Abba - Dancing Queen (1976)

Originally in A, with a huge range; I play in G, but sing the chorus

down an octave.

G	C/G	G	C/G
G	C/G	G	D/G	C/G	G
			Ooh →

Vox on the 6 of the chord on “you”

D	B7
You can dance, y	ou can jive

Em	A/C#
Having the time of your	life

	C	Am7
Ooh ooh ooh,	see that girl,	watch that scene

D7	G	C/G
Digging the d	ancing queen

G	C/G
→

G	C/G
→

G	C/G
Friday night and the lights are low

G	Em
Looking out for a place to go

D	G/D
Where they play the right music

D

Getting in the swing

	D	D	Em	Em	D	Em
You	come to l	ook f	or a k	ing	→

G	C/G
Anybody could be that guy

G	Em
Night is young and the music’s h	igh

D	G/D
With a bit of rock music

D

Everything is fine

	D	Em	Em	D	Em
You’re in the mo	od f	or a d	ance

	Am7	D7
And when you	get the chance

	G	C/G	G	C/G
You are the	dancing queen,	young and sweet, only	seventeen

G	C/G	G	D	C/E	G
Dancing queen,	feel the beat from the	tambourine, o	h y	eah

D	B7
You can dance, y	ou can jive

Em	A/C#
Having the time of your	life

	C	Am7
Ooh ooh ooh,	see that girl,	watch that scene

D7	G	C/G
Digging the d	ancing queen

Not a typo, there is an extra measure here that isn’t here in the first chorus

G	C/G

G	C/G
→

G	C/G
→

G	C/G
You’re a teaser, you turn ‘em on

G	Em
Leave them burning and then you’re	gone

D	G/D
Looking out for another

D

Anyone will do

	D	Em	Em	D	Em
You’re in the mo	od f	or a d	ance	→

	Am7	D7
And when you	get the chance

	G	C/G	G	C/G
You are the	dancing queen,	young and sweet, only	seventeen

G	C/G	G	D	C/E	G
Dancing queen,	feel the beat from the	tambourine, o	h y	eah

D	B7
You can dance, y	ou can jive

Em	A/C#
Having the time of your	life

	C	Am7
Ooh ooh ooh,	see that girl,	watch that scene

D7	G	C/G	G	C/G
Digging the d	ancing queen

G	C/G	D7/A	G	C/G	G	C/G
		Digging the d	ancing queen

G

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

AC DC - Highway to Hell (1979)

Originally between Ab and A, I play in A capo 2

Intro

A

D/F#

G

D/F#

G

D/F#

G

D/F#

A

x2

“Livin’ easy” is roughly b7 1 b3 b3

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Livin’ ea	sy,		livin’ free

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	A	A
	Seaso	n tic	ket on	a	one way ride

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Askin’ no	thin’	,	leave me be

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	A	A
Ta	kin’	eve	rythin	’	in my stride

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Don’t need rea	son,		don’t need rhym	e

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	A	A
A	in’t	not	hin’ I’d	ra	ther do

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Goin’ do	wn,		party time

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	E
	My f	riends	are gonna	be there too

	A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
I’m on the	high	way	to	hell

	A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
On the	high	way	to	hell

A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
High	way	to	hell,	I’m	on the

A	A	A	D/A
High	way	to	hell

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		No stop	signs	,	speed limi	t

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	A	A
	Nob	ody’s	gonna	sl	ow me down

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Like a whe	el,		gonna spin it

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	A	A
	Nob	ody’s	gonn	a	mess me around

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Hey Sata	n,		payin’ my du	es

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	A	A
		Playin	’ in	a	rockin’ band

A	A	A	D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	D/F#	G
		Hey mam	a,		look at m	e

D/F#	D/F#	G	D/F#	E
I’	m on	my wa	y to the	promised land, whoa

	A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
I’m on the	high	way	to	hell

A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
High	way	to	hell,	I’m	on the

A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
High	way	to	hell

A	A	A	D/A
High	way	to	hell

	D	Dsus4	D
Mmmmmmm

	D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	D
Don’t stop me

Solo on verse chords

	A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
I’m on the	high	way	to	hell,		uh

A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
High	way	to	hell,	I’m	on the

A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#
High	way	to	hell,		on the

Hard stop here

A	A	A	D/A
High	way	to

G	D/F#

A	A	A	D/A	G	D/F#	A
High	way	to	hell, I’m on on the h	ighway	to he	ll

A	A	A	D/A
High	way	to	hell

A	A	A	D/A
High	way	to	hell

Let ring at the end of this line

A	A	A	D/A
High	way	to	hell

And I'm going down, aaaooohwaayyy

A

Aerosmith - Dream On (1973)

Originally in Fm, I play in Em.

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
			x 2

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

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

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

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
	The past is	gone

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

Em	Bm7
Isn’t that the	way

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

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

Em	D
Yeah, I know	nobody knows

C	D
Where it comes and	where it goes

Em	D
I know it’s	everybody’s sin

C	D
You got to lose to	know how to win

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
			x 2

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

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

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	AmM6
	You know it’s	true

Em	Bm7	Cmaj7	D
All the	things	come back to	you

Em	D
Sing with me,	sing for the year

C	D
Sing for the laughter,	sing for the tear

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

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

Am	B7	Cmaj7
Dream on	dream on	dream on

D	Em
Dream until the dream come	true

Am	B7	Cmaj7
Dream on	dream on	dream on

D	Em
Dream until the dream come	true

Am	B7
Dream on	dream on

Cmaj7	D
Dream on	dream on

Am	B7
Dream on	dream on

Cmaj7	D	B7
Dream on	ah	ah

Em

America - Sister Golden Hair (1975)

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

C#m	A	E	E

I prefer to skip this part of the intro

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

	E
Well I	tried to make it Sunday, but I

G#m

Got so damn depressed

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

G#m

Got myself undressed

	A	F#m
I ain’t	ready for the	altar

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

	F#m
When a	woman sure can

A	E	Esus4	E
Be a friend of mine

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

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

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

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

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

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	air?

	B
Will you	love me just a little?

	A	E
Just e	nough to show you	care?

Hanging chords

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

	A
I	just can’t make it

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

With doo doo, da doo doo

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

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

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

With aaaah’s

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

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

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	air?

	B
Will you	love me just a little?

	A	E
Just e	nough to show you	care?

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

	A
I	just can’t make it

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

Originally in Bb, I play in A

A

Thank you for being a friend

D/A

Traveled down the road and back again

	E/A	A
Your	heart is true, you’re a pal and a confi	dant

A

I’m not ashamed to say

D/A

I hope it always will stay this way

	E/A	A
My	hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a	bow

F#m	A7/E
And if you threw a	party

	Dmaj7	C#7
In	vited everyone you	knew

	F#m/E	A7
Well,	you would	see

	Bm7	F#m
The biggest	gift would be from	me

	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A	E
And the	card	at	tached	would	say

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

	D/A
Thank you for being a	friend

	E/A
Thank you for being a	friend

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

A

If it’s a car you lack

D/A

I’d surely buy you a Cadillac

	E/A	A
What	ever you need any time of the day or	night

A

I’m not ashamed to say

D/A

I hope it always will stay this way

	E/A	A
My	hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a	bow

F#m	A7/E
And when we both get	older

	Dmaj7	C#7
With	walking canes and hair of	gray

F#m/E	A7
Have no	fear

	Bm7	F#m
Even	though it’s hardly	here

	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A	E
I will	stand	real	close	and	say

	A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	D/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	E/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	A
Let me tell you ‘bout a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	D/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	E/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

Vox on “die” are on the root of the chord

A	A/D	A/E	Em6/G	F#m
	And	when we	die and float a	way

	Fmaj7	A/E
Into the	night, the milky	way

	Em6/G	F#m
You’ll hear me	call as we as	cend

	Fmaj7	A/E
I’ll say your	name, then once a	gain

No instruments...

Thank you for being a...

Instruments back in...

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

This time with baa baa baa baa

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

	A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	D/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	E/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

	A
People tell me about a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	D/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	E/A
Thank you for being a	friend (I wanna thank you)

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

A

Thank you right now for being a friend

	D/A
I wanna	tell you ‘bout now and I’ll tell you again

	E/A	A
I wanna	thank you, thank you, thank you for being a	friend

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

A

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (1972)

Vocal note - melody starts on the 5

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

D	A	D
Riding on the	City of New Or	leans

Bm	G	D
Illinois Central,	Monday morning	rail

D	A	D
Fifteen cars and fi	fteen restless	riders

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

	Bm
All a	long the southbound odyssey

	F#m
The	train pulls out of Kankakee

	A	E
And	rolls along the houses, farms and	fields

Bm

Passing trains that have no name

	F#m
And	freight yards full of old black men

	A	D
And	graveyards of the rusted automo	biles

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

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

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

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

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

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

D	A	D
Pass the paper	bag that holds the	bottle

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

	Bm
And the	sons of Pullman porters

	F#m7
And the	sons of engineers

	A	E
Ride their	fathers’ magic carpet made of	steel

Bm

Mothers with their babes asleep

F#m7

Rocking to the gentle beat

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

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

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

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

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

D	A	D
Nighttime on the	City of New	Orleans

Bm	G	D
Changing cars in	Memphis,	Tennesee

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

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

	Bm
But	all the towns and people seem

	F#m7
To	fade into a bad dream

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

	Bm
The	conductor sings his songs again

	F#m7
The	passengers will please refrain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Originally in C, I play in A

A	G	D	A
			x2

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

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

	D	A
Take the	8:15 into the	city

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

	D	A
And the	girls who try to look	pretty

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

	D	A
And start your	slaving job to get your	pay

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

	D	A
I	love to work at nothing all	day

And I'll be

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

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

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

A	G	D	A
			x2

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

	D	A
If	you could make sounds loud or	mellow

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

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

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

D	A
Tell them that you like it this	way

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

	D	A
We	love to work at nothing all	day

And we been

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

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

D	A
Taking care of business and	working overtime

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

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

D	A
Taking care of business and	working overtime

Solo on verse chords

A	G	D	A
			xN

A	D	C	G
			x2

	A	D	C	G
Take good care		of my business

	A	D	C	G
When I’m away		every day

A	G	D	A
			xN

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

	D	A
Take the	8:15 into the	city

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

	D	A
And the	girls who try to look	pretty

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

	D	A
And start your	slaving job to get your	pay

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

	D	A
I	love to work at nothing all	day

And I been

A	G
Taking care of business	every day

D	A
Taking care of business	every way

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

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

Drums only

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

Band enters with hits only

A	G
Takin’ care of business	every day

D	A
Takin’ care of business	(very way

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

D

Takin’ care of business and working overtime

A	G
Takin’ care of business

D	A
Takin’ care of business

Repeat to fade

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

Originally in A, I play in D capo 3

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

D	D	C	G
			x 4

	D	C	G
I m	et a devil woman

	D	C	G
She t	ook my heart away

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

	D	C	G
But I w	anted it that way

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

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

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

	D	A	G
You a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

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

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

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

D	D	C	G
			x 4

	D	C	G
And n	ow I’m feelin’ better

	D	C	G
‘Cause	I found out for sure

	D	C	G
She t	ook me to her doctor

	D	C	G
And he t	old me of a cure

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

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

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

	D	A	G
You a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

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

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

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

D	D	C	G
			x 4

G7	A#	C
Any love is good lovin’

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

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

	D	A	G
You a	in’t seen nothin’ yet

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

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

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

D	D	C	G
			x 4

Bad Company - Bad Company (1974)

Originally in Ebm, I play in Am capo 1

Em	G	Am	Am
→	→		x 4

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

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

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

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

	C
That’s why they call me

Vox on the 5 of the chord

G	D
Bad compa	ny

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

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

so I stay where I am

	Am	G/A	Am	C
I can’t den	y

C	D
Bad, bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Em	G	Am	Am
→	→		x 2

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

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

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

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

	C
I can hear them saying

G	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am	C
I won’t den	y

C	D
Bad, bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

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

G	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am	C
I can’t den	y

C	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Am	G/A	Am

C	G	D
	It’s bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Oh yea ye	a yea

C	D
Bad compa	ny

	Am	G/A	Am
Till the day I	die

Bad Company - Can’t Get Enough (1974)

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro

A	A	G	D	G	D
			→	→	x2

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

	A	G	D
And	baby,	I want	you

A	G	D
You give me	something I	need

	A	G	D
Now	tell me I got	something for	you

E

Come on, come on, come on and do it

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

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

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

E	A	E
→	→

A	A	G	D	G	D
			→	→	x2

	A	G	D
Well it’s	late and	I want	love

A	G	D
Love is gonna	break me in	two

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

	A	G	D
Don’t	hang me	up like you	do

E

Come on, come on, come on and do it

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

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

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

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

E	A	E
→	→

What'd I say now?

Solo on verse, prechorus, chorus

A	G	D	D
			x4

E	G	D	C	C	A

A	D
	x3

E	A	E
→	→

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

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

A	D
I can’t get en	ough of your love

E	A	E
→	→

Bad Company - Shooting Star (1975)

Intro (chords approximate riff)

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

A	E
Johnny was a	schoolboy

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

	G	A
When he	heard his first Beatles	song

A	E
Love Me Do,	I think it was

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

A	E
Got himself a	guitar

	G	A
Used to	play every	night

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

	G	A
And	everything’s alr	ight

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know?	→

A	E
Johnny told his	Mama

G	A
Hey, mama, I’m goin’ a	way

A	E
I’m gonna hit the	big time

	G	A
Gonna	be a big star some	day

A	E
Mama came	to the door

	G	A
With a	teardrop in her	eye

	E
Johnny said,	don’t cry, mama

G	A
Smiled and waved good	bye

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	yeah	yeah

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

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

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

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

	E	D	E
As long as you	are	→

A	E
Johnny made a	record

	G	A
Went	straight up to number	one

A	E
Suddenly	everyone loved

	G	A
To	hear him sing his	song

A	E
Watchin’ the	world go by

	G	A
Surpr	isin’ it goes so	fast

A	E
Johnny looked a	round him and said

	G	A
Well, I	made the big time at	last

D	E
Don’t you	know?

D	E
Don’t you	know?

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

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	whoa	yeah

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

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

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

Solo, skip this and the following chorus acoustic

F#m	E	B	B
			x3

F#m	F#m	E	E

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

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know,	yeah	yeah

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

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

	E	D	E
As long as you	are,	→

A	E
Johnny died	one night

G	A
Gied in his	bed

A	E
Bottle of	whisky

	G	A
Sleeping	tablets by his	head

A	E
Johnny’s life	passed him by

	G	A
Like a	warm summer	day

A	E
If you listen to the	wind

	G	A
You can	still hear him	play

D	E	D	E
	Whoa	whoa	whoa

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

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

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

D	E	D	E
Don’t you	know	→

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

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

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

Badfinger - No Matter What (1970)

Originally in A, I play in D

Intro

D

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

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

Down to the 2 of the key on “does”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barry Manilow - Copacabana (1978)

Basically ignore all the I/2 chords (Ab/Bb in Ab)

Gm9	Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9
	→	→

Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→

Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→	→	→

	Fm7
Her name was	Lola

Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
She was a	showgirl

	Am7b5	D7
With yellow	feathers in her	hair

	Gm7
And a	dress cut down to there

	Fm7
She would me	rengue

Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
And do the	cha-cha

	Am7b5	D7
And while she	tried to be a	star

	Gm7
Tony	always tended bar

If you’re playing this in Fm, and you’re going to play this Cdim7 the way I think you are, note that’s really D7/D#, which makes that D7 a lot easier to get to

	Cdim7	D7	Gm
Across the	crow-	ded	floor

	Cdim7	D7	Gm
They worked from	eight	til	four

	Cm7	D7
They were	young and they had each	other

	Gm7	F#m7	Bb7/F
Who could	ask	for	more

	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
At the	Copa,	Copaca	bana

	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
The	hottest spot	north of H	avana

C9	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Bb/C	C7
At the	Copa,	Copaca	baaaaa	na

Fm7	Bb7	Gm7	C7	Fm7	D7
Music and	passion were	always the	fashion at the	Copa

	Gm9
They fell in	love

Gm9	Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9
	→	→

Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→

Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→	→	→

	Fm7
His name was	Rico

Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
He wore a	diamond

	Am7b5	D7
He was es	corted to his	chair

	Gm7
He saw	Lola dancing there

	Fm7
And when she	finished

Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
He called her	over

	Am7b5	D7
But Rico	went a bit too	far

	Gm7
Tony	sailed across the bar

	Cdim7	D7	Gm
And then the	punc	hes f	lew

	Cdim7	D7	Gm
And chairs were	smashed	in	two

	Cm	D7
There was	blood and a single	gunshot

	Gm7	F#m7	Bb7/F
But just	who	shot	who?

	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
At the	Copa,	Copaca	bana

	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
The	hottest spot	north of H	avana

C9	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Bb/C	C7
At the	Copa,	Copaca	baaaaa	na

Fm7	Bb7	Gm7	C7	Fm7	D7
Music and	passion were	always the	fashion at the	Copa

	Gm9
She lost her	love

There’s no point in trying the crazy jazz breakdown here

Gm9	Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9
	→	→

Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→

Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→	→	→

	Fm7
Her name is	Lola

Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
She was a	showgirl

	Am7b5	D7
But that was	thirty years a	go

	Gm7
When they	used to have a show

	Fm7
Now it’s a	disco

Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
But not for	Lola

	Am7b5	D7
Still in the	dress she used to	wear

	Gm7
Faded	feathers in her hair

	Cdim7	D7	Gm
She sits there	so	re	fined

	Cdim7	D7	Gm
And drinks her	self	half-	blind

	Cm	D7
She lost her	youth and she lost her	Tony

	Gm7	F#m7	Bb7/F
Now she’s	lost	her	mind

	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
At the	Copa,	Copaca	bana

	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Ebmaj7
The	hottest spot	north of H	avana

C9	Fm7	Ab/Bb	Bb/C	C7
At the	Copa,	Copaca	baaaaa	na

Fm7	Bb7	Gm7	C7	Fm7	D7
Music and	passion were	always the	fashion at the	Copa

	Gm9
Don’t fall in	love

Gm9	Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9
	→	→	Don’t fall in love

Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→

Gm9	Gbm9	Fm9	Gbm9	Gm9
→	→	→	→

Bette Midler - The Rose (1979)

Originally in C, I play in G

Intro

G

	G	D/F#
Some say l	ove, it is a r	iver

	C	D	G
That d	rowns the ten	der r	eed

	D/F#
Some say love, it is a r	azor

	C	D	G
That l	eaves your so	ul to bl	eed

	Bm	Em
Some say l	ove, it is a h	unger

	C	D7sus4	D
An end	less aching n	eed

	G	D
I say l	ove, it is a fl	ower and

	C	D	G
Y	ou its on	ly se	ed

G

	G	D
It’s the he	art afraid of brea	king

	C	D	G
That n	ever lea	rns to da	nce

	G	D
It’s the dr	eam afraid of wak	ing

	C	D	G
That	never tak	es the cha	nce

	Bm	Em
It’s the	one who won’t be t	aken

	C	D7sus4
Who ca	n not seem to g	ive

	G	D
And the	soul afraid of dy	ing

	C	D	G
That n	ever le	arns to li	ve

G

	G	D
When the n	ight has been too lo	nely

	C	D	G
And the r	oad has b	een too lo	ng

	G	D
And you th	ink that love is	only

	C	D	G
For the l	ucky an	d the str	ong

	Bm	Em
Just r	emember in the w	inter

	C	D7sus4
Far bene	ath the bitter	snow

	G	D
Lies the s	eed that with the s	un’s love

	C	D	G
In the sp	ring beco	mes the ro	se

G

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine (1971)

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

I prefer it as Dm7→F→Am

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

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

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

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And she’s	always gone too	long

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

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

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

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And this	house just ain’t no	home

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

Am

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

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

	Dm7
Hey, I ought to leave the young thing	alone

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

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

	G	Am	Em	Em/G	Am
Only	darkness every	day

	Dm7
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s	gone

	Em7	F
And this	house just ain’t no	home

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

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

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

	G	Am
Any	time she goes	away

Bill Withers - Lean on Me (1972)

Originally in C, I play in A capo 2

A	D	A	E	A
			→

A	D
Sometimes in our	lives

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

A	D
But if we are	wise

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

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

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

	A
And I’ll be your	friend

	A	E
I’ll help you	carry	on

A	D
For it won’t be	long

	A
Till I’m gonna	need

	E	A
Somebody to	lean	on

A	D
Please swallow your	pride

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

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

	E	A
That you won’t	let	show

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

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

	E	A
We all need somebody to	lean	on

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

	E	A
We all need somebody to	lean	on

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

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

	A
And I’ll be your	friend

	E
I’ll help you carry	on

A	D
For it won’t be	long

	A
Till I’m gonna	need

	E	A
Somebody to	lean	on

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

	A	E
That you can’t	car	ry

A	D
I’m right up the	road

	A
I’ll share your	load

	E	A
If you just	call	me

E6	A
Call	me (if you need a friend)

E6	A
Call	me (call me)

E6	A
Call	me (if you need a friend)

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

E6	A
Call	me (call me)

E6	A
Call	me

E6	A
Call	me (if you need a friend)

Billy Joel - Big Shot (1978)

Basically keep downstroke 16ths going the whole song

Chorus chords:

G/F == x897xx

F/C == x332xx

F/D == xx0565

Em7add4	G
Em7add4	G
Em7add4	Bm/D
C	Csus4	C
→	→

Vox on the 4 of the chord

	Em7add4	G
Well you went	uptown riding in your	limousine

	Em7add4	G
With your	fine Park Avenue c	lothes

	Em7add4	Bm/D
You had the	Dom Perignon in your ha	nd

	C	Csus4	C
And the spoon up your nose	→	→

	Em7add4	G
Ooh, and when you	wake up in the morning with your h	ead on fire

	Em7add4	G
And your	eyes too bloody to	see

	Em7add4	Bm/D
Go on and	cry in your coffee but d	on’t

	C	Csus4	C
Come bitchin’ to me	→	→

Vox on the 3 of the chord (B if the chord is G/F)

	G/F	F/C	G/F	F/C
Because you had to be a	big shot	, didn’t	you

	G/F	F/C	G/F	F/C
You h	ad to o	pen up	your	mouth

	G/F	G	F/D	G
You h	ad to be a	big shot,	d	idn’t you

F/D	G	F/D	C
All your	friends were	so knocked out

	F	G/F	F/C	G/F
You h	ad to have the l	ast word,	last	night

	F/C	G/F	F/C	G/F
You k	now what e	verything’s	about

	F	F/C	C	F/C	C
You	had to have a wh	ite h	ot s	potl	ight

	C	G/D	D	G/D	D
You	had to be a b	ig s	hot l	ast n	ight, whoa

Em7add4	G
Em7add4	G
Yeah!

Em7add4	Bm/D
C	Csus4	C
→	→

	Em7add4	G
Yeah, they were	all impressed with your H	alston dress

	Em7add4	G
And the	people that you knew at Ela	ine’s

	Em7add4	Bm/D
And the	story of your latest suc	cess

	C	Csus4	C
Kept ‘em so entertained	→	→

	Em7add4	G
Aww, but now you	just don’t remember all the t	hings you said

	Em7add4	G
And you’re	not sure you want to know

	Em7add4	Bm/D
I’ll give you	one hint, honey you s	ure

	C	Csus4	C
Did put on a show	→	→

	G/F	F/C	G/F	F/C
Because you had to be a	big shot	, didn’t	you

	G/F	F/C	G/F	F/C
You h	ad to prove	it to	the	crowd

	G/F	G	F/D	G
You h	ad to be a	big shot,	d	idn’t you

F/D	G	F/D	C
All your	friends were	so knocked out

	F	G/F	F/C	G/F
You h	ad to have the l	ast word,	last	night

	F/C	G/F	F/C	G/F
S	o much fun	to be	around

	F	F/C	C	F/C	C
You h	ad to have the front	page	bold		type

	C	G/D	D	G/D	D
You h	ad to be a b	ig s	hot l	ast n	ight, whoa

Solo, with whoa

F	C	G	D
			x2

	Em7add4	G
Yeah, it’s	no big sin to stick your t	wo cents in

	Em7add4	G
If you	know when to leave it a	lone

	Em7add4	Bm/D
But you went	over the line, you couldn’t	see

	C	Csus4	C
It was time to go home	→	→

	G/F	F/C	G/F	F/C
No no no no no no you had to be a	big shot	, didn’t	you

	G/F	F/C	G/F	F/C
You h	ad to o	pen up	your	mouth

	G/F	G	F/D	G
You h	ad to be a	big shot,	d	idn’t you

F/D	G	F/D	C
All your	friends were	so knocked out

	F	G/F	F/C	G/F
You h	ad to have the l	ast word,	last	night

	F/C	G/F	F/C	G/F
You k	now what e	verything’s	about

	F	F/C	C	F/C	C
You	had to have a wh	ite h	ot s	potl	ight

	C	G/D	D	G/D	D
You	had to be a b	ig s	hot l	ast n	ight, whoa

With whoa

F	C	G	D
			x2

Em7add4

Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (1976)

Originally in D, I play in A capo 3

Intro

Siren noises are roughly...

F

Piano intro, skip on guitar

A	Gadd9	D6/F#	F(#11)
A	G6/9	D6/F#	F(#11)
A/C#	Dmaj7	A/E	D/F#
E/G#	D/F#	A	A/G#	D/F#

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

F#m	Dadd9	E	Esus4	E	Dadd9
I saw the	Empire State laid	low

C#m7	F#m
And life went on beyond the P	alisades

	A/E	E
They all bought	Cadillacs

	Dadd9	D	E
And left there	long ago

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

F#m	Dadd9	E	Esus4	E	Dadd9
To watch the	island bridges	blow

Hanging stops

A/C#	D
They turned our	power down

A/E	D/F#
And drove us u	nderground

E/G#	D/F#	A
But we went	right on with the s	how

Now the rock starts, on guitar change Bm to G/B

A	F#m	A	F#m	A	A/E	E	A/E	E
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

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

F#m	D	E	A/E	E
I saw the	ruins at my	feet

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

	A/E	E
We’d seen it	all the time

	D	D	E
On Forty-	Second Street

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

F#m	D	E	A/E	E
Like in that	Spanish civil	war

A/C#	D
The flames were e	verywhere

A/E	D/F#
But no one	really cared

E/G#	D/F#	A
It always	burned up there before

A	F#m	A	F#m	A	A/E	E	A/E	E
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

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

F#m	D	E	A/E	E	Dadd9
I watched the	mighty skyline	fall

C#m7	F#m
The boats were waiting at the	Battery

	A/E	E
The union w	ent on strike

	D	D	E
They never	sailed at all

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

	F#m	D	E	A/E	E
And	picked the	Yankees up for	free

A/C#	D
They said that	Queens could stay

A/E	D/F#
They blew the B	ronx away

E/G#	D/F#	A
And sank Man	hattan out at s	ea

A	F#m	A	F#m	A	A/E	E	A/E	E
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

Hanging stop on “lights”, mellow out

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

F#m	D	E	Esus4	E	Dadd9
But that was so	many years ago

C#m7	F#m
Before we all lived here in	Florida

	A/E	E	Dadd9	D	E
Before the	Mafia	took over	Mexico

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

F#m	Dadd9	E
They say a	handful still	survive

A/C#	D
To tell the	world about

A/E	D/F#
The way the l	ights went out

E	D/F#	F
And keep the me	mory alive

Repeat intro

A	Gadd9	D6/F#	F(#11)
A	G6/9	D6/F#	F(#11)
A/C#

Billy Joel - Movin’ Out (1977)

Originally in Dm, I play in Am capo 3

Play Bdim as x2313x

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C

With ooh and mmm

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C

Am	Dm7
Anthony works in the	grocery store

G	G/B	C
Savin’ his	pennies for	someday

Am	Dm7
Mama Leone left a	note on the door

	G	G/B	C
She said,	sonny, move	out to the	country

	Am
Ah, but	workin’ too hard can give you

	D7
A h	eart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack

F	G
You oughta know by	now

Am	Dm7
Who needs a house out in	Hackensack?

	G	G/B	C
Is t	hat all you ge	t for your m	oney?

	F	G
And it s	eems such a waste of	time

	E7	Am
If t	hat’s what it’s all abo	ut

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

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C
	Mmm, I’m movin’ o	ut

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C

Am	Dm7
Sergeant O’Leary is	walkin’ the beat

	G	G/B	C
At n	ight he be	comes a barte	nder

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

	G	G/B	C
Ac	ross from the	medical	center

	Am	D7
Yeah, and he’s	tradin’ in his Chevy for a	Cadillac-ack-ack-ack-ack

F	G
You oughta know by	now

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

	G	G/B	C
At le	ast he can	polish the	fenders

	F	G
And it s	eems such a waste of	time

E7	Am
If that’s what it’s all	about

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

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C
	Mmm, I’m movin’ o	ut

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C

Am

You should never argue with a

D7

Crazy mi-mi-mi-mi-mind

F	G
You oughta know by	now

	Am	Dm7
You can	pay Uncle Sam with the	overtime

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

	F	G
And if t	hat’s what you have in	mind

	E7	Am
Yeah, if t	hat’s what you’re all	about

	F	Bdim	E7	Am
Good	luck movin’ up ‘cause	I’m	movin’	out

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C
	Mmm, I’m movin’ o	ut

Am	Dm	G	G/B	C

Outro

A

D

E

A

Billy Joel - My Life (1978)

Tabbed in drop D

Intro

-----------------2--
---------3--3--3-3--
---------4--4--4-2--
-0-0-0-0-5--5--5-0--
---------0--0--0----
0-0-0-0--000000-----

-----3--/-10-10-10-10-10-8-8-6---
-3-1-3--/-10-10-10-10-10-8-8-6---
-4-2-3--/--8--8--8--8--8-8-8-7---
-0-0-2--/-10-10-10-10-10-7-7-8---
-0-0-3--/----------------8-8-3-4-
---------------------------------

That was roughly as follows, note two different F9’s

D	D	G	D
E7	D7	C9	F9	F9	Bb
→

D	D/F#
Got a call from an	old friend

	G
We used to be	real close

A	D	G
Said he couldn’t go on the American	way

D	D/F#
Closed the shop, sold the	house

	G
Bought a ticket to the	West Coast

A	D
Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.	A.

Rpt second part of intro

E7	D7	C9	F9	F9	Bb
→

x2

D	D/F#	G
I don’t need you to	worry for me cause I’m	alright

A	D	G
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come	home

D	D/F#	G
I don’t care what you	say anymore, this is	my life

A	Bm
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me	alone

	F#
I never said you had to offer me a	second chance

D7	E7
I never said I was a victim of	circumstance

G	D/F#	F#7	Bm	Bm/A
I still be	long,	don’t get me	wrong

E7sus4	E7
And you can	speak your mind

	G6	A	G6	A
But	not	on	my	time

D	D/F#
They will tell you you	can’t sleep alone in a

G

Strange place

A	D
Then they’ll tell you you can’t sleep with somebody	else

D	D/F#	G
But sooner or	later you sleep in your	own space

A	D
Either way it’s okay you wake up with your	self

Rpt second part of intro

E7	D7	C9	F9	F9	Bb
→

x2

D	D/F#	G
I don’t need you to	worry for me cause I’m	alright

A	D	G
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come	home

D	D/F#	G
I don’t care what you	say anymore, this is	my life

A	Bm
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me	alone

	F#
I never said you had to offer me a	second chance

D7	E7
I never said I was a victim of	circumstance

G	D/F#	F#7	Bm	Bm/A
I still be	long,	don’t get me	wrong

E7sus4	E7
And you can	speak your mind

	G6	A	G6	A
But	not	on	my	time

D	G	G	D	Em7	D
I don’t care what you say anymore, this is	my life

A	D
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me	alone

Rpt second part of intro to fade

E7	D7	C9	F9	F9	Bb
→					Keep it to yourself it’s my life

Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young (1977)

Originally in C, I play in G capo 3

Bridge vox are a lot of 5

C	D	Em	C	D	G
C	D	Em	C	D

C	D	Em
Come out Virginia,	don’t let me	wait

	C	D	G
You	Catholic girls start m	uch too	late

	C	D	Em
But	sooner or later it c	omes down to	fate

	C	D
I	might as well be the	one

	C	D	Em
Well, they	showed you a statue,	told you to	pray

	C	D	G
They	built you a temple and l	ocked you	away

	C	D	Em
But	they never told you the	price that you	pay

	C	D
For	things that you might have	done

	G
Only the good die	young

C	D	G
That’s what I said

	G	C
Only the good	die	young

	D	G
Only the good	die youn	g

	C	D	Em
You might have	heard I run with a	dangerous	crowd

	C	D	G
We	ain’t too pretty we	ain’t too	proud

	C	D	Em
We	might be laughing a	bit too l	oud

	C	D
But	that never hurt no	one

	C	D	Em
So come	on Virginia sh	ow me a	sign

C	D	G
Send up a signal I’ll	throw you a	line

	C	D	Em
The	stained-glass curtain you’re	hiding be	hind

C	D
Never lets in the	sun

	G
Darlin’ only the good die	young

C	D	G
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wh	oa

	G	C
I tell ya only the good	die	young

	D	G
Only the good	die young

Bridge

	D
You got a	nice white dress and a

C	G
Party on your confirmati	on

	A	C
You got a	brand new soul, and a cro	ss of gold

	D
But Vir	ginia they didn’t give you

	C	G
Q	uite enough informati	on

	A
You didn’t c	ount on me

	C
When you were counting on your	rosary

G/B	C	G/B	Am7
Oh	woah	woah	woah

	C	D	Em
They	say there’s a heaven for	those who will	wait

C	D	G
Some say it’s better but	I say it	ain’t

	C	D	Em
I’d rather	laugh with the sinners than	cry with the	saints

	C	D
The	sinners are much more	fun

	G
You know that only the good die	young

C	D	G
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wh	oa

	G	C
I tell ya only the good	die	young

	D	G
Only the good	die young

Solo on bridge chords if appropriate

D	C	G
A	C

Bridge

	D
You say your	mother told you all that I could

C	G
Give you was a reput	ation

	A
Awww, she never	cared for me

	C
But did she ever say a	prayer for me?

G/B	C	G/B	Am7
Oh	woah	woah	woah

Rhythm change in the melody here

	C	D	Em
Come out	come out come out Vir	ginia don’t l	et me wait

C	D	G
You Catholic	girls start	much too late

C	D	Em
Sooner or later it	comes down to	fate

	C	D
I	might as well be the	one

	G
You know that only the good die	young

C	D	G
Tell you ba	by

	G	C
You know that only the good	die	young

	D	G
Only the good	die young

	G	C
Only the	goooo...

	D	G
Only the	good die young

	G	C
Oooh...	ooooh...

	D	G
Oooh...	oooh...

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 5

	G	C
It’s a	pleasure to be	soaking

C/B	Am	D
In the E	uropean	rain

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

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

D	G
Somewhere along the lin	e

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

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

G	C
Sweet Virginia c	igarette

Am	D
Burning in my ha	nd

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

	Am	D
But n	ow I unders	tand

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

	G	C
And	I know you’re gonn	a get me

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

G	D/F#	F	C/E

D	D/Eb
Somewhere along the line

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

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

Am	F	D
Somewhere along the	line

	G	C
Well, you	know I love my	woman

	Am	D
And I w	ould not let her d	own

	G	C
And I	did my share of	lovin’

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

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

	G/B	C
But you	pay for your satis	faction

D	G
Somewhere along the lin	e

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

D	G
Somewhere along the li	ne

Solo

G	G/B	C	D
			x2

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

	G	C
Hey, it’s	good to be a	young man

	Am	D
And to	live the way you	please

	G	C
Yes, a	young man is the	king

	C/B	Am	D
Of	every	kingdom that he	sees

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

	G	C
And it	surely will catch	up to him

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

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

D	G
Somewhere along the	line

G

D/F#

F

C/E

C/D

G

Billy Joel - Stop in Nevada (1973)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	A
And she	left a little letter said

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

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

Bm7	A/C#

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

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

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

Em7	G	G/B
Convinced her not to hang	around

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

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

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

	A
And she	left a little letter said

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

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

Bm7	A/C#

Interlude over verse chords

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

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

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

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

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

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

	A
With some	money in her pocket she’s a

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

	A
And she	left a little letter said

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

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

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

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

	A
With some	money in her pocket she’s a

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

	A
And she	left a little letter said

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

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

Bm7

A/C#

D

G

Em7

A

D

Billy Joel - 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

D	D	D	G
			x4

	D	G	D/F#
They say that	these are not the	best of	times

	G	D/F#	Em7	D/F#	A
But t	hey’re the	only	times I’ve ever	known

	D	G	D/F#	G	D/F#
And I be	lieve there is a	time for	medit	ation

	Em7	A	E	A
In cat	hedrals of our	own	→

F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A
Now I have	seen that sad	surrender

	G	G	D/F#
In my	lover’s eyes

	E	E/G#	A
And	I can only	stand apart and	sympathize

	D	Em7	G
For we are	always what our	situations	hand us

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

A	D	C	G	A
Sadness or eu	phoria	→

	D	G	D/F#
And so we’ll	argue and we’ll co	mpromi	se

	G	D/F#	Em7	D	A
And r	eal	ize that n	othing’s really	changed

	D	G	D/F#
For all our m	utual ex	perienc	e

	G	D/F#	Em7	A	E	A
Our	separ	ate conc	lusions are the	same	→

F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A
Now we are	forced to recog	nize our

	G	G	D/F#
Inhu	manity

	E	E/G#	A
Our	reason coex	ists with our in	sanity

	D	Em7	G
And so we c	hoose between re	ality and m	adness

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

If going into a solo here, the F# comes right after the D

A	D
Sadness or eu	phoria

Instrumental if appropriate on chorus chords, with F# leading in

F#	Bm	Bm/A	G	D/F#
→

E	E/G#	A	A
D	Em7	G	A
G	C	G	A
	→

PPM do a full verse here on “la”

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

	E	E/G#	A
Perh	aps we don’	t fulfill each other’s	fantasies

	D	Em7	G
So we	stand upon the	ledges of our liv	es

	A	G	C	G
With our resp	ective simi	larities	→

	A	G
It’s either	sadness or eup	horia

Hanging end on G, I usually stop here

PPM do *another* full verse here on “la”

Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls (1976)

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

I play in D

As much walking between chords as you can fit in

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	G	G

	D	D/F#
They say that	these are not the	best of times

	Em7	G	D	D/F#	Em7	G
But t	hey’re the only	times I’ve ever	known

	D	D/F#	Em7
And I be	lieve that there’s a	time for medit	ation

	G	A7	E	A
In cat	hedrals of our	own	→

	F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A
N	ow I have	seen that sad sur	render

	G	G	D/F#
In my	lover’s eyes

	E7	A7
And	I can only stand apart and	sympathize

	G	D/F#	Em7
For we are	always what our	situations	hand us

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

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	G	G

	D	D/F#
And so we’ll	argue and we’ll co	mpromise

	Em7	G	D	D/F#	Em7	G
And r	ealize that n	othing’s really	changed

	D	D/F#
For all our m	utual ex	perience

	Em7	G	A7	E	A
Our	separate conc	lusions are the	same	→

	F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A
N	ow we are	forced to recog	nize our

	G	G	D/F#
Inhu	manity

	E7	A7
Our	reason coexists with our in	sanity

	G	D/F#	Em7
And though we c	hoose between re	ality and m	adness

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

Instrumental if appropriate

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	G	G
D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	E	A	F#/A#
		→

	Bm	Bm/A	G	G	D/F#
How t	houghtlessly we di	ssipate our e	nergies

	E7	A7
Perh	aps we don’t fulfill each other’s	fantasies

	G	D/F#	Em7
And as we	stand upon the	ledges of our liv	es

	A7	G	C	G
With our resp	ective simi	larities	→

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

A7	G
Sadness or euph	oria

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

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

at-tempo part of the intro.

Slow, swung, or play at tempo

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

At tempo, straight, skip on guitar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	G	Em
And his	age and his s	ize

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

Am7	D7sus
The word spread	of Billy the Kid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am7	D7sus
When Billy the Kid	came to town

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

Interlude if appropriate

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	G

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	C

Bb/C
F	C

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

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

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

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

Am7	D7sus
The hangin’	of Billy the Kid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interlude if appropriate

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	G

C	C/E	F	C	C	G
F	C

Bb/C
F	C

Billy Joel - The Entertainer (1974)

G

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

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

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

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

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

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

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

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

	G
Ah, but	still they come to haunt me

	C/E	C
S	till they want their	say

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

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

	D	G
And they	go their merry wa	y

G

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

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

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

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

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

D	G
It all becomes the s	ame

G

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

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

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

	C	D
Gotta	get those fees to the	agencies

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

	D	G
So I	just don’t have the ti	me

G

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

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

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

C/E	C
Best years of my	life

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

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

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

G

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

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

	G
Ah, you’ve	seen me in the papers

	C/E	C
I’ve	been in the ma	gazines

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

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

	D	G
Like a	nother can of be	ans

G

Hanging stops

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

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

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

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

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

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977)

Intro, skip on guitar

Em	Em/D	Cmaj7	Cmaj7	B	B	Cmaj7	Cmaj7
E	E/F#	E/G#	Am	Am/G	D/F#	C/E
	→

D	B/D#

Whistle

Em	Em/D	Cmaj7	Cmaj7	B	B	Cmaj7	Cmaj7
E	E/F#	E/G#	Am	Am/G	D/F#	C/E
	→

B/D#	A/C#	B	B/A	Em

Em	C7	Em	C7

	Em	Am	Em
Well we	all have a face that we	hide away for	ever

	Am	C	D	B7
And we	take them out and	show ourselves when	everyone has gone

	Em	Am	Em
Some are	satin some are steel some are	silk and some are	leather

	Am	D	Bm	Em
They’re the	faces of the	stranger but we	love to try them	on

Em	C7	Em	C7

	Em	Am	Em
Well we	all fall in love but we	disregard the	danger

	Am	C	D	B7
Though we	share so many	secrets there are	some we never tell

	Em	Am	Em
Why were	you so surprised that you	never saw the	stranger?

	Am	D	Bm	Em
Did you	ever let your	lover see the	stranger in your	self?

Vox on the 5, but then I go *down* to avoid the falsetto bit

On guitar that iM7 just wants to be im.

Gmaj7	GmM7	D/F#
Don’t be af	raid to try a	gain

D7	Gmaj7	GmM7	D/F#	D7
Everyone goes	south e	very now and	then,	oh oh

Gmaj7	GmM7	D/F#
You’ve done it,	why can’t someone	else?

D7	Bm7	Bbaug	A6	B7
You should know by	now	you’ve been there your	self

	Em	Am	Em
Once I	used to believe I was	such a great ro	mancer

	Am	C	D	B7
Then I	came home to a	woman that I	could not recognize

	Em	Am	Em
When I	pressed her for a reason she re	fused to even	answer

	Am	D	Bm	Em
It was	then I felt the	stranger kick me	right between the	eyes

Em	C7	Em	C7

	Em	Am	Em
Well we	all fall in love but we	disregard the	danger

	Am	C	D	B7
Though we	share so many	secrets there are	some we never tell

	Em	Am	Em
Why were	you so surprised that you	never saw the	stranger

	Am	D	Bm	Em
Did you	ever let your	lover see the	stranger in your	self?

Gmaj7	GmM7	D/F#
Don’t be af	raid to try a	gain

D7	Gmaj7	GmM7	D/F#	D7
Everyone goes	south e	very now and	then,	oh oh

Gmaj7	GmM7	D/F#
You’ve done it,	why can’t someone	else?

D7	Bm7	Bbaug	A6	B7
You should know by	now	you’ve been there your	self

	Em	Am	Em
You may	never understand how the	stranger is ins	pired

	Am	C	D	B7
But he	isn’t always	evil and he	is not always wrong

	Em	Am	Em
Though you	drown in good intentions you will	never quench the	fire

	Am	D	Bm	Em
You’ll give	in to your de	sire when the	stranger comes a	long

Em	C7	Em	C7

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-D7-G/D-|
 |------------------------------|
E|-7----7--5-5/7\5-3-3-3--2--3---|
B|-8----8--4---------3-4--1--3---|
G|-8-876---5---------4-5--2--4---|
D|-------------------5-------0---|

G+	G9+/F	F#dim7	C/G
Am7b5/D#	D7	G

Em	G
Slow down, you c	razy child

Vox on the 4 3 3 2 on “juveni-ile”

	D	F
You’re s	o ambitious for a	juvenile

	C
But then if	you’re so smart, tell me

G	A7	B9	B7
Why are you still so afraid?		→

Em	G
Where’s the fire, what’s the	hurry about?

	D	F
You’d better	cool it off before you	burn it out

	C
You’ve got	so much to do and

	G	F#m7	B9	B7
Only	so many hours in a	day	→

Vox *down* to the 1 6 5 of the chord on “truth is told”

C	D
But you know that when the	truth is told

	G	D/F#	Em	Em/D
That you can	get what you	want or you can	just get old

Vox on the 4 of the chord on “even”

	C	F#m7
You’re gonna	kick off before you	even

	B7	Em7	A7
Get hal	fway throug	h, ooh o	oh

	D#9	D7	G
When will you realize		Vienna waits for	you?

G

Em	G
Slow down, you’re	doing fine

	D	F
You can’t be	everything you want to be befor	e your time

	C	G	A7
Although it’s	so romantic on the	borderline tonight

	B9	B7
Toni	ght

Em	G
Too bad but it’s the	life you lead

	D	F
You’re so ah	ead of yourself that you for	got what you need

	C
Though you can	see when you’re wrong, you know

	G	F#m7
You can’	t always see when you’re right

	B9	B7
You’re righ	t

C	D
You’ve got your passion, you’ve	got your pride

	G	D/F#	Em	Em/D
But do	n’t you know that	only fools are	satisfied?

C	F#m7
Dream on, but don’t im	agine they’ll

B7	Em7	A7
All come true	, ooh o	oh

	D#9	D7	G
When will you realize		Vienna waits for	you?

Solo on a half-verse

C	D7
Slow down you	crazy child

	G	D/F#	Em	Em/D
And take the	phone off the	hook and disap	pear for a while

C	F#m7
It’s all right, you can afford	to lose a

B7	Em	A7
Day or two	, ooh o	oh

	D#9	D7	G
When will you realize		Vienna waits for	you?

C	D
And you know that when the	truth is told

	G	D/F#	Em	Em/D
That you can	get what you	want or you can	just get old

	C	F#m7
You’re gonna	kick off before you	even

	B7	Em7	A7
Get hal	fway throug	h, ooh o	oh

	D#9	D7	G	E7
Why don’t you realize		Vienna waits for	you?

	Em7/A	D7
When will you	realize,	Vienna waits for...

G+	G9+/F	F#dim7	C/G
You

Am7b5/D#

D7

G

Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst (1973)

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro, with weird wah noises

B7

Enter normal instrumentation

A	E	G	D

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

G	D
Tomorrow morning I could	be a bum

A	E
It doesn’t matter which di	rection though

G	D
I know a woman in New M	exico

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong

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

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

A	E
I do my writing on my r	oad guitar

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

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong

Bridge, half-time

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “lightning”

G	D
Lightning and th	under

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

	A	E
F	lashed across the roads we drove upo	n

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

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

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

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong, oh

A	E
Fun ain’t easy if	it ain’t free

G	D
Too many people got a	hold on me

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

G	D
I know a woman in New	Mexico

Bm7	E
Worse comes to	worst

Bm7	E
I’ll get a	long

Bm7	E
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Bm7	E
I can be s	trong

Black Sabbath - Changes (1972)

Originally in C, I play in G

G	Am/D	G
	→	x2

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

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

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

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

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am	Am
D	C	Em	Em
D	Em	Em
→

G	Am/D	G
	→	x2

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

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

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

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

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am	Am
D	C	Em	Em
D	Em	Em
→

G	Am/D	G
	→	x2

Am
G	Am/D	G
	→	x3

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

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

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

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

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am
I’m	going through	changes

C	Bm	Am	Am
D	C	Em	Em
D	Em	Em
→

Em

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)

Originally in Em, I play in Am capo 3

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	G
Can you help me?

	Am	G
Occupy my brai	n, oh	yeah

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1970)

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

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

are all really E major.

D5	E5
	x 4

D5	E5
	Generals gathered in their masses

D5	E5
	Just like witches at black masses

D5	E5
	Evil minds that plot destruction

D5	E5
	Sorcerers of death’s construction

D5	E5
	In the fields the bodies burning

D5	E5
	As the war machine keeps turning

D5	E5
	Death and hatred to mankind

D5	E5
	Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

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

E5

Politicians hide themselves away

E5

They only started the war

E5

Why should they go out to fight?

E5

They leave that role to the poor

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

E5

Time will tell on their power minds

E5

Making war just for fun

E5

Treating people just like pawns in chess

E5

Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah!

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

D5	E5
	x 2

D5	E5
	Now in darkness, world stops turning

D5	E5
	Ashes where the bodies burning

D5	E5
	No more war pigs have the power

D5	E5
	Hand of God has struck the hour

D5	E5
	Day of judgment, God is calling

D5	E5
	On their knees, the war pigs crawling

D5	E5
	Begging mercy for their sins

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

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

Blondie - One Way or Another (1978)

Intro

D	D	D	D	C#	C
			→	→	→

B	B	B	B	C	C#
			→	→	→

D	D	D	D	C#	C
			→	→	→

B	B	B	B	C	C#
			→	→	→

Not writing out the passing notes the rest of the way

D

One way or another, I’m gonna find ya

I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’

B

One way or another, I’m gonna win ya’

I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’ ,get ya’, get ya’

D

One way or another, I’m gonna see ya’

I’m gonna meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’

B

One day maybe next week, I’m gonna meet ya’

I’m gonna meet ya’, I’ll meet ya’

G	Bm	A/C#	G/B	A	F#m
I w	ill	drive	past	your ho	use

G	Bm	A/C#	G/B	A	F#m
And i	f the	lights	are	all d	own

	G	E	F#
I’ll	see who’s ar	ound

D

One way or another, I’m gonna find ya’

I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’

B

One way or another, I’m gonna win ya’

I’ll get ya’, I’ll get ya’

D

One way or another, I’m gonna see ya’

I’m gonna meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’, meet ya’

B

One day maybe next week, I’m gonna meet ya’, I’ll meet ya’, ah

G	Bm	A/C#	G/B	A	F#m
And i	f the	lights	are	all out

G	Bm	A/C#	G/B	A	F#m
I’ll	follow	your	bus d	ownt	own

	G	E	F#
See w	ho’s hangin’ o	ut

F#

Solo

F#m	F#m	A	C#m
F#m	F#m	A	C#m

B	E	F#m	F#m
A	A	B	B

D

One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’

I’m gonna give you the slip

	B
A s	lip of the hip or another, I’m gonna lose ya’

I’ll trick ya’, I’ll trick ya’

D

One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’

I’m gonna trick ya’, trick ya’, trick ya’, trick ya’

B

One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’

I’m gonna give you the slip

Bridge

D	D	B	B

D

I’ll walk down the mall, stand over by the wall

B

Where I can see it all, find out who ya’ call

D

Lead you to the supermarket check out

	B
Some	specials and wrap, we’ll get lost in the crowd

D	B
One way or another I’m gonna	get ya’, I’ll get ya’, I’ll get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’

(Where I can see it all, find out who ya’ call)

Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper (1976)

Am	G	F	G
			x4

Vox on the 3 of the chord

	Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
Al	l	our t	imes h	ave co	me

	Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
He	re	but n	ow the	y’re g	one

F	G	Am
Seasons don’t	fear the	reaper

	F	E7	Am	G	F
Nor do the w	ind, the s	un, or the ra	in (we can b	e like t	hey are)

G	Am	G	F
Come on	baby (don’t	fear the	reaper)

	G	Am	G	F
Baby	take my	hand (don’t	fear the	reaper)

	G	Am	G	F
We’ll be	able to	fly (don’t	fear the	reaper)

	G	Am	G	F	G
Baby	I’m your	man

Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
La-	la-	la-	la-	la

Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
La-	la-	la-	la-	la

Am	G	F	G
			x2

Hang here if you feel like it

Am

Am	G	F	G
			x4

Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
Val	enti	ne i	s d	one

	Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
He	re	but n	ow t	hey’re g	one

F	G	Am
Rome	o and	Juliet

In this verse, if you’re alone, leave out the background lyrics

	F	E7	Am	G
Are tog	ether in et	ernit	y (Rome	o and Juliet)

F	G	Am	G
Forty-thousand m	en and women e	veryday (like Rome	o and Juliet)

F	G	Am	G	F
Forty-thousand m	en and women	everyday (	redefine	happiness)

	F	G	Am	G	F
An	other forty-tho	usand coming e	veryday (we can b	e like the	y are)

G	Am	G	F
Come on	baby (don’t	fear the	reaper)

	G	Am	G	F
Baby	take my	hand (don’t	fear the	reaper)

	G	Am	G	F
We’ll be	able to	fly (don’t	fear the	reaper)

	G	Am	G	F	G
Baby	I’m your	man

Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
La-	la-	la-	la-	la

Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
La-	la-	la-	la-	la

Am	G	F	G

Let ring

Am

Solo, approximating

Fm	G7
	x8

Am	G	F	G
			x4

	Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
L	ove	of t	wo i	s o	ne

	Am	G	F	G	Am	G	F	G
H	ere	but n	ow t	hey’re g	one

F	G	Am
Came the last	night of	sadness

	F	E7	Am	G
And it was c	lear that she c	ouldn’t go o	n

	F	G	Am	G
Then the d	oor was o	pen and the w	ind appeared

	F	G	Am	G
The c	andles bl	ew and di	sappeared

	F	G	Am	G	F
The cur	tains fl	ew and then h	e appeared (saying d	on’t be afr	aid)

G	Am	G	F
Come on	baby (and she	had no	fear)

G	Am	G	F
And she r	an to him (then he s	tarted to f	ly)

	G	Am	G	F
They looked b	ackward and s	aid goodbye (she had bec	ome like th	ey are)

	G	Am	G	F
She had	taken his	hand (she had bec	ome like the	y are)

G	Am	G	F	G
Come on	baby (don’t	fear the	reaper)

Am	G	F	G
			x4

Am

Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling (1974)

Originally in G#, I play in E capo 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Band enters on “feeling”

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

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

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

of 2/4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

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

Hang the last chord

E	B	E7	A	Am

band out, with ooka-chaka’s

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

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

Band enters on “feeling”

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

	A	B
I’m high on	believing

Ends with two hits on the last chord

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

Repeat to fade

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

Chords are a combination of the Dylan and GnR versions

G	D	Am7
G	D	C

G	D	Am	Am7
Mama,	take this badge from	me

G	D	C
I can’t	use it any	more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G	D	C
I can’t	shoot them any	more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C	G
Ooohhhh... oh oh	yea

Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff (1973)

Originally in Gm, I play in Em.

Vox spend a lot of time on the 1.

Riff (in Gm):

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

C	Bm	Em
All aro	und in my h	ome town

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

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

	C	Bm	Em
For the	killing of a	deputy

	C	Bm	Em
For the	life of a	depu	ty

With riff

But I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
And they say it is a ca	pital offense

C	Bm	Em
Sheriff	John Brown a	lways hated me

C	Bm	Em
For wha	t I don’t k	now

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

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

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

With riff

I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

C	Bm	Em
Freedom	came my way	one day

C	Bm	Em
And I st	arted out of	town yeah

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

C	Bm	Em
Aiming to s	hoot me d	own

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

With riff, and wait a while after...

I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot the	deputy

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I didn’t shoot the	deputy

C	Bm	Em
Reflexes	got the b	etter of me

C	Bm	Em
And what	is to be	must be

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

C	Bm	Em
But one day the	bottom will	drop out

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

With riff

But I say

Em

I shot the sheriff

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

Em

I shot the sheriff

Am	Em
But I did not shoot no	deputy

Outro

C	Bm	Em
		x2

Original fade, I end on riff

Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (1974)

Originally in C, I play in G capo 2.

G	D/F#	Em	C
G	C	G	D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G	D/F#	Em	C
	Along the	way

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Seger - Turn The Page (1973)

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

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

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

Changing positions keeps this fairly repetitive song from getting

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

string as I can.

Em	D	Em	Em

	Em
On a	long and lonesome highway east of Omaha

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

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

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

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

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

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Em

You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road

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

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

Em

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

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

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

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Quiet, let chords ring...

Em

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

D

Every ounce of energy you try to give away

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

Em

Later on that evening, as you lie awake in bed

	D
The	echoes of the amplifiers ringin’ in your head

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

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	turn the	page

Now getting loud again...

	D	Em
But here I	am, on the	road again

	D	Em
Here I	am, up on	stage

	D	A
Here I	go, playing the	star again

	C	D	Em
There I	go,	there I	go

Bonnie Tyler - It’s a Heartache (1978)

Originally in C, I play in G

Intro

Gadd9

	G	Bm
It’s a	heartache, nothing but a	heartache

	C
Hits you when it’s	too late

	G	D
Hits you when you’re	down

	G	Bm
It’s a	fool’s game, nothing but a	fool’s game

	C	G	D
Standing in the	cold rain, feeling like a	clown

	G	Bm
It’s a	heartache, nothing but a	heartache

	C
Love him till your	arms break

	G	D
Then he lets you	down

	C	D
It ain’t	right with love to	share

	Bm	Em	D	D/C	Gadd9/B	D/A
When you	find he doesn’t	care for	you →	→	→

	C	D
It ain’t	wise to need some	one

	Bm	Em
As much as	I depended	on

D	D/C	Gadd9/B	D/A
You →	→	→

	G	Bm
Aw, it’s a	heartache, nothing but a	heartache

	C
Hits you when it’s	too late

	G	D
Hits you when you’re	down

	G	Bm
It’s a	fool’s game, nothing but a	fool’s game

	C	G	D
Standing in the	cold rain, feeling like a	clown

Solo on verse chords

	C	D
It ain’t	right with love to	share

	Bm	Em
When you	find he doesn’t	care for

D	D/C	Gadd9/B	D/A
You →	→	→

	C	D
It ain’t	wise to need some	one

	Bm	Em
As much as	I depend	on

D	D/C	Gadd9/B	D/A
You →	→	→

	G	Bm
Oh, it’s a	heartache, nothing but a	heartache

	C
Love him till your	arms break

	G	D
Then he lets you	down

Solo on verse chords, with ad libs

G	Bm
It’s a fool’s game,	standing in the cold rain

C	G	D
Feeling like a	clown

	G	Bm	C
It’s a	heartache,	love him til your	arms break

	G	D
Then he lets you	down

Boston - More than a Feeling (1976)

Originally in D, I either play in D (and sing the chorus down an octave) or in G)

Either way, do not try to go up on the “slipped away” line

Not writing out all the suspensions and root movement after the intro

D	Dsus4	D	Cadd9	G/B	G
	→		→	→	x4

	D	C	G
I	looked out this morning and t	he sun was	gone

D	C	G
Turned on some music to	start my	day

	D	C	G
Then	lost myself in a fam	iliar song

	D	C	G/B
I	closed my eyes and I	slipped away

Am	G/B	D

G	C	Em	D
			x2

	G	C	Em	D
It’s	more than a	feeling (	more than a	feeling)

	G	C	Em	D
When I	hear that old	song they used to	play (more than a f	eeling)

	G	C	Em	D
As	I begin	dreaming (	more than a	feeling)

	G	C	Eb
Till I	see Mari	anne walk a	way

Em7	A7sus4	A7	G
I see my	Maria	nne walkin’ a	way

G	D/F#	A/E	D
→	→	→

D	Dsus4	D	Cadd9	G/B	G
	→		→	→	x2

D	C	G
So many people have	come and	gone

	D	C	G
Their	faces fade as the	years go	by

	D	C	G
Yet I	still recall as	I wander	on

	D	C	G/B
As	clear as the sun in the	summer sky

Am	G/B	D

G	C	Em	D
			x2

	G	C	Em	D
It’s	more than a	feeling (	more than a	feeling)

	G	C	Em	D
When I	hear that old	song they used to	play (more than a f	eeling)

	G	C	Em	D
As	I begin	dreaming (	more than a	feeling)

	G	C	Eb
Till I	see Mari	anne walk a	way

Em7	A7sus4	A7	Bm	A
I see my	Marian	ne walkin’ a	way

Solo

D	G	D/F#	A
D	G	D/F#	A
D	G	Bm	A
D	Bm	Em	A
G	G

G	D/F#	A/E	D
→	→	→

D	Dsus4	D	Cadd9	G/B	G
	→		→	→	x2

D	C	G
When I’m tired and	thinking cold

	D	C	G
I	hide in my music, for	get the	day

	D	C	G
And	dream of a girl, I	used to	know

	D	C	G/B
I	closed my eyes and she	slipped a	way

D	D	Cadd9	G/B
D	D	Cadd9	G/B
		Slipped a	way

D

Cadd9

G/B

Hang on the bVII a little extra

D	D	Cadd9	G/B

Hang on the last chord a little extra

Am	G/B	D

G	C	Em	D
			x2

	G	C	Em	D
It’s	more than a	feeling (	more than a	feeling)

	G	C	Em	D
When I	hear that old	song they used to	play (more than a f	eeling)

	G	C	Em	D
As	I begin	dreaming (	more than a	feeling)

	G	C	Em	D
When I	see Mari	anne walk a	way

G	C	Em	D
			x2

G

Boston - Rock and Roll Band (1975)

Originally in E, I play in A capo 1

Intro

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

	A	D
We were	just another band out of	Boston

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

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

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

A	D
No, we didn’t have much	money

	A	D
We	barely made enough to survi	ve

Hard stop on the V at the end of this line

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

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

F#m	D
Gettin’ crazy ant	icipating

Hard stop on the last “yeah”

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

A	D
Dancin’ in the streets of Hya	nnis

	A	D
We were g	etting pretty good at the	game

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

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

A	D
Livin’ on rock-n-roll mus	ic

	A	D
Never	worried ‘bout the things we were	missing

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

	D	E
Everybo	dy listened

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

F#m	D
Gettin’ crazy ant	icipating

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

Solo

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

Let ring

A	D
Playin’ for a week in Rhode I	sland

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

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

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

A	D
Sign a record company con	tract

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

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

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

F#m	D
Gettin’ crazy ant	icipating

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

D	E	G	D

A	D
A	D
A	G	D	A

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

Some of the banter is from the Mötley Crüe version

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

Originally in D, I play in A

A

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

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

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

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

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

	F
G	onna meet the boys on floor number two

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

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

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

five of the chord on “smoke”

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

A

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

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

A

My buddies Sixx, Mick, and Tom

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

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

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

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

Solo

D	A	D	E
D	A	D	F#	E

	A
P	ut me to work in the school book store

	F
Ch	eck-out counter and I got bored

	A
Te	acher was lookin’ for me all around

	F
T	wo hours later you know where I was found

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

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

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

One more...

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

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

Hard stop on “smoke”

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

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

G#	A
→

Bruce Springsteen - Because the Night (1978)

Originally in Am, I play in Em capo 3

Em	C	D	Em
			x 2

Em	C	D	Em
Take me	now, baby,	here as I	am

Em	C	D	Em
Pull me	close try and	understand

Em	C	D	Em
Worked all	day out in	the hot	sun

Em	C	D	Em
Break my	back till the	evening	comes

C	D	G	D
Come on	now, try and	under	stand

	Em	C	D
I	worked all	day pushing for the	man

G	C	D
Take my	hand as the sun des	cends

	F	Em	B
They	can’t hurt us now,	can’t hurt us now,	can’t hurt us now

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night be	longs	to	lovers

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night bel	ongs	to u	s

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night be	longs	to	lovers

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night bel	ongs	to u	s

Em	C	D	Em
What I	got, baby,	I have	earned

Em	C	D	Em
What I’m	not, baby,	I have	learned

Em	C	D	Em
Love is an	angel that	comes at	dusk

Em	C	D	Em
Stay in my	bed till the	evening	comes

C	D	G	D
Come on	now, try and	under	stand

	Em	C	D
The	way I	feel under your com	mand

G	C	D
Take my	hand as the sun des	cends

	F	Em	B
They	can’t hurt us now,	can’t hurt us now,	can’t hurt us now

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night be	longs	to	lovers

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night bel	ongs	to u	s

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night be	longs	to	lovers

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night bel	ongs	to u	s

Solo if appropriate on prechorus-ish chords

Bridge

	G	D	D	G	G	D	D	Em	D	D
In	love	we	sleep,	with do	ubt	the vi	cious circle	turns	and b	urns

G	G	D	D	Em	D	D	G	G	D
With	out	you	oh I cannot	live,	forgi	ve	with	out the	time has come to

“Take” up to the 1 of the chord

C	G	G	C
Take	the	moment	out

	Em	G/D	C	B
They	can’t hurt us now,	can’t hurt us now,	can’t hurt us now

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night be	longs	to	lovers

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night bel	ongs	to u	s

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night be	longs	to	lovers

Em	C	C	D	Em
Because	the night bel	ongs	to u	s

Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light (1973)

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

Intro

D	Dsus4
	x 2

Vox and guitar only

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

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

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

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

If you feel like it...

	G	A	D
The ca	lliope	crashed to the groun	d

Band enters

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

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

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

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

	G	A	D
And she was	blinded	by the	light

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

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

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

Hang on the minor chord

G

Bm

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

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

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

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

	G	A	D
And he was	blinded	by the	light

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

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

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

	G	Bm
To	night

Bridge, quiet again

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

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

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

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

Loud again

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	G	A	D
He was just	blinded	by the	light

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

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

Rubato

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

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

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

	G	A	D
I was just	blinded	by the	light

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

	G	A	D	Bm
Bli	nded	by the	light

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

	D
Through the n	ight

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)

Originally in E, I play in D

D	D	G	A
			x2

Vox in on the 4 on “day”

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

	G	A
Of a r	unaway American dr	eam

	D
At n	ight we ride through mansions of glory

	G	A
In s	uicide mach	ines

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

	Em
Chrome wh	eeled, fuel injected

Leave out the vocal “oh”

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

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

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

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

	G
‘Cause tr	amps like us

	A	D
B	aby we were born to r	un

D	D	G	A
			x2

	D
Wendy l	et me in I wanna be your friend

	G	A
I wanna g	uard your dreams and v	isions

	D
Just wr	ap your legs ‘round these velvet rims

	G	A
And str	ap your hands ‘cross my	engines

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

	Em
We’ll	run till we drop

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

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

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

	D	Bm
But I g	otta know how it	feels

	G
I want to kn	ow if love is wild

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

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

no solo.

D	D	G	A
			x2

Solo if appropriate

D	D	G	A
			x2

D	D	G	A
Bm	Bm	D	Am7

All chords sus4→major, everything other than C

as 6th-string barres.

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “beyond”

	C
Bey	ond the Palace hemi-powered drones

	F
Sc	ream down the boulevard

	G
The girls	comb their hair in rearview mirrors

	A#
And the	boys try to look so hard

	C
The amu	sement park rises bold and stark

	F
Kids are	huddled on the beach in a mist

	G
I wanna	die with you Wendy on the streets tonight

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

a lot of suspensions.

	A#
In an	everlasting kiss

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

A#sus4	A#
Asus4	A

Then riff for a while on...

Gsus4	G

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

Vox back in on the 3

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

	G	A
L	ast chance power d	rive

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

	G	A
N	o place left to	hide

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

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

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

Em

Get to that place

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

	Bm
And we’ll walk in the	sun

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

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

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

Until end, with “whoa”

D

G

A

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (1975)

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

Originally in F; I play in D

D	G	D	G
D	F#m	G	A

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

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

	A
Roy Orbison singing for the	lonely

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

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

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

So you're scared and you're thinking that

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

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

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

	D	A
Oh and	that’s alright with	me

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

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

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

G	A
Savior to rise from these	streets

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

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

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

G	A
What else can we do	now except

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

Well the night’s busting open these

F#m	G
Two lanes can take us	anywhere

	A
We got one last chance to make it	real

	D	G
To	trade in these wings on some	wheels

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

D	Bm
Oh come	take my hand

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

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

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

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

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

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

	Bm
And my	car’s out back if you’re

	Gmaj7	A
Ready to take that	long	walk

	G	A
From your	front porch to my front	seat

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

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

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

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

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

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

G

Burned-out Chevrolets

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

	A
They scream your name at night in the	street

	D	G
Your graduation	gown lies in rags at their	feet

Stay on the 1 of the key on “lonely”

	F#m
And in the	lonely cool before dawn

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

	G
You hear their	engines roaring on

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

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

	G	Em
On the	wind, so Mary climb	in

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

Outro

D	A	D	G
D	A	G	A

D	A	D	G
D	A
G	G/F#	G/E	G/D
→	→	→

A	A/G	A/F#	A/E
→	→	→

D

Repeat to fade

Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better (1977)

Originally in F, I play in A capo 1

Highest important note is the 4 (“half as good”)

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (in E) use the obvious

root chords in most cases, except that A/B becomes B, and

C#7b9 becomes C#m

In my key:

F#7b9 = 2x2323

Intro

A	Adim7	G#dim7	A	A7
	→

Vox on the b5 of the chord (!!)

D	Dm	A	A7
Nobody doe	s it be	tter

D	Dm	A	A7
Makes me feel sa	d for the	rest

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

Bm7	D/E	A	Adim7	G#dim7
	Baby you’re the	best	→

A	A/C#	D	Dm
I wasn’t lo	oking,	but somehow you fo	und me

A	A/C#	B9	A#9
I tried to	hide from your l	ove l	ight

A	A/C#
But like heaven ab	ove me

D	Dm
The spy who lo	ved me

	C#7	F#7b9	Bm7	E7sus4	A	A7
Is	keeping	all my	secrets sa	fe ton	ight

	D	Dm	A	A7
And	nobody doe	s it b	etter

D	Dm	A	A7
Though sometimes I w	ish som	eone could

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

Bm7	D/E	A
Why’d you	have to be so	good

A	A/C#	D	Dm
The way that you	hold me,	whenever you h	old me

A	A/C#	B9	A#9
There’s some kind of	magic ins	ide	you

A	A/C#
That keeps me from	running

D	Dm
But just keep it c	oming

	C#7	F#7b9	Bm7	E7sus4	A	A7
How	’d you	learn to	do the t	hings you	do?

	D	Dm	A	Asus4
And	nobody doe	s it be	tter

D	Dm	A
Makes me feel so sa	d f	or the rest

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

Bm7	A/C#
Ba	by, baby

Dmaj7	D#7b9	E7	A	A/C#
→	Darlin’	you’re the	best

D	F	G	A	A/C#
	Baby	you’re the	best

D	F	G	A	A/C#
	Darlin’	you’re the	best

D	F	G	A
	Baby	you’re the	best

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

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (1978)

Originally in Dm, I play in Am capo 5

Am	Am	Am	Am/G
			x4

	Am	G	F	E
You get a	shiver in the dark, it’s	raining in the	park but	meantime

Am	G	F	E
South of the river you s	top and you h	old everyth	ing

C	G
A band is blowing Dixie double f	our time

F	Am
You feel alright when you hear that music r	ing

Am	F	G
	→

	Am	G	F	E
Well now, you	step inside but you	don’t see	too many f	aces

Am	G	F	E
Coming in out of the	rain to hear the	jazz go	down

C	G
Competition in other p	laces

F	Am
Oh, but the horns they blowin’ that	sound

F	G
→	Way on down south

F	G
→	Way on down south

Am

London Town

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

	Am	G	F	E
You check out	Guitar George,		he knows	all the chords

Am	G	F	E
Mind he’s strictly rhythm he	doesn’t want to	make it cry	or sing

C	G
They say an old guitar is	all he can afford

F	Am
When he gets up under the lights to play his thi	ng

Am	F	G
	→

Am	G	F	E
And Harry doesn’t	mind	if he doesn’t	make the scene

Am	G	F	E
He’s got a daytime	job, he’s	doin’ al	right

C	G
He can play the honky tonk like a	nything

F	Am
Saving it up for Friday night

F	G
→	With the Sultans

F	G	Am
→	With the Sultans of	Swing

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

	Am	G	F	E
Then a	crowd of young boys, they’re	foolin’ a	round in the	corner

Am	G	F	E
Drunk and dressed in their best	brown baggies	and their plat	form soles

C	G
They don’t give a damn about about any	trumpet playin’ band

F	Am
It ain’t what they call rock and r	oll

F	G
→	And the Sultans

F	G	Am
→	Yeah, the Sultans, they play	Creole

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→	Creole	→

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Solo on verse chords

Am	G	F	E	E
Am	G	F	E	E
C	C	G	G
F	F	Am	Am	F
G	G	F	G	G

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Am	G	F	E
And then the man he st	eps right	up to the m	icrophone

Am	G	F	E
And says at l	ast just as the	time bell	ring

C	G
Goodnight, now it’s t	ime to go home

F	Am
Then he makes it fast with one more th	ing

F	G	F	G
→	We are the Sultans

F	G	Am
→	We are the Sultans of	Swing

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Am	G	F	C/G	G	C/G	G
→	→		→		→

Dobie Gray - Drift Away (1970)

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

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

Intro

A	E/A	D/A	E/A	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

D	A
Day after day I’m more confu	sed

D	E	A
Yet I look for the	light through the pouring r	ain

D	A
You know that’s a game that I hate to l	ose

Bm	D
I’m feelin’ the strain,	ain’t it a shame

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

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

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

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

A	E/A	D/A	E/A	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

D	A
Beginning to think that I’m wastin’ t	ime

D	E	A
I don’t understand	the things I do

D	A
The world outside looks so unki	nd

Bm	D
Now I’m countin’ on you to	carry me through

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

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

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

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

A	E/A	D/A	E/A	A
→	→	→	→

Esus4	A
→

Bm

And when my mind is free

D	A
You know a melody can m	ove me

Bm

And when I’m feelin’ blue

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

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

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

D	A
Rhythm and rhyme and harm	ony

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

Instruments drop out

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

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

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

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

Instruments back in

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

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

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

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

	A	E	D
Now won’t you	take me,	take me

Fade on chorus chords

Dolly Parton - Jolene (1973)

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

Highest note is the 1

Em

Vox in on 7 1 on Jo-lene

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

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

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

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

	Em	G
Your be	auty is be	yond compare

	D	Em
With fl	aming locks of au	burn hair

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

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

	D	Em
Your vo	ice is soft like su	mmer rain

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

	Em	G
He t	alks about you	in his sleep

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

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

	Em	G
And	I can easily u	nderstand

	D	Em
How	you could easily t	ake my man

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

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

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

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

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

	Em	G
You	could have your	choice of men

	D	Em
But	I could never l	ove again

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

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

	D	Em
My	happines depe	nds on you

	D	Em
Wha	tever you decide to do, Jo	lene

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

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

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

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

Outro

Em

Jolene...

Don McLean - American Pie (1971)

	G	D	Em7
A	long,	long	time ago

Am	C
I can still re	member how that

	Em	D
M	usic used to make me	smile

	G	D	Em7
And	I know	if I	had my chance

	Am	C
That	I could make those	people dance and

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

	Em	Am
But	February	made me shiver

	Em	Am
Wwith	every paper	I’d deliver

C	G	Am
Bad news	on the	doorstep

	C	D
I	couldn’t take one more	step

	G	D	Em
I	can’t remem	ber if I	cried

	Am7	D
When I	read about his	widowed bride

G	D	Em
Something	touched me	deep inside

	C	D7	G	C	G
The	day the	music	died

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

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

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

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

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

G	Am
Did you write the	book of love?

	C	Am
And do	you have faith in	god above

Em	D
If the bible	tells you so?

G	D	Em
Do you	believe in	rock and roll

	Am7	C
Can	music save your	mortal soul

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

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

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

	C	G	A7
You	both kicked	off your	shoes

	C	D7
Man I	dig those rhythm and	blues

	G	D	Em
I was a	lonely	teenage	broncin’ buck

	Am	C
With a	pink carnation and a	pickup truck

	G	D	Em
But	I knew	I was	out of luck

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

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

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

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

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

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

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

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

	D
But that’s not how it u	sed to be

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

	Am7	C
In a	coat he borrowed fr	om James Dean

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

	Em	D
And w	hile the king was lo	oking down

	Em	D
The	jester stole his th	orny crown

	C	G	A7
The c	ourtroom	was adjourn	ed

	C	D7
No	verdict was r	eturned

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

	Am	C
The	quartet practiced	in the park

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

	C	D7	G
The	day the mu	sic die	d

C	G
We	were singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

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

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

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

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

G	Am
Helter skelter in a	summer swelter

C	Am
The birds flew off with	a fallout shelter

Em	D
Eight miles high and	fallin’ fast

	G	D	Em
It lan	ded	foul o	n the grass

	Am7	C
The pl	ayers tried for a f	orward pass

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

	Em	D
Now the ha	lftime air was s	weet perfume

	Em	D
While	sergeants played a m	arching tune

C	G	A7
We all got	up to dan	ce

	C	D7
But	we never got the ch	ance

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

	Am	C
The	marching band re	fused to yield

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

	C	D7	G
The	day the m	usic died	?

	C	G
W	e s	tarted singin’

	G	C	G	D
So	bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

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

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

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

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	Am
And t	here we were all	in one place

	C	Am
A ge	neration	lost in space

Em	D
With no time left to	start again

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

	Am7	C
J	ack Flash sat on a c	andle

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

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

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

	C	G	A7
No	angel b	orn in H	ell

	C	D7
Could b	read that Satan’s	spell

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

	Am	C
To	light the sacrif	icial rite

	G	D	Em
I saw S	atan l	aughing with	delight

	C	D7	G	C
The d	ay the	music d	ied

	G
H	e was singin’

G	C	G	D
Bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

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

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

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

Em	D7
This’ll be the day that I	die

	G	D	Em
I	met a	girl who	sang the blues

	Am	C
And I	asked her for some	happy news

	Em	D
But	she just smiled and turned a	way

	G	D	Em
I	went down	to the	sacred store

	Am	C
Where I’d	heard the music	years before

	Em	C
But the	man there said the	music

	D
Wouldn’t	play

	Em	Am
But	in the streets the	children screamed

	Em	Am
The	lovers cried and the	poets dreamed

	C	G	Am
But	not a	word was	spoken

	C	D
The	church bells all were	broken

	G	D	Em
And the	three men	I ad	mire most

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

G	D	Em
They caught the	last train	for the coast

	Am7	D7	G
The	day the	music	died

D7

And they were singin’

G	C	G	D
Bye,	bye Miss	American	Pie

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

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

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

Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise (1977)

Originally in A, I play in E capo 2.

Intro, hang the last chord

D	E
	x 8

	D	E
I’ve got a su	prise especially for	you

	D	E
Something that	both of us have always wanted to	do

	D	E
I’ve waited so	long, I’ve waited so lon	g

	D	E
I’ve waited so	long, I’ve waited so lon	g

	D	E
I’m gonna	take you on a trip so far from	here

	D	E
I’ve got two t	ickets in my pocket now baby, we’re gonna disap	pear

E	D	E
Waited so	long, I’ve waited so	long

	D	E
I’ve waited so	long, we’ve waited so lon	g

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

	A	D	E
Won’t you	pack your	bags we’ll	leave tonight

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

Interlude, solo if appropriate

D	E
	x 8

	D	E
Whoa	,	whoa

	D	E
I’m gonna	take you on a trip so far from	here

	D	E
I’ve got two t	ickets in my pocket baby, we’ll disap	pear

	D	E
I’ve waited so	long, I’ve waited so	long

	D	E
I’ve waited so	long, I’ve waited so lon	g

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

	A	D	E
Won’t you	pack your	bags we’ll	leave tonight

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

	A	D	E
Won’t you	pack your	bags we’ll	leave tonight

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

	A	D	E
Won’t you	pack your	bags we’ll	leave tonight

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

Hang the last chord

	A	D	E
I’ve got	two	tickets to	paradise

Elton John - Crocodile Rock (1973)

Intro, II7b9 can be bIIIdim

Originally in G, I play in E

In E, play the D#7b9 in the intro as x1202x

E/B	A/C#	D#7b9

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

	E
I rem	ember when rock was young

	G#m
Me and	Susie had so much fun

	A
Holding	hands and skimmin’ stones

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

	E
But the	biggest kick I ever got

	G#m
Was doin’ a	thing called the Crocodile Rock

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

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

C#m

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

F#7

Feet just can’t keep still

B7	E
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

C#

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

F#7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

B7	A
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

E

La, la la la la

C#m

La, la la la la

A

La, la la la la

B

La

	E
But the	years went by and rock just died

G#m

Susie went and left me for some foreign guy

A

Long nights cryin’ by the record machine

B

Dreamin’ of my Chevy and my old blue jeans

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

	G#m
Burnin’	up to the Crocodile Rock

	A
Learning	fast as the weeks went past

	B
We really	thought the Crocodile Rock would last, well

C#m

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

F#7

Feet just can’t keep still

B7	E
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

C#

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

F#7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

B7	A
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

E

La, la la la la

C#m

La, la la la la

A

La, la la la la

B

La

With harmony

	E
I rem	ember when rock was young

	G#m
Me and	Susie had so much fun

	A
Holding	hands and skimmin’ stones

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

	E
But the	biggest kick I ever got

	G#m
Was doin’ a	thing called the Crocodile Rock

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

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

C#m

Crocodile Rockin’ is something shockin’ when your

F#7

Feet just can’t keep still

B7	E
I never knew me a better time and I	guess I never will

C#

Oh, lordy mamma those Friday nights when

F#7

Susie wore her dresses tight and

B7	A
The Crocodile Rockin’ was out of’a	sight

E

La, la la la la

C#m

La, la la la la

A

La, la la la la

B

La

Fade

Elton John - Daniel (1973)

Play as punk-y straight-8ths

C	F	G7	C

	C	Dm7
Daniel	is traveling tonight on a	plane

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

F	G	Am
I can see	Daniel waving good	bye

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

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

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

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

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

F	C
Daniel my brother you are	older than me

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

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

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

	C	Dm7
Daniel	is traveling tonight on a	plane

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

F	G	Am
I can see	Daniel waving good	bye

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

F	C
Daniel my brother you are	older than me

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

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

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

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

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

Outro

	C	F	G7	C
Mmmmm...

Elton John - 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

Eric Clapton - Lay Down Sally (1977)

Intro

A

Vox start on the 7

A

There is nothing that is wrong

	D
In wanting you to stay here with	me

	A
I k	now you’ve got somewhere to go

But won’t you make yourself at home and

D	E
Stay with me? And don’t you e	ver leave

A	D
Lay down Sally and r	est here in my arms

E	A
Don’t you think you want someone to t	alk to?

A	D
Lay down Sally, no n	eed to leave so soon

E	A
I’ve been trying all night long just to t	alk to you

A

	A
The s	un ain’t nearly on the rise

	D
And we still got the moon and stars ab	ove

A

Underneath the velvet skies

	D
Love is all that matters, won’t you s	tay with me?

	E
Don’t you e	ver leave

A	D
Lay down Sally and r	est here in my arms

E	A
Don’t you think you want someone to t	alk to?

A	D
Lay down Sally, no n	eed to leave so soon

E	A
I’ve been trying all night long just to t	alk to you

A

	A
I l	ong to see the morning light

	D
Coloring your face so dreami	ly

	A
So d	on’t you go and say goodbye

	D
You can lay your worries down and s	tay with me

	E
Don’t you e	ver leave

A	D
Lay down Sally and r	est here in my arms

E	A
Don’t you think you want someone to t	alk to?

A	D
Lay down Sally, no n	eed to leave so soon

E	A
I’ve been trying all night long just to t	alk to you

A	D
Lay down Sally and r	est here in my arms

E	A
Don’t you think you want someone to t	alk to?

A	D
Lay down Sally, no n	eed to leave so soon

E	A
I’ve been trying all night long just to t	alk to you

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight (1977)

G	D/F#	C	D

G	D/F#	C	D
It’s late in the	evening,	she’s wondering what cl	othes to wear

G	D/F#	C	D
She puts on her	make-up,	and brushes her	long blond hair

C	D	G	D/F#	Em
And then she a	sks me,	do I	look all	right

	C	D	G
And I say y	es, you look w	onderful toni	ght

G	D/F#	C	D

G	D/F#	C	D
We go to	party,	and everyone t	urns to see

G	D/F#	C	D
This beautiful	lady,	who’s walking ar	ound with me

C	D	G	D/F#	Em
And then she	asks me,	do you	feel all right

	C	D	G
And I say ye	s, I feel wo	nderful toni	ght

G

	C	D	G	D/F#	Em
I feel w	onderful bec	ause I see the l	ove light	in your e	yes

	C	D	C	D
And the w	onder of it a	ll is that you j	ust don’t real	ize

	G
How much I l	ove you

G	D/F#	C	D
			x2

G	D/F#	C	D
It’s time to go	home now,	and I’ve got an aching h	ead

G	D/F#	C	D
So I give her the	car keys,	and she helps me to b	ed

C	D	G	D/F#	Em
And then I	tell her,	as I	turn out the	light

	C	D	G	D/F#	Em	D
I say my d	arling, you were w	onderful ton	ight

	C	D	G
Oh my	darling, you were	wonderful to	night

G	D/F#	C	D
			x2

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

Me First in G, I play in D capo 2

In D, play Gadd9 as 30020x

A	Gadd9	D/F#	Gadd9	D

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

	A
When I try to explain how I	feel

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

	Bm
You won’t bel	ieve me

	E7
All you will see is a	girl you once knew

	E7
Al	though she is dressed to the nines

	A
At sixes and sevens with	you

A	Gadd9	D/F#	Gadd9	D

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

	A
Couldn’t stay all my life down at	heel

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

	Bm
So I chose	freedom

	E7
Running around, trying	everything new

	E7
But	nothing impressed me at all

	A
I never expected it	to

A	Gadd9	D/F#	Gadd9

D

Don’t cry for me Argentina

	D
The	truth is I never left you

	A
All through my	wild days

	Gadd9
My mad ex	istence

	D
I kept my	promise

Let ring on “distance”

	Gadd9
Don’t keep your	distance

	D	G
And as for	fortune, and as for	fame

	A
I never invited them	in

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

	Bm
They are ill	usions

	E7
They are not the solutions they	promised to be

	E7
The	answer was here all the time

	A
I love you and hope you love	me

A	Gadd9	D/F#	Gadd9

D

Don’t cry for me Argentina

	D
The	truth is I never left you

	A
All through my	wild days

	Gadd9
My mad ex	istence

	D
I kept my	promise

	Gadd9
Don’t keep your	distance

Vox on the 3 of the chord

Em	A
Have I said too much?

	D	A/C#	Bm
There’s nothing	more I can	think of to	say to you

Vox on the 3 of the chord (again)

	Em	A
But	all you gotta do is look at	me to know

	D	A/C#	G
That	every	word is	true

D

Don’t cry for me Argentina

	D
The	truth is I never left you

	A
All through my	wild days

	Gadd9
My mad ex	istence

	D
I kept my	promise

	Gadd9
Don’t keep your	distance

Faces - Stay With Me (1971)

Originally in A, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A	B	D	A

	A
In the m	orning

	B
Don’t say you l	ove me

	D	A
Cause I’ll	only kick you out of the d	oor

	A
I k	now your name is Rita

	B
Cause your p	erfume’s smelling sweeter

	D	A
Since w	hen I saw you down on the fl	oor

A	B	D	A

	A
You won’t n	eed too much persuading

	B
I don’t m	ean to sound degrading

	D
But with a f	ace like that

	A
You got nothing to laugh ab	out

	A
Red l	ips, hair, and fingernails

	B
I h	ear you’re a mean old Jezebel

	D	A
Lets	go up stairs and read my tarot ca	rds

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
For ton	ight you better stay with	me

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
For ton	ight you better stay with	me

A	B	D	A

	A
So in the m	orning

	B
Please don’t say you l	ove me

	D	A
Cause you k	now I’ll only kick you out the d	oor

	A
Y	ea, I’ll pay your cab fare home

	B
You can	even use my best cologne

	D	A
Just d	on’t be here in the morning when I wake	up

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
Cause ton	ight you’re gonna stay with	me

Sit down, get up, get out

	A
St	ay with me

	B
St	ay with me

	D	A
Cause ton	ight you’re gonna stay with	me

A

B

D

A

Five Man Electrical Band - Signs (1971)

Originally in D, I play in A

A	A	D/A	A
		→

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said,	long-haired, freaky people	need not ap	ply

	A	E	D	E
So	I tucked my hair up	under my hat and I	went in to ask him	why

F#m	D
He said you look like a fine, upstanding young	man, I think you’ll do

	A	E	D	E
So, I	took off my hat and said, im	agine that, huh,	me workin’ for	you, whoa

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

A

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said anybody	caught trespassing	would be shot on	sight

	A	E	D	E
So, I	jumped on the fence and I	yelled at the house, hey,	what gives you the	right

	F#m	D
To	put up a fence to keep me out or to	keep mother nature in

	A	E	D	E
If	God was here, he’d	tell you to your face,	man, you’re some kinda	sinner

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

A	A	D/A	A
		→

	E
Now,	hey you, mister, can’t you read?

	D	A
You’ve	got to have a shirt and	tie to get a seat

	E
You can’t even watch, no,	you can’t eat

D	A	A
You ain’t supposed to	be	here

Let ring

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said, you	got to have a membership	card to get ins	ide, huh

Solo on chorus chords, or just...

A	A	D/A	A
		→

Let ring

	G	D/F#	A/E	D
And the	sign said	everybody welcome, come	in, kneel down and	pray

	A	E
But when they	passed around the plate at the	end of it all

	D	E
I	didn’t have a penny to	pay

	F#m	D
So I	got me a pen and a paper and I	made up my own little sign

	A	E	D	E
I said	thank you, lord, for	thinkin’ ‘bout me, I’m	alive and doin’	fine

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

A	G	D
Sign, sign,	everywhere a	sign

A	D
Blocking out the scenery,	breaking my mind

A	E	G
Do this, don’t do	that, can’t you read the	sign?

Fleetwood Mac - Don’t Stop (1977)

Originally in E, I play in A

A	D/A	A	D/A
→		→	x8

A	G	D
If you	wake up and	don’t want to smile

A	G	D
If it	takes just a	little while

A	G	D
Open your	eyes and	look at the day

E

You’ll see things in a different way

A	G/A	D
Don’t	stop t	hinking about tomorrow

A	G/A	D
Don’t	stop,	it’ll soon be here

A	G/A	D
It’ll	be b	etter than before

E

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone

A	G	D	D
			x2

A	G	D
Why not	think about	times to come

A	G	D
And not a	bout the	things that you’ve done

A	G	D
If your	life was	bad to you

E

Just think what tomorrow will do

Not a typo, the bass holds the 1 in the first chorus, but not here

A	G	D
Don’t	stop t	hinking about tomorrow

A	G	D
Don’t	stop,	it’ll soon be here

A	G	D
It’ll	be b	etter than before

E

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone

E

Solo

A	G	D	D
			x3

E	E	E	E

A	G	D
All I	want is to	see you smile

A	G	D
If it	takes just a	little while

A	G	D
I know you	don’t be	lieve that it’s true

E

I never meant any harm to you

A	G/A	D
Don’t	stop t	hinking about tomorrow

Hard stop on “it’ll soon”

A	G	D
Don’t	stop,	it’ll soon be here

A	G	D
It’ll	be b	etter than before

E

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone

A	G/A	D
Don’t	stop t	hinking about tomorrow

A	G/A	D
Don’t	stop,	it’ll soon be here

A	G	D
It’ll	be b	etter than before

E

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone

A	G	D	A	G	D
Ooo	h,	don’t you look	back

A	G	D	A	G	D
Ooo	h,	don’t you look	back

A	G	D	A	G	D
Ooo	h,	don’t you look	back

A	G	D	A	G	D
Ooo	h,	don’t you look	back

Free - All Right Now (1970)

A	A	D/A	A	D/A	D/A	D/A	A
							x2

	A	D/A	A
There she s	tood in t	he s	treet

D/A	A
Smiling from her head to her f	eet

	A	D/A	A
I said he	y, what i	s t	his, now baby maybe

	D/A	A
May	be she’s in need of a k	iss

Realistically I’m going to skip all the places where the vox jump up

	A	D/A	A
I said he	y what’s y	our name	baby?

D/A	A
Maybe we can see things the	same

	D/A	A
Now don’t you wait o	r hesitat	e

	D/A	A
Let’s mo	ve before they raise the parking r	ate, ow

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now Baby it’s	all right	now

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now Baby it’s	all right	now

A	A	D/A	A	D/A	D/A	D/A	A
							x1

	A	D/A	A
I took her	home to	my	place

D/A	A
Watching every move on her f	ace

	A	D/A	A
She said	look what’s y	our g	ame baby?

	D/A	A
A	re you tryin’ to put me in	shame?

	A	D/A	A
I said	slow don’t go	so	fast

D/A	A
Don’t you think that love can	last?

	D/A	A
She said love	lord a	bove

D/A	A
Now you’re tryin’ to trick me in lo	ve

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now Baby it’s	all right	now

A	G/D	G/D	A
All right	now Baby it’s	all right	now

Long solos, repeat second verse with more “baby”, shout a lot

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive (1978)

Originally in Am, I play in Am and sing down an octave

E7

Let ring

	Am	Dm7
At	first I was afraid, I was	petrified

	G	Cmaj7
Kept thinking	I could never live without you	by my side

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
But then I	spent so many nights thinking	how you did me wrong

	Esus4	E
And I grew	strong, and I learned	how to get along

At tempo

	Am	Dm7
And so you’re	back from outer	space

	G	Cmaj7
I just walked	in to find you here with that sad	look upon your face

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
I should have	changed that stupid lock, I should have m	ade you leave your key

	Esus4	E
If I had	known for just one second you’d be	back to bother me

	Am	Dm7
Go on now	go, walk out the d	oor

	G	Cmaj7
Just turn ar	ound now ‘cause you’re not	welcome anymore

Fmaj7	Bm7b5
Weren’t you the one who tried to	hurt me with goodbye

	Esus4	E
Did you think I’d c	rumble? Did you think	I’d lay down and die?

	Am	Dm7
Oh no, not	I, I will sur	vive

	G	Cmaj7
Oh, as	long as I know how to love I k	now I’ll stay alive

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
I’ve got	all my life to live, and I’ve got	all my love to give

	Esus4	E	Am
And I’ll sur	vive, I will sur	vive, hey h	ey

Am7	Dm7	G	Cmaj7
Fmaj7	Bm7b5	Esus4	E

	Am	Dm7
It took	all the strength I had not to	fall apart

	G	Cmaj7
Kept trying	hard to mend the pieces of my	broken heart

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
And I spent	oh so many nights just feeling	sorry for myself

	Esus4	E
I used to	cry, but now I	hold my head up high

	Am	Dm7
And you see	me, somebody	new

	G	Cmaj7
I’m not that	chained up little person still in	love with you

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
And so you	felt like dropping in and just ex	pect me to be free

	Esus4	E
Now I’m	saving all my loving for some	one who’s loving me

	Am	Dm7
Go on now	go walk out the	door

	G	Cmaj7
Just turn	around now ‘cause you’re not	welcome anymore

Fmaj7	Bm7b5
Weren’t you the one who tried to	break me with goodbye

	Esus4	E
Did you think	I’d crumble? Did you think	I’d lay down and die?

	Am	Dm7
Oh no, not	I, I will sur	vive

	G	Cmaj7
Oh	as long as I know how to love I kn	ow I’ll stay alive

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
I’ve got	all my life to live, I’ve got	all my love to give

Hang on the second “survive”

	Esus4	E
And I’ll sur	vive, I will sur	vive, oh

	Am	Dm7
Go on now	go walk out the	door

	G	Cmaj7
Just turn	around now ‘cause you’re not	welcome anymore

Fmaj7	Bm7b5
Weren’t you the one who tried to	break me with goodbye

	Esus4	E
Did you think	I’d crumble? Did you think	I’d lay down and die?

	Am	Dm7
Oh no, not	I, I will sur	vive

	G	Cmaj7
Oh	as long as I know how to love I kn	ow I’ll stay alive

	Fmaj7	Bm7b5
I’ve got	all my life to live, I’ve got	all my love to give

	Esus4	E	Am
And I’ll sur	vive, I will sur	vive, I will surv	ive

Grease - Freddy My Love (1978)

Originally in Db, I play in E

Get the vox ready for “flipped over that gray cashmere sweater”,

and also think hard about how serious you are about the melody in

the bridge. It’s rhythmically simple, but melodically wild. Plan

on a class-II train wreck in the bridge.

B7	B6	B+	B7

Vox start on the 1

E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy my	love, I miss you	more than words can	say

Vox on the 7 of the chord on “touch”, down to the 3 of the chord on “way”

E	Emaj7	C#7sus4	C#7
Freddy my	love, please keep in	touch while you’re a	way

F#m7	F#m7b5	B7
Hearing from	you can make the	day so much better

G#m	G#m7b5/D	C#7sus4	C#7
Getting a	souvenir or	maybe a	letter

Vox up to the 3 of the chord on “flipped”, which is awkward,

then on the 5 on “gray”, which is not awkward.

Hard stop on “sweater”

F#m7	Am/D	E/B	A
I really	flipped over the	gray cashmere	sweater

	E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy you	know, your absence	makes me feel so	blue

E	Emaj7	C#7sus4	C#7
That’s okay	though, your presents	make me think of	you

F#m7	F#m7b5	B7
My ma will	have a heart at	tack when she catches

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

F#m7	Am/D	E/B	A
Oh how I	wish I had a	jacket that	matches

	E	Emaj7	A	E7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

Vox on 3 1 of the first chord (“keep your”), then

1 5 of the second (“from me”).

That sets the tone, although this bridge is super-complicated to sing. Just hit

the high 3 of the chord on “mind” at the end and it will be OK.

	A	B7	G#m	E
Don’t	keep your letters	from me, I	thrill to every	line

	Am7	B7	Em	Em
Your	spelling’s kinda	crummy, but	honey so is	mine

	F#m7b5	B7+5	B7	Em	A7
I	treasure every	gifti	e, the	ring is really	nifty

	Dmaj7	C#m7	F#m7	B7
You	say it cost you	fifty, so you’re	thrifty, I don’t	mind

	E	Emaj7	A	B7
Woah, oh, oh,	oh, Freddy you	see, you’ll hold me	in your arms some	day

E	Emaj7	C#7sus4	C#7
And I will	be wearing your	lacy linge	rie

F#m7	F#m7b5	B7
Thinking a	bout it, my heart’s	pounding already

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

F#m7	Am/D	E/B	A
And throw your	service pay a	round like con	fetti

	E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

E	Emaj7	A	B7
Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love, Freddy my	love

Fade

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,	till ten o’c	lock

	D	G	A	B
Both:	Summer f	ling	don’t mean a t	hing but

Em	A	Bb
Ah those s	ummer n	ights

	Eb	Ab	F	Bb
Men:	Tell me	more, tell me	more, but you	don’t gotta brag

	Eb	Ab	F	Bb
Women:	Tell me	more, tell me	more, ‘cause he	sounds like a drag

	Eb	Ab	Bb	Ab
All:	Shoo bop bop	shoo be bop	shoo bop bop	shoo bop bop

	Eb	Ab	Bb	Ab
All:	Shoo bop bop	shoo be bop	shoo bop bop	yeah

	Eb	Ab	Bb	Ab
F:	He got f	riendly,	holding my	hand

	Eb	Ab	Bb	Ab
M:	Well she got f	riendly,	down in the	sand

	Eb	Ab	Bb	C
F:	He was	sweet,	just turned eig	hteen

	F	Bb	F	Bb
M:	She was	good, you	know what I	mean

	Eb	Ab	Bb	C
Both:	Summer	heat,	boy and girl	meet, but

Fm	Bb	B
Oh those s	ummer n	ights

	E	A	F#	B
Women:	Tell me	more, tell me	more, how much	dough did he spend?

Hard stop on “friend”

	E	A	F#	B	E
Men:	Tell me	more, tell me	more, could she ge	t me a	friend?

Let ring

A7

Slow, let ring

	D	G	A	G	A	G
F:	It’s turned	colder,	that’s where it	ends

	D	G	A	G	A	G
M:	So I told he	r,	we’d still be f	riends

	D	G	A	B
F:	Then we	made	our true love	vow

	E7	A7	E7	A7
M:	Wonder	what	she’s doin’	now

	D	G	A	B
Both:	Summer	dreams,	ripped at the	seams, but

The Ddim is implied by the harmony, but there’s no root

	Em	A	Ddim	D
Ah	those	summer	ni	ghts

	D	G	D	D	G	D
All:	Tell me m	ore, tell me	more ohhh

Grease - You’re the One That I Want (1978)

Originally in Am, I play in Dm

Intro

Dm

Danny, vox on the 1

	Dm	A#	F
I got	chills, they’re multiplyin’, and I’m	losin’ con	trol

	A	Dm
‘Cause the	power you’re	supplyin’, it’s electrifyin’

Sandy

	F	Am	Dm	A#
You better shape	up, ‘cause I	need a man,	and my heart is set on	you

	F	Am	Dm	A#
You better shape	up, you better	understand,	to my heart I must be tr	ue

Danny

	A#
Nothing	left, nothing left for me to do

Both

	F	A#
You’re the	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh, honey

	F	A#
The	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh, honey

	F	A#
The	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh

A#	C	C7
The one I	need (the one I need), oh yes ind	eed (yes indeed)

Dm

Sandy

	Dm	A#	F
If you’re f	illed with affection, you’re too s	hy to con	vey

	A	Dm
Medi	tate in my di	rection, feel your way

Danny

	F	Am
I better shape	up, cause you	need a man (I need a man)

Sandy

Dm	A#
Who can keep me satis	fied

Danny

	F	Am
I better shape	up, if I’m	gonna prove (you better prove)

Sandy

Dm	A#
That my faith is justi	fied

Danny

A#

Are you sure?

Both

	A#
Yes I’m s	ure down deep inside

	F	A#
You’re the	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh, honey

	F	A#
The	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh, honey

	F	A#
The	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh

A#	C	C7
The one I	need (the one I need), oh yes	indeed (yes indeed)

	F	A#
You’re the	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh, honey

	F	A#
The	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh, honey

	F	A#
The	one that I want (you are the one I want), ooh ooh	ooh

A#	C	C7
The one I	need (the one I need), oh yes	indeed (yes indeed)

	F
You’re the	one that I want

Hall and Oates - Rich Girl (1976)

Originally in F, I play in C

In this verse, chords are syncopated and back a half-measure, so the first chord really hits after “girl”

Vox on 5 6 1 on “you’re a rich”

	C	Em7
You’re a	rich girl and you’ve	gone too far

	Am7	C/G
‘Cause you k	now it don’t matter anyw	ay

F	C/E
You can rely on the	old man’s money

Dm7	F/G
You can rely on the ol	d man’s money

	C	Em7
It’s a bi	tch girl but it’s	gone too far

	Am7	C/G
‘Cause you k	now it don’t matter anyw	ay

F	C/E
Say money but it w	on’t get you too far

Dm7

Get you too far

C

	Dm7	Em7	Fmaj7	Dm7
And	don’t	you	know, don’t you	know

	C/G	Dm7	Em7	Am7
That it’s	wrong, oh, to	take what he’s	givin’	you

Dm7	Em7	Fmaj7	Dm7
So	far	gone, on your own

	Dm7	Am7	Dm7
And you can g	et along i	f you	try to be strong

Am7	F/G	F/A	G/B	F/C
But you’ll	never be st	rong		’cause

	C	Em7
You’re a	rich girl and you’ve	gone too far

	Am7	C/G
‘Cause you k	now it don’t matter anyw	ay

F	C/E
You can rely on the	old man’s money

Dm7	F/G	F/A
You can rely on the ol	d man’s	money

	C	Em7
It’s a bi	tch girl but it’s	gone too far

	Am7	C/G
‘Cause you k	now it don’t matter anyw	ay

F	C/E
Say money but it w	on’t get you too far

Dm7

Get you too far

Dm7	Em7	Fmaj7	Dm7
High	and	dry, out of the	rain

	C/G	Dm7	Em7	Am7
It’s so e	asy to hurt	others when you	can’t feel	pain

	Dm7	Em7	Fmaj7	Dm7
And d	on’t	you	know that a love can’t g	row

	Dm7	Am7	Dm7
‘Cause there’s t	oo much to give,	’cause you’d r	ather live

Am7	F/G	F/A	G/B	F/C
For the thr	ill of it	all	oh

	C	Em7
You’re a	rich girl and you’ve	gone too far

	Am7	C/G
‘Cause you k	now it don’t matter anyw	ay

F	C/E
You can rely on the	old man’s money

Dm7	F/G	F/A
You can rely on the ol	d man’s	money

	C	Em7
It’s a bi	tch girl and it’s	gone too far

	Am7	C/G
‘Cause you k	now it don’t matter anyw	ay

F	C/E
Say money but it w	on’t get you too far

F	Am7	C/G
Say money but it w	on’t get you	too far

F	C/E
Say money but it w	on’t get you too far

Dm7	C
Get you too far

	Dm7	Em7	F	C/E
And	you	say	you can rely on the	old man’s money

Dm7	F/G	F/A
You can rely on the ol	d man’s	money

	C	Em7
You’re a	rich girl, a r	ich girl

	Am7	C/G
Oh	h you’re a	rich rich girl

F	C/E
Say money but it w	on’t get you too far

F	Am7	C/G
Say money but it w	on’t get you	too far

F	C/E
Say money but it w	on’t get you too far

Dm7	C
Get you too far

Hall and Oates - She’s Gone (1973)

I play all the Bsus4’s as A/B @ fret 2, except the “what will be”

Bsus4	B
	x2

Bsus4	B
Everybody’s high on conso	lation

Bsus4	B
Everybody’s trying to tell me what is	right for me

Bsus4	B
My daddy tried to bore me with a	sermon

On “plain to see”, I go *down* on 6 5 4 of the key

	G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
But it’s	plain to	see that they can’t	comfort	me

Bsus4	B
Sorry Charlie for the impos	ition

Bsus4	B
I think I’ve got it got it, got the strength to	carry on

Bsus4	B
I need a drink and a quick de	cision

	G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
Now it’s	up to	me, ooh	what will	be

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

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

Bsus4	B
	x2

Bsus4	B
Get up in the morning look in the	mirror

Bsus4	B
I’m worn as her tooth brush hanging	in the stand

Bsus4	B
My face ain’t looking any	younger

	G#m	C#m	Bsus4	B
Now	I can	see love’s taken her	toll on	me

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

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

Bsus4	B
	x2

Bsus4	B
Think I’ll spend eternity in the	city

Bsus4	B
Let the carbon and monoxide choke my	thoughts away

Bsus4	B
And pretty bodies help dissolve the	memories

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

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Better	learn how to face it

	A	G#m	F#m
She’s	gone oh	I, oh	I’d

	B
Pay the	devil to replace her

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

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

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

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

Intro, a chord approximation of the riff

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A

	A	C
My	child arrived just the	other day

	D	A
He	came to the world in the	usual way

	A	C
But there were	planes to catch and	bills to pay

D	A
He learned to walk while I	was away

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
And he was	talkin’ ‘fore I	knew it, and	as he grew

	C	G/B	A
He’d say	I’m gonna	be like	you, Dad

	C	G/B	A
You	know I’m gonna	be like	you

Don’t go up an octave yet

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home Dad?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then

	C	G/B	A
You	know we’ll have a	good time	then

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A

	A	C
My	son turned ten just the	other day

	D	A
He said,	thanks for the ball, Dad, come	on, let’s play

	A
Can you	teach me to throw?

	C	D
I said,	not today, I got a	lot to do

	A
He said,	that’s okay

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
And he,	he walked a	way, but his	smile never	dimmed

	C	G/B	A
It said,	I’m gonna	be like	him, yeah

	C	G/B	A
You	know I’m gonna	be like	him

OK, now go up an octave, you know you want to

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home Dad?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then

	C	G/B	A
You	know we’ll have a	good time	then

Asus2	Asus4	Dsus2/A	G/A	A

	A	C
Well, he	came from college just the	other day

	D	A
So	much like a man I just	had to say

	A	C
Son, I’m	proud of you, can you	sit for a while?

	D	A
He	shook his head and he	said with a smile

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
What I’d	really like,	Dad, is to	borrow the ca	r keys

C	G/B	A
See you	later, can I	have them please?

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home son?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then	, Dad

	C	G/B	A
You	know we’ll have a	good time	then

F	G	Em	A
	→

F	G	Em	A
	→

Slow, let ring

	A	C
I’ve	long since retired, my	son’s moved away

Two extra beats after this line

D	A
I called him up just the	other day

	A	C
I said, I’d	like to see you if	you don’t mind

	D	A
He said I’d	love to, Dad, if I could	find the time

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
You see my	new job’s a	hassle and the	kids have the f	lu

	C	G/B	A
But it’s	sure nice	talkin’ to	you, Dad

	C	G/B	A
It’s been	sure nice	talkin’ to	you

	G	G/F#	Em7	Em/D
And as I	hung up the	phone it	occured to m	e

	C	G/B	A
He’d	grown up	just like	me

	C	G/B	A
My	boy was	just like	me

Back to tempo

	A	G
And the	cat’s in the cradle and the	silver spoon

C	D
Little boy blue and the	man in the moon

A

When you comin’ home son?

	G	C	G/B	A
I	don’t know when but	we’ll get to	gether then	, Dad

	C	G/B	A
We’re	gonna have a	good time	then

Asus2

Asus4

Dsus2/A

G/A

A

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty (1977)

Originally in A, I play in G

Downstrokes and straight 8ths in the verse, leave room to open up in the chorus

Intro

C/G	G
	x 2

Em	Em

C/G	G	C/G	G
Looking out at the	road rushing under my wheels

C/G	G	C/G	G
Looking back at the	years gone by like so	many summer fields

C/G	G	C/G	G
In sixty-five I was	seventeen and	running up 101

C/G	G/B	D
I don’t know where I’m	running now, I’m just	running on

	C/G	G
Running	on, running on	empty

	C/G	G
Running	on, running	blind

	C/G	G
Running	on, running into the	sun

	Em
But I’m running be	hind

C/G	G	C/G	G
Gotta do what you	can just to keep your love	alive

C/G	G	C/G	G
Trying not to conf	use it with what you	do to sur	vive

C/G	G	C/G	G
In sixty-nine I was t	wenty-one and I	called the road my	own

C/G	G/B	D
I don’t know when that	road turned onto the	road I’m on

	C/G	G
Running	on, running on	empty

	C/G	G
Running	on, running	blind

	C/G	G
Running	on, running into the	sun

	Em
But I’m running be	hind

Solo if appropriate on verse chords, else just a couple IV→I’s

C/G	G
	x 4

C/G	G/B	D

Em	C/G	D	G
Everyone I	know,	everywhere I	go

Em	D	C
People need some	reason to	believe

	G
I don’t know about	anyone but me

Em	C	D	G
If it takes all	night,	that’ll be all	right

C	D	C/G	G/B	Am7	G	Am7	G/B
If I can get you to	smile before I	leave

C/G	G	C/G	G
Looking out at the	road rushing under my	wheels

C/G	G	C/G	G
I don’t know how to	tell you all just how	crazy this life	feels

C/G	G	C/G	G
I look around for the	friends that I used to	turn to to pull me	through

C/G	G/B	D
Looking into their	eyes I see them	running too

	C/G	G
Running	on, running on	empty

	C/G	G
Running	on, running	blind

	C/G	G
Running	on, running into the	sun

	Em
But I’m running be	hind

C/G	G
Honey you really	tempt me

	C/G	G
You know the	way you look so	kind

C/G	D	C/G	G/B	Am7	G	Am7	G/B
I’d love to stick ar	ound but I’m running be	hind

C/G	D	C/G	G/B	Am7	G	Am7	G/B
You know I don’t even	know what I’m hoping to	find

C/G	D	C/G	G/B	Am7	G
Running into the	sun but I’m running be	hind

James Taylor - You’ve Got a Friend (1971)

Originally in A as G capo 2, I play in G capo 2

G	G/C	G	F#m	B7
			→

	Em	B7	Em	B7	Em7
When you’re d	own and	troubled and you	need a	helping	hand

	Am7	D7sus4	G	Gsus4	G
And	nothing, oh,	nothing is going	right

B7/F#	B7	Em	B7	Em	Em7
Close your	eyes and think of me and	soon I	will be	there

	Am7	Bm7	D7sus4	D7
To	brighten up	even your darkest night

	G	Gmaj7	C	Am7
You just	call out my	name, and you	know wherever I	am

	G	Gmaj7	D7sus4	D7
I’ll come	running, oh yeah baby	, to see you a	gain

G	Gmaj7	C	Em
Winter, spring, summer, or	fall,	all you got to do is	call

	C	Bm7	Am7	D7sus4
And I’ll	be there,	yeah yeah yeah	→

	G
You’ve got a f	riend

G	G/C	G	F#m	B7
			→

	Em	B7	Em	B7	Em7
If the	sky a	bove you should turn	dark and	full of clouds

	Am7	D7sus4	G	Gsus4	G
And that	old north	wind should begin to blow

B7/F#	B7	Em	B7	Em7
Keep your head to	gether and	call my	name out	loud

Am7	Bm7	D7sus4	D7
Soon I’ll be	knocking upon your	door

Harmony on the 2 and 7 of the chord

	G	Gmaj7	Cmaj7	Am7
You just	call out my	name, and you	know wherever I	am

	G	D7sus4	D7
I’ll come	running, oh yes I will, to see you	again

G	Gmaj7	C	Em
Winter, spring, summer, or	fall,	all you got to do is	call

	C	Bm7	Am7	D7sus4
And I’ll	be there,	yeah yeah yeah	→

Bridge

	F	C
Hey	ain’t it good to know that	you’ve got a friend when

G

People can be so cold

	C	Fmaj7
They’ll	hurt you and	desert you

	Em	A7
Well they’ll	take your soul if you	let them

	D7sus4	D7
Oh yeah, but	don’t you let them

	G	Gmaj7	Cmaj7	Am7
You just	call out my n	ame, and you	know wherever I	am

	G	D7sus4	D7
I’ll come	running, to see you	again,	oh babe, don’t you know ‘bout

G	Gmaj7	C	Em
Winter, spring, summer, or	fall, hey now,	all you got to do is	call

	C	Bm7	Am7	D7sus4
Lord I’ll	be there,	yes I will

	G	C	G
You’ve got a frien	d,	you’ve got a	friend

C	G
Ain’t it good to know you’ve	got a friend

	C	G
Ain’t it	good to know you’ve got a fr	iend

	C	Gsus4	G
Oh, y	eah, yeah, you’ve got a friend

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee (1971)

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

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

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

C	F/C	C	F/C	C
			→

Vox on 5 6 5 on “busted flat”

C

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train

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

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

Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained

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

	C
I	pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana

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

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

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

G7

We sang every song that driver knew

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

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

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

	G7
You know	feelin’ good was good enough for me

	C
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mc	Gee

D

	D
From the	Kentucky coal mines to the California sun

	A7
Yeah Bobby shared the secrets of m	y soul

Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done

	D
Yeah Bobby baby kept me from the	cold

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

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

Vox on the b7 of the chord, more or less

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

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

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

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

	G	D
Well,	feelin’ good was easy, lo	rd, when he sang the blues

	A7
And	feelin’ good was good enough for me

	D
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mc	Gee

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

	A7
La da da da daa dadada Bobby Mc	Geeah

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

	D
Laa la laa la daada Bobby Mc	Geeah yeah

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

	A7
Hey now Bobby now now Bobby Mc	Gee yeah

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

	D
Hey now Bobby no no Bobby McG	ee yeah

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

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

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

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

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

Solo on I V V I

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown (1973)

Originally in G, I play in G capo 2

Intro, with 6ths

G	D7

Vox on the 3 on “south”

	G
Well, the south	side of Chicago

	A7
Is the ba	ddest part of town

	B7
And if you	go down there

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

	G
Now,	Leroy more than trouble

	A7
You see he	stand about six foot four

	B7	C
All the d	owntown ladies call him treetop l	over

	D7	C	G	D7
All the	men just	call him	sir

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Now,	Leroy, he a gambler

	A7
And he	like his fancy clothes

	B7	C
And he	like to wave his	diamond rings

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

	G
He got a	custom Continental

	A7
He got an	El Dorado too

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

	D7	C	G	D7
He got a	razor	in his	shoe

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Well,	Friday ‘bout a week ago

A7

Leroy shootin’ dice

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

	D7	C	G	D7
And	oh, that	girl look	nice

	G
Well, he	cast his eyes upon her

	A7
And the	trouble soon began

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

	D7	C	G	D7
With the	wife of a	jealous	man

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

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

Quiet, let ring

	G
Well, the	two men took to fightin’

	A7
And when they	pulled them from the floor

B7	C
Leroy looked like a	jigsaw puzzle

	D7	C	G	D7
With a	couple of	pieces	gone

	G
And he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G	D7
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	G
Yeah he’s	bad, bad, Leroy Brown

	A7
The	baddest man in the whole damn town

B7	C
Badder than old King Kon	g

	D7	C	G
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

	B7	C
Yes, you were	badder than old King	Kong

	D7	C	G
And	meaner than a	junkyard	dog

Jim Croce - I’ll Have To Say I Love You In a Song (1974)

Amaj7	C#m	Bm	Dm	E7
			→	x 2

	Amaj7	C#m
Well, I	know it’s kind of	late

	Bm	E
I	hope I didn’t	wake you

	Amaj7	C#m
But what I	got to say can’t	wait

	Bm	E
I	knew you’d under	stand

D	G#7
Every time I	tried to tell you

	C#7	F#m	D
The	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So, I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

	Amaj7	C#m
Yeah I k	now it’s kind of	strange

	Bm	E
But	every time I’m	near you

	Amaj7	C#m
I just	run out of things to	say

	Bm	E
I	knew you’d under	stand

D	G#7
And every time I	tried to tell you

	C#7	F#m	D
The	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So, I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

Solo on verse chords

D	G#7
Every time the	time was right

	C#7	F#m	D
All the	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

	Amaj7	C#m
Yeah, I	know it’s kind of	late

	Bm	E
I	hope I didn’t	wake you

	Amaj7	C#m
But there’s	something that I just got to	say

	Bm	E
I	knew you’d under	stand

D	G#7
Every time I	tried to tell you

	C#7	F#m	D
The	words just came out	wrong

	Amaj7	E	D	A
So, I’ll	have to say I	love you in a song

Amaj7	C#m	Bm	Dm	E7
			→

Amaj7

Jim Croce - Operator (1972)

Intro

G	Bm	Am	C	G/B	Am	D7	G
			→	→	→	→	x2

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	C	G/B	Am	G
Opera	tor oh could you	help	me p	lace this call	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
See the number on the mat	chbook is old and f	aded	→	→	→

Not a typo; this time the pattern resolves to the I on “friend”, the first time it didn’t

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
She’s living in L.A.	with my bes	t old		ex-fri	end Ray	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
A guy she said she	knew well and sometimes hat	ed	→	→	→

G	C/G	G
Isn’t that the way	they say it goes

	C	D
But let’s for	get all	that

	G	Am
And	give me the number if	you can find it

	C	D	Em	Bm	D	Am
So	I	can	call just to	tell ‘em I’m	fine and to s	how

D7	C	G/B
I’ve overcome the blow,	I’ve learned to take it well

	Am	C
I only wish my words	could just convince myself

Hang on “that’s”

	D	C
That it just wasn’t rea	l, but th	at’s not the way it feels

G	Bm	Am	C	G/B	Am	D7	G
			→	→	→	→

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	C	G/B	Am	G
Opera	tor oh could you	help	me p	lace this call	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
‘Cause I can’t read the	number that you just gav	e me	→	→	→

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
There’s something in my	eyes, you know it	ha	ppens	every t	im	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
I think about the	love that I thought would save	me	→	→	→

G	C/G	G
Isn’t that the way	they say it goes

	C	D
But let’s for	get all	that

	G	Am
And	give me the number if	you can find it

	C	D	Em	Bm	D	Am
So	I	can	call just to	tell ‘em I’m	fine and to s	how

D7	C	G/B
I’ve overcome the blow,	I’ve learned to take it well

	Am	C
I only wish my words	could just convince myself

Hang on “that’s”

	D	C
That it just wasn’t rea	l, but th	at’s not the way it feels

G	C/G
	No, no no, no, no

G	C/G	G
	That’s not the way it feels

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
Oper	ator, oh let’s for	get	ab	out this	call	→	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
There’s no one there	I really wanted to tal	k to		→	→	→

G	Bm	C	G/B	Am	G	C	G/B	Am	G
Thank you for your time,	oh you’ve been	so m	uch	more t	han k	ind →	→	→

Am	D7/F#	Em	D	D/C	D/B	D/A	G
You can keep the	dime		→	→	→

G	C/G	G
Isn’t that the way	they say it goes

	C	D
But let’s for	get all	that

	G	Am
And	give me the number if	you can find it

	C	D	Em	Bm	D	Am
So	I	can	call just to	tell ‘em I’m	fine and to s	how

D7	C	G/B
I’ve overcome the blow,	I’ve learned to take it well

	Am	C
I only wish my words	could just convince myself

Hang on “that’s”

	D	C
That it just wasn’t rea	l, but th	at’s not the way it feels

G	Bm	Am	C	G/B	Am	D7	G
			→	→	→	→	x2

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 heel 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.

The songs is a dirge, so I follow the Priest version,

which is a rocking metal gallop.

Long riff

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

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

Short riff

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

Play long riff if not rocking

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

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

	Em
And you happened to	call

	Em	C
And	here I sit hand on the	telephone

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

	Em
Heading straight for a	fall

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Play short riff if not rocking

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

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

	Em
A booth in the	mid-west

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

	G
And you bought me	something

	D
We both know what	memories can bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Play short riff if not rocking, else another chorus

	Em	C
You	burst on the scene, already a	legend

	G	D
The unwashed phe	nomenon, the original	vagabond

	Em
You	strayed into my arms

	Em	C
And	there you stayed, temporarily	lost at sea

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

	Em
Could keep you un	harmed

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

Vox on the 5 of the chord

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

	Am7
And	snow in your hair

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

	Am7
Over	Washington Square

	C
Our	breath comes out of white clouds

	G
Mingles and	hangs in the air

	Fmaj7
Speaking	strictly for me

	B7
We both could have died then and	there

Em	D	Em

Play long riff if not rocking

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

	G	D
Then give me another	word for it you who are so	good with words

	Em
And at keeping things	vague

	Em
‘Cause	I need some of that vagueness now

	C
It’s all come back too	clearly

	G	D
Yes I loved you	dearly, and if you’re offering	diamonds and rust

	Em
I’ve already	paid

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

	C	D
Well we	both know what memories can	bring

	Em
They bring diamonds and	rust

C	D	Em
Diamonds,	diamonds, and	rust

C	D	Em
Diamonds,	diamonds, and	rust

Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good (1978)

Originally in B, I play in G capo 2

Intro

B	B	B	E
			x4

G	D	G
→	→	x2

Bm	A	Bm
		x2

G	D	G
→	→	x2

Bm	A	Bm
		x2

Vox start on the 3

G	D/F#	Em	D
I have a	mansion	forget the pr	ice

G	D/F#	Em	D
Ain’t never	been there they t	ell me it’s n	ice

G	D/F#	Em	D
I live in	hotels t	ear out the w	alls

G	D/F#	Em	D
I have ac	countants	pay for it a	ll

A	A/G	A/F#	A	Bm	A	Bm	A
They say I’m	crazy but I	have a good	time	→		→

	A	A/G	A/F#	A
I’m just	looking for	clues at the	scene of the	crime

	D	A/C#	B
Life’s been	good to	me so f	ar

G	D/F#	Em	D
My Mase	rati does	one-eighty-	five

G	D/F#	Em	D
I lost my l	icense	now I don’t dr	ive

G	D/F#	Em	D
I have a	limo	ride in the b	ack

G	D/F#	Em	D
I lock the	doors in	case I’m att	acked

G	D/F#	Em	D
I’m making	records my	fans they can’t w	ait

G	D/F#	Em	D
They write me l	etters t	ell me I’m gr	eat

	G	D/F#	Em	D
So I g	ot me an	office gold	records on the w	all

G	D/F#	Em	D
Just leave a	message, m	aybe I’ll c	all

A	A/G	A/F#	A
Lucky I’m	sane after	all I’ve been	through

	Bm	A	Bm	A
Everybody says	I’m	cool (	He’s	cool)

A	A/G	A/F#	A
I can’t comp	lain but somet	imes I still	do

	D	A/C#	B
Life’s been	good to	me so f	ar

Solo (approximately)

B	A9	B	A9
B	E9	B	E9

Repeat a few times, then repeat intro...

B	B	B	E
			x4

G	D	G
→	→	x2

Bm	A	Bm
		x2

G	D	G
→	→	x2

Bm	A	Bm
		x2

G	D/F#	Em	D
I go to	parties some	times until f	our

G	D/F#	Em	D
It’s hard to	leave when you c	an’t find the d	oor

G	D/F#	Em	D
It’s tough to	handle this f	ortune and f	ame

	G	D/F#	Em	D
Everyb	ody’s so d	ifferent	I haven’t ch	anged

A	A/G	A/F#
They say I’m l	azy but it t	akes all my time

	Bm	A	Bm	A
Everybody says	oh	yeah (	Oh	yeah)

A	A/G	A/F#	A
I keep on g	oing guess I’ll	never know	why

	D	A/C#	B
Life’s been	good to	me so f	ar

B

E

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (1971)

Originally in A, I play in G

G

Hang two beats on the I after this line

G	Em	D	C	G
Almost Heaven,	West Virginia,	Blue Ridge Mountains, Sh	enandoah R	iver

G	Em	D
Life is old there,	older than the trees, y	ounger than the mountains

	C	G
Bl	owin’ like a br	eeze

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

Hang two beats on the I after this line

G	Em	D	C	G
All my memories	gather round her,	miner’s lady, str	anger to blue w	ater

G	Em	D
Dark and dusty, p	ainted on the sky, m	isty taste of moonshine

	C	G
Te	ardrop in my	eye

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “I hear her”

Em	D	G
I hear her v	oice, in the m	orning hour she calls me

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “radio”

	C	G	D
The	radio rem	inds me of my	home far away

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “driving down”, the 3 of the new chord on “road”

	Em	F	C
And	driving down the r	oad I get a f	eeling

	G	D	D7
That I	should have been home	yesterday, yesterd	ay

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

	G	D	Em	C
Country r	oads, take me h	ome, to the p	lace, I bel	ong

	G	D	C	G
West Virg	inia, mountain m	ama, take me h	ome, country r	oads

	D	G
Take me h	ome, (down) country r	oads

	D	G
Take me h	ome, (down) country r	oads

G

John Lennon - Imagine (1971)

Originally in C, I play in A capo 1 or 2

A	Amaj7	D	D
			x2

Maj7’s continue, but not writing them out

A	D
Imagine there’s no	heaven

A	D
It’s easy if you	try

A	D
No hell be	low us

A	D
Above us only	sky

D	F#m/C#	Bm7	A
Imagine	all the	people

E

Living for today

A	D
Imagine there’s no	countries

A	D
It isn’t hard to	do

A	D
Nothing to kill or	die for

A	D
And no religion	too

D	F#m/C#	Bm7	A
Imagine	all the	people

E

Living life in peace, you-hoo

D	E	A	C#
You may	say I’m a	dreamer

D	E	A	C#
But I’m	not the only	one

D	E	A	C#
I hope some	day you’ll	join us

D	E	A
And the	world will	live as one

A	D
Imagine no pos	sessions

A	D
I wonder if you	can

A	D
No need for greed or	hunger

A	D
A brotherhood of	man

D	F#m/C#	Bm7	A
Imagine	all the	people

E

Sharing all the world

D	E	A	C#
You may	say I’m a	dreamer

D	E	A	C#
But I’m	not the only	one

D	E	A	C#
I hope some	day you’ll	join us

D	E	A
And the	world will	live as one

Optional fadeout, credit Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora

A	E	A
‘Cause all we are	saying is give peace a	chance

John Lennon - Instant Karma (1970)

Originally in A, I play in E capo 2

Silly intro thing, let each chord ring once, or just skip this

B	D

Every line in the vase has a descending bass that I’m not writing out

E	C#m
Instant Karma’s gonna get you

E	C#m
Gonna knock you right in the head

E	C#m
You better get yourself together

C	D	E
Pretty soon your gon	na be dead

A	F#m
What in the world you thinking o	f?

A	F#m
Laughing in the face of l	ove

G	Em
What on Earth you tryin’ to do?

	A
It’s u	p to you

	B
Y	eah you

E	C#m
Instant Karma’s gonna get you

E	C#m
Gonna look you right in the face

E	C#m
Better get yourself together darlin’

C	D	E
Join the human	race

A	F#m
How in the world you gonna	see?

A	F#m
Laughing at fools like	me

G	Em
Who on Earth do you think you	are?

	A
A	superstar?

	B7
Well	right you are

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine o	n

	D	F#m	Bm
Like the	moon and the	stars and the	sun

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine	on

A	B
Everyone	come on

E	C#m
Instant Karma’s gonna get you

E	C#m
Gonna knock you off your feet

E	C#m
Better recognize your brothers

C	D	E
Everyone you	meet

A	F#m
Why in the world are we	here?

A	F#m
Surely not to live in pain and	fear

G	Em
Why on Earth are you	there?

	A	B
When you’re e	verywhere gonna	get your share

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine o	n

	D	F#m	Bm
Like the	moon and the	stars and the	sun

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine	on

A	B
Come on and on and o	n on

E	C#m
Yeah yeah

	E	C#m
A	lright

	E	C#m
A	h ha

	C	D	E
A	h

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine o	n

	D	F#m	Bm
Like the	moon and the	stars and the	sun

	D	F#m	Bm
Well we	all	shine	on

A	B7
Everyone	come on

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (1972)

Originally in D, I play in A. I play D/G/A with

open A and E strings (e.g. x05430).

Highest note is the 5, but it spends a lot of

time on the 3 and 4.

A

Vox on the 1 on “I”

A	D	A
I can see c	learly now the r	ain is gone

A	D	E
I can see a	ll obstacles	in my way

A	D	A
Gone are the d	ark clouds that	had me blind

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
Gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

A	D	A
I think I can m	ake it now the p	ain is gone

A	D	E
All of the	bad feelings have	disappeared

A	D	A
Here is that ra	inbow I’ve been	praying for

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

C	G
Look all around, there’s nothing but	blue skies

C	C/E	E/B
Look straight ahead, there’s	nothing but	blue skies

G#m7	D	G#m7	D	G	F#m	E

A	D	A
I can see c	learly now the r	ain is gone

A	D	E
I can see a	ll obstacles	in my way

A	D	A
Gone are the d	ark clouds that	had me blind

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

	G	D	A
It’s gonna be a b	right, br	ight, sunshiny d	ay

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi (1970)

Joni Mitchell in E, Counting Crows in G#

This arrangement is somewhere in between, I play in G

Highest note is the 1 if you do the high “farmer farmer”

Can play D/F# as D11

C	D/F#	G	G
			x2

Vox in on the 3 of the chord on “paved”

	C	D/F#	G
They	paved paradise and	put up a parking lot

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
With a	pink hotel, a	boutique, and a swingin’ hot spot

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

G	Cadd9	Cadd9	G

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
They	took all the trees, and	put ‘em in a tree museum

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
And they	charged the people a	dollar and a half to see them

No, no, no

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	Cadd9	G
Hey far	mer, farmer, put away your DDT

	Cadd9
I don’t care about	spots on my apples

D11	G
Leave me the birds and the bees	please

G	G9
Don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Hey now they	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

C	D/F#	G	G
			x2

Let ring

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
Listen,	late last night, I	heard a screen door	slam

	Cadd9	D/F#	G
And a bi	g yellow taxi to	ok my girl away

	G	G9
Now	don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	Cadd9	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	G	G9
Hey now now	don’t it always	seem to go

	Cadd9	G/B	Am7
That you don’	t know	what you	got till it’s gone

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Why now they	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

	C	D	G
Hey hey hey	paved paradise and p	ut up a parking lot

I end here, but I’m writing out the rest of the Counting

Crows arrangement.

G	C	D/F#	G

Cadd9

I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it?

	G
Why you wanna	giving it all away? Hey, hey, hey

Cadd9

Now you wanna give it, oh she wanna give it

	G
‘Cause she	giving it all away no no

Cadd9

I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it?

	G
Why you wanna	giving it all away?

Cadd9

Giving it all

D/F#	G
Giving it all a	way

Am7	Cadd9	G
	Why you	want me?

Am7	Cadd9	G
	Why do you	want me?

	C	D	G
They	paved paradise and	put up a parking lot

Repeat to fade

Journey - Lights (1978)

Originally in D, I play in G

Highest note that matters is the 6

G	Em	G	D	Em	F	G

	G	Em	F
When the	lights go	down in the	city

	G	Em	F
And the	sun shines	on the	bay

	G	Em	F
I	want to be th	ere in my	city, oh

Em	F	G
Oh,	oh,	ooh-o-o

G	Em	F
So you	think you’r	e lonely

G	Em	F
Well my	friend I’m l	onely too

G	Em	F
I want to get	back to my	city by the bay

Em	F	G
Oh,	oh,	oh-o-o

Bridge

	Em	C	G
It’s	sad,	oh there’s been	mornings

	Em	C
Out on the road with	out you

	G	D
Without your	charms

Em	C	G
O-o-o	oh, my, my,	my my my

Em	F	G
Oh,	oh,	oh-o-o

	G	Em	F
When the	lights go	down in the	city

	G	Em	F
And the	sun shines	on the	bay

	G	Em	F
Ooh I	want to be th	ere in m	y city

Em	F	G
Oh,	oh,	oh-o-o

Solo if appropriate on bridge chords

	G	Em	F
When the	lights go	down in the	city

	G	Em	F
And the	sun shines	on the	bay

	G	Em	F
Ooh I	want to be th	ere in m	y city

Em	F	G
Oh,	oh,	oh-o-o, mmmm

Em	F	G
Oh,	oh,	oh-o-o

Journey - Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (1979)

Originally in A, I play in D or possibly E,

highest note that matters is the 3.

D

Vox on the 6 on “you”, on the 2 on “die”

	D
Yo	u make me weak, and wanna die

	G
Jus	t when you said we’d try

	D	A	C	D
L	ovin’, t	ouchin’, squ	eezin’, each	other

D

When I’m alone, all by myself

	G
Y	ou’re out with someone else

	D	A	C	D
L	ovin’, t	ouchin’, squ	eezin’, each	other

Bm	D
You’re tearin’ me apart	every, every day

Bm	D
You’re tearin’ me apart,	oh what can I say?

Bm	C	A
You’re tearin’ me apart

D

It won’t be long, yes till you’re alone

	G
When your l	over, oh he hasn’t come home

	D	A
‘Cause he’s l	ovin’, ooh he’s t	ouchin’

	C	D
He’s sq	ueezin’ an	other

Bm	D
He’s tearin’ you apart	, ooh, every, every day

Bm	D
He’s tearin’ you apart,	oh girl, what can you say?

	Bm	C	D
‘Cause he’s	lovin’, t	ouchin’, a	nother

	Bm	C
Now, it’s	your turn girl to c	ry

G/D	D	G/D	D	G/D	D	G/D	D
Na n	a na	na n	a na	na	na na	na n	a

G/D	D	G/D	D	Bm	C
Na	na na	na	na na	na na na na	na

Repeat to fade

Journey - Wheel In the Sky (1978)

Originally in Dm, I play in Em capo 2

Highest note that matters is the 6

Hang this chord

C

Em

Winter is here again oh lord

	D
Haven’t been home in a year or more

	C	Em
I hope she	holds on a little	longer

Em

Sent a letter on a long summer day

	D
Made of silver, not of clay

	C	Em
Ooh I’ve been	running down this d	usty road

	Em	G	D
Ooh the	wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

	Em	G	D
I	don’t know where	I’ll be to	morrow

Em	G	D
Wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

Can replace all this with a IV

A/C#	D	C
→	→

Em

I’ve been trying to make it home

	D
Got to make it before too long

	C	Em
Ooh I can’t	take this very much	longer

Em

I’m stranded in the sleet and rain

	D
Don’t think I’m ever gonna make it home ag	ain

	C
The mo	rning sun is rising

Em

It’s kissing the day

	Em	G	D
Ooh the	wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

	Em	G	D
I	don’t know where	I’ll be to	morrow

Em	G	D
Wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

A/C#	D	C
Who	ah,	oh

A/C#	D	C
	My my my my	my

For tomorrow

Solo on verse chords (more or less)

	Em	G	D
Oh the	wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

	Em	G	D
I	don’t know where	I’ll be to	morrow

Em	G	D
Wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

	Em	G	D
Ooh, I	don’t know, I	don’t know

Em	G	D
Wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

Em	G	D
Don’t know where	I’ll be to	morrow

	Em	G	D
Ooh the	wheel in the	sky keeps	turning

Em	G	D
Wheel in the	sky keeps on	turning

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
Till	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

A	E	B
Crushed out his ciga	rette 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 o	nly 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 l	overs, 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 l	overs, 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

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 - D’yer Mak’er (1976)

Originally in C, I play in C and just skip the high melodic

parts, like going up an octave on “ooh baby I love you”

Intro

C	Am	F	G
			x 2

C	Am	F	G	C
Oh, oh-oh-	oh, oh-	ooh,	you don’t have to	go

	Am	F	G	C
Oh-	oh-oh-	ooh,	you don’t have to	go

	Am	F	G	Am
Oh-	oh-oh-	ooh,	you don’t have to g	o

C	Am	F	G	C
Aye, ah-ah-	ah, ah-	aye,	all those tears I	cried

	Am	F	G	C
Ah-	ah-ah-	aye,	all those tears I	cried

	Am	F	G	Am
Oh-	oh, ah-	aye,	baby please	don’t go

Am	G
When I read the letter you	wrote me

It made me mad, mad, mad

Am	G
When I read the words that it	told me

It made me sad, sad, sad

Am	G
But I still love you so,	I can’t let you go

Don’t go up the octave on “ooh”, that’s just the 1 of the key

F	G
I love you...	ooh, baby I love you

C	Am	F	G	C
Oh, oh-oh-	oh, oh-	ooh,	every breath I	take

	Am	F	G	C	Am	F
Oh-	oh-oh-	ooh, oooh,	every move I m	ake hey-hey

G	Am
Oh baby please	don’t go

C	Am	F	G	C
Aye, ah-ah-	ah, ah-	aye, you	hurt me to my	soul

	Am	F	G	C
Oh-	oh-oh-	ooh,	you hurt me to my	soul

	Am	F	G	Am
Oo	h,		darling please	don’t go

Am	G
When I read the letter you	wrote me

You made me mad, mad, mad

Am	G
When I read the words that it	told me

It made me sad, sad, sad

Am	G
But I still love you so,	and I can’t let you go

F	G
I love you...	ooh, baby I love you

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

C	Am	F	G	C
Oh, oh-oh-	oh, oh-	ooh,	you don’t have to	go

	Am	F	G	C
Oh-	oh-oh-	ooh,	you don’t have to	go

	Am	F	G	Am
Oh-	oh-oh-o	oh, oh	baby	baby, please, please, please, please

C	Am	F	G
Oh-oh, oh-oh,	oh-oh baby,	oh-oh I really	love you baby

C	Am	F	G
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh,	ooh-ooh darling,		oh

C	Am	F	G
	Oh, oh	baby I still	love you so

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (1970)

Originally in F#m, I play in Em capo 2 with some octave changes

Intro

Em

An octave down

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

Still an octave down, on the 1

G	D
We	come from the land of the ice and snow

	D	G
From the	midnight sun where the hot	springs blow

Up to the original octave

Em

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands

To fight the horde and singing and crying

Keep it *real* simple on “coming”

D	G	Em
Valhalla, I am coming

An now back down an octave

G

On we sweep with

A

With threshing oar

A#

Our only goal will be the western shore

Em

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

	Em
Ah-ah-	ahh-ah

G	D
We	come from the land of the ice and snow

	D	G
From the	midnight sun where the hot	springs blow

Em

How soft your fields, so green

	Em
Can w	hisper tales of gore

	Em	G
Of	how we calmed the tides of war

D	G	Em
We are your overlords

G

On we sweep with

A

With threshing oar

A#

Our only goal will be the western shore

Em

So now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins

Em

For peace and trust can win the day despite of all you’re losing

Em	A#9

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (1971)

Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#	Fmaj7	G/B	Am

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
There’s a l	ady who’	s sure all that g	litters is	gold

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
And she’s	buying a stairway to	heave	n

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
When she g	ets there she	knows, if the s	tores are all c	losed

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
With a	word she can get what she	came f	or

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am	C	G/B	Dsus4	D
Ooh	,	oo	h, and she’s	buying a	stairway to	heaven

	C	D	Fmaj7	Am
There’s a	sign on the	wall but she w	ants to be	sure

	C	D	Fmaj7
‘Cause you k	now sometimes w	ords have two	meanings

	Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#
In a tr	ee by th	e brook, there’s a	songbird who	sings

	Fmaj7	G/B	Am
Sometimes a	ll of our thoughts are	misg	iven

Interlude

Am	Cmaj7/G#	C/G	D/F#	Fmaj7	G/B	Am

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

	C	G/B	Am
There’s a fe	eling I	get when I	look to the west

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And my sp	irit is	crying for	leav	ing

	C	G/B	Am
In my t	hought	s I have seen rings of	smoke through the trees

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And the v	oices	of those who stand	looki	ng

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

	C	G/B	Am
And it’s w	hispered that	soon if we	all call the tune

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
Then the p	iper will	lead us to	reas	on

	C	G/B	Am
And a	new day will dawn	for	those who stand long

	C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
And the fo	rests will	echo with	laught	er

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh

C	G/B	Am
If there’s a	bustle in your	hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
It’s just a	spring clean for the	May qu	een

C	G/B	Am
Yes, there are	two paths you can	go by, but in the long run

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
There’s still	time to change the	road you’re	on

C	G/B
Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh	, it makes me w	onder

Am7	D	Am7	Am	Em	D	C	D
Ooh

C	G/B	Am
Your head is	humming and it w	on’t go, in case you don’t know

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
The piper’s	calling you to	join h	im

C	G/B	Am
Dear lady,	can you hear the	wind blow, and did you know

C	G/B	Fmaj7	Am
Your stairway	lies on the	whispering	wind

C	G/B
D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	Cadd9	G/B
D	Dsus4	D	Dsus4	Cadd9	G/B

Am	G	F	G
And as we	wind on down the	road

Am	G	F	G
Our shadows	taller than our	soul

Am	G	F	G
There walks a	lady we all k	now

Am	G	F	G
Who shines white l	ight and wants to	show

Am	G	F	G
How everyt	hing still turns to	gold

Am	G	F	G
And if you	listen very	hard

Am	G	F	G
The tune will	come to you at	last

Am	G	F	G
When all are	one and one is	all

Am	G	Fmaj7
To be a r	ock and not to r	oll

Fmaj7	Am
And she’s buying a stairway to heav	en

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine (1970)

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D
Am	Asus4	Am	G	D	C
C	G/B	Am
→	→

Am	G	D
→	→

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D
Mea	sur	ing a	summer’s	day

	Am	Asus4	Am	G	D	C	G/B	Am
I	only	find	it	slips a	way to	gray	→

	Am	G	D
The	hours, they	bring me	pain

C	D

G	D	C	D
Tangerine,		tangerine

G	D	C	D
Living reflections		from a dream

G	D	C	D
I was her love,		she was my queen

G	Dsus4
And now a thousand years be	tween

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D
Think	ing	how it	used to b	e

Am	Asus4	Am	G	D	C	G/B	Am
Does	she	still re	member	times	like these?	→

	Am	G	D
To	think of	us a	gain

And I do

Arbitrarily shorten this, but make sure to hit that nice V

Am	G	D	F	E	F	E	F
				→	→	→

C	G	D	C	D	G	D	C	D

C	D
→

G	D	C	D
Tangerine,		tangerine

G	D	C	D
Living reflections		from a dream

G	D	C	D
I was her love,		she was my queen

G	Dsus4
And now a thousand years be	tween

Dsus4

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze (1974)

J.J. Cale in C#, Skynyrd in A, I play in A

Intro, with lots of b6

A

Call me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the road

	D	A
Well now they c	all me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the r	oad

	E
I ain’t g	ot me nobody

D	A
I don’t carry me no lo	ad

A

	A
Ain’t no c	hange in the weather, ain’t no changes in me

	D	A
Well there ain’t no c	hange in the weather, ain’t no changes in m	e

	E
And I ain’t h	idin’ from nobody

D	A
Nobody’s hidin’ from m	e

Oh, that's the way its supposed to be

Solo on chorus chords, more or less

	A
Well I got that g	reen light babe, I got to keep movin’ on

	D	A
Well I got that g	reen light babe, I got to keep movin’ o	n

	E
Well I might go o	ut to California

D	A
Might go ‘round to Georgia, I don’t k	now

Solo on chorus chords, more or less

F’ing fantastic piano + horn solo on chorus chords, more or less

	A
Well I d	ig you Georgia peaches, makes me feel right at home

	D	A
Well now I d	ig you Georgia peaches, makes me feel right at h	ome

E

But I don’t love me no one woman

D	A
So I can’t stay in Georgia l	ong

	A
Well now they	call me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the road

	D	A
Well now they c	all me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the r	oad

	E
I ain’t g	ot me nobody

D	A
I don’t carry me no lo	ad

A	A	A/C#	A/C#	D	D	Ebdim7	Ebdim7	E

	Bb7	A7
Oooh, Mr. Breeze	→

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (1973)

G	D/F#	Em	Em	F	C	Dsus4	Dsus4
							x4

G	D/F#	Em
If I	leave here to	morrow

F	C	Dsus4
Would you	still remember	me

G	D/F#	Em
For I must	be travelin’	on now

F	C	Dsus4
‘Cause there’s too many	places I’ve got to	see

G	D/F#	Em
But if I	stay here with	you girl

F	C	Dsus4
Things just	couldn’t be the	same

G	D/F#	Em
‘Cause I’m as	free as a	bird now

F	C	Dsus4
And this	bird you cannot	change, oh

F	C	Dsus4
And the	bird you cannot	change

F	C	Dsus4	D
And this	bird you cannot	cha	nge

F	C	Dsus4	D
Lord k	nows I can’t	cha	age

G	D/F#	Em	Em	F	C	Dsus4	Dsus4
							x2

G	D/F#	Em
Bye,	bye, baby, it’s been a	sweet love

F	C	Dsus4
Though this	feeling I can’t	change

G	D/F#	Em
But please don’t	take it so	badly

F	C	Dsus4
‘Cause lord	knows I’m to	blame

G	D/F#	Em
But if I	stay here with	you, girl

F	C	Dsus4
Things just	couldn’t be the	same

G	D/F#	Em
‘Cause I’m as	free as a	bird now

F	C	Dsus4
And this	bird you’ll never	change, oh

F	C	Dsus4
And the	bird you cannot	change

F	C	Dsus4
And this	bird you cannot	change

F	C	Dsus4	D
Lord	knows I can’t	cha	nge

F	C	Dsus4
Lord,	help me, I can’t	cha-a-a-a-ange

G	Bb	C
	Lord, I can’t c	hange

	G	Bb	C
Won’t you	fly	high,	free bird, yeah

Solo

G	Bb	C	C

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps (1973)

Originally in D, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A	A	E	E	A	A	E	A	A	A
									x 2

	A
I was c	utting the rug, down at place called The Jug

	E
With a g	irl named Linda Lou

	A
When	in walked a man with a gun in his hand

	B7	E
And he was	looking for you know w	ho

	A
He said	hey there, fellow with the hair colored yellow

D	B7
Whatcha tryin’ to	prove?

	A
‘Cause that’s	my woman there and I’m a man who cares

	E	A
And this	might be all for	you

I said, "excuse me"

A	A	E	E	A	A	E	A	A	A

	A
I was s	cared and fearing for my life

	E
I was s	haking like a leaf on a tree

	A
‘Cause he was	lean, mean, big and bad, lord

B7	E
Pointin’ that gun at	me

	A
Oh,	wait a minute, mister I didn’t even kiss her

D	B7
Don’t want no trouble with	you

	A
And I	know you don’t owe me but I wish you would let me

E	A
Ask one favor from	you

	A
Oh won’t you	gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E
Gimme	three steps toward your door

A

Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E	A
And you’ll	never see me no	more

For, sure

Solo on verse chords, or trim to one intro

A	A	E	E	A	A	E	A	A	A

	A
Well the	crowd cleared away, and I began to pray

	E
And the	water fell on the floor

	A
And I’m	telling you, son, well, it ain’t no fun

	B7	E
Staring	straight down a forty-	four

	A
Well, he	turned and screamed at Linda Lou

	D	B7
And that’s the	break I was looking	for

	A
And you could	hear me screaming a mile away

	E	A
As I was	headed out toward your	door

	A
Oh won’t you	gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E
Gimme	three steps toward your door

A

Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister

	E	A
And you’ll	never see me no	more

Show me the back door

A

E

A

E

A

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man (1973)

Originally in B, I play in G

Intro

G	D	Em	Em
			x 4

Vox on 3 3 2 2 1 on “my mama told me”

	G	D	Em
My mama t	old me,	when I was y	oung

	G	D	Em
Come sit be	side me,	my only	son

	G	D	Em
And listen	closely,	to what I	say

	G	D	Em
And if you	do this, it will	help you, some s	unny day, aw yeah

G	D	Em	Em
			x 2

	G	D	Em
Oh, take your	time,	don’t live too	fast

	G	D	Em
Troubles will	come,	and they will	pass

	G	D	Em
Well, find a	woman,	and you’ll find	love

	G	D	Em
And don’t for	get son, there is	someone up a	bove

	G	D	Em
And be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

G	D	Em	Em
			x 1

	G	D	Em
Get your	lust,	the rich man’s	gold

	G	D	Em
All that you	need,	is in your	soul

	G	D	Em
And you can	do this	, if you	try

	G	D	Em
All that I	want for you my	son, is to be satis	fied

	G	D	Em
And be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

Solo

G	D	Em	Em
			x 4

	G	D	Em
Boy don’t you	worry,	you’ll find your	self

	G	D	Em
Follow your	heart,	and nothing	else

	G	D	Em
And you can	do this, oh babe,	if you	try

	G	D	Em
All that I	want for you my	son, is to be s	atisfied

	G	D	Em
And be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple,	be a simple	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, be	something	you’ll love and under	stand

	G	D	Em
Baby be a	simple	kind of	man

	G	D	Em
Oh, won’t you	do this for me	son if you	can

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (1974)

Originally in D, I play in A

A	G	D
		x4

A	G	D
Big	wheels keep on	turning

A	G	D
Carry me	home to see my	kin

A	G	D
Singing	songs about the	southland

A	G	D
I miss ol’ ‘	bamy once a	gain, and I think it’s a sin, yes

A	G	D
		x2

A	G	D
Well I heard mister Y	oung sing ab	out her

A	G	D
Well I heard old N	eil put her d	own

A	G	D
Well I hope Neil Y	oung will rem	ember

A	G	D
A southern	man don’t need him a	round anyhow

A	G	D	D	G
Sweet	home Ala	bama	→

A	G	D
Where the	skies are so	blue

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