Chords for Ray Stevens & Tony Orlando - "Knock Three Times" & Interview (Live on CabaRay Nashville)

We have an old oak tree out in front of the studio here and the other day
I tied a yellow ribbon around it and this guy stopped came up to the door and knocked three times
_ Ladies and gentlemen it was Tony Orlando
_ _ _ _ _ _ Thank you
And do you remember what I said to you what can I buy _ Jeremiah's P by?
_ _ quick to some fast-acting
_ Pleasant tasting green and purple no more cause we have
_ [F#] _ [A#] We just sold the last copy [N] let me say so anybody
I'll come to your hotel room sit on a dresser and sing it live.
_ I remember we were on tour
_ _ 1961 60 our first tour okay, so we had you and me Ralph Donna
_ You wouldn't be you and me Ralph Donna and Janie grant gross
I'm grant Janie grant and Ralph Donna and Bobby Vinton was the backup was the backup.
Yeah, can I share a store with you?
Go ahead
So you remember we were on that bus right sure
_ 40 days 30 days 30 days who's counting? _ _
No bathroom on the bus.
That's right.
No, man.
We'd sleep in our chair and one night
You got this brave idea Ray gets up, and he says I'm tired of sleeping in this chair
I'm gonna go sleep up in the luggage rack
_ _ _ He has selective memory he won't remember this
He gets up he gets up on top of the legs lugging strap
And I'm sitting I look back and he gets a blanket he puts it down nice, and I hear him actually go
Oh, this is good.
I gotta lay out stretch out
_ All of a sudden he doesn't realize that he's in the back of the bus and the bus goes downhill _
I look right and I see him go shoo _ _ _
_ _ _ I'll never forget that day being on the road with you
Has always left me with the feeling that I was with one of the greats
Proud to be here with you.
Well listen the feelings
_ _ The feeling is mutual what can I say wasn't for you?
I wouldn't have been in Branson.
No, that's true
You brought me to Branson, Missouri _ _ _ _
If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be in Nashville today _
With one of the greatest writers singers I've ever worked with
But he doesn't know how to take a compliment he doesn't know he doesn't realize that's how anybody that can write everything is beautiful
In their own way to me is a genius _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Absolutely absolutely I remember coming to your opening at the yellow ribbon theater
Yeah, Branson you and Andy came and Mel Tillis came we had we had a great time in
Absolutely _ absolutely and you know Andy I brought him to Branson too.
I know you did Andy Williams
Yeah, and something and I I think we both had something to do with Bobby Vinton coming to Branson
Yeah, well probably so you think maybe there's a chance I can ever work the cabaret.
_ _ I
Think is a good chance
_ _ _ _ About just any time you want [B] to
_ Tell you what _ _ on not three times, which was the biggest selling record I've ever had
I had girls you think we could do that song now.
Why don't we get them out here?
I think they might work out
_ _ _ They sure good so far
We can't call them the Rayletts _
_ We can't call them dawn
So we'll call them dusk
_ So it's Tony Olando and dusk is that good _
So you remember not three times were you born yet?
Were you born? _ _
_ Okay, when I get a shot, let's get a shot _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ You guys help us [F#] out now.
All right _
[F#] _ _ [B] Hey girl, what you doing down there
Dancing alone every night while I live [F#] right above you. _ _
_ I
Can hear the music playing I?
_ Can see your body swaying _
Girl, you are wonderful.
Oh me.
You don't even know me.
[B] I love you
Oh my darling [E] not three times on the ceiling [B] if you want me _ _ _ _ _
Why song?
_ If the answer is no
_ What my sweetness
[E] _ _ _ Means you'll meet me [B] in the hallway
_ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] What's on the pipe
Means you ain't gonna [B] show
_ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ [B] If you look out your window tonight
_ Pulling the string with a note that's attached
[F#] _ _
Whoa _ _ _ and read how many times I saw you _ how in my silence I adored you
_ Whoa _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
On [F#m] the ceiling if [B] you want me _
Why so the pipe?
[F#] Why song the pipe if the answer [B] is no _ _
What my sweetness
[E] _ _ _
Means you'll meet me [B] in the hallway
_ _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ [F#] Twice on the pipe _ means you ain't gonna [B] show
_ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ Whoa read how many times I saw you _ how in my silence I adored you
_ Whoa, leave my dreams.
Let that wall between us
[C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
On [E] the ceiling if [C] you want me _
[C] Just twice here we go
[G] Why song the pipe?
If the answer is no _ _
What my sweetness
[F] _ _ Means you'll meet me in [C] the hallway
_ _ Just twice you guys
[G] Why song the pipe?
Means you ain't gonna [C] show
Lord, [F] no, you ready just [G] once twice three _
Times you're really a beautiful audience _ _ _