Ode To 1,4,5

Words and Music by Jeff Stone, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven

Found on Jeff Stone's "Life, Death, Love, Hate, Hope, and Bad Apartments"

For more, go to jeffstone.com


C                G
Gather round you precious children
F      C        G       C
Listen in three quarter time
C   
All you writers
G
All songwriters
F        C
Hark and listen
G       C
Heed my rhyme
F    C
In a precious
F        C
Wondrous kingdom
F          C    G     G7
Beyond the Judy Perly gates
F         C       F          C
Minstrels with guitars would gather
F
Laughing 
C       G          G7
Singing with their mates
       C                   G
They'd sing the songs that they had written
    F       C        G
The kingdom would be free
 C
Alive
                     G
But as they honoured Bob and Hank
     F       C     C F G
They focused so on 1,4,5
    C                G      
Now some inside this precious kingdom felt
F       C          G      C
Guilty about these common chords


                   G
Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky
F        C      G      C
Honoured by the critic lords
F        C        F         C
Stoop so low they would not do
      F       C      G      G7
These three majestic legend kings
   F     C
Creative minds
    F   
Too brilliant
C
True
    F   C     G      C
For 1,4,5 and simple things



For instance
C                    F
Pyotr (Pete!) Ilyich Tchaikovsky would
          G
Not be so low

As to compose
         C
With 1,4,5
         G     b a g f e d#   
No no no no
C                          F
Born in Votkinsk and death in

St. Petersburg
             Em
Both Russian places
    A    D         Em   C                           F  D
Eighteen-forty and then eighteen-hundred and ninety-three
  G       C
Respectively


C   G    C G C
Wolfgang Amadeus deep in thought
F                         G
Mozart use 1,4,5 he would not
C                  G              C
Johann Christostum Wolfgangus Theophilus
            G
Not e'en at age three
           C        F        C     F   C     F     G
Would play before a king and let 1,4,5 his majesty see
F                                G                                C
Amade Gotlieb would not let that happen in Austria, France, or Italy
    F         G
No, not in Italy
    F         G
No, not in Italy
F  G   F  G   F  G   F  G   F  G   F  G
It'ly, It'ly, It'ly, It'ly, It'ly, It-leeeeeeeeee


C      G   C         G
Ludwig van Beethoven would not
C          G
Write with 1,4,5 in mind
C       G      C         G   C
How can you compose with 1,4,5
    G                  C
And make such sounds divine
G      C    G         C
Why he even impressed Mozart
G       C   E7   Am D    G
Who his one-time teacher was
C        G      C   G      C        G
He could play piano and he played viola
       C
Just because


    C            G 
And so the moral of the story
F      C   G            C
Always use protection...no...
C              G      
Sorry, that's another song
  F        C         G     C
A time and place not long ago...

(!)
F   C    F    C      F         C       G   G7
1,4,5 be not ashamed to use it in your melodies
F     C     F           C           F       C         G    C
It is but a gift that's been passed on now, well, for centuries



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