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- From: spurgeon@is2.nyu.edu (Keith Spurgeon)
-
- This is my first post of chords, so I'm praying
- the lines w/ chords and the lines w/ words roughly
- match up.
-
- Someone (sorry didn't catch name, cause I'm new
- to this game) posted a request for the chords to
- "It's Money That Matters" by Randy Newman, from the
- recording "Land of Dreams" (Reprise 25773--a few bad tunes, but a few
- really great tunes, so buy it!). The
- poster can e-mail me for clarification.
-
- I welcome all corrections, suggestions, praise, and flames at my
- e-mail address.
-
- Here is a condensation of the chords for the
- tune. It's pretty much a "cycle" tune, so I didn't include all lyrics
- and verses.
-
- Notes: The verse merely cycles through D-A-G-D
- (with two beats per chord, but note that the D
- chord repeats at beginning and end of each cycle). What Newman
- calls the Chorus (where he sings "It's money that
- matters") follows the same D-A-G-D pattern.
-
- What I have called Bridge I is pretty
- straightforward, but what I have called Bridge II
- is actually a little riff section, so the chords
- are deceptive. I will spell the notes in the "C-no third" riff
- (pretty wimpy thing to call a riff) so you can get
- it a little better. For the "C no third" chord,
- don't even bother playing a chord, just play the
- riff notes, duplicated in all the octaves you can
- spare (within reason).
-
- Bridge I appears only once in the song. Bridge
- II comes twice: once after Bridge I (and a short turnaround), and once
- after the third verse.
-
- You're on your own to sound like Mark Knopfler
- does on the recording.
-
- It's Money That Matters
- Randy Newman
-
-
- D A G D
- Of all of the people
-
- D A G D
- that I used to know
-
-
- D A G D
- Most never adjusted
-
- D A G D
- to the great big world
-
- etc.
-
- BRIDGE I
-
- Bmin A G
- All of these people are much brighter than I
-
- Bmin A G
- In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
-
-
- D
- But they barely survive
-
- A
- They eke out a living
-
- A#dim Bmin
- And they barely survive
-
- Bmin A G D/F# (<- turnaround into first occurence of Bridge II)
-
-
- Bridge II
-
- A (no third) C no third (riff: g c c c d)
- When I was a young boy
-
-
- A (no third) C no third (riff: g c c c d)
- Maybe thirteen
-
- A (no third) C no third (riff: g c c c d)
- I took a hard look around me
-
-
- A (no third) C no third (riff: g c c c d)
- and asked what does it mean?
-
-
- D A G D
- So I talked to my father
-
- D A G D
- and he didn't know.
-
- etc.
-
-
- (Note: Bridge II repeats after third verse)
-
- [I checked the layout after I pulled this into my news editor,and the
- chords and lines seem to match up pretty well. We'll see how well it nets.]
-
-
-