![]() Ultimately, like so many manufactured bands, what made The Monkees great was the combination of personalities and voices. I defy anyone to listen to Last Train to Clarksville or Pleasant Valley Sunday and not be instantly transported to the world they were singing about and later tracks like The Porpoise Song and Listen To The Band are absolutely seminal. OK they didn’t write their biggest hits, but it was the way they delivered them that mattered. And then I came to truly appreciate them as a group. Intro G D7sus4 G D7sus4 Verse 1 G Am Bm C Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings, of the bluebird as she sings G Em A7 D7 The six o'clock a - larm would never ring G Am Bm C But it rings and I rise, wipe the sleep out of my eyes G Em Am D7 G G7 The shavin' razor's cold, and it stings Chorus C D Bm C D7 Em C Cheer up, sleepy Jean, oh what can. At first I was dismissive I liked The Who and Bob Dylan and The Kinks – The Monkees didn’t seem in the same league. Alright guys, I know I haven’t been too active: I just moved and of course I got sick right after and my T1D makes everything worse so I was out of commission for a while. C D Bm C D7 Em C Cheer up, sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean, to a G C G Em A7 D7 Daydream believer and a homecoming queen Interlude: G C G C Chorus: C D Bm. Then in my teens, when I was going through a phase of dating mods (it was the height of the revival) I rediscovered The Monkees. I also remember my granny telling me Davy Jones had been in Coronation Street. I grew up watching The Monkees TV show (repeats, the show had finished quite a while before I started watching it), and while I didn’t quite *get* all the storylines (inevitably it involved some sort of complicated boy/girl situation, and a beach, and a Mr Nasty), I can remember thinking how funny they were. I’m showing my age here, big time, but I make no apologies for that. ![]()
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