Session Man

Album: Face to Face (1966)
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  • He never will forget at all
    The day he played at the Albert Hall
    A million sessions ago it seems
    He is a session man
    A chord progression
    A top musician

    Rock 'n' roll or folk group star
    A philharmonic orchestra
    Everything comes the same to him
    He is a session man
    A chord progression
    A top musician

    He's not paid to think, just play
    A session man
    A session man
    A session man
    Playing at a different studio every day

    He reads the dots and plays each line
    And always finishes on time
    No overtime nor favors done
    He is a session man
    A chord progression
    A top musician

    He's not paid to think, just play
    A session man
    A session man
    A session man
    A session man Writer/s: Raymond Douglas Davies
    Publisher: Abkco Music Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Cass from United StatesRay also wrote Session Man as a responses to Jimmy Page's claim to have written the guitar solo on "You Really Got Me" because Jimmy Page was just a session man at the time, hence the line, "He's not paid to think, just play!" As Ray Davies wrote in his book about it, Jimmy Page was just Jealous, because there was a younger and better guitar player on the scene in 1964, and his name was Dave Davies!
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