Abba - Mamma Mia (1975)

Originally in D, I play in A

A	Aaug	A	Aaug
			x2

A	E/A	A	D
I’ve been	cheated by	you since I don’t know	when

A	E/A	A	D
So I	made up my	mind it must come to an	end

A	Aaug
Look at me now,	will I ever learn?

A	Aaug	D
I don’t know ho	w, but I suddenly	lose control

	E
There’s a fire with	in my soul

D	A/C#	E
Just	one	look and I can hear a bell ring

D	A/C#	E
One	more	look and I forget everything

A

Mamma mia, here I go again

G/D	D	A/C#	A
My	my, how can I re	sist	you?

A

Mamma mia, does it show again?

G/D	D	A/C#	A
My	my, just how much I’ve	missed	you

A	E/G#
Yes, I’ve been	broken-hearted

F#m	C#m/E
Blue since the	day we parted

G/D	D	Bm	E
Why,	why	did I ever	let you go?

A	F#m
Mamma mia,	now I really know

G/D	D	Bm	E
My	my,	I could never	let you go

A	Aaug	A	Aaug

A	E/A	A	D
I’ve been	angry and	sad about things that you	do

A	E/A	A	D
I can’t	count all the	times that I told you we’re	through

A	Aaug
And when you go,	when you slam the door

A	Aaug	D
I think you know,	that you won’t be a	way too long

	E
You know that I’m	not that strong

D	A/C#	E
Just	one	look and I can hear a bell ring

D	A/C#	E
One	more	look and I forget everything

A

Mamma mia, here I go again

G/D	D	A/C#	A
My	my, how can I re	sist	you?

A

Mamma mia, does it show again?

G/D	D	A/C#	A
My	my, just how much I’ve	missed	you

A	E/G#
Yes, I’ve been	broken-hearted

F#m	C#m/E
Blue since the	day we parted

G/D	D	Bm	E
Why,	why	did I ever	let you go?

A

Mamma mia, even if I say

G/D	D	A/C#	A
Bye	bye, leave me now or	nev	er

A

Mamma mia, it’s a game we play

G/D	D	A/C#	A
Bye	bye doesn’t mean for	eve	r

A

Mamma mia, here I go again

G/D	D	A/C#	A
My	my, how can I re	sist	you?

A

Mamma mia, does it show again?

G/D	D	A/C#	A
My	my, just how much I	missed	you

A	E/G#
Yes, I’ve been	broken-hearted

F#m	C#m/E
Blue since the	day we parted

G/D	D	Bm	E
Why,	why	did I ever	let you go?

A	F#m
Mamma mia,	now I really know

G/D	D	Bm	E
My	my,	I could never	let you go

Repeat to fade

A	Aaug

Aerosmith - Dream On (1973)

Originally in Fm, I play in Em.

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
			x 2

“Time” is on the 1 of the key in the recording, easier to stay on the 5.

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
Every	time that I	look in the	mirror

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
All these	lines on	my face getting	clearer

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
	The past is	gone

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
It went	by,	like dusk to	dawn

Em	Bm7
Isn’t that the	way

Original goes up to the 5 of the key here, best for me to go to 1

Cmaj7	D	B7
Everybody’s got their	dues in life to	pay

Em	D
Yeah, I know	nobody knows

C	D
Where it comes and	where it goes

Em	D
I know it’s	everybody’s sin

C	D
You got to lose to	know how to win

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
			x 2

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
Half my	life’s in	books’ written	pages

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
Live and	learn from	fools and from	sages

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
	You know it’s	true

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	D
All the	things	come back to	you

Em	D
Sing with me,	sing for the year

C	D
Sing for the laughter,	sing for the tear

Em	D
Sing with me, if it’s	just for today

C	D	B7
Maybe tomorrow, the	good lord will take you aw	ay, yeah

Am	B7	Cmaj7
Dream on	dream on	dream on

D	Em
Dream until the dream come	true

Am	B7	Cmaj7
Dream on	dream on	dream on

D	Em
Dream until the dream come	true

Am	B7
Dream on	dream on

Cmaj7	D
Dream on	dream on

Am	B7
Dream on	dream on

Cmaj7	D	B7
Dream on	ah	ah

Em

America - Sister Golden Hair (1975)

Play the intro (and most of the A’s) with open top strings

C#m	A	E	E

I prefer to skip this part of the intro

G#m	G#m
C#m	B	A	A

	E
Well I	tried to make it Sunday, but I

G#m

Got so damn depressed

	A	E
That I	set my sights on	Monday, and I

G#m

Got myself undressed

	A	F#m
I ain’t	ready for the	altar

	C#m	G#m	A
But I	do ag	ree there’s	times

	F#m
When a	woman sure can

A	E	Esus4	E
Be a friend of mine

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

	A	E
And I	just can’t live with	out you

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

	A	F#m
I been	one poor corres	pondent and I been

C#m	G#m	A
Too, too	hard to	find

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	air?

	B
Will you	love me just a little?

	A	E
Just e	nough to show you	care?

Hanging chords

	F#m	G#m
Well I	tried to fake it, I	don’t mind saying

	A
I	just can’t make it

C#m	A	E	E
G#m	G#m
C#m	B	A	A

With doo doo, da doo doo

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

	A	E
And I	just can’t live with	out you

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

With aaaah’s

	A	F#m
I been	one poor corres	pondent and I been

C#m	G#m	A
Too, too	hard to	find

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	air?

	B
Will you	love me just a little?

	A	E
Just e	nough to show you	care?

	F#m	G#m
Well I	tried to fake it, I	don’t mind saying

	A
I	just can’t make it

Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools (1968)

Originally in Cm, I play in Am capo 3 and sing an octave down (obviously)

Intro, rubato... appears only in some versions, usually skip this

	Am7
Oh, oh,	oh, that’s the sound

Of a worried, a worried man

	D7
Ha ha,	ha ha ha ha ha

	Am
That’s the sound of	having a good time

Mmm, that’s the sound of pain

Vox on 3 4 5

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, ch	ain

	Am7
Chain of f	ools

	Am7
For five long y	ears, I thought you were my man

	Am7
But I found o	ut, yeah, I’m just a link in your chain

	Am7
You got me where you w	ant me, I ain’t nothing but your fool

	Am7
You treated me m	ean, oh, you treated me cruel

	Am7
Chain, chain, ch	ain

	Am7
Chain of f	ools

	Am7
Every c	hain, has got a weak link

	Am7
I might be w	eak child, but I’ll give you strength

Instruments out, hard stops only

	Am7
You	tell me to leave you alone

My father said come on home
My doctor said take it easy
Oh, but your lovin' is much too strong
I'm added to your

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, ch	ain

	Am7
Chain of f	ools

	Am7
One of these m	ornings, the chain is gonna break

	Am7
But up until t	hen, I’m gonna take all I can take, oh yeah

	Am	Am7
Chain, chain, chain

	Am7	Am
Chain, chain, chain

	Am	Am7
Chain, chain, chain

Am7	Am
Chain of f	ools

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, ch	ain

	Am7
Chain of f	ools

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, c	hain

	Am7
Chain, chain, ch	ain

	Am7
Chain of f	ools

Aretha Franklin - Respect (1967)

Aretha Franklin in C, Otis Redding in D, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A7	D7
	x2

Vox on the b6 (!) on “what”

E7	D7
What you want,	baby, I got

E7	D7
What you need,	do you know I’ve got it

E7

All I’m asking

D7	A7
Is for a little resp	ect when you come home (just a little bit)

	D7
Hey b	aby (just a little bit) when you get home

A7	D7
(Just a little bit) M	ister (just a little bit)

E7	D7
I ain’t gonna do you wrong	while you’re gone

E7	D7
Ain’t gonna do you wrong	‘cause I don’t want to

E7

All I’m asking

D7	A7
Is for a little resp	ect when you come home (just a little bit)

	D7
B	aby (just a little bit) when you get home

A7	D7
(Just a little bit) yeah	(just a little bit)

E7	D7
I’m about to give you	all my money

E7	D7
And all I’m asking	in return, honey

E7	D7
Is to give me	my propers

	A7
When you get	home (just a, just a, just a, just a)

	D7
Yeah	baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)

	A7
When you get	home (just a little bit)

	D7
Yeah	(just a little bit)

Solo, skip if acoustic

Ebm	Ab	Ebm	E

E7	D7
Ooh, your kisses	sweeter than honey

E7	D7
And guess what	so is my money

E7	D7
All I want you to	do for me

	A7
Is give it to me	when you get home (re, re, re ,re)

	D7
Yeah b	aby (re, re, re ,re)

	A7
Whip it to m	e (respect, just a little bit)

	D7
When you get home, now	(just a little bit)

A7

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

C7	D7
→	Find out what it means to me

G7	A7
→	R-E-S-P-E-C-T

C7	D7
→	Take care, TCB

A7

Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me (a little respect)

D7

Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me

	A7
W	hoa, babe (just a little bit)

	D7
A little resp	ect (just a little bit)

A7

I get tired (just a little bit)

	D7
Keep on t	rying (just a little bit)

A7

Running out fool (just a little bit)

	D7
And I ain’t	lyin’ (just a little bit)

Aretha Franklin - You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman (1967)

Aretha Franklin in C, Carole King in E, I play in A capo 3

D	Dsus4	D
→	→

A	E/G#
Looking out on the morning	rain

G	D	D	A/C#	Bm7
I used to feel so u	ninspired	→	→

A	E/G#
And when I knew I had to	face another day

G	D	D	A/C#	Bm7
Lord it made me feel so t	ired	→	→

Vox on 7 2 7 2 of the chord on “before the day”

Dsus2/B	C#m7
Before the day I m	et you

Dsus2/B	C#m7
Life was so unkind

Dsus2/B	C#m7	A/B
You’re the key to my p	eace of mind

	E	A
Y	ou make me f	eel

D	A
You make me fe	el

D	A	D/F#	A/E	A/C#	A/B	A	Bm7	D	A/C#	Bm7
You make me fe	el lik	e a		nat	ur	al	woman	→	→

A	E/G#
When my soul was i	n the lost and found

G	D	D	A/C#	Bm7
You came along to claim	it	→	→

A	E/G#
I didn’t know just what was	wrong with me

G	D	D	A/C#	Bm7
Till your kiss helped me nam	e it	→	→

Dsus2/B	C#m7
Now I’m no longer doubtf	ul

Dsus2/B	C#m7
Of what I’m living fo	r

	Dsus2/B	C#m7	A/B
And i	f I make you happy	I don’t need to do more

	E	A
‘Cause y	ou make me f	eel

D	A
You make me fe	el

D	A	D/F#	A/E	A/C#	A/B	A	Bm7	E
You make me fe	el lik	e a		nat	ur	al	woman,	woman

Bridge

A	Em7
Oh baby what you	done to me

A	Em7
You make me feel so	good inside

Dmaj7	Am
And I just w	anna be

Dmaj7	C#m7	Bm7
Close to you, you	make me feel so	alive

	E	A
Y	ou make me f	eel

D	A
You make me fe	el

D	A	D/F#	A/E	A/C#	A/B	A	Bm7
You make me fe	el lik	e a		nat	ur	al	woman

	E	A
Y	ou make me f	eel

D	A
You make me fe	el

D	A	D/F#	A/E	A/C#	A/B	A	Bm7	E	A
You make me fe	el lik	e a		nat	ur	al	woman

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (1972)

Vocal note - melody starts on the 5

Originally in G, I play in D capo 3, so in F

D	A	D
Riding on the	City of New Or	leans

Bm	G	D
Illinois Central,	Monday morning	rail

D	A	D
Fifteen cars and fi	fteen restless	riders

	Bm	A	D
Three con	ductors, and t	wenty five sacks of	mail

	Bm
All a	long the southbound odyssey

	F#m
The	train pulls out of Kankakee

	A	E
And	rolls along the houses, farms and	fields

Bm

Passing trains that have no name

	F#m
And	freight yards full of old black men

	A	D
And	graveyards of the rusted automo	biles

G	A	D
Good morning Am	erica, how a	re you?

	Bm	G	D
Say	don’t you know me,	I’m your native	son

A	D	A	Bm
I’m the	train they call the	City of New	Orleans

	C	G	A	D
I’ll be gon	e five	hundred miles	when the day is	done

	D	A	D
Dealing	card games with the	old men in the	club cars

	Bm	G	D
A	penny a point, ain’	t no one keeping	score

D	A	D
Pass the paper	bag that holds the	bottle

	Bm	A	D
And	feel the wheels	rumbling ‘neath the	floor

	Bm
And the	sons of Pullman porters

	F#m7
And the	sons of engineers

	A	E
Ride their	fathers’ magic carpet made of	steel

Bm

Mothers with their babes asleep

F#m7

Rocking to the gentle beat

	A	D
And the	rhythm of the rails is all they	feel

G	A	D
Good morning Am	erica, how a	re you?

	Bm	G	D
Say	don’t you know me,	I’m your native	son

A	D	A	Bm
I’m the	train they call the	City of New	Orleans

	C	G	A	D
I’ll be gon	e five	hundred miles	when the day is	done

D	A	D
Nighttime on the	City of New	Orleans

Bm	G	D
Changing cars in	Memphis,	Tennesee

D	A	D
Halfway home, and	we’ll be there by	morning

	Bm	A	D
Through the	Misissippi darkness,	rolling down to the	sea

	Bm
But	all the towns and people seem

	F#m7
To	fade into a bad dream

	A	E
The	steel rail still ain’t heard the	news

	Bm
The	conductor sings his songs again

	F#m7
The	passengers will please refrain

	A	D
This	train’s got the disappearin’ railroad	blues

G	A	D
Good night Am	erica, how a	re you?

	Bm	G	D
Say	don’t you know me,	I’m your native	son

A	D	A	Bm
I’m the	train they call the	City of New	Orleans

	C	G	A	D
I’ll be gon	e five	hundred miles	when the day is	done

	C	G	A	D
I’ll be gon	e five	hundred miles	when the day is	done

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business (1973)

Originally in C, I play in A

A	G	D	A
			x2

Vox are more or less doing 3 b3 3 b3 on “get up ev’ry”

	A	G
You	get up every morning from your	’larm clock’s warning

	D	A
Take the	8:15 into the	city

	A	G
There’s a	whistle up above and people	pushin’, people shovin’

	D	A
And the	girls who try to look	pretty

	A	G
And if your	train’s on time you can	get to work by nine

	D	A
And start your	slaving job to get your	pay

	A	G
If you	ever get annoyed, look at	me I’m self-employed

	D	A
I	love to work at nothing all	day

And I'll be

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

	A	G
I’ve been	taking care of business	it’s all mine

D	A
Taking care of business and	working overtime, work out

A	G	D	A
			x2

	A	G
If it were	easy as fishin’ you could	be a musician

	D	A
If	you could make sounds loud or	mellow

	A	G
Get a	second-hand guitar, chances	are you’ll go far

	D	A
If you	get in with the right bunch of	fellows

	A	G
People	see you having fun, just a-	lying in the sun

D	A
Tell them that you like it this	way

	A	G
It’s the	work that we avoid, and we’re	all self-employed

	D	A
We	love to work at nothing all	day

And we been

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

	A	G
I’ve been	taking care of business,	it’s all mine

D	A
Taking care of business and	working overtime

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

A	G
I’ve been taking care of business,	it’s all mine

D	A
Taking care of business and	working overtime

Solo on verse chords

A	G	D	A
			xN

A	D	C	G
			x2

	A	D	C	G
Take good care		of my business

	A	D	C	G
When I’m away		every day

A	G	D	A
			xN

	A	G
You	get up every morning from your	’larm clock’s warning

	D	A
Take the	8:15 into the	city

	A	G
There’s a	whistle up above and people	pushin’, people shovin’

	D	A
And the	girls who try to look	pretty

	A	G
And if your	train’s on time you can	get to work by nine

	D	A
And start your	slaving job to get your	pay

	A	G
If you	ever get annoyed, look at	me I’m self-employed

	D	A
I	love to work at nothing all	day

And I been

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

	A	G
I’ve been	taking care of business,	it’s all mine

D	A
Taking care of business and	working overtime, take care

Drums only

Takin' care of business, whoo
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business

Band enters with hits only

A	G
Takin’ care of business	every day

D	A
Takin’ care of business	(very way

A	G
Takin’ care of businessm,	it’s all mine

D

Takin’ care of business and working overtime

A	G
Takin’ care of business

D	A
Takin’ care of business

Repeat to fade

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (1974)

Originally in A, I play in D capo 3

Play the A’s and G’s with lots of open E

D	D	C	G
			x 4

	D	C	G
I m	et a devil woman

	D	C	G
She t	ook my heart away

	D	C	G
She s	aid I had it comin’ to me

	D	C	G
But I w	anted it that way

	G7	A#	C
I think that	any love is good lovin’

	D	F#m7	Bm7
So I t	ook what I could	get	mmm

Em7	A
She looked at me with big brown e	yes and said

	D	A	G
You a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

	D	A	G
B-B-B-Baby you just a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

	D	A	G
Here’s something that you n	ever gonna forget

	D	A	G
B-B-B-Baby you just a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

D	D	C	G
			x 4

	D	C	G
And n	ow I’m feelin’ better

	D	C	G
‘Cause	I found out for sure

	D	C	G
She t	ook me to her doctor

	D	C	G
And he t	old me of a cure

	G7	A#	C
He said that	any love is good lovin’

	D	F#m7	Bm7
So I t	ook what I could	get	mmm

Em7	A
She looked at me with big brown e	yes and said

	D	A	G
You a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

	D	A	G
B-B-B-Baby you just a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

	D	A	G
Here’s something that you n	ever gonna forget

	D	A	G
B-B-B-Baby you just a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

D	D	C	G
			x 4

G7	A#	C
Any love is good lovin’

	D	F#m7	Bm7
So I t	ook what I could	get	mmm

Em7	A
She looked at me with big brown e	yes and said

	D	A	G
You a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

	D	A	G
B-B-B-Baby you just a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

	D	A	G
Here’s something that you n	ever gonna forget

	D	A	G
B-B-B-Baby you just a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

D	D	C	G
			x 4

Bad Company - Bad Company (1974)

Originally in Ebm, I play in Am capo 1

Em	G	Am	Am
→	→		x 4

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am
Com	pa	ny,	al	ways on the	run

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am	G/A	Am
Des	ti	ny,	ooh	is the rising s	un

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am
I	was	born,	six	gun in my	hand

	Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am	G/A	Am
Be	hind	the	gun, I	make	my final s	tand

	C
That’s why they call me

Vox on the 5 of the chord

G	D
Bad compa	ny

Vox lands on the 1 at the bottom of “deny”, which

is an octave below “company” and super low in my key,

so I stay where I am

	Am	G/A	Am	C
I can’t den	y

C	D
Bad, bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Em	G	Am	Am
→	→		x 2

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am
Re	bel	souls, de	ser	ters we are	called

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am	G/A	Am
Chose	a	gun, and	threw	away the s	un

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am
Now	these	towns,	they	all know our	name

Em	G	Am	Gsus4	G	Am	G/A	Am
Six g	un	sound		is our claim to fa	me

	C
I can hear them saying

G	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am	C
I won’t den	y

C	D
Bad, bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Solo if appropriate vaguely on verse chords, repeating chorus is fine

G	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am	C
I can’t den	y

C	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Am	G/A	Am

C	G	D
	It’s bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Oh yea ye	a yea

C	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Bad Company - Can’t Get Enough (1974)

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro

A	A	G	D	G	D
			→	→	x2

	A	G	D
Well I’ll	take whate	ver I	want

	A	G	D
And	baby,	I want	you

A	G	D
You give me	something I	need

	A	G	D
Now	tell me I got	something for	you

E

Come on, come on, come on and do it

G	D	C	C	A
Come on and do,	do what you do

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love, huh

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

E	A	E
→	→

A	A	G	D	G	D
			→	→	x2

	A	G	D
Well it’s	late and	I want	love

A	G	D
Love is gonna	break me in	two

	A	G	D
Don’t	hang me	up at your	doorway

	A	G	D
Don’t	hang me	up like you	do

E

Come on, come on, come on and do it

G	D	C	C	A
Come on, come on and do	what you do

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love, huh

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

E	A	E
→	→

What'd I say now?

Solo on verse, prechorus, chorus

A	G	D	D
			x4

E	G	D	C	C	A

A	D
	x3

E	A	E
→	→

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love, huh

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

E	A	E
→	→

Bad Company - Shooting Star (1975)

Intro (chords approximate riff)

D/A	A	A/E	E	D6/A	D/A	G/A	A
→		→		→	→	→	x2

A	E
Johnny was a	schoolboy

“Heard” is on the 2 of the chord, and it will feel weird at first

	G	A
When he	heard his first Beatles	song

A	E
Love Me Do,	I think it was

	G	A
And from	there it didn’t take him	long

A	E
Got himself a	guitar

	G	A
Used to	play every	night

A	E
Now he’s in a	rock ‘n’ roll outfit

	G	A
And	everything’s alr	ight

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know?	→

A	E
Johnny told his	Mama

G	A
Hey, mama, I’m goin’ a	way

A	E
I’m gonna hit the	big time

	G	A
Gonna	be a big star some	day

A	E
Mama came	to the door

	G	A
With a	teardrop in her	eye

	E
Johnny said,	don’t cry, mama

G	A
Smiled and waved good	bye

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	yeah	yeah

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	don’t you	know

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

	G	D
And	all the world will love you just as	long

	E	D	E
As long as you	are	→

A	E
Johnny made a	record

	G	A
Went	straight up to number	one

A	E
Suddenly	everyone loved

	G	A
To	hear him sing his	song

A	E
Watchin’ the	world go by

	G	A
Surpr	isin’ it goes so	fast

A	E
Johnny looked a	round him and said

	G	A
Well, I	made the big time at	last

D	E
Don’t you	know?

D	E
Don’t you	know?

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	whoa	yeah

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star, yeah

	G	D
And	all the world will love you just as	long

	E	D	E
As long as you	are, a sho	oting	star

Solo, skip this and the following chorus acoustic

F#m	E	B	B
			x3

F#m	F#m	E	E

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	yeah	yeah

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star, naw

	G	D
And	all the world will love you just as	long

	E	D	E
As long as you	are,	→

A	E
Johnny died	one night

G	A
Gied in his	bed

A	E
Bottle of	whisky

	G	A
Sleeping	tablets by his	head

A	E
Johnny’s life	passed him by

	G	A
Like a	warm summer	day

A	E
If you listen to the	wind

	G	A
You can	still hear him	play

D	E	D	E
	Whoa	whoa	whoa

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	don’t you	know

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know	→

E	D	A
Don’t you	know that you are a	shooting star

D	E	D	E
→	Don’t you don’t you don’t you d	on’t you	know

E	D	A	E	A
Don’t you	know that you a	re a	shooting star

Badfinger - No Matter What (1970)

Originally in A, I play in D

Intro

D

Vox on the 5 on “no”, down to the 1 of the key on “I”

	D	Em
No matter what you	are, I will always be with	you

Down to the 2 of the key on “does”

	G	A	G	A	D	A
Doesn’t matter what you	do	girl,	ooh	girl with	you

	D	Em
No matter what you	do, I will always be aro	und

	G	A	G	A	D
Won’t you tell me what you	found	girl,	ooh gi	rl won’t y	ou

Bm7	E7	A7	D7
Knock down the old gray	wall,	be a part of it	all

	G	Em	D
Nothing to	say, nothing to	see, nothing to	do

Bm7	E7	A7	D7
If you would give me	all, as	I would give it to	you

	G	Em	C	A
Nothing would	be, nothing would	be, nothing would	be

	D	Em
No matter where you g	o, there will always be a p	lace

	G	A	G	A	D
Can’t you see it in my fa	ce	girl,	ooh	girl want	you

Bm7	E7	A7	D7
Knock down the old gray	wall,	be a part of it	all

	G	Em	D
Nothing to	say, nothing to	see, nothing to	do

Bm7	E7	A7	D7
If you would give me	all, as	I would give it to	you

	G	Em	C	A
Nothing would	be, nothing would	be, nothing would	be

	D	Em
No matter what you	are, I will always be with	you

	G	A	G	A	D	A
Doesn’t matter what you	do	girl,	ooh	girl with	you

G	A	G	A	D
Ooh g	irl,	you	girl won’t	you

G	A	G	A	D
Ooh g	irl,	you	girl won’t	you

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine (1971)

The progression at the end of the verse is really Em→Dm→Am,

I prefer it as Dm7→F→Am

Starts voice only, on the 5 (E in Am)

	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
It’s not	warm when she’s a	way

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And she’s	always gone too	long

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Wonder this time where she’s	gone

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Wonder	if she’s gone to	stay

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And this	house just ain’t no	home

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

Am

And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know

	Dm7
Hey, I ought to leave the young thing	alone

	F	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
But ain’t no	sunshine	when she’s	gone

	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Only	darkness every	day

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And this	house just ain’t no	home

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

	G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

Bill Withers - Lean on Me (1972)

Originally in C, I play in A capo 2

A	D	A	E	A
			→

A	D
Sometimes in our	lives

	A	A	E
We all have	pain we all have	sorr	ow

A	D
But if we are	wise

	A	E	A
We know that	there’s always tom	orr	ow

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

	A	D
Lean on	me, when you’re not	strong

	A
And I’ll be your	friend

	A	E
I’ll help you	carry	on

A	D
For it won’t be	long

	A
Till I’m gonna	need

	E	A
Somebody to	lean	on

A	D
Please swallow your	pride

	A	A	E
If I have	things you need to	borr	ow

A	D	A
For no one can	fill those of your	needs

	E	A
That you won’t	let	show

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

	A	D	A	E	A
You just	call on me	bro	ther, when	you need a hand

	E	A
We all need somebody to	lean	on

	A	D	A	E	A
I just	might have a	prob	lem that	you’d under	stand

	E	A
We all need somebody to	lean	on

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

	A	D
Lean on	me, when you’re not	strong

	A
And I’ll be your	friend

	E
I’ll help you carry	on

A	D
For it won’t be	long

	A
Till I’m gonna	need

	E	A
Somebody to	lean	on

A	D	A
If there is a	load you have to	bear

	A	E
That you can’t	car	ry

A	D
I’m right up the	road

	A
I’ll share your	load

	E	A
If you just	call	me

E6	A
Call	me (if you need a friend)

E6	A
Call	me (call me)

E6	A
Call	me (if you need a friend)

E6	A
Call	me (if you ever need a friend)

E6	A
Call	me (call me)

E6	A
Call	me

E6	A
Call	me (if you need a friend)

Billy Joel - Piano Man (1973)

Loosely

Dm7	Bdim7

In time

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Fmaj7	C/E	D7	G
C	G/B	F/A	C/G
F	F/G
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
It’s ni	ne o’cl	ock on a	Saturday

F	C/E	D7	G
The regular c	rowd shuffles	in

	C	G/B	Fadd9/A	C/G
There’s	an old man	sitting	next to me

	Fadd9	F/G	C
Makin’	love to his	tonic and	gin

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
F	F/G	C	C	F/C	F/C

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
He says,	son can you	play me a	memory?

	F	C/E	D7	G
I’m	not really	sure how it go	es

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
But it’s	sad and it’s	sweet and I	knew it complete

	F	F/G	C
When	I wore a	younger man’s	clothes

Am	Am/G	D/F#	F
La la	la diddy	da

Am	Am/G	D/F#	G	G/F	C/E	G7/D
La	La diddy	da da d	um

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Sing us a	song, you’re the	piano man

F	C/E	D7	G
Sing us a son	g to nig	ht

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Well we’re	all in the	mood for a	melody

	F	F/G	C
And	you’ve got us fe	eling all	right

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
F	F/G
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C

	C	G/B	F/A	C
Now Joh	n at the	bar is a	friend of mine

	F	C/E	D7	G
He gets	me my	drinks for	free

	C	G/B
And he’s	quick with a	joke or to

F/A	C/G
Light up your	smoke

	F	F/G	C	F/C
But there’s	some place that	he’d rather	be

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
He says,	Bill I be	lieve this is	killing me

	F	C/E	D7	G
As a sm	ile ran a	way from his	face

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Well I’	m sure that I	could be a	movie star

	F	F/G	C
If	I could get	out of this	place

	Am	Am/G	D/F#	F
Oh	La la	la diddy	da

Am	Am/G	D/F#	G	G/F	C/E	G7/D
La	La diddy	da da d	um

	C	G/B	F/A	C
Now Pau	l is a	real estate	novelist

	F	C/E	D7	G
Who nev	er had	time for a	wife

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
And he’s	talking with	Davy, who’s	still in the	Navy

	F	F/G	C
And pro	bably w	ill be for	life

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
F	F/G	C	C	F/C	F/C

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
And the	waitress is	practicing	politics

	F	C/E	D7	G
As the	businessmen	slowly get	stoned

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Yes they’re	sharing a	drink they call	loneliness

	F	F/G	C
But it’s	better than	drinking a	lone

Solo

Am	Am/G	D/F#	Dm/F
Am	Am/G	D/F#	Dm/F
Am	Am/G	D/F#	D
G	G7/F	C/E	G/D

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Sing us a	song, you’re the	piano man

F	C/E	D7	G
Sing us a son	g to nig	ht

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Well we’re	all in the	mood for a	melody

	F	F/G	C
And	you’ve got us fe	eling all	right

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
F	F/G
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C

	C	G/B	F/A	C
It’s a	pretty good	crowd for a	Saturday

	F	C/E	D7	G
And the	manager	gives me a	smile

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
‘Cause he	knows that it’s	me they’ve been	coming to	see

	F	F/G	C	F/C
To for g	et about	life for a	while

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
And the	piano	sounds like a	carnival

	F	C/E	D7	G
And the	microphone	smells like a	beer

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
And they	sit at the	bar and put	bread in my	jar

	F	F/G	C
And say	man what are	you doing	here?

	Am	Am/G	D/F#	F
Oh	La la	la diddy	da

Am	Am/G	D/F#	G	G/F	C/E	G7/D
La	La diddy	da da d	um

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Sing us a	song, you’re the	piano man

F	C/E	D7	G
Sing us a son	g to nig	ht

	C	G/B	F/A	C/G
Well we’re	all in the	mood for a	melody

	F	F/G	C
And	you’ve got us fe	eling all	right

C	G/B	F/A	C/G
F	F/G
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C
C	F/C	Cmaj7	F/C

Billy Joel - Somewhere Along the Line (1973)

Originally around G#, I play in G capo 1

G	D/F#	F	C/E	C/D	G
					x2

	G	C
Well it’s a	rainy night in	Paris

	Am	D
And I’m	sitting by the	Seine

Vox stay up on the 5

	G	C
It’s a	pleasure to be	soaking

C/B	Am	D
In the E	uropean	rain

	Em	D	C
Now my	belly’s full of f	ancy food and w	ine

	G	C
But in the m	orning there’ll be h	ell to pay

D	G
Somewhere along the lin	e

	G/B	C
Oh, but in the m	orning there’ll be	hell to pay

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

G	D/F#	F	C/E	C/D	G

G	C
Sweet Virginia c	igarette

Am	D
Burning in my ha	nd

	G	C	C/B
Well you	used to be a	friend of	mine

	Am	D
But n	ow I unders	tand

	Em	D	C
You’ve been e	ating up in	side me for some	time, oh

	G	C
And	I know you’re gonn	a get me

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

	G/B	C
Well	I know you’re gonn	a get me

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

G	D/F#	F	C/E

D	D/Eb
Somewhere along the line

	Em	Em/D	C
Well I k	now it’s just a ma	tter of	time

	G/B	C
When the	fun falls through and the	rent comes due

Am	F	D
Somewhere along the	line

	G	C
Well, you	know I love my	woman

	Am	D
And I w	ould not let her d	own

	G	C
And I	did my share of	lovin’

C/B	Am	D
When I u	sed to get	around

	Em	D	C
Now I’m	satisfied and	she is lookin’ fi	ne, oh

	G/B	C
But you	pay for your satis	faction

D	G
Somewhere along the lin	e

	G/B	C
Well you p	ay for your sa	tisfaction

D	G
Somewhere along the li	ne

Solo

G	G/B	C	D
			x2

G	D/F#	F	C/E	C/D	G

	G	C
Hey, it’s	good to be a	young man

	Am	D
And to	live the way you	please

	G	C
Yes, a	young man is the	king

	C/B	Am	D
Of	every	kingdom that he	sees

	Em	D	C
But there’s an	old and feeble	man not far	behind, oh

	G	C
And it	surely will catch	up to him

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

	G	C
Well, you	know it will catch	up to him

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

	G	C
Well, and it	surely will catch	up to him

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

G

D/F#

F

C/E

C/D

G

Billy Joel - Stop in Nevada (1973)

	D	D/F#	G	D/F#
He a	lways found it h	ard to t	ake her

Em7	A7sus4	D	G/D
She wouldn’t	listen to ad	vice

D	D9	G	D/F#
And though he	never tried to	make her

Em7	G	G/B
She often thought it would be	nice

A	A/C#	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s h	eadin’ out to Calif	ornia

	A
It’s been a	long time comin’ but she’s

	A/C#	D/F#	D
F	eeling like a woman	tonight

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	A/C#	D/F#
She’s g	onna make a stop in Ne	vada

G	D/F#	Em7	A
Good	bye,	good	bye

Bm7	A/C#

D	D/F#	G	D/F#
She tried for y	ears to be a	good wife

Em7	A7sus4	D	G/D
It never	quite got off the	ground

D	D9	G	D/F#
And all those	stories of the	good life

Em7	G	G/B
Convinced her not to hang	around

A	A/C#	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s h	eadin’ out to Calif	ornia

	A
And she	doesn’t know what’s comin’ but

	A/C#	D/F#	D
She’s s	ure of what she’s leaving be	hind

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	A/C#	D/F#
She’s g	onna make a stop in Ne	vada

G	D/F#	Em7	A
Good	bye,	good	bye

Bm7	A/C#

Interlude over verse chords

D	D/F#	G	Em7	A7sus4	D	C	A	D

D	D/F#	G	D/F#
And though she f	inds it hard to	leave him

Em7	A7sus4	D	G/D
She knows it	would be worse to	stay

D	D9	G	D/F#
He wouldn’t	understand the	reasons

Em7	G	G/B
That make a woman run aw	ay

A	A/C#	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s h	eadin’ out to Calif	ornia

	A
With some	money in her pocket she’s a

	A/C#	D/F#	D
R	ocket on the fourth of Ju	ly

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	A/C#	D/F#	D
She’s g	onna make a stop in Ne	vada

This A is the A that starts the next line...

G	D/F#	Em7	A
Good	bye,	good	bye

A	A/C#	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s h	eadin’ out to Calif	ornia

	A
With some	money in her pocket she’s a

	A/C#	D/F#	D
R	ocket on the fourth of Ju	ly

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	A/C#	D/F#
She’s g	onna make a stop in Ne	vada

G	D/F#	Em7	A
Good	bye,	good	bye

Bm7

A/C#

D

G

Em7

A

D

Billy Joel - The Ballad of Billy the Kid (1973)

On guitar, I play the slow part at tempo and skip the

at-tempo part of the intro.

Slow, swung, or play at tempo

G
G	Em	F
G	Em	F	C	D
G	Em	F	C	G/B	Am	D

At tempo, straight, skip on guitar

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G
				x2

	G	Em	F
From a	town known a	s Wheeling, West Vi	rginia

	G	Em	F	C	D
Rode	a boy with a	six-gun in his	hand

	G	Em	F	C
And his	daring life of c	rime made him a le	gend in his t	ime

	G/B	Am7	D7sus
East	and	west of the	Rio Grande

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G
				x2

	G	Em	F
Well, he sta	rted with a	bank in Color	ado

	G	Em	F	C	D
In the po	cket of his v	est a Colt he h	id

	G	Em
And his	age and his s	ize

	F	C	G/B
Took the t	eller by surpr	ise	and

Am7	D7sus
The word spread	of Billy the Kid

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G

	C	D	Em	Bm
Well he	never traveled h	eavy, yes he	always rode al	one

	C	C/D	F/G
And he so	on put many o	lder guns to sha	me

	C	D	Em	Bm
And he ne	ver had a sw	eetheart, and he n	ever had a h	ome

	C	Dsus4	D
But the	cowboy and the rancher knew his name

	G	Em	F
Well, he r	obbed his way from	Utah to Oklah	oma

	G	Em	F	C	D
And the l	aw just could not s	eem to track him	down

	G	Em	F	C	G/B
And it se	rved his legend	well, for the f	olks they’d love to te	ll	’bout

Am7	D7sus
When Billy the Kid	came to town

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G
				x2

Interlude if appropriate

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	G

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	C

Bb/C
F	C

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G
				x2

	G	Em	F
Well o	ne cold day a p	osse captured B	illy

	G	Em	F	C	D
And the j	udge said string him	up for what he	did

	G	Em	F	C	G/B
And the c	owboys and their	kin, like the s	ea came pourin’	in to	to watch

Am7	D7sus
The hangin’	of Billy the Kid

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G

	C	D	Em	Bm
Well he n	ever traveled he	avy, yes he	always rode al	one

	C	C/D	F/G
And he so	on put many	older guns to sh	ame

	C	D	Em	Bm
And he n	ever had a sw	eetheart, but he f	inally found a h	ome

	C	Dsus4	D
Underne	ath the Boot Hill grave that bears his na	me

	G	Em	F
From a t	own known as	Oyster Bay, Long I	sland

	G	Em	F	C	D
Rode a b	oy with a	six-pack in his h	and

	G	Em	F	C
And his d	aring life of c	rime made him a l	egend in his t	ime

G/B	Am7	D7sus
East and w	est of the	Rio Grande

F/G	C/G	C/G	F/G	G
				x2

Interlude if appropriate

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	G

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	C

Bb/C
F	C

Billy Joel - The Entertainer (1974)

G

	G	C	G/B	C
I	am the entertainer and I	know just where	I	stand

	C	G/B	C	D
A	nother serenade	r and another	long-haired b	and

	G	C
To	day I am your champion, I	may have won your hearts

	C	D
But I	know the game, you’ll fo	rget my name

	Am7	Cmaj7
And I	won’t be here in	another year

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

	G	C/E	G/D	C
I	am the entertainer and I’ve	had to pay	my	price

	C	G/B	G/B	C	D
The	things I did not	know at first I l	earned by	doin’	twice

	G
Ah, but	still they come to haunt me

	C/E	C
S	till they want their	say

	C	D
So I’ve l	earned to dance with a h	and in my pants

	Am7	Cmaj7
Let ‘em	rub my neck and I	write ‘em a check

	D	G
And they	go their merry wa	y

G

	G	C/E	G/D	C
I	am the entertainer,	been all around	the	world

	C	G/B	G/B	C	D
I’ve	played all kinds of palace	s and l	aid all	kinds of	girls

	G	C/E	C
I	can’t remember faces,	I don’t remember	names

	C	D
Ah, but	what the hell, you know it’s	just as well

	Am7	Cmaj7
‘Cause a	fter a while and a t	housand miles

D	G
It all becomes the s	ame

G

	G	C/E	G/D	C
I	am the entertainer, I	bring to you	my	songs

	C	G/B	G/B	C	D
I’d	like to spend a	day or two, but I	can’t	stay that	long

	G	C/E	C
No, I’ve	got to meet expenses, I	got to stay in	line

	C	D
Gotta	get those fees to the	agencies

	Am7	Cmaj7
And I’d	love to stay but there’s	bills to pay

	D	G
So I	just don’t have the ti	me

G

	G	C/E	G/D	C
I	am the entertainer, I	come to do	my	show

	C	G/B	G/B	C	D
You’ve	heard my latest recor	d, it’s b	een on the	radi	o

	G
Ah, it	took me years to write it, they were the

C/E	C
Best years of my	life

	Cmaj7	D
It was a b	eautiful song, but it	ran too long

	Am7	C
If you’re	gonna have a hit, you	gotta make it fit

	D	G
So they	cut it down to 3:0	5

G

G	C/E	G/D	C
I am the entertainer, the	idol	of my	age

	C	G/B	G/B	C	D
I	make all kinds of mone	y when I	go	on the	stage

	G
Ah, you’ve	seen me in the papers

	C/E	C
I’ve	been in the ma	gazines

	C	D
But if	I go cold I	won’t get sold

	Am7	C
I’ll get	put in the back in the	discount rack

	D	G
Like a	nother can of be	ans

G

Hanging stops

	G	C/E	G/D	C
I	am the entertainer and I	know just where	I	stand

	C	G/B	C	D
A	nother serenader and	another	long-haired b	and

	G	C/E	C
To	day I am your champion, I	may have won your	hearts

	C	D
But I	know the game, you’ll fo	rget my name

	Am7	Cmaj7
And I	won’t be here in	another year

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

Billy Joel - Travelin’ Prayer (1973)

Starts drums, then bass on D

C/D	D
	x2

D

Hey lord, take a look all around

	G	C	D
To	night to find where my	baby’s gonna	be

	G
Hey lord, would ya look out for her to	night

	C	C/B	A
‘Cause she is	far ac	ross the	sea

D	G	C
Hey lord, would ya	look out for her to	night

	F	Bb
And make sure that	she’s gonna be al	right

	A	D
And things are gonna	be alright with	me

D	G	D	A
			x2

D	G
Hey lord, would ya look out for her to	night

	C	D	G	D	A
And make sure that	all her dreams are	sweet

D	G
Said now, would ya guide her along the	roads

	C	C/B	A
And make them	softer	for her	feet

A	D	A	G	A
			→

D	G9	C
Hey lord, would ya	look out for her to	night

	F	Bb
And make sure that	she’s gonna be al	right

	A	D
Until she’s	home and here with	me

D	G	D	A
			x2

D	G
Hey, lord would ya look out for her to	night

	C	D	G	D	A
If she is	sleepin’ under the	sky

D	G
Said now, make sure the ground she’s	sleepin’ on

	C	C/B	A
Is	always	warm and	dry

A	D	A	G	A
			→

D	G	C
Mmmm, don’tcha	give her too much	rain

	F	Bb
Try to	keep her away from	pain

	A	D
Because my	baby hates to c	ry

D	G	D	A
			x2

D	G
Hey lord, would ya look out for her to	night

	C	D	G	D	A
‘Cause it gets	rough along the	way

D	G
Said now, this song seems strange it’s	just because

	C	C/B	A
I	don’t know	how to	pray

A	D	A	G	A
			→

D	G9	C
Mmmm, won’tcha	give her peace of	mind

	F	Bb
And if you	ever find the	time

	A	D
Won’tcha tell her I	miss her every	day

D	G	D	A
			x2

Solo on verse chords if appropriate, i.e., if awesome

In the original it’s a piano solo, then a violin

solo, each a full verse.

Hanging stops until the DGDA at the end of each line

D

Hey lord, take a look all around

	G	C	D	G	D	A
To	night to find where my	baby’s gonna	be

D	G
Hey lord, would ya look out for her to	night

	C	C/B	A
‘Cause she is	far ac	ross the	sea

A	D	A	G	A
			→

D	G9	C
Hey lord, would ya	look out for her to	night

	F	Bb
And make sure that	she’s gonna be al	right

	A	D
Until she’s	home and here with	me

D	G	D	A
	D
With	me

D	G	D	A
			x2

Hanging stop on D

D

Weird boinky noise and banjos

Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst (1973)

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro, with weird wah noises

B7

Enter normal instrumentation

A	E	G	D

A	E
Today I’m livin’ like a	rich man’s son

G	D
Tomorrow morning I could	be a bum

A	E
It doesn’t matter which di	rection though

G	D
I know a woman in New M	exico

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong

A	E
And if I don’t have a c	ar I’ll hitch

G	D
I got a thumb and she’s a s	on of a bitch

A	E
I do my writing on my r	oad guitar

G	D
And make a living at a pi	ano bar, oh

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong

Bridge, half-time

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “lightning”

G	D
Lightning and th	under

Vox on ascending 5 1 3 on “flashed across the roads”

	A	E
F	lashed across the roads we drove upo	n

G	D
Oh, but it’s clear skies we’re u	nder

Vox on 1 3 3 of the chord on “when I am”, 1 of the chord on “song”

	F#m	E
W	hen I am together, w	hen I sing the song

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong, oh

A	E
Fun ain’t easy if	it ain’t free

G	D
Too many people got a	hold on me

A	E
But I know something that	they don’t know

G	D
I know a woman in New	Mexico

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong

Black Sabbath - Changes (1972)

Originally in C, I play in G

G	Am/D	G
	→	x2

	G	Am/D	G	G	Am/D	G
I feel unh	appy,	→	I feel so s	ad	→

	Am	G	Am/D	G
I’ve lost the	best friend, that I ever	had	→

	G	Am/D	G	G	Am/D	G
She was my w	oman,	→	I loved her s	o	→

	Am	G	Am/D	G
But it’s too	late now, I’ve let her	go	→

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am	Am
D	C	Em	Em
D	Em	Em
→

G	Am/D	G
	→	x2

	G	Am/D	G	G	Am/D	G
We shared the y	ears,	→	we shared each d	ay	→

	Am	G	Am/D	G
In love to	gether, we found a	way	→

	G	Am/D	G	G	Am/D	G
But soon the w	orld	→	had its evil w	ay	→

	Am	G	Am/D	G
My heart was	blinded, love went a	stray	→

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am	Am
D	C	Em	Em
D	Em	Em
→

G	Am/D	G
	→	x2

Am
G	Am/D	G
	→	x3

	G	Am/D	G	G	Am/D	G
It took so l	ong	→	to reali	ze	→

	Am	G	Am/D	G
And I can	still hear her last good	byes	→

	G	Am/D	G	G	Am/D	G
Now all my d	ays	→	are filled with t	ears	→

	Am	G	Am/D	G
Wish I could	go back and change these	years	→

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am	Am
D	C	Em	Em
D	Em	Em
→

Em

Black Sabbath - Iron Man (1970)

Originally in Bm, I play in Am

Intro, with “I am iron man”

Em	D
→	x3

Main riff

Am	C	D	F	C	D
					x2

Am	C	D
Has	he lost h	is mind?

F	C	D
Can he see or	is h	e blind?

Am	C	D
Can	he walk at	all

F	C	D
Or if he moves	will h	e fall?

Main riff

Am	C	D	F	C	D

Am	C	D
Is h	e live o	r dead?

F	C	D
Has he thoughts with	in h	is head?

Am	C	D
We’ll	just pass h	im there

F	C	D
Why should we	even	care?

Am	C	Am	Ab5	G
		→	→

D	F#5	G	G	Ab5
→	→	→	→

Am	C	Am	Ab5	G
		→	→

D	F#5	G	G	Ab5
→	→	→	→

Am	C	Am	Ab5	G
		→	→

Main riff

Am	C	D	F	C	D
					x2

Am	C	D
He	was turned t	o steel

F	C	D
In the great mag	net	ic field

Am	C	D
When	he travele	d time

F	C	D
For the future	of	mankind

D

Nobody wants him

C	Am
He just stares at the	world

Very approximate chords for the riffy business

Am	C	D
		x2

D

Planning his vengeance

C	Am
That he will soon un	furl

Am	C	D
		x2

Main riff

Am	C	D	F	C	D
					x2

Am	C	D
Now	the time i	s here

F	C	D
For Iron Man	to sp	read fear

Am	C	D
Ven	geance from t	he grave

F	C	D
Kills the people	he o	nce saved

D

Nobody wants him

C	Am
They just turn their	heads

Am	C	D
		x2

D

Nobody helps him

C	Am
Now he has his re	venge

Am	C	D
		x2

Solo mostly on...

Bm

Am	C	D
		x4

Main riff

Am	C	D	F	C	D
					x2

Am	C	D
Hea	vy boots	of lead

F	C	D
Fills his vic	tims full	of dread

Am	C	D
Run	ning as fast as	they can

F	C	D
Iron Man l	ives	again

Am	C	Am	Ab5	G
		→	→

D	F#5	G	G	Ab5
→	→	→	→

Am	C	Am	Ab5	G
		→	→

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)

Originally in Em, I play in Am capo 3

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Am	G	C	G	Am
Finished with my woman ‘cause she	couldn’t help me	with	my	mind

Am	G	C	G	Am
People think I’m insane because	I am frowning	all	the time

Am	F	G	Am

Am	G	C	G	Am
All day long I think of things but	nothing seems to	sat	is	fy

Am	G	C	G	Am
Think I’ll lose my mind if I don’t fin	d something to	pac	i	fy

Am	G
Can you help me?

	Am	G
Occupy my brai	n, oh	yeah

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Am	G	C	G	Am
I need someone to show me the	things in life that	I	can’t f	ind

Am	G	C	G	Am
I can’t see the things that make true	happiness I	must	be b	lind

Am	F	G	Am

Am	G	C	G	Am
Make a joke and I will sigh and	you will laugh and	I	will cr	y

Am	G	C	G	Am
Happiness I cannot feel, so	love for me is	so	unreal

Am	F	G	Am

Am	G	C	G	Am
And so as you hear these words tel	ling you now	of	my	fate

Am	G	C	G	Am
I tell you to enjoy life I	wish I could but	it’s	too lat	e

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1970)

Yes, really, this works acoustic. It’s especially good with a

low harmony doing just E E E E E E E B. Also FWIW, the E5’s

are all really E major.

D5	E5
	x 4

D5	E5
	Generals gathered in their masses

D5	E5
	Just like witches at black masses

D5	E5
	Evil minds that plot destruction

D5	E5
	Sorcerers of death’s construction

D5	E5
	In the fields the bodies burning

D5	E5
	As the war machine keeps turning

D5	E5
	Death and hatred to mankind

D5	E5
	Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

D5	E5	G	F#	F	E5
D5	E5	G	F#	F	E5

E5

Politicians hide themselves away

E5

They only started the war

E5

Why should they go out to fight?

E5

They leave that role to the poor

I keep going right through this part, though the original has an instrumental here.

E5

Time will tell on their power minds

E5

Making war just for fun

E5

Treating people just like pawns in chess

E5

Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah!

D5	E5	G	F#	F	E5
D5	E5	G	F#	F	E5

D5	E5
	x 2

D5	E5
	Now in darkness, world stops turning

D5	E5
	Ashes where the bodies burning

D5	E5
	No more war pigs have the power

D5	E5
	Hand of God has struck the hour

D5	E5
	Day of judgment, God is calling

D5	E5
	On their knees, the war pigs crawling

D5	E5
	Begging mercy for their sins

D5	E5
	Satan, laughing, spreads his wings, alright now!

D5	E5	G	F#	F	E5
D5	E5	G	F#	F	E5

Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling (1974)

Originally in G#, I play in E capo 1

First verse is a cappella, with ooka-chaka’s

I prefer to skip the ooka-chaka’s, and just play muted

E	B	E7	A
I can’t stop this	feeling	deep inside of	me

Am	E	B	B7
Girl, you just don’t	realize what you	do to me

	E	G#7
When you	hold me in your	arms so tight

	C#m	E7
You let me	know every	thing’s alright

Band enters on “feeling”

A	B	E	B
I-I-I-I-	I, I’m hooked on a	feeling

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

Ends with two hits on the last chord, which is a measure

of 2/4

	E	G#m	A	B
That you’re in	love with	me

E	B	E7	A
Lips as sweet as	candy their	taste is on my	mind

Am	E	B	B7
Girl you got me	thirsty for	another cup of	wine

E	B	E7	A
Got a bug fr	om you girl bu	t I don’t need n	o cure

Am	E	B	B7
I just stay a	victim if I	can for sure

	E	G#7
All the	good love when we’re	all alone

	C#m	E7
Keep it	up girl, yeah you	turn me on

A	B	E	B
I-I-I-I-	I, I’m hooked on a	feeling

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

	E	G#m	A	B
That you’re in	love with	me

Hang the last chord

E	B	E7	A	Am

band out, with ooka-chaka’s

	E	G#7
All the	good love when we’re	all alone

	C#m	E7
Keep it	up girl yeah you	turn me on

Band enters on “feeling”

A	B	E	B
I-I-I-I-	I, I’m hooked on a	feeling

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

Ends with two hits on the last chord

	E	G#m	A	B
That you’re in	love with	me

Repeat to fade

Bob Dylan - Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (1973)

Chords are a combination of the Dylan and GnR versions

G	D	Am7
G	D	C

G	D	Am	Am7
Mama,	take this badge from	me

G	D	C
I can’t	use it any	more

G	D	Am	Am7
It’s gettin’	dark, too dark to	see

G	D	C
Feels like I’m	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	C
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	Am
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	C	C7
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	C
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	Am	Am7
Mama,	put my guns in the	ground

G	D	C
I can’t	shoot them any	more

G	D	Am	Am7
That long black	cloud is comin’	down

G	D	C
I feel like I’m	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

Let this chorus repeat as appropriate; usually if I’m

doing call and response, I use just I’s, no vi’s.

G	D	C
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	Am
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	C	C7
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

G	D	C
Knock, knock,	knockin’ on heaven’s	door

C	G
Ooohhhh... oh oh	yea

Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff (1973)

Originally in Gm, I play in Em.

Vox spend a lot of time on the 1.

Riff (in Gm):

|-5-3---------------|
|-----5-3-1-5-3-1---|
|-----------------3-|

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

C	Bm	Em
All aro	und in my h	ome town

C	Bm	Em
They’re trying to	track me d	own

	C	Bm	Em
They	say they want to	bring me in g	uilty

	C	Bm	Em
For the	killing of a	deputy

	C	Bm	Em
For the	life of a	depu	ty

With riff

But I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I swear it was in s	elf-defense

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
And they say it is a ca	pital offense

C	Bm	Em
Sheriff	John Brown a	lways hated me

C	Bm	Em
For wha	t I don’t k	now

C	Bm	Em
Every t	ime that I p	lant a seed

	C	Bm	Em
He said “	Kill it	before it g	rows”

	C	Bm	Em
He said “	Kill it	before it g	rows”

With riff

I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I swear it was in s	elf-defense

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I swear it was in s	elf-defense

C	Bm	Em
Freedom	came my way	one day

C	Bm	Em
And I st	arted out of	town yeah

C	Bm	Em
All of a s	udden I see s	heriff John Brown

C	Bm	Em
Aiming to s	hoot me d	own

	C	Bm	Em
So	I shot,	I s	hot him down

With riff, and wait a while after...

I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I didn’t shoot the	deputy

C	Bm	Em
Reflexes	got the b	etter of me

C	Bm	Em
And what	is to be	must be

C	Bm	Em
Every d	ay the bucket f	alls to the well

C	Bm	Em
But one day the	bottom will	drop out

C	Bm	Em
Yes, one d	ay the bottom will	drop out

With riff

But I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I didn’t shoot the	deputy, oh no

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot no	deputy

Outro

C	Bm	Em
		x2

Original fade, I end on riff

Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (1974)

Originally in C, I play in G capo 2.

G	D/F#	Em	C
G	C	G	D

G	D/F#	Em	C
No	woman, no	cry

G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman, no	cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
No	woman, no	cry

G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman, no	cry,	said, said

G	D/F#	Em	C
Said I rememb	er	when we used to sit

G	D/F#	Em	C
In the government yar	d in	Trenchtown

G	D/F#	Em	C
Ob, observ	ing	all the hypo	crits

G	D/F#	Em	C
As they would	mingle with	all the good people we meet

G	D/F#	Em	C
Good friends we have	,	good friends we’ve los	t

G	D/F#	Em	C
	Along the	way

G	D/F#	Em	C
In this great fut	ure, you	can’t forget your past

G	D/F#	Em	C
So dry	your tears I	say

	G	D/F#	Em	C
No	woman,	no cry

	G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman,	no cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
Here little darling	,	don’t shed no tears

	G	C	G	D/F#
No		woman, no	cry,	said, said

G	D/F#	Em	C
Said I rememb	er	when we used to sit

G	D/F#	Em	C
In the government yar	d in	Trenchtown

G	D/F#	Em	C
And then	Georgie would	make the fire light

G	D/F#	Em	C
As it was like a	wood	burning through the night

G	D/F#	Em	C
Then we would cook		cornmeal porridge

G	D/F#	Em	C
Of	which I’ll	share with you

G	D/F#	Em	C
My feet		is my only	carriage, and so

G	D/F#	Em	C
I’ve	got to push on	through, but	while I’m gone

	G	D/F#	Em	C
Everyt	hing’s gonna	be alright,	everything’s gonna	be alright

	G	D/F#	Em	C
Everyt	hing’s gonna	be alright,	everything’s gonna	be alright

	G	D/F#	Em	C
Everyt	hing’s gonna	be alright,	everything’s gonna	be alright

	G	D/F#	Em	C
Everyt	hing’s gonna	be alright,	everything’s gonna	be alright

G	D/F#	Em	C
No	woman, no	cry

G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman, no	cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
No my little	sister	don’t shed no	tears

G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman, no	cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
Said I rememb	er	when we used to sit

G	D/F#	Em	C
In the government yar	d in	Trenchtown

G	D/F#	Em	C
And then	Georgie would	make the fire light

G	D/F#	Em	C
As it was like a	wood	burning through the night

G	D/F#	Em	C
Then we would cook		cornmeal porridge

G	D/F#	Em	C
Of	which I’ll	share with you

G	D/F#	Em	C
My feet		is my only	carriage, and so

G	D/F#	Em	C
I’ve	got to push on	through, but	while I’m gone

G	D/F#	Em	C
No	woman, no	cry

G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman, no	cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
Oh my little	darlin’	don’t shed no	tears

G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman, no	cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
Little	darlin’,	don’t shed no tears

	G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman,	no cry

G	D/F#	Em	C
Little	sister don’t s	hed no tears

	G	C	G	D/F#
No	woman,	no cry

Bob Seger - Turn The Page (1973)

I like to play this about 1.5x faster than the original,

starting with the Em at the 7th fret with the open top string,

then going to more like a low E5 in the second part of the verse.

Changing positions keeps this fairly repetitive song from getting

stale. Actually I try to us as many voicings with the open high E

string as I can.

Em	D	Em	Em

	Em
On a	long and lonesome highway east of Omaha

	D
You can	listen to the engine, moanin’ out its one note song

	A	Em
You can	think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night	before

	Em
And your	thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do

	D
When you’re	riding sixteen hours and there’s nothing much to do

	A	Em
You	don’t feel much like writing, you just wish the trip was through

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Em

You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road

	D
And you	feel the eyes upon you, as you’re shaking off the cold

	A	Em
You	pretend it doesn’t bother you, but you just want to	explode

Em

Sometimes you can hear ‘em talk, other times you can’t

	D
And it’s all the	same cliches is that a woman or a man

	A	Em
And you	always seem outnumbered, you don’t dare make a	stand

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Quiet, let chords ring...

Em

Out there in the spotlight, you’re a million miles away

D

Every ounce of energy you try to give away

	A	Em
And the	sweat pours out your body like the music that you	play

Em

Later on that evening, as you lie awake in bed

	D
The	echoes of the amplifiers ringin’ in your head

	A	Em
And you	smoke the day’s last cigarette, remembering what she said

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Now getting loud again...

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	there I	go

Boston - Rock and Roll Band (1975)

Originally in E, I play in A capo 1

Intro

E	E	E	A
E	E	E	A
E	E	E	A
E	E	E	E
		Well

	A	D
We were	just another band out of	Boston

	A	D
On the r	oad to try to make ends m	eet

	A	D
Pl	ayin’ all the bars, sleepin’ i	n our cars

	A	D	G	G#
And we	practiced right on out in the st	reet	→

A	D
No, we didn’t have much	money

	A	D
We	barely made enough to survi	ve

Hard stop on the V at the end of this line

	A	B	D	E
But when we	got up on stage and got r	eady to play, people c	ame alive

F#m	D
Rock and roll band everybo	dy’s waitin’

F#m	D
Gettin’ crazy ant	icipating

Hard stop on the last “yeah”

A	B	D	E	A	E
Love and m	usic, pl	ay, p	lay, p	lay, yeah, yeah, yeah, y	eah

A	D
Dancin’ in the streets of Hya	nnis

	A	D
We were g	etting pretty good at the	game

A	D
People stood in line and didn’t	seem to mind

	A	D	G	G#
You know	everybody knew our	name	→

A	D
Livin’ on rock-n-roll mus	ic

	A	D
Never	worried ‘bout the things we were	missing

	A	B
When we	got up on the stage and got	ready to play

	D	E
Everybo	dy listened

F#m	D
Rock and roll band everybo	dy’s waitin’

F#m	D
Gettin’ crazy ant	icipating

A	B	D	E	A
Love and m	usic, pl	ay, p	lay, p	lay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Solo

B	B	B	E
B	B	B	E
B	B	B	E
B	B	B	B
D	D	E	E

Let ring

A	D
Playin’ for a week in Rhode I	sland

	A	D
A m	an came to the stage one n	ight

	A	D
He s	moked a big cigar and drove a C	adillac car

	A	D	G	G#
And said,	boys, I think this bands outta s	ight, ooooh	→

A	D
Sign a record company con	tract

	A	D
You k	now I’ve got great expect	ations

	A	B	D	E
When I	hear you on the car radi	o you’re gonna be a	sensation, yeah

F#m	D
Rock and roll band everybo	dy’s waitin’

F#m	D
Gettin’ crazy ant	icipating

A	B	D	E	A	B
Love and m	usic, pl	ay, p	lay, p	lay,	yeah, yeah

D	E	G	D

A	D
A	D
A	G	D	A

Brownsville Station - Smokin’ in the Boys Room (1973)

Some of the banter is from the Mötley Crüe version

All chords in the intro and verse are slid up to from a half-step below

Originally in D, I play in A

A

How you doin’ out there?
You ever seem to have one of those days
When everyone seemed to be on your case
From your teacher all the way down
To your best girlfriend?

Well you know that used to happen just about all the time
But I found a way to get out of it
Let me tell you 'bout it

	A
S	ittin’ in the classroom thinkin’ it’s a drag

	F
L	istening to the teacher rap just ain’t my bag

	A
When t	wo bells ring you know that’s my cue

	F
G	onna meet the boys on floor number two

	D	A
Sm	okin’ in the boys room, sm	okin’ in the boys room

	E	D
Now t	eacher don’t you fill me	up with your rules

Down to the 3 of the chord on “every”, then up to the

five of the chord on “smoke”

E	D	A
Everybody knows that sm	okin’ ain’t allowed in sch	ool

A

	A
C	heckin’ out the halls makin’ sure the coast is clear

	F
L	ookin’ in the stalls, no there ain’t nobody here

A

My buddies Sixx, Mick, and Tom

	F
To	get caught would surely be the death of us all

	D	A
Sm	okin’ in the boys room, sm	okin’ in the boys room

	E	D
Now t	eacher don’t you fill me	up with your rules

E	D	A
Everybody knows that sm	okin’ ain’t allowed in sch	ool

Solo

D	A	D	E
D	A	D	F#	E

	A
P	ut me to work in the school book store

	F
Ch	eck-out counter and I got bored

	A
Te	acher was lookin’ for me all around

	F
T	wo hours later you know where I was found

	D	A
Sm	okin’ in the boys room, yes indeed, I was sm	okin’ in the boys room

	E	D
Now t	eacher don’t you fill me	up with your rules

E	D	A
Everybody knows that sm	okin’ ain’t allowed in sch	ool

One more...

	D	A
Sm	okin’ in the boys room, sm	okin’ in the boys room

	E	D
Now t	eacher I ain’t foolin’ ar	ound with your rules

Hard stop on “smoke”

E	D	A
Everybody knows that sm	okin’ ain’t allowed in sch	ool

Walk on D F# G Ab A, finish on...

G#	A
→

Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light (1973)

Originally in E, I play in D capo 1, Manfred Mann in F-ish

Intro

D	Dsus4
	x 2

Vox and guitar only

D	G	A	D
Madman drummers bummers and	Indians in the summer with a	teenage diplomat

	D	G	A	D
In the	dumps with the mumps as the	adolescent pumps his	way into his h	at

	D	G	A	D
With a	boulder on my shoulder,	feelin’ kinda older I	tripped the merry-go-	round

	D	G	A	D
With this	very unpleasing,	sneezing and wheezing, the ca	lliope crashed to the groun	d

If you feel like it...

	G	A	D
The ca	lliope	crashed to the groun	d

Band enters

	D	G	A	D
Some	all-hot half-shot was	headin’ for a hot spot	snappin’ his fingers clappin’ his hand	s

	D	G	A	D
And some	fleshpot mascot was	tied into a lover’s knot with a	whatnot in her han	d

	D	G	A	D
And now	young Scott with a slingshot	finally found a tender spot and	throws his lover in the san	d

	D	G	A	D
And some	bloodshot forget-me-not whispers, “	Daddy’s within earshot, save the	buckshot, turn up the band”

	G	A	D
And she was	blinded	by the	light

	G	A	D
Oh, cut	loose like a	deuce another	runner in the night

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

A	G	D
She got down but she never got tight, but she’ll	make it al	right

Hang on the minor chord

G

Bm

	D	G	A	D
Some	brimstone baritone	anti-cyclone rolling stone	preacher from the Eas	t

	D	G	A	D
He says, “	Dethrone the dictaphone,	hit it in its funny bone, that’s	where they expect it least	”

	D	G	A	D
And some	new-mown chaperone	standin’ in the corner all alone	watchin’ the young girls danc	e

	D	G	A	D
And some	fresh-sown moonstone was	messin’ with his frozen zone to rem	ind him of the feeling of ro	mance

	G	A	D
And he was	blinded	by the	light

	G	A	D
Oh, cut	loose like a	deuce another	runner in the night

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

A	G	D
He got down but he never got tight, but	he’s gonna make it

	G	Bm
To	night

Bridge, quiet again

	A	G	D
Some	silicone sister with her manager’s mister	told me I got what it	takes

	A	G	D
She said, “I’ll	turn you on sonny, to something strong if you’ll play that	song with the funky	break”

	A	G	D
And	Go-cart Mozart was checkin’ out the weather chart to	see if it was safe to go out	side

	A	G	D
And	little Early-Pearly came by in her curly-wurly and	asked me if I needed a	ride

Loud again

	D	G	A	D
Oh, some	hazard from Harvard was	skunked on beer playin’	backyard bombardier

	D	G
Yes and	Scotland Yard was trying hard, they	sent some dude with a calling card who said

A	D
“Do what you like, but don’t do it here”

	D	G	A	D
Well, I	jumped up, turned around,	spit in the air, fell on the ground,	asked him which was the way back	home

	D	G	A	D
He said, “Take a	right at the light, keep goin’	straight until night, and then	, boys, you’re on your own”

	D	G	A	D
And now in	Zanzibar a shootin’ star was	ridin’ in a side car	hummin’ a lunar tune

	D	G
Yes, and the	avatar said, "Blow the bar but	first remove the cookie jar

	A	D
We’re gonna	teach those boys to laugh too soon"

	D	G	A	D
And some	kidnapped handicap was comp	lainin’ that he caught the clap from some	mousetrap he bought last nigh	t

	D	G	A	D
Well I un	snapped his skull cap, be	tween his ears I saw a gap and f	igured he’d be all righ	t

	G	A	D
He was just	blinded	by the	light

	G	A	D
Cut	loose like a	deuce another	runner in the night

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

Rubato

A	G
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the	sun

D	G	D
Whoa, but mama that’s where the	fun is, ooh yeah

Stay rubato for this made-up ending that follows neither MM nor BS

	G	A	D
I was just	blinded	by the	light

	G	A	D
Cut	loose like a	deuce another	runner in the night

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

A	G
We got down but we never got tight, we’re gonna m	ake it

	D
Through the n	ight

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)

Originally in E, I play in D

D	D	G	A
			x2

Vox in on the 4 on “day”

	D
In the d	ay we sweat it out in the streets

	G	A
Of a r	unaway American dr	eam

	D
At n	ight we ride through mansions of glory

	G	A
In s	uicide mach	ines

	G	G/F#
Spr	ung from cages out on h	ighway 9

	Em
Chrome wh	eeled, fuel injected

Leave out the vocal “oh”

	G/F#	D	D9
And st	eppin’ out over the lin	e,	oh

	G	G/F#
B	aby this town rips the b	ones from your back

	Em	G/F#
It’s a d	eath trap, it’s a s	uicide rap

	D	Bm
We gotta g	et out while we’re y	oung

	G
‘Cause tr	amps like us

	A	D
B	aby we were born to r	un

D	D	G	A
			x2

	D
Wendy l	et me in I wanna be your friend

	G	A
I wanna g	uard your dreams and v	isions

	D
Just wr	ap your legs ‘round these velvet rims

	G	A
And str	ap your hands ‘cross my	engines

	G	G/F#
Tog	ether we could b	reak this trap

	Em
We’ll	run till we drop

G/F#	D	D9
Baby we’ll never go b	ack,	oh

	G	G/F#
Will you w	alk with me out on the	wire?

	Em	G/F#
‘Cause	baby I’m just a scared and	lonely rider

	D	Bm
But I g	otta know how it	feels

	G
I want to kn	ow if love is wild

	A	D
Babe I w	ant to know if love is r	eal

Skip right to the vi after one line here if there’s

no solo.

D	D	G	A
			x2

Solo if appropriate

D	D	G	A
			x2

D	D	G	A
Bm	Bm	D	Am7

All chords sus4→major, everything other than C

as 6th-string barres.

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “beyond”

	C
Bey	ond the Palace hemi-powered drones

	F
Sc	ream down the boulevard

	G
The girls	comb their hair in rearview mirrors

	A#
And the	boys try to look so hard

	C
The amu	sement park rises bold and stark

	F
Kids are	huddled on the beach in a mist

	G
I wanna	die with you Wendy on the streets tonight

Hit this as a 6th-string barre, you’re about to do

a lot of suspensions.

	A#
In an	everlasting kiss

I skip the breakdown, and do 4 beats each on...

A#sus4	A#
Asus4	A

Then riff for a while on...

Gsus4	G

Then ritard and fade, and count back in...

Vox back in on the 3

	D
The h	ighway’s jammed with broken heroes on a

	G	A
L	ast chance power d	rive

	D
Everyb	ody’s out on the run tonight but there’s

	G	A
N	o place left to	hide

	G	G/F#
Tog	ether Wendy we’ll l	ive with the sadness

	Em	G/F#	D	D9
I’ll l	ove you with all the	madness in my s	oul,	oh

	G	G/F#
S	omeday girl I	don’t know when we’re gonna

Em

Get to that place

	G/F#	D
Where we r	eally want to g	o

	Bm
And we’ll walk in the	sun

	G	A	D	Bm
But till then tr	amps like us b	aby we were born to r	un

	G	A	D	Bm
Ah honey tr	amps like us b	aby we were born to r	un

	G	A	D
Come on Wendy tr	amps like us b	aby we were born to r	un

Until end, with “whoa”

D

G

A

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (1975)

Most of the IV’s can be IV2, most of the V’s can be Vsus4

Originally in F; I play in D

D	G	D	G
D	F#m	G	A

	D	G	D
A	screen door slams,	Mary’s	dress waves

	G
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the	radio plays

	A
Roy Orbison singing for the	lonely

	D	G
Hey that’s	me and I want you	only

	D	A
Don’t turn me home again, I	just can’t face myself a	lone again

	D	G	D
Don’t	run back inside, darlin,	you know just what I’m	here for

So you're scared and you're thinking that

F#m	G
Maybe we ain’t that	young any more

	A
Show a little faith, there’s magic in the	night

	D	G
You ain’t a	beauty but hey you’re all	right

	D	A
Oh and	that’s alright with	me

	D	Bm
You can	hide beneath your covers and	study your pain

	D	G
Make	crosses from your lovers, throw	roses in the rain

D	F#m
Waste your summer	praying in vain for a

G	A
Savior to rise from these	streets

	D	Bm
Well now	I’m no hero that’s	understood

	D	G
All the re	demption I can offer girl is	beneath this dirty hood

D	F#m
With a chance to make it	good somehow hey

G	A
What else can we do	now except

D	G	D
Roll down the window and	let the wind blow	back your hair

Well the night’s busting open these

F#m	G
Two lanes can take us	anywhere

	A
We got one last chance to make it	real

	D	G
To	trade in these wings on some	wheels

	D	A
Climb in back, heaven’s	waiting down on the	tracks

D	Bm
Oh come	take my hand

	D	G
We’re	ridin’ out tonight to	case the promised land

D	F#m	G	A
Oh	oh thunder road,	oh thunder road,	oh thunder road

D	G/B
Lyin’ out there like a	killer in the sun

	D	G
Hey	I know it’s late, we can	make it if we run

D	F#m	G	A	D
Oh	oh thunder road, sit	tight, take	hold, thunder	road

	G	A6	D
Well I	got this guitar and I	learned how to make it	talk

	Bm
And my	car’s out back if you’re

	Gmaj7	A
Ready to take that	long	walk

	G	A
From your	front porch to my front	seat

	F#m	Bm
The door’s	open but the ride it ain’t	free

	G	G/F#	Em7	G/D
And	I know you’re	hungry for words that	I ain’t	spoken

	A
To	night we’ll be free, all the promises will be broken

	D	G	D
There were	ghosts in the eyes of	all the boys you	sent away

Vox do *not* go down on “skeleton”, even though you want to

	D	F#m
They haunt this	dusty beach road in the	skeleton frames of

G

Burned-out Chevrolets

Vox back up to the 1 of the key for this whole line, including “street”

	A
They scream your name at night in the	street

	D	G
Your graduation	gown lies in rags at their	feet

Stay on the 1 of the key on “lonely”

	F#m
And in the	lonely cool before dawn

*Still* on the 1 of the key on “engines”

	G
You hear their	engines roaring on

Vox down to the 3 of the chord on “get to the porch”

	G	A
But when you	get to the porch, they’re	gone

	G	Em
On the	wind, so Mary climb	in

	G	A	D
It’s a	town full of losers, and I’m	pulling out of here to w	in

Outro

D	A	D	G
D	A	G	A

D	A	D	G
D	A
G	G/F#	G/E	G/D
→	→	→

A	A/G	A/F#	A/E
→	→	→

D

Repeat to fade

Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth (1966)

Originally in E, I play in E capo 3.

Also I throw in a few A6’s instead of Asus2’s.

And play about 1.5x as fast as the original.

E	Asus2	E	Asus2

E	Asus2
There’s somethin’ happenin’	here

	E	Asus2
What it	is ain’t exactly	clear

	E	Asus2
There’s a	man with a gun over	there

	E	Asus2
A-tellin’	me I’ve got to beware

	E
I think it’s time we	stop

	D
Children,	what’s that sound?

A	C	E
Everybody look what’s	goin’ down

E	Asus2	E	Asus2

E	Asus2
There’s battle lines bein’	drawn

	E	Asus2
Nobody’s	right if everybody’s	wrong

E	Asus2
Young people speakin’ their	minds

	E	Asus2
A-gettin’	so much resistance	from behind

	E
I think it’s time we	stop

	D
Hey,	what’s that sound?

A	C	E
Everybody look what’s	goin’ down

E	Asus2	E	Asus2

E	Asus2	G
What a field day for the	heat

E	Asus2	G
A thousand people in the	street

	E	Asus2
Singin’	songs and a-carryin’	signs

E	Asus2
Mostly sayin’ hooray for our	side

	E
I think it’s time we	stop

	D
Hey,	what’s that sound?

A	C	E
Everybody look what’s	goin’ down

E	Asus2	E	Asus2

E	Asus2
Paranoia strikes	deep

	E	Asus2
Into your	life it will	creep

E	Asus2
It starts when you’re always	afraid

	E	Asus2
Step out of	line, the men come and	take you away

	E	D
You better	stop, hey,	what’s that sound?

A	C
Everybody look what’s	goin’

	E	D
You better	stop, hey,	what’s that sound?

A	C
Everybody look what’s	goin’

	E	D
You better	stop, hey,	what’s that sound?

A	C	E
Everybody look what’s	goin’	down

Cat Stevens - The First Cut is the Deepest (1967)

Sheryl Crow in D, Cat Stevens in G, Rod Stewart in C, I play in G

Intro

G	D	G	D

	G	D	C	D
I would have	given you	all of my he	art

	G	D	C	D
But there’s s	omeone who’s t	orn it apa	rt

	G	D	C	D
And he’s t	aking just a	ll I ha	ve

	G	D	C	D
But if you want, I’ll	try to love a	gain	bab	y

	G	C	D
I’ll	try to love a	gain but I kn	ow

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the dee	pest, ba	by I know

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the de	epest

	G	D	C	D
But when it	comes to being l	ucky he’s cur	sed

	G	C	D	D/C	D/B	D/C
When it co	mes to lovin’	me he’s w	orst

	G	D	C	D
I still	want you	by my sid	e

	G	D	C	D
Just to	help me dry the	tears that I’ve cri	ed

	G	D	C	D
And I’m	sure gonna g	ive you a t	ry

	G	D	C
And if you want, I’ll	try to love a	gain, try

	D	G	C	D
B	aby I’ll	try to love	again, but I k	now

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the dee	pest, ba	by I know

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the de	epest

	G	D	C	D
But when it	comes to being l	ucky he’s cur	sed

	G	C	D	D/C
And when it co	mes to lovin’	me he’s w	orst

Solo

G	C	D	D
			x4

Let ring

	G	D	C	D
I still	want you	by my sid	e

	G	D	C	D
Just to	help me dry the	tears that I’ve cri	ed

	G	D	C	D
But I’m	sure gonna g	ive you a t	ry

	G	D	C
‘Cause if you want, I’ll	try to love a	gain

	D	G	C	D	D/C	D/B	D/C
B	aby I’ll	try to love	again, but I k	now

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the dee	pest, ba	by I know

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the de	epest

	G	D	C	D
But when it	comes to being l	ucky he’s cur	sed

	G	C	D	D/C
And when it co	mes to lovin’	me he’s w	orst	oh

G	D	C	D
The first	cut is the dee	pest, ba	by I know

G	D	C	D	G
The first	cut is the de	epest,	try to love a	gain

Cat Stevens - Wild World (1970)

Am	D7	G
La la la	la la la	la

	Cmaj7	F
La la la la	la la	la

Dm	E	E7
La la la la la la	la

Am	D7	G
Now that I’ve	lost everything to	you

	Cmaj7	F
You say you	wanna start something	new

	Dm	E
And it’s	breakin’ my heart you’re	leavin’

Baby, I’m grievin’

Am	D7	G
But if you wanna	leave, take good	care

	Cmaj7	F
Hope you have a	lot of nice things to	wear

	Dm	E	G7
But then a	lot of nice things turn	bad out	there

G7	G6	G

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C
It’s hard to get	by just upon a	smile

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C	Dm	E
I’ll always re	member you like a	child, girl

Am	D7	G
You know I’ve seen a	lot of what the world can	do

	Cmaj7	F
And it’s	breakin’ my heart in	two

	Dm	E
Because I	never wanna see you a	sad, girl

Don’t be a bad girl

Am	D7	G
But if you wanna	leave, take good	care

	Cmaj7	F
Hope you make a	lot of nice friends out	there

	Dm	E	G7
But just re	member there’s a lot of bad,	and be	ware

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C
It’s hard to get	by just upon a	smile

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C	Dm	E
I’ll always re	member you like a	child, girl

Am	D7	G
La la la	la la la	la

	Cmaj7	F
La la la la	la la	la

Dm	E
La la la la la la	la

E7

Baby, I love you

Am	D7	G
But if you wanna	leave, take good	care

	Cmaj7	F
Hope you make a	lot of nice friends out	there

	Dm	E	G7
But just re	member there’s a lot of bad,	and be	ware

G7	G6	G
G7	G6	G

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C
It’s hard to get	by just upon a	smile

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C
I’ll always re	member you like a	child, girl

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C
It’s hard to get	by just upon a	smile

C	G	F
Oh,	baby, baby, it’s a	wild world

G	F	C
I’ll always re	member you like a	child, girl

Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 (1969)

Originally in Am, I play in Am capo 3

Intro

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
			→	x4

Vox on 1 2 on “waiting”... get way down to that low 1.

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Waiting f	or the break of d	ay

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Searching f	or something to sa	y

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Flashing l	ights against the	sky

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Giving	up I close my ey	es

F	C
Sitting cross-legged on the fl	oor

G	F
Twenty-five or six to	four

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
			→	x2

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Staring bl	indly into spa	ce

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Getting	up to splash my fa	ce

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Wanting ju	st to stay awa	ke

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Wondering h	ow much I can t	ake

F	C
Should I try to do some	more?

G	F
Twenty-five or six to	four

Solo

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
			→	x16

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Feeling l	ike I ought to sl	eep

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Spinning r	oom is sinking de	ep

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Searching f	or something to s	ay

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
Waiting f	or the break of d	ay,	hoo hoo hoo	hooo

F	C
Twenty-five or six to	four

G	F
Twenty-five or six to	four

Am	G	D9/F#	F	E
			→	x4

Dm9

Cmmaj9

B(#9)

A#(b9)

B/A

Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (1967)

Originally in D, I play in A

Highest note is the 5 (“seas are dried up”

Intro

A

	A
It’s g	etting near dawn

When lights close their tired eyes
I'll soon be with you my love
Give you my dawn surprise

	D
I’ll b	e with you darling soon

I’ll be with you when the stars start falling

A

E	G	D
I’ve been	waiting s	o long

E	G	D
To be w	here I’m g	oing

E	G	D	E
In the s	unshine o	f your l	ove

A

	A
I’m w	ith you my love

The light’s shining through on you
Yes, I'm with you my love
It's the morning and just we two

	D
I’ll s	tay with you darling now

I’ll stay with you ‘til my seas are dried up

A

E	G	D
I’ve been	waiting s	o long

E	G	D
To be w	here I’m g	oing

E	G	D	E
In the s	unshine o	f your l	ove

Solo on verse and chorus chords

A

	A
I’m w	ith you my love

The light’s shining through on you
Yes, I'm with you my love
It's the morning and just we two

	D
I’ll s	tay with you darling now

I’ll stay with you ‘til my seas are dried up

A

E	G	D
I’ve been	waiting s	o long

E	G	D
I’ve been	waiting s	o long

E	G	D
I’ve been	waiting s	o long

E	G	D
To be w	here I’m g	oing

E	G	D	E
In the s	unshine o	f your l	ove

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (1969)

Originally in D, I play in A

Vox spend most of the time on the 3

Intro

A	E	D	A

A	E	D	A
I see the	bad	moon	rising

A	E	D	A
I see	trouble	on the w	ay

A	E	D	A
I see	earth	quakes and	lightning

A	E	D	A
I see	bad	times to	day

D

Don’t go ‘round tonight

	A
Well it’s	bound to take your life

E	D	A
There’s a	bad moon on the	rise

A	E	D	A
I hear	hurri	canes a-	blowing

A	E	D	A
I know the	end is	coming	soon

A	E	D	A
I fear	rivers	over	flowing

A	E	D	A
I hear the	voice of	rage and	ruin

D

Don’t go round tonight

	A
Well it’s	bound to take your life

E	D	A
There’s a	bad moon on the	rise

Solo on verse and chorus chords

A	E	D	A
A	E	D	A
D	D	A	A
E	D	A	A

A	E	D	A
Hope you	got your	things tog	ether

A	E	D	A
Hope you are	quite prepa	red to	die

A	E	D	A
Looks like we’re	in for	nasty	weather

A	E	D	A
One eye is	taken	for an	eye

	D
Well	don’t go around tonight

	A
Well it’s	bound to take your life

E	D	A
There’s a	bad moon on the	rise

D

Don’t go around tonight

	A
Well it’s	bound to take your life

E	D	A
There’s a	bad moon on the	rise

A

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner (1969)

Originally around C, I play in G

Intro

F	F	C	F
F	F	C	F
A#	A#	F	F
F	F	C	F

F	C	F
Early in the evenin’,	just about supper t	ime

F	C	F
Over by the courthouse, they’re	startin’ to unw	ind

A#	F
Four kids on the corner,	tryin’ to bring you up

F	C	F
Willy picks a tune out and he	blows it on the h	arp

A#	F	C	F
Down on the	corner,	out in the	street

	A#	F
Willy and the	Poor Boys are	playin’

	C	F
Bring a	nickel, tap your	feet

F	C	F
Rooster hits the washboard,	people just gotta	smile

F	C	F
Blinky thumbs a gut bass and s	olos for a w	hile

A#	F
Poorboy twangs the rhythym out o	n his kalamazoo

	F	C	F
And W	illy goes into a dance and d	oubles on kaz	oo

A#	F	C	F
Down on the	corner,	out in the	street

	A#	F
Willy and the	Poor Boys are	playin’

	C	F
Bring a	nickel, tap your	feet

F	F	C	F
F	F	C	F
A#	A#	F	F
F	F	C	F

A#	F	C	F
Down on the	corner,	out in the	street

	A#	F
Willy and the	Poor Boys are	playin’

	C	F
Bring a	nickel, tap your	feet

F	F	C	F
F	F	C	F

F	C	F
You don’t need a penny	just to hang ar	ound

	F	C	F
But i	f you got a nickel, won’t you	lay your money	down?

A#	F
Over on the corner	there’s a happy noise

F	C	F
People come from all around to w	atch the magic b	oy

A#	F	C	F
Down on the	corner,	out in the	street

	A#	F
Willy and the	Poor Boys are	playin’

	C	F
Bring a	nickel, tap your	feet

A#	F	C	F
Down on the	corner,	out in the	street

	A#	F
Willy and the	Poor Boys are	playin’

	C	F
Bring a	nickel, tap your	feet

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (1969)

Originally in D, I play A capo 1

I play about halfway between the CCR and Turner tempos

G	E	G	E	G	E	D	C	C	A

A

Left a good job in the city

Workin’ for the man ev’ry night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been

E

Big wheel keep on turnin’

F#m

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

A

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

Pumped a lot of ‘tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of a city
Till I hitched a ride on a river boat queen

E

Big wheel keep on turnin’

F#m

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

A

Rollin’, rollin’, (rollin’), rollin’ on the river

G	E	G	E	G	E	D	C	C	A

A

Solo on one verse and chorus, with the last line sung

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

G	E	G	E	G	E	D	C	C	A

A

If you come down to the river

Bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to worry 'cause you have no money
People on the river are happy to give

E

Big wheel keep on turnin’

F#m

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

A

Rollin’, (whoa), rollin’, rollin’ on the river

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

David Bowie - Space Oddity (1969)

Fmaj	Em
	x 2

Vox on the low 1

C	Em
Ground control to Major	Tom

C	Em
Ground control to Major	Tom

Am	Am/G	D/F#
Take your	protein pills and	put your helmet on

Start countdown, two per beat

C	Em
Ground control to Major	Tom

C	Em
Commencing countdown engines	on

Hang on the last chord for a bit...

Am	Am/G	D/F#
Check ig	nition and may	God’s love be with you

C	E
This is ground control to Major T	om

	F
You’ve really made the gr	ade

	Fm	C	F
And the	papers want to k	now whose shirt you w	ear

	Fm	C	F
Now it’s	time to leave the c	apsule if you d	are

	C	E
Th	is is Major Tom to ground contr	ol

	F
I’m stepping through the d	oor

	Fm	C	F
And I’m f	loating in a m	ost peculiar w	ay

	Fm	C	F
And the s	tars look very d	ifferent tod	ay

	Fmaj7	Em
For	here am I	sitting in a tin can

Fmaj7	Em
Far above the	world

Bb	Am	G	F
Planet Earth is	blue and there’s	nothing I can	do

Bridge, I usually skip and just hang the previous line a bit

C	F	G	A	A
C	F	G	A	A
Fmaj7	Em	A	C	D	E

C	E
Though I’m past one hundred thousand mi	les

	F
I’m feeling very st	ill

	Fm	C	F
And I t	hink my spaceship k	nows which way to g	o

	Fm	C	F
Tell my w	ife I love her v	ery much she k	nows

G	E7
Ground control to	Major Tom, your

Am	Am/G
Circuit’s dead, there’s	something wrong

	D/F#
Can you	hear me Major Tom?

	C
Can you	hear me Major Tom?

	G
Can you	hear me Major Tom? Can you...

Fmaj7	Em
Here am I	floating ‘round my tin can

Fmaj7	Em
Far above the	moon

Bb	Am	G	F
Planet Earth is	blue and there’s	nothing I can	do

Instrumental

C	F	G	A	A
C	F	G	A	A
Fmaj7	Em	A	C	D	E

Fade to noise on the last chord

Derek and the Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues (1971)

Originally in C (chorus in A), I play in G (chorus in E)

Intro

I playing in G, the turnaround at the end of these lines sounds better as C G D/F#

G	B7/F#	Em	G/D	C	D	C	G	D
						→	→

Vox on the 3 on “blues”

	G	B7/F#	Em	G/D
Bell bottom	blues, you	made me	cry

	C	D	C	G	D
I don’t wanna	lose this feeling		→	→

	G	B7/F#	Em	G/D
And if I could c	hoose	a place to	die

	C	D
It would be	in your arms

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “do you wanna”

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	crawl across the	floor to you

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	beg you to take me	back, I’d	gladly	do it because

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, gi	ve me one more da	y please

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B	C	G	D
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, in	your heart I lo	ng to stay	→	→

	G	B7/F#	Em	G/D
It’s all	wrong, but	it’s all	right

	C	D	C	G	D
The way that you	treat me baby		→	→

	G	B7/F#	Em	G/D
Once I was	strong, but I	lost the	fight

	C	D
You won’t find a	better loser

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	crawl across the	floor to you

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	beg you to take me	back, I’d	gladly	do it because

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, gi	ve me one more da	y please

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B	C	G	D
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, in	your heart I lo	ng to stay	→	→

Solo on verse chords

G	B7/F#	Em	G/D	C	D	C	G	D
						→	→

G	B7/F#	Em	G/D	C	D

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	crawl across the	floor to you

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	beg you to take me	back, I’d	gladly	do it because

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, gi	ve me one more da	y please

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B	C	G	D
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, in	your heart I lo	ng to stay	→	→

(Verse)

	G	B7/F#	Em	G/D
Bell bottom	blues, don’t	say good	bye

	C	D	C	G	D
We’re surely gonna	meet again		→	→

	G	B7/F#	Em	G/D
And if we	do,	don’t ya be sur	prised

	C	D
If you find me with a	nother lover,	no

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	crawl across the	floor to you

E	B/D#	C#m	A	B
Do you wanna see me	beg you to take me	back, I’d	gladly	do it because

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, gi	ve me one more da	y please

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, in	your heart I lo	ng to stay

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, gi	ve me one more da	y please

E	Emaj7/G#	E7	A	B	C	G	D
I don’t want to	fade awa	y, in	your heart I lo	ng to stay	→	→

Derek and the Dominos - Layla (1971)

Chorus originally around Dm (verse in C#m), I play the

chorus in Am (verse in G#m)

Intro

Am	F	G	Am
			x5

Am	F	G

G#m7	D#m7
What will you do when you get	lonely?

G#m7	G	A	B	B7
No one	waiting	by your	side

C#m	F#	B	E
You’ve been	runnin’ and	hiding much too	long

C#m	F#	B
You know it’s	just your foolish	pride

E	Am	F
Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
You	got me on my	knees, Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
I’m	beggin’ darling	please, Layla

G	Am	Am	F	G
Darling won’t you	ease my worried m	ind?

G#m7	D#m7
Tried to give you consol	ation

G#m7	G	A	B	B7
Your old	man he	let you	down

C#m	F#	B	E
Like a	fool, I	fell in love with	you

C#m	F#	B
You turned my	whole world upside	down

E	Am	F
Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
You	got me on my	knees, Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
I’m	beggin’ darling	please, Layla

G	Am	Am	F	G
Darling won’t you	ease my worried mind?

G#m7	D#m7
Make the best of the sit	uation

G#m7	G	A	B	B7
Before I	finally	go in	sane

C#m	F#	B	E
Please don’t	say we’ll	never find a	way

C#m	F#	B
Tell me	all my love’s in	vain

E	Am	F
Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
You	got me on my	knees, Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
I’m	beggin’ darling	please, Layla

G	Am	Am	F	G	Am
Darling won’t you	ease my worried mind?

	Am	F
Lay	la	(Layla)

	G	Am	Am	F
You’ve	got me on my	knees, Layla

	G	Am	Am	F
I’m	beggin’ darling	please, Layla

G	Am	Am	F	G	Am
Darling won’t you	ease my worried mind?

Solo

Am	F	G	Am
			x8

Repeat a zillion times

G	G/B	Cadd9	C	Cmaj7	C6
		→	→	→	x2

F7	F7(#11)	G	G

Then once in a while...

Em	Am	D	G
Em	Am	D	D

Disney - The Bare Necessities (1967)

Originally in C, I play in D capo 2

Vox start on the low 1 of the chord

A	D	D7
Look for the	bare neces	sities

	G
The	simple bare necessities

	D	B7	E7	A7
Forg	et about your	worries and your	strife

	D	D7
I mean the	bare neces	sities

	G	G7
Old	Mother Nature’s r	ecipes

	D	G7	E7	A7	D	G	D
That	bring the	bare nec	essit	ies of l	ife

	A7	D
Wherever I	wander, wherever I	roam

	A7	D	D7
I couldn’t be	fonder of my big	home

	G	Gm6
The bees are	buzzin’ in the tree

	D	E7
To make some	honey just for m	e

Vox on 5 1 1 1 of the chord on “you look under”

	Bm	B7
When	you look under the	rocks and plants

	E7	B7
And	take a glance at the f	ancy ants

	D	B7
Then	maybe try a few

	Em7	A7	D	Bm
The bare ne	cessities of	life will come to	you

Em7	A7sus4	D	G7	D
They’ll	come to	you

A	D	D7
Look for the	bare neces	sities

	G
The	simple bare necessities

	D	B7	E7	A7
Forg	et about your	worries and your	strife

I mean the

D	D7
Bare neces	sities

	G	G7
That’s w	hy a bear can	rest at ease

	D7	G7	E7	A7	D	G	D
With	just the	bare nec	essit	ies of l	ife

	A7	D
Now when you pick a	pawpaw, or a prickly p	ear

	A7	D	D7
And you prick a	raw paw, well next time bew	are

	G	Gm6
Don’t pick the	prickly pear by the	paw

	D	E7
When you pick a	pear try to use the c	law

	Bm	B7
But	you don’t need to	use the claw

	E7	B7
When	you pick a pear of the b	ig pawpaw

	D	B7
Have	I given you a	clue?

	Em7	A7	D	Bm
The bare ne	cessities of	life will come to	you

Em7	A7sus4	D	G7	D
They’ll	come to	you

A	D	D7
Look for the	bare neces	sities

	G
The	simple bare necessities

	D	B7	E7	A7
Forg	et about your	worries and your	strife

I mean the

D	D7
Bare neces	sities

	G	G7
That’s w	hy a bear can	rest at ease

	D7	G7	E7	A7	D	G	D
With	just the	bare nec	essit	ies of l	ife

	D7	G7	E7	A7	D	G	D
With	just the	bare nec	essit	ies of l	ife

	D7	G7	E7	A7	D	G	D
With	just the	bare nec	essit	ies of l	ife

Dobie Gray - Drift Away (1970)

Originally in B, I play in A or G, highest note is the 6

(on “POURing rain”), lots of 5 in the chorus

Intro

A	E/A	D/A	E/A	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

D	A
Day after day I’m more confu	sed

D	E	A
Yet I look for the	light through the pouring r	ain

D	A
You know that’s a game that I hate to l	ose

Bm	D
I’m feelin’ the strain,	ain’t it a shame

	A
Oh, g	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

	A
Oh, g	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

A	E/A	D/A	E/A	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

D	A
Beginning to think that I’m wastin’ t	ime

D	E	A
I don’t understand	the things I do

D	A
The world outside looks so unki	nd

Bm	D
Now I’m countin’ on you to	carry me through

	A
Oh, g	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

	A
Yeah, g	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

A	E/A	D/A	E/A	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

Bm

And when my mind is free

D	A
You know a melody can m	ove me

Bm

And when I’m feelin’ blue

D	E
The guitar’s comin’ through to s	oothe me

D	A
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given	me

D	E	A
I want you to	know I believe in your s	ong

D	A
Rhythm and rhyme and harm	ony

Bm	D
You help me along, m	akin’ me strong

Instruments drop out

	A
Oh, g	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

	A
G	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E/G#	D/F#
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away, ooh

Instruments back in

	A
G	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul (free my soul)

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away (ooh, hey)

	A
G	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul (free my soul)

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

	A	E	D
Now won’t you	take me,	take me

Fade on chorus chords

Dolly Parton - Jolene (1973)

Originally in C#m as Am capo 4, I play in Em capo 1 (Fm)

Highest note is the 1

Em

Vox in on 7 1 on Jo-lene

	Em	G	D	Em
J	olene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
I’m b	egging of you please dont’t take my	man

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, J	olene

	D	Em
Ple	ase don’t take him just because you c	an

	Em	G
Your be	auty is be	yond compare

	D	Em
With fl	aming locks of au	burn hair

	D	Em
With iv	ory skin and eyes of emerald g	reen

	Em	G
Your sm	ile is like a b	reath of spring

	D	Em
Your vo	ice is soft like su	mmer rain

	D	Em
And I c	annot compete with you, J	olene

	Em	G
He t	alks about you	in his sleep

	D	Em
There’s n	othing I can	do to keep

	D	Em
From	crying when he calls your name, J	olene

	Em	G
And	I can easily u	nderstand

	D	Em
How	you could easily t	ake my man

	D	Em
But you	don’t know what he means to me, J	olene

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
I’m be	gging of you please don’t take my	man

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
Pl	ease don’t take him just because you	can

	Em	G
You	could have your	choice of men

	D	Em
But	I could never l	ove again

	D	Em
He’s	the only one for me, Jo	lene

	Em	G
I h	ad to have this t	alk with you

	D	Em
My	happines depe	nds on you

	D	Em
Wha	tever you decide to do, Jo	lene

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
I’m be	gging of you please don’t take my	man

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
Pl	ease don’t take him even though you	can

Outro

Em

Jolene...

Don McLean - American Pie (1971)

	G	D	Em7
A	long,	long	time ago

Am	C
I can still re	member how that

	Em	D
M	usic used to make me	smile

	G	D	Em7
And	I know	if I	had my chance

	Am	C
That	I could make those	people dance and

Em	C	D
Maybe they’d be	happy for a	while

	Em	Am
But	February	made me shiver

	Em	Am
Wwith	every paper	I’d deliver

C	G	Am
Bad news	on the	doorstep

	C	D
I	couldn’t take one more	step

	G	D	Em
I	can’t remem	ber if I	cried

	Am7	D
When I	read about his	widowed bride

G	D	Em
Something	touched me	deep inside

	C	D7	G	C	G
The	day the	music	died

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

G	Am
Did you write the	book of love?

	C	Am
And do	you have faith in	god above

Em	D
If the bible	tells you so?

G	D	Em
Do you	believe in	rock and roll

	Am7	C
Can	music save your	mortal soul

	Em	A7	D
And can y	ou teach me	how to dance	real slow?

	Em	D
Well I	know that you’re in	love with him

	Em	D
‘Cause I	saw you dancin’	in the gym

	C	G	A7
You	both kicked	off your	shoes

	C	D7
Man I	dig those rhythm and	blues

	G	D	Em
I was a	lonely	teenage	broncin’ buck

	Am	C
With a	pink carnation and a	pickup truck

	G	D	Em
But	I knew	I was	out of luck

	C	D7	G	C	G
The	day the	music	die	d,	I started singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	Am
Now for t	en years we’ve been	on our own

	C	Am	Em
And mo	ss grows fat on a ro	lling stone

	D
But that’s not how it u	sed to be

	G	D	Em
When the j	ester s	ang for the ki	ng and queen

	Am7	C
In a	coat he borrowed fr	om James Dean

	Em	A7	D
In a v	oice that came from you	and me

	Em	D
And w	hile the king was lo	oking down

	Em	D
The	jester stole his th	orny crown

	C	G	A7
The c	ourtroom	was adjourn	ed

	C	D7
No	verdict was r	eturned

	G	D	Em
And while	Lenin rea	d a b	ook on Marx

	Am	C
The	quartet practiced	in the park

	G	D	Em
And	we sang d	irges i	n the dark

	C	D7	G
The	day the mu	sic die	d

C	G
We	were singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

G	Am
Helter skelter in a	summer swelter

C	Am
The birds flew off with	a fallout shelter

Em	D
Eight miles high and	fallin’ fast

	G	D	Em
It lan	ded	foul o	n the grass

	Am7	C
The pl	ayers tried for a f	orward pass

Em	A7	D
With the jester on the sideline	s in a	cast

	Em	D
Now the ha	lftime air was s	weet perfume

	Em	D
While	sergeants played a m	arching tune

C	G	A7
We all got	up to dan	ce

	C	D7
But	we never got the ch	ance

	G	D	Em
‘Cause the p	layers	tried to t	ake the field

	Am	C
The	marching band re	fused to yield

	G	D	Em
Do y	ou re	call what w	as the feel

	C	D7	G
The	day the m	usic died	?

	C	G
W	e s	tarted singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	Am
And t	here we were all	in one place

	C	Am
A ge	neration	lost in space

Em	D
With no time left to	start again

	G	D	Em
So come on J	ack be ni	mble,	Jack be quick

	Am7	C
J	ack Flash sat on a c	andle

	Em	A7	D
Stick,	’cause fire is the devil’s only	friend

	Em	D
And a	s I watched him o	n the stage

	Em	D
My h	ands were clenched in f	ists of rage

	C	G	A7
No	angel b	orn in H	ell

	C	D7
Could b	read that Satan’s	spell

	G	D	Em
And as the	flames climbed h	igh int	o the night

	Am	C
To	light the sacrif	icial rite

	G	D	Em
I saw S	atan l	aughing with	delight

	C	D7	G	C
The d	ay the	music d	ied

	G
H	e was singin’

G	C	G	D
Bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	D	Em
I	met a	girl who	sang the blues

	Am	C
And I	asked her for some	happy news

	Em	D
But	she just smiled and turned a	way

	G	D	Em
I	went down	to the	sacred store

	Am	C
Where I’d	heard the music	years before

	Em	C
But the	man there said the	music

	D
Wouldn’t	play

	Em	Am
But	in the streets the	children screamed

	Em	Am
The	lovers cried and the	poets dreamed

	C	G	Am
But	not a	word was	spoken

	C	D
The	church bells all were	broken

	G	D	Em
And the	three men	I ad	mire most

	Am7	C	D7
The	Father,	Son, and the	Holy Ghost

G	D	Em
They caught the	last train	for the coast

	Am7	D7	G
The	day the	music	died

D7

And they were singin’

G	C	G	D
Bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	C	D7	G	C	G
Singin’	this’ll be the	day that I	die

Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (1968)

Originally in E, I play in E capo 2

Highest note is the 7 of the first key (“was the son of a preacher man” in the last chorus)

Intro, with a decent amount of 7

E

	E
B	illy Ray was a preacher’s son

	A	E
And when his d	addy would visit he’d c	ome along

When they’d gather ‘round and started talking

B7

That’s when Billy would take me walking

A-through the back yard we’d go walking
Then he'd look into my eyes
Lord knows to my surprise

	E
The o	nly one who could ever reach me

A	E
Was the son of a p	reacher man

	E
The o	nly boy who could ever teach me

A	E
Was the son of a pr	eacher man

	E	B	A
Yes he	was, he w	as,	mmm, yes he was

E

	E
B	eing good isn’t always easy

A	E
No matter how h	ard I’d try

When he started sweet-talkin' to me

B7

He’d come and tell me everything is alright

He’d kiss and tell me everything is alright
Can I get away again tonight

	E
The o	nly one who could ever reach me

A	E
Was the son of a p	reacher man

	E
The o	nly boy who could ever teach me

A	E
Was the son of a pr	eacher man

	E	B	A
Yes he	was, he w	as,	mmm, he was

	D
(Oooh, yes, he w	as)

Bridge, vox on the 5 on “how well”

D

How well I remember

A

The look was in his eyes, stealin’ kisses from me on the sly

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “takin’ time to make time”

B7

Takin’ time to make time

Tellin’ me that he’s all mine

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “learning from each other’s”

E

Learnin’ from each other’s knowin’

Lookin’ to see how much we’ve grown and

Key change

	A
The o	nly one who could ever reach me

D	A
Was the son of a p	reacher man

	A
The o	nly boy who could ever teach me

D	A
Was the son of a pr	eacher man

	A	E	D
Yes he	was, he w	as,	oh yes he was

	A
The o	nly one who could ever reach me

	D	A
It was the s	weet-talkin’ son of a p	reacher man

	A
The o	nly boy who could ever teach me

D	A
Was the son of a pr	eacher man

	A
The o	nly one who could ever move me

D	A
Was the sweet-talkin’ son of a p	reacher man

	A
The o	nly one who could ever fool me

D	A
Was the son of a p	reacher man

Elton John - Crocodile Rock (1973)

Intro, II7b9 can be bIIIdim

Originally in G, I play in E

In E, play the D#7b9 in the intro as x1202x

E/B	A/C#	D#7b9

E	E	C#m	C#m	A	A	B	B

	E
I rem	ember when rock was young

	G#m
Me and	Susie had so much fun

	A
Holding	hands and skimmin’ stones

	B
Had a	old gold Chevy and a place of my own

	E
But the	biggest kick I ever got

	G#m
Was doin’ a	thing called the Crocodile Rock

	A
While the	other kids were rockin’ ‘round the clock

	B
We were	hoppin’ and boppin’ to the Crocodile Rock, well

C#m

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

F#7

Feet just can’t keep still

B7	E
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

C#

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

F#7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

B7	A
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

E

La, la la la la

C#m

La, la la la la

A

La, la la la la

B

La

	E
But the	years went by and rock just died

G#m

Susie went and left me for some foreign guy

A

Long nights cryin’ by the record machine

B

Dreamin’ of my Chevy and my old blue jeans

	E
But they’ll	never kill the thrills we’ve got

	G#m
Burnin’	up to the Crocodile Rock

	A
Learning	fast as the weeks went past

	B
We really	thought the Crocodile Rock would last, well

C#m

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

F#7

Feet just can’t keep still

B7	E
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

C#

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

F#7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

B7	A
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

E

La, la la la la

C#m

La, la la la la

A

La, la la la la

B

La

With harmony

	E
I rem	ember when rock was young

	G#m
Me and	Susie had so much fun

	A
Holding	hands and skimmin’ stones

	B
Had a	old gold Chevy and a place of my own

	E
But the	biggest kick I ever got

	G#m
Was doin’ a	thing called the Crocodile Rock

	A
While the	other kids were rockin’ ‘round the clock

	B
We were	hoppin’ and boppin’ to the Crocodile Rock, well

C#m

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

F#7

Feet just can’t keep still

B7	E
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

C#

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

F#7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

B7	A
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

E

La, la la la la

C#m

La, la la la la

A

La, la la la la

B

La

Fade

Elton John - Daniel (1973)

Play as punk-y straight-8ths

C	F	G7	C

	C	Dm7
Daniel	is traveling tonight on a	plane

G	E7	Am
I can see the red tail lights	heading for Spa	in oh and

F	G	Am
I can see	Daniel waving good	bye

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

	C	Dm7
They	say Spain is pretty though I’ve	never been

G	E7	Am
Well Daniel says it’s the best place he’s e	ver se	en oh and

F	G	Am
He shold kno	w he’s been there en	ough

	F	G	G7	C
Lord	I miss Daniel,	oh I	miss him so	much

F	C
Daniel my brother you are	older than me

	F	C
Do you still	feel the pain of the	scars that won’t heal

	Am	F
Your eyes have	died but you see more than	I

Fm	C	A7	Dm7	G
Daniel you’re a	star	in the face of the	sky

	C	Dm7
Daniel	is traveling tonight on a	plane

G	E7	Am
I can see the red tail lights	heading for Spa	in oh and

F	G	Am
I can see	Daniel waving good	bye

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

F	C
Daniel my brother you are	older than me

	F	C
Do you still	feel the pain of the	scars that won’t heal

	Am	F
Your eyes have	died but you see more than	I

Fm	C	A7	Dm7	G
Daniel you’re a	star	in the face of the	sky

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

Outro

	C	F	G7	C
Mmmmm...

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

Originally in F, I play in D

Intro

D	A/C#	Bm	Bm/A	G	G/A	A	D
					→

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “when”

Em	G	A	A/C#
When are you g	onna come	down

D	D/F#	G
When are you go	ing to	land

Vox on the same note again, now the 3 of the chord

	C	C/G	A
I	should have s	tayed on th	e farm, should have

D

Listened to my old man

	Em	G	A	A/C#
You	know you can’t h	old me for	ever

	D	D/F#	G
I	didn’t sign u	p with	you

	C	C/G	A
I’m	not a pr	esent for your	friends to open

	D
This	boy’s too young to be singing

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “blues”

	Gm7	Gm7/D	C	C/E
The	bl	ue	s

F	F/A	A#	A#/A
Ahh,		ahh

Gm7	Gm7/D	A
Ahh,		ahh

	D	F#7
So	goodbye yellow brick	road

	G	D
Where the	dogs of society	howl

	B7	Em
You	can’t plant me in your	penthouse

	A	D	D/F#
I’m	going back to my	plow

Bm	F#
Back to the howling old	owl in the woods

G	A#
Hunting the horny back	toad

A#	C	D	A/C#	Bm	Bm/A
Oh	I’ve	finally de	cided my	future li	es

	G	G/A	A
Bey	ond	the y	ellow brick

Gm7	Gm7/D	C	C/E
Roa	ooo	oad

F	F/A	A#	A#/A
Ahh,		ahh

Gm7	Gm7/D	A
Ahh,		ahh

D

Em	G	A	A/C#
What do you th	ink you’ll	do then?

	D	D/F#	G
I	bet they’ll shoot d	own the pl	ane

	C	C/G	A
It’ll	take you a c	ouple of	vodka and tonics

	D
To	set you on your feet again

Em	G	A	A/C#
Maybe you’ll g	et a re	placement

	D	D/F#	G	G/D
There’s	plenty like m	e to be	found

C	C/G	A	A/C#
Mongrels	who	ain’t got a p	enny

D

Sniffing for tidbits like you

	Gm7	Gm7/D	C	C/E
On the	grou	ou	ound

F	F/A	A#	A#/A
Ahh,		ahh

Gm7	Gm7/D	A
Ahh,		ahh

	D	F#7
So	goodbye yellow brick	road

	G	D
Where the	dogs of society	howl

	B7	Em
You	can’t plant me in your	penthouse

	A	D	D/F#
I’m	going back to my	plow

Bm	F#
Back to the howling old	owl in the woods

G	A#
Hunting the horny back	toad

A#	C	D	A/C#	Bm	Bm/A
Oh	I’ve	finally de	cided my	future li	es

	G	G/A	A
Bey	ond	the y	ellow brick

Gm7	Gm7/D	C	C/E
Roa	ooo	oad

F	F/A	A#	A#/A
Ahh,		ahh

Gm7	Gm7/D	A
Ahh,		ahh

D

Elton John - Love Lies Bleeding (1973)

Originally in A, I play in D capo 4

Highest note that matters is the vi (“love lies bleeding”

On the passing Bb (in D), don’t try to hit the whole

chord, just play it as an octave.

D	F	C	A#	C
			→	x 2

	D
The	roses in the window box

	A
Have tilted	to one side

D/F#	G
Everything a	bout this house

	Em
Was born to	grow and die

	D	D/F#	Em	G
Oh it	doesn’t seem a year a	go to this very	day

	D
You said I’m	sorry honey

	A
If I	don’t change the pace

	G	G	A
I	can’t face another	day

Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
And love lies	bleeding in my	hand

	Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
Oh it	kills me to think of	you with another	man

	D	Em7
I was	playing rock and roll and you were	just a fan

	F#m7
But my	guitar couldn’t hold you

	G	Dm
So I	split the baaaa-a-ha-	a-nd

Bm	A	D
Love lies	bleeding in my	hands

D	F	C	A#	C
			→	x 2

	D
I	wonder if those changes

	A
Have left a	scar on you

	D/F#	G
Like	all the burning	hoops of fire

	Em	E7
That you and	I passed through

	D	F#m
You’re a	bluebird on a telegraph	line

	Em	G
I hope you’re happy	now

	D	A
Well if the	wind of change come a’	down your way girl

	G	G	A
You’ll	make it back some	how

Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
And love lies	bleeding in my	hand

	Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
Oh it	kills me to think of	you with another	man

	D	Em7
I was	playing rock and roll and you were	just a fan

	F#m7
But my	guitar couldn’t hold you

	G	Dm
So I	split the baaaa-a-ha-	a-nd

Bm	A	D
Love lies	bleeding in my	hands

Let the IV ring

D	Gsus2

Slow

Bm	A	D
Love lies	bleeding in my	hands

Elton John - Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting (1973)

C/G	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
Bb/F	F	Bb/F	F	Bb/F	F
C/G	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
Bb/F	F	Bb/F	F	Bb/F	F

Vox mostly on the 4

	G
It’s	getting late have you seen my mates

	F
Ma	tell me when the boys get here

	C
It’s	seven o’clock and I want to rock

	G
Want to	get a belly full of beer

	G
My	old man’s drunker than a barrel full of monkeys

	F
And my	old lady she don’t care

	C
My	sister looks cute in her braces and boots

	G
A	handful of grease in her hair

This D5 is really hiding a Dm

D5

Vox up to the 4 of the chord

C

Don’t give us none of your aggravation

	Bb
We	had it with your discipline

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s alright for fighting

C

Get a little action in

C

Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Bb

Gonna set this dance alight

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s the night I like

C

Saturday night’s alright

	G	Eb	Dm7	C
Alright al	right,	oooh	oooh	oooh

Original really does G Dm G here, I prefer to repeat

one pass on the intro

C/G	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
Bb/F	F	Bb/F	F	Bb/F	F

	G
Well they’re	packed pretty tight in here tonight

	F
I’m	looking for a dolly who’ll see me right

	C
I may	use a little muscle to get what I need

	G
I may	sink a little drink and shout out “She’s with me!”

	G
A	couple of the sounds that I really like

	F
Are the	sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike

	C
I’m a	juvenile product of the working class

	G
Whose	best friend floats in the bottom of a glass

D5

Ooooh

C

Don’t give us none of your aggravation

	Bb
We	had it with your discipline

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s alright for fighting

C

Get a little action in

C

Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Bb

Gonna set this dance alight

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s the night I like

C

Saturday night’s alright

	G	Eb	Dm7	C
Alright al	right,	oooh	oooh	oooh

Instrumental on chorus chords with suspensions

C	Bb	F	C

D5

Ooooh

C

Don’t give us none of your aggravation

	Bb
We	had it with your discipline

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s alright for fighting

C

Get a little action in

C

Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Bb

Gonna set this dance alight

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s the night I like

C

Saturday night’s alright

	G	Eb	Dm7	C
Alright al	right,	oooh	oooh	oooh

C	Bb	F	C

C

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Bb

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

F

Saturday, Saturday

	C
Saturday	night’s alright

Repeat to fade

Elton John - Your Song (1970)

Originally in Eb, I play it in E, with lots of open strings.

C#m/B as 7x6650

C#m/A# as 6x6650

E	A/E	B/E	A/E

E	Amaj7	B/D#	G#m
It’s a little bit fun	ny,	this feeling in	side

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
I’m no	t one of those	who can	easily	hide

	E	B	G#	C#m
I don’	t have much	money, but	boy if I	did

E	F#m7	A	B
I’d buy a big	house where	we both could	live

E	Amaj7	B	G#m
If I was a sc	ulptor,	but then again	no

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
Or a m	an who makes	potions in a	travelling	show

E	B	G#	C#m
I know it’s not	much but it’s the	best I can	do

E	F#m7	A	E
My gift is my	song, and	this one’s for	you

B	C#m	F#m7	A
And you can tell	everybody	this is your	song

B	C#m	F#m7	A
It may be	quite simple but	now that it’s	done

C#m	C#m7/B
I hope you don’t mind,	I hope you don’t mind

C#m/A#	A
That I put down in the	words

	E	F#m7	A	B
How won	derful	life is while	you’re in the	world

E	A/E	B/E	A/E

	E	Amaj7	B/D#	G#m
I sat	on the	roof	and kicked off the	moss

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
Well a	few of the	verses, well, they’ve	got me quite	crossed

E	B	G#	C#m
But the sun’s been quite	kind,	while I wrote this	song

E	F#m7	A	B
It’s for people like	you that they	keep it	turned on

E	Amaj7	B	G#m
So excuse me forget	ting	but	these things I do

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
You se	e I’ve f	orgotten if they’re	green or they’re	blue

E	B	G#	C#m
Anyway,	the thing is, what I really	mean

E	F#m7	A	E
Yours are the	sweetest eyes	I’ve ever seen

B	C#m	F#m7	A
And you can tell	everybody	this is your	song

B	C#m	F#m7	A
It may be	quite simple but	now that it’s	done

C#m	C#m7/B
I hope you don’t mind,	I hope you don’t mind

C#m/A#	A
That I put down in the	words

	E	F#m7	A	B
How won	derful	life is while	you’re in the	world

C#m	C#m7/B
I hope you don’t mind,	I hope you don’t mind

C#m/A#	A
That I put down in the	words

	E	F#m7	A	E
How won	derful	life is while	you’re in the	world

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (1969)

Originally in G, I play in E

E	A/E	E	A/E

E	A
We’re caught in a trap,	I can’t walk out

B	A	E
Because I lo	ve you too much	baby

E	A
Why can’t you see	what you’re doing to me?

B	A	B	A	G#m	B7
When you don’t believ	e a word I	say?

A	E	G#m	A	B
We can’t go on	together	with suspicious mi	nds

C#m	G#m	A	B	B7
And we can’t buil	d our dreams	on suspicious	minds

E	A
So if an old friend I know	drops by to say hello

B	A	E
Would I still se	e suspicion	in your eyes?

E	A
Here we go again	asking where I’ve been

B	A	B	A	G#m	B7
You can see the tear	s are real I’m c	rying

A	E	G#m	A	B
We can’t go on	together	with suspicious mi	nds

C#m	G#m	A	G#7sus4	G#7
And we can’t buil	d our dreams	on suspicious minds

Bridge, switch to 6/8

C#m	G#m
Oh, let our	love survive

A	B
I’ll dry the	tears from your eyes

C#m	G#m
Let’s don’t let a	good thing die

A	B
When honey you	know I’ve never

E	A
Lied to you,	mmm

E	B7
Yeah	yeah

E	A
We’re caught in a trap,	I can’t walk out

B	A	E
Because I l	ove you too much	baby

E	A
Why can’t you see	what you’re doing to me?

B	A	E
When you don’t believ	e a word I	say?

Don't you know I'm

E	A
Caught in a trap,	I can’t walk out

B	A	E
Because I lo	ve you too much	baby

Don't you know I'm

E	A
Caught in a trap,	I can’t walk out

B	A	E
Because I lo	ve you too much	baby

Repeat and fade, then unfade, which I think is silly.

Eric Clapton - After Midnight (1970)

Originally in C, I play in A

Let ring

D

Intro

A	D	C	G
	→	→	x4

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gonna	let it all hang down

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gonna	chug-a-lug and shout

	A
We gon’ s	timulate some action

D

We gon’ get some satisfaction

D	E
We gonna find out what it is all ab	out, wooo

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gonna	let it all hang down

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gon’	shake your tambourine

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	it’s all gon’	be peaches and cream

	A
We goonna	cause talk and suspicion

D

We gon’ give an exhibition

D	E
We gon’ find out what it is all ab	out

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gon’	let it all hang down

Solo on verse and chorus chords

A	C	D	A
	→		x2

A	D	D	E

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gon’	let it all hang down

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gon’	shake your tambourine

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	it’s all gon’	be peaches and cream

	A
We gonna	cause talk and suspicion

D

We gon’ give an exhibition

D	E
We gon’ find out what it is all ab	out, wooo

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gonna	let it all hang down

A	C	D	A
After midnight,	we gonna	let it all hang down

Faces - Stay With Me (1971)

Originally in A, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A	B	D	A

	A
In the m	orning

	B
Don’t say you l	ove me

	D	A
Cause I’ll	only kick you out of the d	oor

	A
I k	now your name is Rita

	B
Cause your p	erfume’s smelling sweeter

	D	A
Since w	hen I saw you down on the fl	oor

A	B	D	A

	A
You won’t n	eed too much persuading

	B
I don’t m	ean to sound degrading

	D
But with a f	ace like that

	A
You got nothing to laugh ab	out

	A
Red l	ips, hair, and fingernails

	B
I h	ear you’re a mean old Jezebel

	D	A
Lets	go up stairs and read my tarot ca	rds

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
For ton	ight you better stay with	me

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
For ton	ight you better stay with	me

A	B	D	A

	A
So in the m	orning

	B
Please don’t say you l	ove me

	D	A
Cause you k	now I’ll only kick you out the d	oor

	A
Y	ea, I’ll pay your cab fare home

	B
You can	even use my best cologne

	D	A
Just d	on’t be here in the morning when I wake	up

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
Cause ton	ight you’re gonna stay with	me

Sit down, get up, get out

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
Cause ton	ight you’re gonna stay with	me

A

B

D

A

Five Man Electrical Band - Signs (1971)

Originally in D, I play in A

A	A	D/A	A
		→

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said,	long-haired, freaky people	need not ap	ply

	A	E	D	E
So	I tucked my hair up	under my hat and I	went in to ask him	why

F#m	D
He said you look like a fine, upstanding young	man, I think you’ll do

	A	E	D	E
So, I	took off my hat and said, im	agine that, huh,	me workin’ for	you, whoa

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

A

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said anybody	caught trespassing	would be shot on	sight

	A	E	D	E
So, I	jumped on the fence and I	yelled at the house, hey,	what gives you the	right

	F#m	D
To	put up a fence to keep me out or to	keep mother nature in

	A	E	D	E
If	God was here, he’d	tell you to your face,	man, you’re some kinda	sinner

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

A	A	D/A	A
		→

	E
Now,	hey you, mister, can’t you read?

	D	A
You’ve	got to have a shirt and	tie to get a seat

	E
You can’t even watch, no,	you can’t eat

D	A	A
You ain’t supposed to	be	here

Let ring

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said, you	got to have a membership	card to get ins	ide, huh

Solo on chorus chords, or just...

A	A	D/A	A
		→

Let ring

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said	everybody welcome, come	in, kneel down and	pray

	A	E
But when they	passed around the plate at the	end of it all

	D	E
I	didn’t have a penny to	pay

	F#m	D
So I	got me a pen and a paper and I	made up my own little sign

	A	E	D	E
I said	thank you, lord, for	thinkin’ ‘bout me, I’m	alive and doin’	fine

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (1975)

Originally in Eb, I play in C capo 2 and avoid a few of the high bits

C	G/B	Am7	G/B
C	G/B	Am7	G/B

C	G/B	Am7	G/B
I took my	love and I took it	down

C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Climbed a	mountain and I turned a	round

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
And I	saw my re	flection in the	snow-covered	hills

	C	G/B	Am7	Am7
Till the	landslide	brought me	down

G/B	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Oh,	mirror in the	sky what is	love

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Can the	child within my	heart rise a	bove

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Can I	sail through the	changing	ocean ti	des

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Can I	handle the	seasons	of my	life

C	G/B	Am7	G/B
C	G/B	Am7	D/F#
M	mm

	G	D/F#	Em
Well,	I’ve been a	fraid of	changing cause I

C	G/B	Am	D/F#
Built my	life around	you

	G	D/F#	Em
But	time makes you	bolder, even	children get older

	C	G/B	Am7	Am7	G/B
And	I’m getting	older	too	→

Solo

C	G/B	Am7	G/B
C	G/B	Am7	G/B
C	G/B	Am7	G/B
C	G/B	Am7	D/F#

	G	D/F#	Em
Well,	I’ve been	’fraid of	changing cause I

Not a typo, the vi is held a longer before going to the II at the end of the line than it was in the first chorus

C	G/B	Am	Am	D/F#
Built my	life around	you	→

	G	D/F#	Em
But	time makes you	bolder, even	children get older

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
And	I’m getting	older	too

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Oh,	I’m getting	older	too

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Ah,	ah, take my	love, take it	down

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Ah,	ah, climb a	mountain and turn ar	ound

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
And if you	see my refl	ection in the	snow-covered	hills

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
Will the	landslide	bring you	down?

Hanging stop on “hills”

	C	G/B	Am7	G/B
And if you	see my re	flection in the	snow-covered	hills

	C	G/B	Am7
Will the	landslide	bring you	down?

	G/B	C	G/B	Am7
O	h, oh, the	landslide	bring you d	own

Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (1967)

Originally in E (or F), I play in D

E/D	Em/D	D
		x2

	D
You’re just too	good to be true

	Dmaj7
Can’t take my	eyes off you

	D7
You’d be like	heaven to touch

	G
I wanna	hold you so much

	Gm
At long last	love has arrived

	D
And I thank	God I’m alive

	E/D	Em/D
You’re just too	good to be true

	D
Can’t take my	eyes off you

	D
Pardon the	way that I stare

	Dmaj7
There’s nothing	else to compare

	D7
The sight of	you leaves me weak

	G
There are no	words left to speak

	Gm
But if you	feel like I feel

	D
Please let me	know that it’s real

	E/D	Em/D
You’re just too	good to be true

	D
Can’t take my	eyes off of you

Vox on b5 5 of the chord on the first “daa da”

Em	A7
Daa da daa da	daa da da da da

D

Daa da daa da daa da da da da

Em	A7
Daa da daa da	daa da da da da

D	B7#9
Daa da daa da	daa

	Em	A7
I love you	baby, and if it’s	quite alright

	F#m7	Bm7
I need you	baby, to warm the	lonely nights

	Em	A7	D	B7
I love you	baby,	trust in me when I	say

	Em	A7
Oh pretty	baby, don’t bring me d	own I pray

	F#m7	Bm7
Oh pretty	baby, now that I’ve	found you stay

	Em	C7
And let me	love you, baby let me	love you

	F
You’re just too	good to be true

	Fmaj7
Can’t take my	eyes off you

	F7
You’d be like	heaven to touch

	A#
I wanna	hold you so much

	A#m
At long last	love has arrived

	F
And I thank	God I’m alive

	G/F	Gm/F
You’re just too	good to be true

	F
Can’t take my	eyes off you

Bridge

Em	A7
Daa da daa da	daa da da da da

D	B7#9
Daa da daa da	daa

	Em	A7
I love you	baby, and if it’s	quite alright

	F#m7	Bm7
I need you	baby, to warm the	lonely nights

	Em	A7	D	B7
I love you	baby,	trust in me when I	say

	Em	A7
Oh pretty	baby, don’t bring me	down I pray

	F#m7	Bm7
Oh pretty	baby, now that I’ve	found you stay

	Em	A7	D	B7
Oh pretty	baby,	trust in me when I	say

	Em	A7
I need you	baby, oh when you	come my way

	F#m7	Bm7
Oh pretty	baby, now that I’ve	found you stay

	Em	C7
And let me	love you, baby, let me	love you

Frankie Valli - Working My Way Back (1966)

Originally in G, I play in D

Intro

D7

Am7	D
Working my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
With a b	urn	in’ l	ove	insi	de

	Am7	D
Yeah, I’m w	orkin’ my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
And the h	app	in	ess	that	died

	A7	D
I l	et it get a	way

Been payin’ every day

	D	A/C#
W	hen you were so in	love with me

G	A
I played around like	I was free

D	A/C#
Thought I could have my cake	and eat it too

G	A
But how I cried over l	osing you

Vox up to the maj7 of the chord, falsetto in the original key,

right on the line in D.

	G	Gm
See me c	ryin’ now, but	I ain’t about to go

	D	Ddim
L	ivin’ my life without	you

	D	G	D	G	D	G	D	G
For	eve	ry d	ay	I mad	e you	cry

	D	G	D	G	D	G	D	G
I’m	pay	in’, g	irl, ‘t	il the	day	I die

	Am7	D
I keep	working my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
With a b	urn	in’ l	ove	insi	de

	Am7	D
I’m w	orkin’ my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
And the h	app	in	ess	that	died

	A7	D
I l	et it get a	way

Been payin’ every day

D	A/C#
I used to love to m	ake you cry

	G	A
It	made me feel like a	man inside

D	A/C#
But if I’d been a man i	n reality

G	A
You’d still be here babe	lovin’ me

	G	Gm
Now the	nights are long and	lonely

	D	Ddim
And I ain’t too	strong, babe I just miss you	so

	D	G	D	G	D	G	D	G
And	you’re	too	proud	and	won’t	give	in

	D	G	D	G	D	G	D	G
But	when I	th	ink abo	ut	all I	could	win

	Am7	D
I keep	working my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
With a b	urn	in’ l	ove	insi	de

	Am7	D
I’m w	orkin’ my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
And the h	app	in	ess	that	died

	A7	D
I l	et it get a	way

Been payin’ every day

Original changes key before fade, I skip it

	Am7	D
I keep	working my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
With a b	urn	in’ l	ove	insi	de

	Am7	D
I’m w	orkin’ my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
And the h	app	in	ess	that	died no matter how I cried I’m

Am7	D
Working my way back to y	ou babe

	G	C	G	D/F#	Em
With a b	urn	in’ l	ove	insi	de

Free - All Right Now (1970)

A	A	D/A	A	D/A	D/A	D/A	A
							x2

	A	D/A	A
There she s	tood in t	he s	treet

D/A	A
Smiling from her head to her f	eet

	A	D/A	A
I said he	y, what i	s t	his, now baby maybe

	D/A	A
May	be she’s in need of a k	iss

Realistically I’m going to skip all the places where the vox jump up

	A	D/A	A
I said he	y what’s y	our name	baby?

D/A	A
Maybe we can see things the	same

	D/A	A
Now don’t you wait o	r hesitat	e

	D/A	A
Let’s mo	ve before they raise the parking r	ate, ow

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now baby it’s	all right	now

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now baby it’s	all right	now

A	A	D/A	A	D/A	D/A	D/A	A
							x1

	A	D/A	A
I took her	home to	my	place

D/A	A
Watching every move on her f	ace

	A	D/A	A
She said	look what’s y	our g	ame baby?

	D/A	A
A	re you tryin’ to put me in	shame?

	A	D/A	A
I said	slow don’t go	so	fast

D/A	A
Don’t you think that love can	last?

	D/A	A
She said love	lord a	bove

D/A	A
Now you’re tryin’ to trick me in lo	ve

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now baby it’s	all right	now

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now baby it’s	all right	now

Long solos, repeat second verse with more “baby”, shout a lot

Hall and Oates - She’s Gone (1973)

I play all the Bsus4’s as A/B @ fret 2, except the “what will be”

Bsus4	B
	x2

Bsus4	B
Everybody’s high on conso	lation

Bsus4	B
Everybody’s trying to tell me what is	right for me

Bsus4	B
My daddy tried to bore me with a	sermon

On “plain to see”, I go *down* on 6 5 4 of the key

	G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
But it’s	plain to	see that they can’t	comfort	me

Bsus4	B
Sorry Charlie for the impos	ition

Bsus4	B
I think I’ve got it got it, got the strength to	carry on

Bsus4	B
I need a drink and a quick de	cision

	G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
Now it’s	up to	me, ooh	what will	be

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

	A	G#m
She’s	gone oh	I what went wrong

Bsus4	B
	x2

Bsus4	B
Get up in the morning look in the	mirror

Bsus4	B
I’m worn as her tooth brush hanging	in the stand

Bsus4	B
My face ain’t looking any	younger

	G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
Now	I can	see love’s taken her	toll on	me

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

	A	G#m
She’s	gone oh	I what went wrong

Bsus4	B
	x2

Bsus4	B
Think I’ll spend eternity in the	city

Bsus4	B
Let the carbon and monoxide choke my	thoughts away

Bsus4	B
And pretty bodies help dissolve the	memories

G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
But they can never	be what she	was to	me

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

	A	G#m	F#m7
She’s	gone oh	I what went	wrong

I stop here, the original goes to C,C#,D, and repeats the chorus in C

Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle (1974)

Originally in A capo 8 (F), I play in A capo 6

Intro, a chord approximation of the riff

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A

	A	C
My	child arrived just the	other day

	D	A
He	came to the world in the	usual way

	A	C
But there were	planes to catch and	bills to pay

D	A
He learned to walk while I	was away

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
And he was	talkin’ ‘fore I	knew it, and	as he grew

	C	G/B	A
He’d say	I’m gonna	be like	you, Dad

	C	G/B	A
You	know I’m gonna	be like	you

Don’t go up an octave yet

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home Dad?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then

	C	G/B	A
You	know we’ll have a	good time	then

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A

	A	C
My	son turned ten just the	other day

	D	A
He said,	thanks for the ball, Dad, come	on, let’s play

	A
Can you	teach me to throw?

	C	D
I said,	not today, I got a	lot to do

	A
He said,	that’s okay

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
And he,	he walked a	way, but his	smile never	dimmed

	C	G/B	A
It said,	I’m gonna	be like	him, yeah

	C	G/B	A
You	know I’m gonna	be like	him

OK, now go up an octave, you know you want to

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home Dad?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then

	C	G/B	A
You	know we’ll have a	good time	then

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A

	A	C
Well, he	came from college just the	other day

	D	A
So	much like a man I just	had to say

	A	C
Son, I’m	proud of you, can you	sit for a while?

	D	A
He	shook his head and he	said with a smile

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
What I’d	really like,	Dad, is to	borrow the ca	r keys

C	G/B	A
See you	later, can I	have them please?

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home son?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then	, Dad

	C	G/B	A
You	know we’ll have a	good time	then

F	G	Em	A
	→

F	G	Em	A
	→

Slow, let ring

	A	C
I’ve	long since retired, my	son’s moved away

Two extra beats after this line

D	A
I called him up just the	other day

	A	C
I said, I’d	like to see you if	you don’t mind

	D	A
He said I’d	love to, Dad, if I could	find the time

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
You see my	new job’s a	hassle and the	kids have the f	lu

	C	G/B	A
But it’s	sure nice	talkin’ to	you, Dad

	C	G/B	A
It’s been	sure nice	talkin’ to	you

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
And as I	hung up the	phone it	occured to m	e

	C	G/B	A
He’d	grown up	just like	me

	C	G/B	A
My	boy was	just like	me

Back to tempo

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home son?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then	, Dad

	C	G/B	A
We’re	gonna have a	good time	then

Asus2

Asus4

Dsus2/A

G/A

A

Jackie DeShannon - Put a Little Love In Your Heart (1969)

Originally in D, I play in G

G

Think of your fellow man, lend him a helping hand

C	G
Put a little love in your	heart

G

You see it’s getting late, oh please don’t hesitate

C	G
Put a little love in your	heart

	G	Am	D
And the	world will be a b	etter	place

	G	Am	D
And the	world will be a b	etter	place

	D
For	you and me, you just wait and see

G

Another day goes by, still the children cry

C	G
Put a little love in your	heart

G

If you want the world to know, we won’t let hatred grow

C	G
Put a little love in your	heart

	G	Am	D
And the	world will be a b	etter	place

	G	Am	D
Ah the	world will be a b	etter	place

	D
For	you and me, you just wait and see

	D#
Wait and	see...

G#

Take a good look around, and if you’re looking down

C#	G#
Put a little love in your	heart

G#

I hope when you decide kindness will be your guide

C#	G#
Put a little love in your	heart

	G#	A#m	D#
And the	world will be a b	etter	place

	G#	A#m	D#
And the	world will be a b	etter	place

	D#
For	you and me, you just wait and see, people now

C#	G#
Put a little love in your	heart

C#	G#
Put a little love in your	heart

Repeat to fade

James Taylor - You’ve Got a Friend (1971)

Originally in A as G capo 2, I play in G capo 2

G	G/C	G	F#m	B7
			→

	Em	B7	Em	B7	Em7
When you’re d	own and	troubled and you	need a	helping	hand

	Am7	D7sus4	G	Gsus4	G
And	nothing, oh,	nothing is going	right

B7/F#	B7	Em	B7	Em	Em7
Close your	eyes and think of me and	soon I	will be	there

	Am7	Bm7	D7sus4	D7
To	brighten up	even your darkest night

	G	Gmaj7	C	Am7
You just	call out my	name, and you	know wherever I	am

	G	Gmaj7	D7sus4	D7
I’ll come	running, oh yeah baby	, to see you a	gain

G	Gmaj7	C	Em
Winter, spring, summer, or	fall,	all you got to do is	call

	C	Bm7	Am7	D7sus4
And I’ll	be there,	yeah yeah yeah	→

	G
You’ve got a f	riend

G	G/C	G	F#m	B7
			→

	Em	B7	Em	B7	Em7
If the	sky a	bove you should turn	dark and	full of clouds

	Am7	D7sus4	G	Gsus4	G
And that	old north	wind should begin to blow

B7/F#	B7	Em	B7	Em7
Keep your head to	gether and	call my	name out	loud

Am7	Bm7	D7sus4	D7
Soon I’ll be	knocking upon your	door

Harmony on the 2 and 7 of the chord

	G	Gmaj7	Cmaj7	Am7
You just	call out my	name, and you	know wherever I	am

	G	D7sus4	D7
I’ll come	running, oh yes I will, to see you	again

G	Gmaj7	C	Em
Winter, spring, summer, or	fall,	all you got to do is	call

	C	Bm7	Am7	D7sus4
And I’ll	be there,	yeah yeah yeah	→

Bridge

	F	C
Hey	ain’t it good to know that	you’ve got a friend when

G

People can be so cold

	C	Fmaj7
They’ll	hurt you and	desert you

	Em	A7
Well they’ll	take your soul if you	let them

	D7sus4	D7
Oh yeah, but	don’t you let them

	G	Gmaj7	Cmaj7	Am7
You just	call out my n	ame, and you	know wherever I	am

	G	D7sus4	D7
I’ll come	running, to see you	again,	oh babe, don’t you know ‘bout

G	Gmaj7	C	Em
Winter, spring, summer, or	fall, hey now,	all you got to do is	call

	C	Bm7	Am7	D7sus4
Lord I’ll	be there,	yes I will

	G	C	G
You’ve got a frien	d,	you’ve got a	friend

C	G
Ain’t it good to know you’ve	got a friend

	C	G
Ain’t it	good to know you’ve got a fr	iend

	C	Gsus4	G
Oh, y	eah, yeah, you’ve got a friend

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee (1971)

Originally in G (and A), I play in C (and D).

Highest note is the 3 after the whole-step key change,

i.e. C# if you start in G, F# if you start in C.

C	F/C	C	F/C	C
			→

Vox on 5 6 5 on “busted flat”

C

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train

Vox *down* to the 5 of the chord on “jeans”

	G7
When I’s feelin’ near as faded as my	jeans

Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained

	C	F/C	C
And rode us all the way into New Or	leans

	C
I	pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana

	C7	F
I’s playin’ soft while B	obby sang the bl	ues

Vox up to the 5 of the chord (1 of the key) on “wind”

F	C
Windshield wipers slappin’ time, I was	holdin’ Bobby’s hand in mine

G7

We sang every song that driver knew

F	C
Freedom’s just another word for	nothin’ left to lose

G7	C
Nothin’, it ain’t nothin’ hon’, if it ain’t fr	ee

	F	C
And	feelin’ good was easy, lord, oh,	when he sang the blues

	G7
You know	feelin’ good was good enough for me

	C
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mc	Gee

D

	D
From the	Kentucky coal mines to the California sun

	A7
Yeah Bobby shared the secrets of m	y soul

Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done

	D
Yeah Bobby baby kept me from the	cold

	D
One	day up near Salinas, lord, I let him slip away

	D7	G
He’s lookin’ for that h	ome and I hope he f	inds it

Vox on the b7 of the chord, more or less

	D
Well I’d trade all my tomorrows for one	single yesterday

	A7
To be	holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine

G	D
Freedom’s just another word for	nothin’ left to lose

A7	D
Nothin’, and that’s all that Bobby left	me

	G	D
Well,	feelin’ good was easy, lo	rd, when he sang the blues

	A7
And	feelin’ good was good enough for me

	D
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mc	Gee

	D
La da	da, la da daa, la da daa da daa da daa

	A7
La da da da daa dadada Bobby Mc	Geeah

Laa li daa da daa daa, la da daa da daa

	D
Laa la laa la daada Bobby Mc	Geeah yeah

	D
La di	da, ladida la dida la di daa, ladida la dida la di daa

	A7
Hey now Bobby now now Bobby Mc	Gee yeah

Lo lo lo lolo lo lo laa, lololo lo lolo lo lolo lo lolo lo la laa

	D
Hey now Bobby no no Bobby McG	ee yeah

	D
Lord, I	called him my lover, I called him my man

I said I called him my lover, did the best I can

	A7
C’mon, hey now Bobby now, hey now Bobby McG	ee, yeah

Lo lo lord, a lord, a lord, a lord, a lord, a lord, a lord oh

	D
Hey, hey, hey, Bobby McG	ee, lord

Solo on I V V I

Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart (1967)

Originally in E, I play in A

Guitar solo, I skip and start with some E before “come on”

Bm	Bm	D	E
F#m	F#m	E	E
G	G	E	E

Vox on 2 1 of the chord on “come on”

	E
Oh	come on, come on, come on, come on

Vox down to the 5, that’s a whole octave jump down

A	D	E	D
Didn’t I make you	feel	like	you were the

A	D	E	D
Only man,			yeah and

A	D	E
Didn’t I give you nearly	everything that a woman	possibly can?

E

Honey you know I did

Vox on the 5 of the chord

F#m

But each time I tell myself that I

E

Well I think I’ve had enough

	G	E
Well	I’m gonna show you baby that a	woman can be tough

I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on, and

Vox stay on the 5

A	D
Take it, take an	other little piece of my

E	D	E
Heart now baby

A	D
Break it, break a	nother little bit of my

E	D	E
Heart now darlin’	yeah yeah	yeah yeah

A	D
Have a, have a	nother little piece of my

Do the descending parts as barre

E	E	D#
Heart now baby

D

Well you know you got it, if it

D	C#m	Bm	A
Makes	you f	eel go	od, oh yes it did

A	D	E	D
	A	D	E	D
You’re	out on the	streets looking	good and baby	deep down in your heart

A	D
I guess you know that it ain’t right

Vox on the 5 of the key

E	D
Never never	never never never never

A	D	E
Hear me when I	cry at	night

	E
Babe and I cry	all the time

F#m	E
But each time I tell myself that I,	well I can’t stand the pain

	G	E
But when you	hold me in your arms, I’m	singin’ once again

Said come on, come on, come on, come on

A	D
Take it, take an	other little piece of my

E	D	E
Heart now baby

A	D
Break it, break a	nother little bit of my

E	D	E
Heart now darlin’	yeah

A	D
Have a, have a	nother little piece of my

E	E	D#
Heart now baby

D

Well you know you got it, child if it

D	C#m	Bm	A
Makes	you f	eel go	od

Guitar solo

Bm	Bm	D	E
Bm	Bm	D	E
Bm	Bm	D	E
Bm	Bm	D	E
F#m	E
G	E

	E
I need you to	come on, come on, come on, come on

A	D
Take it, take an	other little piece of my

E	D	E
Heart now baby

A	D
Break it, break a	nother little bit of my

E	D	E
Heart now darlin’	yeah	come on, now

A	D
Have a, have a	nother little piece of my

E	E	D#
Heart now baby

D

You know you got it, wooow

A	D
Take it, take an	other little piece of my

E	D	E
Heart now baby

A	D
Break it, break a	nother little bit of my

E	D	E
Heart now darlin’	yeah	yeah yeah

A	D
Have a, have a	nother little piece of my

E	E	D#
Heart now baby

D

You know you got it, child if it

D	C#m	Bm	A
Makes	you f	eel go	od

Bm	Bm	D	E
Bm

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (1967)

Originally in F#m, I play in Am capo 3

	Am	D	G	Am
When the t	ruth is found		to b	eeee lies

	Am	D	G	Am
And	all the joy	withi	n yooo	ou dies

	C	G	Am
Don’t you	want som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Don’t you	need som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Wouldn’t you	love some	body to l	ove?

D	G	D	Am
You better	find some	body to	love

Am	D	Am	G	Am	Am

	Am	D	G
When the	garden’s flowers		they

	Am	D	G
Aaaa	re dead,		yes and

	Am	D	G	Am
Y	our mind your mi	nd	is so	full of red

	C	G	Am
Don’t you	want som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Don’t you	need som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Wouldn’t you	love some	body to l	ove?

D	G	D	Am
You better	find some	body to	love

Am	D	G	Am
Your eyes, I	say your	eyes may look like	his

	Am	D
Yeah but	in your head baby

	G	Am
I’m a	fraid you don’t know	where it is

	C	G	Am
Don’t you	want som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Don’t you	need som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Wouldn’t you	love some	body to l	ove?

D	G	D	Am
You better	find some	body to	love

Am	D	Am	G	Am	Am

Am	D	G	Am	D	G
Tears are running		all ‘r	ound and ‘round your breast

	Am	D	G	Am
And	your friends, baby,	they	treat you l	ike a guest

	C	G	Am
Don’t you	want som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Don’t you	need som	ebody to l	ove?

D	C	G	Am
Wouldn’t you	love some	body to l	ove?

D	G	D	Am
You better	find some	body to	love

Outro is vaguely...

Am

D

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (1967)

Originally in F#, I play in A

Highest note is the 4 (“feed your head”)

Intro

A	A#
	x 3

Vox on the 5

A

One pill makes you larger and

A#

One pill makes you small

	A
And the	ones that mother gives you don’t

	A#
Do	anything at all

	C	D#	F	C
Go ask	Alice	when she’s	ten feet	tall

	A
And if y	ou go chasing rabbits

	A#
And you	know you’re going to fall

	A
Tell ‘em a	hookah-smoking caterpillar has

A#

Given you the call

	C	D#	F	C
Call	Alice	when s	he was just	small

Vox on the 1 of the chord

G

When the men on the chessboard get up

	C
And t	ell you where to go

	G
And you	just had some kind of mushroom

	C
And your	mind is moving on

Vox up to the 1 now

	A	A
Go ask	Alice, I think she’ll	know

	A	A#
When l	ogic and proportion have	fallen sloppy dead

	A
And the	white knight is talking backwards

	A#
And the red	queen’s off with her head

	C	D#	F	C
Rem	ember	what the	dormouse	said

G	C
Feed your	head

G	C
Feed your	head

C

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown (1973)

Originally in G, I play in G capo 2

Intro, with 6ths

G	D7

Vox on the 3 on “south”

	G
Well, the south	side of Chicago

	A7
Is the ba	ddest part of town

	B7
And if you	go down there

	C	D7	C	G	D7
You better	just beware of a	man name of	Leroy	Brown

	G
Now,	Leroy more than trouble

	A7
You see he	stand about six foot four

	B7	C
All the d	owntown ladies call him treetop l	over

	D7	C	G	D7
All the	men just	call him	sir

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Now,	Leroy, he a gambler

	A7
And he	like his fancy clothes

	B7	C
And he	like to wave his	diamond rings

	D7	C	G	D7
In front of	every	body’s	nose

	G
He got a	custom Continental

	A7
He got an	El Dorado too

	B7	C
He got a	thirty-two gun in his	pocket for fun

	D7	C	G	D7
He got a	razor	in his	shoe

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Well,	Friday ‘bout a week ago

A7

Leroy shootin’ dice

	B7	C
And at the	edge of the bar sat a	girl name of Doris

	D7	C	G	D7
And	oh, that	girl look	nice

	G
Well, he	cast his eyes upon her

	A7
And the	trouble soon began

	B7	C
And	Leroy Brown, he learned a	lesson ‘bout messin’

	D7	C	G	D7
With the	wife of a	jealous	man

I usually skip this chorus... we get it, he’s bad.

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

Quiet, let ring

	G
Well, the	two men took to fightin’

	A7
And when they	pulled them from the floor

B7	C
Leroy looked like a	jigsaw puzzle

	D7	C	G	D7
With a	couple of	pieces	gone

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Yeah he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	B7	C
Yes, you were	badder than old King	Kong

	D7	C	G
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

Jim Croce - I’ll Have To Say I Love You In a Song (1974)

Amaj7	C#m	Bm	Dm	E7
			→	x 2

	Amaj7	C#m
Well, I	know it’s kind of	late

	Bm	E
I	hope I didn’t	wake you

	Amaj7	C#m
But what I	got to say can’t	wait

	Bm	E
I	knew you’d under	stand

D	G#7
Every time I	tried to tell you

	C#7	F#m	D
The	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So, I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

	Amaj7	C#m
Yeah I k	now it’s kind of	strange

	Bm	E
But	every time I’m	near you

	Amaj7	C#m
I just	run out of things to	say

	Bm	E
I	knew you’d under	stand

D	G#7
And every time I	tried to tell you

	C#7	F#m	D
The	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So, I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

Solo on verse chords

D	G#7
Every time the	time was right

	C#7	F#m	D
All the	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

	Amaj7	C#m
Yeah, I	know it’s kind of	late

	Bm	E
I	hope I didn’t	wake you

	Amaj7	C#m
But there’s	something that I just got to	say

	Bm	E
I	knew you’d under	stand

D	G#7
Every time I	tried to tell you

	C#7	F#m	D
The	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So, I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

Amaj7	C#m	Bm	Dm	E7
			→

Amaj7

Jim Croce - Operator (1972)

Intro

G	Bm	Am	C	G/B	Am	D7	G
			→	→	→	→	x2

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	C	G/B	Am	G
Opera	tor oh could you	help	me p	lace this call	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
See the number on the mat	chbook is old and f	aded	→	→	→

Not a typo; this time the pattern resolves to the I on “friend”, the first time it didn’t

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
She’s living in L.A.	with my bes	t old		ex-fri	end Ray	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
A guy she said she	knew well and sometimes hat	ed	→	→	→

G	C/G	G
Isn’t that the way	they say it goes

	C	D
But let’s for	get all	that

	G	Am
And	give me the number if	you can find it

	C	D	Em	Bm	D	Am
So	I	can	call just to	tell ‘em I’m	fine and to s	how

D7	C	G/B
I’ve overcome the blow,	I’ve learned to take it well

	Am	C
I only wish my words	could just convince myself

Hang on “that’s”

	D	C
That it just wasn’t rea	l, but th	at’s not the way it feels

G	Bm	Am	C	G/B	Am	D7	G
			→	→	→	→

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	C	G/B	Am	G
Opera	tor oh could you	help	me p	lace this call	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
‘Cause I can’t read the	number that you just gav	e me	→	→	→

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
There’s something in my	eyes, you know it	ha	ppens	every t	im	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
I think about the	love that I thought would save	me	→	→	→

G	C/G	G
Isn’t that the way	they say it goes

	C	D
But let’s for	get all	that

	G	Am
And	give me the number if	you can find it

	C	D	Em	Bm	D	Am
So	I	can	call just to	tell ‘em I’m	fine and to s	how

D7	C	G/B
I’ve overcome the blow,	I’ve learned to take it well

	Am	C
I only wish my words	could just convince myself

Hang on “that’s”

	D	C
That it just wasn’t rea	l, but th	at’s not the way it feels

G	C/G
	No, no no, no, no

G	C/G	G
	That’s not the way it feels

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
Oper	ator, oh let’s for	get	ab	out this	call	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
There’s no one there	I really wanted to tal	k to		→	→	→

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
Thank you for your time,	oh you’ve been	so m	uch	more t	han k	ind →	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
You can keep the	dime		→	→	→

G	C/G	G
Isn’t that the way	they say it goes

	C	D
But let’s for	get all	that

	G	Am
And	give me the number if	you can find it

	C	D	Em	Bm	D	Am
So	I	can	call just to	tell ‘em I’m	fine and to s	how

D7	C	G/B
I’ve overcome the blow,	I’ve learned to take it well

	Am	C
I only wish my words	could just convince myself

Hang on “that’s”

	D	C
That it just wasn’t rea	l, but th	at’s not the way it feels

G	Bm	Am	C	G/B	Am	D7	G
			→	→	→	→	x2

Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (1975)

This is adapted loosely from the Judas Priest version.

The originals are in Em, I play in Em capo 5.

As a duet, I sing a 3rd below the lead and play in Em.

The songs is a dirge, so I follow the Priest version,

which is a rocking metal gallop.

Long riff

-0------0---0-----0----0---0----0----0---0----
-0--0--0---0---0--0---0---0---0-0---0---0---0-
-0-------------0-------------0-------------
-2-2--4---2---0---2--4---2---0--2--4---2---4--
-2----------------2-------------2-------------
-0------------------0-----------0-0-----------

---0---0--0--0--0-0--0--0--0--0---0-0--0--0--0-2-
--0---0-----0--0----0--0-----0---0----0--0-----0-
-----------------------------------------------2-
-5---4---5-7--5--7-9--9---9-7--7---7-5--5---5--1-
-----------------------------------------------2-
-------------------------------------------------

Short riff

-0---0---0-----0----0---0----0----0---0----2-
-0--0---0---0--0---0---0---0-0---0---0---0-0-
-0-------------0-------------0-------------2-
-2-4---2---0---2--4---2---0--2--4---2---4--1-
-2-------------2-------------2-------------2-
-0---------------0-----------0-0-------------

Play long riff if not rocking

	Em	C
Well	I’ll be damned here comes your	ghost again

	G	D
But that’s not un	usual it’s just that the	moon is full

	Em
And you happened to	call

	Em	C
And	here I sit hand on the	telephone

	G	D
I’m hearing a	voice I’d known a couple of	light years ago

	Em
Heading straight for a	fall

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Play short riff if not rocking

	Em	C
As	I remember, your eyes were bluer than	robins’ eggs

	G	D
My poetry was	lousy you said, but where are you	calling from?

	Em
A booth in the	mid-west

Em	C
Ten years ago I bought you some	cuff-links

	G
And you bought me	something

	D
We both know what	memories can bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Play short riff if not rocking, else another chorus

	Em	C
You	burst on the scene, already a	legend

	G	D
The unwashed phe	nomenon, the original	vagabond

	Em
You	strayed into my arms

	Em	C
And	there you stayed, temporarily	lost at sea

	G	D
The Madonna was	yours for free, the girl on the	half-shell

	Em
Could keep you un	harmed

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Vox on the 5 of the chord

	Bm7
Now I	see you standing with brown leaves falling all around

	Am7
And	snow in your hair

	Bm7
Now you’re	smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel

	Am7
Over	Washington Square

	C
Our	breath comes out of white clouds

	G
Mingles and	hangs in the air

	Fmaj7
Speaking	strictly for me

	B7
We both could have died then and	there

Em	D	Em

Play long riff if not rocking

	Em	C
Now you’re	telling me you’re not nos	talgic

	G	D
Then give me another	word for it you who are so	good with words

	Em
And at keeping things	vague

	Em
‘Cause	I need some of that vagueness now

	C
It’s all come back too	clearly

	G	D
Yes I loved you	dearly, and if you’re offering	diamonds and rust

	Em
I’ve already	paid

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

C	D	Em
Diamonds,	diamonds, and	rust

C	D	Em
Diamonds,	diamonds, and	rust

John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane (1966)

G	C	G	C

	G	C
All my	bags are packed I’m	ready to go

	G	C
I’m	standin’ here out	side your door

	G	Em	D	D7
I	hate to wake you	up to say good	bye

	G	C
But the	dawn is breakin’ it’s	early morn

	G	C
The	taxi’s waitin’ he’s	blowin’ his horn

	G	Em	D	D7
Al	ready I’m so	lonesome I could	cry

	G	C
So	kiss me and	smile for me

G	C
Tell me that you’ll	wait for me

G	Em	D	D7
Hold me like you’ll	never let me	go

	G	C
Cause I’m	leavin’	on a jet plane

Let ring

G	C
Don’t know when	I’ll be back again

G	Bm7	Am7	D7
Oh	babe, I hate to	go

	G	C
There’s so	many times I’ve	let you down

	G	C
So	many times I’ve	played around

G	Em	D	D7
I tell you now,	they don’t mean a	thing

	G	C
Every	place I go I’ll	think of you

	G	C
Every	song I sing I’ll	sing for you

	G	Em	D	D7
When	I come back I’ll	wear your wedding	ring

	G	C
So	kiss me and	smile for me

G	C
Tell me that you’ll	wait for me

G	Em	D	D7
Hold me like you’ll	never let me	go

	G	C
Cause I’m	leavin’	on a jet plane

Let ring

G	C
Don’t know when	I’ll be back again

G	Bm7	Am7	D7
Oh	babe, I hate to	go

Let all chords ring for this verse

G	C
Now the time has	come to leave you

G	C
One more time just	let me kiss you

G	Em	D	D7
Close your eyes	I’ll be on my	way

G	C
Dream about the	days to come

	G	C
When	I won’t have to	leave alone

	G	Em	D	D7
A	bout the times	I won’t have to	say

	G	C
So	kiss me and	smile for me

G	C
Tell me that you’ll	wait for me

G	Em	D	D7
Hold me like you’ll	never let me	go

	G	C
Cause I’m	leavin’	on a jet plane

Let ring

G	C
Don’t know when	I’ll be back again

G	Bm7	Am7	D7
Oh	babe, I hate to	go

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (1971)

Originally in A, I play in G

G

Hang two beats on the I after this line

G	Em	D	C	G
Almost Heaven,	West Virginia,	Blue Ridge Mountains, Sh	enandoah R	iver

G	Em	D
Life is old there,	older than the trees, y	ounger than the mountains

	C	G
Bl	owin’ like a br	eeze

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

Hang two beats on the I after this line

G	Em	D	C	G
All my memories	gather round her,	miner’s lady, str	anger to blue w	ater

G	Em	D
Dark and dusty, p	ainted on the sky, m	isty taste of moonshine

	C	G
Te	ardrop in my	eye

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “I hear her”

Em	D	G
I hear her v	oice, in the m	orning hour she calls me

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “radio”

	C	G	D
The	radio rem	inds me of my	home far away

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “driving down”, the 3 of the new chord on “road”

	Em	F	C
And	driving down the r	oad I get a f	eeling

	G	D	D7
That I	should have been home	yesterday, yesterd	ay

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

	D	G
Take me h	ome, (down) country r	oads

	D	G
Take me h	ome, (down) country r	oads

G

John Lennon - Imagine (1971)

Originally in C, I play in A capo 1 or 2

A	Amaj7	D	D
			x2

Maj7’s continue, but not writing them out

A	D
Imagine there’s no	heaven

A	D
It’s easy if you	try

A	D
No hell be	low us

A	D
Above us only	sky

D	F#m/C#	Bm7	A
Imagine	all the	people

E

Living for today

A	D
Imagine there’s no	countries

A	D
It isn’t hard to	do

A	D
Nothing to kill or	die for

A	D
And no religion	too

D	F#m/C#	Bm7	A
Imagine	all the	people

E

Living life in peace, you-hoo

D	E	A	C#
You may	say I’m a	dreamer

D	E	A	C#
But I’m	not the only	one

D	E	A	C#
I hope some	day you’ll	join us

D	E	A
And the	world will	live as one

A	D
Imagine no pos	sessions

A	D
I wonder if you	can

A	D
No need for greed or	hunger

A	D
A brotherhood of	man

D	F#m/C#	Bm7	A
Imagine	all the	people

E

Sharing all the world

D	E	A	C#
You may	say I’m a	dreamer

D	E	A	C#
But I’m	not the only	one

D	E	A	C#
I hope some	day you’ll	join us

D	E	A
And the	world will	live as one

Optional fadeout, credit Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora

A	E	A
‘Cause all we are	saying is give peace a	chance

John Lennon - Instant Karma (1970)

Originally in A, I play in E capo 2

Silly intro thing, let each chord ring once, or just skip this

B	D

Every line in the vase has a descending bass that I’m not writing out

E	C#m
Instant Karma’s gonna get you

E	C#m
Gonna knock you right in the head

E	C#m
You better get yourself together

C	D	E
Pretty soon your gon	na be dead

A	F#m
What in the world you thinking o	f?

A	F#m
Laughing in the face of l	ove

G	Em
What on Earth you tryin’ to do?

	A
It’s u	p to you

	B
Y	eah you

E	C#m
Instant Karma’s gonna get you

E	C#m
Gonna look you right in the face

E	C#m
Better get yourself together darlin’

C	D	E
Join the human	race

A	F#m
How in the world you gonna	see?

A	F#m
Laughing at fools like	me

G	Em
Who on Earth do you think you	are?

	A
A	superstar?

	B7
Well	right you are

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine o	n

	D	F#m	Bm
Like the	moon and the	stars and the	sun

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine	on

A	B
Everyone	come on

E	C#m
Instant Karma’s gonna get you

E	C#m
Gonna knock you off your feet

E	C#m
Better recognize your brothers

C	D	E
Everyone you	meet

A	F#m
Why in the world are we	here?

A	F#m
Surely not to live in pain and	fear

G	Em
Why on Earth are you	there?

	A	B
When you’re e	verywhere gonna	get your share

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine o	n

	D	F#m	Bm
Like the	moon and the	stars and the	sun

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine	on

A	B
Come on and on and o	n on

E	C#m
Yeah yeah

	E	C#m
A	lright

	E	C#m
A	h ha

	C	D	E
A	h

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine o	n

	D	F#m	Bm
Like the	moon and the	stars and the	sun

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine	on

A	B7
Everyone	come on

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (1972)

Originally in D, I play in A. I play D/G/A with

open A and E strings (e.g. x05430).

Highest note is the 5, but it spends a lot of

time on the 3 and 4.

A

Vox on the 1 on “I”

A	D	A
I can see c	learly now the r	ain is gone

A	D	E
I can see a	ll obstacles	in my way

A	D	A
Gone are the d	ark clouds that	had me blind

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
Gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

A	D	A
I think I can m	ake it now the p	ain is gone

A	D	E
All of the	bad feelings have	disappeared

A	D	A
Here is that ra	inbow I’ve been	praying for

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

C	G
Look all around, there’s nothing but	blue skies

C	C/E	E/B
Look straight ahead, there’s	nothing but	blue skies

G#m7	D	G#m7	D	G	F#m	E

A	D	A
I can see c	learly now the r	ain is gone

A	D	E
I can see a	ll obstacles	in my way

A	D	A
Gone are the d	ark clouds that	had me blind

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man (1966)

If playing solo, play riff as Em, Emb6, EmM6, Emb6 on the 5th string

E|----0---0---0---0---0---0--|
B|---------------------------|
G|--4---5---5---6---5---5----|

Riff x4 over Em

Em	Am	Em
There’s a man who l	eads a life of d	anger

	Em	B7
To e	veryone he meets he stays a st	ranger

	Em	Am
With	every move he makes, ano	ther chance he takes

Em	Am	Em
Odds are he won’t	live to see to	morrow

Vox 5 7 2 of the key on “secret ag”

	Bm	Em	Bm	Em
Secret	agent	man, secret	agent	man

Vox on the 6 5 of the chord on “given”

	C	B7	Em
They’ve	given you a	number and taken away your	name

Riff x2 over Em

	Em	Am	Em
Be	ware of pretty	faces that you	find

	Em	B7
A	pretty face can hide an evil	mind

	Em
Ah, be	careful what you say

	Am
Or you’ll	give yourself away

Em	Am	Em
Odds are you won’t	live to see tom	orrow

	Bm	Em	Bm	Em
Secret	agent	man, secret	agent	man

	C	B7	Em
They’ve	given you a	number and taken away your	name

Riff x2 over Em

Solo on verse chords

	Bm	Em	Bm	Em
Secret	agent	man, secret	agent	man

	C	B7	Em
They’ve	given you a	number and taken away your	name

Riff x2 over Em

Em	Am	Em
Swingin’ on the	Riviera	one day

	Em	B7
And then	layin’ in the Bombay alley	next day

	Em
Oh no, you	let the wrong word slip

	Am
While	kissing persuasive lips

	Em	Am	Em
The	odds are you won’t	live to see to	morrow

	Bm	Em	Bm	Em
Secret	agent	man, secret	agent	man

	C	B7	Em
They’ve	given you a	number and taken away your	name

Riff x2 over Em

Em

Secret agent man

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi (1970)

Joni Mitchell in E, Counting Crows in G#

This arrangement is somewhere in between, I play in G

Highest note is the 1 if you do the high “farmer farmer”

Can play D/F# as D11

C	D/F#	G	G
			x2

Vox in on the 3 of the chord on “paved”

	C	D/F#	G
They	paved paradise and	put up a parking lot

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
With a	pink hotel, a	boutique, and a swingin’ hot spot

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

G	Cadd9	Cadd9	G

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
They	took all the trees, and	put ‘em in a tree museum

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
And they	charged the people a	dollar and a half to see them

No, no, no

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	Cadd9	G
Hey far	mer, farmer, put away your DDT

	Cadd9
I don’t care about	spots on my apples

D11	G
Leave me the birds and the bees	please

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Hey now they	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

C	D/F#	G	G
			x2

Let ring

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
Listen,	late last night, I	heard a screen door	slam

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
And a bi	g yellow taxi to	ok my girl away

	G	G9
Now	don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	Cadd9	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	G	G9
Hey now now	don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Why now they	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Hey hey hey	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

I end here, but I’m writing out the rest of the Counting

Crows arrangement.

G	C	D/F#	G

Cadd9

I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it?

	G
Why you wanna	giving it all away? Hey, hey, hey

Cadd9

Now you wanna give it, oh she wanna give it

	G
‘Cause she	giving it all away no no

Cadd9

I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it?

	G
Why you wanna	giving it all away?

Cadd9

Giving it all

D/F#	G
Giving it all a	way

Am7	Cadd9	G
	Why you	want me?

Am7	Cadd9	G
	Why do you	want me?

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and	put up a parking lot

Repeat to fade

Labelle - Lady Marmalade (1974)

Originally in Gm, I play in Am capo 2

Am7	D11
	x2

Vox on the 5

Am7	D11
Hey sista, go sista, s	oul sista, go sista

Am7	D11
Hey sista, go sista, s	oul sista

	Am7	D11
He	met Marmalade down in o	ld New Orleans

Am7	D11
Struttin’ her stuff on the	street

	Dm7	Em7
She said	hello, hey Joe, you wanna	give it a go?

Vox on the 3 of the chord

Am7	D11
Gitchi, gitchi, ya-ya, d	a-da

	Am7	D11
G	itchi, gitchi, ya-ya he	re

Am7	D11
Mocha chocolata, y	a-ya

Hang on “creole”, vox on 7 6 7 1 of the chord on “creole lady”

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Vox only up to the 3, even though you’ll feel like you

want to go up to the 5.

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

	Am7	D11
V	oulez-vous coucher ave	c moi?

	Am7	D11
He	stayed in her boudoir while	she freshened up

Am7	D11
That boy drank all that magn	olia wine, on her

Dm7	Em7
Black satin sheets, is w	here he started to freak

Am7	D11
Gitchi, gitchi, ya-ya, d	a-da

	Am7	D11
G	itchi, gitchi, ya-ya he	re

Am7	D11
Mocha chocolata, y	a-ya

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

	Am7	D11
V	oulez-vous coucher ave	c moi?

Am7	D11
	x2

E

Hey, hey, hey...

Am7	D11
Seeing her skin feeling	silky smoothe

	Am7	D11
C	olor of cafe au la	it

	Dm7	Em7
Made the	savage beast inside	roar until it cried

E

More, more, more

Am7	D11
Now he’s at home doing	nine to five

Am7	D11
Living his brave life of l	ies

	Dm7	Em7
But when he	turns off to sleep, old	memories keep

E

More, more, more

Am7	D11
Gitchi, gitchi, ya-ya, d	a-da

	Am7	D11
G	itchi, gitchi, ya-ya he	re

Am7	D11
Mocha chocolata, y	a-ya

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

	Am7	D11
V	oulez vous coucher ave	c moi?

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (1970)

Originally in F#m, I play in Em capo 2 with some octave changes

Intro

Em

An octave down

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

Still an octave down, on the 1

G	D
We	come from the land of the ice and snow

	D	G
From the	midnight sun where the hot	springs blow

Up to the original octave

Em

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands

To fight the horde and singing and crying

Keep it *real* simple on “coming”

D	G	Em
Valhalla, I am coming

An now back down an octave

G

On we sweep with

A

With threshing oar

A#

Our only goal will be the western shore

Em

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

G	D
We	come from the land of the ice and snow

	D	G
From the	midnight sun where the hot	springs blow

Em

How soft your fields, so green

	Em
Can w	hisper tales of gore

	Em	G
Of	how we calmed the tides of war

D	G	Em
We are your overlords

G

On we sweep with

A

With threshing oar

A#

Our only goal will be the western shore

Em

So now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins

Em

For peace and trust can win the day despite of all you’re losing

Em	A#9

Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll (1971)

Originally in A, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A	A	D	A	E	A

	A
It’s	been a long time since I rock and rolled

It’s been a long time since I did the stroll

	D
Ooh,	let me get back, let me get back

	A
Let me get back, baby, where I come	from

	E
It’s	been a long time, been a long time

	D	A
Been a long	lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely	time, yes, it has

	A
It’s	been a long time since The Book of Love

I can’t count the tears of a life with no love

D

Carry me back, carry me back, carry me back

	A
Baby, where I come	from, whoa-oh, oh

	E
It’s	been a long time, been a long time

	D	A
Been a long	lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely	time

Solo, with “oh”

A	A	D	A	E	A
					x2

A

Whoooa

A

Seems so long since we walked in the moonlight

Making vows that just can’t work right

	D
Oh yeah,	open your arms, open your arms, open your arms

	A
Baby, let my love come	running in, yeah

	E
It’s	been a long time, been a long time

	D	A
Been a long	lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely	time

A

Yeah-hey, yeah-hey

A

Yeah-hey, yeah-hey

D

A

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah

A

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah

	E
It’s	been a long time, been a long time

	D
Been a long	lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

A7

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (1971)

Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#	Fmaj7	G/B	Am

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
There’s a l	ady who’	s sure all that g	litters is	gold

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
And she’s	buying a stairway to	heave	n

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
When she g	ets there she	knows, if the s	tores are all c	losed

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
With a	word she can get what she	came f	or

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am	C	G/B	Dsus4	D
Ooh	,	oo	h, and she’s	buying a	stairway to	heaven

	C	D	Fmaj7	Am
There’s a	sign on the	wall but she w	ants to be	sure

	C	D	Fmaj7
‘Cause you k	now sometimes w	ords have two	meanings

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
In a tr	ee by th	e brook, there’s a	songbird who	sings

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
Sometimes a	ll of our thoughts are	misg	iven

Interlude

Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#	Fmaj7	G/B	Am

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

	C	G/B	Am
There’s a fe	eling I	get when I	look to the west

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And my sp	irit is	crying for	leav	ing

	C	G/B	Am
In my t	hought	s I have seen rings of	smoke through the trees

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And the v	oices	of those who stand	looki	ng

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

	C	G/B	Am
And it’s w	hispered that	soon if we	all call the tune

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
Then the p	iper will	lead us to	reas	on

	C	G/B	Am
And a	new day will dawn	for	those who stand long

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And the fo	rests will	echo with	laught	er

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh

C	G/B	Am
If there’s a	bustle in your	hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
It’s just a	spring clean for the	May qu	een

C	G/B	Am
Yes, there are	two paths you can	go by, but in the long run

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
There’s still	time to change the	road you’re	on

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh

C	G/B	Am
Your head is	humming and it w	on’t go, in case you don’t know

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
The piper’s	calling you to	join h	im

C	G/B	Am
Dear lady,	can you hear the	wind blow, and did you know

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
Your stairway	lies on the	whispering	wind

C	G/B
D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	Cadd9	G/B
D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	Cadd9	G/B

Am	G	F	G
And as we	wind on down the	road

Am	G	F	G
Our shadows	taller than our	soul

Am	G	F	G
There walks a	lady we all k	now

Am	G	F	G
Who shines white l	ight and wants to	show

Am	G	F	G
How everyt	hing still turns to	gold

Am	G	F	G
And if you	listen very	hard

Am	G	F	G
The tune will	come to you at	last

Am	G	F	G
When all are	one and one is	all

Am	G	Fmaj7
To be a r	ock and not to r	oll

Fmaj7	Am
And she’s buying a stairway to heav	en

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine (1970)

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D
Am	Asus4	Am	G	D	C
C	G/B	Am
→	→

Am	G	D
→	→

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D
Mea	sur	ing a	summer’s	day

	Am	Asus4	Am	G	D	C	G/B	Am
I	only	find	it	slips a	way to	gray	→

	Am	G	D
The	hours, they	bring me	pain

C	D

G	D	C	D
Tangerine,		tangerine

G	D	C	D
Living reflections		from a dream

G	D	C	D
I was her love,		she was my queen

G	Dsus4
And now a thousand years be	tween

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D
Think	ing	how it	used to b	e

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D	C	G/B	Am
Does	she	still re	member	times	like these?	→

	Am	G	D
To	think of	us a	gain

And I do

Arbitrarily shorten this, but make sure to hit that nice V

Am	G	D	F	E	F	E	F
				→	→	→

C	G	D	C	D	G	D	C	D

C	D
→

G	D	C	D
Tangerine,		tangerine

G	D	C	D
Living reflections		from a dream

G	D	C	D
I was her love,		she was my queen

G	Dsus4
And now a thousand years be	tween

Dsus4

Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time (1970)

Originally in D, I play in G

C	D	Em	Em	D
			→	x2

C	D	Em	Em	D
L	ove will a	bide	→

C	D	G
Take thin	gs in s	tride

C	B7	Em
So	unds like good adv	ice

	A7	D
But there’s	no one at my s	ide

	C	D	Em	Em	D
And	time	washes cl	ean	→

C	D	G
Love’s w	ounds unse	en

C	B7	Em
Th	at’s what someone t	old me

	A7	D
But I d	on’t know what it	means

	C	G
‘Cause	I’ve done everyt	hing I know

B7	Em	C
To try and make you	mine

	G	D	Em	C
And I	think I’m	gonna	love you

	G	D	G
For a	long	long	time

C	D	Em	Em	D
			→	x2

C	D	Em	Em	D
Caught	in my	fears	→

C	D	G
Blinking	back the t	ears

C	B7	Em
	I can’t say you	hurt me

	A7	D
When you	never let me	near

	C	D	Em	Em	D
And	I	never	drew	→

C	D	G
One resp	onse from	you

C	B7	Em
A	ll the while you f	ell

	A7	D
All over g	irls you never	knew

	C	G
‘Cause	I’ve done everyt	hing I know

B7	Em	C
To try and make you	mine

	G	D	Em	C
And I	think it’s	gonna	hurt me

	G	D	G
For a	long	long time

C	D	Em	Em	D
			→	x2

C	D	Em	Em	D
	Wait for the	day	→

C	D	G
You’ll go	awa	y

C	B7	Em
K	nowing that you wa	rned me

	A7	D
Of the p	rice I’d have to p	ay

	C	D	Em	Em	D
And l	ife’s	full of	flaws	→

C	D	G
Who knows	the c	ause?

C	B7	Em
L	iving in the m	emory

	A7	D
Of a l	ove that never w	as

	C	G
‘Cause	I’ve done everyt	hing I know

B7	Em	C
To try and change your	mind

	G	D	Em	C
And I	think I’m	gonna	miss you

	G	D	Em
For a	long	long	time

	C	G
‘Cause	I’ve done everyt	hing I know

B7	Em	C
To try and make you	mine

	G	D	Em	C
And I	think I’m	gonna	love you

	G	D	G
For a	lon	g long	time

C	D	Em	Em	D
			→

C

Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World (1967)

F6	Gm7/F	F6	Gm7/F

	F	Am	Bb	Am
I see tree	s of gree	n,	red roses too

Gm7	F	A7	Dm
I see them blo	om,	for me and you

	C#(#11)	Gm7/C	C7	F	Bm7b5	Bbmaj7	C7
And I thi	nk to myself,	what a w	onderful world

	F	Am	Bb	Am
I see ski	es of blue		and clouds of white

Gm7	F	A7	Dm
The bright blessed d	ay,	the dark sacred n	ight

	C#(#11)	Gm7/C	C7	F	Bb/D	F/C	F
And I thi	nk to myself,	what a w	onderful world

	Bb/C	C7	Fmaj7	F6
The col	ors of the rainbow,	so p	retty in the s	ky

	Bb/C	C7	Fmaj7	F6
Are al	so on the faces	of	people going b	y

	Dm	C/E	Dm/F	C/G
I see frie	nds shaking h	ands, saying h	ow do you d	o?

Dm	F#dim	Gm7	C7
They’re really s	aying,	I love	you

	F	Am	Bb	Am
I hear ba	bies cry,		I watch them grow

Gm7	F	A7	Dm
They’ll learn much m	ore	than I’ll ever know

	C#(#11)	Gm7/C	C7	F	Am7b5	D9
And I thin	k to myself,	what a wo	nderful world

	Gm7	C7b9	F	Bb6	F
Yes I t	hink to myself,	what a wonderful world

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze (1974)

J.J. Cale in C#, Skynyrd in A, I play in A

Intro, with lots of b6

A

Call me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the road

	D	A
Well now they c	all me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the r	oad

	E
I ain’t g	ot me nobody

D	A
I don’t carry me no lo	ad

A

	A
Ain’t no c	hange in the weather, ain’t no changes in me

	D	A
Well there ain’t no c	hange in the weather, ain’t no changes in m	e

	E
And I ain’t h	idin’ from nobody

D	A
Nobody’s hidin’ from m	e

Oh, that's the way its supposed to be

Solo on chorus chords, more or less

	A
Well I got that g	reen light babe, I got to keep movin’ on

	D	A
Well I got that g	reen light babe, I got to keep movin’ o	n

	E
Well I might go o	ut to California

D	A
Might go ‘round to Georgia, I don’t k	now

Solo on chorus chords, more or less

F’ing fantastic piano + horn solo on chorus chords, more or less

	A
Well I d	ig you Georgia peaches, makes me feel right at home

	D	A
Well now I d	ig you Georgia peaches, makes me feel right at h	ome

E

But I don’t love me no one woman

D	A
So I can’t stay in Georgia l	ong

	A
Well now they	call me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the road

	D	A
Well now they c	all me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the r	oad

	E
I ain’t g	ot me nobody

D	A
I don’t carry me no lo	ad

A	A	A/C#	A/C#	D	D	Ebdim7	Ebdim7	E

	Bb7	A7
Oooh, Mr. Breeze	→

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (1973)

G	D/F#	Em	Em	F	C	Dsus4	Dsus4
							x4

G	D/F#	Em
If I	leave here to	morrow

F	C	Dsus4
Would you	still remember	me

G	D/F#	Em
For I must	be travelin’	on now

F	C	Dsus4
‘Cause there’s too many	places I’ve got to	see

G	D/F#	Em
But if I	stay here with	you girl

F	C	Dsus4
Things just	couldn’t be the	same

G	D/F#	Em
‘Cause I’m as	free as a	bird now

F	C	Dsus4
And this	bird you cannot	change, oh

F	C	Dsus4
And the	bird you cannot	change

F	C	Dsus4	D
And this	bird you cannot	cha	nge

F	C	Dsus4	D
Lord k	nows I can’t	cha	age

G	D/F#	Em	Em	F	C	Dsus4	Dsus4
							x2

G	D/F#	Em
Bye,	bye, baby, it’s been a	sweet love

F	C	Dsus4
Though this	feeling I can’t	change

G	D/F#	Em
But please don’t	take it so	badly

F	C	Dsus4
‘Cause lord	knows I’m to	blame

G	D/F#	Em
But if I	stay here with	you, girl

F	C	Dsus4
Things just	couldn’t be the	same

G	D/F#	Em
‘Cause I’m as	free as a	bird now

F	C	Dsus4
And this	bird you’ll never	change, oh

F	C	Dsus4
And the	bird you cannot	change

F	C	Dsus4
And this	bird you cannot	change

F	C	Dsus4	D
Lord	knows I can’t	cha	nge

F	C	Dsus4
Lord,	help me, I can’t	cha-a-a-a-ange

G	Bb	C
	Lord, I can’t c	hange

	G	Bb	C
Won’t you	fly	high,	free bird, yeah

Solo

G	Bb	C	C

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps (1973)

Originally in D, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A	A	E	E	A	A	E	A	A	A
									x 2

	A
I was c	utting the rug, down at place called The Jug

	E
With a g	irl named Linda Lou

	A
When	in walked a man with a gun in his hand

	B7	E
And he was	looking for you know w	ho

	A
He said	hey there, fellow with the hair colored yellow

D	B7
Whatcha tryin’ to	prove?

	A
‘Cause that’s	my woman there and I’m a man who cares

	E	A
And this	might be all for	you

I said, "excuse me"

A	A	E	E	A	A	E	A	A	A

	A
I was s	cared and fearing for my life

	E
I was s	haking like a leaf on a tree

	A
‘Cause he was	lean, mean, big and bad, lord

B7	E
Pointin’ that gun at	me

	A
Oh,	wait a minute, mister I didn’t even kiss her

D	B7
Don’t want no trouble with	you

	A
And I	know you don’t owe me but I wish you would let me

E	A
Ask one favor from	you

	A
Oh won’t you	gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E
Gimme	three steps toward your door

A

Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E	A
And you’ll	never see me no	more

For, sure

Solo on verse chords, or trim to one intro

A	A	E	E	A	A	E	A	A	A

	A
Well the	crowd cleared away, and I began to pray

	E
And the	water fell on the floor

	A
And I’m	telling you, son, well, it ain’t no fun

	B7	E
Staring	straight down a forty-	four

	A
Well, he	turned and screamed at Linda Lou

	D	B7
And that’s the	break I was looking	for

	A
And you could	hear me screaming a mile away

	E	A
As I was	headed out toward your	door

	A
Oh won’t you	gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E
Gimme	three steps toward your door

A

Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E	A
And you’ll	never see me no	more

Show me the back door

A

E

A

E

A

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man (1973)

Originally in B, I play in G

Intro

G	D	Em	Em
			x 4

Vox on 3 3 2 2 1 on “my mama told me”

	G	D	Em
My mama t	old me,	when I was y	oung

	G	D	Em
Come sit be	side me,	my only	son

	G	D	Em
And listen	closely,	to what I	say

	G	D	Em
And if you	do this, it will	help you, some s	unny day, aw yeah

G	D	Em	Em
			x 2

	G	D	Em
Oh, take your	time,	don’t live too	fast

	G	D	Em
Troubles will	come,	and they will	pass

	G	D	Em
Well, find a	woman,	and you’ll find	love

	G	D	Em
And don’t for	get son, there is	someone up a	bove

	G	D	Em
And be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

G	D	Em	Em
			x 1

	G	D	Em
Get your	lust,	the rich man’s	gold

	G	D	Em
All that you	need,	is in your	soul

	G	D	Em
And you can	do this	, if you	try

	G	D	Em
All that I	want for you my	son, is to be satis	fied

	G	D	Em
And be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

Solo

G	D	Em	Em
			x 4

	G	D	Em
Boy don’t you	worry,	you’ll find your	self

	G	D	Em
Follow your	heart,	and nothing	else

	G	D	Em
And you can	do this, oh babe,	if you	try

	G	D	Em
All that I	want for you my	son, is to be s	atisfied

	G	D	Em
And be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple,	be a simple	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (1974)

Originally in D, I play in A

A	G	D
		x4

A	G	D
Big	wheels keep on	turning

A	G	D
Carry me	home to see my	kin

A	G	D
Singing	songs about the	southland

A	G	D
I miss ol’ ‘	bamy once a	gain, and I think it’s a sin, yes

A	G	D
		x2

A	G	D
Well I heard mister Y	oung sing ab	out her

A	G	D
Well I heard old N	eil put her d	own

A	G	D
Well I hope Neil Y	oung will rem	ember

A	G	D
A southern	man don’t need him a	round anyhow

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D
Where the	skies are so	blue

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D	C	G/B
Lord I’m c	oming home to y	ou	→

A	G	D
		x2

A	G	D
In Birmingham they	love the	gov’nor

C	G	A
Boo,	hoo,	hoo

A	G	D
Now we all	did what we could	do

A	G	D
Now Watergat	e does not	bother me

A	G	D
Does your	conscience bother	you? Tell the truth

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D
Where the	skies are so	blue

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D
Lord I’m c	oming home to y	ou

A	G	D
		x8

A	G	D
Now Muscle	Shoals has got the	Swampers

A	G	D
And they’ve been	known to pick a	song or two

A	G	D
Lord they	get me off s	o much

A	G	D
They pick me	up when I’m feeling	blue, now how about you?

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D
Where the	skies are so	blue

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D	C	G/B
Lord I’m c	oming home to y	ou	→

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama, oh sweet home	→

A	G	D
Where the	skies are so	blue, and the governor’s true

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama, looordy	→

A	G	D	C	G/B
Lord I’m c	oming home to y	ou	→

A

Mama Cass - Dream a Little Dream (1968)

Originally in C, I play in A

Chorus may be an octave down, depending how I feel... chorus is

mostly on the 6

A	D#dim7	F6	E
A	D#dim7	F6	E

A	D#dim7	F6	E
Stars shi	ning bright ab	ove you

A	A/G#	A7/G	F#7
Night bre	ezes	seem to w	hisper, I love you

Vox: easiest to stay on the A here

D	Dm
Birds singing in the s	ycamore tree

	A	F	E
Dr	eam a little d	ream of me

A	D#dim7	F6	E
Say nigh	tie-night and	kiss me

A	A/G#	A7/G	F#7
Just hold	me	tight and	tell me you’ll miss me

D	Dm
While I’m alone and	blue as can be

Vox note: Male voice can go down to A, easiest to descend on me(c)-e(b)-stars(a)

	A	F7	E7	A	C#
Dr	eam a little dr	eam	of	me

F#	D#m	G#m7	C#7
Stars f	ading but	I linger	on, dear

F#	D#m	G#m7	C#7
Still cr	aving your k	iss

If down an octave, “dawn” would go down to E, easier

to sing the same melody as the first line.

F#	D#m	G#m7	C#7
I’m lo	nging to l	inger till	dawn, dear

F#	D#m	F7	E7
Just	saying	thi	s

A	D#dim7	F6	E
Sweet dre	ams till sunbeams	find you

A	A/G#	A7/G	F#7
Sweet dre	ams that	leave your	worries behind you

D	Dm
But in your dreams what	ever they be

If soloing, end this line on C/G instead of E

	A	F7	E7	A	C#
Dr	eam a little dr	eam	of	me

Solo on verse chords

F#	D#m	G#m7	C#7
Stars f	ading but	I linger	on, dear

F#	D#m	G#m7	C#7
Still cr	aving your k	iss

F#	D#m	G#m7	C#7
I’m lo	nging to l	inger till	dawn, dear

F#	D#m	F7	E7
Just	saying	thi	s

A	D#dim7	F6	E
Sweet dre	ams till sunbeams	find you

A	A/G#	A7/G	F#7
Sweet dre	ams that	leave your	worries behind you

D	Dm
But in your dreams what	ever they be

Hang on “me”

	A	F7	E	Dm
Dr	eam a little dr	eam	of	me

	A	F7	E	A
Just dr	eam a little dr	eam	of	me

Marshall Tucker Band - Can’t You See (1973)

Originally in D, I play in A. In A, play A/G instead of Asus2/G.

Intro

D	Dsus2/C	G	D
			x3

D

I’m gonna take a freight train

Dsus2/C

Down at the station, lord

G	D
I don’t care where it	goes

D

Gonna climb me a mountain

Dsus2/C

The highest mountain

G	D
A-jump off, nobody gonna	know

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, whoa can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman lord, she been doin’ to m	e

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman, she been doin’ to m	e

D

I’m gonna find me

Dsus2/C

A hole in the wall

G	D
I’m gonna crawl inside and	die

D

‘Cause my lady, now

Dsus2/C

A mean ol’ woman, lord

G	D
Never told me goodb	ye

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, whoa can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman lord, she been doin’ to m	e

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman, she been doin’ to m	e

Solo

D	Dsus2/C	G	D
			x2

D

I’m gonna buy me a ticket now

Dsus2/C

As far as I can

G	D
Ain’t never comin’	back

D

Ridin’ me southbound

Dsus2/C

Uh-all the way to Georgia now

G	D
Till the train run out of	track

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, whoa can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman lord, she been doin’ to m	e

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman, she been doin’ to m	e

Solo

D	Dsus2/C	G	D
			x2

Let ring

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, whoa can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman lord, she been doin’ to m	e

Band back in

	D	Dsus2/C
Can’t you s	ee, can’t you	see

	G	D
What that	woman, she been doin’ to m	e

Repeat to fade

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1968)

Marvin Gaye in Ebm, CCR in Dm

I play in Am, and still skip a bunch of the vocal jumps

Following a random YouTube cover, in the riff/verse/chorus

I play a iim → i instead of the IV → i

Intro

Am	D	Am
	→	x2

	Am
Oooh, I	bet you’re wondering how I knew

	E	D
‘Bout your	plans to make me	blue

Don’t jump up on “guy”

	Am
With some other	guy that you knew before

	E	D
Between the two of us	guys you know I love you	more

Up to the 1 of the chord on “prise”

	F#m	D
It took me by	surprise I must	say

	Am	D
When I	found out yester	day, don’t you know that

	Am	D	Am
I	heard it through the	grape	vine

	D
Not much	longer would you be mine

	Am	D	Am
Ooh I	heard it through the	grape	vine

	D
Oh I’m	just about to lose my mind

	Am
Honey, honey	yeah

Am	D	Am
	→	x2

	Am
I know a	man ain’t supposed to cry

	E	D
But these	tears I can’t hold ins	ide

	Am
Losin’	you would end my life you see

	E	D
Cause you	mean that much to	me

	F#m	D
You could have	told me your	self

	Am	D
That you	love someone	else, instead

	Am	D	Am
I	heard it through the	grape	vine

	D
Not much	longer would you be mine

	Am	D	Am
Ooh I	heard it through the	grape	vine

	D
Oh I’m	just about to lose my mind

	Am
Honey, honey	yeah

Am	D	Am
	→	x2

	Am
People say believe h	alf of what you see

	E	D
Son, and	none of what you	hear

	Am
But I can’t	help bein’ confused

	E	D
If it’s	true please tell me	dear

	F#m	D
Do you	plan to let me	go

	Am	D
For the other	guy you loved	before, don’t you know

	Am	D	Am
I	heard it through the	grape	vine

	D
Not much	longer would you be mine

	Am	D	Am
Baby, I	heard it through the	grape	vine

	D
Oh I’m	just about to lose my mind

	Am
Honey, honey	yeah

Am	D	Am
	→	x2

Misc - Happy Days Theme (1974)

Originally in F, I play in D

Vox start on 1-2-3-5-6-7-6

D	Bm
Sunday, Monday,	happy days

Em	A
Tuesday, Wednesday,	happy days

F#	Bm
Thursday, Friday,	happy days

	G	A	G	A
The	weekend co	mes, my cy	cle hu	ms

A	A7
Ready to race to	you

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	all	happy and	free

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	share them with	me

D

Goodbye gray sky, hello blue

	G
There’s	nothing can hold me when I hold you

E

Feels so right it can’t be wrong

A7

Rockin’ and rollin’ all week long

This is an instrumental in the theme, I do a second chorus

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	all	happy and	free

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	share them with	me

D	Bm
Sunday, Monday,	happy days

Em	A
Tuesday, Wednesday,	happy days

F#	Bm
Thursday, Friday,	happy days

G	A	G	A
Satur	day,	what a d	ay

A	A7
Groovin’ all week with	you

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	all	share them with	me

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	happy and	free

D	Bm	G
These happy d	ays are yours and	mine

	A	G	D
These happy	days are yours and	my happy	days

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime (1970)

Originally in E, I play in D, barre chords preferred in D (open preferred in E)

Intro

D	D	D	D
G	G	D	D
A	G	D	D

	D
In the	summertime, when the weather is high

You can stretch right up and touch the sky

	G	D
When the	weather’s fine, you got women, you got women on your	mind

	A
Have a	drink, have a drive

G	D
Go out and see what you can	find

	D
If her	daddy’s rich, take her out for a meal

If her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel

	G	D
Speed a	long the lane, do a ton or a ton and twenty-	five

	A
When the	sun goes down

	G	D
You can	make it make it good in a lay-	by

	D
We’re not	bad people, we’re not dirty, we’re not mean

We love everybody but we do as we please

	G	D
When the	weather’s fine, we go fishing or go sailing in the	sea

	A
We’re always	happy

	G	D
Life’s for	living yeah that’s our philoso	phy

	D
Sing a	long with us, di di di di di

Da da da da da, yeah we’re hap-happy

G	D
Da da da, di da da di da da da da	da

	A
Da doo	da da da

G	D
Da da da, duh da	da

D	D	D	D
G	G	D	D
A	G	D	D

	D
When the	winter’s here, yeah, it’s party time

Bring a bottle, wear your bright clothes, it’ll soon be summertime

	G	D
And we’ll	sing again, we’ll go driving or maybe we’ll settle	down

	A
If she’s	rich, if she’s nice

	G	D
Bring your	friends and we’ll all go into	town

Everything stops here in the original for engine noises, you know,

because they’re going into town. If no engine noises are available, play

straight into this instrumental break.

D	D	D	D
G	G	D	D
A	G	D	D

	D
In the	summertime, when the weather is high

You can stretch right up and touch the sky

	G	D
When the	weather’s fine, you got women, you got women on your	mind

	A
Have a	drink, have a drive

G	D
Go out and see what you can	find

	D
If her	daddy’s rich, take her out for a meal

If her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel

	G	D
Speed a	long the lane, do a ton or a ton and twenty-	five

	A
When the	sun goes down

	G	D
You can	make it, make it good in a lay-	by

	D
We’re not	bad people, we’re not dirty, we’re not mean

We love everybody but we do as we please

	G	D
When the	weather’s fine, we go fishing or go sailing in the	sea

	A
We’re always	happy

	G	D
Life’s for	living yeah that’s our philoso	phy

	D
Sing a	long with us, da da di di di

	D
Sing a	long with us, di di di di di

Da da da da da, yeah we’re hap-happy

G	D
Da da da, di da da di da da da da	da

	A
Da doo	da da da

G	D
Da da da, duh da	da

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog (1975)

Originally in E, I play in A

Intro

A

Vox around the 4

A

Heartbreaker, soul shaker, I’ve been told about you

A

Steamroller, midnight stroller, what they’ve been saying must be true

D

Red hot mama, velvet charmer, time’s come to pay your dues

A

A	C	D
Now you’re messin’ w	ith a,	a son of a bitch

A	G	A
Now you’re messin with a son o	f a bitch

A	C	D
Now you’re messin’ w	ith a,	a son of a bitch

A	G	A
Now you’re messin with a son o	f a bitch

A

Talkin’ jive and poison ivy, you ain’t gonna cling to me

A

Man taker, born faker, I ain’t so blind I can’t see

D

Red hot mama down light charmer, time’s come to pay your dues

A

A	C	D
Now you’re messin’ w	ith a,	a son of a bitch

A	G	A
Now you’re messin with a son o	f a bitch

A	C	D
Now you’re messin’ w	ith a,	a son of a bitch

A	G	A
Now you’re messin with a son o	f a bitch

A

Solo on something like this

A	C	D	A
x3

G	F	E
→	→

A	C	D	A
x3

G	F	E
→	→

A	C	D
Now you’re messin’ w	ith a,	a son of a bitch

A	G	A
Now you’re messin with a son o	f a bitch

A	C	D
Now you’re messin’ w	ith a,	a son of a bitch

A	G	A
Now you’re messin with a son o	f a bitch

Repeat to fade

Nazareth - Love Hurts (1974)

Nazareth around G, Everly Brothers in F#, Roy Orbison around Bb, I play in A

D/A	A
→

	A	F#m	D	E
Love	hurts, love	scars, love	wounds and	mars

It amuses me that Nazareth says “not tough or strong” and the Everly Brothers say “not tough nor strong”

Dadd9	A	F#m	D	E
Any	heart, not	tough or	strong e	nough

	Dadd9	A	C#7	F#m
To	take a lot of	pain,	take a lot of	pain

Everly Brothers arrangement does a V7 instead of another III7 at the beginning of this line

C#7	D	E
Love is like a	cloud, it holds a lot of	rain

Dadd9	A	G	D	A
Love	hurts,	ooh	hoo love	hurts

A

	A	F#m	D	E
I’m	young, I	know, but	even	so

Dadd9	A	F#m	D	E
I know a	thing, or	two, I	learned from	you

	Dadd9	A	C#7	F#m
I	really learned a	lot,	really learned a	lot

C#7	D	E
Love is like a	flame, it burns you when it’s	hot

Dadd9	A	G	D	A
Love	hurts,	ooh	hoo love	hurts

A

Bridge

F#m	C#7	F#m	C#7	F#m	C#7	F#m
Some fools think of	happi	ness,	blissful	ness, tog	ether	ness

B

Some fools, fool themselves, I guess

Bm	E
They’re not foolin’	me

Back to the pre-chorus, so chords are changing faster now

	Dadd9	A	C#7	F#m
I	know it isn’t	true, I	know it isn’t	true

C#7	D	E
Love is just a	lie made to make you	blue

Dadd9	A	G	D	A
Love	hurts,	ooh	hoo love	hurts

G	D	A
Ooh	hoo love	hurts

Solo on verse chords

A	F#m	D	E	Dadd9
			→

A	F#m	D	E	Dadd9
			→

	Dadd9	A	C#7	F#m
I	know it isn’t	true, I	know it isn’t	true

C#7	D	E
Love is just a	lie made to make you	blue

Dadd9	A	G	D	A
Love	hurts,	ooh	hoo love	hurts

G	D	A
Ooh	hoo love	hurts

G	D	A
Ooh	hoo love	hurts

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline (1969)

Originally in B, I play in A capo 2

Play the intro with the open 6th string (capo 2)

plus this walk on the 5th string, written relative

to the capo. More or less the chord is E.

A|-2-4-5--2-4-5-4-2-5-4-2-
E|-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-

A|-5-7-9--5-7-9-7-5-9-7-5-
E|-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-

D------------------------11--9-
A|-9-11-12--9-11-12--11--x---x-
E|-0-0--0---0-0--0-------0---0-

A	D
Where it began	I can’t begin to know it

A	E
But then I know it’s going stro	ng

A	D
Was in the spring,	and spring became a summer

A	E
Who’d have believe you’d come alo	ng?

A	A6
Hands	touching hands

E	D	E	D	E
Reaching out	touching me touching y	ou	→

A	D	E
Sweet Carol	ine, good times never seemed so	good

A	D	E
I’ve been incl	ined to believe they never would

D	C#m	Bm
But	now I	’m

A	D
Look at the night	and it don’t seem so lonely

A	E
We fill it up with only	two

A	D
And when I hurt	hurtin’ runs off my shoulder

A	E
How can I hurt when holding	you?

A	A6
Warm	touching warm

E	D	E	D	E
Reaching out	touching me touching	you	→

A	D	E
Sweet Caro	line, good times never seemed so	good

A	D	E
I’ve been incl	ined to believe they never would

D	C#m	Bm
Oh	no	no

Repeat intro riff

A	D	E
Sweet Caro	line, good times never seemed so	good

A	D	E
Sweet Caro	line, I believe they never	could

D	C#m	Bm
Oh	no	no

A6

Orleans - Dance With Me (1975)

Originally in D, I play A capo 1

Highest note is the 4 (wanna go), lowest is the 1,

but only briefly (on “around us”).

A	A	D/A	D/A
Bm	E	A	A

Melody on 2 3 3 on “dance with me”

	A
Dan	ce with me, I want to be your partner

Dmaj7

Can’t you see the music is just starting

Melody is 4 5 6 1 2 of the key on “I am fa-hall-ling”

	Bm	E
Ni	ght is calling, and	I am falling

A

Dance with me

A

Fantasy could never be so thrilling

Dmaj7

I feel free, I hope that you are willing

Bm	E
Pick your feet up, and	kick your feet up

	A
D	ance with me

Dmaj7	E
Let it lift you	off the ground

“Love is all around us” starts at the 5 of

the chord, which is probably where you were on “and”.

This run goes down to the b7 of the chord on “us”.

Dmaj7	B
Starry eyes, and	love is all around us

D	E	E/F	F#m
I can take you	where you	want to	go

Bm7	E
Oh	whoa

	A
Dan	ce with me, I want to be your partner

Dmaj7

Can’t you see the music is just starting?

	Bm	E
Ni	ght is calling, and	I am falling

A

Dance with me

Solo if appropriate

A	A	D/A	D/A
Bm	E	A	A

x2

Dmaj7	E
Let it lift you	off the ground

Dmaj7	B
Starry eyes, and	love is all around us

D	E	E/F	F#m
I can take you	where you	want to	go

Bm7	E
Oh	whoa

	A
Dan	ce with me, I want to be your partner

Dmaj7

Can’t you see the music is just starting?

	Bm	E
Ni	ght is calling, and	I am falling

A

Dance with me

Outro

A	A	D	D
			x2, then flashy outro riff

Otis Redding - (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay (1967)

G

G	B7
Sittin’ in the mornin’	sun

	C	A
I’ll be	sittin’ when the evenin’	comes

G	B7
Watching the ships roll	in

	C	A
Then I	watch ‘em roll away a	gain, yeah

	G	E
I’m	sittin’ on the dock of the	bay

	G	E
Watching the	tide roll a	way

	G	A
Ooo, I’m just	sittin’ on the dock of the	bay

	G	E
Wastin’	tim	e

	G	B7
I	left my home in	Georgia

C	A
Headed for the ‘Frisco	Bay

	G	B7
‘Cause	I had nothing to	live for

	C	A
It looks like	nothin’s gonna come my	way

	G	E
So I’m just gon’	sit on the dock of the	bay

	G	E
Watching the	tide roll a	way

	G	A
Ooo, I’m	sittin’ on the dock of the	bay

	G	E
Wastin’	tim	e

Bridge

Vox start on the 1 on the first line, then the 6, then the 1

G	D	C
Look	like,	nothing’s gonna change

G	D	C
Everyt	hing	still remains the same

G	D	C	G
I can’t	do what	ten people	tell me to do

Vox on the 1 of the chord

F	D
So I guess I’ll re	main the same, yes

G	B7
Sittin’ here resting my	bones

	C	A
And this	loneliness won’t leave me a	lone

	G	B7
It’s	two thousand miles I	roam

	C	A
Just to	make this dock my	home

	G	E
Now I’m just gonna	sit at the dock of the	bay

	G	E
Watching the	tide roll a	way

	G	A
Ooo, I’m	sittin’ on the dock of the	bay

	G	E
Wastin’	tim	e

With whistling

G	G	G	G	Em	Em	Em	Em

Paper Lace - Billy Don’t Be a Hero (1974)

Paper Lace in C, Bo Donaldson in Bb, I play in D capo 3

Lyrics and chords here follow the Bo Donaldson version

Vox on the 1 of the chord

Em7	A7
The marchin’ band came	down along Main Street

D

The soldier blues fell in behind

Em7	A7
I looked across and	there I saw Billy

D

Waiting to go and join the line

Vox up to the 5 on “and”

Em7	A7
And with her head u	pon his shoulder

Em7	A7
His young and lovely	fiancee

Back down to the regular melody

Em7	A7
From where I stood I	saw she was cryin’

Em7	G	A7
And through her tears I	heard her	say

D	Dmaj7	Em7
Billy, don’t be a	hero, don’t be a	fool with your life

A7	D
Billy, don’t be a hero, come back and	make me your wife

	D	D7	G	Gm
And a	s he started to	go, she said,	Billy keepy your head	low

D	Em7	A	D
Billy, don’t be	hero,	come back to	me

D

Em7	A7
The soldier blues were	trapped on a hillside

D

The battle raging all around

Em7	A7
The sergeant cried we’ve	got to hang on boys

D

We’ve got to hold this piece of ground

Em7	A7
I need a volun	teer to ride up

Em7	A7
And bring us back some	extra men

Em7	A7
And Billy’s hand was	up in a moment

Em7	G	A7
Forgettin’ all the	words she	said

Original changes hey here, I don’t, it’s a silly key change

D	Dmaj7	Em7
Billy, don’t be a	hero, don’t be a	fool with your life

A7	D
Billy, don’t be a hero, come back and	make me your wife

	D	D7	G	Gm
And a	s he started to	go, she said,	Billy keepy your head	low

D	Em7	A	D
Billy, don’t be	hero,	come back to	me

D

Let ring

Em7	A7
I heard his fianc	ee got a letter

Dmaj7	Bm7
That told how Billy d	ied that day

Em7	A7
The letter said that	he was a hero

Dmaj7	Bm7
She should be proud he	died that way

Em7	Asus4	A	D
I heard she threw that	letter	a	way

Paul McCartney - Another Day (1971)

Originally in G, I play in D

	D
Every	day she takes a morning bath

	F#7
She	wets her hair

Bm	Em
Wraps a towel around her as she’s	heading for the bedroom chair

	A	D
It’s just	another	day

G	D
Slipping into stoc	kings

G	D
Stepping into	shoes

G	D	E7
Dipping in the poc	ket of her	raincoat

A	D
It’s just another	day

	D	F#7
At the	office where the papers grow she	takes a break

Bm	Em
Drinks another coffee and she	finds it hard to stay awake

	A	D	G	Em
It’s just an	other	day	doo doo doo doo doo	doo

	A	D	B7	Em
It’s just an	other d	ay doo doo doo	doo doo	doo

	A	D	A/C#	Bm
It’s just an	other d	ay

	Bm	Gmaj7
So	sad, so	sad

E/G#	Gmaj7	Bm
Sometimes she	feels so s	ad

	Gmaj7
Alone in her apartment she’d	dwell

	E/G#	Gmaj7	Bm
Till the man of her	dreams comes to	break the s	pell

B	Em	A
Ah,	stay, don’t stand her	up

	Aaug	F#m/A	F#7	Bm
And he	comes, and he	stays, but he	leaves the next	day

	G	E/G#	G	Bm
So	sad,	sometimes she	feels so	sad

	D	F#7
As she	posts another letter to the	sound of five

Bm	Em
People gather round her and she	finds it hard to stay alive

	A	D	G	Em
It’s just an	other	day	doo doo doo doo doo	doo

	A	D	B7	Em
It’s just an	other d	ay doo doo doo	doo doo	doo

	A	D	A/C#	Bm
It’s just an	other d	ay

	Bm	Gmaj7
So	sad, so	sad

E/G#	Gmaj7	Bm
Sometimes she	feels so s	ad

	Gmaj7
Alone in her apartment she’d	dwell

	E/G#	Gmaj7	Bm
Till the man of her	dreams comes to	break, the s	pell

B	Em	A
Ah,	stay, don’t stand her	up

	Aaug	F#m/A	F#7	Bm
And he	comes, and he	stays, but he	leaves the next	day

	G	E/G#	G	Bm
So	sad,	sometimes she	feels so	sad

	D
Every	day she takes a morning bath

	F#7
She	wets her hair

Bm	Em
Wraps a towel around her as she’s	heading for the bedroom chair

	A	D
It’s just	another	day

G	D
Slipping into stoc	kings

G	D
Stepping into	shoes

G	D	E7
Dipping in the poc	ket of her	raincoat

A	D	G	Em
It’s just another	day	doo doo doo doo doo	doo

	A	D	B7	Em
It’s just an	other d	ay doo doo doo	doo doo	doo

	A	D	C	G	D
It’s just an	other d	ay

Paul McCartney - Let Me Roll It (1973)

Originally in E, I play in A capo 2.

Intro in the original key, with all the C’s being where the chords go...

-2h3p2-2-0------C-2h3p2-2-0----C-
-2h3p2-2-0-2-0--C-2h3p2-2-0----C-
-----------2-0--C----------2-0-C-
----------------C----------2-0-C-

Intro in my key something like...

G -4h5p4-4-2-----C-4h5p4-4-2-----C-
D -4h5p4-4-2-----C-4h5p4-4-2-----C-
A -----------5-3-C---------------C-
E ---------------C-----------5-3-C-

Possibly sounds better to pick than pull off

in this key.

Intro, no riff yet

D	Bm	D	Bm
A	D	A	D

Riff starts after this line

A	D	A	D	A

Bm	A	Bm	A

Vox on the 5 of the first chord

A	Bm
You gave me something,	I understand

“In the palm” in 1 3 2 of the first chord

A	Bm
You gave me loving in the	palm of my hand

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

With riff

Bm	A	Bm	A

A	Bm
I want to tell you, and	now’s the time

Vox on “go ing to” on 4 3 2 of the first chord

A	Bm
I want to tell you that you’re	going to be mine

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

With riff

Bm	A	Bm	A

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

Bm	A	Bm	A

A	Bm
You gave me something	I understand

A	Bm
You gave me loving in the	palm of my hand

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

With riff, to fade

Bm

A

Bm

A

Paul McCartney - Maybe I’m Amazed (1970)

Verse originally in Bb, I play in G if I want to work, otherwise

C capo 3.

If you’re capo’d, be ready to find those 9’s. And on guitar, just play

a 7 instead of the #9.

Intro, the first chord is really just fading in,

and the progression really starts at the second chord.

F#	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7

Vox on the 5 of the first chord, just up a step on “love”

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m am	azed at the way you l	ove me all the t	ime

G	D/F#	A
And maybe I’m afr	aid of the way I lo	ve you

This time vox on the 6 of the chord on “pulled”

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m ama	zed at the way you pu	lled me out of t	ime

	G	D/F#
You h	ung me on a l	ine

Vox *stay* on the 6 of the chord on “maybe” (A if the chord is D)

	F	C/E	A
And m	aybe I’m amazed at the w	ay I really n	eed you

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
Maybe I’m a l	onely man who’s in the middle of something

E	B	B(#9)
That he doesn’t really underst	and

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
And maybe you’re the	only woman who could ever help me

I skip the “ooh’s” at the end of this line

E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7
Baby won’t you help me to underst	and

Solo on verse chords, acoustic I usually skip this and the following chorus.

Can also do it on doo doo, etc.

G	D/F#	A	E/A
G	D/F#	A
G	D/F#	A	E/A
G	D/F#
F	C	A

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
Maybe I’m a l	onely man who’s in the middle of something

E	B	B(#9)
That he doesn’t really underst	and

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
And maybe you’re the	only woman who could ever help me

E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7
Baby won’t you help me to underst	and

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m am	azed at the way you’re	with me all the	time

G	D/F#	A
Maybe I’m a	fraid of the way I	need you

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m a	mazed at the way you	help me sing my	song

	G	D/F#
You	right me when I’m	wrong

	F	C/E	A
And	maybe I’m amazed at the	way I really n	eed you

If I skipped the previous chorus, I’ll do this one with lyrics, else do this on “yeah”

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
Maybe I’m a l	onely man who’s in the middle of something

E	B	B(#9)
That he doesn’t really underst	and

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
And maybe you’re the	only woman who could ever help me

End here acoustic

E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7
Baby won’t you help me to underst	and

Long pause, then solo on verse chords, acoustic I usually skip this

G	D/F#	A	E/A
G	D/F#	A
G	D/F#	A	E/A
G	D/F#
F	C	A

Outro on chorus chords, fading, acoustic I usually skip this

B	Bmaj7	B9
E	B	B(#9)
B	Bmaj7	B9
E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7

Paul McCartney and Wings - Jet (1974)

Originally in A, I play in G

Get the bridge/solo part ready

Gm13/Bb x10010

Am	G/B	C6	Am	G/B	C6	Bm7
Am	G/B	C6

I usually skip these “jets”; it’s just high enough that it

comes out sounding like a random grunt *near* the root.

G

Jet, jet, jet

	C/G	G
I can almost remember their	funny fac	es

G

That time you told ‘em that

	C/G
You were gonna be marrying s	oon

	Bm7	Am
And	Jet, I thought the o	nly

	G/B	C6	G
Lonel	y pl	ace was on the moo	n

For these “jets”, I’ll sing an octave down but

hit a high guitar voicing on that downbeat.

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

G	C/G	G
Jet, was your father as bold as a	sergeant	major?

	G	C/G
Well	how come he told you that you were hardly old enough	yet?

	Bm7
And	Jet, I thought the

Am	G/B	C6	G
Major was	a	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	G	Gsus4	G
Ah, mater, m	uch	later

Instrumental bridge

C	G/B	Gm13/A#	F	F	C	G
→		→		→

x2

Synth solo on verse chords, play the chords either way

	Bm7
And	Jet, I thought the

Am	G/B	C6	G
Major was	a	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	G	Gsus4	G
Ah, mater, m	uch	later

Instrumental bridge

C	G/B	Gm13/A#	F	F	C	G
→		→		→

x2

G	C/G	G
Jet, with the wind in your hair of a	thousand	laces

	C/G
Climb on the back and we’ll go for a ride in the	sky

	Bm7
And	Jet, I thought that the

Am	G/B	C6	G
Major was a	little	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

	Bm7
And	Jet, you know I

Am	G/B	C6	G
Thought you was a	little	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

Am	G/B	C6
		My little lady

Am	G/B	C6	Bm7
		My little lady	yes

Am

Cmaj7

Gmaj7

Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (1975)

Em

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
The problem is	all inside your	head, she	said to	me

Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
The answer is	easy if you	take it logically

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
I’d like to	help you in your	struggle	to be	free

	B7	Em	Am	Em
There	must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
She said it’s	really not my	habit	to	intrude

	Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
Furthe	rmore, I hope my	meaning won’t be	lost or miscon	strued

	Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
But I’ll re	peat myself,	at the	risk of	being	rude

	B7	Em	Am	Em
There	must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover

Em	Am	Em
Fifty	ways to leave your	lover

	G
You just slip out the	back, Jack

	Bb
Make a new	plan, Stan

	C
You don’t need to be	coy, Roy

	G
Just get yourself	free

	G
Hop on the	bus, Gus

	Bb
You don’t need to	discuss much

	C
Just drop off the	key, Lee

	G
And get yourself	free

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
She said it	grieves me so to	see you	in such	pain

	Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
I wish	there was something	I could do to	make you smile again

	Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
I said I ap	preciate that	and	would you	please ex	plain

	B7	Em
A	bout the	fifty ways

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
She said why	don’t we both just	sleep on	it to	night

	Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
And I be	lieve in the	morning you’ll	begin to see the light

	Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
And then she	kissed me and I	realized she	probab	ly was	right

	B7	Em	Am	Em
There	must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover

Em	Am	Em
Fifty	ways to leave your	lover

	G
You just slip out the	back, Jack

	Bb
Make a new	plan, Stan

	C
You don’t need to be	coy, Roy

	G
Just get yourself	free

	G
Hop on the	bus, Gus

	Bb
You don’t need to	discuss much

	C
Just drop off the	key, Lee

	G
And get yourself	free

	G
You just slip out the	back, Jack

	Bb
Make a new	plan, Stan

	C
You don’t need to be	coy, Roy

	G
Just get yourself	free

	G
Hop on the	bus, Gus

	Bb
You don’t need to	discuss much

	C
Just drop off the	key, Lee

	G
And get yourself	free

Paul Simon - Kodachrome (1973)

Originally in D capo 2, which is where I play it. Originally

in drop-D, which I don’t bother with.

Almost entirely alternating bass/upper pattern.

Riff on the verse/intro G is some version of:

D|--------0-0-----|
A|----1-2-----1-2-|
E|3-3-------------|

D	Dmaj7	D7	G	Em	A7	D	Em	A7

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
When I think	back on	all the	crap I learned in h	igh school

Em	A7	D	Em	A7
It’s a wonder	I can think at a	ll

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
And though my la	ck of	educ	ation hasn’t	hurt me none

Em	A7	D
I can read the	writing on the	wall

	G	G/F#	E
Kodachr	o-	o-	ome

	Am	D7
They give us those	nice bright	colors

	G	C
They give us the	greens of sum	mers

	A	D
Makes you think a	ll the wor	ld’s a sunny

G	G/F#	E
Day	oh	yeah

	Am	D7	G	C
I got a N	ikon cam	era, I love to take	photograp	hs

	A	D
So momma, don’t t	ake my	Kodachrome

	G	Bm	Em	A7
A	way

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
If you took	all the	girls I	knew when I was	single

Em	A7	D	Em	A7
And put ‘em all	together for one	night

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
I know they’d	never	match my	sweet imagin	ation

Em	A7	D
And ev’rything looks	worse in black and	white

	G	G/F#	E
Kodachr	o-	o-	ome

	Am	D7
They give us those	nice bright	colors

	G	C
They give us the	greens of sum	mers

	A	D
Makes you think a	ll the wor	ld’s a sunny

G	G/F#	E
Day	oh	yeah

	Am	D7	G	C
I got a N	ikon cam	era, I love to take	photograp	hs

	A	D
So momma, don’t t	ake my	Kodachrome

	G
A	way

G	Bm	Em	Em

	G	Bm	Em
Mama don’t	take my	Kodachrome a	way

	G	Bm	Em
Mama don’t	take my	Kodachrome a	way

	G	Bm	Em
Mama don’t	take my	Kodachrome a	way

Double-time feel

G

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Bm

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Em

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

G

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Bm

Leave your boy so far from home

Em

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

G

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Bm

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Em

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (1972)

Originally in G, I play in G capo 2.

Intro

G	C	G	D
			x 2

	G
The	Mama pajama rolled outta bed

	C
And she ran to the police s	tation

	D
When the	papa found out, he began to shout

	G
He started the investi	gation

	D	G
It’s against the	law, it was against the l	aw

	D	G
What the mama	saw, it was against the l	aw

G

Mama look down and spit on the ground

	C
Every time her name gets	mentioned

	D
The	papa said oy, if I get that boy

	G
I’m gonna stick him in the house of de	tention

	C	G
Well I’m on my wa	y, I don’t know w	here I’m goin’

	C	G
I’m on my	way, I’m takin’ my	time

	A	D
But I d	on’t know w	here

	C	G
Goodbye to R	osie, the queen of Co	rona

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

Instrumental break on chorus chords, with whistling

C	G	C	G	A	D	C	G
G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D	D

	G
Woah...	In a couple of days they’re gonna take me away

	C
But the press let the story	leak

	D
Now when the	radical priest come to get me released

	G
We was all on the cover of	Newsweek

	C	G
Well I’m on my wa	y, I don’t know w	here I’m goin’

	C	G
I’m on my	way, I’m takin’ my	time

	A	D
But I d	on’t know w	here

	C	G
Goodbye to R	osie, the queen of Co	rona

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

	G	F	C	D	G
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman (1966)

Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton in C#, I play in G

G	D/F#	Em7	Em/D	C	D	G	D6

Vox on 6 5 on “ma-an”

	G	D/F#	Em	Em/D
When a	man loves a	woman,	can’t keep his mind on	nothing else

C	D	G	D
He’d trade the w	orld for the good thing	he’s&

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