Chords for Roy Orbison Talks About His Song Running Scared
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I remember that it took [C] only about [Eb] 10 minutes to write Running Scared.
[Ab] The
groundwork for the song had been done in preparation, but once you get
on a roll then it took virtually as long as it takes to sing and then a little
[Eb] touch-up here and there.
But I was, in writing the song, I [Ab] was trying to say
that in so many cases [F] and in so many relationships you, you, well I had
realized that you never meet a girl, a good-looking woman, who doesn't have a
boyfriend already and that bothered me.
[Eb] And you never run across a friend who
doesn't already have friends and so then you wonder where you stand always and so
that was the statement that I was trying [A] to make.
And in the scheme of
things, [Ab] when I was at Sun Records, Ooby Dooby was a pretty big hit.
The next one
was [Am] slightly, the third one was nothing.
Only the Lonely sold two million, Blue
Angel sold a million, I'm Hurtin' sold about five hundred thousand, so I [E] figured
it was down the tubes there.
[Eb] And then came Running Scared and I remember
bringing the song home.
We did [Eb] it, [G] they couldn't hear the ending on the [Eb] session
of the song and [G] the record company owner embarrassed me by flipping a little
switch in front of 30 people and he said we can't get the ending.
[E] He said you're
not singing loud enough and we're gonna lose the [F] whole record.
I said well let's
try it one more time please.
So we did it once more and it was all the hit records
that I've had have been in [Gb] concert so we [G] couldn't do another take or splice or
use [B] another track.
[Gb] So we hit, I [Ab] hit the last note and nearly blew the place
apart and I didn't know I could, which is good.
Too much training you [E] know hurts
your [Eb] style probably.
But anyway [Ab] I took the [F] the tape home of Running Scared and
I thought it was the best record that I'd done to date and I there's not there
was nothing that I would have changed on it and it's went straight to number one
in America and number one in England and number one in Australia and it was
probably the
[Ab] The
groundwork for the song had been done in preparation, but once you get
on a roll then it took virtually as long as it takes to sing and then a little
[Eb] touch-up here and there.
But I was, in writing the song, I [Ab] was trying to say
that in so many cases [F] and in so many relationships you, you, well I had
realized that you never meet a girl, a good-looking woman, who doesn't have a
boyfriend already and that bothered me.
[Eb] And you never run across a friend who
doesn't already have friends and so then you wonder where you stand always and so
that was the statement that I was trying [A] to make.
And in the scheme of
things, [Ab] when I was at Sun Records, Ooby Dooby was a pretty big hit.
The next one
was [Am] slightly, the third one was nothing.
Only the Lonely sold two million, Blue
Angel sold a million, I'm Hurtin' sold about five hundred thousand, so I [E] figured
it was down the tubes there.
[Eb] And then came Running Scared and I remember
bringing the song home.
We did [Eb] it, [G] they couldn't hear the ending on the [Eb] session
of the song and [G] the record company owner embarrassed me by flipping a little
switch in front of 30 people and he said we can't get the ending.
[E] He said you're
not singing loud enough and we're gonna lose the [F] whole record.
I said well let's
try it one more time please.
So we did it once more and it was all the hit records
that I've had have been in [Gb] concert so we [G] couldn't do another take or splice or
use [B] another track.
[Gb] So we hit, I [Ab] hit the last note and nearly blew the place
apart and I didn't know I could, which is good.
Too much training you [E] know hurts
your [Eb] style probably.
But anyway [Ab] I took the [F] the tape home of Running Scared and
I thought it was the best record that I'd done to date and I there's not there
was nothing that I would have changed on it and it's went straight to number one
in America and number one in England and number one in Australia and it was
probably the
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I remember that it took [C] only about _ [Eb] 10 minutes to write Running Scared.
[Ab] The
groundwork for the song had been done in preparation, but once you get
on a roll then it took virtually as long as it takes to sing and then a little
[Eb] touch-up here and there.
But I was, _ in writing the song, I [Ab] was trying to say
that in so many cases [F] and in so many relationships you, you, well I had
realized that you never meet a girl, a good-looking woman, who doesn't have a
boyfriend already and that bothered me.
[Eb] And you never run across a friend who
doesn't already have friends and so then you wonder where you stand always and so
that was the statement that I was trying [A] to make.
And in the scheme of
things, [Ab] when I was at Sun Records, Ooby Dooby was a pretty big hit.
The next one
was [Am] slightly, the third one was nothing.
Only the Lonely sold two million, Blue
Angel sold a million, I'm Hurtin' sold about five hundred thousand, so I [E] figured
it was down the tubes there.
[Eb] And then came Running Scared and I remember
bringing the song home.
We did [Eb] it, [G] they couldn't hear the ending on the [Eb] session
of the song and [G] the record company owner embarrassed me by flipping a little
switch in front of 30 people and he said we can't get the ending.
[E] He said you're
not singing loud enough and we're gonna lose the [F] whole record.
I said well let's
try it one more time please.
So we did it once more and it was all the hit records
that I've had have been in [Gb] concert so we [G] couldn't do another take or splice or
use [B] another track.
[Gb] So we hit, I [Ab] hit the last note and nearly blew the place
apart and I didn't know I could, which is good.
Too much training you [E] know hurts
your [Eb] style probably.
But anyway [Ab] I took the [F] the tape home of Running Scared and
I thought it was the best record that I'd done to date and I there's not there
was nothing that I would have changed on it and it's went straight to number one
in America and number one in England and number one in Australia and it was
probably the
[Ab] The
groundwork for the song had been done in preparation, but once you get
on a roll then it took virtually as long as it takes to sing and then a little
[Eb] touch-up here and there.
But I was, _ in writing the song, I [Ab] was trying to say
that in so many cases [F] and in so many relationships you, you, well I had
realized that you never meet a girl, a good-looking woman, who doesn't have a
boyfriend already and that bothered me.
[Eb] And you never run across a friend who
doesn't already have friends and so then you wonder where you stand always and so
that was the statement that I was trying [A] to make.
And in the scheme of
things, [Ab] when I was at Sun Records, Ooby Dooby was a pretty big hit.
The next one
was [Am] slightly, the third one was nothing.
Only the Lonely sold two million, Blue
Angel sold a million, I'm Hurtin' sold about five hundred thousand, so I [E] figured
it was down the tubes there.
[Eb] And then came Running Scared and I remember
bringing the song home.
We did [Eb] it, [G] they couldn't hear the ending on the [Eb] session
of the song and [G] the record company owner embarrassed me by flipping a little
switch in front of 30 people and he said we can't get the ending.
[E] He said you're
not singing loud enough and we're gonna lose the [F] whole record.
I said well let's
try it one more time please.
So we did it once more and it was all the hit records
that I've had have been in [Gb] concert so we [G] couldn't do another take or splice or
use [B] another track.
[Gb] So we hit, I [Ab] hit the last note and nearly blew the place
apart and I didn't know I could, which is good.
Too much training you [E] know hurts
your [Eb] style probably.
But anyway [Ab] I took the [F] the tape home of Running Scared and
I thought it was the best record that I'd done to date and I there's not there
was nothing that I would have changed on it and it's went straight to number one
in America and number one in England and number one in Australia and it was
probably the