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You can play along in the same key as the recording! The two lines:
"Play your love songs all night long for me" and "sunshine through them, fiery gems for you" have been simplified for group play to remove 3 passing chords - so if you've decided to strum using all downstrokes on every beat through those lines mimicking the piano chords, it may sound not quite right if you're playing with the recording. Any E chords have been changed to E7. Thanks to Arlene McIntosh for bringing this song to BUG!
The single "Our House" reached No. 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 20 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song was written while Nash was living with Joni Mitchell, recording both Crosby, Stills & Nash and Déjà Vu. In October 2013, in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, Nash elaborated:
Well, it's an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni [Mitchell] and I – I don't know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the Valley, there's a very famous deli called Art's Deli. And we'd been to breakfast there. We're going to get into Joan's car, and we pass an antique store. And we're looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy ... I persuaded her to buy this vase. It wasn't very expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. And we got to the house in Laurel Canyon, and I said – got through the front door and I said, you know what? I'll light a fire. Why don't you put some flowers in that vase that you just bought? Well, she was in the garden getting flowers. That meant she was not at her piano, but I was ... And an hour later 'Our House' was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced. Graham Nash once admitted that he was "bored with 'Our House' the day after [he] recorded it", but will play it occasionally "because it does mean so much to so many people". (Wikipedia)