“SHABBY DEE”-SONG PROFILE-

-THE BASIX-

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🌑🌒🌓✨🚪-=*INTRO*=-🚪✨🌖🌗🌘

*INTRO*

SLOW DANCE

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*🌪.SOUND🌥🎙🌩CLOUDS.🌪*

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*🎬✨CLIPS✨📽*

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*🎸✨CHORDS✨🎸*

*CHORDS*

(4:4 swing / 120bpm / F#major)

VERSE:

(F#) (F#6) (F#sus2) (F#) (F#7) (F#sus4) (F#) (F#sus2) (F#)

(Bb) (Bdim) (G#msus2) (G#m) (D#msus4) (D#m)

(G#) (G#7) (G#sus2) (C#) (B) (B) (Bm) (Bmsus4 –> F#)

(bass: F# (Bb) Bb B (F) G# (B) D# (Bb) G# (Bb D#) C# B (D E) F#)

OUTRO:

(G#) (G#7) (G#) (F#)

(bass: G# F# (Bb)

“tipperary”

(F#) (F#7 F#6) (F# F#m F# F#m F#)

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*BASIC CHORDS*

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(4:4 swing)
(120bpm)
(F#major)

VERSE:

(F#) (F#6) (F#sus2) (F#) (F#7) (F#sus4) (F#) (F#sus2) (F#)

(Bb) (Bdim) (G#msus2) (G#m) (D#msus4) (D#m)

(G#) (G#7) (G#sus2) (C#) (B) (B) (Bm) (Bmsus4 –> F#)

(bass: F# (Bb) Bb B (F) G# (B) D# (Bb) G# (Bb D#) C# B (D E) F#)

OUTRO:

(G#) (G#7) (G#) (F#)

(bass: G# F# (Bb)

“tipperary”

(F#) (F#7 F#6) (F# F#m F# F#m F#)

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*🎼✨LYRICS✨✍️*

*LYRICS*

me and shabby dee
yea, shabby dee and me

(you see) she doesn’t know you
(but you both know me)

so jo, meet shabby dee…

me and shabby dee
yea, shabby dee and me

you won’t ever see her
(she’s imaginary)

but to me, she’s as real as can be…

me and shabby dee
it started out so innocently…

i rolled down the hill
she built a house in a tree

for me and shabby dee…

me and shabby dee
so happy up in that tree

but somebody needed her much more than me

so i finally set shabby free…

me and shabby dee
well something happened you see…

the world wants a meaning, well there’s nothing to see
but shabby means the world to me

the world owes me nothing, now there’s nothing to see
i owe it all to shabby dee…

now it’s a long long way to tipperary (go on)
(DEC DEC DEC DECORATE THE BUS FOR ME)

it’s a long long way to tipperary…

*SCRAPS*

the world is our wishing well…

embrace the debris…

with me and shabby dee…

VERSE 1:

me and shabby dee
shabby dee and me

she doesn’t know you
though you both know me

so come see shabby dee…

VERSE 2:

for those whose eyes don’t see…
she remained a mystery

yea, to those who don’t see her
(she’s imaginary)

but to me, she’s as real as can be…

VERSE 3:

and on the date decreed
she told me where she’d be

on the top of the hill…
i swallowed a pill…

and waited patiently…

SOLO VERSE:

(new transition is C# B B (X!))

*AD-LIB OVER SOLO ON THESE CHORDS*:

(F#) (G#sus2)

(then continue to Bb G#m verse chords)

VERSE 4:

and sure as i could be…
a surge of ecstasy…

i counted to 3…
on the date (we) decreed…
(backing vox: “we agreed…”)

(and) she came right unto me…

VERSE 5:

yea, she came right unto me…
but it wasn’t meant to be…

for somebody needed her much more than me…
(so) she left reluctantly…

BRIDGE 1:

(F#)

what did it mean?

(G#sus2)

was it (merely) a dream?

the world wants a meaning, well there’s nothing to see
but shabby means the world to me

the world owes me nothing, now there’s nothing to see…

i owe it all to shabby dee…
shabby means the world to me…
((s)o i) owe it all to shabby dee..

OUTRO:

now it’s a long long way to tipperary (go on)
(DEC DEC DEC DECORATE THE BUS FOR ME)

it’s a long long way to tipperary…

*SCRAPS*

(***BACK TO “SHABBY DEE”***)

started off so innocently…

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🧫🥼🧪✨BEHIND THE MUSIC✨🧪🥼🏋️‍♀️

*THEMES*

(written about my sister’s childhood ‘imaginary friend’)
(sometime in 2008)
(included on the ‘tabula rasa’ album in 2009)

(opening track of ‘surrogate sisters’ song cycle)

(OUTRO:)

(“it’s a long way to tipperary”)
(based on an anecdote relayed by mark + paul about singing the song on the schoolbus)
(in high school?)
(i never took the bus in high school)

(and my old bus driver ‘tom kunningham’ started singing along)
(although he was usually a bit of a curmudgeon)
(and later accidentally struck and killed a 13-year-old girl on her bike)

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✨⚡️🔌🎤🌌PRODUCTION🌌🎤🔌⚡️✨

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