{"id":2222,"date":"2021-10-03T23:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:48:31","slug":"end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">as sung by Herman&#8217;s Hermits &#8211; Key of C\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea4b552551f4032688563' value='69ea4b552551f4032688563'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea4b552551f4032688563' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea4b552551f4032688563' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea4b552551f4032688563' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea4b552551f4032688563' ><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif\"><strong>The success of Herman&#8217;s Hermits&#8217; first single &#8220;I&#8217;m into Something Good&#8221; &#8211; a number one in the UK and no. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 &#8211; led to the US release of their first album in February 1965.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif\"><strong>In April 1965, with both &#8220;Can&#8217;t You Hear My Heartbeat&#8221; and the Hermits&#8217; cover of &#8220;Silhouettes&#8221; simultaneously in the singles charts &#8211; both would appear on the band&#8217;s second US album Herman&#8217;s Hermits on Tour &#8211; MGM released &#8220;Mrs. Brown You&#8217;ve Got a Lovely Daughter&#8221;. The single&#8217;s no. 12 debut on the Hot 100 was the decade&#8217;s third highest (behind the Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; and &#8220;Get Back&#8221;), and it took just three weeks to reach number one.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif\"><strong>The album climbed to no. 2 on the Billboard album chart in the week in which the Hermits had three singles in the national Top 20. The LP then spent four consecutive weeks at no. 2, three of them overlapping with the three-week run of \u201cMrs. Brown\u201d at number one on the singles chart. The album, which failed to get to number one because of the soundtrack to the 1964 film Mary Poppins, remained on the chart for 40 weeks.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif\"><strong>The album was not released in the UK until September 1965. The UK version &#8211; which featured both Mrs. Brown You&#8217;ve Got a Lovely Daughter and I&#8217;m Henery VIII, I Am (with spelling variation) &#8211; peaked at no. 16 and spent just two weeks on the chart.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif\"><\/div><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>[C] Why does the sun go on [G7] shining?\u00a0 [Am] Why does the sea rush to [Em] <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-em.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"144\" align=\"left\" \/>shore?\u00a0 [Dm] Don&#8217;t they know it&#8217;s the [Em] end of the [A7?] world,\u00a0 &#8216;Cuz [F] you don&#8217;t [Dm] love me any [G7] more?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Why do the birds go on [G7] singing?\u00a0 [Am] Why do the stars shine [Em] &#8216;bove us?\u00a0 [Dm] Don&#8217;t they know it&#8217;s the [Em] end of the [A7?] world?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It [F] ended when I [G7] lost your [C] love.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>I [F] wake up in the morning and I [C] wonder &#8211;\u00a0 Why [F] everything&#8217;s the [G7] same as it [C] was.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I [Em] can&#8217;t understand, no, I [A] can&#8217;t understand,\u00a0 how [F] life goes [Dm] on the way it [G7] does.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Why does my heart go on [G7] beating?\u00a0 [Am] Why do these eyes of mine [Em] cry?\u00a0 [Dm] Don&#8217;t they know it&#8217;s the [Em] end of the [A7?] world?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It [F] ended when you [G] said [C] goodbye. [ G7 D C ]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as sung by Herman&#8217;s Hermits &#8211; Key of C\u00a0\u00a0 [C] Why does the sun go on [G7] shining?\u00a0 [Am] Why does the sea rush to [Em] shore?\u00a0 [Dm] Don&#8217;t they know it&#8217;s the [Em] end of the [A7?] world,\u00a0 &#8216;Cuz [F] you don&#8217;t [Dm] love me any [G7] more? 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