Chords for Roy Orbison - 'The BIG O' Bio 1 of 3.

[Dm] [G] Throughout that prolific time, [C] _ he supplied me with so much pillow talk.
I [Dm] think it was marvelous.
Roy may not [G] have been the king of rock and roll, but he [C] was definitely, _ [A] at least to his [E] dark prince.
He was unique in his [F] time.
There was no one like him before Roy Orbison, and there's [E] been no one like him [D] since.
That's where I place him.
He's an original of the species.
[Eb] I was too young to actually pick up on the Sun stuff, Ooby Dooby and his very early stuff.
Roy came into my life when I was 12 years old, _ _ 1960, when he was with Monument Records,
and _ Only the Lonely was his first big, big hit in [F] England.
I was sitting in the living room with me mum and dad's house, [Gm] and me mum was sat with me auntie,
and Only the Lonely played, and [Bb] they both said, [Em] oh, that's horrible, because it was too [F] sexy for them.
And [C] I went, I'd be about 13, 14 at the [F] time, and I went, wow, that's fantastic.
Only the [C] lonely, [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] only the lonely, _ _ _ [C] only the lonely, _
[Gm] _ only [Bb] the lonely, _ [F] _ _
only _ _ the lonely, _
_ There goes my heart, _ they're [Bb] gone forever, _ _ [G] so far apart, [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] no I,
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [F] _
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_ Only the lonely, _ _ _ _
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only the [C] lonely, [E] _ _ [C] [Bb] no I cry, _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ a new romance, _ _ _ [Bb] no more sorrow,
_ But that's the [G] time, [C] _
[Am] you, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] if you're lonely, _ [C] _ _ _ [F] only the lonely,
As a boy, Roy Orbison's voice was me, and [Gm] he had the ability to become you as the listener,
[Bb] and you were able to relate to something in your life, _
[Em] _ connected [F] to the subject he's talking about.
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[Gm] [F] It's yourself you hear, when you hear [Ab] Roy Orbison's voice, it's your own heart.
Well, he made emotion fashionable, that it was alright to talk about and sing about very emotional things,
for men to sing about very emotional things, that counted things in life.
There is something very powerful to hear a male, _ especially, you know, someone as male as Roy, _ to sing in falsetto.
It's completely, _ _ _ _
_ [A] it leaves you wide open.
I always am fascinated by Running Scared, because it's like verse, verse, verse, verse, verse,
and then this kind of B [G] section, that is the end of the song, and it really boils down to one note,
the story that boils down to one word, and to me that's great songwriting.
It built to this crescendo, and then it had this wonderful twist at the end of it, you know, you think,
as you would with a Roy Orbison song, you think that she's gonna go off with the other guy,
and suddenly she turns around, and, you know, it's one of those, yeah!
Then I heard crying, _ and that was it, to me it was the voice of God.
Something happened _ between his voice and that song, that I think, if you were my age, which was about 13,
and when I was 13 I was always in love, you know, and I just lost my [Gbm] girlfriend, and I was 13 to 14 I think,
and it devastated me, you know, and that song filled that void.
[G] Yeah, I would play that song [Db] probably a hundred times a day.
I was [D] alright _ for a while, [Db] _ I could smile for a while.
_ [Ab] You see, pop stars to me then, they didn't come from somewhere I could relate to,
they came from, they came down on this golden platform that kind of landed, you know, in my sitting room.
And this mystery that I liked about him as well, the way that he was all in black,
and in the black sunglasses, [N] and in the black suit, and singing, and he wasn't moving his body around,
he was just singing from his heart, and just the whole emotion of just the voice, and the mystery was very magical.
It made me want to play music, it made me want to sing, it made me want to cry, you know,
it made me want to do a lot of things, [D] and that's powerful.
Oh, _ _ [A] pretty woman!
[Ab] He told me what happened with Pretty Woman, the story about where Mercy came from,
and that it really didn't have anything to do with the song, it was him begging for mercy because he was out of breath.
Every singer knows the voice they're born with, the voice they've been given, _
and that can be as good or, you know, or as great as Roy's,
but in the end, _ there's another voice that has to overpower that, to really touch the human spirit, I think.
Your baby [Fm] doesn't love [F] you _
[C] _ anymore.
_ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Golden days before they _ end, _ whisper [Am] secrets through the wind.
_ _ [C] Your baby [F] won't be near you [C] anymore. _ _ _
[Em] _ _ It's dramatic, [Ab] there was high