![]() ![]() I write these posts in advance, so I’m guessing that my wife, Alex, might have broken her Internet silence to comment on yesterday’s post and reveal that while, yes, she did have a crush on piano man Paul O’Shea, it paled in comparison to the crush I had on massage therapist Aihnoa Gallardo. If not, please disregard the previous paragraph. Chorus C E7 Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby F G When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still C C7 I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin' F Fm You know that I have from the start C G So build me up (build me up) Buttercup, F G C Don. ' Build Me Up Buttercup ' is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. One of the perils of the piano bar is getting caught singing along to a song you don’t really know. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang. Everyone is surprised and amused, but unlike Geico’s other motorcycle ads, they also sing along. Intro: C E F G C E F G G C E7 Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby F G When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still C C7 I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin' F Fm You know. Of course, we cut anyway and realize that she’s just waiting at the repair shop. ![]() She’s riding her motorcycle through the mountains singing along to Build Me Up Buttercup. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1969. Geico: This Motorcycle Enthusiast Sings Build Me Up Buttercup. Such was the case with The Foundations’ ‘Build Me Up Buttercup,’ a song that sounds incredibly familiar in the way a lot of oldies do but one that was at the same time utterly foreign to me. Build Me Up Buttercup by Tyler Joseph guitar, ukulele, bass, piano chords. This is a song that has several ‘hey hey heys’ and ‘ooo ooooos’ and ‘bah-dah-dahs’ and I was wholly unprepared to deliver any of them, even when prompted. C E7 Why do you fill me up Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down and mess. Dont break my heart, he sings, but she already has. Incidentally, when we first discovered Paul O’Shea, after a day of me pining over Aihnoa, Alex declared, “Well, it looks like now I have a cruise boyfriend to match your cruise girlfriend.” It made for a tense two-and-a-half minutes each time this song came up on the tracklist.Īnd that’s a tension that could only be assuaged by the prettiest Spanish masseuse on the high seas. Build Me Up Buttercup is a passionate song, but this passion has been thwarted again and again. ![]()
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