Abba - Mamma Mia (1975)

Originally in D, I play in A

A	Aaug	A	Aaug
			x2

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

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

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

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

	E
There’s a fire with	in my soul

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

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

A

Mamma mia, here I go again

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

A

Mamma mia, does it show again?

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

A	E/G#
Yes, I’ve been	broken-hearted

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

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

A	F#m
Mamma mia,	now I really know

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

A	Aaug	A	Aaug

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

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

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

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

	E
You know that I’m	not that strong

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

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

A

Mamma mia, here I go again

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

A

Mamma mia, does it show again?

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

A	E/G#
Yes, I’ve been	broken-hearted

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

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

A

Mamma mia, even if I say

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

A

Mamma mia, it’s a game we play

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

A

Mamma mia, here I go again

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

A

Mamma mia, does it show again?

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

A	E/G#
Yes, I’ve been	broken-hearted

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

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

A	F#m
Mamma mia,	now I really know

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

Repeat to fade

A	Aaug

Aerosmith - Dream On (1973)

Originally in Fm, I play in Em.

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
x 2

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 G here, best for me to go to E

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

Em	D
Yeah, I know	nobody knows

C	D
Where it comes and	where it goes

Em	D
I know it’s	everybody’s sin

C	D
You got to lose to	know how to win

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
x 2

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

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

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
You know it’s	true

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	D
All the	things	come back to	you

Em	D
Sing with me,	sing for the year

C	D
Sing for the laughter,	sing for the tear

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

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

Am	B7	Cmaj7
Dream on	dream on	dream on

D	Em
Dream until the dream come	true

Am	B7	Cmaj7
Dream on	dream on	dream on

D	Em
Dream until the dream come	true

Am	B7
Dream on	dream on

Cmaj7	D
Dream on	dream on

Am	B7
Dream on	dream on

Cmaj7	D	B7
Dream on	ah	ah

Em

America - Sister Golden Hair (1975)

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

C#m	A	E	E

I prefer to skip this part of the intro

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

	E
Well I	tried to make it Sunday, but I

G#m

Got so damn depressed

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

G#m

Got myself undressed

	A	F#m
I ain’t	ready for the	altar

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

	F#m
When a	woman sure can

A	E	Esus4	E
Be a friend of mine

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

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

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

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

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

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	end?

	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	end?

	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

Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being a Friend (1978)

Originally in Bb, I play in A capo 1

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

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (1972)

Vocal note - melody starts on the 5

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

D	A	D
Riding on the	City of New Or	leans

Bm	G	D
Illinois Central,	Monday morning	rail

D	A	D
Fifteen cars and fi	fteen restless	riders

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

	Bm
All a	long the southbound odyssey

	F#m
The	train pulls out of Kankakee

	A	E
And	rolls along the houses, farms and	fields

Bm

Passing trains that have no name

	F#m
And	freight yards full of old black men

	A	D
And	graveyards of the rusted automo	biles

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

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

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

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

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

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

D	A	D
Pass the paper	bag that holds the	bottle

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

	Bm
And the	sons of Pullman porters

	F#m7
And the	sons of engineers

	A	E
Ride their	fathers’ magic carpet made of	steel

Bm

Mothers with their babes asleep

F#m7

Rocking to the gentle beat

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

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

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

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

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

D	A	D
Nighttime on the	City of New	Orleans

Bm	G	D
Changing cars in	Memphis,	Tennesee

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

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

	Bm
But	all the towns and people seem

	F#m7
To	fade into a bad dream

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

	Bm
The	conductor sings his songs again

	F#m7
The	passengers will please refrain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C	Bb	F	C
			x2

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

	C	Bb
You	get up every morning from your	’larm clock’s warning

	F	C
Take the	8:15 into the	city

	C	Bb
There’s a	whistle up above and people	pushin’, people shovin’

	F	C
And the	girls who try to look	pretty

	C	Bb
And if your	train’s on time you can	get to work by nine

	F	C
And start your	slaving job to get your	pay

	C	Bb
If you	ever get annoyed, look at	me I’m self-employed

	F	C
I	love to work at nothing all	day

And I'll be

C	Bb
Taking care of business	every day

F	C
Taking care of business	every way

	C	Bb
I’ve been	taking care of business	it’s all mine

F	C
Taking care of business and	working overtime, work out

C	Bb	F	C
			x2

	C	Bb
If it were	easy as fishin’ you could	be a musician

	F	C
If	you could make sounds loud or	mellow

	C	Bb
Get a	second-hand guitar, chances	are you’ll go far

	F	C
If you	get in with the right bunch of	fellows

	C	Bb
People	see you having fun, just a-	lying in the sun

F	C
Tell them that you like it this	way

	C	Bb
It’s the	work that we avoid, and we’re	all self-employed

	F	C
We	love to work at nothing all	day

And we been

C	Bb
Taking care of business	every day

F	C
Taking care of business	every way

	C	Bb
I’ve been	taking care of business,	it’s all mine

F	C
Taking care of business and	working overtime

C	Bb
Taking care of business	every day

F	C
Taking care of business	every way

C	Bb
I’ve been taking care of business,	it’s all mine

F	C
Taking care of business and	working overtime

Solo on verse chords

C	Bb	F	C
			xN

C	F	Eb	Bb
			x2

	C	F	Eb	Bb
Take good care		of my business

	C	F	Eb	Bb
When I’m away		every day

C	Bb	F	C
			xN

	C	Bb
You	get up every morning from your	’larm clock’s warning

	F	C
Take the	8:15 into the	city

	C	Bb
There’s a	whistle up above and people	pushin’, people shovin’

	F	C
And the	girls who try to look	pretty

	C	Bb
And if your	train’s on time you can	get to work by nine

	F	C
And start your	slaving job to get your	pay

	C	Bb
If you	ever get annoyed, look at	me I’m self-employed

	F	C
I	love to work at nothing all	day

And I been

C	Bb
Taking care of business	every day

F	C
Taking care of business	every way

	C	Bb
I’ve been	taking care of business,	it’s all mine

F	C
Taking care of business and	working overtime, take care

Drums only

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

Band enters with hits only

C	Bb
Takin’ care of business	every day

F	C
Takin’ care of business	(very way

C	Bb
Takin’ care of businessm,	it’s all mine

F

Takin’ care of business and working overtime

C	Bb
Takin’ care of business

F	C
Takin’ care of business

Repeat to fade

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine (1971)

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

I prefer it as Dm7→F→Am

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

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

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

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And she’s	always gone too	long

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

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

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

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And this	house just ain’t no	home

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

Am

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

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

	Dm7
Hey, I ought to leave the young thing	alone

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

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

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Only	darkness every	day

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And this	house just ain’t no	home

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

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

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

	G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

Bill Withers - Lean on Me (1972)

I play almost all the F’s as either Fmaj7 or Fadd9

C	F	C	G	C
			→

C	F
Sometimes in our	lives

	C	C	G
We all have	pain we all have	sorr	ow

C	F
But if we are	wise

	C	G	C
We know that	there’s always tom	orr	ow

Let an extra measure hang here on C

	C	F
Lean on	me, when you’re not	strong

	C
And I’ll be your	friend

	C	G
I’ll help you	carry	on

C	F
For it won’t be	long

	C
‘Til I’m gonna	need

	G	C
Somebody to	lean	on

C	F
Please swallow your	pride

	C	C	G
If I have	things you need to	borr	ow

C	F	C
For no one can	fill those of your	needs

	G	C
That you won’t	let	show

Let an extra measure hang here on C

	C	F	C	G	C
You just	call on me	bro	ther, when	you need a hand

	G	C
We all need somebody to	lean	on

	C	F	C	G	C
I just	might have a	prob	lem that	you’d under	stand

	G	C
We all need somebody to	lean	on

Let an extra measure hang here on C

	C	F
Lean on	me, when you’re not	strong

	C
And I’ll be your	friend

	G
I’ll help you carry	on

C	F
For it won’t be	long

	C
‘Til I’m gonna	need

	G	C
Somebody to	lean	on

C	F	C
If there is a	load you have to	bear

	C	G
That you can’t	car	ry

C	F
I’m right up the	road

	C
I’ll share your	load

	G	C
If you just	call	me

G6	C
Call	me (if you need a friend)

G6	C
Call	me (call me)

G6	C
Call	me (if you need a friend)

G6	C
Call	me (if you ever need a friend)

G6	C
Call	me (call me)

G6	C
Call	me

G6	C
Call	me (if you need a friend)

Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (1976)

Intro

Siren noises are roughly...

Bb

Piano intro

D	Cadd9	G6/B	Bb(#11)
D	C6/9	G6/B	Bb(#11)
D/F#	Gmaj7	D/A	G/B
A/C#	G/B	D	D/C#	G/B

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
I’ve seen the	lights go out on	Broadway

Bm	Gadd9	A	Asus4	A	Gadd9
I saw the	Empire State laid	low

F#m7	Bm
And life went on beyond the P	alisades

	D/A	A
They all bought	Cadillacs

	Gadd9	G	A
And left there	long ago

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
They held a	concert out in	Brooklyn

Bm	Gadd9	A	Asus4	A	Gadd9
To watch the	island bridges	blow

Hanging stops

D/F#	G
They turned our	power down

D/A	G/B
And drove us u	nderground

A/C#	G/B	D
But we went	right on with the s	how

Now the rock starts

D	Bm	D	Bm	D	D/A	A	D/A	A
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
I’ve seen the	lights go out on	Broadway

Bm	G	A	D/A	A
I saw the	ruins at my	feet

F#m7	Bm
You know we almost didn’t	notice it

	D/A	A
We’d seen it	all the time

	G	G	A
On Forty-	Second Street

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
They burned the	churches up in	Harlem

Bm	G	A	D/A	A
Like in that	Spanish civil	war

D/F#	G
The flames were e	verywhere

D/A	G/B
But no one	really cared

A/C#	G/B	D
It always	burned up there before

D	Bm	D	Bm	D	D/A	A	D/A	A
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
I’ve seen the	lights go out on	Broadway

Bm	G	A	D/A	A	Gadd9
I watched the	mighty skyline	fall

F#m7	Bm
The boats were waiting at the	Battery

	D/A	A
The union w	ent on strike

	G	G	A
They never	sailed at all

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
They sent a car	rier out from	Norfolk

	Bm	G	A	D/A	A
And	picked the	Yankees up for	free

D/F#	G
They said that	Queens could stay

D/A	G/B
They blew the B	ronx away

A/C#	G/B	D
And sank Man	hattan out at s	ea

D	Bm	D	Bm	D	D/A	A	D/A	A
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

Hanging stop on “lights”, mellow out

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
You know those	lights were bright on	Broadway

Bm	G	A	Asus4	A	Gadd9
But that was so	many years ago

F#m7	Bm
Before we all lived here in	Florida

	D/A	A	Gadd9	G	A
Before the	Mafia	took over	Mexico

D	G/D	D	D	A/C#
There are not	many who re	member

Bm	Gadd9	A
They say a	handful still	survive

D/F#	G
To tell the	world about

D/A	G/B
The way the l	ights went out

A	G/B	Bb
And keep the me	mory alive

Repeat intro

D	Cadd9	G6/B	Bb(#11)
D	C6/9	G6/B	Bb(#11)
D/F#

Billy Joel - Movin’ Out (1977)

Originally in Dm, I play in Am capo 3

Play Bdim as x2313x

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C
				x2

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

Workin’ too hard can give you

D7

A heart 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 that what you	get for your m	oney?

F	G
It seems such a waste of	time

E7	Am
If that’s what it’s all	about

	F	Bdim	E7	Am
If	that’s movin’ up then	I’m	movin’	out

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C
				x2

Am	Dm7
Sergeant O’Leary is	walkin’ the beat

G	G/B	C
At night he be	comes a ba	rtender

	Am	Dm7
He works at	Mister Cacciatore’s down on	Sullivan Street

G	G/B	C
Across from the	medical	center

	Am	D7
He’s	tradin’ in his Chevy for a	Cadillac

F	G
You oughta know by	now

	Am	Dm7
And	if he can’t drive with a	broken back

G	G/B	C
At least he can	polish the	fenders

F	G
It seems such a waste of	time

E7	Am
If that’s what it’s all	about

	F	Bdim	E7	Am
If	that’s movin’ up then	I’m	movin’	out

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C
				x2

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	overtime

G	G/B	C
Is that all you	get for your	money?

F	G
If that’s what you have in	mind

E7	Am
If that’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
				x2

Outro

A

D

E

A

Billy Joel - My Life (1978)

Tabbed in drop D

Intro

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---------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

Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young (1977)

Originally in C, I play in G capo 5 (so still in C)

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...

Billy Joel - Piano Man (1973)

Loosely

Dm7	Bdim7

In time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

F/A	C/G
Light up your	smoke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Solo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (1977)

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

Billy Joel - Somewhere Along the Line (1973)

Originally around G#, I play in G capo 1

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

	G	C
Well it’s a	rainy night in	Paris

	Am	D
And I’m	sitting by the	Seine

Vox stay up on the V

	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 eating up in	side me for some	time

C	G	C
Oh, 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 would not let her	down

	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

C	G/B	C
Oh, but you	pay for your satis	faction

D	G
Somewhere along the lin	e

	G/B	C
Well you	pay 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

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

G

D/F#

F

C/E

C/D

G

Billy Joel - Stop in Nevada (1973)

D	D/F#	G
He always	found it hard to	take 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	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to Calif	ornia

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

	D/F#	D
Feeling like a woman	tonight

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	D/F#
She’s gonna make a stop in Ne	vada

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

Bm7	A/C#

D	D/F#	G
She tried for	years 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	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to Calif	ornia

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

	D/F#	D
She’s sure of what she’s leaving be	hind

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	D/F#
She’s gonna 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
And though she	finds 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	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to Calif	ornia

	A
With some	money in her pocket she’s a

	D/F#	D
Rocket on the fourth of Ju	ly

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	D/F#	D
She’s gonna 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	D/F#	D
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to Calif	ornia

	A
With some	money in her pocket she’s a

	D/F#	D
Rocket on the fourth of Ju	ly

	A
And she	left a little letter said

	D/F#
She’s gonna make a stop in Ne	vada

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

Bm7

A/C#

D

G

Em7

A

D

Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls (PPM arrangement) (1976)

This is based on the Peter, Paul, and Mary version, which is in E. Billy Joel’s

is in F.

I play in D capo 2.

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	→

	Bm	Bm/A
Now I have	seen that sad	surrender

	G	G	D/F#
In my	lovers’ 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	→

	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”

	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”

Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls (1976)

This is based on the Billy Joel version, which is in F.

I play in D capo 2.

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	E7	A7
In cat	hedrals of our	own	→

	A7/Bb	Bm	Bm/A
Now	I have	seen that sad	surrender

	G	G	G/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	E7	A7
Our	separate conc	lusions are the	same	→

	A7/Bb	Bm	Bm/A
Now	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 so we c	hoose between re	ality and m	adness

	A7	G	C	G
It’s either	sadness or eup	horia	→

A

Instrumental if appropriate

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	A7	A7
D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	A7	A7/Bb

	Bm	Bm/A	G	G	D/F#
How thought	lessly we dissi	pate our ener	gies

	E7	E7/G#	A
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	D
It’s either	sadness or euph	oria

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	A7	A7
D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	A7	A7

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

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

at-tempo part of the intro.

Slow, swung, or play at tempo

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

At tempo, straight, skip on guitar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	G	Em
And his	age and his s	ize

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

Am7	D7sus
The word spread	of Billy the Kid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am7	D7sus
When Billy the Kid	came to town

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

Interlude if appropriate

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	G

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	C

Bb/C
F	C

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

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

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

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

Am7	D7sus
The hangin’	of Billy the Kid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interlude if appropriate

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	G

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	C

Bb/C
F	C

Billy Joel - The Entertainer (1974)

G

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

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

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

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

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

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

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

	C	G/B	C	D
The	things I did not	know at first I learned 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	C	D
I’ve	played all kinds of palace	s and laid 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	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	C	D
You’ve	heard my latest recor	d, it’s been 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	C	D
I	make all kinds of mone	y when I go	on the	stage

	G
Ah, you’ve	seen me in the papers

	C/E	C
I’ve	been in the ma	gazines

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

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

	D	G
Like a	nother can of be	ans

G

Hanging stops

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

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

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

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

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

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977)

Piano

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, falsetto even in the original key, where the 5 here

is a D. And that iM7 just wants to be im on guitar.

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

Billy Joel - Travelin’ Prayer (1973)

Starts drums, then bass on D

C/D	D
x2

D

Hey lord, take a look all around

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

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

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

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

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

	A	D
And things are gonna	be alright with	me

D	G	D	A
x2

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

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

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

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

A	D	A	G	A
			→

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

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

	A	D
Until she’s	home and here with	me

D	G	D	A
x2

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

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

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

	C	C/B	A
Is	always	warm and	dry

A	D	A	G	A
			→

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

	F	Bb
Try to	keep her away from	pain

	A	D
Because my	baby hates to c	ry

D	G	D	A
x2

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

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

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

	C	C/B	A
I	don’t know	how to	pray

A	D	A	G	A
			→

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

	F	Bb
And if you	ever find the	time

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

D	G	D	A
x2

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

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

solo, each a full verse.

Hanging stops until the DGDA at the end of each line

D

Hey lord, take a look all around

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

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

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

A	D	A	G	A
			→

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

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

	A	D
Until she’s	home and here with	me

D	G	D	A
	D
With	me

D	G	D	A
x2

Hanging stop on D

D

Weird boinky noise and banjos

Billy Joel - Vienna (1977)

I play the intro as something like:

 |-G+------F7--------G-Cm---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------5---|

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

Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst (1973)

Intro, with weird wah noises

D7

Enter normal instrumentation

C	G	Bb	F

C	G
Today I’m livin’ like a	rich man’s son

Bb	F
Tomorrow morning I could	be a bum

C	G
It doesn’t matter which di	rection though

Bb	F
I know a woman in New M	exico

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong

C	G
And if I don’t have a c	ar I’ll hitch

Bb	F
I got a thumb and she’s a s	on of a bitch

C	G
I do my writing on my r	oad guitar

Bb	F
And make a living at a pi	ano bar, oh

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong

Bridge, half-time

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “lightning”

Bb	F
Lightning and th	under

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

	C	G
F	lashed across the roads we drove	upon

Bb	F
Oh, but it’s clear skies we’re u	nder

	Am	G
W	hen I am together, w	hen I sing the song

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong, oh

C	G
Fun ain’t easy if	it ain’t free

B	F
Too many people got a	hold on me

C	G
But I know something that	they don’t know

Bb	F
I know a woman in New	Mexico

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)

Originally in Em, I play in Am capo 5.

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	G
Can you help me?

	Am	G
Occupy my brai	n, oh	yeah

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1970)

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

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

are all really E major.

D5	E5
x 4

D5	E5
Generals gathered in their masses

D5	E5
Just like witches at black masses

D5	E5
Evil minds that plot destruction

D5	E5
Sorcerers of death’s construction

D5	E5
In the fields the bodies burning

D5	E5
As the war machine keeps turning

D5	E5
Death and hatred to mankind

D5	E5
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

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

E5

Politicians hide themselves away

E5

They only started the war

E5

Why should they go out to fight?

E5

They leave that role to the poor

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

E5

Time will tell on their power minds

E5

Making war just for fun

E5

Treating people just like pawns in chess

E5

Wait ‘till their judgment day comes, yeah!

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

D5	E5
x 2

D5	E5
Now in darkness, world stops turning

D5	E5
Ashes where the bodies burning

D5	E5
No more war pigs have the power

D5	E5
Hand of God has struck the hour

D5	E5
Day of judgment, God is calling

D5	E5
On their knees, the war pigs crawling

D5	E5
Begging mercy for their sins

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

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

Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling (1974)

Originally in G#, I play in E capo 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Band enters on “feeling”

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

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

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

of 2/4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

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

Hang the last chord

E	B	E7	A	Am

band out, with ooka-chaka’s

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

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

Band enters on “feeling”

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

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

Ends with two hits on the last chord

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

Repeat to fade

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

Chords are a combination of the Dylan and GnR versions

G	D	Am7
G	D	C

G	D	Am	Am7
Mama,	take this badge from	me

G	D	C
I can’t	use it any	more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G	D	C
I can’t	shoot them any	more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C	G
Ooohhhh... oh oh	yea

Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff (1973)

Originally in Gm, I play in Em.

Vox spend a lot of time on the 1.

Riff (in Gm):

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

C	Bm	Em
All aro	und in my h	ome town

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

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

	C	Bm	Em
For the	killing of a	deputy

	C	Bm	Em
For the	life of a	depu	ty

With riff

But I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
And they say it is a ca	pital offense

C	Bm	Em
Sheriff	John Brown a	lways hated me

C	Bm	Em
For wha	t I don’t k	now

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

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

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

With riff

I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

C	Bm	Em
Freedom	came my way	one day

C	Bm	Em
And I st	arted out of	town yeah

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

C	Bm	Em
Aiming to s	hoot me d	own

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

With riff, and wait a while after...

I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I didn’t shoot the	deputy

C	Bm	Em
Reflexes	got the b	etter of me

C	Bm	Em
And what	is to be	must be

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

C	Bm	Em
But one day the	bottom will	drop out

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

With riff

But I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot no	deputy

Outro

C	Bm	Em
x2

Original fade, I end on riff

Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (1974)

Originally in C, I play in G capo 2.

G	D/F#	Em	C
G	C	G	D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G	D/F#	Em	C
	Along the	way

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Seger - Turn The Page (1973)

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

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

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

Changing positions keeps this fairly repetitive song from getting

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

string as I can.

Em	D	Em	Em

	Em
On a	long and lonesome highway east of Omaha

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

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

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

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

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

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Em

You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road

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

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

Em

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

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

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

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Quiet, let chords ring...

Em

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

D

Every ounce of energy you try to give away

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

Em

Later on that evening, as you lie awake in bed

	D
The	echoes of the amplifiers ringin’ in your head

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

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Now getting loud again...

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	there I	go

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

Some of the banter is from the Motley Crue version

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

D

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

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

	Bb
Ll	istening to the teacher rap just ain’t my bag

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

	Bb
G	onna meet the boys on floor number 2

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

	A	G
Now t	eacher don’t you fill me	up with your rules

Down to the 3 of the chord (C#) in “every”, then up to D on “smoke”

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

D

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

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

D

My buddies Sixx, Mick, and Tom

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

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

	A	G
Now t	eacher don’t you fill me	up with your rules

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

Solo

G	D	G	A
G	D	G	B	A

	D
P	ut me to work in the school book store

	Bb
Ch	eck-out counter and I got bored

	D
Te	acher was lookin’ for me all around

	Bb
T	wo hours later you know where I was found

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

	A	G
Now t	eacher don’t you fill me	up with your rules

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

One more...

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

	A	G
Now t	eacher I ain’t foolin’ ar	ound with your rules

Hard stop on “smoke”

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

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

Db	D
→

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)

Originally in E, I play in D

D	D	G	A
			x2

Vox in on the 4 on “day”

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

	G	A
Of a r	unaway American dr	eam

	D
At n	ight we ride through mansions of glory

	G	A
In s	uicide mach	ines

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

	Em
Chrome wh	eeled, fuel injected

	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

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

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

	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

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 ‘til then tr	amps like us b	aby we were born to r	un

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

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

Until end, with “whoa”

D

G

A

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (1975)

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

Originally in F; I play in C capo 2

C	F	C	F
C	Em	F	G

	C	F	C
A	screen door slams,	Mary’s	dress waves

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

	G
Roy Orbison singing for the	lonely

	C	F
Hey that’s	me and I want you	only

	C	G
Don’t turn me home again, I	just can’t face myself a	lone again

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

So you're scared and you're thinking that

Em	F
Maybe we ain’t that	young any more

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

	C	F
You ain’t a	beauty but hey you’re all	right

	C	G
Oh and	that’s alright with	me

	C	Am
You can	hide beneath your covers and	study your pain

	C	F
Make	crosses from your lovers, throw	roses in the rain

C	Em
Waste your summer	praying in vain for a

F	G
Savior to rise from these	streets

	C	Am
Well now	I’m no hero that’s	understood

	C	F
All the re	demption I can offer girl is	beneath this dirty hood

C	Em
With a chance to make it	good somehow hey

F	G
What else can we do	now except

C	F	C
Roll down the window and	let the wind blow	back your hair

Well the night’s busting open these

Em	F
Two lanes can take us	anywhere

	G
We got one last chance to make it	real

	C	F
To	trade in these wings on some	wheels

	C	G
Climb in back, heaven’s	waiting down on the	tracks

C	Am
Oh come	take my hand

	C	F
We’re	ridin’ out tonight to	case the promised land

C	Em	F	G
Oh	oh thunder Road,	oh thunder road,	oh thunder road

C	F/A
Lyin’ out there like a	killer in the sun

	C	F
Hey	I know it’s late, we can	make it if we run

C	Em	F	G	C
Oh	oh thunder road, sit	tight, take	hold, thunder	road

	F	G6	C
Well I	got this guitar and I	learned how to make it	talk

	Am
And my	car’s out back if you’re

	Fmaj7	G
Ready to take that	long	walk

	F	G
From your	front porch to my front	seat

	Em	Am
The door’s	open but the ride it ain’t	free

	F	F/E	Dm7	F/C
And	I know you’re	hungry for words that	I ain’t	spoken

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

	C	F	C
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

	C	Em
They haunt this	dusty beach road in the	skeleton frames of

F

Burned-out Chevrolets

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

	G
They scream your name at night in the	street

	C	F
Your graduation	gown lies in rags at their	feet

Stay on the 1 of the key on “lonely”

	Em
And in the	lonely cool before dawn

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

	F
You hear their	engines roaring on

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

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

	F	Dm
On the	wind, so Mary climb	in

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

Outro

C	G	C	F
C	G	F	G

C	G	C	F
C	G
F	F/E	F/D	F/C
→	→	→

G	G/F	G/E	G/D
→	→	→

C

Repeat to fade

Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better (1977)

Originally in F, I play in A capo 2

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

transcription_version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8niyG-cPgs

online_version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bCmUn7_1CQ

In the original key:

A7#5b9 = x03223

Intro

A	Adim7	G#dim7	A	A7

Vox on the b5 of the chord (!!)

D	Dm	A	A7
Nobody doe	it be	tter

	D	Dm	A	A7
Ma	kes 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 l	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 someone	could

D	Dm6	C#7#5	F#m7
Nobody	does it	quite the	way you you

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
Nobody doe	it be	tter

	D	Dm	A
Ma	kes me feel so sa	d for the	rest

D	Dm6	C#7#5	F#m7
Nobody	does it	half as	good as you

Bm7	A/C#
	Baby, 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

Cat Stevens - Wild World (1970)

Am	D7	G
La la la	la la la	la

	Cmaj7	F
La la la la	la la	la

Dm	E	E7
La la la la la la	la

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

	Cmaj7	F
You say you	wanna start something	new

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

Baby, I’m grievin’

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

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

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

G7	G6	G

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t be a bad girl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am	D7	G
La la la	la la la	la

	Cmaj7	F
La la la la	la la	la

Dm	E
La la la la la la	la

E7

Baby, I love you

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

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

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

G7	G6	G
G7	G6	G

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dobie Gray - Drift Away (1970)

Originally in B, I play in A or G, highest note is the 6

(on “POURing rain”), lots of 5 in the chorus

Intro

A	E	D	E	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	D	E	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	D	E	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

Bm

And when my mind is free

D	A
You know a melody can m	ove me

Bm

And when I’m feelin’ blue

D	E
The guitar’s comin’ through to s	oothe me

D	A
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given	me

D	E	A
I want you to	know I believe in your s	ong

D	A
Rhythm and rhyme and harm	ony

Bm	D
You help me along, m	akin’ me strong

Instruments drop out

	A
Oh, g	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

	A
G	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul

	E/G#	D/F#
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away, ooh

Instruments back in

	A
G	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul (free my soul)

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away (ooh, hey)

	A
G	ive me the beat, boys, and free my soul (free my soul)

	E	D
I	wanna get lost in your rock and roll and d	rift away

	A	E	D
Now won’t you	take me,	take me

Fade on chorus chords

Dolly Parton - Jolene (1973)

Originally in C#m as Am capo 4, I play in Em capo 1 (Fm)

Highest note is the 1

Em

Vox in on 7 1 on Jo-lene

	Em	G	D	Em
J	olene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
I’m b	egging of you please dont’t take my	man

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, J	olene

	D	Em
Ple	ase don’t take him just because you c	an

	Em	G
Your be	auty is be	yond compare

	D	Em
With fl	aming locks of au	burn hair

	D	Em
With iv	ory skin and eyes of emerald g	reen

	Em	G
Your sm	ile is like a b	reath of spring

	D	Em
Your vo	ice is soft like su	mmer rain

	D	Em
And I c	annot compete with you, J	olene

	Em	G
He t	alks about you	in his sleep

	D	Em
There’s n	othing I can	do to keep

	D	Em
From	crying when he calls your name, J	olene

	Em	G
And	I can easily u	nderstand

	D	Em
How	you could easily t	ake my man

	D	Em
But you	don’t know what he means to me, J	olene

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
I’m be	gging of you please don’t take my	man

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
Pl	ease don’t take him just because you	can

	Em	G
You	could have your	choice of men

	D	Em
But	I could never l	ove again

	D	Em
He’s	the only one for me, Jo	lene

	Em	G
I h	ad to have this t	alk with you

	D	Em
My	happines depe	nds on you

	D	Em
Wha	tever you decide to do, Jo	lene

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
I’m be	gging of you please don’t take my	man

	Em	G	D	Em
Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene, Jo	lene

	D	Em
Pl	ease don’t take him even though you	can

Outro

Em

Jolene...

Don McLean - American Pie (1971)

	G	D	Em7
A	long,	long	time ago

Am	C
I can still re	member how that

	Em	D
M	usic used to make me	smile

	G	D	Em7
And	I know	if I	had my chance

	Am	C
That	I could make those	people dance and

Em	C	D
Maybe they’d be	happy for a	while

	Em	Am
But	February	made me shiver

	Em	Am
Wwith	every paper	I’d deliver

C	G	Am
Bad news	on the	doorstep

	C	D
I	couldn’t take one more	step

	G	D	Em
I	can’t remem	ber if I	cried

	Am7	D
When I	read about his	widowed bride

G	D	Em
Something	touched me	deep inside

	C	D7	G	C	G
The	day the	music	died

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

G	Am
Did you write the	book of love?

	C	Am
And do	you have faith in	god above

Em	D
If the bible	tells you so?

G	D	Em
Do you	believe in	rock and roll

	Am7	C
Can	music save your	mortal soul

	Em	A7	D
And can y	ou teach me	how to dance	real slow?

	Em	D
Well I	know that you’re in	love with him

	Em	D
‘Cause I	saw you dancin’	in the gym

	C	G	A7
You	both kicked	off your	shoes

	C	D7
Man I	dig those rhythm and	blues

	G	D	Em
I was a	lonely	teenage	broncin’ buck

	Am	C
With a	pink carnation and a	pickup truck

	G	D	Em
But	I knew	I was	out of luck

	C	D7	G	C	G
The	day the	music	die	d,	I started singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	Am
Now for t	en years we’ve been	on our own

	C	Am	Em
And mo	ss grows fat on a ro	lling stone

	D
But that’s not how it u	sed to be

	G	D	Em
When the j	ester s	ang for the ki	ng and queen

	Am7	C
In a	coat he borrowed fr	om James Dean

	Em	A7	D
In a v	oice that came from you	and me

	Em	D
And w	hile the king was lo	oking down

	Em	D
The	jester stole his th	orny crown

	C	G	A7
The c	ourtroom	was adjourn	ed

	C	D7
No	verdict was r	eturned

	G	D	Em
And while	Lenin rea	d a b	ook on Marx

	Am	C
The	quartet practiced	in the park

	G	D	Em
And	we sang d	irges i	n the dark

	C	D7	G
The	day the mu	sic die	d

C	G
We	were singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

G	Am
Helter skelter in a	summer swelter

C	Am
The birds flew off with	a fallout shelter

Em	D
Eight miles high and	fallin’ fast

	G	D	Em
It lan	ded	foul o	n the grass

	Am7	C
The pl	ayers tried for a f	orward pass

Em	A7	D
With the jester on the sideline	s in a	cast

	Em	D
Now the ha	lftime air was s	weet perfume

	Em	D
While	sergeants played a m	arching tune

C	G	A7
We all got	up to dan	ce

	C	D7
But	we never got the ch	ance

	G	D	Em
‘Cause the p	layers	tried to t	ake the field

	Am	C
The	marching band re	fused to yield

	G	D	Em
Do y	ou re	call what w	as the feel

	C	D7	G
The	day the m	usic died	?

	C	G
W	e s	tarted singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	Am
And t	here we were all	in one place

	C	Am
A ge	neration	lost in space

Em	D
With no time left to	start again

	G	D	Em
So come on J	ack be ni	mble,	Jack be quick

	Am7	C
J	ack Flash sat on a c	andle

	Em	A7	D
Stick,	’cause fire is the devil’s only	friend

	Em	D
And a	s I watched him o	n the stage

	Em	D
My h	ands were clenched in f	ists of rage

	C	G	A7
No	angel b	orn in H	ell

	C	D7
Could b	read that Satan’s	spell

	G	D	Em
And as the	flames climbed h	igh int	o the night

	Am	C
To	light the sacrif	icial rite

	G	D	Em
I saw S	atan l	aughing with	delight

	C	D7	G	C
The d	ay the	music d	ied

	G
H	e was singin’

G	C	G	D
Bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	Em	A7
Singin’	this’ll be the day that I	die

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	D	Em
I	met a	girl who	sang the blues

	Am	C
And I	asked her for some	happy news

	Em	D
But	she just smiled and turned a	way

	G	D	Em
I	went down	to the	sacred store

	Am	C
Where I’d	heard the music	years before

	Em	C
But the	man there said the	music

	D
Wouldn’t	play

	Em	Am
But	in the streets the	children screamed

	Em	Am
The	lovers cried and the	poets dreamed

	C	G	Am
But	not a	word was	spoken

	C	D
The	church bells all were	broken

	G	D	Em
And the	three men	I ad	mire most

	Am7	C	D7
The	Father,	Son, and the	Holy Ghost

G	D	Em
They caught the	last train	for the coast

	Am7	D7	G
The	day the	music	died

D7

And they were singin’

G	C	G	D
Bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

	G	C	G	D
Drove my	Chevy to the	levy but the	levy was	dry

	G	C	G	D
And	good old	boys were drinkin’	whiskey and	rye

	C	D7	G	C	G
Singin’	this’ll be the	day that I	die

Elton John - Crocodile Rock (1973)

Intro, F#7b9 can be Gdim

G/D	C/E	F#7b9

G	G	Em	Em	C	C	D	D

	G
I rem	ember when rock was young

	Bm
Me and	Susie had so much fun

	C
Holding	hands and skimmin’ stones

	D
Had a	old gold Chevy and a place of my own

	G
But the	biggest kick I ever got

	Bm
Was doin’ a	thing called the Crocodile Rock

	C
While the	other kids were rockin’ ‘round the clock

	D
We were	hoppin’ and boppin’ to the Crocodile Rock, well

Em

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

A7

Feet just can’t keep still

D7	G
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

E

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

A7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

D7	C
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

G

La, la la la la

Em

La, la la la la

C

La, la la la la

D

La

	G
But the	years went by and rock just died

Bm

Susie went and left me for some foreign guy

C

Long nights cryin’ by the record machine

D

Dreamin’ of my Chevy and my old blue jeans

	G
But they’ll	never kill the thrills we’ve got

	Bm
Burnin’	up to the Crocodile Rock

	C
Learning	fast as the weeks went past

	D
We really	thought the Crocodile Rock would last, well

Em

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

A7

Feet just can’t keep still

D7	G
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

E

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

A7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

D7	C
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

G

La, la la la la

Em

La, la la la la

C

La, la la la la

D

La

With harmony

	G
I rem	ember when rock was young

	Bm
Me and	Susie had so much fun

	C
Holding	hands and skimmin’ stones

	D
Had a	old gold Chevy and a place of my own

	G
But the	biggest kick I ever got

	Bm
Was doin’ a	thing called the Crocodile Rock

	C
While the	other kids were rockin’ ‘round the clock

	D
We were	hoppin’ and boppin’ to the Crocodile Rock, well

Em

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

A7

Feet just can’t keep still

D7	G
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

E

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

A7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

D7	C
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

G

La, la la la la

Em

La, la la la la

C

La, la la la la

D

La

Fade

Elton John - Daniel (1973)

C	F	G7	C

	C	Dm7
Daniel	is traveling tonight on a	plane

G	E7	Am
I can see the red tail lights	heading for Spa	in oh and

F	G	Am
I can see	Daniel waving good	bye

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

	C	Dm7
They	say Spain is pretty though I’ve	never been

G	E7	Am
Well Daniel says it’s the best place he’s e	ver se	en oh and

F	G	Am
He shold kno	w he’s been there en	ough

	F	G	G7	C
Lord	I miss Daniel,	oh I	miss him so	much

F	C
Daniel my brother you are	older than me

	F	C
Do you still	feel the pain of the	scars that won’t heal

	Am	F
Your eyes have	died but you see more than	I

Fm	C	A7	Dm7	G
Daniel you’re a	star	in the face of the	sky

	C	Dm7
Daniel	is traveling tonight on a	plane

G	E7	Am
I can see the red tail lights	heading for Spa	in oh and

F	G	Am
I can see	Daniel waving good	bye

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

F	C
Daniel my brother you are	older than me

	F	C
Do you still	feel the pain of the	scars that won’t heal

	Am	F
Your eyes have	died but you see more than	I

Fm	C	A7	Dm7	G
Daniel you’re a	star	in the face of the	sky

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

	F	G	G7	C
God it	looks like Daniel,	must be the	clouds in my	eyes

Outro

	C	F	G7	C
Mmmmm...

Elton John - Love Lies Bleeding (1973)

Originally in A, I play in D capo 4

Highest note that matters is the vi (“love lies bleeding”

On the passing Bb (in D), don’t try to hit the whole

chord, just play it as an octave.

D	F	C	A#	C
			→	x 2

	D
The	roses in the window box

	A
Have tilted	to one side

D/F#	G
Everything a	bout this house

	Em
Was born to	grow and die

	D	D/F#	Em	G
Oh it	doesn’t seem a year a	go to this very	day

	D
You said I’m	sorry honey

	A
If I	don’t change the pace

	G	G	A
I	can’t face another	day

Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
And love lies	bleeding in my	hand

	Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
Oh it	kills me to think of	you with another	man

	D	Em7
I was	playing rock and roll and you were	just a fan

	F#m7
But my	guitar couldn’t hold you

	G	Dm
So I	split the baaaa-a-ha-	a-nd

Bm	A	D
Love lies	bleeding in my	hands

D	F	C	A#	C
			→	x 2

	D
I	wonder if those changes

	A
Have left a	scar on you

	D/F#	G
Like	all the burning	hoops of fire

	Em	E7
That you and	I passed through

	D	F#m
You’re a	bluebird on a telegraph	line

	Em	G
I hope you’re happy	now

	D	A
Well if the	wind of change come a’	down your way girl

	G	G	A
You’ll	make it back some	how

Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
And love lies	bleeding in my	hand

	Bm	Em	A	Asus4	A
Oh it	kills me to think of	you with another	man

	D	Em7
I was	playing rock and roll and you were	just a fan

	F#m7
But my	guitar couldn’t hold you

	G	Dm
So I	split the baaaa-a-ha-	a-nd

Bm	A	D
Love lies	bleeding in my	hands

Let the IV ring

D	Gsus2

Slow

Bm	A	D
Love lies	bleeding in my	hands

Elton John - Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting (1973)

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

Vox mostly on the 4

	G
It’s	getting late have you seen my mates

	F
Ma	tell me when the boys get here

	C
It’s	seven o’clock and I want to rock

	G
Want to	get a belly full of beer

	G
My	old man’s drunker than a barrel full of monkeys

	F
And my	old lady she don’t care

	C
My	sister looks cute in her braces and boots

	G
A	handful of grease in her hair

This D5 is really hiding a Dm

D5

Vox up to the 4 of the chord

C

Don’t give us none of your aggravation

	Bb
We	had it with your discipline

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s alright for fighting

C

Get a little action in

C

Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Bb

Gonna set this dance alight

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s the night I like

C

Saturday night’s alright

	G	Eb	Dm7	C
Alright al	right,	oooh	oooh	oooh

Original really does G Dm G here, I prefer to repeat

one pass on the intro

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

	G
Well they’re	packed pretty tight in here tonight

	F
I’m	looking for a dolly who’ll see me right

	C
I may	use a little muscle to get what I need

	G
I may	sink a little drink and shout out “She’s with me!”

	G
A	couple of the sounds that I really like

	F
Are the	sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike

	C
I’m a	juvenile product of the working class

	G
Whose	best friend floats in the bottom of a glass

D5

Ooooh

C

Don’t give us none of your aggravation

	Bb
We	had it with your discipline

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s alright for fighting

C

Get a little action in

C

Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Bb

Gonna set this dance alight

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s the night I like

C

Saturday night’s alright

	G	Eb	Dm7	C
Alright al	right,	oooh	oooh	oooh

Instrumental on chorus chords with suspensions

C	Bb	F	C

D5

Ooooh

C

Don’t give us none of your aggravation

	Bb
We	had it with your discipline

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s alright for fighting

C

Get a little action in

C

Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Bb

Gonna set this dance alight

	F
‘Cause	Saturday night’s the night I like

C

Saturday night’s alright

	G	Eb	Dm7	C
Alright al	right,	oooh	oooh	oooh

C	Bb	F	C

C

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Bb

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

F

Saturday, Saturday

	C
Saturday	night’s alright

Repeat to fade

Elton John - Your Song (1970)

Originally in Eb, I play it in E, with lots of open strings.

C#m/B as 7x6650

C#m/A# as 6x6650

E	A/E	B/E	A/E

E	Amaj7	B/D#	G#m
It’s a little bit fun	ny,	this feeling in	side

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
I’m no	t one of those	who can	easily	hide

	E	B	G#	C#m
I don’	t have much	money, but	boy if I	did

E	F#m7	A	B
I’d buy a big	house where	we both could	live

E	Amaj7	B	G#m
If I was a sc	ulptor,	but then again	no

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
Or a m	an who makes	potions in a	travelling	show

E	B	G#	C#m
I know it’s not	much but it’s the	best I can	do

E	F#m7	A	E
My gift is my	song, and	this one’s for	you

B	C#m	F#m7	A
And you can tell	everybody	this is your	song

B	C#m	F#m7	A
It may be	quite simple but	now that it’s	done

C#m	C#m7/B
I hope you don’t mind,	I hope you don’t mind

C#m/A#	A
That I put down in the	words

	E	F#m7	A	B
How won	derful	life is while	you’re in the	world

E	A/E	B/E	A/E

	E	Amaj7	B/D#	G#m
I sat	on the	roof	and kicked off the	moss

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
Well a	few of the	verses, well, they’ve	got me quite	crossed

E	B	G#	C#m
But the sun’s been quite	kind,	while I wrote this	song

E	F#m7	A	B
It’s for people like	you that they	keep it	turned on

E	Amaj7	B	G#m
So excuse me forget	ting	but	these things I do

	C#m	C#m7/B	C#m/A#	A
You se	e I’ve f	orgotten if they’re	green or they’re	blue

E	B	G#	C#m
Anyway,	the thing is, what I really	mean

E	F#m7	A	E
Yours are the	sweetest eyes	I’ve ever seen

B	C#m	F#m7	A
And you can tell	everybody	this is your	song

B	C#m	F#m7	A
It may be	quite simple but	now that it’s	done

C#m	C#m7/B
I hope you don’t mind,	I hope you don’t mind

C#m/A#	A
That I put down in the	words

	E	F#m7	A	B
How won	derful	life is while	you’re in the	world

C#m	C#m7/B
I hope you don’t mind,	I hope you don’t mind

C#m/A#	A
That I put down in the	words

	E	F#m7	A	E
How won	derful	life is while	you’re in the	world

Evita - Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (1978)

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

D	Cadd9	G/B	Cadd9	G

	G	C
It won’t be	easy, you’ll think it	strange

	D
When I try to explain how I	feel

	G
That I still need your love after	all that I’ve done

	Em
You won’t bel	ieve me

	A7
All you will see is a	girl you once knew

	A7
Al	though she is dressed to the nines

	D
At sixes and sevens with	you

D	Cadd9	G/B	Cadd9	G

	G	C
I had to let it	happen, I had to	change

	D
Couldn’t stay all my life down at	heel

	G
Looking out of the window, staying	out of the sun

	Em
So I chose	freedom

	A7
Running around, trying	everything new

	A7
But	nothing impressed me at all

	D
I never expected it	to

D	Cadd9	G/B	Cadd9

G

Don’t cry for me Argentina

	G
The	truth is I never left you

	D
All through my	wild days

	Cadd9
My mad ex	istence

	G
I kept my	promise

	Cadd9
Don’t keep your	distance (let ring)

	G	C
And as for	fortune, and as for	fame

	D
I never invited them	in

	G
Though it seemed to the world they were	all I desired

	Em
They are ill	usions

	A7
They are not the solutions they	promised to be

	A7
The	answer was here all the time

	D
I love you and hope you love	me

D	Cadd9	G/B	Cadd9

G

Don’t cry for me Argentina

	G
The	truth is I never left you

	D
All through my	wild days

	Cadd9
My mad ex	istence

	G
I kept my	promise

	Cadd9
Don’t keep your	distance (let ring)

Am	D
Have I said too much?

	G	D/F#	Em
There’s nothing	more I can	think of to	say to you

	Am	D
But	all you gotta do is look at	me to know

	G	D/F#	C
That	every	word is	true

G

Don’t cry for me Argentina

	G
The	truth is I never left you

	D
All through my	wild days

	Cadd9
My mad ex	istence

	G
I kept my	promise

	Cadd9
Don’t keep your	distance (let ring)

Grease - Freddy My Love (1978)

Originally in Db, I play in A

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.

E7	E6	E+	E7

Vox start on the 1

A	Amaj7	D	E7
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”

A	Amaj7	F#7sus4	F#7
Freddy my	love, please keep in	touch while you’re a	way

Bm7	Bm7b5	E7
Hearing from	you can make the	day so much better

C#m	C#m7b5/G	F#7sus4	F#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”

Bm7	Dm/G	A/E	D
I really	flipped over the	gray cashmere	sweater

	A	Amaj7	D	E7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

A	Amaj7	D	E7
Freddy you	know, your absence	makes me feel so	blue

A	Amaj7	F#7sus4	F#7
That’s okay	though, your presents	make me think of	you

Bm7	Bm7b5	E7
My ma will	have a heart at	tack when she catches

C#m	C#m7b5/G	F#7sus4	F#7
Those pedal	pushers with the	black leather	patches

Bm7	Dm/G	A/E	D
Oh how I	wish I had a	jacket that	matches

	A	Amaj7	D	A7
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.

	D	E7	C#m	A
Don’t	keep your letters	from me, I	thrill to every	line

	Dm7	E7	Am	Am
Your	spelling’s kinda	crummy, but	honey so is	mine

	Bm7b5	E7+5	E7	Am	D7
I	treasure every	gifti	e, the	ring is really	nifty

	Gmaj7	F#m7	Bm7	E7
You	say it cost you	fifty, so you’re	thrifty, I don’t	mind

	A	Amaj7	D	E7
Woah, oh, oh,	oh, Freddy you	see, you’ll hold me	in your arms some	day

A	Amaj7	F#7sus4	F#7
And I will	be wearing your	lacy linge	rie

Bm7	Bm7b5	E7
Thinking a	bout it, my heart’s	pounding already

C#m	C#m7b5/G	F#7sus4	F#7
Knowing when	you come home, we’re	bound to go	steady

Bm7	Dm/G	A/E	D
And throw your	service pay a	round like con	fetti

	A	Amaj7	D	E7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

A	Amaj7	D	E7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

A	Amaj7	D	E7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

A	Amaj7	D	E7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

Fade

Grease - Summer Nights (1978)

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,	’til 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

Hall and Oates - She’s Gone (1973)

I play all the Bsus4’s as B/A @ 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
Think I’ll spend eternity in the	city

Bsus4	B
Let the carbon and monoxide choke my	thoughts away

Bsus4	B
And pretty bodies help dissolve the	memories

G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
But they can never	be what she	was to	me

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

	A	G#m	F#m7
She’s	gone oh	I what went	wrong

I stop here, the original goes to C,C#,D, and repeats the chorus in C

Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle (1974)

Originally in A capo 8 (F), I play in A capo 6 or 7

Intro, a chord approximation of the riff

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A	C	G	A

	A	C
My	child arrived just the	other day

	D	A
He	came into 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

	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

	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

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty (1977)

Originally in A, I play in G

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
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

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee (1971)

Originally in G (and A), I play in C (and D).

Highest note is the 3 after the whole-step key change,

i.e. C# if you start in G, F# if you start in C.

C	F/C	C	F/C	C
			→

Vox on 5 6 5 on “busted flat”

C

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train

Vox *down* to the 5 of the chord on “jeans”

	G7
When I’s feelin’ near as faded as my	jeans

Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained

	C	F/C	C
And rode us all the way into New Or	leans

	C
I	pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana

	C7	F
I’s playin’ soft while B	obby sang the bl	ues

Vox up to the 5 of the chord (1 of the key) on “wind”

F	C
Windshield wipers slappin’ time, I was	holdin’ Bobby’s hand in mine

G7

We sang every song that driver knew

F	C
Freedom’s just another word for	nothin’ left to lose

G7	C
Nothin’, it ain’t nothin’ hon’, if it ain’t fr	ee

	F	C
And	feelin’ good was easy, lord, oh,	when he sang the blues

	G7
You know	feelin’ good was good enough for me

	C
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mc	Gee

D

	D
From the	Kentucky coal mines to the California sun

	A7
Yeah Bobby shared the secrets of m	y soul

Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done

	D
Yeah Bobby baby kept me from the	cold

	D
One	day up near Salinas, lord, I let him slip away

	D7	G
He’s lookin’ for that h	ome and I hope he f	inds it

Vox on the b7 of the chord, more or less

	D
Well I’d trade all my tomorrows for one	single yesterday

	A7
To be	holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine

G	D
Freedom’s just another word for	nothin’ left to lose

A7	D
Nothin’, and that’s all that Bobby left	me

	G	D
Well,	feelin’ good was easy, loo	ord, when he sang the blues

	A7
And	feelin’ good was good enough for me

	D
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mc	Gee

	D
La da	da, la da daa, la da daa da daa da daa

	A7
La da da da daa dadada Bobby Mc	Geeah

Laa li daa da daa daa, la da daa da daa

	D
Laa la laa la daada Bobby Mc	Geeah yeah

	D
La di	da, ladida la dida la di daa, ladida la dida la di daa

	A7
Hey now Bobby now now Bobby Mc	Gee yeah

Lo lo lo lolo lo lo laa, lololo lo lolo lo lolo lo lolo lo la laa

	D
Hey now Bobby no no Bobby McG	ee yeah

	D
Lord, I	called him my lover, I called him my man

I said I called him my lover, did the best I can

	A7
C’mon, hey now Bobby now, hey now Bobby McG	ee, yeah

Lo lo lord, a lord, a lord, a lord, a lord, a lord, a lord oh

	D
Hey, hey, hey, Bobby McG	ee, lord

Solo on I V V I

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown (1973)

Originally in G, I play in G capo 2

Intro, with 6ths

G	D7

Vox on the 3 on “south”

	G
Well, the south	side of Chicago

	A7
Is the ba	ddest part of town

	B7
And if you	go down there

	C	D7	C	G	D7
You better	just beware of a	man name of	Leroy	Brown

	G
Now,	Leroy more than trouble

	A7
You see he	stand about six foot four

	B7	C
All the downtown	ladies call him treetop l	over

	D7	C	G	D7
All the	men just	call him	sir

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Now,	Leroy, he a gambler

	A7
And he	like his fancy clothes

	B7	C
And he	like to wave his	diamond rings

	D7	C	G	D7
In front of	every	body’s	nose

	G
He got a	custom Continental

	A7
He got an	El Dorado too

	B7	C
He got a	thirty-two gun in his	pocket for fun

	D7	C	G	D7
He got a	razor	in his	shoe

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Well,	Friday ‘bout a week ago

A7

Leroy shootin’ dice

	B7	C
And at the	edge of the bar sat a	girl name of Doris

	D7	C	G	D7
And	oh, that	girl look	nice

	G
Well, he	cast his eyes upon her

	A7
And the	trouble soon began

	B7	C
And	Leroy Brown, he learned a	lesson ‘bout messin’

	D7	C	G	D7
With the	wife of a	jealous	man

I usually skip this chorus... we get it, he’s bad.

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

Quiet, let ring

	G
Well, the	two men took to fightin’

	A7
And when they	pulled them from the floor

B7	C
Leroy looked like a	jigsaw puzzle

	D7	C	G	D7
With a	couple of	pieces	gone

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Yeah he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	B7	C
Yes, you were	badder than old King	Kong

	D7	C	G
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville (1977)

Originally in D, I play in D capo 2.

D

Nibblin’ on sponge cake, watchin’ the sun bake

	A
All of those tourists covered with	oil

A7

Strummin’ my six string, on my front porch swing

	D	D7
Smell those shrimp they’re beginnin’ to	boil

G	A	D	D7
Wastin’	away again in Margar	itaville

G	A	D	D7
Searchin’ for my	lost shaker of	salt

G	A	D	A
Some people	claim that there’s a	wom	an to

G	A	D
Blame, but I	know, it’s nobody’s	fault

D

Don’t know the reason, I stayed here all season

	A
Nothin’ to show but this brand new tat	too

A7

But it’s a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here

	D	D7
I haven’t a	clue

G	A	D	D7
Wastin	away again in Margar	itaville

G	A	D	D7
Search’in’ for my	lost shaker of	salt

G	A	D	A
Some people	claim that there’s a	wom	an to

G	A	D
Blame, now I	think, hell it could be my	fault

D

I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top

	A
Cut my heal had to cruise on back	home

A7

But there’s booze in the blender, and soon it will render

	D	D7
That frozen concoction that helps me hang	on

G	A	D	D7
Wastin’	away again in Margar	itaville

G	A	D	D7
Searchin’ for my	lost shaker of	salt

G	A	D	A
Some people	claim that there’s a	wom	an to

G	A	D
Blame, but I	know, it’s my own damn	fault

D7	G	A	D	A
Yes and	some people	claim that there’s a	wom	an to

G	A	D
Blame, and I	know, it’s my own damn	fault

D

G

A

D

Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (1975)

This is adapted loosely from the Judas Priest version.

The originals are in Em, I play in Em capo 5.

As a duet, I sing a 3rd below the lead and play in Em.

Long riff

-0------0---0-----0----0---0----0----0---0----
-0--0--0---0---0--0---0---0---0-0---0---0---0-
-0-------------0-------------0-------------
-2-2--4---2---0---2--4---2---0--2--4---2---4--
-2----------------2-------------2-------------
-0------------------0-----------0-0-----------

---0---0--0--0--0-0--0--0--0--0---0-0--0--0--0-2-
--0---0-----0--0----0--0-----0---0----0--0-----0-
-----------------------------------------------2-
-5---4---5-7--5--7-9--9---9-7--7---7-5--5---5--1-
-----------------------------------------------2-
-------------------------------------------------

Short riff

-0---0---0-----0----0---0----0----0---0----2-
-0--0---0---0--0---0---0---0-0---0---0---0-0-
-0-------------0-------------0-------------2-
-2-4---2---0---2--4---2---0--2--4---2---4--1-
-2-------------2-------------2-------------2-
-0---------------0-----------0-0-------------

Play long riff

	Em	C
Well	I’ll be damned here comes your	ghost again

	G	D
But that’s not un	usual it’s just that the	moon is full

	Em
And you happened to	call

	Em	C
And	here I sit hand on the	telephone

	G	D
I’m hearing a	voice I’d known a couple of	light years ago

	Em
Heading straight for a	fall

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Play short riff

	Em	C
As	I remember, your eyes were bluer than	robins’ eggs

	G	D
My poetry was	lousy you said, but where are you	calling from?

	Em
A booth in the	mid-west

Em	C
Ten years ago I bought you some	cuff-links

	G
And you bought me	something

	D
We both know what	memories can bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Play short riff

	Em	C
You	burst on the scene, already a	legend

	G	D
The unwashed phe	nomenon, the original	vagabond

	Em
You	strayed into my arms

	Em	C
And	there you stayed, temporarily	lost at sea

	G	D
The Madonna was	yours for free, the girl on the	half-shell

	Em
Could keep you un	harmed

Vox on the 5 of the chord

	Bm7
Now I	see you standing with brown leaves falling all around

	Am7
And	snow in your hair

	Bm7
Now you’re	smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel

	Am7
Over	Washington Square

	C
Our	breath comes out of white clouds

	G
Mingles and	hangs in the air

	Fmaj7
Speaking	strictly for me

	B7
We both could have died then and	there

Em	D	Em

Play long riff

	Em	C
Now you’re	telling me you’re not nos	talgic

	G	D
Then give me another	word for it you who are so	good with words

	Em
And at keeping things	vague

	Em
‘Cause	I need some of that vagueness now

	C
It’s all come back too	clearly

	G	D
Yes I loved you	dearly, and if you’re offering	diamonds and rust

	Em
I’ve already	paid

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

C	D	Em
Diamonds,	diamonds, and	rust

C	D	Em
Diamonds,	diamonds, and	rust

John Lennon - Imagine (1971)

C	Cmaj7	F	F
			x2

C	F
Imagine there’s no	heaven

C	F
It’s easy if you	try

C	F
No hell be	low us

C	F
Above us only	sky

F	Am/E	Dm7	C
Imagine	all the	people

G

Living for today

C	F
Imagine there’s no	countries

C	F
It isn’t hard to	do

C	F
Nothing to kill or	die for

C	F
And no religion	too

F	Am/E	Dm7	C
Imagine	all the	people

G

Living life in peace

F	G	C	E
You may	say that I’m a	dreamer

F	G	C	E
But I’m	not the only	one

F	G	C	E
I hope some	day you’ll	join us

F	G	C
And the	world will	live as one

C	F
Imagine no pos	sessions

C	F
I wonder if you	can

C	F
No need for greed or	hunger

C	F
A brotherhood of	man

F	Am/E	Dm7	C
Imagine	all the	people

G

Sharing all the world

F	G	C	E
You may	say that I’m a	dreamer

F	G	C	E
But I’m	not the only	one

F	G	C	E
I hope some	day you’ll	join us

F	G	C
And the	world will	live as one

Optional fadeout, credit Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora

C	G	C
‘Cause all we are	saying is give peace a	chance

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (1972)

Originally in D, I play in A. I play D/G/A with

open A and E strings (e.g. x05430).

Highest note is the 5, but it spends a lot of

time on the 3 and 4.

A

Vox on the 1 on “I”

A	D	A
I can see c	learly now the r	ain is gone

A	D	E
I can see a	ll obstacles	in my way

A	D	A
Gone are the d	ark clouds that	had me blind

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
Gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

A	D	A
I think I can m	ake it now the p	ain is gone

A	D	E
All of the	bad feelings have	disappeared

A	D	A
Here is that ra	inbow I’ve been	praying for

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

C	G
Look all around, there’s nothing but	blue skies

C	C/E	E/B
Look straight ahead, there’s	nothing but	blue skies

G#m7	D	G#m7	D	G	F#m	E

A	D	A
I can see c	learly now the r	ain is gone

A	D	E
I can see a	ll obstacles	in my way

A	D	A
Gone are the d	ark clouds that	had me blind

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi (1970)

Joni Mitchell in E, Counting Crows in G#

This arrangement is somewhere in between, I play in G

Highest note is the 1 if you do the high “farmer farmer”

Can play D/F# as D11

C	D/F#	G	G
			x2

Vox in on the 3 of the chord on “paved”

	C	D/F#	G
They	paved paradise and	put up a parking lot

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
With a	pink hotel, a	boutique, and a swingin’ hot spot

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got ‘til it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

G	Cadd9	Cadd9	G

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
They	took all the trees, and	put ‘em in a tree museum

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
And they	charged the people a	dollar and a half to see them

No, no, no

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got ‘til it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	Cadd9	G
Hey far	mer, farmer, put away your DDT

	Cadd9
I don’t care about	spots on my apples

D11	G
Leave me the birds and the bees	please

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got ‘til it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Hey now they	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

C	D/F#	G	G
			x2

Let ring

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
Listen,	late last night, I	heard a screen door	slam

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
And a bi	g yellow taxi to	ok my girl away

	G	G9
Now	don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got ‘til it’s gone

	Cadd9	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	G	G9
Hey now now	don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got ‘til it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Why now they	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Hey hey hey	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

I end here, but I’m writing out the rest of the Counting

Crows arrangement.

G	C	D/F#	G

Cadd9

I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it?

	G
Why you wanna	giving it all away? Hey, hey, hey

Cadd9

Now you wanna give it, oh she wanna give it

	G
‘Cause she	giving it all away no no

Cadd9

I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it?

	G
Why you wanna	giving it all away?

Cadd9

Giving it all

D/F#	G
Giving it all a	way

Am7	Cadd9	G
	Why you	want me?

Am7	Cadd9	G
	Why do you	want me?

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and	put up a parking lot

Repeat to fade

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler (1978)

Originally in E, I play in D capo 2

	D	G	D
On a	warm summer’s evenin’ on a	train bound for	nowhere

	G	D	A
I	met up with the	gambler, we were both too tired to	sleep

	D	G	D
So	we took turns a-starin’ out the	window at the	darkness

	G	D	A	D
‘Til	boredom overtook	us,	and he began to	speak

	D	G	D
He said,	son, I’ve made a life out of	readin’ people’s	faces

	G	D	A
And	knowin’ what their	cards were by the way they held their	eyes

	D	G	D
And if	you don’t mind my sayin’, I can	see you’re out of	aces

	G	D	A	D
For a	taste of your	whiskey I’ll	give you some	advice

	D	G	D
So I	handed him my bottle and he	drank down my last	swallow

G	D	A
Then he bummed a	cigarette and asked me for a	light

	D	G	D
And the	night got deathly quiet, and his	face lost all expr	ession

	G	D	A	D
Said, if you’re	gonna play the	game, boy, ya gotta	learn to play it	right

	D	G	D
You got to	know when to hold ‘em,	know when to	fold ‘em

G	D	A
Know when to	walk away and know when to	run

	D	A	D	G	D
You never	count	your	money when you’re	sittin’ at the	table

	G	D	A	D
There’ll be	time enough for	countin’	when the dealin’s	done

Key change

E	A	E
Ev’ry gambler knows that the	secret to surv	ivin’

	A	E	B
Is	knowin’ what to	throw away and knowing what to	keep

	E	A	E
‘Cause	ev’ry hand’s a winner and	ev’ry hand’s a	loser

	A	E	B	E
And the	best that you can	hope for is to	die in your	sleep

	E	A	E
And	when he’d finished speakin’, he	turned back towards the	window

	B
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to	sleep

	E	A	E
And	somewhere in the darkness the	gambler, he broke	even

	A	E	B	E
But	in his final	words I found an	ace that I could	keep

	E	A	E
You got to	know when to hold ‘em,	know when to	fold ‘em

A	E	B
Know when to	walk away and know when to	run

	E	B	E	A	E
You never	count	your	money when you’re	sittin’ at the	table

	A	E	B	E
There’ll be time	enough for	countin’	when the dealin’s	done

	E	A	E
You got to	know when to hold ‘em,	know when to	fold ‘em

A	E	B
Know when to	walk away and know when to	run

	E	B	E	A	E
You never	count	your	money when you’re	sittin’ at the	table

	A	E	B	E
There’ll be time	enough for	countin’	when the dealin’s	done

Kermit the Frog - The Rainbow Connection (1979)

A	Dmaj7	A	Dmaj7

Vox start on the 3 (C# in A)

A	F#m	Bm	E
Why are there so m	any	songs about rai	nbows?

	A	F#m	Bm	E
And wh	at’s on the o	ther si	de?

A	F#m	Bm	E
Rainbows are vi	sions,	but only il	lusions

A	F#m	Bm	E
Rainbows have no	thing to h	ide

Dmaj7

So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it

	C#m7
But	I know they’re wrong wait and see

Bm	E	Amaj7	F#
Someday we’ll f	ind it the rai	nbow conn	ection

Bm	E	A
The lovers, the dre	amers, and m	e

A	Dmaj7	A	Dmaj7

A	F#m	Bm	E
Who said that	every wish would	be heard and	answered

	A	F#m	Bm	E
When	wished on the mor	ning	star

A	F#m	Bm	E
Somebody	thought of that and	someone beli	eved it

	A	F#m	Bm	E
And	look what it’s	done so	far

Dmaj7

What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing?

C#m7

And what do we think we might see?

Bm	E	Amaj7	F#
Someday we’ll f	ind it the rai	nbow conn	ection

Bm	E	A
The lovers, the dre	amers, and m	e

Bridge

	E/G#	F#m	A
All	of us un	der its spell

	Dmaj7	A/C#	Bm7	E
We know	that it’s prob	ably mag	ic

Kermit changes key up a half-step here...

A	F#m	Bm	E
Have you been hal	f-asleep? And h	ave you heard v	oices?

	A	F#m	Bm	E
Well I’	ve heard them cal	ling my n	ame

A	F#m	Bm	E
Are these the s	weet sounds that ca	lled the young sa	ilors?

A	F#m	Bm	E
The voice might be o	ne and the s	ame

Dmaj7

I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it

	C#m7
It’s	something that I’m s’posed to be

Bm	E	Amaj7	F#
Someday we’ll f	ind it, the ra	inbow conn	ection

	Bm	E	A
The lo	vers, the dr	eamers, and	me

E/G#	F#m	A
La da dee	la da da	da

	Dmaj7	E	A
La la	la la	la la	la

Kiss - Beth (1976)

When Kiss plays this on acoustic guitar, the

main line is I I ii V, and the verse starts

I ii iii. I play in A capo 1, all fingerpicking,

with the descending riff on the 5th string, and the

original changes.

A	A	D/A	E/A
			x2

A	D/A
Beth I hear you	callin’

	E/A	F#m	E
But I	can’t come home right	now

D	E/D
Me and the boys are	playin’

	F#m	C#7sus4	C#7/F
And we	just can’t find the	sound

F#m	E
Just a few more	hours

	D	C#m
And I’ll	be right home to	you

	B7	D	E
I	think I hear them	callin’

Instruments hang on “Beth”

	F#m	F#m	E
Oh	Beth what can I do?

D	D/E	A
Beth what	can I	do?

A	D/A
You say you feel so	empty

	E/A	F#m	E
That our	house just ain’t a	home

	D	E/D
And	I’m always somewhere	else

	F#m	C#7sus4	C#7/F
And	you’re always there al	one

F#m	E
Just a few more	hours

	D	C#m
And I’ll	be right home to	you

	B7	D	E
I	think I hear them	callin’

	F#m	F#m	E
Oh	Beth what can I do?

D	D/E	A
Beth what	can I	do?

Solo over one verse and one chorus,

skip if solo guitar.

Slow, hanging chords

A	D/A
Beth I know you’re	lonely

	E/A	F#m	E
And I	hope you’ll be	alright

	D	E7
‘Cause	me and the boys will be	playin’

	A	D/A	E/A
All	night

	A	D/A	E
Ah,	aaah

A

Labelle - Lady Marmalade (1974)

Originally in Gm, I play in Am capo 2 (Bm)

Am7	D11
x2

Vox on the 5

Am7	D11
Hey sista, go sista, s	oul sista, go sista

Am7	D11
Hey sista, go sista, s	oul sista

	Am7	D11
He	met Marmalade down in o	ld New Orleans

Am7	D11
Struttin’ her stuff on the	street

	Dm7	Em7
She said	hello, hey Joe, you wanna	give it a go?

Vox on the 3 of the chord

Am7	D11
Gitchi, gitchi, ya-ya, d	a-da

	Am7	D11
G	itchi, gitchi, ya-ya he	re

Am7	D11
Mocha chocolata, y	a-ya

Hang on “creole”, vox on 7 6 7 1 of the chord on “creole lady”

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Vox only up to the 3, even though you’ll feel like you

want to go up to the 5.

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

	Am7	D11
V	oulez-vous coucher ave	c moi?

	Am7	D11
He	stayed in her boudoir while	she freshened up

Am7	D11
That boy drank all that magn	olia wine, on her

Dm7	Em7
Black satin sheets, is w	here he started to freak

Am7	D11
Gitchi, gitchi, ya-ya, d	a-da

	Am7	D11
G	itchi, gitchi, ya-ya he	re

Am7	D11
Mocha chocolata, y	a-ya

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

	Am7	D11
V	oulez-vous coucher ave	c moi?

Am7	D11
x2

E

Hey, hey, hey...

Am7	D11
Seeing her skin feeling	silky smoothe

	Am7	D11
C	olor of cafe au la	it

	Dm7	Em7
Made the	savage beast inside	roar until it cried

E

More, more, more

Am7	D11
Now he’s at home doing	nine to five

Am7	D11
Living his brave life of l	ies

	Dm7	Em7
But when he	turns off to sleep, old	memories keep

E

More, more, more

Am7	D11
Gitchi, gitchi, ya-ya, d	a-da

	Am7	D11
G	itchi, gitchi, ya-ya he	re

Am7	D11
Mocha chocolata, y	a-ya

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

	Am7	D11
V	oulez vous coucher ave	c moi?

Am7	D11
Voulez-vous coucher avec m	oi, ce soir?

Em7	Am7
Creole lady Marma	lade

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (1971)

Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#	Fmaj7	G/B	Am

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
There’s a l	ady who’	s sure all that g	litters is	gold

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
And she’s	buying a stairway to	heave	n

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
When she g	ets there she	knows, if the s	tores are all c	losed

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
With a	word she can get what she	came f	or

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am	C	G/B	Dsus4	D
Ooh	,	oo	h, and she’s	buying a	stairway to	heaven

	C	D	Fmaj7	Am
There’s a	sign on the	wall but she w	ants to be	sure

	C	D	Fmaj7
‘Cause you k	now sometimes w	ords have two	meanings

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
In a tr	ee by th	e brook, there’s a	songbird who	sings

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
Sometimes a	ll of our thoughts are	misg	iven

Interlude

Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#	Fmaj7	G/B	Am

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

	C	G/B	Am
There’s a fe	eling I	get when I	look to the west

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And my sp	irit is	crying for	leav	ing

	C	G/B	Am
In my t	hought	s I have seen rings of	smoke through the trees

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And the v	oices	of those who stand	looki	ng

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

	C	G/B	Am
And it’s w	hispered that	soon if we	all call the tune

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
Then the p	iper will	lead us to	reas	on

	C	G/B	Am
And a	new day will dawn	for	those who stand long

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And the fo	rests will	echo with	laught	er

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh

C	G/B	Am
If there’s a	bustle in your	hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
It’s just a	spring clean for the	May qu	een

C	G/B	Am
Yes, there are	two paths you can	go by, but in the long run

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
There’s still	time to change the	road you’re	on

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh

C	G/B	Am
Your head is	humming and it w	on’t go, in case you don’t know

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
The piper’s	calling you to	join h	im

C	G/B	Am
Dear lady,	can you hear the	wind blow, and did you know

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
Your stairway	lies on the	whispering	wind

C	G/B
D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	Cadd9	G/B
D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	Cadd9	G/B

Am	G	F	G
And as we	wind on down the	road

Am	G	F	G
Our shadows	taller than our	soul

Am	G	F	G
There walks a	lady we all k	now

Am	G	F	G
Who shines white l	ight and wants to	show

Am	G	F	G
How everyt	hing still turns to	gold

Am	G	F	G
And if you	listen very	hard

Am	G	F	G
The tune will	come to you at	last

Am	G	F	G
When all are	one and one is	all

Am	G	Fma7
To be a r	ock and not to r	oll

Fmaj7	Am
And she’s buying a stairway to heav	en

Misc - Happy Days Theme (1974)

Originally in F, I play in D

Vox start on 1-2-3-5-6-7-6

D	Bm
Sunday, Monday,	happy days

Em	A
Tuesday, Wednesday,	happy days

F#	Bm
Thursday, Friday,	happy days

	G	A	G	A
The	weekend co	mes, my cy	cle hu	ms

A	A7
Ready to race to	you

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	happy and	free

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	share them with	me

D

Goodbye gray sky, hello blue

	G
There’s	nothing can hold me when I hold you

E

Feels so right it can’t be wrong

A7

Rockin’ and rollin’ all week long

This is an instrumental in the theme, I do a second chorus

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	happy and	free

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	share them with	me

D	Bm
Sunday, Monday,	happy days

Em	A
Tuesday, Wednesday,	happy days

F#	Bm
Thursday, Friday,	happy days

G	A	G	A
Saturday	day,	what a d	ay

A	A7
Groovin’ all week with	you

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	share them with	me

D	Bm	G	A
These days are	ours,	happy and	free

D	Bm	G
These happy d	ays are yours and	mine

	A	G	D
These happy	days are yours and	my happy	days

Misc - Laverne and Shirley Theme (1976)

Originally in F, I play an octave down in G

Skip this unless you’re feeling goofy

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated

I strum a slow V7 here, vox on the 3 of the chord

D7

We’re gonna do it!

G	B
Give us any	chance we’ll take it

Em	C
Read us any	rule we’ll break it

G/D	Em	D/F#
We’re gonna	make our dreams come	true

D7

Doin’ it our way

G	B
Nothin’s gonna	turn us back now

Em	C
Straight ahead and	on the track now

G/D	Em	D/F#
We’re gonna	make our dreams come	true

B7

Doin’ it our way

Em7	A
There is nothing	we won’t try

Dmaj7

Never heard the word impossible

Cmaj7	Fmaj7	G
This time there’s	no stopping	us

D7

We’re gonna do it

G	B
On your mark get	set and go now

Em	C
Got a dream and	we just know now

G/D	Em	D/F#
We’re gonna	make that dream come	true

	G	Em7
And we’ll do it	our way, yes	our way

C	D
Make all our dreams come	true

	G	Em7
And we’ll do it	our way, yes	our way

C	Dsus4
Make all our dreams come	true

	C	G
For me and	you

Orleans - Dance With Me (1975)

Originally in D, I play A capo 1

Highest note is the 4 (wanna go), lowest is the 1,

but only briefly (on “around us”).

A	A	D/A	D/A
Bm	E	A	A

Melody on 2 3 3 on “dance with me”

	A
Dan	ce with me, I want to be your partner

Dmaj7

Can’t you see the music is just starting

Melody is 4 5 6 1 2 on “I am fa-hall-ling”

	Bm	E
Ni	ght is calling, and	I am falling

A

Dance with me

A

Fantasy could never be so thrilling

Dmaj7

I feel free, I hope that you are willing

Bm	E
Pick your feet up, and	kick your feet up

	A
D	ance with me

Dmaj7	E
Let it lift you	off the ground

“Love is all around us” starts at the 5 of

the chord, which is probably where you were on “and”.

This run goes down to the b7 of the chord on “us”.

Dmaj7	B
Starry eyes, and	love is all around us

D	E	E/F	F#m
I can take you	where you	want to	go

Bm7	E
Oh	whoa

	A
Dan	ce with me, I want to be your partner

Dmaj7

Can’t you see the music is just starting?

	Bm	E
Ni	ght is calling, and	I am falling

A

Dance with me

Solo if appropriate

A	A	D/A	D/A
Bm	E	A	A

x2

Dmaj7	E
Let it lift you	off the ground

Dmaj7	B
Starry eyes, and	love is all around us

D	E	E/F	F#m
I can take you	where you	want to	go

Bm7	E
Oh	whoa

	A
Dan	ce with me, I want to be your partner

Dmaj7

Can’t you see the music is just starting?

	Bm	E
Ni	ght is calling, and	I am falling

A

Dance with me

Outro

A	A	D	D
			x2, then flashy outro riff

Orleans - Still the One (1976)

Originally in E, I play in A

Intro, swung with 6ths

A

We’ve been together since way back when

Sometimes I never want to see you again

	D	E
But I	want you to know, after	all these years

D	E
You’re still the one I want	whisperin’ in my ear

Drop the 6ths and switch to full strum for the chorus

	A	D
You’re	still the one I want to	talk to in bed

F#m	B
Still the one that	turns my head

D	E	A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the	one

	A
I	looked at your face every day

But I never saw it ‘til I went away

	D	E
When	winter came, I just	wanted to go

Hold a half-beat before “longed”, make it one syllable

instead of “lo-onged”

D	E
Deep in the desert I	longed for the snow

	A	D
You’re	still the one that	makes me laugh

F#m	B
Still the one that’s my	better half

D	E	A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the o	ne

	A	D
You’re	still the one that	makes me strong

F#m	B
Still the one I want to	take along

D	E	A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the o	ne, yes you are

Solo if appropriate on a verse and a chorus

Hold off an extra beat before the “our”

A	B11/A
Changing, our	love is going gold

Play this line soft

G	F#m	E
Even though we grow	old, it grows	new

Original comes back in full here, I stay on a slow strum

	A	D
You’re	still the one that I	love to touch

F#m	B
Still the one and I	can’t get enough

D	E	A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the o	ne

All but drums drop out

	A	D
You’re	still the one who can	scratch my itch

F#m	B
Still the one and	I wouldn’t switch

D	E	A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the o	ne

Hits on “you are”, band re-enters

D	E	A	D
You	are	still the one that	makes me shout

F#m	B
Still the one that I	dream about

D	E	A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the o	ne

	A	D
You are	still the one

	F#m	B
You’re	still the one

D	E	A	D/A
We’re still having fun	and you’re still the o	ne

On the bridge rhythm, triplets

A	A	B11/A	B11/A	G	F#m	D	A
					→

Paul McCartney - Another Day (1971)

	G
Every	day she takes a morning bath

	B7
She	wets her hair

Em	Am
Wraps a towel around her as she’s	heading for the bedroom chair

	D	G
It’s just	another	day

C	G
Slipping into stoc	kings

C	G
Stepping into	shoes

C	G	A7
Dipping in the poc	ket of her	raincoat

D	G
It’s just another	day

	G	B7
At the	office where the papers grow she	takes a break

Em	Am
Drinks another coffee and she	finds it hard to stay awake

	D	G	C	Am
It’s just an	other	day	doo doo doo doo doo	doo

	D	G	E7	Am
It’s just an	other d	ay doo doo doo	doo doo	doo

	D	G	D/F#	Em
It’s just an	other d	ay

	Em	Cmaj7
So	sad, so	sad

A/C#	Cmaj7	Em
Sometimes she	feels so s	ad

	Cmaj7
Alone in her apartment she’d	dwell

	A/C#	Cmaj7	Em
Till the man of her	dreams comes to	break, the s	pell

E	Am	D
Ah,	stay, don’t stand her	up

	Daug	Bm/D	B7	Em
And he	comes, and he	stays, but he	leaves the next	day

	C	A/C#	C	Em
So	sad,	sometimes she	feels so	sad

	G	B7
As she	posts another letter to the	sound of five

Em	Am
People gather round her and she	finds it hard to stay alive

	D	G	C	Am
It’s just an	other	day	doo doo doo doo doo	doo

	D	G	E7	Am
It’s just an	other d	ay doo doo doo	doo doo	doo

	D	G	D/F#	Em
It’s just an	other d	ay

	Em	Cmaj7
So	sad, so	sad

A/C#	Cmaj7	Em
Sometimes she	feels so s	ad

	Cmaj7
Alone in her apartment she’d	dwell

	A/C#	Cmaj7	Em
Till the man of her	dreams comes to	break, the s	pell

E	Am	D
Ah,	stay, don’t stand her	up

	Daug	Bm/D	B7	Em
And he	comes, and he	stays, but he	leaves the next	day

	C	A/C#	C	Em
So	sad,	sometimes she	feels so	sad

	G
Every	day she takes a morning bath

	B7
She	wets her hair

Em	Am
Wraps a towel around her as she’s	heading for the bedroom chair

	D	G
It’s just	another	day

C	G
Slipping into stoc	kings

C	G
Stepping into	shoes

C	G	A7
Dipping in the poc	ket of her	raincoat

D	G	C	Am
It’s just another	day	doo doo doo doo doo	doo

	D	G	E7	Am
It’s just an	other d	ay doo doo doo	doo doo	doo

	D	G	F	C	G
It’s just an	other d	ay

Paul McCartney - Let Me Roll It (1973)

Originally in E, I play in A capo 2.

Intro in the original key...

-2h3p2-2-0------2h3p2-2-0----
-2h3p2-2-0-2-0--2h3p2-2-0----
-----------2-0------------2-0
--------------------------2-0

Intro in my key something like...

G -4h5p4-4-2-----4h5p4-4-2----
D -4h5p4-4-2-----4h5p4-4-2----
A -----------5-3--------------
E -------------------------5-3

Possibly sounds better to pick than pull off

in this key.

Intro, no riff yet

D	Bm	D	Bm
A	D	A	D

Riff starts after this line

A	D	A	D	A

Bm	A	Bm	A

Vox on the 5 of the first chord

A	Bm
You gave me something,	I understand

“In the palm” in 1 3 2 of the first chord

A	Bm
You gave me loving in the	palm of my hand

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

With riff

Bm	A	Bm	A

A	Bm
I want to tell you, and	now’s the time

Vox on “go ing to” on 4 3 2 of the first chord

A	Bm
I want to tell you that you’re	going to be mine

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

With riff

Bm	A	Bm	A

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

Bm	A	Bm	A

A	Bm
You gave me something	I understand

A	Bm
You gave me loving in the	palm of my hand

D	Bm	D
I can’t	tell you how I f	eel

	Bm	A
My	heart is like a w	heel

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D
Let me r	oll it to you

A	D
Let me r	oll it

A	D	A
Let me r	oll it to you

With riff, to fade

Bm

A

Bm

A

Paul McCartney - Maybe I’m Amazed (1970)

Verse originally in Bb, I play in G if I want to work, otherwise

C capo 3.

If you’re capo’d, be ready to find those 9’s. And on guitar, just play

a 7 instead of the #9.

Intro, the first chord is really just fading in,

and the progression really starts at the second chord.

F#	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7

Vox on the 5 of the first chord

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m am	azed at the way you l	ove me all the t	ime

G	D/F#	A
And maybe I’m afr	aid of the way I lo	ve you

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m ama	zed at the way you pu	lled me out of t	ime

	G	D/F#
You h	ung me on a l	ine

Vox *stay* on the 6 of the chord on “maybe” (A if the chord is D)

	F	C/E	A
And m	aybe I’m amazed at the w	ay I really n	eed you

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
Maybe I’m a l	onely man who’s in the middle of something

E	B	B(#9)
That he doesn’t really underst	and

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
And maybe you’re the	only woman who could ever help me

E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7
Baby won’t you help me to underst	and

Solo on verse chords, acoustic I usually skip this and the following chorus.

Can also do it on doo doo, etc.

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

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
Maybe I’m a l	onely man who’s in the middle of something

E	B	B(#9)
That he doesn’t really underst	and

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
And maybe you’re the	only woman who could ever help me

E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7
Baby won’t you help me to underst	and

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m am	azed at the way you’re	with me all the	time

G	D/F#	A
Maybe I’m a	fraid of the way I	need you

G	D/F#	A	E/A
Maybe I’m a	mazed at the way you	help me sing my	song

	G	D/F#
You	right me when I’m	wrong

	F	C/E	A
And	maybe I’m amazed at the	way I really n	eed you

If I skipped the previous chorus, I’ll do this one with lyrics, else do this on “yeah”

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
Maybe I’m a l	onely man who’s in the middle of something

E	B	B(#9)
That he doesn’t really underst	and

B	Bmaj7
Maybe I’m a	man

	B9
And maybe you’re the	only woman who could ever help me

E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7
Baby won’t you help me to underst	and

Long pause, then solo on verse chords, acoustic I usually skip this

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

Outro on chorus chords, fading, acoustic I usually skip this

B	Bmaj7	B9
E	B	B(#9)
B	Bmaj7	B9
E	B/D#	Bm/D	C#m7	F#7

Paul McCartney and Wings - Jet (1974)

Originally in A, I play in G

Get the bridge/solo part ready

Gm13/Bb x10010

Am	G/B	C6	Am	G/B	C6	Bm7
Am	G/B	C6

I usually skip these “jets”; it’s just high enough that it

comes out sounding like a random grunt *near* the root.

G

Jet, jet, jet

	C/G	G
I can almost remember their	funny fac	es

G

That time you told ‘em that

	C/G	G
You were gonna be marrying s	oon

	Bm7	Am
And	Jet, I thought the o	nly

	G/B	C6	G
Lonel	y pl	ace was on the moo	n

For these “jets”, I’ll sing an octave down but

hit a high guitar voicing on that downbeat.

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

G	C/G	G
Jet, was your father as bold as a	sergeant	major?

	G	C/G	G
Well	how come he told you that you were hardly old enough	yet?

	Bm7
And	Jet, I thought the

Am	G/B	C6	G
Major was	a	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	G	Gsus4	G
Ah, mater, m	uch	later

Instrumental bridge

C	G/B	Gm13/A#	F	F	C	G
→		→		→

x2

Synth solo on verse chords, play the chords either way

	Bm7
And	Jet, I thought the

Am	G/B	C6	G
Major was	a	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	D
Ah, mater, want Jet to al	ways love me

A	G	Gsus4	G
Ah, mater, m	uch	later

Instrumental bridge

C	G/B	Gm13/A#	F	F	C	G
→		→		→

x2

G	C/G	G
Jet, with the wind in your hair of a	thousand	laces

	C/G	G
Climb on the back and we’ll go for a ride in the	sky

	Bm7
And	Jet, I thought that the

Am	G/B	C6	G
Major was a	little	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

	Bm7
And	Jet, you know I

Am	G/B	C6	G
Thought you was a	little	lady suffrag	ette

G

Jet, ooh, jet ooh

Am	G/B	C6
		My little lady

Am	G/B	C6	Bm7
		My little lady	yes

Am

Cmaj7

Gmaj7

Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (1975)

Em

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
The problem is	all inside your	head, she	said to	me

Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
The answer is	easy if you	take it logically

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
I’d like to	help you in your	struggle	to be	free

	B7	Em	Am	Em
There	must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
She said it’s	really not my	habit	to	intrude

	Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
Furthe	rmore, I hope my	meaning won’t be	lost or miscon	strued

	Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
But I’ll re	peat myself,	at the	risk of	being	rude

	B7	Em	Am	Em
There	must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover

Em	Am	Em
Fifty	ways to leave your	lover

	G
You just slip out the	back, Jack

	Bb
Make a new	plan, Stan

	C
You don’t need to be	coy, Roy

	G
Just get yourself	free

	G
Hop on the	bus, Gus

	Bb
You don’t need to	discuss much

	C
Just drop off the	key, Lee

	G
And get yourself	free

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
She said it	grieves me so to	see you	in such	pain

	Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
I wish	there was something	I could do to	make you smile again

	Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
I said I ap	preciate that	and	would you	please ex	plain

	B7	Em
A	bout the	fifty ways

Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7	B7
She said why	don’t we both just	sleep on	it to	night

	Em	Ebdim7	Gbdim7	B7+	B7
And I be	lieve in the	morning you’ll	begin to see the light

	Em	Bm/D	Am	Am/G	Ebdim7
And then she	kissed me and I	realized she	probab	ly was	right

	B7	Em	Am	Em
There	must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover

Em	Am	Em
Fifty	ways to leave your	lover

	G
You just slip out the	back, Jack

	Bb
Make a new	plan, Stan

	C
You don’t need to be	coy, Roy

	G
Just get yourself	free

	G
Hop on the	bus, Gus

	Bb
You don’t need to	discuss much

	C
Just drop off the	key, Lee

	G
And get yourself	free

	G
You just slip out the	back, Jack

	Bb
Make a new	plan, Stan

	C
You don’t need to be	coy, Roy

	G
Just get yourself	free

	G
Hop on the	bus, Gus

	Bb
You don’t need to	discuss much

	C
Just drop off the	key, Lee

	G
And get yourself	free

Paul Simon - Kodachrome (1973)

Originally in D capo 2, which is where I play it. Originally

in drop-D, which I don’t bother with.

Almost entirely alternating bass/upper pattern.

Riff on the verse/intro G is some version of:

D|--------0-0-----|
A|----1-2-----1-2-|
E|3-3-------------|

D	Dmaj7	D7	G	Em	A7	D	Em	A7

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
When I think	back on	all the	crap I learned in h	igh school

Em	A7	D	Em	A7
It’s a wonder	I can think at a	ll

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
And though my la	ck of	educ	ation hasn’t	hurt me none

Em	A7	D
I can read the	writing on the	wall

	G	G/F#	E
Kodachr	o-	o-	ome

	Am	D7
They give us those	nice bright	colors

	G	C
They give us the	greens of sum	mers

	A	D
Makes you think a	ll the wor	ld’s a sunny

G	G/F#	E
Day	oh	yeah

	Am	D7	G	C
I got a N	ikon cam	era, I love to take	photograp	hs

	A	D
So momma, don’t t	ake my	Kodachrome

	G	Bm	Em	A7
A	way

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
If you took	all the	girls I	knew when I was	single

Em	A7	D	Em	A7
And put ‘em all	together for one	night

	D	Dmaj7	D7	G
I know they’d	never	match my	sweet imagin	ation

Em	A7	D
And ev’rything looks	worse in black and	white

	G	G/F#	E
Kodachr	o-	o-	ome

	Am	D7
They give us those	nice bright	colors

	G	C
They give us the	greens of sum	mers

	A	D
Makes you think a	ll the wor	ld’s a sunny

G	G/F#	E
Day	oh	yeah

	Am	D7	G	C
I got a N	ikon cam	era, I love to take	photograp	hs

	A	D
So momma, don’t t	ake my	Kodachrome

	G
A	way

G	Bm	Em	Em

	G	Bm	Em
Mama don’t	take my	Kodachrome a	way

	G	Bm	Em
Mama don’t	take my	Kodachrome a	way

	G	Bm	Em
Mama don’t	take my	Kodachrome a	way

Double-time feel

G

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Bm

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Em

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

G

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Bm

Leave your boy so far from home

Em

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

G

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Bm

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Em

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (1972)

Originally in G, I play in G capo 2.

Intro

G	C	G	D
			x 2

	G
The	Mama pajama rolled outta bed

	C
And she ran to the police s	tation

	D
When the	papa found out, he began to shout

	G
He started the investi	gation

	D	G
It’s against the	law, it was against the l	aw

	D	G
What the mama	saw, it was against the l	aw

G

Mama look down and spit on the ground

	C
Every time her name gets	mentioned

	D
The	papa said oy, if I get that boy

	G
I’m gonna stick him in the house of de	tention

	C	G
Well I’m on my wa	y, I don’t know w	here I’m goin’

	C	G
I’m on my	way, I’m takin’ my	time

	A	D
But I d	on’t know w	here

	C	G
Goodbye to R	osie, the queen of Co	rona

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

Instrumental break on chorus chords, with whistling

C	G	C	G	A	D	C	G
G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D	D

	G
Woah...	In a couple of days they’re gonna take me away

	C
But the press let the story	leak

	D
Now when the	radical priest come to get me released

	G
We was all on the cover of	Newsweek

	C	G
Well I’m on my wa	y, I don’t know w	here I’m goin’

	C	G
I’m on my	way, I’m takin’ my	time

	A	D
But I d	on’t know w	here

	C	G
Goodbye to R	osie, the queen of Co	rona

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

	G	F	C	D	G	C	G	D
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

	G	F	C	D	G
Seein’	me and Ju	lio d	own by the sch	ooly	ard

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (1979)

Bm	A
Hello, is there anybody	in there?

	G	Em
Just nod if you can	hear me

	Bm
Is there	anyone home?

Bm

Come on (come on) now

	A
I hear you’re	feeling down

G	Em
I can ease your	pain

	Bm
And get you	on your feet again

Bm

Relax (relax, relax)

	A
I’ll need some infor	mation first

G	Em
Just the basic facts

	Bm
Can you	show me where it hurts?

D	A
There is no pain you are re	ceding

D	A
A distant ship smoke on the ho	rizon

C	G
You are only coming through in	waves

	C	G
Your	lips move but I can’t hear what you’re	saying

	D	A
When	I was a child I had a	fever

	D	A
My	hands felt just like two	balloons

C	G
Now I’ve got that feeling once a	gain

	C
I can’t explain, you would not	understand

	G
This is not how I	am

A	C	G	D
I	have be	come comfortably	numb

Solo, if appropriate, otherwise skip

A	D	A	C	G	C	G
A	C	G	D
I	have be	come comfortably	numb

Bm	A
O.K. (O.K., O.K.) just a little	pinprick

	G	Em
There’ll be no more	aaaa	aaaah!

	Bm
But you may	feel a little sick

	Bm
Can you	stand up?

	A
I do believe it’s	working, good

	G	Em
That’ll keep you	going for the	show

	Bm
Come	on it’s time to go

D	A
There is no pain, you are re	ceding

D	A
A distant ship smoke on the ho	rizon

C	G
You are only coming through in	waves

	C	G
Your	lips move but I can’t hear what you’re	saying

	D	A
When	I was a child, I caught a	fleeting glimpse

D	A
Out of the corner of my	eye

C	G
I turned to look but it was	gone

	C
I cannot put my finger	on it now

	G
The child is grown, the	dream is gone

A	C	G	D
I	have be	come comfortably	numb

A	C	G	D
I	have be	come comfortably	numb

Pink Floyd - Nobody Home (1979)

Am7	Caug/G#	C/G	D7	F	Fm

	C
I’ve got a	little black book with my poems in

	E
Got a	bag with a toothbrush and a comb in

	F	C
When	I’m a good dog, they sometimes throw me a	bone

F	C
I got e	lastic bands keeping my shoes on

	E	E7
Got those	swollen hand blues

	F	C
Got	thirteen channels of shit on the TV to	choose from

	C
I’ve got e	lectric light

C7

And I’ve got second sight

	F	Fm	C	E7	Am	D7	G
And a	mazing po	wers of observatio	n

	E7
And that is how I know

Am

When I try to get through

Not a typo: this is really D Fm,

but I play as F Fm.

C	D	Fm
On the telephone to you

	C
There’ll be nobody ho	me

F	C	F	C

	C
I’ve got the ob	ligatory Hendrix perm

	E
And the in	evitable pinhole burns

F	C
All down the front of my favorite satin s	hirt

F	C
I’ve got	nicotine stains on my fingers

	E	E7
I’ve got a	silver spoon on a chain

	F	C
Got a	grand piano to prop up my mortal re	mains

	C
I’ve got	wild staring eyes

C7	F
And I’ve got a strong urge to fly

	Fm	C	E7	Am	D7	G
But	I got nowhere to	fly to

Vox all the way up to A here

Am	C	D	Fm
Ooooh, babe	when I pick up the phone

	C	F	C	F	C
There’s still nobody hom	e

	C
I’ve got a	pair of Gohill’s boots

	E	E7
And I got	fading roots

Pink Floyd - Time (1973)

E	F#m	E	F#m

F#m	A
Ticking away the moments that make up a	dull day

E	F#m
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand	way

F#m	A
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your	hometown

E	F#m
Waiting for someone or something to show you the	way

Dmaj7

Tired of lying in the sunshine

Amaj7

Staying home to watch the rain

Dmaj7

You are young and life is long and

Amaj7

There is time to kill today

Dmaj7

And then one day you find

C#m7

Ten years have got behind you

Bm7

No one told you when to run

E

You missed the starting gun

F#m	A	E	F#m
F#m	A	E	F#m

	F#m	A
You	run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sink	ing

E	F#m
Racing around to come up behind you a	gain

	F#m	A
The	sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re	older

E	F#m
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to	death

Dmaj7

Every year is geting shorter

Amaj7

Never seem to find the time

Dmaj7

Plans that either come to naught or

Amaj7

Half a page of scribbled lines

Dmaj7

Hanging on in quiet

	C#m7
Despera	tion is the English way

	Bm7
The	time is gone, the song is over

	F/B
Thought I’d something	more to say

Em9	A7
Em9	A7
Em9	A7
Home home a	gain

Em9	A7
I like to be here when I c	an

Em9	A7
When I come home cold and	tired

	Em9	A7
It’s	good to warm my bones beside the f	ire

Cmaj7	Bm7
Far away across the field the	tolling of the iron bell

Fmaj7	G
Calls the faithful to their knees to	hear the softly

D7#9	Cdim/Eb	Bm
Spoken	magic	spell

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

Em7	G	Em7	G
Em7	A7	Em7	A7
G

C	D
So, so you think you can t	ell

	Am	G
Heaven from h	ell, blue skies from	pain

	D
Can you tell a green	field from a cold steel

C	Am
Rail, a smile from a	veil

	G
Do you think you can t	ell?

	C	D
And did they get you to tr	ade your heroes for	ghosts?

	Am	G
Hot ashes for tr	ees? Warm air for a coo	l breeze?

	D
Cold comfort for cha	nge?

	C	Am	G
And did you exchan	ge a walk on part in the	war for a lead role in a ca	ge?

Em7	G	Em7	G
Em7	A7	Em7	A7
G

C	D
How I wish, how I wish you were	here

	Am
We’re just	two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

G

Year after year

D

Running over the same old ground

C

What have we found?

	Am	G
The same old	fears, wish you were here

Em7	G	Em7	G
Em7	A7	Em7	A7
G

Pure Prairie League - Amie (1972)

Intro, with bluegrass-solo over just the one chord

A

A	A	G	D
			x2

A	G	D	A	G	D
I can see why	you think	you be	long to me

	A	G	D
I	never tried to	make you	think or

A	D
Let you see one thing for your	self

	C	D
But now you’re	off with someone else and I’m	alone

	C	E
You see I	thought that I might keep you for my	own

A	G	D
Amie	what you wanna	do?

A	G	D
I think	I could stay with	you

	Bm	E
For a	while maybe longer if I	do

A	A	G	D
			x2

A	G	D	A	G	D
Don’t you think the	time is	right for	us to find

A	G	D
All the things we	thought weren’t	proper

A

Could be right in time

	D	C	D
And can you	see which way	we should turn together or	alone

	C	E
I can	never see what’s right or what is	wrong

E

Will it take to long to see?

A	G	D
Amie	what you wanna	do?

A	G	D
I think	I could stay with	you

	Bm	E
For a	while maybe longer if I	do

A	A	G	D
			x2

Solo if appropriate on verse and chorus, else skip the next chorus

A	G	D
Amie	what you wanna	do?

A	G	D
I think	I could stay with	you

	Bm	E
For a	while maybe longer if I	do

A	A	G	D
			x2

A	G	D	A	G	D
Now it’s come to	what you	want you’ve	had your way

	A	G	D
And	all the things you	thought be	fore just

A

Faded into gray

	D	C	D
And can you	see that I	don’t know if it’s you or if it’s	me

	C	E
If it’s	one of us I’m sure we both will	see

E

Won’t you look at me and tell me?

A	G	D
Amie	what you wanna	do?

A	G	D
I think	I could stay with	you

	Bm	E
For a	while maybe longer if I	do

A	G	D
Amie	what you wanna	do?

A	G	D
I think	I could stay with	you

	Bm	E
For a	while maybe longer if I	do

Let open A and high E ring on all these chords

	A	G6/A	Dsus2/A
I keep	falling in and out of	love with	you

A	G6/A	Dsus2/A
Falling in and out of	love with	you

A	G6/A	Dsus2/A
Don’t know what I’m gonna	do

	A	Dsus2/A	Fmaj7	Dmadd9	A
I keep	falling in and out of	love with	you

Queen - Killer Queen (1974)

Start with snaps

Originally in Cm, I play in Em capo 3. That way it’s

still a train wreck, but not for lack of range.

Vox on the 1 on “Moet”

	Em	D
She keeps	Moet and Chandon	in her pretty cabinet

Em	D	G
“Let them eat cake” she says,	just like Marie A	ntoinette

	G	D/F#	G7/F	C/E
A	built-in	remedy for K	ruschev and Ke	nnedy

	Cm/D#	G/D	C/D	D7
And	any time an i	nvitation yo	u can’t dec	line

B7	Em	D7	G
Caviar and	cigarettes,	well-versed in e	tiquette

	F#7	Bm	A7
Extra	ordinarily	nice,	she’s a

D	F#m/C#
Killer Q	ueen

Vox up to the 3 of the chord on “gunpowder”

Bm	F#m	Bm	C#7	F#m
Gunpowder,	gelatine,	dynamite with a	laser	beam

B7	A	D
Guaranteed to blow your	mi-	ind

Any time

C#7	F#m
Recommended	at the price

	B7	Em
In	satiable in	appetite

E	D
→	Wanna try?

A	D/A	A	D/A
x2

	Em
To a	void complications

	D
She	never kept the same address

Em

In conversation

	D	G
She	spoke just like a b	aroness

G	D/F#
Met a man from	China

	G7/D	C/E
Went	down to Geisha M	inah

	Cm/D#	G/D
Then a	gain incid	entally

	C/D	D7
If you’re	that way incl	ined

	B7	Em
Perfume came	naturally from	Paris (naturally)

	D7	G
For	cars she couldn’t	care less

	F#7	Bm	A7
Fast	idious and pre	cise,	she’s a

D	F#m/C#
Killer Q	ueen

Bm	F#m	Bm	C#7	F#m
Gunpowder,	gelatine,	dynamite with a	laser	beam

B7	A	D
Guaranteed to blow your	mi-	ind

Any time

Solo on verse chords if appropriate

Vox down low to the 1 of the chord on “hat”

	B7	Em
Drop of a	hat, she’s as	willing as

B7	Em
Playful as a	pussycat

	D	G
Then	momentarily o	ut of action

D	G
Temporarily o	ut of gas

	F#7	Bm	A
To	absolutely	drive	you

D	A	Dm	A
Wi-	ild,	wi-	ild, she’s a

D	F#m/C#
Killer Q	ueen

Bm	F#m	Bm	C#7	F#m
Gunpowder,	gelatine,	dynamite with a	laser	beam

B7	A	D
Guaranteed to blow your	mi-	ind

What a drag

A

D/A

A

Repeat to fade

Rainbow - Since You Been Gone (1979)

Originally in G#, I play in C

The highest note is the b5, i.e. the 3 after the

key change. That’s a *D* in the original (!).

C	G	Am	F	C	G	Am	F	F	G
						→		→

Hang the last chord

C	G	Am	F	C	G	Am	F	F	G
						→		→

Vox in on the 1

C	G/B	Am	G
I get the s	ame old dreams	same time ev	ery night

F	C/E	Dm	G
Fall to the g	round and I	wake up

C	G/B	Am	G
So I get	out of bed, put	on my shoes and i	n my head

F	C/E	Dm	G
Thoughts fly b	ack to the br	eak-up

Vox on the 5 of the chord

G#	A#
These four walls are	closin’ in

	G#	G/D	G
L	ook at the fix you’ve	put me	in

C	G	Am	F
Since you’ve been go	ne, s	ince you’ve been go	ne

	C	G	Am	F	F	G
I’m o	ut of my he	ad, can’t t	ake	it	→

C	G	Am	F
Could I be wro	ng, but s	ince you’ve been g	one

C	G	Am	F	F	G
You cast a sp	ell so	break i	t	→

C	G	Am	F
Whoa	oh	whoa	oh

C	G	Am	F	F	G
Whoa	oh	→		since you	been gone

C	G/B	Am	G
So in the n	ight I stand	beneath the b	ack street light

F	C/E	Dm	G
I read the w	ords that you s	ent to me

C	G/B	Am	G
I could take the	afternoon the n	ighttime comes aro	und too soon

F	C/E	Dm	G
You can’t k	now what you m	ean to m	e

G#	A#
Your poison letter, your	telegram

	G#	G/D	D
J	ust goes to show you don’t	give a	damn

C	G	Am	F
Since you’ve been go	ne, s	ince you’ve been go	ne

	C	G	Am	F	F	G
I’m o	ut of my he	ad, can’t t	ake	it	→

C	G	Am	F
Could I be wro	ng, but s	ince you’ve been g	one

C	G	Am	F	F	G
You cast a sp	ell so	break i	t	→

C	G	Am	F
Whoa	oh	whoa	oh

C	G	Am	F	F	G
Whoa	oh	→		since you	been gone

Half-time

C	Dm7	Em7	F	G7	G#dim7
Am	C/G	F	G/D

Vox on the 3

	C	Dm7	Em7
I	f you	will come	back

	F	G7	G#dim7
B	aby you kn	ow you’ll n	ever do

Am	C/G	F	G/D
Wrong

Three hits on...

G

Key change up a whole step

D	A	Bm	G
Since you’ve been go	ne, s	ince you’ve been go	ne

	D	A	Bm	G	G	A
I’m o	ut of my he	ad, can’t t	ake	it	→

D	A	Bm	G
Could I be wro	ng, but s	ince you’ve been g	one

D	A	Bm	G	G	A
You cast a sp	ell so	break i	t	→

D	A	Bm	Gm/A#
Whoa	oh	whoa	oh

D/A	A	Bm	Gm/A#	D/A	A	D
Whoa	oh	→		ever since	you been	gone

Original repeat the chorus in the new key for a solo here

Sesame Street - I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon (1978)

	C	C/B	Am
Well I’d	like to	visit the	moon

	F	G	C
On a	rocket ship	high in the	air

	C	C/B	Am
Yes I’d	like to	visit the	moon

	F	G	C
But I	don’t think I’d	like to live	there

	F	F/E
Though I’d	like to look	down at the

Dm7	C
Earth from	above

	F	F/E	Dm7	C
I would	miss all the	places and	people I	love

	F	C	G	Am
So al	though I might	like it for	one after	noon

	F	G	C
I	don’t want to	live on the	moon

	C	C/B	Am
I’d like to	travel	under the	sea

	F	G	C
I could	meet all the	fish every	where

	C	C/B	Am
Yes I’d	travel	under the	sea

	F	G	C
But I	don’t think I’d	like to live	there

	F	F/E	Dm7	C
I might	stay for a	day there if	I had my	wish

	F	F/E
But there’s	not much to	do when your

Dm7	C
Friends are all	fish

	F	C	G	Am
And an	oyster and	clam aren’t	real fami	ly

	F	G	C
So I	don’t want to	live in the	sea

Bridge, vox on the 3 of the chord on “visit”

	F	C	G	C
I’d like to	visit the	jungle hear the	lions	roar

F	F/E	G	C
Go back in	time and meet a	dino	saur

	F	C	G	Am
There’s	so many strange	places	I’d like to	be

	F	G	C
But	none of them	permanent	ly

	C	C/B	Am
So if	I should	visit the	moon

	F	G	C
Well I’ll	dance on a	moonbeam and	then

	C	C/B	Am
I will	make a	wish on a	star

	F	G	C
And I’ll	wish I was	home once a	gain

	F	F/E
Though I’d	like to look	down at the

Dm7	C
Earth from a	bove

	F	F/E	Dm7	C
I would	miss all the	places and	people I	love

	F	C	G	Am
So al	though I may	go I’ll be	coming home	soon

	F	G	C
‘Cause I	don’t want to	live on the	moon

	F	G	C	C/B	Am	Am	F	G	C
No I	don’t... want to	live... on the	moon

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

Originally in Eb, I play in D

Highest note is the 3 on the big last chorus

On guitar, play all the Csus4’s as 7

A capo 3 is also good; ignore the A9’s and

play the Bdim7 as xx0101 and the Cdim7 as Ebdim7

if playing in A.

Can skip this whole intro and just vamp on I IV or I IV/1

Original here is really I Imaj7 V/2

D	D	D7	D9
G	G	Edim7	Fdim7
D	D	B7sus4	B7
G	G	Gm	Gm
D	D	D	D7
G/D	G/D	G/D	G/D
D	D	D	D7
G/D	G/D	G/D	G/D

	D	G
When you’re	weary

	D
Feeling	small

On “when”, make sure to get up to the 3 of the chord

G	G	C	G	D	G
	When	tears	are	in your	eyes

Chords at the end of this line just two beats

	D	G	D	G
I will	dry them all

D	D	A/C#	Bm	A
	I’m	on	your	side, ohhhh

	A7	D	Dmaj7	D7
When times	get rough

	D9	G	E	A
And friends	just	can’t	be	found

D7	D9	G	Edim7	Fdim7
Like	a	bridge	ove	r

D/A	B7sus4	B7
Troubled	wate	r

G	F#7	Bm
I will l	ay me d	own

D7	D9	G	Edim7	Fdim7
Like	a	bridge	ove	r

D	B7sus4	B7
Troubled	wate	r

	G	A9	A7	D
I	will l	ay	me d	own

D	G	D	G

D	G
When you’re down and out

G	D
When you’re on the	streets

G	G	C	G	D	G
When	eve	ning	falls so	hard

	D	G	D	G
I will	comfort you

D	D	A/C#	Bm	A
I’ll	take	your	part, ohhhh

	A7	D	Dmaj7	D7
When dark	ness	comes

	D9	G	E	A
And pain	is	all	a	round

D7	D9	G	Edim7	Fdim7
Like	a	bridge	ove	r

D/A	B7sus4	B7
Troubled	wate	r

G	F#7	Bm
I will l	ay me d	own

D7	D9	G	Edim7	Fdim7
Like	a	bridge	ove	r

D	Bm
Troubled	water

	G	Bm/F#	F#	Bm
I	will l	ay	me d	own

Bridge (instrumental)

E	E7	D	D
G	Bm	G	Gm
D	G	D	G	D	G/D

	D	G/D
Sail on	silver girl

	D	G/D
Sail on	by

G	C	G	D	G
Your	time	has	come to	shine

	D	G	D	G
All your	dreams are on their w	ay

D	D	A/C#	Bm	A
See	how	they	shine, ohhh

	D	Dmaj7	D7
And if you	need a	friend

	D9	G	E	A
I’m sai	ling	right	behin	d

D7	D9	G	Edim7	Fdim7
Like	a	bridge	ove	r

D	Bm
Troubled	water

G	Bm	F#7	Bm
I will	ease	your	mind

D7	D9	G	G7	E7
Like	a	bridge	o	ver

	D/A	Bm
Tr	oubled	water

G	F#7	Bm	E9
I will	ease your	mind

D	D	D7	D9
G	Gm	D

Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia (1970)

Originally in B, I play in G, capo 4, so still in B

Low part on the 3, high on the 5

	G	C	G
C	elia, you’re br	eaking my h	eart

	C	G	D
You’re sha	king my co	nfidence d	aily

Low part on C, high on E

	C	G	C	G
Oh Cec	il	ia, I’m d	own on my	knees

	C	G	D
I’m beg	ging you p	lease to come	home

	G	C	G
C	ecilia, you’re br	eaking my h	eart

	C	G	D
You’re sha	king my co	nfidence d	aily

	C	G	C	G
Oh Cec	il	ia, I’m d	own on my	knees

	C	G	D
I’m beg	ging you p	lease to come	home

	G
Come on h	ome

	G	C	G
M	aking love in the af	ternoon	with Cecilia

	C	D	G
U	p in	my bed	room

	C	G
I got up to w	ash my f	ace

	C	G
When I	come back to	bed

	D	G
Someone’s t	aken my pl	ace

G	C	G
Celia, you’re br	eaking my h	eart

	C	G	D
You’re sha	king my co	nfidence d	aily

	C	G	C	G
Oh Cec	il	ia, I’m d	own on my	knees

	C	G	D
I’m beg	ging you p	lease to come	home

	G
Come on h	ome

G	G	C	G	C	G	D	D
Bobobo...

	G	C	G
Jubil	ation, she	loves me agai	n

	C	G	D
I f	all on the f	loor and I lau	ghing

	C	G	C	G
Jubil	atio	n, she l	oves me ag	ain

	C	G	D
I f	all on the f	loor and I lau	ghing

C	G	C	G	C	G	D	D
Oh...

Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson (1970)

Originally in G capo 2, so really in A.

If there’s a high harmony, I play in G.

E7

Vox start on the 7 and (high) 9 of the chord

(D and F# if the chord is an E7)

E7

Dee de de de de de de de de de de de de de

Vox start on the 1 and 3 of the chord

(A and C# if the chord is an A7)

A7

Doo do do do do do do do do

D

De de de de

G

De de de de

C	G/B
De de	de de

Am

De

E7	D

	G	Em
And here’s to	you Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C	D
Jesus loves you	more than you will	know, wo wo wo

	G	Em
God bless you	please Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C
Heaven holds a	place for those who	pray

	Am7	E7
Hey hey	hey, hey hey	hey

Extra two beats after this line... fun fact: S&G left those

extra beats out when they played live.

E7

We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files

	A
We’d	like to help you learn to help yourself

D	G	C	Am
Look around you	all you see are	sympathetic	eyes

E7	D
Stroll around the grounds un	til you feel at home

	G	Em
And here’s to	you Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C	D
Jesus loves you	more than you will	know, wo wo wo

	G	Em
God bless you	please Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C
Heaven holds a	place for those who	pray

	Am7	E7
Hey hey	hey, hey hey	hey

E7

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes

A

Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

D	G	C	Am
It’s a little	secret just the	Robinsons’ a	ffair

E7	D
Most of all you’ve got to	hide it from the kids

D	G	Em
Koo koo ka	choo Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C	D
Jesus loves you	more than you will	know, wo wo wo

D	G	Em
God bless you	please Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C
Heaven holds a	place for those who	pray

	Am7	E7
Hey hey	hey, hey hey	hey

E7

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon

A

Going to the candidates’ debate

D	G	C	Am
Laugh about it	shout about it	when you’ve got to	choose

E7	D
Any way you look at it you	lose

	G	Em
Where have you	gone Joe Di	Maggio

	G	Em	C	D
A	nation turns its	lonely eyes to	you, woo woo woo

	G	Em
What’s that you	say Mrs.	Robinson

G	Em	C
Joltin’ Joe has	left and gone	away

	Am7	E7
Hey hey	hey, hey hey	hey

Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer (1970)

Originally in B, probably as C tuned down, I play in C

C

C	Am
I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom	told

	G
I have	squandered my resistance

	G7	G6	C
For a	pocket full of	mumbles, such are	promises

	Am	G	F/C
All lies and	jest, still a	man hears what he	wants to hear

	C	G7	C
And disregards the	rest

	C	Am
When I	left my home and my family, I was no more than a	boy

	G
In the	company of strangers

	G7	G6	C
In the	quiet of a	railway station,	running scared

	Am	G	F
Laying	low, seeking	out the poorer	quarters

	C
Where the ragged people	go

	G	G7	G6	C
Lookin’	for the places	only	they would	know

	Am	G	Am
Lie la	lie, lie la	lie la lie la lie, lie la	lie

	G	F	C
Lie la	lie la la la	lie, lie la la la la	lie

C

	C
Asking	only workman’s wages I come

	Am	G
Looking for a	job but I get no	offers

	G7	G6	C
Just a	come-on from the	whores on Seventh	Avenue

	Am	G
I do de	clare, there were	times when I was

F/C	C
So lonesome I took some comfort	there

	G7
La la	la la la la la

C

Solo if appropriate on verse chords, followed by an extra chord that

I skip if there’s neither big harmonies nor solo

	C	Am
Then I’m	laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was	gone

	G	G7	G6	C
Going	home where the	New York City	winters aren’t	bleeding me

Em	Am	G	G7	C
Leading meee	eeee going	home

C

	C
In the	clearing stands a boxer and a

	Am
Fighter by his	trade

	G	G7
And he	carries a reminder of	ev’ry

	G6
Glove that	laid him down

	C
Or	cut him till he cried out in his

	Am
Anger and his	shame

	G	F/C
I am	leaving, I am	leaving

	F/C	C	G
But the	fighter still re	mains, mmm mmm	mmm

C

This is like four minutes in the original, if no harmonies, keep

it to one chorus.

	Am	G	Am
Lie la	lie, lie la	lie la lie la lie, lie la	lie

	G	F	Am
Lie la	lie la la la la, lie	la la la la	lie

	Am	G	Am
Lie la	lie, lie la	lie la lie la lie, lie la	lie

G	F	C
Lie la lie la la la la, lie	la la la la	lie

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz (1974)

Prep note: decide what you’re going to do

for vox in the chorus (see below).

I play the riff as:

E 0221xx

A/E 0422xx

Asus4/E 0522xx

Then A/E, E

8 measures drums

Are you ready Steve? Uh huh
Andy? Yeah
Mick? OK
Alright fellas, let's go!

Riff x 4

Vox on the 6 (F# if the chord is A)

	A
Well	it’s been getting so hard

	E
Living with the things you do to	me

Riff x 2

	A
My	dreams are getting so strange

	E
I’d like to tell you everything I	see

Riff x 2

I write E, but it’s close to NC

E

Oh I see a man at the back as a matter of fact

His eyes are as red as the sun
And a girl in the corner let no one ignore her 'cause

Hard stop on “she”

She thinks she's the passionate one

E

Oh yeah, it was like

F#	A
Lightning, everybody was	frightening

	C	E
And the music was	soothing and they all started	grooving

These yeah’s are basically on the 1

E

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

There’s basically no chance of me singing this at pitch,

so I either drop an octave, or descend on F# E D# E.

Great if someone else can sing the real melody an octave

down.

	F#	A
And the	man at the back said	everyone attack

	B	E
And it	turned into a ballroom	blitz

	F#	A
And the	girl in the corner said	boy I wanna warn you

	B	E
And it	turned into a ballroom	blitz

D5	D#5	E5
Ball	room	blitz

x4

Riff x 4, first two w/o drums

	A
I’m	reaching out for something

	E
Touching nothing’s all I ever	do

Riff x 2

	A
I	softly call you over

	E
When you appear there’s nothing left of	you

Riff x 2

E

Now the man at the back is ready to crack

As he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is everyone's mourner
She could kill you with a wink of her eye

E	F#	A
Oh yeah, it was	electric, so frightfully	hectic

	C	E
And the band started	leaping ‘cause they all stopped	breathing

E

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

	F#	A
And the	man at the back said	everyone attack

	B	E
And it	turned into a ballroom	blitz

	F#	A
And the	girl in the corner said	boy I wanna warn you

	B	E
And it	turned into a ballroom	blitz

D5	D#5	E5
Ball	room	blitz

Bass breakdown and solo more or less on D D# E

E

Oh yeah

	F#	A
It was like	lightning, everybody was	frightening

	C	E
And the music was	soothing and they all started	grooving

E

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

	F#	A
And the	man at the back said	everyone attack

	B	E
And it	turned into a ballroom	blitz

	F#	A
And the	girl in the corner said	boy I wanna warn you

	B	E
And it	turned into a ballroom	blitz

D5	D#5	E5
Ball	room	blitz

x4

E	D
It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz

E	D
It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz

E	D
It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz

E

Yeah, it’s a ballroom blitz

Repeat riff a few times

Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn (1972)

Originally in Bb (to C), I play in G (to A)

Highest note is the 5 of the second key

First chorus a cappella

G	C	G
Delta Dawn what’s that	flower you have	on?

	G	D
Could it	be a faded rose from days gone	by?

	G	C	G
And	did I hear you say he was a-	meetin’ you here to	day

	D	C	G
To take you to his	mansion in the	sky

Vox on 3 3 5 on “forty-one”

G	F	G
She’s forty-one and her	daddy still calls her	baby

G	F	G
All the folks ‘round	Brownsville say she’s	crazy

Vox on the 3 of the first chord (6 of the key) on “walks downtown”

	C	G/B	Am	D	G
Cause she	walks down	town with a	suitcase	in her	hand

G	F	G
Looking for a my	sterious dark-haired	man

	G	F	G
In her	younger days they	called her Delta	Dawn

G	F	G
Prettiest woman	you ever laid eyes	on

	C	G/B	Am	D	G
Then a	man of	low deg	ree stood	by her	side

	G	F	G
And he	promised her he’d	take her for his	bride

Key change

A	D	A
Delta Dawn what’s that	flower you have	on?

	A	E
Could it	be a faded rose from days gone	by?

	A	D	A
And	did I hear you say he was a-	meetin’ you here to	day

	A	E	D	A
To	take you to his	mansion in the	sky

A cappella

A	D	A
Delta Dawn what’s that	flower you have	on?

	A	E
Could it	be a faded rose from days gone	by?

	A	D	A
And	did I hear you say he was a-	meetin’ you here to	day

	A	E	D	A
To	take you to his	mansion in the	sky

Band back in

A	D	A
Delta Dawn what’s that	flower you have	on?

	A	E
Could it	be a faded rose from days gone	by?

	A	D	A
And	did I hear you say he was a-	meetin’ you here to	day

	A	E	D	A
To	take you to his	mansion in the	sky

Repeat chorus to fade

The Beatles - I Me Mine (1970)

I play the prechorus progression as:

-5-5-5-5---
-6-6-6-6-6-
-7-7-7-7-7-
-x-x-x-5-6-
-5-7-8---7-
-----------

Am	Am/C	D7	D7	G	E7

Am	Am/C	D7
All	through the day

	G	E7	Am
I me mine,	I me	mine, I me mine

Am	Am/C	D7
All	through the night

	G	E7	Am
I me mine	, I me	mine, I me mine

	Dm	Dm/E
Never	frightened of	leaving it

F6	Dm/G
Everyone’s	weaving it

E7b9	E
Coming on strong all the	time

Am	AmM7	Am7	AmM6
All	through the	day

	Fmaj7
I me min	e

A7

I me me mine

A7

I me me mine

D7

I me me mine

A7	E7
I me me mine

Am	Am/C	D7
All	I can	hear

	G	E7	Am
I me mine	, I me	mine, I me mine

Am	Am/C	D7
E	ven those tears

	G	E7	Am
I me mine	, I me	mine, I me mine

	Dm	Dm/E
No one’s	frightened of	playing it

F6	Dm/G
Everyone’s	saying it

E7b9	E
Flowing more freely than	wine

Am	AmM7	Am7	AmM6
All	through the	day

	Fmaj7
I me min	e

A7

I me me mine

A7

I me me mine

D7

I me me mine

A7	E7
I me me mine

Am	Am/C	D7
All	I can	hear

	G	E7	Am
I me mine	, I me	mine, I me mine

Am	Am/C	D7
E	ven those tears

	G	E7	Am
I me mine	, I me	mine, I me mine

	Dm	Dm/E
No one’s	frightened of	playing it

F6	Dm/G
Everyone’s	saying it

E7b9	E
Flowing more freely than	wine

Am	AmM7	Am7	AmM6
All	through the	day

	Fmaj7
I me min	e

The Cars - Just What I Needed (1978)

Originally in E, I play in D

Intro, guitar only, drums hit with guitar on FOUR (not 1, don’t be tricked...)

D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D
D	A
I don’t mind you	coming here

Bm	F#
And wasting all my	time

D	A
‘Cause when you’re standing	oh, so near

Bm	F#
I kind of lose my	mind

D	A
It’s not the perfume	that you wear

Bm	F#
It’s not the ribbons	in your hair

D	A
I don’t mind you	coming here

F#	G
And wasting all my	time

D	A	Bm	F#
D	A	Bm	G

D	A
I don’t mind you	hanging out

Bm	F#
And talking in your	sleep

D	A
It doesn’t matter	where you’ve been

Bm	F#
As long as it was	deep

D	A
You always knew to	wear it well and

Bm	F#
You look so fancy	I can tell

D	A
I don’t mind you	hanging out

F#	G
And talking in your	sleep

D	A	G	Bm	A
	I guess you	’re just what I	need	ed

D	A	G	Bm
	I need	ed someone to	feed

D	A	G	Bm	A
	I guess you	’re just what I	need	ed

D	A	G	Bm
	I need	ed someone to	bleed

Guitar Solo (skip if solo acoustic)

D	A	Bm	F#
D	A	Bm	G
D	A	Bm	F#
D	A	Bm	G

Take it down a notch here..

D	A
I don’t mind you	coming here

Bm	F#
And wasting all my	time, time

D	A
‘Cause when you’re standing	oh, so near

Bm	F#
I kind of lose my	mind

D	A
It’s not the perfume	that you wear

Bm	F#
It’s not the ribbons	in your hair

D	A
I don’t mind you	coming here

F#	G
And wasting all my	time

D	A	G	Bm	A
	I guess you	’re just what I	need	ed

D	A	G	Bm
	I need	ed someone to	feed

D	A	G	Bm	A
	I guess you	’re just what I	need	ed

D	A	G	Bm
	I need	ed someone to	bleed

Guitar Fill

Bm

D	A	G	Bm	A
	I guess you	’re just what I	need	ed

D	A	G	Bm
	I need	ed someone to	feed

D	A	G	Bm	A
	I guess you	’re just what I	need	ed

D	A	G	Bm
	I need	ed someone to	bleed

Bm

So feed me

D	A	Bm	F#
D	A	Bm	G
			You’re just what I needed

D	A	Bm	F#
D	A	Bm	G
			You’re just what I needed

D	A	Bm	F#
D	A	Bm	G
			You’re just what I needed

D	A	Bm	F#
			Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

G

A

Bm

The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running (1973)

Originally in Gm, I play in Em

Em7	Bm7

Em7	Bm7
Down around the corner

	Em7	Bm7
A	half a mile from here

	Em7	Bm7
You	see them old trains runnin’

	Em7
And you	watch them disappear

	Am7	AmM6
Without	love

	Em7	Bm7	Em7
Where would you be	now?

	C7	Em7	B7	Em7
Without	love

Em7	Bm7

	Em7	Bm7
You	know I saw miss Lucy

Em7	Bm7
Down along the tracks

	Em7	Bm7
She	lost her home and family

	Em7
And she	won’t be comin’ back

	Am7	AmM6
Without	love

	Em7	Bm7	Em7
Where would you be	now?

	C7	Em7	B7	Em7
Without	love

Em7	Bm7

Hard stops

	Em7
Well the	Illinois Central

	Em7
And the	Southern Central Freight

	Em7
Gotta	keep on pushin’ mama

	Em7
‘Cause you	know they’re running late

	Am7	AmM6
Without	love

	Em7	Bm7	Em7
Where would you be	now? No no no...

	C7	Em7	B7	Em7
Without	love

Em7	Bm7

Solo over verse and chorus chords if appropriate

Hard stops

	Em7
Well the	Illinois Central

	Em7
And the	Southern Central Freight

	Em7
Gotta	keep on pushin’ mama

	Em7
‘Cause you	know they’re running late

	Am7	AmM6
Without	love

	Em7	Bm7	Em7
Where would you be	now?

	C7	Em7	B7	Em7
Without	love

Em7	Bm7

	Em7
Well the	pistons keep on turnin’

D#m7	Em7
And the	wheels go round’ and round’

D#m7	Em7
And the	steel rails are cold and hard

D#m7	Em7
And the	miles they go down

	Am7	AmM6
Without	love

	Em7	Bm7	Em7
Where would you be	now?

Hanging stops, hold on Cm7

	C7	Em7	B7	Am7
Without	love

Vocals ad lib over intro chords

Em7	Bm7

Got to get it baby won’t you move it down?
Won't you move it down?
Baby baby baby baby won't you move it down?
When the big train run
And the train is movin' on
I got to keep on movin'
Keep on movin'
Keep on movin'
Gonna keep on movin'

The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (1970)

E7

	E7
Ah,	keep your eyes on the road, your hand upon the wheel

Keep your eyes on the road, your hand upon the wheel
Yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse
Gonna have a real good time

E7

Yeah, the back o’ the Roadhouse they got some bungalows
Yeah, the back o' the Roadhouse they got some bungalows
And that's for the people
Who like to go down slow

	A7
Let it	roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll

	B7	C7	B7	E7
Let it	roll,		all night	long

Solo on the I

Do it, Robby, do it
Ah, yeah

	E7
You gotta	roll, roll, roll

You gotta thrill my soul, all right
Roll, roll, roll, roll, thrill my soul
You gotta beep-a-gunk-a-chucha
Honk-konk-konk
You gotta each-you-puna
Each ya bop-a-luba
Each y'all bump-a-kechonk
Ease sum konk
Ya, ride

After a couple more measures of harmonica solo...

Only up to the 5 (B in E) here, not screaming yet

E7

Ashen lady, Ashen lady

Give up your vows, give up your vows

Vox up to the high 4 here, ok to just go up to the 1

Save our city, save our city
A'ight now

Well, I woke up e'in morning, I got myself a beer
Well, I woke up e'in morning, and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain and the end is always near

	A7
Let it	roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll

	B7	Bb7	B7	C7
Let it	roll

C#7	D7	Eb7	E7	E9
All	night		long

The Eagles - Already Gone (1974)

G	D	C	C
			x2

	G	D	C
Well, I	heard some people	talking just the	other day

	G	D	C
And they	said you were gonna	put me on a s	helf

	G	D
Well, let me tell you I’ve	got some news for	you

	C
And you’ll	soon find out it’s true

	G	D	C
And then you’ll	have to eat your l	unch all by yours	elf

	G	D	C
‘Cause I’m	al	ready go	ne, and I’m

G	D	C
Fee	ling s	trong

	G	D	C
I will	si	ing this vict’ry	song

	G	D	C
Woo-hoo-	hoo, my	my, woo-hoo-	hoo

	G	D	C
The	letter that you	wrote me made me	stop and wonder why

	G	D	C
But I	guess you felt like you	had to set things right

G	D	C
Just remember thi	s my girl when you	look up in the sky

	G	D	C
You can	see the stars and st	ill not see the light	, that’s right

	G	D	C
‘Cause I’m	al	ready go	ne, and I’m

G	D	C
Fee	ling s	trong

	G	D	C
I will	si	ing this vict’ry	song

	G	D	C
Woo-hoo-	hoo, my	my, woo-hoo-	hoo

Solo on verse chords

	G	D	C	C7
Well, I	know it wasn’t you	who held me down

	G	D	C	C7
Heaven	knows it wasn’t you	who set me free

	G	D	C
So	oftentimes it ha	ppens that we	live our lives in chains

	G	D	C
That we	never even kno	w we have the key

	G	D	C
Me I’m	al	ready go	ne, and I’m

G	D	C
Fee	ling s	trong

	G	D	C
I will	si	ing this vict’ry	song

	G	D	C
‘Cause I’m	al	ready go	ne

I don’t usually do the key change when I’m singing

Hold the first two chords

	C	G	F
Yes I’m	al	ready g	one, and I’m

C	G	F
Fee	ling	strong

	C	G	F
I will	si	ing this vict’ry	song

Hold all three chords

	C	G	F
‘Cause I’m	al	ready g	one

C

The Eagles - Desperado (1973)

G	G7	C	Cm6
G	Em	A7	D7

	G	G9	C	Cm6
Desper	ado	, why don’t you	come to your se	nses?

	G	Em7	A7	D7
You been	out ridin’ fe	nces for	so long no	w

	G	G9	C	Cm6
Oh, you’re a	hard one	, I know that	you got your reasons

	G/D	B7/D#	Em7
These	things that	are ple	asin’ you

	A7	D7	G	D/F#
Can	hurt you	somehow

	Em	Bm7
Don’t you	draw the queen of	diamonds boy

	C	G	D/F#
She’ll	beat you if she’s	able

	Em7	C	G
You know the	queen of hearts is	always your best	bet

	Em	Bm7
Now it	seems to me some	fine things have been

C	G	D/F#
Laid upon your	table

	Em	A7	Am7	D7
But you	only want the	ones you can’t	get

	G	G9	C
Desper	ado	, oh you ain’t	gettin’ no younger

	G	D/F#	Em7	A7	D7
Your	pain	and your hu	nger, they’re	drivin’ you	home

	G	G9	C
And	freedom	, well, that’s just	some people talkin’

	G	D/F#	Em7
Your	prison	is wa	lkin’ through

	A7	D7	G	D/F#
This	world all	alone

D	Em	Bm7
Don’t your	feet get cold in the	winter time?

	C	G	D/F#
The	sky won’t snow and the	sun won’t shine

	Em7	C	G
It’s	hard to tell the	night time from the	day

	Em	Bm7
You’re	losin’ all your	highs and lows

	C	G	Am7	D7
Ain’t it	funny how the	feelin’ goes a	way

	G	G9	C	Cm6
Desper	ado	, why don’t you	come to your se	nses

	G	D/F#	Em	A7	D7
Come	down from	your fe	nces	, open the	gate

	G	G9	C	Cm6
It may be	rainin’	, but there’s a	rainbow abov	e you

	G	D/F#	Em	C	G/B	Am7
You better	let some	body	love you

	G	B7/D#	Em
You better	let some	body	love you

	Am7	G
Be	fore it’s too	late

G

G7

C

Cm6

G

The Eagles - Heartache Tonight (1979)

Originally in G, I play in D

Play second chord in intro riff on the 3rd fret

Play I7 in chorus as power with 6th’s

F	C	C	G	D

Vox enter on the 6 (E in G, B in D)

D	Bm
Somebody’s gonna	hurt someone

D	Bm
Before the night is	through

D	G
Somebody’s gonna	come undone

D	A
There’s nothing we can	do

D	Bm
Everybody wants to	touch somebody

D	Bm
If it takes all	night

D	G
Everybody wants to	take a little chance

D	A
Make it come out	right

On “heart”, vox on the 7 of this chord (F if this is G7)

	G7
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	D
A heartache tonight I	know

	G7
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	E7
A heartache tonight I	know

	A7
Lord I	know

D	Bm
Some people like to	stay out late

D	Bm
Some folks can’t hold out that	long

	D	G
But	nobody wants to	go home now

D	A
There’s too much going on

D	Bm
This night is gonna	last forever

D	Bm
Last all, last all summer	long

D	G
Some time before the	sun comes up

D	A
The radio is gonna	play that song

	G7
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	D
A heartache tonight I	know

	G7
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	E7
A heartache tonight I	know

	A7
Lord I	know

	D
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	D7
The	moon’s shining bright

	G7	G#dim
So	turn out the light and	we’ll get it right

	D
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	A7	D
A	heartache tonight I	know

F	C	C	G	D
				x4

D	Bm
Somebody’s gonna	hurt someone

D	Bm
Before the night is	through

D	G
Somebody’s gonna	come undone

D	A
There’s nothing we can	do

D	Bm
Everybody wants to	touch somebody

D	Bm
If it takes all	night

D	G
Everybody wants to	take a little chance

D	A
Make it come out	right

	G7
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	D
A heartache tonight I	know

	G7
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	E7
A heartache tonight I	know

	A7
Lord, I	know

	D
We can	beat around the bushes

	D7
We can	get down to the bone

	G7	G#dim
We can	leave it in a parking lot but	either way

	D
There’s gonna be a	heartache tonight

	A7	D	G
A	heartache tonight I	know

	D
There’ll be a	heartache tonight

	A7	D
A	heartache tonight I	know

F	C	C	G	D
				x4

The Eagles - Hotel California (1977)

Originally in Bm, I play in Am

Am	E
On a dark desert highway,	cool wind in my hair

G	D
Warm smell of colitas,	rising up through the air

F	C
Up ahead in the distance,	I saw a shimmering light

Dm

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim

E

I had to stop for the night

Am	E
There she stood in the doorway,	I heard the mission bell

G

And I was thinking to myself

	D
This could be	heaven or this could be hell

F	C
Then she lit up a candle	and she showed me the way

Dm

There were voices down the corridor

E

I thought I heard them say

F	C
Welcome to the Hotel Cali	fornia

	Dm
Such a	lovely place

	Am
Such a	lovely face

F	C
Plenty of room at the Hotel Cali	fornia

	Dm	E
Any	time of year, you can	find it here

Am	E
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted,	she got the Mercedes bends

G	D
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys,	that she calls friends

F	C
How they dance in the courtyard,	sweet summer sweat

Dm	E
Some dance to remember,	some dance to forget

Am

So I called up the captain

E

Please bring me my wine

	G	D
He said,	we haven’t had that spirit here since	nineteen sixty-nine

F	C
And still those voices are calling from	far away

Dm

Wake you up in the middle of the night

E

Just to hear them say

F	C
Welcome to the Hotel Cali	fornia

	Dm
Such a	lovely place

	Am
Such a	lovely face

	F	C
We’re	livin’ it up at the Hotel Cali	fornia

	Dm	E
What a	nice surprise, bring your ali	bis

Let ring

Am

Mirrors on the ceiling

E

Pink champagne on ice

	G	D
And she said	we are all just prisoners here,	of our own device

F

And in the master’s chambers

	C
They are	gathered for the feast

Dm

They stab it with their steely knives

	E
But they	just can’t kill the beast

Back to tempo

Am

Last thing I remember

	E
I was	running for the door

G

I had to find the passage back

	D
To the	place I was before

F

Relax, said the night man

	C
We are	programmed to receive

Dm

You can check out any time you like

	E
But	you can never leave

Am

The Eagles - Lyin’ Eyes (1975)

G	Gmaj7	C
Am	D	G

G	Gmaj7	C
City girls just	seem to find out	early

Am7	D
How to open doors with just a	smile

	G	Gmaj7	C
A	rich old man, and	she wont’ have to	worry

	Am	C	G
She’ll	dress up all in	lace and go in	style

G	Gmaj7	C
Late at night a b	ig old house gets lonely

	Am7	D
I guess	every form of refuge has its pr	ice

	G	Gmaj7	C
And it b	reaks her heart to	think her love is o	nly

	Am	C	G	C	D
Given	to a man with ha	nds as cold as	ice

	D	G	Gmaj7	C
So	she te	lls him she must	go out for the even	ing

	Am7	D
To c	omfort an old friend who’s feelin’ do	wn

	G	Gmaj7	C
But	he knows where she’s go	in’ as she’s leav	in’

	Am	C	G	C	G
She is	headed for the c	heatin’ side of town

	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
You can’t	hid	e your lyin’ ey	es

	Em	Bm7	Am7	D
And your	smil	e is a thin dis	guise

	G	G7	C	A
I thought by	no	w you’d real	ize

	Am	D7	G
There	ain’t no way to	hide your lyin’	eyes

G	Gmaj7	C
Am	D	G

	G	Gmaj7	C
On the	other side of t	own a boy is wait	ing

	Am7	D
With f	iery eyes and dreams no one could steal

	G	Gmaj7	C
She dr	ives on through the n	ight anticipati	ng

	Am	C	G	C	D
‘Cause he m	akes her feel the wa	y she used to feel

	G	Gmaj7	C
She rus	hes to his a	rms they fall togeth	er

	Am7	D
S	he whispers that it’s only for a wh	ile

	G	Gmaj7	C
She	swears that soon she’ll be	coming back forev	er

	Am	C	G	C	G
She pu	lls away and le	aves him with a smile

	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
You can’t	hid	e your lyin’ ey	es

	Em	Bm7	Am7	D
And your	smil	e is a thin dis	guise

	G	G7	C	A
I thought by	no	w you’d real	ize

	Am	D7	G
There	ain’t no way to	hide your lyin’	eyes

G	Gmaj7	C
Am	D	G

G	Gmaj7	C
She gets up and	pours herself a s	trong one

	Am7	D
And	stares out at the stars up in the s	ky

	G	Gmaj7	C
Ano	ther night, it’s g	onna be a	long one

	Am	C	G
She	draws the shade and hang	s her head to cr	y

	G	Gmaj7	C
She	wonders how it e	ver got this cr	azy

	Am7	D
She th	inks about a boy she knew in sch	ool

	G	Gmaj7	C
Did sh	e get tired or d	id she just get laz	y

	Am	C	G	C	D
She’s	so far gone she fee	ls just like a foo	l

G	Gmaj7	C
My, oh my, you su	re know how to arrange th	ings

	Am	D
You	set it up so well, so careful	ly

	G	Gmaj7	C
Ain’t it fu	nny how your ne	w life didn’t chan	ge things?

	Am	C	G	C	G
You’re st	ill the same old g	irl you used to be

	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
You can’t	hid	e your lyin’ ey	es

	Em	Bm7	Am7	D
And your	smil	e is a thin dis	guise

	G	G7	C	A
I thought by	no	w you’d real	ize

	Am	D7	G
There	ain’t no way to	hide your lyin’	eyes

	Am	D7	G
There	ain’t no way to	hide your lyin’	eyes

Am	D7	G
Honey you can’t	hide your lyin’	eyes

G	Gmaj7	C
Am	D	G

The Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling (1972)

I think the intro to this song is more of a mystery than it’s

given credit for... I just muck around on open strings for a bit.

E	Esus4
	x2

E	A	E	A
I like the	way your sparkling	earrings	lay

E	A	Bsus4	B
Against your	skin so	brown

E	A	E	A
And I want to	sleep with you in the	desert to	night

E	A	Bsus4	B
With a billion	stars all a	round

	A	E
‘Cause I got a	peaceful, easy	feeling

A	F#m	B
And I know you won’t let me	down

	E	F#m	A	B	E
‘Cause I’m	a	lready	standing	on the	ground

E	Esus4
	x2

E	A	E	A
And I found	out a long	time a	go

E	A	Bsus4	B
What a woman can	do to your	soul

E	A	E	A
Aw, but	she can’t take you	any	way

E	A	Bsus4	B
You don’t already	know how to	go

	A	E
And I got a	peaceful, easy	feeling

Different chords from previous chorus

A	Bsus4	B
And I know you won’t let me	down

	E	F#m	A	B	E
‘Cause I’m	a	lready	standing	on the	ground

E	Esus4

Solo if appropriate

E	A	E	A	B
				x2

A	E	A	B
E	F#m	A	B

E	A	E	A
I get this	feeling I may	know	you

E	A	Bsus4	B
As a l	over and a	friend

E	A	E	A
But this voice keeps	whispering i	n my other	ear

	E	A	Bsus4	B
Tells me	I may never	see you	again

	A	E
‘Cause I get a	peaceful, easy	feeling

A	Bsus4	B
And I know you won’t let me	down

	E	F#m	A	B
‘Cause I’m	a	lready	standing

	E	F#m	A	B
I’m	a	lready	standing

	E	F#m	A	B	E
Yes, I’m	a	lready	standing	on the	ground

E	F#m	A	B
			Ooooh...

E	F#m	A	B
			Whoa...

E	F#m	A	B
			Ooooh...

E	F#m	A	B
			Ooooh...

E

The Eagles - Take It Easy (1972)

G	C	Am7/G
		x2

G

	G
Well I’m a	runnin’ down the road tryin’ to loosen my load

	D	C
I’ve got seven women	on my	mind

G	D
Four that wanna own me,	two that wanna stone me

	C	G
O	ne says she’s a friend of	mine

	Em	C	G
Take it	easy, take it	ea	sy

	Am
Don’t let the	sound of your own

C	Em
Wheels drive you	crazy

	C	G
Lighten	up while you still c	an

	C	G
Don’t even	try to under	stand

	Am
Just find a	place to make your

C	G
Stand and take it e	asy

G

	G
Well I’m a	standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona

	D	C
Such a fine	sight to	see

	G	D
It’s a	girl my lord in a	flatbed Ford

	C	G
Slowin’	down to take a look at	me

	Em	D	C	G
Come on	ba	by, don’t say	may	be

	Am
I gotta	know if your sweet

	C	Em
L	ove is gonna	save me

	C	G
We may	lose and we may	win

	C	G
Though we will	never be here a	gain

	Am	C	G
So open	up, I’m climbin’	in, so take it e	asy

Solo if appropriate

G	G	G	D	C
		→

G	D	C	G
Em	D	C	G
Am	Am	Em	D

	G
Well I’m a	runnin’ down the road tryin’ to loosen my load

	D	C
Got a world of trouble	on my	mind

G	D
Lookin’ for a lover who	won’t blow my cover

	C	G
She’s	so hard to	find

	Em	C	G
Take it	easy, take it	ea	sy

	Am
Don’t let the	sound of your own

C	Em
Wheels make you	crazy

	C	G	C	G
Come on	ba	by, don’t say	may	be

	Am
I gotta	know if your sweet

C	G
Love is gonna	save me

C	G
Oooh...	Oooh...

x3

	G	G9	C
Oh, we got it	ea		sy

	G	G9	C
We oughta take it	ea		sy

Em

The Eagles - Take It To The Limit (1975)

Originally in B, I play in G, or in E if I’m not feeling it

Highest note is the 1 (“take *it*”)

G	C	G	D	C

	G	C
All	alone at the end of the	evening

	G	C
And the	bright lights have faded to	blue

	G	B7	Em
I was	thinking ‘bout a	woman who might have	loved me

	D	D/C	G/B
But I never	knew

	D/A	G	C
You know I’ve	always been a	dreamer (spent my life	runnin’ round)

	C	G	C
And it’s	so hard to	change (can’t seem to	settle down)

	C	Am	C
But the	dreams I’ve seen	lately	keep on turnin’ out

	C/D	D	C/D	D
And	burnin’ out and	turnin’ out the	sa	me

	C	G	C	G
So	put me on a	highway and	show me a	sign

	C	D	G
And	take it to the	limit one more	time

G	C	G	D	C

	G	C
You can	spend all your time making m	oney

	G	C
Or you can	spend all your love making	time

	G	B7	Em
If it	all fell to	pieces tom	orrow

	D	D/C	G/B
Would you still be	mine?

	D/A	G	C
And when you’re	looking for your	freedom (nobody	seems to care)

	C	G	C
And you	can’t find the	door (can’t find it	anywhere)

	C	Am	C
When there’s	nothing to be	lieve in	still you’re coming back

	C/D	D	C/D	D
You’re	running back, you’re	coming back for	mo	re

	C	G	C	G
So	put me on a	highway and	show me a	sign

	C	D	Em
And	take it to the	limit one more	time

Repeat to fade

C	D	C	D
Take it to the	limit,	take it to the	limit

C	D	G
Take it, to the	limit one more	time

The Police - Message in a Bottle (1979)

Originally in C#m, I play it in Em, capo 3, so Gm

A couple different voicings I use for the main riff:

-2-0-0-5---
-0-3-2-5---
-0-0-3-2---
-2-2-0-2---
-2-3---0---
-0---------

-----0-0---
---3-2-0---
---0-3-4---
-4-2-0-2---
-2-3---0---
-0---------

Usually the first set of voicings for the instrumental

riffs, the second behind lyrics.

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
			x2

Vox enter on 2 7 (“just a”) of the key (F# D in Em)

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Just	a c	asta	way

	Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
On an	island	lost at	sea

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Ano	ther lo	nely	day

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
With no	one here	but	me

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Mor	e l	onelin	ess

	Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
	Than	any man c	ould	bear

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Res	cue m	e be	fore

	Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
I	fall i	nto de	spair

Vox to the root of the key

C	F	G	C
I’ll send an	SO	S to the world

	C	F	G	Am
I’ll	send an	SO	S to the world

Vox stay on the same note, now the 3 of the minor chord

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Vox down to 5 1 of the chord on “message”

	Em	Cadd9	Em	Cadd9
M	essage in a b	ottle

	Em	Cadd9	Am7
M	essage in a b	ottle

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
			x2

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
	A	year has	passed since I

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Wrote my	note

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
But	I should have	known this	right from the

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Start

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
O	nly	hope can	keep me

	Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
To	gethe	r

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
	Love can m	end your	life

	Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
B	ut love c	an break yo	ur	heart

C	F	G	C
I’ll send an	SO	S to the world

	C	F	G	Am
I’ll	send an	SO	S to the world

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

	Em	Cadd9	Em	Cadd9
M	essage in a b	ottle

	Em	Cadd9	Am7
M	essage in a b	ottle

Am7

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Wa	lked out this	morn	ing

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Don’t beli	eve what I	saw

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
A h	undred	billion	bottles

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Washed up	on the s	hore

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
See	ms I’m not al	one at	being alone

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
	Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
A h	undred	billion c	asta	ways

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
Looking	for a	home

C	F	G	C
I’ll send an	SO	S to the world

	C	F	G	Am
I’ll	send an	SO	S to the world

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

Am	F
I hope that s	omeone gets my

	Em	Cadd9	Em	Cadd9
M	essage in a b	ottle

	Em	Cadd9	Em	Cadd9
M	essage in a b	ottle

	Em	Cadd9	Em	Cadd9
M	essage in a b	ottle

	Em	Cadd9	Am7
M	essage in a b	ottle

Em9	Cadd9	Dsus2	Asus2
			x2

Em9	C	Dsus2	Asus2
Sending	out an	S	OS

Repeat to end

The Police - Roxanne (1978)

Originally in Gm, I play in Am capo 3, so Cm

In the chorus, I just say “put on the red light”

Am	Am
Am	G	Fmaj7	Em7
Fmaj7	G	Amsus4

	Am	G
Rox	anne	you don’t have to

Fmaj7	Em7
Put on the red light

Fmaj7	G
Those days are over

	Amsus4
You don’t have to sell your	body to the night

	Am	G
R	oxanne	you don’t have to

Fmaj7	Em7
Wear that dress tonight

Fmaj7	G
Walk the streets for money

	Amsus4
You don’t care	if it’s wrong or if it’s right

	Fmaj7	G	Amsus4
Rox	anne	you don’t have to	put on the red light

	Fmaj7	G	Amsus4
Rox	anne	you don’t have to	put on the red light

Em7	C
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

F	G
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

G	Am
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

Em7	C
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

F	G
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

G	Am
Rox

Interlude

Am

	Am	G
I	loved you since I knew you

	Fmaj7	Em7
I	wouldn’t talk down to you

	Fmaj7	G
I	have you to tell just	how I feel

	Amsus4
I won’t share	you with another boy

	Am	G
I	know my mind is made up

	Fmaj7	Em7
So put	away your make up

Fmaj7	G
Told you once I won’t	tell you again

	Amsus4
It’s a	bad way

	Fmaj7	G	Amsus4
Rox	anne	you don’t have to	put on the red light

	Fmaj7	G	Amsus4
Rox	anne	you don’t have to	put on the red light

Em7	C
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

F	G
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

G	Am
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

Em7	C
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

F	G
Roxa	nne (Put on the red light)

G	Am
Rox

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp (1975)

Originally in A, I play in E.

Everything works except the “step to the right”,

which is a G#, so I drop an octave.

Intro, straight 8ths

E

	E
(Riff Raff) It’s as	tounding

	F#
Time is f	leeting

D	A	E
Madness	takes its t	oll

(Magenta) Ahh...

Low octave, almost spoken

	E
(Riff Raff) But listen	closely

	F#
(Magenta) Not for very much l	onger

	D	A	E
(Riff Raff) I	’ve got to	keep cont	rol

Up to the high octave on the I

	E	F#
I re	member doing the Time	Warp

D	A	E
Drinking	those moments w	hen

	E
The blackness would	hit me

	F#
(Riff Raff & Magenta) And the void would be	calling

Vox up to the 3 of the chord on “let’s”

	C	G	D	A	E
(Guests) L	et’s	do the	Time W	arp aga	in

Hard stop after this line

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

Out rubato, come back in on “left”

	B
(Narrator) It’s just a jump to the lef	t

Hard stop after this line, but stay in time

Either drop an octave, or work around E

	E
(Guests) And then a step to the r	i-i-i-i-ight

	B
(Narrator) With your hand on your hip	s

	E
(Guests) You bring your knees in t	ight

	A
But it’s the pelvic t	hrust

	E
They really drive you in	sa-a-a-a-a-ne

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

	E
(Magenta) It’s so d	reamy

	F#
Oh, fantasy	free me

	D	A
So you can’t	see me

	E
No not at a	ll

	E
In another di	mension

	F#
With voyeuristic int	ention

	D	A	E
Well secl	uded	I see	all

	E
(Riff Raff)	With a bit of a mind flip

	F#
(Magenta) You’re into a time	slip

	D	A	E
(Riff Raff) And	nothing	can ever be the s	ame

	E
(Magenta) You’re spaced out on sensa	tion

Up to the high octave

	F#
(Riff Raff) Like you’re under sed	ation

	C	G	D	A	E
(Guests)	Let’s	do the T	ime	Warp a	gain

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

	E
(Columbia) Well, I was w	alking down the street

	E
Just a-	having a think

	E	E
When a	snake of a guy gave me an	evil wink

	A	A
He s	hook me up, he took me	by surprise

	E	E
He had a	pick-up truck and the	devil’s eyes

	B	A
He s	tared at me, and I f	elt a change

E	E
Time meant nothing,	never would again

	C	G	D	A	E
(Guests) L	et’s	do the T	ime	Warp ag	ain

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp aga	in

	B
(Narrator) It’s just a jump to the lef	t

	E
(Guests) And then a step to the ri	-i-i-i-ight

	B
(Narrator) With your hands on your hip	s

	E
(Guests) You bring you knees in t	ight

	A
But it’s the pelvic t	hrust

	E
That really drives you in	sa-a-a-a-a-ne

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

C	G	D	A	E
Let’s	do the T	ime W	arp a	gain

Tapdancing breakdown on verse chords, hits only on chord changes

E	F#	D	A	E
E	F#

(Columbia) Ah! Oh! Oh! Yeoooww

	C	G	D	A	E
(Guests) L	et’s d	o the T	ime W	arp a	gain

	C	G	D	A	E
L	et’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

	B
(Narrator) It’s just a jump to the lef	t

	E
(Guests) And then a step to the ri	-i-i-i-ight

	B
(Narrator) With your hands on your hip	s

	E
(Guests) You bring you knees in t	ight

	A
But it’s the pelvic t	hrust

	E
That really drives you in	sa-a-a-a-a-ne

	C	G	D	A	E
(Guests) L	et’s d	o the T	ime W	arp a	gain

	C	G	D	A	E
L	et’s	do the T	ime W	arp ag	ain

The Who - Behind Blue Eyes (1971)

Em	G	D
No one knows what it’s	like, to be the	bad man

	Cadd9	Asus2
To be the	sad man, behin	d blue eyes

Em	G	D
No one knows what it’s	like to be	hated

	Cadd9	Asus2
To be	fated, to telling on	ly lies

	C	D	G	C/G	G
But my	dre	ams, they aren’t as	empty

	C	D	E	Asus2	E
As my	conscience	seems to	be

	Bm	C
I have	hours, only l	onely

	D	Asus2
My love is	vengeance that’s never	free

Em	G	D
No one knows what it’s	like to feel these	feelings

	Cadd9	Asus2
Like I	do, and I blame	you

Em	G	D
No one bites back as	hard on their	anger

	Cadd9	Asus2
None of my	pain and woe, can show	through

	C	D	G	C/G	G
But my	dre	ams, they aren’t as	empty

	C	D	E	Asus2	E
As my	conscience	seems to	be

	Bm	C
I have	hours, only l	onely

	D	Asus2
My love is	vengeance that’s never	free

E	Bm	A	E	Bm	A
E	Bm	A	E
When my fist	clenches	crack it open

	Bm	G	D
Before I	use it and	lose my	cool

	Bm	A	D
When I s	mile t	ell me some b	ad news

	Bm	A	E	Bm	A
Before I la	ugh and a	ct like a f	ool

E	Bm	A	E
And if I sw	allow any	thing ev	il

	Bm	G	D
Stick your fi	nger do	wn my th	roat

	Bm	A	D
And if I sh	iver please gi	ve me a bla	nket

	Bm	A	E
Keep me w	arm let me we	ar your c	oat

E	Bm	A	E	Bm	A
B	A	G	D
B	A	G	D
B	A	G	D
B

Em	G	D
No one knows what it’s	like, to be the	bad man

	Cadd9	Asus2
To be the	sad man, behin	d blue eyes

Van Morrison - Moondance (1970)

Originally in Am, I play in Gm

Highest note is the 1 on “Can” and “have” in the chorus

Bbmaj7 played as 6x776x

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
			x2

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Well it’s a ma	rvelous nig	ht for a mo	ondance	with the

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Stars up abo	ve in your ey	es

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
A fan	tabulous nigh	t to make r	omance	‘neath the

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Color of O	ctober s	kies

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
All the l	eaves on the tree	s are fal	ling	to the

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Sound of the bre	ezes that bl	ow

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
And I’m	trying to plea	se to the c	alling	of your

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Heartstrings that pla	y soft and lo	w

Vox up to the 3 of the chord on “night”

	Cm7	Gm7
You know the	night’s m	agic seems to

Cm7	Gm7
Whisper and	hush

	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
You know the	soft m	oonlight seems to shine

	D7#9
In your blush

Vox on 1 7 on “Can I”

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Can I	just hav	e one mo	re moondanc	e with

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	D7#9
Yo	u	my l	ove

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Can I	just ma	ke some m	ore roma	nce with

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	D7#9
You		my	love

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Well I	want to make lov	e to you	tonight

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
I can’	t wait ‘til t	he morning has co	me

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
And I k	now now the tim	e is just	right	and straight

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
In	to my arm	s you will r	un

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
When you	come my he	art will be w	aiting	to make

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Sure that you’re n	ever alon	e

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
There and	then all my d	reams will c	ome true d	ear

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
There and	then I will m	ake you my ow	n

And every time...

Cm7	Gm7
I	touch you, you just

Cm7	Gm7
Tremble insid	e

	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Then I know	how	much you want me that

	D7#9
You can’t hide

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Can I	just hav	e one mo	re moondanc	e with

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	D7#9
Yo	u	my l	ove

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Can I	just ma	ke some m	ore roma	nce with

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	D7#9
You		my	love

Solo on intro/verse/chorus

Vox are all shifted in rhythm here; I did not try to re-align the chords

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Well it’s a ma	rvelous nig	ht for a mo	ondance	with the

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Stars up abo	ve in your ey	es

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
A fan	tabulous nigh	t to make r	omance	‘neath the

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Color of O	ctober s	kies

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
All the l	eaves on the tree	s are fal	ling	to the

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Sound of the bre	ezes that bl	ow

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
And I’m	trying to plea	se to the c	alling	of your

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Heartstrings that pla	y soft and lo	w

	Cm7	Gm7
You know the	night’s m	agic seems to

Cm7	Gm7
Whisper and	hush

	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
You know the	soft m	oonlight seems to shine

	D7#9
In your blush

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Can I	just hav	e one mo	re moondanc	e with

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	D7#9
Yo	u	my l	ove

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	Cm7
Can I	just ma	ke some m	ore roma	nce with

	Gm7	Cm7	Gm7	D7#9
You		my	love

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
One more moon	dance	with yo	u

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
In the	moonlight			on a

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
Magic	night

Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
La la la	la la la

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
In the	moonlight

	Gm7	Am7	A#maj7	Am7
On a	magic	night

	A#maj7	F	D#	Dm	Cm7
Can	I just	have one	more moon	dance with	you

	A#maj7
My love

Ben E. King - Stand by Me (cover)

Originally in A, I play in C capo 4.

Highest note is the 1 (darlin’, DARlin’)

Start with single notes or octaves

Cadd9	Am7	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9

Vox in on the 6 on “night”

	Cadd9
When the	night has come

Am7

And the land is dark

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
And the mo	on is the on	ly light we’ll see

	Cadd9
No, I	won’t be afraid

	Am7
No, I	won’t be afraid

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
Just as lo	ng as you stand	, stand by me

Start to fade the chords in

	Cadd9
So, darling, darling,	stand by me

	Am7
Oh,	stand by me

	Fmaj7	G
Oh,	stand,	stand by me

Cadd9

Stand by me

	Cadd9
If the	sky that we look upon

Am7

Should tumble and fall

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
Or the mo	untain should	crumble to the	sea

	Cadd9
I won’t	cry, I won’t cry

	Am7
No, I	won’t shed a tear

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
Just as lo	ng as you stand	, stand by me

	Cadd9
So, darling, darling,	stand by me

	Am7
Oh,	stand by me

	Fmaj7	G
Oh,	stand,	stand by me

Cadd9

Stand by me

	Cadd9
Whenever you’re in trouble won’t you	stand by me

	Am7
Oh,	stand by me

	Fmaj7	G
Oh,	stand,	stand by me

Cadd9

Stand by me

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (cover)

Originally in D, I play A capo 3

I play about halfway between the CCR and Turner tempos

G	E	G	E	G	E	D	C	C	A

A

Left a good job in the city

Workin’ for the man ev’ry night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been

E

Big wheel keep on turnin’

F#m

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

A

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

Pumped a lot of ‘tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of a city
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen

E

Big wheel keep on turnin’

F#m

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

A

Rollin’, rollin’, (rollin’), rollin’ on the river

G	E	G	E	G	E	D	C	C	A

A

Solo on one verse and chorus, with the last line sung

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

G	E	G	E	G	E	D	C	C	A

A

If you come down to the river

Bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to worry 'cause you have no money
People on the river are happy to give

E

Big wheel keep on turnin’

F#m

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

A

Rollin’, (whoa), rollin’, rollin’ on the river

A

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

The Beatles - Come Together (cover)

I play the opening riff as (D in octave, C in octaves, Dm7 chord)

Can make these m7’s 7#9’s

Dm7

Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly

Dm7

He got joo-joo eyeball, he one holy roller

	A
He got	hair down to his knee

G7

Got to be a joker, he just do what he please

Play riff

Dm7

He wear no shoe shine, he got toe jam football

Dm7

He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola

	A
He say,	I know you, you know me

G7

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

	Bm	A	G	A	Dm7
Come	together,	right	now	, over me

Play riff

Dm7

He bag production, he got walrus gumboot

Dm7

He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker

	A
He got	feet down below his knee

G7

Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease

	Bm	A	G	A	Dm7
Come	together,	right	now	, over me

Play riff

Dm7

He roller coaster, he got early warning

Dm7

He got muddy water, he one mojo filter

	A
He say,	one and one and one is three

G7

Got to be good looking ‘cause he’s so hard to see

	Bm	A	G	A	Dm7
Come	together,	right	now	, over me

The Box Tops - The Letter (cover)

After some muted percussion...

D|-------2-0-----|
A|-----2-----3-2-|
E|-0-3-----------|

Am	F
Give me a ticket for an	aeroplane

G	D
Ain’t got time to take a	fast train

Am	F	Am	F
Lonely days are	gone,	I’m a-comin’	home

	E	Am
Cause my	baby just wrote me a letter

Am	F
I don’t care how much money I	gotta spend

G	D
Got to get back to my	baby once again

Am	F	Am	F
Lonely days are	gone,	I’m a-comin’	home

	E	Am
Cause my	baby just wrote me a letter

	C	G
Well she	wrote me a	letter

	F	C	G
Said she	couldn’t	live without	me no more

C	G
Listen mister	can’t you see

	F	C	G
I	got to get	back to my ba	by once more

E

Anyway

Am	F
Give me a ticket for an	aeroplane

G	D
Ain’t got time to take a	fast train

Am	F	Am	F
Lonely days are	gone,	I’m a-comin’	home

	E	Am
Cause my	baby just wrote me a letter

	C	G
Well she	wrote me a	letter

	F	C	G
Said she	couldn’t	live without	me no more

C	G
Listen mister	can’t you see

	F	C	G
I	got to get	back to my ba	by once more

E

Anyway

Am	F
Give me a ticket for an	aeroplane

G	D
Ain’t got time to take a	fast train

Am	F	Am	F
Lonely days are	gone,	I’m a-comin’	home

	E	Am
Cause my	baby just wrote me a letter

	E	Am
Yeah my	baby just wrote me a letter

	E	Am
Yeah my	baby just wrote me a letter

Original does a solo over the verse chords, then another chorus

I repeat intro riff into a im

The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love (cover)

Originally in A, I play in G capo 2 (still in A)

With two guitars, it’s cool to have one playing in G capo 2

A and one playing in D capo 7.

Intro, chords change on the downbeats

G	G	A#	C	G	G	G	G
							x 2

C	G	C	G
Bye bye	love,	bye bye	happiness

C	G
Hello	loneliness

	G	D	G
I	think I’m a-	gonna	cry-y

C	G	C	G
Bye bye	love,	bye bye	sweet caress

C	G
Hello	emptiness

	G	D	G
I	feel like	I could	di-ie

	G	D	G
Bye	bye, my	love, good	by-ye

	D7	G
There goes my	baby with-a someone	new

	D7	G
She sure looks	happy, I sure am	blue

	C	D
She was my	baby ‘til he stepped	in

	G	G7
Goodbye to romance that might have	been

C	G	C	G
Bye bye	love,	bye bye	happiness

C	G
Hello	loneliness

	G	D	G
I	think I’m a-	gonna	cry-y

C	G	C	G
Bye bye	love,	bye bye	sweet caress

C	G
Hello,	emptiness

	G	D	G
I	feel like	I could	di-ie

	G	D	G
Bye	bye, my	love, good	by-ye

	D7	G
I’m a-through with	romance, I’m a-through with	love

	D7	G
I’m through with-a	countin’ the stars a	bove

	C	D
And here’s the	reason that I’m so	free

	G	G7
My lovin’ baby is a-through with	me

C	G	C	G
Bye bye	love,	bye bye	happiness

C	G
Hello	loneliness

	G	D	G
I	think I’m a-	gonna	cry-y

C	G	C	G
Bye bye	love,	bye bye	sweet caress

C	G
Hello,	emptiness

	G	D	G
I	feel like	I could	di-ie

	G	D	G
Bye	bye, my	love, good	by-ye

	G	D	G
Bye	bye, my	love, good	by-ye

	G	D	G
Bye	bye, my	love, good	by-ye

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