{"id":15509,"date":"2023-04-05T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:27:51","slug":"listen-to-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/listen-to-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Band"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Intro]\r\n<\/span>B<\/span> Bb<\/span> A<\/span> B<\/span> Bb<\/span> A<\/span> G<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>G<\/span>         D<\/span>           Em<\/span>               Bsus4<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Hey, hey, mercy woman plays a song and no one listens,\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>                D<\/span>        G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I need help, I'm falling again.\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>               D<\/span>              Em<\/span>            Bsus4<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Play the drum a little louder, tell me I can live without her\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>         D<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>If I only listen to the band. Listen to the band!\r\n<\/span><\/span>(the band plays)\r\n<\/span>D<\/span>   Am<\/span>   Em<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Pre-Chorus]\r\n<\/span>B<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Weren't they good, they made me happy.\r\n<\/span><\/span>B<\/span>             B<\/span>        Bb<\/span>   A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I think I can make it alone.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>G<\/span>     D<\/span>           Em<\/span>               Bsus4<\/span>\r\n<\/span>  Oh, mercy woman plays a song and no one listens,\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>                D<\/span>        G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I need help, I'm falling again.\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>               D<\/span>                  Em<\/span>                 Bsus4<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Play the drum a little bit louder, tell them they can live without her\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>            D<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>If they only listen to the band. Listen to the band!\r\n<\/span><\/span>(the band plays)\r\n<\/span>D<\/span>   Am<\/span>   Em<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Pre-Chorus]\r\n<\/span>    B<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Now weren't they good, they made me happy.\r\n<\/span><\/span>B<\/span>             B<\/span>        Bb<\/span>   A<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I think I can make it alone.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>G<\/span>   D<\/span>       Em<\/span>               Bsus4<\/span>\r\n<\/span>  Oh, woman plays a song and no one listens,\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>                D<\/span>        G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I need help, I'm falling again.\r\n<\/span><\/span>       G<\/span>                     D<\/span>\r\n<\/span>C'mon, play the drums just a little bit louder,\r\n<\/span><\/span>Em<\/span>             Bsus4<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Tell us we can live without her\r\n<\/span><\/span>G<\/span>                D<\/span>               G<\/span>     G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Now that we have listened to the band.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n(Fade out then fade back in)\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Outro]\r\n<\/span>Listen to the band!\r\n<\/span>D<\/span>   Am<\/span>   Em<\/span>   B<\/span>     B<\/span> Bb<\/span> A<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\nG<\/span>  D<\/span>  Em<\/span>  Bsus4<\/span>  G<\/span>  D<\/span>  G<\/span>    x2\r\n<\/span>(Fade out)\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
There should be a C in between the D and Em chords in the main pattern of the verse. In other words, it should be G, D, C, Em, G, D, G each time. Watch and listen to the version from 33&1\/3 Revolutions Per Monkee and you’ll hear it and see Mike playing it that way.<\/div>\n
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True. There is also a return to the D after the first rotation. Bsus4? Maybe once the horns are added, but not in the rhythm guitar part.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Intro] B Bb A B Bb A G { CHORUS } G D Em Bsus4 Hey, hey, mercy woman plays a song and no one listens, G D G I need help, I’m falling again. G D Em Bsus4 Play the drum a little louder, tell me I can live … CLICK TO VIEW SONGListen to the Band<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,117,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-live-piano","category-monkees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}