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Lou Reed : The Bells
1979

  1. Stupid Man
  2. Disco Mystic
  3. I Want To Boogie With You
  4. With You
  5. Looking For Love
  6. City Lights

  7. All Through The Night
  8. Families
  9. The Bells

Stupid Man

Co-written with Nils Lofgren
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Stupid man, hitch hiking out of a good life in Saskatchewan
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And he thinks he's got big, big plans
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Bm
Gonna build a house upon some land
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Oh Casey, don't it make you crazy
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Oh, when you're living all alone by that damn water
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Oh Casey, don't it make you crazy
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When you're living all alone by those still waters
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Please say hello Please say hello to my little baby daughter Oh Casey, tell her that her father's gonna be coming home So soon, so soon to see her Well I'm shooting down the turnpike With the driver doin' 95 or maybe more Don't you think he's loaded, drunk Or that he thinks that life's a bore, oh Casey, oh Casey, don't you know how it makes me so damn crazy Living all alone by those waters But please say hello But please say hello to my little baby daughter Please, please, won't you just give her a great big kiss Then tell her that her stupid daddy will be coming home soon Oh Casey, oh Casey, don't you know I made me so damn crazy When I was living there all alone by those still waters But please tell, please tell my baby, baby, baby daughter That I'm tied up now but I'll be home soon And I'll be the daddy that I oughta Please say hello Oh Casey, please say hello from a stupid man Still my little baby daughter a big, big, big kiss And tell her that her daddy will be coming home soon But Casey, don't you know I made me so damn crazy When I was living there all alone But won't you please give my, give my baby daughter A great big stupid kiss And tell her that her stupid father will be coming home soon Stupid man

Disco Mystic

Capo:
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Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic ...
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 Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic Disco, disco mystic ...

I Want To Boogie With You

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| ... Hey pretty baby Don't you think you might give me a chance Get it on with me Go downtown for some love and romance And I know I ain't nothing I ain't worth but a thin dime But if you put your heart in my hands I'm sure that I could change your mind I wanna boogie with you Yeah, I wanna boogie with you And there's something, baby that your parents Both agreed And that is that they both had it A big distrust in me And your best friend Frankie I know your best friend Frankie wants to see me sink And I don't much blame him for that He gets so useless after so few drinks You know babe, I wanna boogie with you I wanna boogie with you
Sax solo over verse chords
And I know your little baby sister She thinks that I'm a flop But I guess that you know that it's true I spent more time on the bottom than the top Tell your little sister I know she wants to give me a whirl But I don't have the time Babe, wait till she's grown up and she's a woman, not a girl Don't you know I want to boogie with you Hey, I want to boogie with you I wanna boogie with you I wanna boogie with you, yeah Boogie with you Down on the corner Boogie with you, yeah

With You

Co-written with Nils Lofgren
Capo:
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With you, life moves so fast
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With you, everything's a mess
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Slow down Don't you think you could be less capricious I'm not you, I don't have no death wish
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Slow down, slow down
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With you, there is no denying It's you, not my lack of trying With you, everybody's lying It's you, it's not me who's crying
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Crying, crying Crying, crying With you, stay and hold tightly from the streets With you, every friend's a possible beat Slow down, slow down With you, it's a foregone conclusion With you, envy, it's all a delusion With you, I can have no illusions It's you, who has the contusions Crying, crying Crying, crying With you, everyone's a sucker With you, it's fuck-ee or fucker Slow down, slow down With you, life is just a scramble With you, every day is a gamble With you, I can forget life barely With you, playing the Virgin Mary And you're crying, crying Crying, crying Crying, crying

Looking For Love

Capo:
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Hey, hey, hey
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Hey now, there's a lovely girl And she's stealing all your sheets
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Hey now, there's a lovely girl That's the kind of girl to meet, oh
D
Hey now, there's a lonely boy And he's looking, looking for love, huh
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Ah now, there's a lovely girl And she's looking for some stud
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But she's, hey now, won't you give it now Won't you give it, give it, give it to me, oh
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Hey now, there's a lucky girl Give it, give it, give it to me, hey, hey, hey |
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Hey, hey, hey, hey Hey now, there's an international boy Walking around the world Hey now, there's a jet-set star Looking still for some little pick-up girl, I said Hey now, you used to scratch my back And you look across the board, hey Hey now, when you ripped open my shirt You see that's written hey "The Wanderer" on my chest, hey Hey now, there's a lovely girl Easy kiss kisses goodbye, ooh baby ooh Hey now, there's a lovely child Look, look, looking for love Hey hey hey Give it to me baby now yeah There goes my chest... groovy on my best baby, hey yeah

City Lights

Co-written with Nils Lofgren
Capo:
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Don't these city lights light these streets to life
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Don't these crazy nights bring us together
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Any rainy day, you can dance those blues away
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Don't these city lights bring us together
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Charlie Chaplin's cane, well it flicked away the rain
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Things weren't quite the same after he came here
Bm
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But then when he left, upon our own request
Em
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Things weren't quite the same after he came here Don't these city lights Bring these streets to life Don't these crazy nights Bring us together Any rainy day You can dance those blues away Don't these city lights Bring us together We're supposed to be A land of liberty And those city lights To blaze forever But that little tramp Leaning on that street corner lamp When he left us His humor left us forever
Piano solo over verse chords
We're supposed to be A land of liberty And those city lights To blaze forever But that little tramp Leaning on that street corner lamp When he left us His humor left us forever, ever Don't these city lights Bring these streets to life Don't these crazy nights Bring us together Any rainy day You can dance those blues away
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Don't these city lights bring us together, together

All Through The Night

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| ... Don't you feel so lonely when it's in the afternoon And you gotta face it all through the night Don't it make you believe that something's gonna have to happen soon Oh baby, all through the night All through the night Oh baby, all through the night All through the night All through the night Have you ever played with an all-night band And gone through it, baby, all through the night When the daytime descends in a night-time of hell Everybody's gone to look for a bell to ring, all through the night And they do it, all through the night Babe, all through the night When the words were down and the poetry comes And the novel's written and the book is done You said, oh Lord, lover, baby give it to me All through the night, and she says it My best friend Sally, she got sick And I'm feeling mighty ill myself it happens all the time And all through the night I went to St. Vincent's and I'm watching the ceiling Fall down on the body as she's lying there on the ground Says oh babe, gotta celebrate all through the night Made me feel so sad I cried all through the night I said oh Jesus, all through the night If the sinners sin and the good man's gone And a woman can't come and help him home And what you gonna do about it when they go on all through the night And they sing, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby All through the night And he says give it to me all through the night It ain't so much when a man's gotta cry Give a little loving and some piece of mind I said hey babe, give it to me all through the night And some people wait for things that never come And some people dream of things that never been done They do it, oh baby, all through the night The city's funny and the country's quiet But I'd wanna know why they don't have a riot Why don't they do it, baby, all through the night Ooh mama, ooh mama, tell me about it All through the night I want to have it all through the night If Christmas comes only once a year Why can't anybody shed just one tear For things that don't happen all through the night Ooh mama, all through the night Oh baby, do it to me all through the night Easy, easy, baby, why don't you give it to me All through the night, yeah

Families

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| Mama, you tell me how's the family And mama, tell me how's things going by you And little baby sister, I heard that you got married And I heard that you had yourself a little baby girl, too And here's some uncles and some cousins I know vaguely And would you believe my old dog Chelsea's there, too And would you believe nobody in this family wanted to keep her And now that dog's more a part of this family than I am too I don't come home much anymore No no no I don't come home much anymore, mama And mama, I know how disappointed you are And papa, I know that you feel the same way too And no no no no no I still haven't got married And no no no there's no grandson planned here for you And by the way daddy tell me how's the business I understand that your stock she's growing very high No daddy, you're not a poor man anymore And I hope you realize that before you die Because I don't come home much anymore No no no no no I don't come home much no more But daddy and please please please please please Come on let's not start this business again I know how much you resent the life that I have But one more time I don't want the family business Don't want to inherit it upon the day that you die Really dad, you should have given it to my sister You know Elizabeth, you know Elizabeth She has a better head for those things than I She lives practically around the corner That's really the kind of child you could be proud of But papa, I know that this visit's a mistake There's nothing here we have in common except our name And families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry And I don't think that I'll come home much anymore No no I don't think I'll come home much again, mama Papa, families often make each other cry No I don't think that I'll come home much anymore (How's the families)

The Bells

Starting at 5:30 through the track.
Bm
A
And the actresses relate
G
To the actor who comes home late
A
After the plays have gone down
D
And the crowds have scattered around
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Though the city lights and the streets
Am
No ticket could be beat
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For the beautiful show of shows
Am
Ah, Broadway only knows
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The Great White Milky Way
Em
It had something to say
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When he fell down on his knees
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After soaring through the air
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With nothing to hold him there
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It was really not so cute
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To play without a parachute
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As he stood upon the ledge
Em
Looking out he thought he saw a brook
Em
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And he hollered, "Look, there are the bells"
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And he sang out, "Here come the bells"
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"Here come the bells"
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"Here come the bells"
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"Here come the bells" |
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Here come the bells
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Here come the bells
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Here come the bells
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Here come the bells |
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