Dan’s Big Awesome Acoustic Songbook: Songs of the '70s
October 2024 refresh
Originally in A, with a huge range; I play in G, but sing the chorus
down an octave.
G | C/G | G | C/G | ||
G | C/G | G | D/G | C/G | G |
Ooh → |
Vox on the 6 of the chord on “you”
D | B7 |
You can dance, y | ou can jive |
Em | A/C# |
Having the time of your | life |
C | Am7 | |
Ooh ooh ooh, | see that girl, | watch that scene |
D7 | G | C/G |
Digging the d | ancing queen |
G | C/G |
→ |
G | C/G |
→ |
G | C/G |
Friday night and the lights are low |
G | Em |
Looking out for a place to go |
D | G/D |
Where they play the right music |
D |
Getting in the swing |
D | D | Em | Em | D | Em | |
You | come to l | ook f | or a k | ing | → |
G | C/G |
Anybody could be that guy |
G | Em |
Night is young and the music’s h | igh |
D | G/D |
With a bit of rock music |
D |
Everything is fine |
D | Em | Em | D | Em | |
You’re in the mo | od f | or a d | ance |
Am7 | D7 | |
And when you | get the chance |
G | C/G | G | C/G | |
You are the | dancing queen, | young and sweet, only | seventeen |
G | C/G | G | D | C/E | G |
Dancing queen, | feel the beat from the | tambourine, o | h y | eah |
D | B7 |
You can dance, y | ou can jive |
Em | A/C# |
Having the time of your | life |
C | Am7 | |
Ooh ooh ooh, | see that girl, | watch that scene |
D7 | G | C/G |
Digging the d | ancing queen |
Not a typo, there is an extra measure here that isn’t here in the first chorus
G | C/G |
G | C/G |
→ |
G | C/G |
→ |
G | C/G |
You’re a teaser, you turn ‘em on |
G | Em |
Leave them burning and then you’re | gone |
D | G/D |
Looking out for another |
D |
Anyone will do |
D | Em | Em | D | Em | |
You’re in the mo | od f | or a d | ance | → |
Am7 | D7 | |
And when you | get the chance |
G | C/G | G | C/G | |
You are the | dancing queen, | young and sweet, only | seventeen |
G | C/G | G | D | C/E | G |
Dancing queen, | feel the beat from the | tambourine, o | h y | eah |
D | B7 |
You can dance, y | ou can jive |
Em | A/C# |
Having the time of your | life |
C | Am7 | |
Ooh ooh ooh, | see that girl, | watch that scene |
D7 | G | C/G | G | C/G |
Digging the d | ancing queen |
G | C/G | D7/A | G | C/G | G | C/G |
Digging the d | ancing queen |
G |
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 |
Originally between Ab and A, I play in A capo 2
Intro
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
x2 |
“Livin’ easy” is roughly b7 1 b3 b3
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Livin’ ea | sy, | livin’ free |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
Seaso | n tic | ket on | a | one way ride |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Askin’ no | thin’ | , | leave me be |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
Ta | kin’ | eve | rythin | ’ | in my stride |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Don’t need rea | son, | don’t need rhym | e |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
A | in’t | not | hin’ I’d | ra | ther do |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Goin’ do | wn, | party time |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | E |
My f | riends | are gonna | be there too |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# | |
I’m on the | high | way | to | hell |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# | |
On the | high | way | to | hell |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# |
High | way | to | hell, | I’m | on the |
A | A | A | D/A |
High | way | to | hell |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
No stop | signs | , | speed limi | t |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
Nob | ody’s | gonna | sl | ow me down |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Like a whe | el, | gonna spin it |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
Nob | ody’s | gonn | a | mess me around |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Hey Sata | n, | payin’ my du | es |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | A | A |
Playin | ’ in | a | rockin’ band |
A | A | A | D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | D/F# | G |
Hey mam | a, | look at m | e |
D/F# | D/F# | G | D/F# | E |
I’ | m on | my wa | y to the | promised land, whoa |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# | |
I’m on the | high | way | to | hell |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# |
High | way | to | hell, | I’m | on the |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# |
High | way | to | hell |
A | A | A | D/A |
High | way | to | hell |
D | Dsus4 | D | |
Mmmmmmm |
D | Dsus4 | D | Dsus4 | D | |
Don’t stop me |
Solo on verse chords
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# | |
I’m on the | high | way | to | hell, | uh |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# |
High | way | to | hell, | I’m | on the |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# |
High | way | to | hell, | on the |
Hard stop here
A | A | A | D/A |
High | way | to |
G | D/F# |
A | A | A | D/A | G | D/F# | A |
High | way | to | hell, I’m on on the h | ighway | to he | ll |
A | A | A | D/A |
High | way | to | hell |
A | A | A | D/A |
High | way | to | hell |
Let ring at the end of this line
A | A | A | D/A |
High | way | to | hell |
And I'm going down, aaaooohwaayyy
A |
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 |
In Em, play the second chord as 200200
Intro
Em | Em | D69/F# | D69/F# |
x2 |
Vox on the 5
Em | D69/F# | |
On the | first part of the | journey |
Em | D69/F# | |
I was | looking at all the | life |
Em | D69/F# | |
There were | plants and birds and | rocks and things |
Em | D69/F# | |
There were | sand and hills and | rings |
Em | D69/F# | |
The | first thing I met was a | fly with a buzz |
Em | D69/F# | |
And the | sky with no cl | ouds |
Em | D69/F# | |
The | heat was hot and the g | round was dry |
Em | D69/F# | |
But the | air was full of so | und |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
I’ve | been through the desert on a | horse with no name |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
It felt | good to be out of the | rain |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
In the d | esert you can rem | ember your name |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
‘Cause there a | in’t no one for to | give you no pain |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
L | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
L | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Em | D69/F# | |
After | two days in the | desert sun |
Em | D69/F# | |
My s | kin began to turn | red |
Em | D69/F# | |
After t | hree days in the | desert fun |
Em | D69/F# | |
I was | looking at a river | bed |
Em | D69/F# | |
And the | story it told of a | river that flowed |
Em | D69/F# | |
Made me | sad to think it was | dead |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
You see I’ve | been through the desert on a | horse with no name |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
It felt g | ood to be out of the | rain |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
In the | desert you can r | emember your name |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
‘Cause | there ain’t no one for to | give you no pain |
Not a typo, there’s an extra “la” at the beginning of each line this time
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La l | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La l | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Solo
Em | Em | D69/F# | D69/F# |
x2 |
Em | Em | D69/F# | D69/F# |
Em | Em | D69/A | D69/A |
Em | D69/F# | |
After | nine days I let the | horse run free |
Em | D69/F# | |
‘Cause the | desert had turned to | sea |
Em | D69/F# | |
There were | plants and birds and | rocks and things |
Em | D69/F# | |
There were | sand and hills and | rings |
Em | D69/F# | |
The | ocean is a desert with its | life underground |
Em | D69/F# | |
And a | perfect disguise | above |
Em | D69/F# | |
Under the | cities lies a | heart made of ground |
Em | D69/F# | |
But the | humans will give no | love |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
You see, I’ve | been through the desert on a | horse with no name |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
It felt | good to be out of the | rain |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
In the | desert you can re | member your name |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
‘Cause | there ain’t no one for to | give you no pain |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La l | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La l | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La l | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La l | a, la, la l | a la la la |
Em9 | D69/F# | |
La la l | a, la, l | a |
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 |
Originally in Bb, I play in A
A |
A |
Thank you for being a friend |
D/A |
Traveled down the road and back again |
E/A | A | |
Your | heart is true, you’re a pal and a confi | dant |
A |
I’m not ashamed to say |
D/A |
I hope it always will stay this way |
E/A | A | |
My | hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a | bow |
F#m | A7/E |
And if you threw a | party |
Dmaj7 | C#7 | |
In | vited everyone you | knew |
F#m/E | A7 | |
Well, | you would | see |
Bm7 | F#m | |
The biggest | gift would be from | me |
D | D/C# | D/B | D/A | E | |
And the | card | at | tached | would | say |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend |
D/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend |
E/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend |
A | A/G# | A | A/G# | A/F# | A/E |
→ |
D | D/C# | D | D/C# | D/B | D/A |
→ |
A |
If it’s a car you lack |
D/A |
I’d surely buy you a Cadillac |
E/A | A | |
What | ever you need any time of the day or | night |
A |
I’m not ashamed to say |
D/A |
I hope it always will stay this way |
E/A | A | |
My | hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a | bow |
F#m | A7/E |
And when we both get | older |
Dmaj7 | C#7 | |
With | walking canes and hair of | gray |
F#m/E | A7 |
Have no | fear |
Bm7 | F#m | |
Even | though it’s hardly | here |
D | D/C# | D/B | D/A | E | |
I will | stand | real | close | and | say |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
D/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
E/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
A | |
Let me tell you ‘bout a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
D/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
E/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
Vox on “die” are on the root of the chord
A | A/D | A/E | Em6/G | F#m |
And | when we | die and float a | way |
Fmaj7 | A/E | |
Into the | night, the milky | way |
Em6/G | F#m | |
You’ll hear me | call as we as | cend |
Fmaj7 | A/E | |
I’ll say your | name, then once a | gain |
No instruments...
Thank you for being a...
Instruments back in...
A | A/G# | A | A/G# | A/F# | A/E |
→ |
D | D/C# | D | D/C# | D/B | D/A |
→ |
This time with baa baa baa baa
A | A/G# | A | A/G# | A/F# | A/E |
→ |
D | D/C# | D | D/C# | D/B | D/A |
→ |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
D/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
E/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend |
A | |
People tell me about a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
D/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
E/A | |
Thank you for being a | friend (I wanna thank you) |
A | |
Thank you for being a | friend |
A |
Thank you right now for being a friend |
D/A | |
I wanna | tell you ‘bout now and I’ll tell you again |
E/A | A | |
I wanna | thank you, thank you, thank you for being a | friend |
A | A/G# | A | A/G# | A/F# | A/E |
→ |
D | D/C# | D | D/C# | D/B | D/A |
→ |
A |
Vocal note - melody starts on the 5
Originally in F#, 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 | |
T | hree conductors, and t | wenty five sacks of |
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 | A7 | D | |
And | graveyards of the r | usted 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 | Bm/A | E/G# |
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 | A7 | D | |
And the | rhythm of the r | ails 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 | Bm/A | E/G# |
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, | Tennessee |
D | A | D |
Halfway home, and | we’ll be there by | morning |
Bm | A | D | |
Through the | Mississippi 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 | A7 | D | |
This | train’s got the disapp | earin’ 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 | Bm/A | E/G# |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
Band enters with hits only
A | G |
Takin’ care of business | every day |
D | A |
Takin’ care of business | every 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
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 |
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 |
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 |
→ | → |
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 |
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 |
Basically ignore all the I/2 chords (Ab/Bb in Ab)
Gm9 | Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 |
→ | → |
Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → |
Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → | → | → |
Fm7 | |
Her name was | Lola |
Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 |
She was a | showgirl |
Am7b5 | D7 | |
With yellow | feathers in her | hair |
Gm7 | |
And a | dress cut down to there |
Fm7 | |
She would me | rengue |
Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 |
And do the | cha-cha |
Am7b5 | D7 | |
And while she | tried to be a | star |
Gm7 | |
Tony | always tended bar |
If you’re playing this in Fm, and you’re going to play this Cdim7 the way I think you are, note that’s really D7/D#, which makes that D7 a lot easier to get to
Cdim7 | D7 | Gm | |
Across the | crow- | ded | floor |
Cdim7 | D7 | Gm | |
They worked from | eight | til | four |
Cm7 | D7 | |
They were | young and they had each | other |
Gm7 | F#m7 | Bb7/F | |
Who could | ask | for | more |
Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 | |
At the | Copa, | Copaca | bana |
Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 | |
The | hottest spot | north of H | avana |
C9 | Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Bb/C | C7 |
At the | Copa, | Copaca | baaaaa | na |
Fm7 | Bb7 | Gm7 | C7 | Fm7 | D7 |
Music and | passion were | always the | fashion at the | Copa |
Gm9 | |
They fell in | love |
Gm9 | Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 |
→ | → |
Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → |
Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → | → | → |
Fm7 | |
His name was | Rico |
Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 |
He wore a | diamond |
Am7b5 | D7 | |
He was es | corted to his | chair |
Gm7 | |
He saw | Lola dancing there |
Fm7 | |
And when she | finished |
Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 |
He called her | over |
Am7b5 | D7 | |
But Rico | went a bit too | far |
Gm7 | |
Tony | sailed across the bar |
Cdim7 | D7 | Gm | |
And then the | punc | hes f | lew |
Cdim7 | D7 | Gm | |
And chairs were | smashed | in | two |
Cm | D7 | |
There was | blood and a single | gunshot |
Gm7 | F#m7 | Bb7/F | |
But just | who | shot | who? |
Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 | |
At the | Copa, | Copaca | bana |
Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 | |
The | hottest spot | north of H | avana |
C9 | Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Bb/C | C7 |
At the | Copa, | Copaca | baaaaa | na |
Fm7 | Bb7 | Gm7 | C7 | Fm7 | D7 |
Music and | passion were | always the | fashion at the | Copa |
Gm9 | |
She lost her | love |
There’s no point in trying the crazy jazz breakdown here
Gm9 | Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 |
→ | → |
Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → |
Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → | → | → |
Fm7 | |
Her name is | Lola |
Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 |
She was a | showgirl |
Am7b5 | D7 | |
But that was | thirty years a | go |
Gm7 | |
When they | used to have a show |
Fm7 | |
Now it’s a | disco |
Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 |
But not for | Lola |
Am7b5 | D7 | |
Still in the | dress she used to | wear |
Gm7 | |
Faded | feathers in her hair |
Cdim7 | D7 | Gm | |
She sits there | so | re | fined |
Cdim7 | D7 | Gm | |
And drinks her | self | half- | blind |
Cm | D7 | |
She lost her | youth and she lost her | Tony |
Gm7 | F#m7 | Bb7/F | |
Now she’s | lost | her | mind |
Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 | |
At the | Copa, | Copaca | bana |
Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Ebmaj7 | |
The | hottest spot | north of H | avana |
C9 | Fm7 | Ab/Bb | Bb/C | C7 |
At the | Copa, | Copaca | baaaaa | na |
Fm7 | Bb7 | Gm7 | C7 | Fm7 | D7 |
Music and | passion were | always the | fashion at the | Copa |
Gm9 | |
Don’t fall in | love |
Gm9 | Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 |
→ | → | Don’t fall in love |
Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → |
Gm9 | Gbm9 | Fm9 | Gbm9 | Gm9 |
→ | → | → | → |
Originally in C, I play in G
Intro
G |
G | D/F# | |
Some say l | ove, it is a r | iver |
C | D | G | |
That d | rowns the ten | der r | eed |
D/F# | |
Some say love, it is a r | azor |
C | D | G | |
That l | eaves your so | ul to bl | eed |
Bm | Em | |
Some say l | ove, it is a h | unger |
C | D7sus4 | D | |
An end | less aching n | eed |
G | D | |
I say l | ove, it is a fl | ower and |
C | D | G | |
Y | ou its on | ly se | ed |
G |
G | D | |
It’s the he | art afraid of brea | king |
C | D | G | |
That n | ever lea | rns to da | nce |
G | D | |
It’s the dr | eam afraid of wak | ing |
C | D | G | |
That | never tak | es the cha | nce |
Bm | Em | |
It’s the | one who won’t be t | aken |
C | D7sus4 | |
Who ca | n not seem to g | ive |
G | D | |
And the | soul afraid of dy | ing |
C | D | G | |
That n | ever le | arns to li | ve |
G |
G | D | |
When the n | ight has been too lo | nely |
C | D | G | |
And the r | oad has b | een too lo | ng |
G | D | |
And you th | ink that love is | only |
C | D | G | |
For the l | ucky an | d the str | ong |
Bm | Em | |
Just r | emember in the w | inter |
C | D7sus4 | |
Far bene | ath the bitter | snow |
G | D | |
Lies the s | eed that with the s | un’s love |
C | D | G | |
In the sp | ring beco | mes the ro | se |
G |
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 |
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) |
Basically keep downstroke 16ths going the whole song
Chorus chords:
G/F == x897xx
F/C == x332xx
F/D == xx0565
Em7add4 | G | |
Em7add4 | G | |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
C | Csus4 | C |
→ | → |
Vox on the 4 of the chord
Em7add4 | G | |
Well you went | uptown riding in your | limousine |
Em7add4 | G | |
With your | fine Park Avenue c | lothes |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
You had the | Dom Perignon in your ha | nd |
C | Csus4 | C | |
And the spoon up your nose | → | → |
Em7add4 | G | |
Ooh, and when you | wake up in the morning with your h | ead on fire |
Em7add4 | G | |
And your | eyes too bloody to | see |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
Go on and | cry in your coffee but d | on’t |
C | Csus4 | C | |
Come bitchin’ to me | → | → |
Vox on the 3 of the chord (B if the chord is G/F)
G/F | F/C | G/F | F/C | |
Because you had to be a | big shot | , didn’t | you |
G/F | F/C | G/F | F/C | |
You h | ad to o | pen up | your | mouth |
G/F | G | F/D | G | |
You h | ad to be a | big shot, | d | idn’t you |
F/D | G | F/D | C |
All your | friends were | so knocked out |
F | G/F | F/C | G/F | |
You h | ad to have the l | ast word, | last | night |
F/C | G/F | F/C | G/F | |
You k | now what e | verything’s | about |
F | F/C | C | F/C | C | |
You | had to have a wh | ite h | ot s | potl | ight |
C | G/D | D | G/D | D | |
You | had to be a b | ig s | hot l | ast n | ight, whoa |
Em7add4 | G |
Em7add4 | G |
Yeah! |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
C | Csus4 | C |
→ | → |
Em7add4 | G | |
Yeah, they were | all impressed with your H | alston dress |
Em7add4 | G | |
And the | people that you knew at Ela | ine’s |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
And the | story of your latest suc | cess |
C | Csus4 | C | |
Kept ‘em so entertained | → | → |
Em7add4 | G | |
Aww, but now you | just don’t remember all the t | hings you said |
Em7add4 | G | |
And you’re | not sure you want to know |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
I’ll give you | one hint, honey you s | ure |
C | Csus4 | C | |
Did put on a show | → | → |
G/F | F/C | G/F | F/C | |
Because you had to be a | big shot | , didn’t | you |
G/F | F/C | G/F | F/C | |
You h | ad to prove | it to | the | crowd |
G/F | G | F/D | G | |
You h | ad to be a | big shot, | d | idn’t you |
F/D | G | F/D | C |
All your | friends were | so knocked out |
F | G/F | F/C | G/F | |
You h | ad to have the l | ast word, | last | night |
F/C | G/F | F/C | G/F | |
S | o much fun | to be | around |
F | F/C | C | F/C | C | |
You h | ad to have the front | page | bold | type |
C | G/D | D | G/D | D | |
You h | ad to be a b | ig s | hot l | ast n | ight, whoa |
Solo, with whoa
F | C | G | D |
x2 |
Em7add4 | G | |
Yeah, it’s | no big sin to stick your t | wo cents in |
Em7add4 | G | |
If you | know when to leave it a | lone |
Em7add4 | Bm/D | |
But you went | over the line, you couldn’t | see |
C | Csus4 | C | |
It was time to go home | → | → |
G/F | F/C | G/F | F/C | |
No no no no no no you had to be a | big shot | , didn’t | you |
G/F | F/C | G/F | F/C | |
You h | ad to o | pen up | your | mouth |
G/F | G | F/D | G | |
You h | ad to be a | big shot, | d | idn’t you |
F/D | G | F/D | C |
All your | friends were | so knocked out |
F | G/F | F/C | G/F | |
You h | ad to have the l | ast word, | last | night |
F/C | G/F | F/C | G/F | |
You k | now what e | verything’s | about |
F | F/C | C | F/C | C | |
You | had to have a wh | ite h | ot s | potl | ight |
C | G/D | D | G/D | D | |
You | had to be a b | ig s | hot l | ast n | ight, whoa |
With whoa
F | C | G | D |
x2 |
Em7add4 |
Originally in A (then C), I play in E capo 1 (then G capo 1)
Highest note is the b7 of the first key
Intro
E | E | E7 |
→ | → |
Am | A | Bsus2 | B | E |
→ | → |
E | E | E7 |
→ | → |
Am | A | Bsus2 | B | E |
→ | → |
G | B7 |
→ |
Vox on the 5 on “only”
E | E/G# | A | A | E/G# | |
If I o | nly had the | words to | tell you | → | → |
F#m7 | F#m7/E | D9 | B7 | B7/D# | |
If you | only had the time to u | nder | stand | → | → |
E | E/G# | A | A | E/G# | |
Though I | know it wouldn’t | change your | feelings | → | → |
F#m7 | B7sus4 | E | G | B7 | |
And I | know you’ll carry | on the best you | can | → | → |
E | E/G# | A | A | E/G# | |
If I | only had the | urge to | tell you | → | → |
F#m7 | F#m7/E | D9 | B7 | B7/D# | |
If you | only knew how hard it i | s to | say | → | → |
E | E/G# | A | A | E/G# | |
When the | simple lines have | all been | taken | → | → |
F#m7 | B7sus4 | E | E | D/F# | |
And the | radio re | peats them every | day | → | → |
G | G/B | C | C | G/B | |
If I | never find the | song to | sing you | → | → |
Am7 | Am7/G | F9 | D7 | D7/F# | |
If you | always find it h | ard to compre | hend | → | → |
G | G/B | C | C | G/B | |
Well you | know there wouldn’t | be much | meaning | → | → |
Am7 | D7sus4 | G | G | G/A | |
If I | had to sing those | tired words a | gain | → | → |
Bridge
B7 | B7/C# | B7/D# | Em |
Life, | goes | on and | on |
D | D/F# | G | Gmaj7 | |
And to | night will | soon be | gone |
Cmaj7 | Bm7 | |
But if we | try |
Am7 | Dsus4 | D | Dsus2 | D | |
We can be | sure | → | → | → | → |
G | G/B | C | C | G/B | |
If I | only had the | words to | tell you | → | → |
Am7 | Am7/G | F9 | D7 | D7/F# | |
If you | only had the time to u | nder | stand | → | → |
G | G/B | C | C | G/B | |
But I | only have these | arms to | hold you | → | → |
Am7 | D7sus4 | G | |
And it’s | all that you can | ask of any | man |
Other bridge
G | G | G7 |
→ | → |
Cm | C | Dsus2 | D |
→ | → |
G | C | F | Am | D | C/D |
Laa, | la la | la | laa la la | la |
G | G/B | C | C | G/B | |
If I | only had the | words to | tell you | → | → |
Am7 | Am7/G | F9 | D7 | |
If you | only had the t | ime to under | stand |
D7/F# | G | G/B | C | C | G/B | |
Oh b | ut I | only have these | arms to | hold you | → | → |
Am7 | D7 | G | G7 | |
And it’s | all that you can | ask of any | man |
Cm | C | Dsus2 | D | G |
→ | → |
Cm | C | Dsus2 | D | G |
→ | → |
Originally in D, I play in A capo 3
Intro
Siren noises are roughly...
F |
Piano intro, skip on guitar
A | Gadd9 | D6/F# | F(#11) | |
A | G6/9 | D6/F# | F(#11) | |
A/C# | Dmaj7 | A/E | D/F# | |
E/G# | D/F# | A | A/G# | D/F# |
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
I’ve seen the | lights go out on | Broadway |
F#m | Dadd9 | E | Esus4 | E | Dadd9 |
I saw the | Empire State laid | low |
C#m7 | F#m |
And life went on beyond the P | alisades |
A/E | E | |
They all bought | Cadillacs |
Dadd9 | D | E | |
And left there | long ago |
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
They held a | concert out in | Brooklyn |
F#m | Dadd9 | E | Esus4 | E | Dadd9 |
To watch the | island bridges | blow |
Hanging stops
A/C# | D |
They turned our | power down |
A/E | D/F# |
And drove us u | nderground |
E/G# | D/F# | A |
But we went | right on with the s | how |
Now the rock starts, on guitar change Bm to G/B
A | F#m | A | F#m | A | A/E | E | A/E | E |
→ | → | → | → | → | → |
x2
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
I’ve seen the | lights go out on | Broadway |
F#m | D | E | A/E | E |
I saw the | ruins at my | feet |
C#m7 | F#m |
You know we almost didn’t | notice it |
A/E | E | |
We’d seen it | all the time |
D | D | E | |
On Forty- | Second Street |
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
They burned the | churches up in | Harlem |
F#m | D | E | A/E | E |
Like in that | Spanish civil | war |
A/C# | D |
The flames were e | verywhere |
A/E | D/F# |
But no one | really cared |
E/G# | D/F# | A |
It always | burned up there before |
A | F#m | A | F#m | A | A/E | E | A/E | E |
→ | → | → | → | → | → |
x2
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
I’ve seen the | lights go out on | Broadway |
F#m | D | E | A/E | E | Dadd9 |
I watched the | mighty skyline | fall |
C#m7 | F#m |
The boats were waiting at the | Battery |
A/E | E | |
The union w | ent on strike |
D | D | E | |
They never | sailed at all |
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
They sent a car | rier out from | Norfolk |
F#m | D | E | A/E | E | |
And | picked the | Yankees up for | free |
A/C# | D |
They said that | Queens could stay |
A/E | D/F# |
They blew the B | ronx away |
E/G# | D/F# | A |
And sank Man | hattan out at s | ea |
A | F#m | A | F#m | A | A/E | E | A/E | E |
→ | → | → | → | → | → |
x2
Hanging stop on “lights”, mellow out
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
You know those | lights were bright on | Broadway |
F#m | D | E | Esus4 | E | Dadd9 |
But that was so | many years ago |
C#m7 | F#m |
Before we all lived here in | Florida |
A/E | E | Dadd9 | D | E | |
Before the | Mafia | took over | Mexico |
A | D/A | A | A | E/G# |
There are not | many who re | member |
F#m | Dadd9 | E |
They say a | handful still | survive |
A/C# | D |
To tell the | world about |
A/E | D/F# |
The way the l | ights went out |
E | D/F# | F |
And keep the me | mory alive |
Repeat intro
A | Gadd9 | D6/F# | F(#11) |
A | G6/9 | D6/F# | F(#11) |
A/C# |
Originally in Dm, I play in Am capo 3
Play Bdim as x2313x
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
With ooh and mmm
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Am | Dm7 |
Anthony works in the | grocery store |
G | G/B | C |
Savin’ his | pennies for | someday |
Am | Dm7 |
Mama Leone left a | note on the door |
G | G/B | C | |
She said, | sonny, move | out to the | country |
Am | |
Ah, but | workin’ too hard can give you |
D7 | |
A h | eart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack |
F | G |
You oughta know by | now |
Am | Dm7 |
Who needs a house out in | Hackensack? |
G | G/B | C | |
Is t | hat all you ge | t for your m | oney? |
F | G | |
And it s | eems such a waste of | time |
E7 | Am | |
If t | hat’s what it’s all abo | ut |
F | Bdim | E7 | Am | |
Mama if | that’s movin’ up then | I’m | movin’ | out |
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Mmm, I’m movin’ o | ut |
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Am | Dm7 |
Sergeant O’Leary is | walkin’ the beat |
G | G/B | C | |
At n | ight he be | comes a barte | nder |
Am | Dm7 | |
He works at | Mister Cacciatore’s down on | Sullivan Street |
G | G/B | C | |
Ac | ross from the | medical | center |
Am | D7 | |
Yeah, and he’s | tradin’ in his Chevy for a | Cadillac-ack-ack-ack-ack |
F | G |
You oughta know by | now |
Am | Dm7 | |
And | if he can’t drive with a | broken back |
G | G/B | C | |
At le | ast he can | polish the | fenders |
F | G | |
And it s | eems such a waste of | time |
E7 | Am |
If that’s what it’s all | about |
F | Bdim | E7 | Am | |
Mama if | that’s movin’ up then | I’m | movin’ | out |
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Mmm, I’m movin’ o | ut |
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Am |
You should never argue with a |
D7 |
Crazy mi-mi-mi-mi-mind |
F | G |
You oughta know by | now |
Am | Dm7 | |
You can | pay Uncle Sam with the | overtime |
G | G/B | C | |
Is t | hat all you | get for your | money? |
F | G | |
And if t | hat’s what you have in | mind |
E7 | Am | |
Yeah, if t | hat’s what you’re all | about |
F | Bdim | E7 | Am | |
Good | luck movin’ up ‘cause | I’m | movin’ | out |
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Mmm, I’m movin’ o | ut |
Am | Dm | G | G/B | C |
Outro
A | D | E | A |
Tabbed in drop D
Intro
-----------------2-- ---------3--3--3-3-- ---------4--4--4-2-- -0-0-0-0-5--5--5-0-- ---------0--0--0---- 0-0-0-0--000000-----
-----3--/-10-10-10-10-10-8-8-6--- -3-1-3--/-10-10-10-10-10-8-8-6--- -4-2-3--/--8--8--8--8--8-8-8-7--- -0-0-2--/-10-10-10-10-10-7-7-8--- -0-0-3--/----------------8-8-3-4- ---------------------------------
That was roughly as follows, note two different F9’s
D | D | G | D | ||
E7 | D7 | C9 | F9 | F9 | Bb |
→ |
D | D/F# |
Got a call from an | old friend |
G | |
We used to be | real close |
A | D | G |
Said he couldn’t go on the American | way |
D | D/F# |
Closed the shop, sold the | house |
G | |
Bought a ticket to the | West Coast |
A | D |
Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L. | A. |
Rpt second part of intro
E7 | D7 | C9 | F9 | F9 | Bb |
→ |
x2
D | D/F# | G |
I don’t need you to | worry for me cause I’m | alright |
A | D | G |
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come | home |
D | D/F# | G |
I don’t care what you | say anymore, this is | my life |
A | Bm |
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me | alone |
F# | |
I never said you had to offer me a | second chance |
D7 | E7 |
I never said I was a victim of | circumstance |
G | D/F# | F#7 | Bm | Bm/A |
I still be | long, | don’t get me | wrong |
E7sus4 | E7 |
And you can | speak your mind |
G6 | A | G6 | A | |
But | not | on | my | time |
D | D/F# |
They will tell you you | can’t sleep alone in a |
G |
Strange place |
A | D |
Then they’ll tell you you can’t sleep with somebody | else |
D | D/F# | G |
But sooner or | later you sleep in your | own space |
A | D |
Either way it’s okay you wake up with your | self |
Rpt second part of intro
E7 | D7 | C9 | F9 | F9 | Bb |
→ |
x2
D | D/F# | G |
I don’t need you to | worry for me cause I’m | alright |
A | D | G |
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come | home |
D | D/F# | G |
I don’t care what you | say anymore, this is | my life |
A | Bm |
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me | alone |
F# | |
I never said you had to offer me a | second chance |
D7 | E7 |
I never said I was a victim of | circumstance |
G | D/F# | F#7 | Bm | Bm/A |
I still be | long, | don’t get me | wrong |
E7sus4 | E7 |
And you can | speak your mind |
G6 | A | G6 | A | |
But | not | on | my | time |
D | G | G | D | Em7 | D |
I don’t care what you say anymore, this is | my life |
A | D |
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me | alone |
Rpt second part of intro to fade
E7 | D7 | C9 | F9 | F9 | Bb |
→ | Keep it to yourself it’s my life |
Originally in C, I play in G capo 3
Bridge vox are a lot of 5
C | D | Em | C | D | G |
C | D | Em | C | D | |
C | D | Em |
Come out Virginia, | don’t let me | wait |
C | D | G | |
You | Catholic girls start m | uch too | late |
C | D | Em | |
But | sooner or later it c | omes down to | fate |
C | D | |
I | might as well be the | one |
C | D | Em | |
Well, they | showed you a statue, | told you to | pray |
C | D | G | |
They | built you a temple and l | ocked you | away |
C | D | Em | |
But | they never told you the | price that you | pay |
C | D | |
For | things that you might have | done |
G | |
Only the good die | young |
C | D | G |
That’s what I said |
G | C | |
Only the good | die | young |
D | G | |
Only the good | die youn | g |
C | D | Em | |
You might have | heard I run with a | dangerous | crowd |
C | D | G | |
We | ain’t too pretty we | ain’t too | proud |
C | D | Em | |
We | might be laughing a | bit too l | oud |
C | D | |
But | that never hurt no | one |
C | D | Em | |
So come | on Virginia sh | ow me a | sign |
C | D | G |
Send up a signal I’ll | throw you a | line |
C | D | Em | |
The | stained-glass curtain you’re | hiding be | hind |
C | D |
Never lets in the | sun |
G | |
Darlin’ only the good die | young |
C | D | G |
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wh | oa |
G | C | |
I tell ya only the good | die | young |
D | G | |
Only the good | die young |
Bridge
D | |
You got a | nice white dress and a |
C | G |
Party on your confirmati | on |
A | C | |
You got a | brand new soul, and a cro | ss of gold |
D | |
But Vir | ginia they didn’t give you |
C | G | |
Q | uite enough informati | on |
A | |
You didn’t c | ount on me |
C | |
When you were counting on your | rosary |
G/B | C | G/B | Am7 |
Oh | woah | woah | woah |
C | D | Em | |
They | say there’s a heaven for | those who will | wait |
C | D | G |
Some say it’s better but | I say it | ain’t |
C | D | Em | |
I’d rather | laugh with the sinners than | cry with the | saints |
C | D | |
The | sinners are much more | fun |
G | |
You know that only the good die | young |
C | D | G |
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wh | oa |
G | C | |
I tell ya only the good | die | young |
D | G | |
Only the good | die young |
Solo on bridge chords if appropriate
D | C | G |
A | C | |
Bridge
D | |
You say your | mother told you all that I could |
C | G |
Give you was a reput | ation |
A | |
Awww, she never | cared for me |
C | |
But did she ever say a | prayer for me? |
G/B | C | G/B | Am7 |
Oh | woah | woah | woah |
Rhythm change in the melody here
C | D | Em | |
Come out | come out come out Vir | ginia don’t l | et me wait |
C | D | G |
You Catholic | girls start | much too late |
C | D | Em |
Sooner or later it | comes down to | fate |
C | D | |
I | might as well be the | one |
G | |
You know that only the good die | young |
C | D | G |
Tell you ba | by |
G | C | |
You know that only the good | die | young |
D | G | |
Only the good | die young |
G | C | |
Only the | goooo... |
D | G | |
Only the | good die young |
G | C | |
Oooh... | ooooh... |
D | G | |
Oooh... | oooh... |
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 |
F | Gm7 | C7 |
Bb/F | F | C7 |
F | Gm7/F |
A bottle of white, | a bottle of red |
C/F | Bb/F | F |
Perhaps a bottle of ro | se instead |
C | C/Bb | F/A |
Get a table | near the | street |
F/A | Gm7 | C | |
In our | old fa | miliar | place |
Gm7 | C7 | Gm7 | Bb/C | C | Bb/C |
You and | I, | face to | face, | um umm |
F | Gm7/F |
A bottle of red, a | bottle of white |
C/F | Bb/F | F |
It all depends on your | appet | ite |
G | F/A | G/B | C |
I’ll meet you | anytime | you | want |
Bb/D | C/E | F | |
In our I | tali | an Re | staurant |
Bb/F | Bb/F |
Sax solo
Cmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Bbmaj7 | Bbmaj7 |
Cmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Bbmaj7 | Bbmaj7 |
Ebmaj7 | Ebmaj7 | Abmaj7 | Abmaj7 |
Ebmaj7 | Ebmaj7 | Abmaj7 | Abmaj7 |
C/D | C/D | C/D | C/D |
G | D/G |
Things are okay with | me these days |
G7 | G9 |
Got a good job, | got a good office |
C7 | F |
Got a new wife, | got a new life |
Am7 | D7 | |
And the | family’s fine |
G | D/G |
Oh, we lost touch | long ago |
G7 | G9 |
You lost weight I | did not know |
C7 | F | Am7 | D7 |
You could ever | look so nice after | so much time |
Eb | Bb | F | |
Do you re | member those days hanging | out at the village | green |
Eb | Bb | F |
Engineer boots, leather | jackets and tight blue | jeans |
Eb | Bb | F | |
Woah you drop a | dime in the box play the | song about New Or | leans |
Eb | Bb |
Cold beer, | hot lights |
C | D | G |
My sweet ro | mantic teenage | nights |
Horn solo on the same chords as the previous verse
G | D/G | G7 | G9 |
C7 | F | Am7 | D7 |
G | D/G | G7 | G9 |
C7 | F | Am7 | D7 |
D7 |
Piano solo, the first G is held for a long time
G |
G | F | C/E | D |
G | F | C/E | D |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
G |
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies |
D | D | C | |
And the | king and the queen of the prom |
G | G7/B | C |
Riding around with the | car top down and the | radio on |
G | D | D | C |
Nobody looked any | finer |
G | C | |
Or was | more of a hit at the | Parkway Diner |
G | F | E |
We never knew we could | want more than that out of | life |
Am | G/B | C | D | G | |
Surely | Brenda and | Eddie would | always know | how to sur | vive |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
G | D | D | C |
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the | summer of seventy five |
G | G7/B | C |
When they decided the | marriage would be at the | end of July |
G | D | D | C |
Everyone said they were | crazy |
G | C |
Brenda you know that you’re | much too lazy |
G | F | E | |
And | Eddie could never af | ford to live that kind of | life |
Am | G/B | C | D | G | |
Oh, but | there we were | waving | Brenda and | Eddie good | bye |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
F/C | C | F/C | C | |
Well, they | got an a | partment with | deep pile | carpets |
D | G | |
And a | couple of paintings from | Sears |
F/C | C | F/C | C | |
A | big water | bed that they | bought with the | bread |
D | G | |
They had | saved for a couple of | years |
F/C | C | F/C | C | |
They | started to | fight when the | money got | tight |
D | Em | |
And they | just didn’t count on the | tears |
A9 | C/D | |
Woh | oh, woh | oh, yeah rock and roll! |
Sax solo with awesome bass
G | G | D | D |
G | G7/B | C | C |
G | D | G | C |
G | F | E | E |
Am | G/B | C | C/D |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
F/C | C | F/C | C | |
Well, they | lived for a | while in a | very nice | style |
D | G | |
But it’s | always the same in the end |
F/C | C | F/C | C | |
They | got a di | vorce as a | matter of | course |
D | G | |
And they | parted the closest of friends |
F/C | C | F/C | C | |
Then the | king and the | queen went | back to the | green |
D | Em | A9 | C/D | |
But you can | never go back there a | gain, oh | oh, oh | oh |
G | D | D | C |
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the | summer of seventy five |
G | G7/B | |
From the | high to the low to the | end of the show |
C | |
For the | rest of their lives |
G | D | D | C | |
They | couldn’t go back to the | greasers |
G | C | |
The | best they could do was pick | up their pieces |
G | F | E |
We always knew they would | both find a way to get | by |
Am | G/B | C | D |
That’s all I | heard about | Brenda and | Eddie |
Am | G/B | C | D |
Can’t tell you | more cause I | told you al | ready |
Am | G/B | C | D | G | |
And | here we are | waving | Brenda and | Eddie good | bye |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
G | F | C/E | D |
Oh | oh, oh | oh, oh | oh oh |
Bass notes are all that’s really played here,
chords somewhat fabricated
F | F/E | D | C | G/B | Am | C | Bb | Am | G | F | F/E |
F | Gm7/F | C/F | Bb | F |
Yeah |
C | C | Bb | F/A |
F/A | Bb | C | |
C | Gm7 | C | Gm7 |
Bb | C | Bb/C | |
F | Gm7/F |
A bottle of red, | oooh a bottle of white |
C/F | Bb/F | F |
Whatever kind of mood you’re | in to | night |
G | G/A | G/B | C |
I’ll meet you | anytime | you | want |
G | F/A | G/B | C |
I’ll meet you | anytime | you | want |
Bb/D | C/E | F | |
In our I | tali | an Re | staurant |
Sax solo
Cmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Bbmaj7 | Bbmaj7 |
Cmaj7 | Fmaj7 | Bbmaj7 | Bbmaj7 |
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 |
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 |
This is based on the Peter, Paul, and Mary version, which is in E. Billy Joel’s
is in F.
I play in D
D | D | D | G |
x4 |
D | G | D/F# | |
They say that | these are not the | best of | times |
G | D/F# | Em7 | D/F# | A | |
But t | hey’re the | only | times I’ve ever | known |
D | G | D/F# | G | D/F# | |
And I be | lieve there is a | time for | medit | ation |
Em7 | A | E | A | |
In cat | hedrals of our | own | → |
F#/A# | Bm | Bm/A |
Now I have | seen that sad | surrender |
G | G | D/F# | |
In my | lover’s eyes |
E | E/G# | A | |
And | I can only | stand apart and | sympathize |
D | Em7 | G | |
For we are | always what our | situations | hand us |
A | G | C | G | |
It’s either | sadness or eup | horia | → |
A | D | C | G | A |
Sadness or eu | phoria | → |
D | G | D/F# | |
And so we’ll | argue and we’ll co | mpromi | se |
G | D/F# | Em7 | D | A | |
And r | eal | ize that n | othing’s really | changed |
D | G | D/F# | |
For all our m | utual ex | perienc | e |
G | D/F# | Em7 | A | E | A | |
Our | separ | ate conc | lusions are the | same | → |
F#/A# | Bm | Bm/A |
Now we are | forced to recog | nize our |
G | G | D/F# | |
Inhu | manity |
E | E/G# | A | |
Our | reason coex | ists with our in | sanity |
D | Em7 | G | |
And so we c | hoose between re | ality and m | adness |
A | G | C | G | |
It’s either | sadness or eup | horia | → |
If going into a solo here, the F# comes right after the D
A | D |
Sadness or eu | phoria |
Instrumental if appropriate on chorus chords, with F# leading in
F# | Bm | Bm/A | G | D/F# |
→ |
E | E/G# | A | A |
D | Em7 | G | A |
G | C | G | A |
→ |
PPM do a full verse here on “la”
F#/A# | Bm | Bm/A | G | G | D/F# |
How thought | lessly we dissi | pate our ener | gies |
E | E/G# | A | |
Perh | aps we don’ | t fulfill each other’s | fantasies |
D | Em7 | G | |
So we | stand upon the | ledges of our liv | es |
A | G | C | G | |
With our resp | ective simi | larities | → |
A | G | |
It’s either | sadness or eup | horia |
Hanging end on G, I usually stop here
PPM do *another* full verse here on “la”
This is based on the Billy Joel version, which is in F.
I play in D
As much walking between chords as you can fit in
D | D/F# | Em7 | G |
A7 | A7 | G | G |
D | D/F# | |
They say that | these are not the | best of times |
Em7 | G | D | D/F# | Em7 | G | |
But t | hey’re the only | times I’ve ever | known |
D | D/F# | Em7 | |
And I be | lieve that there’s a | time for medit | ation |
G | A7 | E | A | |
In cat | hedrals of our | own | → |
F#/A# | Bm | Bm/A | |
N | ow I have | seen that sad sur | render |
G | G | D/F# | |
In my | lover’s eyes |
E7 | A7 | |
And | I can only stand apart and | sympathize |
G | D/F# | Em7 | |
For we are | always what our | situations | hand us |
A7 | G | C | G | |
It’s either | sadness or eup | horia | → |
D | D/F# | Em7 | G |
A7 | A7 | G | G |
D | D/F# | |
And so we’ll | argue and we’ll co | mpromise |
Em7 | G | D | D/F# | Em7 | G | |
And r | ealize that n | othing’s really | changed |
D | D/F# | |
For all our m | utual ex | perience |
Em7 | G | A7 | E | A | |
Our | separate conc | lusions are the | same | → |
F#/A# | Bm | Bm/A | |
N | ow we are | forced to recog | nize our |
G | G | D/F# | |
Inhu | manity |
E7 | A7 | |
Our | reason coexists with our in | sanity |
G | D/F# | Em7 | |
And though we c | hoose between re | ality and m | adness |
A7 | G | C | G | |
It’s either | sadness or eup | horia | → |
Instrumental if appropriate
D | D/F# | Em7 | G | |
A7 | A7 | G | G | |
D | D/F# | Em7 | G | |
A7 | A7 | E | A | F#/A# |
→ |
Bm | Bm/A | G | G | D/F# | |
How t | houghtlessly we di | ssipate our e | nergies |
E7 | A7 | |
Perh | aps we don’t fulfill each other’s | fantasies |
G | D/F# | Em7 | |
And as we | stand upon the | ledges of our liv | es |
A7 | G | C | G | |
With our resp | ective simi | larities | → |
A7 | G | C | G | |
It’s either | sadness or eup | horia | → |
A7 | G |
Sadness or euph | oria |
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 |
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 |
Intro, skip on guitar
Em | Em/D | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7 | B | B | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7 |
E | E/F# | E/G# | Am | Am/G | D/F# | C/E | |
→ |
D | B/D# |
Whistle
Em | Em/D | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7 | B | B | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7 |
E | E/F# | E/G# | Am | Am/G | D/F# | C/E | |
→ |
B/D# | A/C# | B | B/A | Em |
Em | C7 | Em | C7 |
Em | Am | Em | |
Well we | all have a face that we | hide away for | ever |
Am | C | D | B7 | |
And we | take them out and | show ourselves when | everyone has gone |
Em | Am | Em | |
Some are | satin some are steel some are | silk and some are | leather |
Am | D | Bm | Em | |
They’re the | faces of the | stranger but we | love to try them | on |
Em | C7 | Em | C7 |
Em | Am | Em | |
Well we | all fall in love but we | disregard the | danger |
Am | C | D | B7 | |
Though we | share so many | secrets there are | some we never tell |
Em | Am | Em | |
Why were | you so surprised that you | never saw the | stranger? |
Am | D | Bm | Em | |
Did you | ever let your | lover see the | stranger in your | self? |
Vox on the 5, but then I go *down* to avoid the falsetto bit
On guitar that iM7 just wants to be im.
Gmaj7 | GmM7 | D/F# |
Don’t be af | raid to try a | gain |
D7 | Gmaj7 | GmM7 | D/F# | D7 |
Everyone goes | south e | very now and | then, | oh oh |
Gmaj7 | GmM7 | D/F# |
You’ve done it, | why can’t someone | else? |
D7 | Bm7 | Bbaug | A6 | B7 |
You should know by | now | you’ve been there your | self |
Em | Am | Em | |
Once I | used to believe I was | such a great ro | mancer |
Am | C | D | B7 | |
Then I | came home to a | woman that I | could not recognize |
Em | Am | Em | |
When I | pressed her for a reason she re | fused to even | answer |
Am | D | Bm | Em | |
It was | then I felt the | stranger kick me | right between the | eyes |
Em | C7 | Em | C7 |
Em | Am | Em | |
Well we | all fall in love but we | disregard the | danger |
Am | C | D | B7 | |
Though we | share so many | secrets there are | some we never tell |
Em | Am | Em | |
Why were | you so surprised that you | never saw the | stranger |
Am | D | Bm | Em | |
Did you | ever let your | lover see the | stranger in your | self? |
Gmaj7 | GmM7 | D/F# |
Don’t be af | raid to try a | gain |
D7 | Gmaj7 | GmM7 | D/F# | D7 |
Everyone goes | south e | very now and | then, | oh oh |
Gmaj7 | GmM7 | D/F# |
You’ve done it, | why can’t someone | else? |
D7 | Bm7 | Bbaug | A6 | B7 |
You should know by | now | you’ve been there your | self |
Em | Am | Em | |
You may | never understand how the | stranger is ins | pired |
Am | C | D | B7 | |
But he | isn’t always | evil and he | is not always wrong |
Em | Am | Em | |
Though you | drown in good intentions you will | never quench the | fire |
Am | D | Bm | Em | |
You’ll give | in to your de | sire when the | stranger comes a | long |
Em | C7 | Em | C7 |
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
I play the intro as something like:
|-G+------F7--------G-Cm-D7-G/D-| |------------------------------| E|-7----7--5-5/7\5-3-3-3--2--3---| B|-8----8--4---------3-4--1--3---| G|-8-876---5---------4-5--2--4---| D|-------------------5-------0---|
G+ | G9+/F | F#dim7 | C/G |
Am7b5/D# | D7 | G | |
Em | G |
Slow down, you c | razy child |
Vox on the 4 3 3 2 on “juveni-ile”
D | F | |
You’re s | o ambitious for a | juvenile |
C | |
But then if | you’re so smart, tell me |
G | A7 | B9 | B7 |
Why are you still so afraid? | → |
Em | G |
Where’s the fire, what’s the | hurry about? |
D | F | |
You’d better | cool it off before you | burn it out |
C | |
You’ve got | so much to do and |
G | F#m7 | B9 | B7 | |
Only | so many hours in a | day | → |
Vox *down* to the 1 6 5 of the chord on “truth is told”
C | D |
But you know that when the | truth is told |
G | D/F# | Em | Em/D | |
That you can | get what you | want or you can | just get old |
Vox on the 4 of the chord on “even”
C | F#m7 | |
You’re gonna | kick off before you | even |
B7 | Em7 | A7 | |
Get hal | fway throug | h, ooh o | oh |
D#9 | D7 | G | |
When will you realize | Vienna waits for | you? |
G |
Em | G |
Slow down, you’re | doing fine |
D | F | |
You can’t be | everything you want to be befor | e your time |
C | G | A7 | |
Although it’s | so romantic on the | borderline tonight |
B9 | B7 | |
Toni | ght |
Em | G |
Too bad but it’s the | life you lead |
D | F | |
You’re so ah | ead of yourself that you for | got what you need |
C | |
Though you can | see when you’re wrong, you know |
G | F#m7 | |
You can’ | t always see when you’re right |
B9 | B7 | |
You’re righ | t |
C | D |
You’ve got your passion, you’ve | got your pride |
G | D/F# | Em | Em/D | |
But do | n’t you know that | only fools are | satisfied? |
C | F#m7 |
Dream on, but don’t im | agine they’ll |
B7 | Em7 | A7 |
All come true | , ooh o | oh |
D#9 | D7 | G | |
When will you realize | Vienna waits for | you? |
Solo on a half-verse
C | D7 |
Slow down you | crazy child |
G | D/F# | Em | Em/D | |
And take the | phone off the | hook and disap | pear for a while |
C | F#m7 |
It’s all right, you can afford | to lose a |
B7 | Em | A7 |
Day or two | , ooh o | oh |
D#9 | D7 | G | |
When will you realize | Vienna waits for | you? |
C | D |
And you know that when the | truth is told |
G | D/F# | Em | Em/D | |
That you can | get what you | want or you can | just get old |
C | F#m7 | |
You’re gonna | kick off before you | even |
B7 | Em7 | A7 | |
Get hal | fway throug | h, ooh o | oh |
D#9 | D7 | G | E7 | |
Why don’t you realize | Vienna waits for | you? |
Em7/A | D7 | |
When will you | realize, | Vienna waits for... |
G+ | G9+/F | F#dim7 | C/G |
You |
Am7b5/D# | D7 | G |
Originally in C, I play in A
Intro, with weird wah noises
B7 | 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 |
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 | Em |
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 |
→ | → |
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 |
→ |
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 |
Intro
D | D | D | D | C# | C |
→ | → | → |
B | B | B | B | C | C# |
→ | → | → |
D | D | D | D | C# | C |
→ | → | → |
B | B | B | B | C | C# |
→ | → | → |
Not writing out the passing notes the rest of the way
D |
One way or another, I’m gonna find ya |
I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’
B |
One way or another, I’m gonna win ya’ |
I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’ ,get ya’, get ya’
D |
One way or another, I’m gonna see ya’ |
I’m gonna meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’
B |
One day maybe next week, I’m gonna meet ya’ |
I’m gonna meet ya’, I’ll meet ya’
G | Bm | A/C# | G/B | A | F#m |
I w | ill | drive | past | your ho | use |
G | Bm | A/C# | G/B | A | F#m |
And i | f the | lights | are | all d | own |
G | E | F# | |
I’ll | see who’s ar | ound |
D |
One way or another, I’m gonna find ya’ |
I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’
B |
One way or another, I’m gonna win ya’ |
I’ll get ya’, I’ll get ya’
D |
One way or another, I’m gonna see ya’ |
I’m gonna meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’
B |
One day maybe next week, I’m gonna meet ya’, I’ll meet ya’, ah |
G | Bm | A/C# | G/B | A | F#m |
And i | f the | lights | are | all out |
G | Bm | A/C# | G/B | A | F#m |
I’ll | follow | your | bus d | ownt | own |
G | E | F# | |
See w | ho’s hangin’ o | ut |
F# |
Solo
F#m | F#m | A | C#m |
F#m | F#m | A | C#m |
B | E | F#m | F#m |
A | A | B | B |
D |
One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’ |
I’m gonna give you the slip
B | |
A s | lip of the hip or another, I’m gonna lose ya’ |
I’ll trick ya’, I’ll trick ya’
D |
One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’ |
I’m gonna trick ya’, trick ya’, trick ya’, trick ya’
B |
One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’ |
I’m gonna give you the slip
Bridge
D | D | B | B |
D |
I’ll walk down the mall, stand over by the wall |
B |
Where I can see it all, find out who ya’ call |
D |
Lead you to the supermarket check out |
B | |
Some | specials and wrap, we’ll get lost in the crowd |
D | B |
One way or another I’m gonna | get ya’, I’ll get ya’, I’ll get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’ |
(Where I can see it all, find out who ya’ call)
Am | G | F | G |
x4 |
Vox on the 3 of the chord
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G | |
Al | l | our t | imes h | ave co | me |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G | |
He | re | but n | ow the | y’re g | one |
F | G | Am |
Seasons don’t | fear the | reaper |
F | E7 | Am | G | F | |
Nor do the w | ind, the s | un, or the ra | in (we can b | e like t | hey are) |
G | Am | G | F |
Come on | baby (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
G | Am | G | F | |
Baby | take my | hand (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
G | Am | G | F | |
We’ll be | able to | fly (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
G | Am | G | F | G | |
Baby | I’m your | man |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G |
La- | la- | la- | la- | la |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G |
La- | la- | la- | la- | la |
Am | G | F | G |
x2 |
Hang here if you feel like it
Am |
Am | G | F | G |
x4 |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G |
Val | enti | ne i | s d | one |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G | |
He | re | but n | ow t | hey’re g | one |
F | G | Am |
Rome | o and | Juliet |
In this verse, if you’re alone, leave out the background lyrics
F | E7 | Am | G | |
Are tog | ether in et | ernit | y (Rome | o and Juliet) |
F | G | Am | G |
Forty-thousand m | en and women e | veryday (like Rome | o and Juliet) |
F | G | Am | G | F |
Forty-thousand m | en and women | everyday ( | redefine | happiness) |
F | G | Am | G | F | |
An | other forty-tho | usand coming e | veryday (we can b | e like the | y are) |
G | Am | G | F |
Come on | baby (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
G | Am | G | F | |
Baby | take my | hand (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
G | Am | G | F | |
We’ll be | able to | fly (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
G | Am | G | F | G | |
Baby | I’m your | man |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G |
La- | la- | la- | la- | la |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G |
La- | la- | la- | la- | la |
Am | G | F | G |
Let ring
Am |
Solo, approximating
Fm | G7 |
x8 |
Am | G | F | G |
x4 |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G | |
L | ove | of t | wo i | s o | ne |
Am | G | F | G | Am | G | F | G | |
H | ere | but n | ow t | hey’re g | one |
F | G | Am |
Came the last | night of | sadness |
F | E7 | Am | G | |
And it was c | lear that she c | ouldn’t go o | n |
F | G | Am | G | |
Then the d | oor was o | pen and the w | ind appeared |
F | G | Am | G | |
The c | andles bl | ew and di | sappeared |
F | G | Am | G | F | |
The cur | tains fl | ew and then h | e appeared (saying d | on’t be afr | aid) |
G | Am | G | F |
Come on | baby (and she | had no | fear) |
G | Am | G | F |
And she r | an to him (then he s | tarted to f | ly) |
G | Am | G | F | |
They looked b | ackward and s | aid goodbye (she had bec | ome like th | ey are) |
G | Am | G | F | |
She had | taken his | hand (she had bec | ome like the | y are) |
G | Am | G | F | G |
Come on | baby (don’t | fear the | reaper) |
Am | G | F | G |
x4 |
Am |
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
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 |
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
Originally in C, I play in G
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 |
Originally in E, I play in A
Highest note that matters is the 4 (“Hollywood *hills*”)
Intro
A | D/A | G/A | A |
A | D/A | G/A | A |
Vox on 3 2 1 on “she stood there”
A |
She stood there bright as the sun |
D/A | |
On that | California coast |
Vox on the 1 of the chord (b7 of the key on “he”, 3 of the key/chord on “own”
G/A | A |
He was a Midwestern boy on his o | wn |
A | D/A |
She looked at him with those soft eyes so | innocent and blue |
G/A | A |
He knew right then he was too far from | home |
A | D/A | G/A | A |
Oh, | he was too far from ho | me |
A | D/A |
She took his hand and she led him a | long that golden beach |
G/A | A |
They watched the waves tumble over the s | and |
A | D/A |
They drove for miles and miles up those | twisting turning roads |
G/A | A |
Higher and higher and higher they c | limbed |
A | |
And those H | ollywood nights |
D/A | |
In those H | ollywood hills |
G/A | |
She was l | ooking so right |
A | |
In her d | iamonds and frill |
A | |
Oh those b | ig city nights |
D/A | |
In those h | igh rolling hills |
G/A | |
Ab | ove all the lights |
A | |
She had a | ll of the skills |
G | D | A | A |
Uh h | uh, | yeah |
A | A | A | A |
A | D/A |
He’d headed west cause he felt that a | change would do him good |
G/A | A |
See some old friends, good for the s | oul |
A | D/A |
She had been born with a face that would | let her get her way |
G/A | A |
He saw that face and he lost all contr | ol |
A | D/A | G/A | A |
Yeah, | he had lost all contr | ol |
A | D/A |
Night after night, day after d | ay it went on and on |
G/A | A |
Then came that morning he woke up a | lone |
A | D/A |
He spent all night staring down at the | lights of L.A. |
G/A | A |
Wondering if he could ever go | home |
A | |
And those H | ollywood nights |
D/A | |
In those H | ollywood hills |
G/A | |
It was l | ooking so right |
A | |
It was g | iving him chills |
A | |
In those b | ig city nights |
D/A | |
In those h | igh rolling hills |
G/A | |
Abo | ve all the lights |
A | |
With a p | assion that kills |
A | |
And those H | ollywood nights |
D/A | |
In those H | ollywood hills |
G/A | |
She was l | ooking so right |
A | |
In her d | iamonds and frill |
A | |
Oh those b | ig city nights |
D/A | |
In those h | igh rolling hills |
G/A | |
Ab | ove all the lights |
A | |
She had a | ll of the skills |
Outro
A | D/A | G/A | A |
Hollywood nights, | Hollywood hills, a | bove all the lights, | Hollywood nights |
A | D/A | G/A | A |
Hollywood nights, | Hollywood hills, a | bove all the lights, | Hollywood nights |
Originally in F#, I play in A capo 3
Vox mostly around the b3 and the 3
Intro
A | E | A | E |
Vox more or less on the b3
A | |
Just take those old records | off the shelf |
D | |
I sit and listen to ‘em | by myself |
E | |
Today’s music ain’t | got the same soul |
A | |
I like that old time | rock and roll |
A | |
Don’t try to take me to a | disco |
D | |
You’ll never even get me | out on the floor |
E | |
In ten minutes I’ll be l | ate for the door |
A | E | |
I like that old time | rock and roll |
A | |
Still like that old time | rock and roll |
D | |
That kind of music just | soothes the soul |
E | |
I reminisce about the | days of old |
A | E | |
With that old time | rock and roll |
Solo
A | A | D | D | E | E | A | E |
A | |
Won’t go to hear ‘em play a | tango |
D | |
I’d rather hear some blues or | funky old soul |
E | |
There’s only one sure way to | get me to go |
A | |
Start playing old time | rock and roll |
A | |
Call me a relic, call me | what you will |
D | |
Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m | over the hill |
E | |
Today’s music ain’t | got the same soul |
A | E | |
I like that old time | rock and roll |
A | |
Still like that old time | rock and roll |
D | |
That kind of music just | soothes the soul |
E | |
I reminisce about the | days of old |
A | E | |
With that old time | rock and roll, oh |
Solo
A | A | D | D | E | E | A | E |
A | |
Still like that old time | rock and roll |
D | |
That kind of music just | soothes the soul |
E | |
I reminisce about the | days of old |
A | E | |
With that old time | rock and roll |
Drums and vox only
A | |
Still like that old time | rock and roll |
D | |
That kind of music just | soothes the soul |
E | |
I reminisce about the | days of old |
A | E | |
With that old time | rock and roll, he | y |
Band back in
A | |
Still like that old time | rock and roll |
D | |
That kind of music just | soothes the soul |
E | |
I reminisce about the | days of old |
A | E | |
With that old time | rock and roll |
A | D | E | A | |
Still like that old time | rock and roll |
Originally in E, I play in A
Highest note that matters is the 4 (“so you’re a *little* bit older”)
Intro
A | A | D | A |
A | A | D | A |
Vox on the 3 of the chord (4 of the key)
Bm | A | |
So you’re a | little bit older and a lot less bolder than you | used to be |
Bm | A | |
So, you | used to shake ‘em down but now you stop and think about your | dignity |
D | A | |
So now | sweet sixteen’s turned | thirty-one |
D | A | |
You | get to feelin’ weary when the | work day’s done |
D | A | E | |
Well | all you got to do is get | up and into your kicks |
B | |
If you’re in a fix |
Hard stop after this line
Bm | E | A | |
C | ome back baby, | rock and roll never forget | s |
Bm | A | |
You better | get yourself a partner, go down to the concert or the l | ocal bar |
Bm | A | |
Check the l | ocal newspaper, chances are you won’t have to | go too far |
D | A | |
Yeah the r | afters will be ringin’ cause the b | eat’s so strong |
D | A | |
The c | rowd will be swaying and be s | inging along |
D | A | E | |
A | ll you got to do is get i | n, into the mix |
B | |
If you need a fi | x |
Hard stop after this line
Bm | E | A | |
You can c | ome back baby | rock n’ roll never forgets |
D | A | |
Ooh the b | and’s still playin’ it l | oud and mean |
D | A | |
L | isten to the guitar player | makin’ it scream |
D | A | E |
All you got to do is just | make that scene tonight | , hey tonight |
Solo
B | A |
B | A |
D | A | |
Well now | sweet sixteen’s turned | thirty-one |
D | A |
Feel a little tired, feeling | under the gun |
D | A | E | |
Well | all of Chuck’s children are | out there playing his licks |
B | |
Get into your kicks |
Bm | E | A | |
Yeah | come back baby, | rock n’ roll never forget | s |
Bm | E | A | |
Said you can | come back baby r | ock n’ roll never forgets |
Hard stop after this line
Bm | E | A |
Come back baby | rock n’ roll never forge | ts |
A | A | D | A | |
Ooh, | oh | yeah, oh yeah |
A | A | D | A |
Haah, | uh- | huh | huh-huh |
Repeat to fade
A | A | D | A | |
Never for | gets, oh | no, oh | no, never for | gets |
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 |
Originally in B, I play in G
Highest note that matters is the b7 (in the bridge, “I know it’s late”)
Intro
G | D/G | G6 | D/G |
x2 |
Vox on 3 2 1 5 on “I know it’s late”
In G, consider playing this line as I V/3 vi V, which is what happens in the next verse
G | D/G | G6 | D/G | |
I know it’s | late | I know you’re wea | ry |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
I know your | plans | don’t include | me |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
Still here we ar | e | both of us lon | ely |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
Longing for s | helter | for a | ll that we se | e |
Vox up to the 5 of the chord on “worry”
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G/D | D | |
Why should we w | orry, | no one will ca | re girl |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G/D | D | |
Look at the star | s | so far away |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got toni | ght, | who needs tomo | rrow |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t babe, | why don’t you | stay |
G |
G | D/F# | Em | D | |
Deep in my | soul | I’ve been so lon | ely |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
All of my | hopes | fading a | way |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
I’ve longed for lo | ve | like everyone | else does |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
I know I’ll keep s | earching | even | after to | day |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G/D | D | |
So there it | is girl | I’ve said it | all now |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G/D | D | |
And here we ar | e babe, | what do you say |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got toni | ght, | who needs tomo | rrow |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t babe, | why don’t you | stay |
Vox on the 5 of the chord on “I know it’s late”
A# | G |
I know it’s late, I know you’re | weary |
A# | G |
Ooh I know your plans don’t incl | ude me |
C | D# | G | |
Still here we | are | both of us | lonely |
Cmaj7 | C6 | G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | G |
→ | Both of us | lonely | → |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t, | who needs tom | orrow |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
Let’s make it l | ast, | let’s find a | way |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
Turn out the ligh | t, | come take my | hand now |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t babe, | why don’t you | stay |
G |
Let ring
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t, | who needs tom | orrow |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
Let’s make it l | ast, | let’s find a | way |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
Turn out the ligh | t, | come take my | hand now |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t babe, | why don’t you | stay |
Band enters
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t, | who needs tom | orrow |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | D | |
Let’s make it l | ast, | let’s find a | way |
G | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
Turn out the ligh | t, | come take my | hand now |
G/B | Cmaj7 | C6 | G | |
We’ve got tonigh | t babe, | why don’t you | stay |
Cmaj7 | C6 | G/D | D | G |
Oh o | h, oh | o | h, why don’t you | stay |
Originally in C, I play in G
Intro
Gadd9 |
G | Bm | |
It’s a | heartache, nothing but a | heartache |
C | |
Hits you when it’s | too late |
G | D | |
Hits you when you’re | down |
G | Bm | |
It’s a | fool’s game, nothing but a | fool’s game |
C | G | D | |
Standing in the | cold rain, feeling like a | clown |
G | Bm | |
It’s a | heartache, nothing but a | heartache |
C | |
Love him till your | arms break |
G | D | |
Then he lets you | down |
C | D | |
It ain’t | right with love to | share |
Bm | Em | D | D/C | Gadd9/B | D/A | |
When you | find he doesn’t | care for | you → | → | → |
C | D | |
It ain’t | wise to need some | one |
Bm | Em | |
As much as | I depended | on |
D | D/C | Gadd9/B | D/A |
You → | → | → |
G | Bm | |
Aw, it’s a | heartache, nothing but a | heartache |
C | |
Hits you when it’s | too late |
G | D | |
Hits you when you’re | down |
G | Bm | |
It’s a | fool’s game, nothing but a | fool’s game |
C | G | D | |
Standing in the | cold rain, feeling like a | clown |
Solo on verse chords
C | D | |
It ain’t | right with love to | share |
Bm | Em | |
When you | find he doesn’t | care for |
D | D/C | Gadd9/B | D/A |
You → | → | → |
C | D | |
It ain’t | wise to need some | one |
Bm | Em | |
As much as | I depend | on |
D | D/C | Gadd9/B | D/A |
You → | → | → |
G | Bm | |
Oh, it’s a | heartache, nothing but a | heartache |
C | |
Love him till your | arms break |
G | D | |
Then he lets you | down |
Solo on verse chords, with ad libs
G | Bm |
It’s a fool’s game, | standing in the cold rain |
C | G | D |
Feeling like a | clown |
G | Bm | C | |
It’s a | heartache, | love him til your | arms break |
G | D | |
Then he lets you | down |
Originally in D, I either play in D (and sing the chorus down an octave) or in G)
Either way, do not try to go up on the “slipped away” line
Not writing out all the suspensions and root movement after the intro
D | Dsus4 | D | Cadd9 | G/B | G |
→ | → | → | x4 |
D | C | G | |
I | looked out this morning and t | he sun was | gone |
D | C | G |
Turned on some music to | start my | day |
D | C | G | |
Then | lost myself in a fam | iliar song |
D | C | G/B | |
I | closed my eyes and I | slipped away |
Am | G/B | D |
G | C | Em | D |
x2 |
G | C | Em | D | |
It’s | more than a | feeling ( | more than a | feeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
When I | hear that old | song they used to | play (more than a f | eeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
As | I begin | dreaming ( | more than a | feeling) |
G | C | Eb | |
Till I | see Mari | anne walk a | way |
Em7 | A7sus4 | A7 | G |
I see my | Maria | nne walkin’ a | way |
G | D/F# | A/E | D |
→ | → | → |
D | Dsus4 | D | Cadd9 | G/B | G |
→ | → | → | x2 |
D | C | G |
So many people have | come and | gone |
D | C | G | |
Their | faces fade as the | years go | by |
D | C | G | |
Yet I | still recall as | I wander | on |
D | C | G/B | |
As | clear as the sun in the | summer sky |
Am | G/B | D |
G | C | Em | D |
x2 |
G | C | Em | D | |
It’s | more than a | feeling ( | more than a | feeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
When I | hear that old | song they used to | play (more than a f | eeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
As | I begin | dreaming ( | more than a | feeling) |
G | C | Eb | |
Till I | see Mari | anne walk a | way |
Em7 | A7sus4 | A7 | Bm | A |
I see my | Marian | ne walkin’ a | way |
Solo
D | G | D/F# | A |
D | G | D/F# | A |
D | G | Bm | A |
D | Bm | Em | A |
G | G | ||
G | D/F# | A/E | D |
→ | → | → |
D | Dsus4 | D | Cadd9 | G/B | G |
→ | → | → | x2 |
D | C | G |
When I’m tired and | thinking cold |
D | C | G | |
I | hide in my music, for | get the | day |
D | C | G | |
And | dream of a girl, I | used to | know |
D | C | G/B | |
I | closed my eyes and she | slipped a | way |
D | D | Cadd9 | G/B |
D | D | Cadd9 | G/B |
Slipped a | way |
D | D | Cadd9 | G/B |
Hang on the bVII a little extra
D | D | Cadd9 | G/B |
Hang on the last chord a little extra
Am | G/B | D |
G | C | Em | D |
x2 |
G | C | Em | D | |
It’s | more than a | feeling ( | more than a | feeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
When I | hear that old | song they used to | play (more than a f | eeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
As | I begin | dreaming ( | more than a | feeling) |
G | C | Em | D | |
When I | see Mari | anne walk a | way |
G | C | Em | D |
x2 |
G |
Originally in E, I play in A
F#m | D | A | E |
x6 |
A |
Vox on the 3 on “feeling”
A | |
Now, if you’re | feeling kinda low ‘bout the dues you’ve been paying |
G | D | A |
Future’s coming | much too | slow |
A | |
And you | wanna run but somehow you just keep on staying |
Vox on the 4 of the chord (b3 of the key!)
on “can’t”
G | D | E |
Can’t decide on | which way to | go, yeah, yeah, yeah |
F#m | D | A | E |
I under | stand about | inde | cision |
F#m | D | A | E | |
But | I don’t | care if I | get be | hind |
F#m | D | A | E |
People | living in | compe | tition |
Hanging stop on “mind”
F#m | D | A | E | D |
All I | want is to | have my | peace of | mind |
Vox goes up to the high 1, but falsetto is OK
A |
Yeah, whoa oh oh |
A | |
Now you’re c | limbing to the top of the company ladder |
G | D | A |
Hope it doesn’t | take too | long |
A | |
Can’t you s | ee there’ll come a day when it won’t matter |
G | D | E |
Come a day when | you’ll be | gone |
F#m | D | A | E |
I under | stand about | inde | cision |
F#m | D | A | E | |
But | I don’t | care if I | get be | hind |
F#m | D | A | E |
People | living in | compe | tition |
F#m | D | A | E | D |
All I | want is to | have my | peace of | mind |
Bridge
E | E | D | D/F# | D/A |
→ | → |
E | E | D | D/F# | D/A |
→ | → |
E | D | D/F# | D/A |
Take a look ahead | → | → |
E | D | D/F# |
Take a look ahead, | yeah, | yeah yeah yeah |
A |
Solo
G | D | A |
→ |
G | D | A |
→ |
G | D | A |
→ |
G | D | E |
→ |
F#m | D | A | E |
x4 |
Let ring
D |
Band back in time
A |
A | |
Now everyb | ody’s got advice they just keep on giving |
G | D | A |
Doesn’t mean too | much to | me |
A |
Lots of people have to make believe they’re living |
G | D | E |
Can’t decide w | ho they should | be, whoa |
F#m | D | A | E |
I under | stand about | inde | cision |
F#m | D | A | E | |
But | I don’t | care if I | get be | hind |
F#m | D | A | E |
People | living in | compe | tition |
F#m | D | A | E | D |
All I | want is to | have my | peace of | mind |
E | E | D | D/F# | D/A |
→ | → |
E | E | D | D/F# | D/A |
→ | → |
E | D | D/F# | D/A |
Take a look ahead | → | → |
E | D | D/F# | D |
Take a look ahead, | look a h | ead |
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 |
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 |
→ |
Originally in Am, I play in Em capo 3
Em | C | D | Em |
x 2 |
Em | C | D | Em |
Take me | now, baby, | here as I | am |
Em | C | D | Em |
Pull me | close try and | understand |
Em | C | D | Em |
Worked all | day out in | the hot | sun |
Em | C | D | Em |
Break my | back till the | evening | comes |
C | D | G | D |
Come on | now, try and | under | stand |
Em | C | D | |
I | worked all | day pushing for the | man |
G | C | D |
Take my | hand as the sun des | cends |
F | Em | B | |
They | can’t hurt us now, | can’t hurt us now, | can’t hurt us now |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night be | longs | to | lovers |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night bel | ongs | to u | s |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night be | longs | to | lovers |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night bel | ongs | to u | s |
Em | C | D | Em |
What I | got, baby, | I have | earned |
Em | C | D | Em |
What I’m | not, baby, | I have | learned |
Em | C | D | Em |
Love is an | angel that | comes at | dusk |
Em | C | D | Em |
Stay in my | bed till the | evening | comes |
C | D | G | D |
Come on | now, try and | under | stand |
Em | C | D | |
The | way I | feel under your com | mand |
G | C | D |
Take my | hand as the sun des | cends |
F | Em | B | |
They | can’t hurt us now, | can’t hurt us now, | can’t hurt us now |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night be | longs | to | lovers |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night bel | ongs | to u | s |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night be | longs | to | lovers |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night bel | ongs | to u | s |
Solo if appropriate on prechorus-ish chords
Bridge
G | D | D | G | G | D | D | Em | D | D | |
In | love | we | sleep, | with do | ubt | the vi | cious circle | turns | and b | urns |
G | G | D | D | Em | D | D | G | G | D |
With | out | you | oh I cannot | live, | forgi | ve | with | out the | time has come to |
“Take” up to the 1 of the chord
C | G | G | C |
Take | the | moment | out |
Em | G/D | C | B | |
They | can’t hurt us now, | can’t hurt us now, | can’t hurt us now |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night be | longs | to | lovers |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night bel | ongs | to u | s |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night be | longs | to | lovers |
Em | C | C | D | Em |
Because | the night bel | ongs | to u | s |
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 |
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 | D | G | A |
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
Originally in F, I play in A capo 1
Highest important note is the 4 (“half as good”)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (in E) use the obvious
root chords in most cases, except that A/B becomes B, and
C#7b9 becomes C#m
In my key:
F#7b9 = 2x2323
Intro
A | Adim7 | G#dim7 | A | A7 |
→ |
Vox on the b5 of the chord (!!)
D | Dm | A | A7 |
Nobody doe | s it be | tter |
D | Dm | A | A7 |
Makes me feel sa | d for the | rest |
D | Dm6 | C#7#5 | F#m7 |
Nobody | does it | half as | good as you |
Bm7 | D/E | A | Adim7 | G#dim7 |
Baby you’re the | best | → |
A | A/C# | D | Dm |
I wasn’t lo | oking, | but somehow you fo | und me |
A | A/C# | B9 | A#9 |
I tried to | hide from your l | ove l | ight |
A | A/C# |
But like heaven ab | ove me |
D | Dm |
The spy who lo | ved me |
C#7 | F#7b9 | Bm7 | E7sus4 | A | A7 | |
Is | keeping | all my | secrets sa | fe ton | ight |
D | Dm | A | A7 | |
And | nobody doe | s it b | etter |
D | Dm | A | A7 |
Though sometimes I w | ish som | eone could |
D | Dm6 | C#7#5 | F#m7 |
Nobody | does it | quite the | way you do |
Bm7 | D/E | A |
Why’d you | have to be so | good |
A | A/C# | D | Dm |
The way that you | hold me, | whenever you h | old me |
A | A/C# | B9 | A#9 |
There’s some kind of | magic ins | ide | you |
A | A/C# |
That keeps me from | running |
D | Dm |
But just keep it c | oming |
C#7 | F#7b9 | Bm7 | E7sus4 | A | A7 | |
How | ’d you | learn to | do the t | hings you | do? |
D | Dm | A | Asus4 | |
And | nobody doe | s it be | tter |
D | Dm | A |
Makes me feel so sa | d f | or the rest |
D | Dm6 | C#7#5 | F#m7 |
Nobody | does it | half as | good as you |
Bm7 | A/C# |
Ba | by, baby |
Dmaj7 | D#7b9 | E7 | A | A/C# |
→ | Darlin’ | you’re the | best |
D | F | G | A | A/C# |
Baby | you’re the | best |
D | F | G | A | A/C# |
Darlin’ | you’re the | best |
D | F | G | A |
Baby | you’re the | best |
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 |
Originally in A, I play in G, and I don’t go up on “cryin’” in the chorus
Intro
G | G | G | G |
F | C | G | G |
G | D/F# | |
I w | ant you to want me |
Em | Em7/D | |
I n | eed you to need me |
C | G/B | |
I’d l | ove you to love me |
G | D/F# | |
I’m b | eggin’ you to beg me |
Em | Em7/D | |
I w | ant you to want me |
C | G/B | |
I n | eed you to need me |
G | D/F# | |
I’d l | ove you to love me |
Em | A | |
I’d s | hine up my old brown sh | oes |
F | G | |
I’d p | ut on a brand new sh | irt |
Em | A | |
I’d | get home early from w | ork |
F | Fm | Em | |
If you’d s | ay | that you l | ove me |
G | D | |
D | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
Remember not to go up on “cryin’” if you’re in G
Em | C | |
Oh, d | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
G | D | |
F | eelin’ all alone without a friend you know you feel like d | yin’ |
Em | C | |
Oh, d | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
G | D/F# | |
I w | ant you to want me |
Em | Em7/D | |
I n | eed you to need me |
C | G/B | |
I’d l | ove you to love me |
G | D/F# | |
I’m b | eggin’ you to beg me |
Em | A | |
I’d s | hine up my old brown sh | oes |
F | G | |
I’d p | ut on a brand new sh | irt |
Em | A | |
I’d | get home early from w | ork |
F | Fm | Em | |
If you’d s | ay | that you l | ove me |
G | D | |
D | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
Em | C | |
Oh, d | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
G | D | |
F | eelin’ all alone without a friend you know you feel like d | yin’ |
Em | C | |
Oh, d | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
Solo
G | D | Em | C |
G | D |
Feelin’ all alone without a friend you know you feel like | dyin’ |
Em | C | |
Oh, d | idn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cr | yin’ |
Solo
G | D | Em | C |
G | D/F# | |
I w | ant you to want me |
Em | Em7/D | |
I n | eed you to need me |
C | G/B | |
I’d l | ove you to love me |
G | D/F# | |
I’m b | eggin’ you to beg me |
Instruments out, chords implied
G | D/F# | |
I | want you to want me |
Em | Em7/D | |
I | want you to want me |
G | F | |
I | want you to want me |
Repeat intro
G | G | G | G |
F | C | G | G |
Originally in B, I play in G, highest note that matters is the 5
This version omits the key change at the end, for guitar reasons more than vocal reasons
This is not a typo, this actually happens a half-step lower this time than all the other times
E/F# | F# |
E/F# | F# |
Vox on the 5 on “mother”
G | D |
Mother told me, | yes she told me |
C | G |
I’d meet girls like | you |
G | D | |
She | also told me | stay away |
C | G | |
You’ll | never know what you’ll | catch |
C | D |
Just the other | day I heard |
G | |
Of a | soldier’s falling off |
C | D | |
Some | Indonesian | junk |
G | |
That’s going ‘ | round |
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
They | just seem a little | weird |
G | Em7 | |
Sur | render, sur | render |
Dsus4 | C | C | C | |
But | don’t give yourself a | way, | hey-ey-ey-ey, | hey-ay-ay |
F/G | G |
F/G | G |
G | D |
Father says your | mother’s right |
C | G | |
She’s | really up on | things |
G | D | |
Be | fore we married | Mommy served |
C | G | |
In the | WACs in the Philip | pines |
C | D | |
Now | I had heard the | WACs recruited |
G |
Old maids for the war |
C | D | |
But | Mommy isn’t | one of those |
G | |
I’ve | known her all these years |
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
They | just seem a little | weird |
G | Em7 | |
Sur | render, sur | render |
Dsus4 | C | C | C | |
But | don’t give yourself a | way, | hey-ey-ey-eyy, | hey-ay-ay |
F/G | G |
F/G | G |
G | D |
Whatever happened to | all this season’s |
C | G |
Losers of the | year |
G | D |
Every time I | got to thinking |
C | G |
Where’d they disa | ppear |
C | D |
Then I woke up, | Mom and Dad |
G | |
Are | rolling on the couch |
C | D |
Rolling numbers, | rock and rolling |
G | |
Got | my Kiss records out |
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
They | just seem a little | weird |
G | Em7 | |
Sur | render, sur | render |
Dsus4 | C | C | C | |
But | don’t give yourself | away, | hey-ey-ey-ey, | hey-ay-ay |
G | C | G | D | |
Awa | y |
G | C | G | D | |
Awa | y |
With “surrender, surrender”
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
But | don’t give yourself | away |
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
But | don’t give yourself | away |
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
But | don’t give yourself | away |
G | Em7 |
Mommy’s alright, | Daddy’s alright |
Dsus4 | C | |
But | don’t give yourself | away |
Originally in C, I play in G, highest note is the 6 (“I wanna know”)
Intro
Em | C | G | D |
G |
G |
Someone told me long ago |
G | D |
There’s a calm before the storm, I k | now |
G | |
It’s been coming fo | r some time |
G |
When it’s over, so they say |
G | D |
It’ll rain a sunny day, I k | now |
G | |
Shining down like w | ater |
C | D |
I wanna kn | ow |
G | G/F# | Em | Em/D | |
Have you | ever | seen the | rain |
C | D |
I wanna kn | ow |
G | G/F# | Em | Em/D | |
Have you | ever | seen the | rain |
C | D | G |
Coming do | wn on a sunny da | y |
G |
G |
Yesterday and days before |
G | D |
Sun is cold and rain is hard, I k | now |
G | |
Been that way for al | l my time |
G |
‘Til forever on it goes |
G | D |
Through the circle fast and slow, I k | now |
G | |
It can’t stop, I wo | nder |
C | D |
I wanna kn | ow |
G | G/F# | Em | Em/D | |
Have you | ever | seen the | rain |
C | D |
I wanna kn | ow |
G | G/F# | Em | Em/D | |
Have you | ever | seen the | rain |
C | D | G |
Coming do | wn on a sunny day |
G |
Yeah |
C | D |
I wanna kn | ow |
G | G/F# | Em | Em/D | |
Have you | ever | seen the | rain |
C | D |
I wanna kn | ow |
G | G/F# | Em | Em/D | |
Have you | ever | seen the | rain |
C | D | G |
Coming do | wn on a sunny day |
G | D | G |
→ |
Originally in C (chorus in A), I play in G (chorus in E)
Intro
If 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 | → | → |
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 | → | → |
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 |
Originally in Dm, I play in Am capo 5
Am | Am | Am | Am/G |
x4 |
Am | G | F | E | |
You get a | shiver in the dark, it’s | raining in the | park but | meantime |
Am | G | F | E |
South of the river you s | top and you h | old everyth | ing |
C | G |
A band is blowing Dixie double f | our time |
F | Am |
You feel alright when you hear that music r | ing |
Am | F | G |
→ |
Am | G | F | E | |
Well now, you | step inside but you | don’t see | too many f | aces |
Am | G | F | E |
Coming in out of the | rain to hear the | jazz go | down |
C | G |
Competition in other p | laces |
F | Am |
Oh, but the horns they blowin’ that | sound |
F | G |
→ | Way on down south |
F | G |
→ | Way on down south |
Am |
London Town |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | E | |
You check out | Guitar George, | he knows | all the chords |
Am | G | F | E |
Mind he’s strictly rhythm he | doesn’t want to | make it cry | or sing |
C | G |
They say an old guitar is | all he can afford |
F | Am |
When he gets up under the lights to play his thi | ng |
Am | F | G |
→ |
Am | G | F | E |
And Harry doesn’t | mind | if he doesn’t | make the scene |
Am | G | F | E |
He’s got a daytime | job, he’s | doin’ al | right |
C | G |
He can play the honky tonk like a | nything |
F | Am |
Saving it up for Friday night |
F | G |
→ | With the Sultans |
F | G | Am |
→ | With the Sultans of | Swing |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | E | |
Then a | crowd of young boys, they’re | foolin’ a | round in the | corner |
Am | G | F | E |
Drunk and dressed in their best | brown baggies | and their plat | form soles |
C | G |
They don’t give a damn about about any | trumpet playin’ band |
F | Am |
It ain’t what they call rock and r | oll |
F | G |
→ | And the Sultans |
F | G | Am |
→ | Yeah, the Sultans, they play | Creole |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | Creole | → |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Solo on verse chords
Am | G | F | E | E |
Am | G | F | E | E |
C | C | G | G | |
F | F | Am | Am | F |
G | G | F | G | G |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | E |
And then the man he st | eps right | up to the m | icrophone |
Am | G | F | E |
And says at l | ast just as the | time bell | ring |
C | G |
Goodnight, now it’s t | ime to go home |
F | Am |
Then he makes it fast with one more th | ing |
F | G | F | G |
→ | We are the Sultans |
F | G | Am |
→ | We are the Sultans of | Swing |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
Am | G | F | C/G | G | C/G | G |
→ | → | → | → |
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
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... |
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 |
Originally in A, I play in E capo 2
Intro, hang the last chord
D | E |
x 8 |
D | E | |
I’ve got a su | prise especially for | you |
D | E | |
Something that | both of us have always wanted to | do |
D | E | |
I’ve waited so | long, I’ve waited so lon | g |
D | E | |
I’ve waited so | long, I’ve waited so lon | g |
D | E | |
I’m gonna | take you on a trip so far from | here |
D | E | |
I’ve got two t | ickets in my pocket now baby, we’re gonna disap | pear |
E | D | E |
Waited so | long, I’ve waited so | long |
D | E | |
I’ve waited so | long, we’ve waited so lon | g |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
A | D | E | |
Won’t you | pack your | bags we’ll | leave tonight |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
Interlude, solo if appropriate
D | E |
x 8 |
D | E | |
Whoa | , | whoa |
D | E | |
I’m gonna | take you on a trip so far from | here |
D | E | |
I’ve got two t | ickets in my pocket baby, we’ll disap | pear |
D | E | |
I’ve waited so | long, I’ve waited so | long |
D | E | |
I’ve waited so | long, I’ve waited so lon | g |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
A | D | E | |
Won’t you | pack your | bags we’ll | leave tonight |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
A | D | E | |
Won’t you | pack your | bags we’ll | leave tonight |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
A | D | E | |
Won’t you | pack your | bags we’ll | leave tonight |
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
Hang the last chord
A | D | E | |
I’ve got | two | tickets to | paradise |
Originally in A, I play in E, vox is mostly on the b7
Intro
E |
Vox on the b7
E |
You got me running going out of my mind |
E |
You got me thinking that I’m wasting my time |
A | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, no no no no | no, ooh ooh ooh |
Vox on the 5 of the chord on “tell you once more”, then down a half-stop for “off the floor”
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
E | |
Don’t bring me | down |
E |
E |
You wanna stay out with your fancy friends |
E |
I’m telling you it’s got to be the end |
A | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, no no no no | no, ooh ooh ooh |
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
E | |
Don’t bring me | down |
Bridge
C#m | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, gr | oos |
C#m | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, gr | oos |
C#m | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, gr | oos |
B | |
Don’t bring me d | own |
E |
What happened to the girl I used to know? |
E |
You let your mind out somewhere down the road |
A | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, no no no no | no, ooh ooh ooh |
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
E | |
Don’t bring me | down |
E |
E |
You’re always talkin’ ‘bout your crazy nights |
E |
One of these days you’re gonna get it right |
A | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, no no no no | no, ooh ooh ooh |
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
E | |
Don’t bring me | down |
Bridge
C#m | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, gr | oos |
C#m | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, gr | oos |
C#m | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, gr | oos |
B | |
Don’t bring me d | own |
Band out, percussion only
E |
You’re lookin’ good just like a snake in the grass |
E |
One of these days you’re gonna break your glass |
Band back in
A | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, no no no no no no no no | no, ooh ooh ooh |
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
E | |
Don’t bring me | down |
Instrumental Bridge
C#m | E | C#m | E | C#m | E | B | B7 |
E |
You got me shaking got me running away |
E |
You get me crawling up to you everyday |
A | E | |
Don’t bring me | down, no no no no | no, ooh ooh ooh |
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
E | |
Don’t bring me | down, down, down, down down down |
Instrumental verse
E | E | E | E |
A | A | E | E |
G | D | A | |
I’ll t | ell you once more before I g | et off the fl | oor |
Band drops out, last chord is implied
E | |
Don’t bring me d | own |
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
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... |
Originally in C, I play in A
Intro
A | A/G | D | A | D |
→ |
Vox on the 3 of the chord
E | A/E | E | D | A | D/A | A | A/C# |
I can’t light | → | no more of your | darknes | s | → |
D | G/D | D | E | A/E | E | A/E | E |
All my pictures | → | seem to fade to black and | white | → | → |
E | A/E | E | D | A | D/A | A | A/C# |
I’m growing tired | → | and time stands still befo | re | me | → |
D | G/D | D | E | A/E | E | A/E | E |
Frozen here | → | on the ladder of my l | ife | → | → |
E | A/E | E | D | A | D/A | A | A/C# |
Too late | → | to save myself from | falli | ng | → |
D | G/D | D | E | A/E | E | A/E | E |
I took a chance | → | and changed your way of | life | → | → |
E | A/E | E | D | A | D/A | A | A/C# |
But you misread | → | my meaning when I | met | you | → |
D | D/F# | D/A | A/E | E | E7 |
Closed the door and l | eft m | e | blinded by the | light, | ahh |
A | A/G |
Don’t let the sun go | down on me |
D/F# | B7/D# |
Although I search myself, it’s always | someone else I see |
A/E | D/E | E | A | A/G |
I’d just allow a fragment of your | life | to wander | free |
D/F# | Bm | A/C# | D | A/E | E | A | |
But | losing everything is like the | sun | go | ing | down | on | me |
A | A/G | D | A/E | D |
→ |
E | A/E | E9 | E/G# | Bm | A | D/A | A | A/C# |
I can’t find, | → | o | h the r | ight roman | tic line | → |
D | G/D | D | E | A/E | E |
But see me once | → | and see the way I | feel | → |
E | A/E | E9 | E/G# | Bm | A | D/A | A | A/C# |
Don’t discard me | → | j | ust beca | use you | think I mean you harm | → |
D | D/F# | D/A | A/E | E |
But these cuts I have, | oh th | ey need | love to help them | heal |
A | A/G |
Don’t let the sun go | down on me |
D/F# | B7/D# |
Although I search myself, it’s always | someone else I see |
A/E | D/E | E | A | A/G |
I’d just allow a fragment of your | life | to wander | free |
D/F# | Bm | A/C# | D | A/E | E | A | |
But | losing everything is like the | sun | go | ing | down | on | me |
A | A/G | D/F# | F6 | G |
→ |
A | A/G |
Don’t let the sun go | down on me |
D/F# | B7/D# |
Although I search myself, it’s always | someone else I see |
A/E | D/E | E | A | A/G |
I’d just allow a fragment of your | life | to wander | free |
D/F# | Bm | A/C# | D | A/E | E | A | |
But | losing everything is like the | sun | go | ing | down | on | me |
A | A/G | D/F# | F6 | G | A |
→ |
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 |
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 |
Originally in Gm, I play in Em
Vox on the 3
Em7 | A9 |
She packed my bags last night, pre-f | light |
Em7 | A9 |
Zero hour, nine | A.M. |
Vox on the 5 of the chord on “high”, which is not quite as high as you think it is
C | G/B | Am | Am/G | D | D/F# | D |
And I’m gonna be | high-i-h | igh | as a kite by t | hen |
Em7 | A9 |
I miss the Earth so much, I | miss my wife |
Em7 | A9 |
It’s lonely out in | space |
C | G/B | Am | Am/G | D/F# | D/A | D |
On such a | ti-i-i | meless flight |
G | C |
And I think it’s gonna be a long long | time |
G | |
‘Til touchdown brings me ‘round again to | find |
C | |
I’m not the man they think I am at | home |
G/B | A9 | |
Oh no, no, | no, I’m a | rocket man |
C | G | C |
Rocket man, burnin’ out his fuse up | here alone |
G | C |
And I think it’s gonna be a long long | time |
G | |
‘Til touchdown brings me ‘round again to | find |
C | |
I’m not the man they think I am at | home |
G/B | A9 | |
Oh no, no, | no, I’m a | rocket man |
C | G | C |
Rocket man, burnin’ out his fuse up | here alone |
Em7 | A9 |
Mars ain’t the kinda place to | raise your kids |
Em7 | A9 |
In fact it’s cold as | hell |
C | G/B | Am | Am/G | D/F# | D/A | D |
And there’s no one | there to | raise them | if you | did |
Em7 | A9 |
And all this science, I don’t under | stand |
Em7 | A9 |
It’s just my job five days a | week |
C | G/B | Am | Am/G | D/F# | D/A | D | |
Rocket | man-a | aa-a-a- | an, | rocket | man |
G | C |
And I think it’s gonna be a long long | time |
G | |
‘Til touchdown brings me ‘round again to | find |
C | |
I’m not the man they think I am at | home |
G/B | A9 | |
Oh no, no, | no, I’m a r | ocket man |
C | G | C |
Rocket man, burnin’ out his fuse up | here alone |
G | C |
And I think it’s gonna be a long long | time |
G | |
‘Til touchdown brings me ‘round again to | find |
C | |
I’m not the man they think I am at | home |
G/B | A9 | |
Oh no, no, | no, I’m a | rocket man |
C | G |
Rocket man, burnin’ out his fuse up | here alone |
C | G |
And I think it’s gonna be a | long long time |
C | G |
And I think it’s gonna be a | long long time |
C | G |
And I think it’s gonna be a | long long time |
C | G |
And I think it’s gonna be a | long long time |
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
Originally in C, I play in A
Intro
A | D/A |
x4 |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | D/F# | D/F# | E/G# |
Blue jean | baby, | L.A. | lady, | seamstress for the b | and | → |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | D | D | Amaj7/E |
Pretty e | yed, | pirate s | mile, | you’ll marry a music m | an | → |
Dmaj7 | C#m7 | F#m7 | B/D# | Bm7 | C#m7 | F#m | E7/G# |
Balleri | na, | you must have s | een her, | dancing in the s | and |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | E | Bm/D | A/C# | Bm |
Now she’s | in me, | always | with me, | tiny dancer in my h | and → | → | → |
A | D/A | A | D/A |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | D/F# | D/F# | E/G# |
Jesus f | reaks, | out in the s | treet, | handing tickets out for g | od | → |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | D | D | Amaj7/E |
Turning | back, | she just | laughs, | the boulevard is not that | bad | → |
Dmaj7 | C#m7 | F#m7 | B/D# | Bm7/D | C#7 | F#m | E7 |
Piano | man, | he makes his | stand, | in the | auditori | um |
A | D | A | D | A | E | Bm/D | A/C# | Bm |
Looking | on, | she sings the | songs, | the words she knows, the tune she h | ums → | → | → |
A | D/A | A | A |
F | G |
But oh how it | feels so real |
Em | Am |
Lying here, with | no one near |
F | G | |
Where o | nly you, and you can | hear me |
E7/G# | E7/B | |
When I say, | softly, | slowly |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Hold me | closer Tiny | Dancer | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
Count the | headlights on the | highway |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Lay me | down in sheets of | linen | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
You had a | busy day to | day |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Hold me | closer Tiny | Dancer | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
Count the | headlights on the | highway |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Lay me | down in sheets of | linen | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
You had a | busy day to | day |
Esus4/F# | D |
A | D/A | A | D/A |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | D/F# | D/F# | E/G# |
Blue jean | baby, | L.A. | lady, | seamstress for the b | and | → |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | D | D | Amaj7/E |
Pretty e | yed, | pirate s | mile, | you’ll marry a music m | an | → |
Dmaj7 | C#m7 | F#m7 | B/D# | Bm7 | C#m7 | F#m | E7/G# |
Balleri | na, | you must have s | een her, | dancing in the s | and |
A | D/A | A | D/A | A | E | Bm/D | A/C# | Bm |
Now she’s | in me, | always | with me, | tiny dancer in my h | and → | → | → |
A | D/A | A | A |
F | G |
But oh how it | feels so real |
Em | Am |
Lying here, with | no one near |
F | G | |
Where o | nly you, and you can | hear me |
E7/G# | E7/B | |
When I say, | softly, | slowly |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Hold me | closer Tiny | Dancer | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
Count the | headlights on the | highway |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Lay me | down in sheets of | linen | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
You had a | busy day to | day |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Hold me | closer Tiny | Dancer | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
Count the | headlights on the | highway |
D | A/C# | Bm | Bm | A/C# |
Lay me | down in sheets of | linen | → |
D | A/C# | Esus4/F# |
You had a | busy day to | day |
A | D/A |
x4 |
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 |
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 |
Intro
A |
Vox start on the 7
A |
There is nothing that is wrong |
D | |
In wanting you to stay here with | me |
A | |
I k | now you’ve got somewhere to go |
But won’t you make yourself at home and
D | E |
Stay with me? And don’t you e | ver leave |
A | D |
Lay down Sally and r | est here in my arms |
E | A |
Don’t you think you want someone to t | alk to? |
A | D |
Lay down Sally, no n | eed to leave so soon |
E | A |
I’ve been trying all night long just to t | alk to you |
A |
A | |
The s | un ain’t nearly on the rise |
D | |
And we still got the moon and stars ab | ove |
A |
Underneath the velvet skies |
D | |
Love is all that matters, won’t you s | tay with me? |
E | |
Don’t you e | ver leave |
A | D |
Lay down Sally and r | est here in my arms |
E | A |
Don’t you think you want someone to t | alk to? |
A | D |
Lay down Sally, no n | eed to leave so soon |
E | A |
I’ve been trying all night long just to t | alk to you |
A |
A | |
I l | ong to see the morning light |
D | |
Coloring your face so dreami | ly |
A | |
So d | on’t you go and say goodbye |
D | |
You can lay your worries down and s | tay with me |
E | |
Don’t you e | ver leave |
A | D |
Lay down Sally and r | est here in my arms |
E | A |
Don’t you think you want someone to t | alk to? |
A | D |
Lay down Sally, no n | eed to leave so soon |
E | A |
I’ve been trying all night long just to t | alk to you |
A | D |
Lay down Sally and r | est here in my arms |
E | A |
Don’t you think you want someone to t | alk to? |
A | D |
Lay down Sally, no n | eed to leave so soon |
E | A |
I’ve been trying all night long just to t | alk to you |
G | D/F# | C | D |
G | D/F# | C | D |
It’s late in the | evening, | she’s wondering what cl | othes to wear |
G | D/F# | C | D |
She puts on her | make-up, | and brushes her | long blond hair |
C | D | G | D/F# | Em |
And then she a | sks me, | do I | look all | right |
C | D | G | |
And I say y | es, you look w | onderful toni | ght |
G | D/F# | C | D |
G | D/F# | C | D |
We go to | party, | and everyone t | urns to see |
G | D/F# | C | D |
This beautiful | lady, | who’s walking ar | ound with me |
C | D | G | D/F# | Em |
And then she | asks me, | do you | feel all right |
C | D | G | |
And I say ye | s, I feel wo | nderful toni | ght |
G |
C | D | G | D/F# | Em | |
I feel w | onderful bec | ause I see the l | ove light | in your e | yes |
C | D | C | D | |
And the w | onder of it a | ll is that you j | ust don’t real | ize |
G | |
How much I l | ove you |
G | D/F# | C | D |
x2 |
G | D/F# | C | D |
It’s time to go | home now, | and I’ve got an aching h | ead |
G | D/F# | C | D |
So I give her the | car keys, | and she helps me to b | ed |
C | D | G | D/F# | Em |
And then I | tell her, | as I | turn out the | light |
C | D | G | D/F# | Em | D | |
I say my d | arling, you were w | onderful ton | ight |
C | D | G | |
Oh my | darling, you were | wonderful to | night |
G | D/F# | C | D |
x2 |
This follows the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes arrangement.
I pretty much play this as straight 8ths, punk-style, maybe opening up a little in the chorus
Me First in G, I play in D capo 2
In D, play Gadd9 as 30020x
A | Gadd9 | D/F# | Gadd9 | D |
D | G | |
It won’t be | easy, you’ll think it | strange |
A | |
When I try to explain how I | feel |
D | |
That I still need your love after | all that I’ve done |
Bm | |
You won’t bel | ieve me |
E7 | |
All you will see is a | girl you once knew |
E7 | |
Al | though she is dressed to the nines |
A | |
At sixes and sevens with | you |
A | Gadd9 | D/F# | Gadd9 | D |
D | G | |
I had to let it | happen, I had to | change |
A | |
Couldn’t stay all my life down at | heel |
D | |
Looking out of the window, staying | out of the sun |
Bm | |
So I chose | freedom |
E7 | |
Running around, trying | everything new |
E7 | |
But | nothing impressed me at all |
A | |
I never expected it | to |
A | Gadd9 | D/F# | Gadd9 |
D |
Don’t cry for me Argentina |
D | |
The | truth is I never left you |
A | |
All through my | wild days |
Gadd9 | |
My mad ex | istence |
D | |
I kept my | promise |
Let ring on “distance”
Gadd9 | |
Don’t keep your | distance |
D | G | |
And as for | fortune, and as for | fame |
A | |
I never invited them | in |
D | |
Though it seemed to the world they were | all I desired |
Bm | |
They are ill | usions |
E7 | |
They are not the solutions they | promised to be |
E7 | |
The | answer was here all the time |
A | |
I love you and hope you love | me |
A | Gadd9 | D/F# | Gadd9 |
D |
Don’t cry for me Argentina |
D | |
The | truth is I never left you |
A | |
All through my | wild days |
Gadd9 | |
My mad ex | istence |
D | |
I kept my | promise |
Gadd9 | |
Don’t keep your | distance |
Vox on the 3 of the chord
Em | A |
Have I said too much? |
D | A/C# | Bm | |
There’s nothing | more I can | think of to | say to you |
Vox on the 3 of the chord (again)
Em | A | |
But | all you gotta do is look at | me to know |
D | A/C# | G | |
That | every | word is | true |
D |
Don’t cry for me Argentina |
D | |
The | truth is I never left you |
A | |
All through my | wild days |
Gadd9 | |
My mad ex | istence |
D | |
I kept my | promise |
Gadd9 | |
Don’t keep your | distance |
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 |
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? |
Originally in E, I play in A
A | D/A | A | D/A |
→ | → | x8 |
A | G | D |
If you | wake up and | don’t want to smile |
A | G | D |
If it | takes just a | little while |
A | G | D |
Open your | eyes and | look at the day |
E |
You’ll see things in a different way |
A | G/A | D |
Don’t | stop t | hinking about tomorrow |
A | G/A | D |
Don’t | stop, | it’ll soon be here |
A | G/A | D |
It’ll | be b | etter than before |
E |
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone |
A | G | D | D |
x2 |
A | G | D |
Why not | think about | times to come |
A | G | D |
And not a | bout the | things that you’ve done |
A | G | D |
If your | life was | bad to you |
E |
Just think what tomorrow will do |
Not a typo, the bass holds the 1 in the first chorus, but not here
A | G | D |
Don’t | stop t | hinking about tomorrow |
A | G | D |
Don’t | stop, | it’ll soon be here |
A | G | D |
It’ll | be b | etter than before |
E |
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone |
E |
Solo
A | G | D | D |
x3 |
E | E | E | E |
A | G | D |
All I | want is to | see you smile |
A | G | D |
If it | takes just a | little while |
A | G | D |
I know you | don’t be | lieve that it’s true |
E |
I never meant any harm to you |
A | G/A | D |
Don’t | stop t | hinking about tomorrow |
Hard stop on “it’ll soon”
A | G | D |
Don’t | stop, | it’ll soon be here |
A | G | D |
It’ll | be b | etter than before |
E |
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone |
A | G/A | D |
Don’t | stop t | hinking about tomorrow |
A | G/A | D |
Don’t | stop, | it’ll soon be here |
A | G | D |
It’ll | be b | etter than before |
E |
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone |
A | G | D | A | G | D |
Ooo | h, | don’t you look | back |
A | G | D | A | G | D |
Ooo | h, | don’t you look | back |
A | G | D | A | G | D |
Ooo | h, | don’t you look | back |
A | G | D | A | G | D |
Ooo | h, | don’t you look | back |
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 |
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
Originally in G, I play in E
Vox on 1 3 5 on “in last night”
E | |
I come i | n last night about half past ten |
That baby of mine wouldn’t let me in
A | E | |
So | move it on over, | rock it on over |
B | A | E | B | |
Move o | ver little dog, the m | ean old dog is movin’ i | n |
E | |
She t | old me not to mess around |
But I done let the deal go down
A | E | |
M | ove it on over, | rock it on over |
B | A | E | B | |
Move o | ver nice dog, a | big bad dog is movin’ i | n |
E | |
She c | hanged the lock on my back door |
Now my key won’t fit no more
A | E |
Move it on over, | rock it on over |
B | A | E | B | |
Move o | ver nice dog, a | mean old dog is movin’ i | n |
Solo
E | E | E | E |
A | A | E | E |
B | A | E | B |
E | |
She t | hrew me out just as pretty as she pleased |
Pretty soon I be scratchin’ fleas
A | E | |
Mov | e it on over, sli | de it on over |
B | A | E | B | |
Move o | ver nice dog, a m | ean, old dog is movin’ i | n |
Solo
E | E | E | E |
A | A | E | E |
B | A | E | B |
E | |
Yeah, | listen to me dog before you start to whine |
That side’s yours and this side’s mine
A | E | |
So move i | t on over, roc | k it on over |
B | A | E | B | |
Move | over little dog, a | big, old dog is movin’ i | n |
Solo
E | E | E | E |
A | A | E | E |
B | A | E | B |
E | |
Yeah, she c | hanged the lock on my back door |
Now my key won’t fit no more
A | E |
Move it on over, | rock it on over |
B | A | E | B | |
Move | over little dog, a | big, old dog is movin’ i | n |
E |
Move it on over, move it on over |
A | E |
Move it on over, won’t ya r | ock it on over |
Hard stop on “hot”
B | A | E | |
Move | over cool dog, a | hot dog’s movin’ | in |
F | E |
→ |
Intro
E7 |
Spoken, but around the b3 and the 1
E |
Wanna tell you a story |
About the house rent blues
I come home one Friday
Had to tell the landlady I done lost my job
She said that don't befront me
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent
Hard stop before this line
And out the door I went
Fancy riff, and the band comes back in, still spoken, vox around the b7 now
E |
So I goes to the landlady |
I said, you let me slide?
I'll have the rent for you tomorrow or the next day I don't know
So said let me slide it on you know people
I notice when I come home in the evenin'
She ain't got nothing nice to say to me
But for five year she was so nice
Lord, she was lovey-dovey
I come home one particular evenin'
The landlady said, you got the rent money yet?
I said, no, can't find no job
Therefore I ain't got no money to pay the rent
She said I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job
Said I seen you today you was standin' on a corner
Leaning up against a post
I said but I'm tired, I been walkin' all day
She said that don't befront me
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent
Hard stop again, same deal
And out the door I went
E |
So I go down the streets |
Down to my good friend’s house
I said Look man, I'm outdoors, you know
Can I stay wicha maybe a couple days?
He said uh, let me go and ask my wife
He come out of the house, I could see in his face
I knowed it was "no"
He said I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, an' all
I said I know, everybody funny, now you funny, too
So I go back home, I tell the landlady I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent
She said yeah, I said aw yeah
And then she was so nice
Lord, she was lovey-dovey
So I go in my room, pack up my things and I go
I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go
She a-hollerin' about the front rent, she be lucky to get any back rent
She ain't gonna get none of it
So I stop in the local bar, you know, people
I go to the bar, I hang my coat, I call the bartender
I said look man, come down here, he got down there
Said, whatchoo want?
Vox on the b3 on “bourbon”
E | B | E | B | |
One bo | urbon, one s | cotch, one b | eer |
Now sung, more or less, around the b3
E | |
Well I a | in’t seen my baby since I don’t know when |
E | |
I been d | rinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin |
E |
Gonna get high man, I’m gonna get loose |
E |
Need me a triple shot o’ that juice |
E |
Gonna get drunk, don’t you have no fear |
E | |
I w | ant one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer |
Vox on the b3 on “bourbon”
E | B | E | B | |
One bo | urbon, one s | cotch, one b | eer |
E |
But I’m sittin’ there, at the bar |
I’m gettin’ drunk, I’m feelin’ mellow
I'm drinkin' bourbon, I'm drinkin' scotch, I'm drinkin' beer
Looked down the bar, here come the bartender
I said look man, come down here, he got down there
Said, whatchoo want?
Vox on the b3 on “bourbon”
E | B | E | B | |
One bo | urbon, one s | cotch, one b | eer |
E | |
No, I a | in’t seen my baby since the night before last |
E |
Gotta get a drink man, I’m gonna get gassed |
E |
Gonna get high man, I ain’t had enough |
E |
Need me a triple shot of that stuff |
E |
Gonna get drunk, won’tcha listen right here |
E | |
I w | ant one bourbon, one shot ‘n one beer |
Vox on the b3 on “bourbon”
E | B | E | B | |
One bo | urbon, one s | cotch, one b | eer, well all right |
Solo
E7 | E7 | A7 | E7 | |
B7 | A7 | E7 | E7 | B7 |
→ |
E7 |
Spoken again
E |
Now by this time I’m plenty high |
You know when your mouth a-getting dry, you’re plenty high
Looked down the bar, I see'da my bartender
I said look man, come down here, he got down there
He said whatchoo want this time?
I said look man, a-what time is it?
He said the clock on the wall say three o'clock
Last call for alcohol, so what you need?
Vox on the b3 on “bourbon”
E | B | E | B | |
One bo | urbon, one s | cotch, one b | eer, well all right |
E | |
Lord, I a | in’t seen my baby since a-nigh on a week |
E |
Gotta get drunk man, so I can’t even speak |
E |
Gonna get high man, listen to me |
E |
One drink ain’t enough Jack, you better make it three |
E |
Gonna get drunk, I’m gonna make it real clear |
Hard stop on “want”
E | |
I | want one bourbon, one scotch ‘n’ one beer |
Vox on the b3 on “bourbon”
E | B | E | B | |
One bo | urbon, one s | cotch, one b | eer, well all right |
E9 |
Originally in Am, I play in Am and sing down an octave
E7 |
Let ring
Am | Dm7 | |
At | first I was afraid, I was | petrified |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Kept thinking | I could never live without you | by my side |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
But then I | spent so many nights thinking | how you did me wrong |
Esus4 | E | |
And I grew | strong, and I learned | how to get along |
At tempo
Am | Dm7 | |
And so you’re | back from outer | space |
G | Cmaj7 | |
I just walked | in to find you here with that sad | look upon your face |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
I should have | changed that stupid lock, I should have m | ade you leave your key |
Esus4 | E | |
If I had | known for just one second you’d be | back to bother me |
Am | Dm7 | |
Go on now | go, walk out the d | oor |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Just turn ar | ound now ‘cause you’re not | welcome anymore |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 |
Weren’t you the one who tried to | hurt me with goodbye |
Esus4 | E | |
Did you think I’d c | rumble? Did you think | I’d lay down and die? |
Am | Dm7 | |
Oh no, not | I, I will sur | vive |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Oh, as | long as I know how to love I k | now I’ll stay alive |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
I’ve got | all my life to live, and I’ve got | all my love to give |
Esus4 | E | Am | |
And I’ll sur | vive, I will sur | vive, hey h | ey |
Am7 | Dm7 | G | Cmaj7 |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | Esus4 | E |
Am | Dm7 | |
It took | all the strength I had not to | fall apart |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Kept trying | hard to mend the pieces of my | broken heart |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
And I spent | oh so many nights just feeling | sorry for myself |
Esus4 | E | |
I used to | cry, but now I | hold my head up high |
Am | Dm7 | |
And you see | me, somebody | new |
G | Cmaj7 | |
I’m not that | chained up little person still in | love with you |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
And so you | felt like dropping in and just ex | pect me to be free |
Esus4 | E | |
Now I’m | saving all my loving for some | one who’s loving me |
Am | Dm7 | |
Go on now | go walk out the | door |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Just turn | around now ‘cause you’re not | welcome anymore |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 |
Weren’t you the one who tried to | break me with goodbye |
Esus4 | E | |
Did you think | I’d crumble? Did you think | I’d lay down and die? |
Am | Dm7 | |
Oh no, not | I, I will sur | vive |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Oh | as long as I know how to love I kn | ow I’ll stay alive |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
I’ve got | all my life to live, I’ve got | all my love to give |
Hang on the second “survive”
Esus4 | E | |
And I’ll sur | vive, I will sur | vive, oh |
Am | Dm7 | |
Go on now | go walk out the | door |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Just turn | around now ‘cause you’re not | welcome anymore |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 |
Weren’t you the one who tried to | break me with goodbye |
Esus4 | E | |
Did you think | I’d crumble? Did you think | I’d lay down and die? |
Am | Dm7 | |
Oh no, not | I, I will sur | vive |
G | Cmaj7 | |
Oh | as long as I know how to love I kn | ow I’ll stay alive |
Fmaj7 | Bm7b5 | |
I’ve got | all my life to live, I’ve got | all my love to give |
Esus4 | E | Am | |
And I’ll sur | vive, I will sur | vive, I will surv | ive |
Originally in Db, I play in E
Get the vox ready for “flipped over that gray cashmere sweater”,
and also think hard about how serious you are about the melody in
the bridge. It’s rhythmically simple, but melodically wild. Plan
on a class-II train wreck in the bridge.
B7 | B6 | B+ | B7 |
Vox start on the 1
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 |
Freddy my | love, I miss you | more than words can | say |
Vox on the 7 of the chord on “touch”, down to the 3 of the chord on “way”
E | Emaj7 | C#7sus4 | C#7 |
Freddy my | love, please keep in | touch while you’re a | way |
F#m7 | F#m7b5 | B7 |
Hearing from | you can make the | day so much better |
G#m | G#m7b5/D | C#7sus4 | C#7 |
Getting a | souvenir or | maybe a | letter |
Vox up to the 3 of the chord on “flipped”, which is awkward,
then on the 5 on “gray”, which is not awkward.
Hard stop on “sweater”
F#m7 | Am/D | E/B | A |
I really | flipped over the | gray cashmere | sweater |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 | |
Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 |
Freddy you | know, your absence | makes me feel so | blue |
E | Emaj7 | C#7sus4 | C#7 |
That’s okay | though, your presents | make me think of | you |
F#m7 | F#m7b5 | B7 |
My ma will | have a heart at | tack when she catches |
G#m | G#m7b5/D | C#7sus4 | C#7 |
Those pedal | pushers with the | black leather | patches |
F#m7 | Am/D | E/B | A |
Oh how I | wish I had a | jacket that | matches |
E | Emaj7 | A | E7 | |
Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love |
Vox on 3 1 of the first chord (“keep your”), then
1 5 of the second (“from me”).
That sets the tone, although this bridge is super-complicated to sing. Just hit
the high 3 of the chord on “mind” at the end and it will be OK.
A | B7 | G#m | E | |
Don’t | keep your letters | from me, I | thrill to every | line |
Am7 | B7 | Em | Em | |
Your | spelling’s kinda | crummy, but | honey so is | mine |
F#m7b5 | B7+5 | B7 | Em | A7 | |
I | treasure every | gifti | e, the | ring is really | nifty |
Dmaj7 | C#m7 | F#m7 | B7 | |
You | say it cost you | fifty, so you’re | thrifty, I don’t | mind |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 | |
Woah, oh, oh, | oh, Freddy you | see, you’ll hold me | in your arms some | day |
E | Emaj7 | C#7sus4 | C#7 |
And I will | be wearing your | lacy linge | rie |
F#m7 | F#m7b5 | B7 |
Thinking a | bout it, my heart’s | pounding already |
G#m | G#m7b5/D | C#7sus4 | C#7 |
Knowing when | you come home, we’re | bound to go | steady |
F#m7 | Am/D | E/B | A |
And throw your | service pay a | round like con | fetti |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 | |
Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 |
Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 |
Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love |
E | Emaj7 | A | B7 |
Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love, Freddy my | love |
Fade
D | G | A | G | A | G |
x 2 |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
M: | Summer l | ovin’, | had me a b | last |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
F: | Summer l | ovin’, | happened so | fast |
D | G | A | B | |
M: | I met a | girl | crazy for | me |
E | A | E | A | |
F: | Met a b | oy, | cute as can | be |
D | G | A | B | |
Both: | Summer d | ays, | driftin’ a | way to |
Em | A | D | |
A | h those s | ummer n | ights |
A | G | A | |
Men: Oh, | well-a | well-a | well-a |
D | G | E | A | |
Men: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, did you | get very far? |
D | G | E | A | |
Women: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, like, does | he have a car? |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
All: Doo- | doo ah ah doo- | doo doo- | doo doo | doo | doo | doo |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
M: | She swam | by me, | she got a c | ramp |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
F: | He ran | by me, | got my suit | damp |
D | G | A | B | |
M: | I saved her l | ife, | she nearly d | rowned |
E | A | E | A | |
F: | He showed | off, | splashing ar | ound |
D | G | A | B | |
Both: | Summer s | un, | something be | gun but |
Em | A | D |
Oh those | summer | nights |
A | G | A | |
Both: Oh, | well-a | well-a | well-a |
D | G | E | A | |
Women: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, was it | love at first sight |
D | G | E | A | |
Men: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, did she | put up a fight |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
All: Doo- | doo ah ah doo- | doo doo- | doo doo | doo | doo | doo |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
M: | Took her | bowling | in the ar | cade |
D | G | A | G | |
F: | We went s | trolling, | drank lemon | ade |
D | G | A | B | |
M: | We made o | ut, | under the d | ock |
E | A | E | A | |
F: | We stayed | out, | till ten o’c | lock |
D | G | A | B | |
Both: | Summer f | ling | don’t mean a t | hing but |
Em | A | Bb |
Ah those s | ummer n | ights |
Eb | Ab | F | Bb | |
Men: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, but you | don’t gotta brag |
Eb | Ab | F | Bb | |
Women: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, ‘cause he | sounds like a drag |
Eb | Ab | Bb | Ab | |
All: | Shoo bop bop | shoo be bop | shoo bop bop | shoo bop bop |
Eb | Ab | Bb | Ab | |
All: | Shoo bop bop | shoo be bop | shoo bop bop | yeah |
Eb | Ab | Bb | Ab | |
F: | He got f | riendly, | holding my | hand |
Eb | Ab | Bb | Ab | |
M: | Well she got f | riendly, | down in the | sand |
Eb | Ab | Bb | C | |
F: | He was | sweet, | just turned eig | hteen |
F | Bb | F | Bb | |
M: | She was | good, you | know what I | mean |
Eb | Ab | Bb | C | |
Both: | Summer | heat, | boy and girl | meet, but |
Fm | Bb | B |
Oh those s | ummer n | ights |
E | A | F# | B | |
Women: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, how much | dough did he spend? |
Hard stop on “friend”
E | A | F# | B | E | |
Men: | Tell me | more, tell me | more, could she ge | t me a | friend? |
Let ring
A7 |
Slow, let ring
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
F: | It’s turned | colder, | that’s where it | ends |
D | G | A | G | A | G | |
M: | So I told he | r, | we’d still be f | riends |
D | G | A | B | |
F: | Then we | made | our true love | vow |
E7 | A7 | E7 | A7 | |
M: | Wonder | what | she’s doin’ | now |
D | G | A | B | |
Both: | Summer | dreams, | ripped at the | seams, but |
The Ddim is implied by the harmony, but there’s no root
Em | A | Ddim | D | |
Ah | those | summer | ni | ghts |
D | G | D | D | G | D | |
All: | Tell me m | ore, tell me | more ohhh |
Originally in Am, I play in Dm
Intro
Dm |
Danny, vox on the 1
Dm | A# | F | |
I got | chills, they’re multiplyin’, and I’m | losin’ con | trol |
A | Dm | |
‘Cause the | power you’re | supplyin’, it’s electrifyin’ |
Sandy
F | Am | Dm | A# | |
You better shape | up, ‘cause I | need a man, | and my heart is set on | you |
F | Am | Dm | A# | |
You better shape | up, you better | understand, | to my heart I must be tr | ue |
Danny
A# | |
Nothing | left, nothing left for me to do |
Both
F | A# | |
You’re the | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh, honey |
F | A# | |
The | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh, honey |
F | A# | |
The | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh |
A# | C | C7 |
The one I | need (the one I need), oh yes ind | eed (yes indeed) |
Dm |
Sandy
Dm | A# | F | |
If you’re f | illed with affection, you’re too s | hy to con | vey |
A | Dm | |
Medi | tate in my di | rection, feel your way |
Danny
F | Am | |
I better shape | up, cause you | need a man (I need a man) |
Sandy
Dm | A# |
Who can keep me satis | fied |
Danny
F | Am | |
I better shape | up, if I’m | gonna prove (you better prove) |
Sandy
Dm | A# |
That my faith is justi | fied |
Danny
A# |
Are you sure? |
Both
A# | |
Yes I’m s | ure down deep inside |
F | A# | |
You’re the | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh, honey |
F | A# | |
The | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh, honey |
F | A# | |
The | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh |
A# | C | C7 |
The one I | need (the one I need), oh yes | indeed (yes indeed) |
F | A# | |
You’re the | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh, honey |
F | A# | |
The | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh, honey |
F | A# | |
The | one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh | ooh |
A# | C | C7 |
The one I | need (the one I need), oh yes | indeed (yes indeed) |
F | |
You’re the | one that I want |
Originally in F, I play in C
In this verse, chords are syncopated and back a half-measure, so the first chord really hits after “girl”
Vox on 5 6 1 on “you’re a rich”
C | Em7 | |
You’re a | rich girl and you’ve | gone too far |
Am7 | C/G | |
‘Cause you k | now it don’t matter anyw | ay |
F | C/E |
You can rely on the | old man’s money |
Dm7 | F/G |
You can rely on the ol | d man’s money |
C | Em7 | |
It’s a bi | tch girl but it’s | gone too far |
Am7 | C/G | |
‘Cause you k | now it don’t matter anyw | ay |
F | C/E |
Say money but it w | on’t get you too far |
Dm7 |
Get you too far |
C |
Dm7 | Em7 | Fmaj7 | Dm7 | |
And | don’t | you | know, don’t you | know |
C/G | Dm7 | Em7 | Am7 | |
That it’s | wrong, oh, to | take what he’s | givin’ | you |
Dm7 | Em7 | Fmaj7 | Dm7 |
So | far | gone, on your own |
Dm7 | Am7 | Dm7 | |
And you can g | et along i | f you | try to be strong |
Am7 | F/G | F/A | G/B | F/C |
But you’ll | never be st | rong | ’cause |
C | Em7 | |
You’re a | rich girl and you’ve | gone too far |
Am7 | C/G | |
‘Cause you k | now it don’t matter anyw | ay |
F | C/E |
You can rely on the | old man’s money |
Dm7 | F/G | F/A |
You can rely on the ol | d man’s | money |
C | Em7 | |
It’s a bi | tch girl but it’s | gone too far |
Am7 | C/G | |
‘Cause you k | now it don’t matter anyw | ay |
F | C/E |
Say money but it w | on’t get you too far |
Dm7 |
Get you too far |
Dm7 | Em7 | Fmaj7 | Dm7 |
High | and | dry, out of the | rain |
C/G | Dm7 | Em7 | Am7 | |
It’s so e | asy to hurt | others when you | can’t feel | pain |
Dm7 | Em7 | Fmaj7 | Dm7 | |
And d | on’t | you | know that a love can’t g | row |
Dm7 | Am7 | Dm7 | |
‘Cause there’s t | oo much to give, | ’cause you’d r | ather live |
Am7 | F/G | F/A | G/B | F/C |
For the thr | ill of it | all | oh |
C | Em7 | |
You’re a | rich girl and you’ve | gone too far |
Am7 | C/G | |
‘Cause you k | now it don’t matter anyw | ay |
F | C/E |
You can rely on the | old man’s money |
Dm7 | F/G | F/A |
You can rely on the ol | d man’s | money |
C | Em7 | |
It’s a bi | tch girl and it’s | gone too far |
Am7 | C/G | |
‘Cause you k | now it don’t matter anyw | ay |
F | C/E |
Say money but it w | on’t get you too far |
F | Am7 | C/G |
Say money but it w | on’t get you | too far |
F | C/E |
Say money but it w | on’t get you too far |
Dm7 | C |
Get you too far |
Dm7 | Em7 | F | C/E | |
And | you | say | you can rely on the | old man’s money |
Dm7 | F/G | F/A |
You can rely on the ol | d man’s | money |
C | Em7 | |
You’re a | rich girl, a r | ich girl |
Am7 | C/G | |
Oh | h you’re a | rich rich girl |
F | C/E |
Say money but it w | on’t get you too far |
F | Am7 | C/G |
Say money but it w | on’t get you | too far |
F | C/E |
Say money but it w | on’t get you too far |
Dm7 | C |
Get you too far |
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
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 |
Originally in F, I play in D
D | C/D | G/D | D |
→ | → |
C/D | G/D |
→ | → |
D | |
Doctor, my e | yes have seen the years |
F#m | Bm | |
And the s | low parade of fears without c | rying |
G | D | |
Now I w | ant to und | erstand |
D | F#m | |
I have d | one all that I could, to see the | evil and the good |
Bm | G | D | |
Without | hiding, you must h | elp me if you c | an |
Bm | D | |
Doctor, my | eyes, | tell me what is wrong |
Hard stop on the V
Bm | A | G/D | |
Was I un | wise to leave them o | pen for so lon | g |
D | G/D |
D | |
‘Cause I have | wandered through this world |
F#m | Bm | |
And as each m | oment has unfurled, I’ve been | waiting |
G | D | |
To awak | en from these d | reams |
D | F#m | |
People g | o just where they will, I never | noticed them until |
Bm | G | D | |
I got this | feeling, that it’s | later than it | seems |
Bm | D | |
Doctor, my | eyes, | tell me what you see |
Not a typo, the chorus ends on IV/1 the first time, bVII/1 this time
Bm | A | C/D | |
I hear their | cries, just say if i | t’s too late for m | e |
C/D | G/D | D |
→ | → | x4 |
Bm | D | |
Doctor, my | eyes, they | cannot see the sky |
Bm | A | G/D | |
Is this the | price for having | learned how not to | cry |
D |
Solo
G/D | D | G/D | D |
x8 |
Originally in A, I play in G
Downstrokes and straight 8ths in the verse, leave room to open up in the chorus
Intro
C/G | G |
x 2 |
Em | Em |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
Looking out at the | road rushing under my wheels |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
Looking back at the | years gone by like so | many summer fields |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
In sixty-five I was | seventeen and | running up 101 |
C/G | G/B | D |
I don’t know where I’m | running now, I’m just | running on |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running on | empty |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running | blind |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running into the | sun |
Em | |
But I’m running be | hind |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
Gotta do what you | can just to keep your love | alive |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
Trying not to conf | use it with what you | do to sur | vive |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
In sixty-nine I was t | wenty-one and I | called the road my | own |
C/G | G/B | D |
I don’t know when that | road turned onto the | road I’m on |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running on | empty |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running | blind |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running into the | sun |
Em | |
But I’m running be | hind |
Solo if appropriate on verse chords, else just a couple IV→I’s
C/G | G |
x 4 |
C/G | G/B | D |
Em | C/G | D | G |
Everyone I | know, | everywhere I | go |
Em | D | C |
People need some | reason to | believe |
G | |
I don’t know about | anyone but me |
Em | C | D | G |
If it takes all | night, | that’ll be all | right |
C | D | C/G | G/B | Am7 | G | Am7 | G/B |
If I can get you to | smile before I | leave |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
Looking out at the | road rushing under my | wheels |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
I don’t know how to | tell you all just how | crazy this life | feels |
C/G | G | C/G | G |
I look around for the | friends that I used to | turn to to pull me | through |
C/G | G/B | D |
Looking into their | eyes I see them | running too |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running on | empty |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running | blind |
C/G | G | |
Running | on, running into the | sun |
Em | |
But I’m running be | hind |
C/G | G |
Honey you really | tempt me |
C/G | G | |
You know the | way you look so | kind |
C/G | D | C/G | G/B | Am7 | G | Am7 | G/B |
I’d love to stick ar | ound but I’m running be | hind |
C/G | D | C/G | G/B | Am7 | G | Am7 | G/B |
You know I don’t even | know what I’m hoping to | find |
C/G | D | C/G | G/B | Am7 | G |
Running into the | sun but I’m running be | hind |
Maurice Williams in Bb, Four Seasons in Bb, Hollies in A (and insanely fast), Jackson Browne in G
I play in G
There is a separate entry for the Maurice Williams version
G | Em | C | D |
G | Em | C | D | |
People | stay, | just a | little bit |
G | Em | C | D |
Longer |
G | Em | C | D | |
We wanna pl | ay, | just a | little bit |
G | Em | C | D |
Longer |
G | Em | C | D | |
Now the prom | oter don’t | mind |
G | Em | C | D | |
And the | union don’t | mind |
G | Em | C | D | |
If we | take a little time | , and we | leave it all be | hind |
Hang this chord
Em | |
Singin’, | one more song |
G | Em | C | D | |
Oh, won’t you | stay, | just a | little bit |
G | Em | C | D |