Chords for Top 10 The Pretenders Best Songs

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_ [N] _ _ Now the reason you're here, _ _ _ _ _ as man and woman, _ is to love each [G] other.
It is [C] time for you to laugh instead [F] of cry.
_ _ Number 10.
Stop Your [C] Sobbing.
It's the Pretenders' debut single.
It was released in [G] _ _ 1979 and a cover version of the Kinks' song.
[F] There's one thing you gotta [G] _ _ do _ [F] to make me still [G] want _ you.
Gotta stop sobbing now, [C] gotta stop sobbing now.
_ _ _ Please stop, [Am] I've changed your mood.
[F] You've got all sad, [G] so I feel sad too.
I [Em] _ [A] think I [Am] know. _
Kid is [F] number 9.
[G] The song is about Dre Davies, [C] leader of the band, the Kinks.
Davies and Hind were a couple [B] and had a [A] daughter together.
I can tell you [Dm] do. _ _ _
How can I _ explain?
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_ You don't want me [F] to.
You'll be my mother _ when _ everything's [C#] gone.
Chrissy Hind, originally from Akron, Ohio, moved to London in 1973,
_ working at the New Musical Express and at Malcolm McLaren Clothes Store.
She was [G#] involved with early versions of The Clash and [C#] The Damned.
Never keep on speaking to me.
_ _ Some things _ change, some stay the same.
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[Am] _ So don't _ forget it.
_ [G#m] _ _ _ It's just [G#] a silly _ phase [C#m] I'm going through.
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_ _ _ [A] I'm Not In Love is a cover version of the 10cc song.
It [Am] was released in 1994 for the soundtrack of the movie Indecent [G#m] Proposal starring Demi Moore.
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_ _ I Go To Sleep is a song written by [F#m] Ray Davies.
It was never [C#] recorded by the Kinks, but released by [Bm] Chrissy Hind just before their breakup in 1981. _
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_ I'll Stand By [Bm] You is a power ballad that pledges love and faithful [Am]
assistance in times of darkness.
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_ [A] _ [D] Middle Of The Road refers [C] to [A] Tao Te [D] Ching, which Chrissy interprets [A] as the middle way.
_ [D] The song is about seeing [C] the changes in herself [D] as writer and lead singer.
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ Don't get in the [G#] road, _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [E] in the middle of the road.
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I'll judge my [G] world at night. _ _
_ Back [D] On The Chain Gang was [A] originally going to be about Ray Davies,
but [G] the meaning of the song changed after James Honeyman [D] Scott died of a [A] drug overdose at the age of 25 in [Em] 1982
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and Pete Farnsworth's death one [Em] year later.
Back on [A] the train.
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_ Back [A] _ _ _ [D] on the chain [Dm] gang.
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_ _ The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] music video for Don't Get Me Wrong [C] is a tribute to [C#m] the British [C] 60s spy series The Avengers
with Chrissy [D] Hind playing Emma Peel searching [Dm] for John Steed who appears _ [G] superimposed.
Don't get [C] me wrong.
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_ _ You say [Am] hello when I take a [E] ride.
Going is my _ fingers.
Blowing in my, my, my, _ _ _ imagination.
_ _ [A] Grass In Pocket refers to looking for money.
The song was the Pretender's biggest [D] success and reached [F#m] number one on UK Singles [G] Chart in 1979. _
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[E] _ _ there [C#m] was a man, [E] I'd cry.
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_ [E] I'd do a parody.
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_ [F#m] I'm too.
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