Hello Its Me

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 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:52 MET 
 From: Jeroen van der Laak  
  
   
  
 Hello it's me - Lou Reed/John Cale 
 (from the album Songs for Drella, 1990) 
  
 Basically the chord progression is A  F#m  E. 
 Most of the time, however, the F#m is played 
 as a F#m7. The way the chords are played varies, I 
 only sorted out the first verse. 
  
 (intro) 
 A          F#m7      E           A         F#m       E 
 -----0---------0---------------------0---------2-------------0-----| 
 -----2---------2---------1-----------2---------2-----------0-------| 
 ---2---2-----2---2-----2---2-------2---2-----2---2-----0/1---------| 
 ---------------------------------2---------------------------------| 
 -0-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
 -----------2---------0---------------------2---------0-------------| 
  
  A                  F#m7 
 -----0-------0------------------------0----------------------------| 
 -----2-------2--------------2---------2---------------2--------2---| 
 ---2---2-------2------------2------------2------------2--------2---| 
 -2-----------------------2-----2--------------------2---2--------2-| 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 --------------------2---------------------------0/2----------------| 
       Andy it's me  haven't seen you in a while          I wish I... 
  
       E                      A           etc 
 ---------------------0-----------0---------------------------------| 
 -2----0-----------0--------------2---------------------------------| 
 -2----1--------1---------------2---2-------------------------------| 
 ------------2--------2-------2-------------------------------------| 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------| 
 -2----0------------------------------------------------------------| 
     when you were alive      I thought ... 
  
 (at the end of the verse) 
 F#m7                          E 
 --------------------------------------0--| 
 -----------------2-0-2-0-2-0--------0----| 
 --------------------------------0/1------| 
 -----------------2-2-2-2-2-2-------------| 
 ---------------2-------------------------| 
 ------------------------------0----------| 
  Hello it's me 
  
 (I know I messed up the timing, but to play it correctly you'll have 
 to listen to the original anyway. It's too complex to put on paper 
 for me). 
  
 Andy it's me, haven't seen you in a while 
 I wished I talked to you more when you were alive 
 I thought you were self-assured when you acted shy 
 hello it's me 
  
 I really miss you, I really miss your mind 
 I haven't heard ideas like that for such a long, long time 
 I loved to watch you draw and watch you paint 
 but when I saw you last I turned away 
  
 When Billy Name was sick and locked up in his room 
 you asked me for some speed, I thought it was for you 
 I'm sorry that I doubted your good heart 
 things always seem to end before they start 
  
 Hello it's me, that was a great gallery show 
 your cow wallpaper and your floating silver pillows 
 I wish I paid more attention when they laughed at you 
 Hello it's me 
  
 Pop goes pop artist, the headline said 
 is shooting a put on, is Warhol really dead? 
 you get less time for stealing a car 
 I remember thinking as I heard my own record in a bar 
  
 They really hated you, now all that's changed 
 but I have some resentments that can never be unmade 
 you hit me where it hurt I didn't laugh 
 your diaries are not a worthy epitaph 
  
 Well now Andy, guess we've got to go 
 I hope some way somehow you like this little show 
 I know it is late in coming but it's the only way I know 
 hello it's me, goodnight Andy 
  
 goodbye Andy 
  
  
 That's it, please send corrections, reactions etc to 
 Jeroen van der Laak 
  
   
    
 Someone please post something of Prince or Miles Davis.