"Take Me Back to 1969" genre: Folk
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	This song just strikes a chord with audiences everywhere - even if the year needs changing. 'Someone went ahead of me, and turned the signposts round...' - the story of my life!o
	MP3.com CD: By Any Other Name - buy it! CD: By Any Other Name   Label: mp3.com Credits: © David Kilpatrick September 2001
	Story Behind the Song This is one of those songs which started with a single verse and a concept - easily continued through the additional verses. People say I sing this as if it really is from the heart, yet it's no way a sad song; I do this one with a grin, because I can see all those fading hippies out there perking up and recognising what I mean! Also, it's a great one for getting other musicians to play along with, and amusing because it shifts up a key twice during the song, and I end up shouting 'Up to D!' and 'Up to E!' between the verses for bass players or guitarists who pitch in and join me when I do it at sessions. In the couple of month since I wrote this in July 2001, it's become my signature tune!n Lyrics (Spoken - backing Am/F/G/Am/Em/Am) They say sixty-seven was all that it seemed A summer of love, a doorway to dreams But hell, not for me! I was only fifteen And the best years were yet to come... (into song rythm - key of C major) Take me back to 1969! I wanna do it all again! I running out of time, I'm so much older now than then! I wanna make my way back home, Walk the paths I never found Because someone went ahead of me And turned the signposts round... Take me back to 1969 I wanna play that tune again! I want to fade out on the line Where the music never ends I wanna turn the volume up And sing the songs I heard Before someone locked the tuning dial And that station disappeared! (up to D major, shift one whole tone) Take me back to 1969, I wanna catch that bus again! I want to stand there in the line, Just waiting in the rain. I want to walk you right back home By the gaslamp's fading light, Before they powered up our street And burned away the night! Take me back to 1969! I wanna write this book again! Now I can read between the lines, And I know just how it ends... I wanna make those bullets miss, The lovers live another day, Before they bomb our sinking ship And blow us both away! (Up to E major, shift one tone again) (First verse repeat) Resolve A major back to Am as beginning (intro repeat with fade) End with A major chord

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