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  • The Laptop Sessions: “Only Wanna Be With You” (Hootie & the Blowfish Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    Welcome to today’s edition of the Laptop Sessions! I am proud to bring you “Only Wanna Be With You,” a song from an artist we haven’t covered yet, although we’ve played it many times in concert. In our MoU live shows, Mike and I shared the lead, and in our recent “Laptop Sessions Live” concert, Jim and I made it our own. Now, all we need is for Jeff to take a turn…

    “Only Wanna Be With You” is a great 90’s tune that I’ve loved for a long time for several reasons. Aside from being catchy and acoustic-based, it includes the line “Ain’t Bobby so cool?…” — meaning, of course, Bob Dylan. The lyrics directly quote “Idiot Wind,” a 1970’s Dylan song that I hope to record soon, AND “Tangled Up in Blue,” another Blood On the Tracks alum that I have already recorded. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun to play!

    I hope you’ll rate and/or comment once you’ve watched, and don’t forget to check back tomorrow for an all-new Original Wednesday installment from Jeff at http://laptopsessions.com …

    See you next session!

     



     

    CHORDS:
    Only Wanna Be With You
    Hootie & the Blowfish
    Capo 2:
    

    E	Asus2  E		   Asus2

You and me, we come from different worlds,
You like to laugh at me when I look at other girls.

Sometimes you’re crazy, and you wonder why
I’m such a baby, ‘cause the dolphins make me cry
    

                   B	     Asus2				   E	    Asus2
Well, there’s nothing I can do; I’ve been looking for a girl like you.
    

    You look at me, you’ve got nothing left to say,
I’ll only pout at you until I get my way.

I won’t dance, you won’t sing,
I just want to love you but you want to wear my ring.

Well there’s nothing I can do…  I only wanna be with you.
You can call me your fool…  Only wanna be with you.

Put on a little Dylan, sitting on a fence
I say that line is great, you ask me what I meant by

Said I shot a man named Gray, took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks, and when she died it came to me

I cant help it if I’m lucky…  Only wanna be with you.
Ain’t Bobby so cool…  Only wanna be with you

(Solo)

Yeah I’m tangled up in blue…  Only wanna be with you.
You can call me your fool…  Only wanna be with you.
Sometimes I wonder if it will ever end

You get so mad at me when I go out with my friends
Sometimes you’re crazy, and you wonder why
I’m such a baby yeah, the dolphins make me cry…

Well there’s nothing I can do…  Only wanna be with you.
You can call me your fool…  Only wanna be with you.
Yeah I’m tangled up in blue…  Only wanna be with you.
    
			
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Hootie & the Blowfish Acoustic Cover Songs


Formed in 1989, Hootie and the Blowfish – the band name of frontman Darius Rucker and his three bandmates – found success in the mid nineties with such popular new music as “Let Her Cry” and “Only Wanna Be With You.”  The latter single contains a songwriter’s tip of the hat to Bob Dylan.  Unfortunately, Rucker directly quoted a song from Blood on the Tracks and was reportedly sued for using lyrics without direct permission.  In addition, as Wikipedia reports, “In an episode of Just Shoot Me Finch, played by David Spade, says that something will disappear ‘faster than Hootie's second album.’”  As can be inferred from this statement, the catalog of Hootie and the Blowfish has been somewhat disappointing – their first two albums went somewhat unnoticed among alternative music fans, then their next two releases reached number one on the Billboard Hot 200.  However, subsequent releases did not chart and the singles were not nearly as successful.  This has not stopped the Hootie and the Blowfish acoustic cover songs from flowing on the Laptop Sessions free video blog.