RASPBERRIES

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:50:09 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers 
Subject: ./r/raspberries/overnight_sensation.crd


			"Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"
				  (Eric Carmen)


Intro (piano arr. for guitar)

	F      Fmaj7/A  Bb   Gm  C		[2X]
	/  /  /  /      /  /  /  /

Verse 1:

                F              Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm
	Well I know it sounds funny
            C       F              Fmaj7/A Bb  Gm
	But I'm not in it for the money,   no
	  C      F         Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm
	I don't need no reputation
	     C      F            Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm 
	And I'm not in it for the show

Chorus:

	   C    F       Fmaj7/A    Bb  Gm
	I just want a hit record, yeah
	   C   F           Fmaj7/A Bb  Gm
	Wanna hear it on the radio
	     C  F      Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm
	Want a big hit record, yeah
	      C   F        Fmaj7/A   Bb
	One that everybody's got to know

Post-chorus:

	              C                            Eb/Bb Bb
	Well if the program director don't pull it
	      C                  Eb/Bb   Bb
	It's time to get back the bullet
	              C
	So bring the group down to the station
	                   Eb/Bb Bb   Eb/Bb Bb
	You're gonna be an overnight sensation

	Ebmaj7     Bbmaj7     Ebmaj7/G   Abmaj9
	Bb-D-Eb-G  A-Bb-D-F   G-Bb-D-Eb  C-Eb-G-Bb   <- r.h. keyboard voicings

[guitar solo over intro chord progression]

Verse 2:

	I've been tryin' to write the lyric
	Non-offensive but satiric too
	And if you put it in the A-slot
	It's just got to make a mint for you

[repeat chorus]

[repeat post chorus w/sax solo until "overnight sensation"]

Bridge:
	 Gb/Db      Db         Gb/Db   Db
	I fit those words to a good melody
	Gb/Db           Db           Gb/Db    Db
	Amazing how success has been ignoring me
	   Db/Cb  Cb  Db/Cb  Cb
	So long
	 Gb/Db    Db          Gb/Db     Db
	I use my bread making demos all day
	Gb/Db           Db              Gb/Db    Db
	Writing in the night while in my head I hear
	    Db/Cb   Cb  Db/Cb  Cb
	The record play
	        AaddB  Gm  C
	Hear it play

Coda:

	[through radio]:

	F   Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm
	Hit record, yeah
	 C     F  Fmaj7/A  Bb   Gm  C 
	Wanna hit record, yeah

	[band fades in]:

	       F  Fmaj7/A  Bb          Gm   C
	Wanna hit record, yeah (number one)	 [repeat to fade]


-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers