Grass
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Dave: “We were called in and told: ‘Look lads, your career's down the toilet unless you start to sell records in America.’ So we were given this long list of American producers, and the only name on it I knew was Todd's.” Colin: “He said he could do it all for $150,000, so we said OK.” Andy: “In hindsight, it was a very good move.” Dave: “It saved our careers, really.” Colin: “But this single sank without trace.”
Dave: “It was shot on Wimbledon Common, South London, and it rained all day, so all the nice sunny grassy shots had to be filmed under canvas and artificially lit. Bearing that in mind, it worked quite well (as videos go). Andy and Colin are the principal stars, yours truly appearing for about five seconds. The other 15 hours, 59 minutes and 55 seconds were spent sitting in my car, trying to keep dry. Showbiz, who needs it?”
Colin: “Syd Barrett meets Ariel Bender for unlikely twosome, nevertheless I prefer the gutsiness of this version in low-fi, to the all singing, all dancing Skylarking hi-fi. Vocal performance slightly molester sounding, which begs the question, had I not heard of a capo? The drug connotation was always going to keep the reception cool, but nice to have the naughtiness against the sugar. Perhaps one could say it finds itself as the maiden aunt to The Dukes.”
Andy: “A lot of what Colin and I wrote about came from the same place. We grew up on the same council estate. We lived two streets away from each other. We shared the same teachers and schools. We played over the same fields. Bought the same comics in the same sweet shop and so on. When I heard this demo I knew straight off where he'd lain for a bit of slap and tickle and with what girls. I'd been in the same fields even with the same girl we both had a crush on. This song was a cake made from a completely familiar and mutually shared recipe. It tasted good and it tasted of my experiences totally.”
[Thanks to R. Stevie Moore]
“Grass” promotional video |
Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire
The way you slap my face just fills me with desire
You play hard to get
'Cause you're teacher's pet
But when the boats have gone
We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
If you fancy we can buy an ice-cream cone
Your mate has gone She didn't want to be alone
I will pounce on you
Just us and the Cuckoos
You are helpless now
Over and over we flatten the clover
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass
Grass, grass.
Things we did on grass
© 1987 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:33:31 +0200 From: Florian Decros <flodecros (at) gmail dot com> Subject: Bass tabs of "Skylarking" Message-ID: <CAPtZtiPs1nY1yeFCibNRa75qhzrX8U_JhcbCUurHrPpGN_p=XA (at) mail dot gmail dot com>
Hi !
As a big fan of the album "Skylarking" and an enthusiast bass player,
I decided to transcribe all the songs from the record (except "1000
Umbrellas" because there's no bass, duh), including "Dear God".
There's surely mistakes here and there, but I tried to do my best.
Hope it will help some bass players across the word :)
Cheers,
Florian.
PS : Sorry if I made some grammatical mistakes, i'm french :)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:04:01 +0100
From: Steve Cobham <steve (at) guitars dot powernet dot co dot uk>
Subject: Updated chords for "Grass"
Message-Id: <Version.32.19990327210616.00dcfbd0 (at) pop3 dot powernet dot co dot uk>
I've written what I think are improved chords for "Grass"
No capo needed and it sounds pretty accurate.
I offer them for submission to the Chalkhills Transcription page.
Grass
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F#m11#5: 200200
F#m11: 204200
B7sus4: X24252
F#mb5: 2445X2
Intro: E | F#m11#5 | E | F#m11 x2
E F#m11 E
Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire
F#m11 E
The way you slap my face just fills me with desire
B B7sus4
You play hard to get
B B7sus4
'Cause you're teacher's pet
B B7sus4
But when the boats have gone
B A G#m F#m
We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
If you fancy we can buy an ice-cream cone
Your mate has gone She didn't want to be alone
I will pounce on you
Just us and the Cuckoos
You are helpless now
Over and over we flatten the clover
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass
Grass, grass.
F#m F#m b5 E
Things we did on grass
Steve.Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:23:59 +0000
From: Tim Harris <wordsrus (at) wordsrus dot demon dot co dot uk>
Subject: chords for Grass
Message-ID: <Zpld1EAfRDv2EwIZ (at) wordsrus dot demon dot co dot uk>
Grass
capo on 2 to match recorded key
(EBGDAE)
D G(330023) D G
Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire
D G D G
The way you slap my face just fills me with desire
A9?(000200)(or 000000) A7/G (322203)
You play hard to get
A9 A7/G
'Cause you're teacher's pet
A9 A7/G
But when the boats have gone
A7sus4(33220X) A7/G(322203)
We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
If you fancy we can buy an ice-cream cone
Your mate has gone She didn't want to be alone
I will pounce on you
Just us and the Cuckoos
You are helpless now
Over and over we flatten the clover
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass
Grass, grass.
(3633XX) (0532XX) (3330XX) Gm(333553) D
Things we did on grass
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