Chords for Puss N Boots - No Fools, No Fun

I'm Nora Jones.
I'm Sasha Dobson.
I'm Katherine Popper.
We're Puss in Boots.
_ _ _ We started [B] playing before Kat started playing with us,
and Sasha booked a gig at a pool hall just for the purposes [E] of me and her learning how to [B] play guitar.
Nora had just gotten back from like two full albums of touring.
[E] Like I hadn't seen her for like three and a half years or something,
and then all of a sudden you were back.
Playing at a pool hall?
Yeah, no one suspected it for quite a while.
You [A] don't know what _ _ _ [E] it means to be
Don't [B] know what it means to [E] be my friend
Those first few gigs were pretty funny.
Hoduck!
I mean we would like miss [B] chords.
We didn't know how to play.
We didn't know how to play.
But we knew how to sing, you know.
Yeah, and then it got [A] better and better, and then finally we started playing with Kat.
[E] I'm the new songwriter.
These guys [B] are sort of like seasoned cats at that.
Sort of like a [E] bro-down that became, it wasn't like we all sat around and said,
what should we do next?
It was more just hanging.
Having enough tunes to play on a gig, and every time it just got [A] funner and [D#] funner.
Yeah, and better sounding.
Yeah.
_ _ [C#] No fools, _ [Fm] no fun,
[C#] Bull [Fm] rider, hey
[F] _ Singing [D#]-wise, it's so nice to sing, the three of us.
It's just [C#m] we have a special connection, [E] especially singing, I think. [C#m] Yeah.
And when you have the [Em] playing guitars under it, it's just so fun.
[E] We work with each other.
_ [A] If I could [E] backsteel a ball
_ [C#m] To get [A] on some old ship [E] o' [B] playing
_ [A] I'd leave old London [E] to my home
I always [A] learn stuff when I go out.
[F#] I'm basically playing guitar [E] in a band, lead guitar.
If we weren't collaborating, I wouldn't be doing that.
And I played pedal steel for a minute to get off the bass.
Yeah.
Which was amazing and [G] hilarious.
And then, just so I'm not playing bass all the time, they said, why don't you sing?
And why don't you, so I'm playing a little guitar.
[Em] We just all try new things.
So we [C] pushed her out front [G] finally, and we're like, alright, we've done the first time instrument thing,
now you switch it up.
And then all of a sudden, Kat's writing songs and doing originals too.
So [Em] singing lead vocals.
[G] And my backup singer's too shabby.
_ Why do I blame you
[Em] _ _ [G] _ _ Doing [C] what you do
[Em] I think our karma [G] the whole way along is these welcoming opportunities to take on new instruments.
We all kind of come from a more conservative, I think we all studied jazz.
We all did.
We all kind of take music so seriously that [E] it's just so cathartic [G] to have an experience [Em] where it's okay to start late.
[D] We all come from that jazz background where we're all pretty [G] loose too.
And we're not like, you know, precise musicians, we can be totally loose, which is why it's fun to do [Am] country songs like that.
[G] We usually play really tiny rooms until we started [D] playing the bell house.
Finally [A] one day I was like, man, [F] let's just charge a [Am] $5 [G] cover.
Let's make money on this gig.
Because we were like paying people to come see [D] us perform.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it wasn't about that.
[Em] It wasn't about the money.
And we were all so [F] into like, [C] getting it when we were all in town [G] together, it would just be such a party [A] just to hang and play songs and [G] try new songs.
Or maybe one of us had written a new song.
We're just having a little party up there.
[Dm] The audience just loves to be [Cm] a part of the party, but [G] it's not your typical performance where [G] we are performing something that's [D] very well polished.
[A] It is at this point.
[G]
A lot of it is.
[C] Because that's the thing, you know, so many of our songs are getting actually polished.
So we try to incorporate one or two songs a set where it can still potentially fall apart, which I know [F] our audience loves and I love too.
We did a couple [C] of gigs leading up to recording and that's kind of how [F] we prepared.
And that was about it.
In terms of the loose feel that we have, records [C] take months and months to make.
And we decided [E] that we were going to bang this one out in a few days [G] and that, you know, songs were not going to be [C] perfect and they were going to sound like songs.
And, you know, you're going to [F] hear like the air in the room and you're going to hear, you know, a lot of the noises [D] in the room.
It kind of [F] started because we heard these live recordings and [G] we liked the way we sounded.
[C] So we started recording here at [G] Yoji and it was going really [F] well, but it almost [C] were like, we were like, where's the [D] cursing and the laughter?
So that's kind of when we started thinking we would incorporate a few [F] of the live tracks in the album because it [G] sort of missed that live element.
[C] It was weird to have it just be all a studio album for this band.
It [G] made more sense to incorporate some of the live stuff.
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