Re: Re: USA is maybe not so great any more?
  By: Allen Prunty to Kurt Weiske on Sun Aug 14 2016 02:35 pm

 AP> Listen carefully to the performance of "the chain" not the words but the
 AP> tone of the song and you can pick up on what is going on.

Interesting bit on Wikipedia; the song was assembled from other works:

According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of "The
Chain" beginning with a bass progression was created by John McVie and Mick
Fleetwood. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they
would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the
first section of the tune. Other elements were worked in from an early project
of Christine's called "Keep Me There".[1] 

The blues-style piano motif was removed, and the remainder combined with a
bridge from yet another piece manually using a razor blade to cut and splice
the tapes. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier
song from a duet with Nicks, "Lola (My Love)", originally released on their
self-titled 1973 album.

Due to the spliced nature of the record (the drums and guitar were the only
instruments actually recorded in each other's company) and its sporadic
composition and assembly from different rejected songs, "The Chain" is one of
only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of
the band at the time.
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