Biography:
Gino Vannelli (born 16 June 1952 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian singer/songwriter of Italian ancestry.
From a musical family, his father was a big band musician. Gino Vannelli played drums at a young age and after finishing high school studied musical theory at McGill University.
He eventually went to Los Angeles, California where he signed with Herb Alpert's A&M Records, releasing his first album with that record label in 1973. Gino's brother, Joe, served as arranger and keyboardist for most of his recording career.
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Other songs:
- A Good Thing
- A Little Bit Of Judas
- A Song And A Dance
- A Woman Crossed In Love
- Appaloosa
- Black And Blue
- Black Cars
- Brother To Brother
- Canto
- Cherizar
- Come To The Well
- Constantly Constantine
- Crazy Life
- Cry Baby
- Dont Give Up On Me
- Eastwest World
- Evermore
- Evil Eye
- Father And Son
- Feel Like Flying
- Felicia
- Fly Into This Night
- Gypsy Days
- Hollywood Holiday
- Hurts To Be In Love
- I Believe
- I Just Wanna Stop
- If I Should Lose This Love
- Its Over
- Jojo
- Keep On Walking
- Knight Of The Road
- Lady
- Last Dance
- Last Days Of Summer
- Living Inside Myself
- Love And Emotion
- Love Is A Night
- Love Me Now
- Mardi Gras
- Moon Over Madness
- Night Drive
- Nightwalker
- Omens Of Love
- Other Man
- Parole Per Mio Padre
- People I Belong To
- Persona Non Grata
- Put The Weight On My Shoulders
- River Must Flow
- Sally She Says The Sweetest Things
- Shame
- Slow Love
- Storm At Sunup
- Summers Of My Life
- Sunset On La
- The Jokers Wild
- The Last Dance
- The Surest Things Can Change
- The Wheels Of Life
- Theres No Time
- This Day On
- Total Stranger
- Ugly Man
- Unbearably Blue
- Valleys Of Valhalla
- Venus Envy
- Walter Whitman Where Are You
- Where Am I Going
- Wild Horses
- Words Can Kill
- You Owe It To Yourself
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VENUS ENVY
Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
[email protected]
|Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |Em
Em F#m/B Em F#m/B
Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as
C7 C9 C7 C9 C7
ice
D7/A Em/A Am7 D/A G C#7+9 B7+5-9 Em A/B Em Bm7
Not some man - made god dess cus tom cut and spliced
Em F#m/B Em F#m/B C7 C9 C7 C9 C7
Don’t need no great big set of charms to tempt my heart oh no prefer the
D7/A Am9 Am7 D/A G C#7+9 B7+5-9 Em A/B
feel of some thing real over plastic art
Em Bm7 Am7 D7sus4/A
Well Aphrodite’s got grace
C9
but she ain’t the face
B7+5-9 Em A/B Em
I know and I love 'cause I got
D9 C#9 C9
Blood in these veins while she’s some spooky dame
F#7+5+9 B7+5
Lost in the heavens above
Ab+5/Bb Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
F#m7-5 B7addE Em F#m7-5 G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
E7+5-9 Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever be
F#m7-5 F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you
B7+5-9 Em A/B Em
Come back to me
Em F#m/B Em A6 C13 Gm7/C C13
Don’t want no hand-made inlaid porcelain china doll oh no
D7/A Am9 Am7 D7/A F#7+5-9 B7+5-9 Em
Not some babe who comes un stitched before every mirror
A/B Em Bm7
on the wall Yeah De
Am7 C9 B7+5-9
Milo’s some piece but no thanks please
Em F#m/B Em A
Not my cup of tea... Oh no
D9 C#9 C9
‘Cause I want flesh and bone and not some block of stone
F#7+5+9 B7+5
Lying in bed next to me
Ab+5/Bb Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
F#m7-5 B7addE Em F#m7-5 G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
E7+5-9 Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever be
F#m7-5 F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you
Bb13
Blame it on those dippy dreams of beauty queens
A13
Who kowtow to the pressure
Dm13addE C7-9 G13 E7
Prescribing to the point of view that bigger is better
Cmaj9 G/B Abm7
Yea those tattooed lips those vacuumed hips this
Bbmaj7-5/G
whole insanity
F#7+5+9 B7+5-9 E7+5+9
Remember what you do you do for you and not for me
Abm7 D7
Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
F#m7-5 B7addE Em F#m7-5 G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
E7+5-9 Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever be
F#m7-5 F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you
Em F#m/B
Come back to me...
Em F#m/B
Come back to me
Em F#m/B
Baby please come back to me
A/B
Come back yeah
..organ:
|Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |
Em F#m/B Em F#m/B Em F#m/B
( Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as ice )
Baby pleease
Em F#m/B
come back to me...
Em...N.C
Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as ice
Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
[email protected]
|Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |Em
Em F#m/B Em F#m/B
Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as
C7 C9 C7 C9 C7
ice
D7/A Em/A Am7 D/A G C#7+9 B7+5-9 Em A/B Em Bm7
Not some man - made god dess cus tom cut and spliced
Em F#m/B Em F#m/B C7 C9 C7 C9 C7
Don’t need no great big set of charms to tempt my heart oh no prefer the
D7/A Am9 Am7 D/A G C#7+9 B7+5-9 Em A/B
feel of some thing real over plastic art
Em Bm7 Am7 D7sus4/A
Well Aphrodite’s got grace
C9
but she ain’t the face
B7+5-9 Em A/B Em
I know and I love 'cause I got
D9 C#9 C9
Blood in these veins while she’s some spooky dame
F#7+5+9 B7+5
Lost in the heavens above
Ab+5/Bb Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
F#m7-5 B7addE Em F#m7-5 G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
E7+5-9 Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever be
F#m7-5 F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you
B7+5-9 Em A/B Em
Come back to me
Em F#m/B Em A6 C13 Gm7/C C13
Don’t want no hand-made inlaid porcelain china doll oh no
D7/A Am9 Am7 D7/A F#7+5-9 B7+5-9 Em
Not some babe who comes un stitched before every mirror
A/B Em Bm7
on the wall Yeah De
Am7 C9 B7+5-9
Milo’s some piece but no thanks please
Em F#m/B Em A
Not my cup of tea... Oh no
D9 C#9 C9
‘Cause I want flesh and bone and not some block of stone
F#7+5+9 B7+5
Lying in bed next to me
Ab+5/Bb Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
F#m7-5 B7addE Em F#m7-5 G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
E7+5-9 Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever be
F#m7-5 F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you
Bb13
Blame it on those dippy dreams of beauty queens
A13
Who kowtow to the pressure
Dm13addE C7-9 G13 E7
Prescribing to the point of view that bigger is better
Cmaj9 G/B Abm7
Yea those tattooed lips those vacuumed hips this
Bbmaj7-5/G
whole insanity
F#7+5+9 B7+5-9 E7+5+9
Remember what you do you do for you and not for me
Abm7 D7
Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
F#m7-5 B7addE Em F#m7-5 G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
E7+5-9 Am7 D7
Why do you wanna be Venus
Fmaj7/G G9 Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever be
F#m7-5 F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you
Em F#m/B
Come back to me...
Em F#m/B
Come back to me
Em F#m/B
Baby please come back to me
A/B
Come back yeah
..organ:
|Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |
Em F#m/B Em F#m/B Em F#m/B
( Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as ice )
Baby pleease
Em F#m/B
come back to me...
Em...N.C
Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as ice
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