night
_ _ _ and we started talking about songwriting and he said,
how do you do that?
Like you were saying, how do you do it?
I said, I just kind of make it up. _
He said, can you make up a song about anything?
I said, I don't know about that.
He said, but sometimes you can.
And he pulled out a copy of Newsweek.
He said, I'll tell you what, this would be a great thing for a song.
He said, could you write a song about this?
I said, what is it?
Let me see.
He said, it's a quote Picasso said on his last night of his life. _
Before he died, _ he said to his friends, drink to me, drink to my health.
You know I can't drink anymore.
Went to bed and he died in his sleep.
So he said, could you write a song about that?
[G] I said, well, I don't know.
_ _ _ Something like that.
I said, well, _ drink [Bm] to me, _ [Em] drink to my [Am] health.
[G] You know I can't [D] drink anymore.
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ Drink to [Bm] me, [Em] drink to my [Am] health.
[G] You know I can't [D] drink anymore.
_ _ [G] He went, _ he's doing it, that's it.
You know what he's shouting to people, look, look, come here, come here, listen to him.
He's making it up, you know.
So I, I mean it's kind of something that comes naturally to me, but he was just totally blown away by it.
And then later I kind of put a few more things like to it, you know, just to explain that it was about Picasso.
Grand old [D] painter _ [G] died last night.
His painting was on the [D] wall. _
_ _ [A] Before he [Am] went, he bade us well.
I said good night to [G] him, so I'm singing.
_ Well, drink to [F#] me, _ [Em]
drink to my [Am] health.
[G] You know I can't [D] drink anymore. _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ Drink [Bm] to me, [Em] drink to my [Am] health.
[G] You know I [A] can't drink anymore.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ Passed the tattoo on that one.
Yeah.
_ _ Some of the [C#] songs come about just because of like a little riff.
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_ _ _ [F#] _ It seemed like a kind of good way to sort of kick a little thing, you know, electric guitar normally.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
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_ [E] You gave me something.
_ _ [F#m] _ I know I understand.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ You gave me loving in [F#m] the palm of my hand.
_ _ _ _ [A]
I can't _ _ [F#m] tell you how I [A] feel.
_ _ My heart is like [E] a wheel.
_ Let me [A]
roll it.
_ [E] _ _ _ Let [A] me roll it to [E] you. _ _
Let me roll it.
_ _ [E] _
_ Let me [A] roll it to you.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [E] Okay.
_ [B] _ _ _
Yeah, you just, _ you know, if you're lucky, it just kind of comes to you.
While you're [F] strumming around, too.
[D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ One, this place here we're sitting in is _ _ built [Am] for the daughter of the Vanderbilt family.
And I'd written a sort of song about that.
_ _ Mrs.
Vanderbilt.
I mean, I didn't know anything about her, but I just knew she was like a rich person. _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ _ So, how'd it [Am] go? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Down in the jungle, living in a tent.
Don't [Em] use money, don't pay rent.
[E] Don't even know the times, but you don't [Am] mind. _
_ Oh, _ _ [Em] oh, _ _ [E] oh, _ _ [Am] oh, _ _ _ oh, [Em] oh, _ oh, [E] oh, _ [Am] oh, oh, oh.
When your life is [Em] on the blink, you [E] never think of [Am] worrying. _
_ [Em] _ [E] What's the use [Am] of worrying?
_ _ [E] What's the use [Am] of worrying?
_ _ [E] What's the use [Dm] of _ [Am] anything?
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ Leave me alone, _ Mrs.
[G] _ _
Vanderbilt.
_ _ I've [C] got _ plenty of time for [Am] my _ [Em] own.
_ _ Do, do, [Dm] do, do, do, do, _ _ do, do, [Am] do, do, _ do.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [E] What's the use [Am] of worrying?
[E] _ What's the use [Am] of worrying?
[F#m] _ _ [E] What's the use [Dm] of _ anything?
[Am] _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ Remembered.
That one wasn't _ [F#] planned, was it?
_ I haven't played it for 59 years.
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