Sunny Afternoon ~ The Kinks ~ Acoustic Cover w/ Framus Texan

Описание: (c)1966 Words & Music by Raymond Douglas Davies
Track 6 on side 2 of Kink´s album "Face to Face"
Arr. stagwolf
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The tax man's taken all my dough and left me in my stately home.. lazing on a sunny afternoon.
And I can't sail my yacht, he's taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime.. in the summertime
My girlfriend's run off with my car, and gone back to her ma & pa,
Telling tales of drunkenness & cruelty.
Now I'm sitting here, sipping at my ice-cooled beer, lazing on a sunny afternoon.
Help me, help me, help me sail away, oh, give me two good reasons why I oughta stay.
'Cause I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime.. in the summertime..
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime.. in the summertime..
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Tuned UP 2 steps
A minor = B minor
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In a Rolling Stone interview on November 10, 1969, Ray Davies said, "Sunny Afternoon was made very quickly, in the morning, it was one of our most atmospheric sessions.
I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session.
Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.
'The bass player went off and started playing funny little classical things on the bass, more like a lead guitar: and Nicky Hopkins, who was playing piano on that session, was playing "Liza" - we always used to play that song - little things like that helped us get into the feeling of the song.At one time I wrote Sunny Afternoon I couldn't listen to anything.
I was only playing The Greatest Hits of Frank Sinatra and Dylan's Maggie's Farm - I just liked it's whole presence, I was playing the Bringing It All Back Home LP along with my Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller and Bach - it was a strange time. I thought they all helped one another, they went into the chromatic part that's in the back of the song.
I once made a drawing of my voice on Sunny Afternoon. It was a leaf with a very thick outline - a big blob in the background - the leaf just cutting through it."
Ray Davies wanted to write about his own situation and he says in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "The only way I could interpret how I felt was through a dusty, fallen aristocrat who had come from old money as opposed to the wealth I had created for myself." As he feared that listeners might sympathize with this sad, decadent Conservative, "I turned him into a scoundrel who fought with his girlfriend after a night of drunkenness and cruelty."
The B-side to the single was "I'm Not Like Everybody Else."