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Its Money That Matters

Biography:

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is a singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.

Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own biography. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.

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From: [email protected] (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.]