Billy Joel - Allentown

I play in the original key (D), but falsetto on the “getting very hard to stay”

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D	G	C/G	G
	→

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “living”

	Em7	A7sus4	D
Well we’re	living here in	Allentown

	Am7	D9sus4	G
And they’re	closing all the	factories down

	Em7	A	Bm
Out in	Bethlehem they’re	killing	time

F#m/A	G6	D/F#	A7sus4	A
Filling out	forms,	standing in	line

	Em7	A7sus4	D
Well our	fathers fought the	Second World War

	Am7	D9sus4	G
Spent their	weekends on the	Jersey shore

	Em7	A	Bm
Met our	mothers in the	US	O

F#m/A	G6	D/F#	Asus4	A
Asked them to	dance,	danced with them s	low

	Em7	A7sus4	D
And we’re	living here in	Allentown

	F/A	G/B	C	G/C	C
But the	restlessness was	handed d	own

Vox on the 5 of the chord on “getting very hard”

	Am7	D9sus4	Em	G/B	C	D
And it’s	getting very	hard to st	ay

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D	G	C/G	G
	→

	Em7	A7sus4	D
Well we’re	waiting here in	Allentown

	Am7	D9sus4	G
For the	Pennsylvania	we never found

	Em7	A	Bm
For the	promises our	teachers g	ave

F#m/A	G6	D/F#	A7sus4	A
If we worked	hard,	if we be	haved

	Em7	A7sus4	D
So the	graduations	hang on the wall

	Am7	D9sus4	G
But they	never really	helped us at all

	Em7	A	Bm
No they	never taught us	what was	real

F#m/A	G6	D/F#	A7sus4	A
Iron and	coke,	chromium st	eel

	Em7	A7sus4	D
And we’re	waiting here in	Allentown

	F/A	G/B	C	G/C	C
But they’ve	taken all the	coal from the gr	ound

	Am	D9sus4	Em	G/B	C	D
And the	union people	crawled a	way

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D
	→

F	G/F	F
Every child	had a pret	ty good shot

F	G/F	Bb/F
To get at least as f	ar as their	old man got

F	G/F	F
But something ha	ppened on the	way to that place

F	G/F	Cadd9
They threw an A	merican flag in o	ur face

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D	G	C/G	G
	→

	Em7	A7sus4	D
Well I’m	living here in	Allentown

	F/A	G/B	C	G/C	C
And it’s	hard to keep a	good man	down

	Am	D9sus4	Em	G/B	C	D
But I	won’t be getting	up toda	y

Cadd9	Em7	D	G/B	G
	→

Cadd9	Em7	D
	→

Instrumental bridge, more or less

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

	Am7	D9sus4	Em	G/B	C	D
And it’s	getting very	hard to st	ay

	Em7	A7sus4	D
And we’re	living here in	Allentown

Billy Joel - Big Shot

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 - I Go to Extremes

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro

G	D/F#	A	A
			x2

Vox on the 5

A	D/A
Call me a joker, c	all me a fool

	D/A	A
R	ight at this moment I’m t	otally cool

A	A/C#	D
Clear as a	crystal,	sharp as a knife

D	A
I feel like I’m in the p	rime of my life

G	D/F#
Sometimes it feels like I’m g	oing too fast

A/E	B7/D#
I don’t know how long this f	eeling will last

A/E	E	A
Maybe it’s	only toni	ght

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Darling I	don’t know why	I go to e	xtr	emes

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Too high or	too low there a	in’t no in	bet	weens

	G6	F#7	Bm	Bm/C#	Dm
And if I	stand or I	fall, i	t’s all or nothing a	t	all

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Darling I	don’t know why	I go to	extr	emes

A	D/A
Sometimes I’m tired,	sometimes I’m shot

D/A	A
Sometimes I don’t know how m	uch more I got

A	A/C#	D
Maybe I’m	headed o	ver the hill

D	A
Maybe I set myself	up for the kill

G	D/F#
Tell me how much do you t	hink you can take

A/E	B7/D#
Until the heart in you’s s	tarting to break

A/E	E	A
Sometimes it feels	like it w	ill

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Darling I	don’t know why	I go to e	xtr	emes

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Too high or	too low there a	in’t no in	bet	weens

	G6	F#7	Bm	Bm/C#	Dm
You can b	e sure when I’m	gone	I won’t be out there t	oo l	ong

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Darling I	don’t know why	I go to	extr	emes

Bridge

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “out of the darkness”

B	G	D	A
Out of the darkness,	into the light, le	aving the scene of the c	rime

B	G	D
Either I’m wrong or I’m p	erfectly right every t	ime

Vox up to the 5 of the chord on “somties I lie”

F#m	Dmaj7
Sometimes I lie awake n	ight after night

A	E
Coming apart at the	seams

...and back to the 1 of the chord

B	G
Eager to please, r	eady to fight

D	A
Why do I go to extr	emes

Solo

G	D/F#	A	A
			x2

	G6	F#7	Bm	Bm/C#	Dm
And if I	stand or I	fall, i	t’s all or nothing a	t	all

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Darling I	don’t know why	I go to	extr	emes

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
No I	don’t know why	I go to	extr	emes

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Too high or	too low, there ain	’t no in	bet	weens

	G6	F#7	Bm	Bm/C#	Dm
You can b	e sure when I’m	gone	I won’t be out there t	oo l	ong

	G	D/F#	A/E	A
Darling I	don’t know why	I go to	extr	emes

G	D/F#	A
	I	don’t know why, I don’t know why

G	D/F#	A
	I	don’t know why, I don’t know why

G	D/F#	A	A
			x2

Billy Joel - Keeping the Faith

Originally in D, I play in A capo 2.

A

	A
If it	seems like I’ve been lost in let’s remember

If you think I’m feeling older and missing my younger days

	D
Oh, then you	should have known me much better

Cause my past is something that never

	A
Got in my	way oh no

	A
Still I	would not be here now if I never had the hunger

And I’m not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends

	D
Cause I	never felt the desire till their music set me on fire

	E6	D
And then I was	saved,	yeah

	E6
That’s why I’m keeping the	faith

D

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

	A
Keeping the	faith

	A
We wore	matador boots

Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel
Iridescent socks with the same color shirt
And a tight pair of chinos

	D
I	put on my shark skin jacket

You know the kind with the velvet collar

	A
And ditty-bop	shades

I took a fresh pack of Luckies and a mint called Sen-Sen
My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice after shave

	D
Combed my	hair in a pompadour

Like the rest of the Romeos wore

	E6	D
A permanent	wave	yeah

	E6
We were keeping the	faith

D

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

	A
Keeping the	faith

Bridge

	E	D	A
You can	get just so	much from a	good thing

	E	D	A
You can	linger too	long in your	dreams

	E	D	A
Say	goodbye to the	oldies but	goodies

	Bm7
Cause the	good old days weren’t always good

	E7
And	tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems

A

Learned stickball as a formal education

Lost a lot of fights but it taught me how to lose O.K.

	D
I	heard about sex but not enough

	A
I found you could dance and still look tough any	way

I found out a man ain’t just being macho
Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food drank a lot of take-home pay

	D
I	thought I was the Duke of Earl

When I made it with a red-haired girl

	E6	D
In a Chevrol	et

	E6
We were keeping the	faith

D

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

	A
Keeping the	faith

Bridge

	E	D	A
You can	get just so	much from a	good thing

	E	D	A
You can	linger too	long in your	dreams

	E	D	A
Say	goodbye to the	oldies but	goodies

	Bm7
Cause the	good old days weren’t always good

Hang this line if not doing a solo

	E7
And	tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems

Instrumental, listed here with lyrics but I usually skip if

a solo is not appropriate.

	E	D	A
You can	get just so	much from a	good thing

	E	D	A
You can	linger too	long in your	dreams

	E	D	A
Say	goodbye to the	oldies but	goodies

	Bm7
Cause the	good old days weren’t always good

	E7
And	tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems

	A
Now I	told you my reasons for the whole revival

Now I’m going outside to have an
Ice cold beer in the shade

	D
I’m going to	listen to my 45’s

Ain’t it wonderful to be alive
When the rock 'n' roll

E6	D
Plays	yeah

	E6	D
When the memory	stays,	yeah

	E6
I’m keeping the	faith

D

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

	A
Keeping the	faith

Fade on the I

Billy Joel - Miami 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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 - Shameless

G	D/F#	Em	C	Bb
				x2

	G	D/F#
Well, I’m	shameless when it comes to	loving you

	Em	C	Bb
I’ll do anything you	want me to, I’ll do anything at	all

	G	D/F#
And I’m	standing, here for all the	world to see

	Em	C	Bb
Aw, there ain’t that much	left of me that has very far to	fall

Vox on the 6 of the chord on “I’m”

	D	B
You know now	I’m not a man who’s	ever been

	Em	Am7
Inse	cure about the world I’ve been	living in

	D	B
I	don’t break easy I	have my pride

	Em	F	F#
But if	you need to be	satis	fied

	G	D/F#
I’m s	hameless baby I don’t	have a prayer

	Em
Every time I see you sta	nding there

	C	Bb
I go down upon my	knees

	G	D/F#
And I’m	changing swore I’d	never compromise

	Em
Aw, but you convinced me o	therwise

	C	Bb
I’ll do anything you	please

	D	B
You see in	all my life I’ve	never found

	Em	Am7
What I c	ouldn’t resist what I couldn’t t	urn down

	D	B
I could	walk away from anyone I	ever knew

	Em	F	Gm	Am
But I	can’t walk away from	you

	Bb	Am
I have	never let anything have this much	control over me

Vox stay on the 3 of the chord

	Ab	Eb
I	worked too hard to call my life my	own

	Bb	Am
And I’ve	made myself a world and it’s worked so	perfectly

Vox stay on the 3 of the chord for this whole line and into the next

	Ab
But it’s	your world now I can’t refuse

Am	D7
I’ve never had so much	to lose

Solo if appropriate

	G	D	Em	C	Bb
Oh, I’m	shameless

G	D	Em	C	Bb

Em	D	C	Bb

	D
You know it	should be easy for a

B

Man who’s strong

	Em	Am7
To say h	e’s sorry or ad	mit when he’s wrong

	D	B
I n	ever lost anything I	ever missed

	Em	F
But	I’ve never been in	love like this

F

It’s outta my hands

	G	D/F#
I’m sham	eless, I don’t have the	power now

	Em	C	Bb
I don’t want it	anyhow so I’ve got to let it go

	G	D/F#
I’m sham	eless, shameless as a ma	n can be

	Em
You could make a total f	ool of me

	C	Bb
I just wanted you to know

	G	D/F#	Em	C	Bb
Oh, I’m	shameless

G

D/F#

Em

C

Bb

Billy Joel - Somewhere Along the Line

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 - Still Rock and Roll to Me

C

C	Em
What’s the matter with the cl	othes I’m wearing?

	Bb	F
Can’t you t	ell that your tie’s too w	ide?

C	Em
Maybe I should buy some o	ld tab collars

	Bb	F
Welcome	back to the age of j	ive

Em	Am
Where have you been hidin’ o	ut lately, honey?

	Em	D	G
You	can’t dress trashy till you	spend a lot of	money

C	Em	Bb
Everybody’s	talking ‘bout the	new sound

F	Am	G	C
Funny, but it’s	still rock and	roll to	me

C	Em
What’s the matter with the	car I’m driving?

	Bb	F
Can’t you	tell it’s out of st	yle?

C	Em
Should I get a set of	white wall tires?

	Bb	F
Are you	gonna cruise the miracle mi	le?

Em	Am
Nowadays you can’t be t	oo sentimental

	Em	D	G
Your	best bet’s a true baby,	blue Conti	nental

C	Em	Bb	F
Hot funk,	cool punk	even if it’s	old junk

	Am	G	C
It’s	still rock and r	oll to m	e

Bridge

	G	F
O	h it doesn’t matter what they sa	y in the papers

	E	Am
‘Cause it’s a	lways been the same old sc	ene

	G	F
There’s a	new band in town but you ca	n’t get the sound

	E	Ab
From a	story in a ma	gazine

Eb	F	G
Aimed at your average	teen

C	Em
How about a pair of	pink sidewinders

	Bb	F
And a	bright orange pair of pant	s?

C	Em
Well, you could really be a	Beau Brummel baby

	Bb	F
If you j	ust give it half a cha	nce

Em	Am
Don’t waste your money on a n	ew set of speakers

	Em	D	G
You	get more mileage from a ch	eap pair of sn	eakers

C	Em	Bb	F
Next phase,	new wave,	dance craze,	anyways

	Am	G	C
It’s	still rock and	roll to me

Solo if appropriate

G	F	E	Am
G	F	E7	Ab	Eb	F	G

C	Em
What’s the matter with th	e crowd I’m seeing?

	Bb	F
Don’t you	know that they’re out of touc	h?

C	Em
Should I try to be a s	traight A student?

	Bb	F
If you	are, then you think too much

Em	Am
Don’t you know about the n	ew fashion, honey?

Em	D	G
All you need are looks and a w	hole lotta	money

	C	Em	Bb	F
It’s the n	ext phase, n	ew wave, d	ance craze,	anyways

	Am	G	C
It’s	still rock and	roll to me

Hard stops on each chord

C	Em	Bb
Everybody’s	talking about the n	ew sound

F	G	C9
Funny, but it’s s	till rock and roll to me

Billy Joel - Stop in Nevada

	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)

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

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 - Tell Her About It

Originally in Bb, I play in E capo 2

E	E	D	A
			x2

	E	D	A
L	isten boy, I don’t want to see you let a g	ood thing slip a	way

	E	D	A
You know I d	on’t like watching anybody make the sa	me mistakes I m	ade

If you’re playing in E, play the G in open voicing here

	G#m	G	F#m
She’s a	real nice girl and she’s	always there for	you

	Am	E/G#	F#m	B
But a n	ice girl wouldn’t	tell you what you should	do

	E	D	A
Oh, l	isten boy, I’m sure that you think you got it a	ll under cont	rol

	E	D	A
You don’t w	ant somebody telling you the way to st	ay in someone’s s	oul

	G#m	G	F#m
You’re a	big boy now and you’ll n	ever let her	go

	Am	E/G#	F#m	E	F#
But t	hat’s just the kind of	thing she ought to k	now

	B	D#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	everything you feel

G#m	G#m7	C#m7	F#7sus4
Give her every	reason to ac	cept that you’re for	real

	B	D#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	all your crazy dreams

G#m	G#m7	C#m7	F#7sus4	F#7
Let her know you	need her, let her	know how much she	means

E	E	D	A
			Oooh x2

	E	D	A
L	isten, boy, it’s not automatically a ce	rtain guarant	ee

	E	D	A
To ins	ure yourself, you’ve got to provide communic	ation constant	ly

	G#m	G	F#m
When you	love someone you’re	always insec	ure

	Am	E/G#	F#m	E	F#
And there’s	only one good	way to reass	ure

	B	D#m
T	ell her about it, let her	know how much you care

G#m	G#m7	C#m7	F#7sus4
When she can’t be	with you, tell her	you wish you were	there

	B	D#m
T	ell her about it every	day before you leave

G#m	G#m7	C#m7	F#7sus4	F#7
Pay her some at	tention, give her	something to be	lieve

Bridge

D	Bm	C
‘Cause now and t	hen she’ll get to w	orrying

	D	Em	A	Bm	A/C#
Ju	st bec	ause you haven’t s	poken for so l	ong

	D	Bm	C
And th	ough you	may not have done	anything

	D	Em	A	F#/A#	B
W	ill that	be a consol	ation when she’s	gone?

	E	D	A
L	isten boy, it’s good information from a m	an who’s made mist	akes

	E	D	A
Just a wo	rd or two that she gets from you could be the d	ifference that it m	akes

	G#m	G	F#m
She’s a	trusting soul, she’s p	ut her trust in	you

	Am	E/G#	F#m	E	F#
But a	girl like that won’t	tell you what you should	do

	B	D#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	everything you feel

G#m	G#m7	C#m7	F#7sus4
Give her every	reason to ac	cept that you’re for	real

	B	D#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	all your crazy dreams

G#m	G#m7	C#m7	F#7sus4	F#7
Let her know you	need her, let her	know how much she	means

Outro

	E	D	A
T	ell her about it,	tell her how you f	eel right now

	E	D	A
T	ell her about it, the	girl don’t want to	wait too long

	E	D	A
You got to te	ll her about it,	tell her now and you	won’t go wrong

	E	D	A
You got to te	ll her about it, be	fore it gets too	late you’ve got to...

Billy Joel - The Ballad of Billy the Kid

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 Downeaster ‘Alexa’

Originally in Am, I play in Em.

Sometimes I capo 2, the highest note is Bb in Am.

Mostly muted, be judicioius with strumming.

Em

Vox start on 1 2 3 of the major key

	G	D	Em
Well I’m	on the Downe	aster Al	exa

	G	D	C
And I’m	cruising through	Block Island	Sound

	C	G	Am
I have	charted a	course to the	Vineyard

	Em	D	C
But to	night I am	Nantucket	bound

C	D	G	C
We took on	diesel back in	Montauk	yesterday

C	D	Em	D/F#
And left this	morning from the	bell in Gardiner’s	Bay

C	D	G	C
Like all the	locals here I’ve	had to sell my	home

C	D	Em	D/F#
Too proud to	leave I worked my	fingers to the	bone

	G	D	Em
So I could	own my Downe	aster Ale	xa

	G	D	C
And I	go where the	ocean is	deep

	C	G	Am
There are	giants out	there in the	canyons

	G	D	C
And a	good captain	can’t fall	asleep

C	D	G	C
I’ve got	bills to pay and	children who need	clothes

C	D	Em	D/F#
I know there’s	fish out there	but where God only	knows

C	D	G	C
They say these	waters aren’t	what they used to	be

C	D	Em	D/F#
But I’ve got	people back on	land who count on	me

	G	D	Em
So if you	see my Downe	aster Al	exa

	G	D	C
And if you	work with the	rod and the	reel

	C	G	Am
Tell my	wife I am	trolling	Atlantis

	G	D	C
And I	still have my	hands on the	wheel

Interlude, lots of ayyy-o and accordion noises

Em

	G	D	Em
Now I	drive my Downe	aster Al	exa

	G	D	C
More and	more miles from	shore every	year

	C	G	Am
Since they	tell me I	can’t sell no	stripers

	G	D	C
And there’s	no luck in	swordfishing	here

C	D	G	C
I was a	bayman like my	father was	before

C	D	Em	D/F#
Can’t make a	living as a	bayman	anymore

C	D	G	C
There ain’t much	future for a	man who works the	sea

C	D	Em	D/F#
But there ain’t no	island left for	islanders like	me

	G	D/F#	Em
Ay-ay	yo,		oh

Billy Joel - The Entertainer

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 Longest Time

Originally in Eb, I play in A capo 3 (so in C)

Highest note is only the 4, but it sounds terrible to miss

those 4’s on "I’m so in*spired* by you" and "that hasn’t

hap*pened*".

A	E	A	D
Oh,	oh,	oh,	oh

E	A
For the longest	time

E	A	D
Oh,	oh,	oh

E

For the longest time

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	D	A
If	you	said	good	bye to me ton	ight

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	B	E
There	would	still	be	music left to	write

C#	F#m
What else could	I do

E7	A	A7
I’m so insp	ired	by you

D	Bm	E	A
That hasn’t	happened for the	longest	time

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	D	A
Once	I	thought	my	innocence was	gone

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	B	E
Now	I k	now	that	happiness goes	on

C#	F#m
That’s where you	found me

E7	A	A7
When you put your	arms a	round me

D	Bm	E	A
I haven’t	been there for the	longest ti	me

A	E	A	D
Oh,	oh,	oh,	oh

E	A
For the longest	time

E	A	D
Oh,	oh,	oh

E

For the longest time

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	D	A
I’m	that	voice	you’re	hearing in the	hall

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	B	E
And	the	great	est	miracle of	all

C#	F#m
Is how I	need you

E7	A	A7
And how you n	eeded	me too

D	Bm	E	A
That has	n’t happened for the	longest	time

E	E7	F#m
Maybe	this won’t	last very long

	G#7
But	you feel so right

	A
And	I could be wrong

C#m	F#m
Maybe I’ve been	hoping too hard

	B7
But	I’ve gone this far

	E	E7
And it’s	more than I	hoped for

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	D	A
Who	knows	how	much	further we’ll go	on

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	B	E
May	be I’	ll	be s	orry when you’re	gone

C#	F#m
I’ll take my	chances

E7	A	A7
I forgot how n	ice r	omance is

D	Bm	E	A
I haven’t	been there for the	longest	time

E	E7	F#m
I had	second	thoughts at the start

	G#7
I s	aid to myself

	A
Hold	on to your heart

C#m	F#m
Now I know the	woman that you are

	B7
You’re	wonderful so far

	E	E7
And it’s	more than I	hoped for

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	D	A
I	don’t c	are	what	consequence it b	rings

A	A/G#	A/F#	Amaj7/E	B	E
I	have b	een	a	fool for lesser t	hings

C#	F#m
I want you	so bad

E7	A	A7
I think you	ought to	know that

D	Bm	E	A
I intend to	hold you for the	longest	time

A	E	A	D
Oh,	oh,	oh,	oh

E	A
For the longest	time

E	A	D
Oh,	oh,	oh

E

For the longest time

Billy Joel - The River of Dreams

On guitar, play as barre and ignore most extensions.

Gmaj7	Gmaj7	Cmaj7	D6

x 4, with oooh, ahh

G

In the middle of (I go walking in)

	G9
In the middle of (I go	walking in)

C	Cmaj7
In the middle of (I go	walking in)

D

In the middle of (I go walking in)

	G
In the middle of the	night

I go walking in my sleep

	G7	C
From the	mountains of	faith

	Cmaj7	D
To the	river so	deep

	G
I must be looking for	something

Something sacred I lost

	G7	C
But the	river is	wide

	Cmaj7	D
And it’s	too hard to	cross

Em	Gmaj7
And even though I know the	river is wide

	Cmaj7	G
I walk	down every evening and	stand on the shore

Cmaj7	Gmaj7
I try to cross to the	opposite side

	A7	D
So I can	finally find out what I’ve been	looking for

	G
In the middle of the	night

I go walking in my sleep

	G7	C
Through the	valley of	fear

	Cmaj7	D
To a	river so	deep

	G
I’ve been searching for	something

Taken out of my soul

	G7	C
Something	I could never	lose

	Cmaj7	D
Something	somebody	stole

	Em	Gmaj7
I	don’t know why I go	walking at night

	Cmaj7	G
But now I’m	tired and I don’t want to	walk anymore

	Cmaj7	Gmaj7
I	hope it doesn’t take the	rest of my life

	A7	D
Until I	find what it is I’ve been	looking for

Hang for 1 measure

	G
In the middle of the	night

I go walking in my sleep

	G7	C
Through the	jungle of	doubt

	Cmaj7	D
To the	river so	deep

	G
I know I’m	searching for something

Something so undefined

	G7	C
That it can	only be	seen

	Cmaj7	D
By the	eyes of the	blind

	G
In the middle of the	night

Note the lyrics are reversed wrt the intro

G

I go walking in the, in the middle of the

	G7
I go walking in the, in the	middle of the

C	Cmaj7
I go walking in the, in the	middle of the

D

I go walking in the, in the middle of the

G

I go walking in the, in the middle of the

	G7
I go walking in the, in the	middle of the

C	Cmaj7
I go walking in the, in the	middle of the

D

I go walking in the, in the middle of the

Em	Gmaj7
I’m not sure about a	life after this

	Cmaj7	G
God	knows I’ve never been a	spiritual man

Cmaj7	Gmaj7
Baptized by the	fire

	A	D
I wade into the	river that is running through the	promised land

Hang for 1 meaure and 2 extra beats

	G
In the middle of the	night

I go walking in my sleep

	G7	C
Through the	desert of	truth

	Cmaj7	D
To the	river so	deep

	G
We all end in the	ocean

We all start in the streams

	G7	C
We’re all	carried a	long

	Cmaj7	D
By the	river of	dreams

	G
In the middle of the	night

I go walking in the, in the middle of the

	G7
I go walking in the, in the	middle of the

C	Cmaj7
I go walking in the, in the	middle of the

D

I go walking in the, in the middle of the

Billy Joel - The Stranger

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

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 - Uptown Girl

Originally in E, I play in A capo 1.

Definitely practice the bridge oh-oh’s before playing.

Vox start on the root

A	Bm
Oh oh oh	oh oh oh oh

C#m	D	E
Oh oh oh	oh oh	oh oh

A

Uptown girl

Bm	C#m
She’s been living in her	uptown world

D	E	A
I bet she	never had a	back street guy

Bm	C#m
I bet her mama never	told her why

D	E
I’m gonna	try for an

A

Uptown girl

Bm	C#m
She’s been living in her	white bread world

D	E	A
As long as	anyone with	hot blood can

Bm	C#m
And now she’s looking for a	downtown man

D	E
That’s what I	am

Vox on 1 3 6 of the first chord on “and when she”

F	Dm	Gm	C7
And when she	knows what she	wants from her	time

F	Dm	Gm/D#	C7
And when she	wakes up and	makes up her	mind

D	Bm
She’ll see I’m	not so tough

Em	E
Just because	I’m in love with an

A

Uptown girl

Bm	C#m
You know I’ve seen her in her	uptown world

D	E	A
She’s getting	tired of her	high-class toys

Bm	C#m
And all her presents from her	uptown boys

D	E
She’s got a	choice

Bridge

Starts on 1 3 5 of the first chord, get to the

1 of the second chord on its second “oh-oh”

C	D	D#dim7	Em	D
Ohh...			→

C	D	D#dim7	E
Ohh...

A

Uptown girl

Bm	C#m
You know I can’t afford to	buy her pearls

D	E	A
But maybe	someday when my	ship comes in

Bm	C#m
She’ll understand what kind of	guy I’ve been

D	E
And then I’ll	win

F	Dm	Gm	C7
And when she’s	walking, she’s	looking so	fine

F	Dm	Gm/D#	C7
And when she’s	talking, she’ll	say that she’s	mine

D	Bm
She’ll say I’m	not so tough

Em	E
Just because	I’m in love with an

A

Uptown girl

Bm	C#m
She’s been living in her	white bread world

D	E	A
As long as	anyone with	hot blood can

Bm	C#m
And now she’s looking for a	downtown man

D	E
That’s what I	am

Bridge

C	D	D#dim7	Em	D
Ohh...

C	D	D#dim7	E
Ohh...

(Uptown girl, repeat to fade...)

A

Bm

C#m

D

E

Billy Joel - Vienna

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 - We Didn’t Start the Fire

Intro, really unclear whether that’s a Iadd9 or a V or a something-else-over-something-else.

Writing it here as a Iadd9, but play with it.

G	Gadd9	Em7	C
			x 2

G	D
Harry Truman, Doris Day,	Red China, Johnnie Ray

Em	C
South Pacific, Walter Winchell,	Joe DiMaggio

G	D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,	Studebaker, television

Em	C
North Korea, South Korea,	Marilyn Monroe

G	D	Em	C

G	D
Rosenbergs, H-bomb,	Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Em	C
Brando, The King and I	and The Catcher in the Rye

G	D
Eisenhower, vaccine,	England’s got a new queen

Em	C
Marciano, Liberace,	Santayana goodbye

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em	C
It was	always burning since the	world’s been turning

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
No we	didn’t light it

	C
But we	tried to fight it

G	D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov,	Nasser and Prokofiev

Em	C
Rockefeller, Campanella,	Communist Bloc

G	D
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron,	Toscanini, Dacron

Em	C
Dien... Bien... Phu... falls,	Rock Around the Clock

G	D
Einstein, James Dean,	Brooklyn’s got a winning team

Em	C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan,	Elvis Presley, Disneyland

G	D
Bardot, Budapest,	Alabama, Khrushchev

Em	C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place,	trouble in the Suez

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
It was	always burning

	C
Since the	world’s been turning

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
No we	didn’t light it

	C
But we	tried to fight it

Bridge

C	Am
Little Rock, Pasternak,	Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Em	D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai,	Bridge on the River Kwai

C	Am
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,	California baseball

Em	D
Stark weather, homicide,	children of thalidomide

D

Oh-oh, oh-oh

G	D
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur,	space monkey, Mafia

Em	C
Hula hoops, Castro,	Edsel is a no-go

G	D
U-2, Syngman Rhee,	payola and Kennedy

Em	C
Chubby Checker, Psycho,	Belgians in the Congo

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
It was	always burning

	C
Since the	world’s been turning

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
No we	didn’t light it

	C
But we	tried to fight it

G	D
Hemingway, Eichmann,	Stranger in a Strange Land

Em	C
Dylan, Berlin,	Bay of Pigs invasion

G	D
Lawrence of Arabia,	British Beatle mania

Em	C
Ole Miss, John Glenn,	Liston beats Patterson

G	D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X,	British politician sex

Hard stop on “what else”

Em	C
JFK, blown away,	what else do I have to say?

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
It was	always burning

	C
Since the	world’s been turning

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
No we	didn’t light it

	C
But we	tried to fight it

G	D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,	Richard Nixon back again

Em	C
Moon shot, Woodstock,	Watergate, punk rock

G	D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine,	terror on the airline

Em	C
Ayatollah’s in Iran,	Russians in Afghanistan

Melody stays on the same note all the way to “AIDS”

G	D
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride,	heavy metal, suicide

Em	C
Foreign debts, homeless vets,	AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

G	D
Hypodermics on the shores,	China’s under martial law

Hard stop on “rock”

Em	C
Rock and roller cola wars,	I can’t take it anymore

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
It was	always burning

	C
Since the	world’s been turning

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
But when	we are gone

	C	G	D	Em	C
It will	still burn on, and	on, and	on, and	on, and	on

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
It was	always burning

	C
Since the	world’s been turning

G	D
We didn’t start the	fire

	Em
No we	didn’t light it

	C
But we	tried to fight it

Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst

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

Billy Joel - You May Be Right

A

Friday night I crashed your party

Saturday I said I’m sorry

	E
Sunday came and trashed me out a	gain

	Bm
I was	only having fun

	G
Wasn’t	hurting anyone

	E	A
And we	all enjoyed the weekend for a	change

	A
I was	stranded in the combat zone

I walked through Bedford Sty alone

	E
Even rode my motorcycle in the	rain

	Bm
And you	told me not to drive

	G
But I	made it home alive

	E	A
So you	said that only proves that I’m in	sane

	E	A
You may be	right I may be	crazy

	E	D	F#m	A
But it	just may be a	lunatic you’re	looking for

	E	A
Turn out the	lights don’t try to	save me

	D	E
You may be	wrong for all I	know

	A
But you may be	right

A

Remember how I found you there

Alone in your electric chair

	E
I told you dirty jokes until you	smiled

	Bm
You were	lonely for a man

	G
I said	take me as I am

	E	A
‘Cause you	might enjoy some madness for a	while

	A
Now	think of all the years you tried to

Find someone to satisfy you

	E
I might be as crazy as you	say

	Bm
If I’m	crazy then it’s true

	G
That it’s	all because of you

	E	A
And you	wouldn’t want me any other	way

	E	A
You may be	right I may be	crazy

	E	D	F#m	A
But it	just may be a	lunatic you’re	looking for

	E	A
Turn out the	lights it’s too late to	change me

	D	E
You may be	wrong for all I	know

	A
But you may be	right

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

	E	A
You may be	right I may be	crazy

	E	D	F#m	A
Hey but it	just may be a	lunatic you’re	looking for

	E	A
Turn out the	lights, aww don’t try to	save me

	D	E
You may be	wrong for all I	know

	A
You may be	right

A

You may be wrong but you may be right

Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love

Dylan in Db, Adele in Bb, Garth Brooks in D

I play in D on piano, in C capo 2 on guitar

Starts with a quick V→I, or do an instrumental verse

C	G/B
When the rain is blowing	in your face

Gm/Bb	F/A
And the whole world is	on your case

Fm/Ab	C/G
I could offer you a	warm embrace

D9/F#	F/G	C
To make you	feel my	love

C	G/B
When evening shadows and the	stars appear

Gm/Bb	F/A
And there is no one there to	dry your tears

Fm/Ab	C/G
I could hold you for a	million years

D9/F#	F/G	C
To make you	feel my	love

F	C
I know you haven’t made your	mind up yet

C+	F	C
But I would	never do you	wrong

F	C
I’ve known it from the moment	that we met

	Dm7	G
N	o doubt in my mind where you	belong

C	G/B
I’d go hungry, I’d go	black and blue

Gm/Bb	F/A
I’d go crawling down the	avenue

Fm/Ab	C/G
Oh there’s nothing that I	wouldn’t do

D9/F#	F/G	C
To make you	feel my	love

Solo

C	G/B	Gm/Bb	F/A
Fm/Ab	C/G	D9/F#	F/G	C

F	C
The storms are raging on the	rolling sea

E	F	C
And on the	highway of	regret

F	C
The winds of change are blowing	wild and free

	Dm7	G
Y	ou ain’t seen nothing like me	yet

C	G/B
I could make you happy, make your	dreams come true

Gm/Bb	F/A
There is nothing that I wou	ldn’t do

Fm/Ab	C/G
Go to the ends of the	Earth for you

D9/F#	F/G	C
To make you	feel my	love

D9/F#	F/G	C
To make you	feel my	love

The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night

Originally in G, I play in D capo 1 or 2

Cadd9

	D	Gadd9	D
It’s been a h	ard d	ay’s n	ight

	C	D
And I’ve been w	orking like a d	og

	Gadd9	D
It’s been a hard d	ay’s n	ight

	C	D
I should be sl	eeping like a l	og

	G
But when I g	et home to you

	A
I find the th	ings that you do

	D	G7	D
Will make me f	eel	alr	ight

	D	Gadd9	D
You know I w	ork	all d	ay

	C	D
To get you m	oney to buy you th	ings

	Gadd9	D
And it’s worth it just to h	ear you s	ay

	C	D
You’re gonna g	ive me everyth	ing

	G
So why on	Earth should I moan

	A
‘Cause when I g	et you alone

	D	G7	D
You know I f	eel	oka	y

	F#m	Bm	F#m
When I’m h	ome,	everything seems to be r	ight

	D	Bm	G	A
When I’m h	ome, f	eeling you holding me t	ight, t	ight, yeah

	D	Gadd9	D
It’s been a h	ard d	ay’s n	ight

	C	D
And I’ve been w	orking like a d	og

	Gadd9	D
It’s been a hard d	ay’s n	ight

	C	D
I should be sl	eeping like a l	og

	G
But when I g	et home to you

	A
I find the th	ings that you do

	D	G7	D
Will make me f	eel	alr	ight

Solo on verse chords

D	Gadd9	D	D	C	D
					x2

	G
So why on	Earth should I moan

	A
‘Cause when I	get you alone

	D	G7	D
You know I f	eel	oka	y

	F#m	Bm	F#m
When I’m h	ome,	everything seems to be r	ight

	D	Bm	G	A
When I’m h	ome, f	eeling you holding me t	ight, t	ight, yeah

	D	Gadd9	D
It’s been a h	ard d	ay’s n	ight

	C	D
And I’ve been w	orking like a d	og

	Gadd9	D
It’s been a hard d	ay’s n	ight

	C	D
I should be sl	eeping like a l	og

	G
But when I g	et home to you

	A
I find the th	ings that you do

	D	G7	D
Will make me f	eel	alr	ight

	D	G7	D
You know I f	eel	all r	ight

	D	Gadd9	Cadd9
You know I f	eel a	lr	ight

The Beatles - Back in the USSR

E	E7

Vox on 4→3 on “Flew in”

	A	D
F	lew in from Miami Beach B.	O.A.C.

	C	D
D	idn’t get to bed last ni	ght

A	D
On the way the paperback was	on my knee

	C	D
M	an I had a dreadful fli	ght

	A
I’m back in the U.S.S.	R.

C	D
You don’t know how lucky you a	re boy

Hard stop on “back”

	D	A	D	E
B	ack in the U.S.S.	R.

	A	D
B	een away so long I hardly k	new the place

	C	D
G	ee it’s good to be back ho	me

	A	D
Le	ave it till tomorrow to unp	ack my case

	C	D
Ho	ney disconnect the ph	one

	A
I’m back in the U.S.S.	R.

C	D
You don’t know how lucky you a	re boy

Gadd9

Back in the U.S.

	A
Back in the U.S	.S.R.

Bridge, vox down to the root of the chord on “Ukraine”

	D
Well the Ukr	aine girls really knock me out

	A
They le	ave the West behind

	D	D/C#	D/C	D/B
And Mos	cow	girls make me	sing and s	hout

	E	D	A
That Ge	orgia’s always on my mi mi	mi mi mi mi mi	nd

D	Eb	E
		Oh come on!

Solo as verse, but skip solo and subsequent chorus and bridge

if appropriate...

	A
I’m back in the U.S.S.	R.

	C	D
Y	ou don’t know how lucky you a	re boy

Hard stop on “back”

	D	A
B	ack in the U.S.S.	R.

Bridge

	D
Well the Ukr	aine girls really knock me out

	A
They le	ave the West behind

	D	D/C#	D/C	D/B
And Mos	cow	girls make me	sing and s	hout

	E	D	A	D	E
That Ge	orgia’s always on my mi mi	mi mi mi mi mi	nd

	A	D
Oh, s	how me ‘round your snow-peaked mountains w	ay down South

	C	D
T	ake me to your daddy’s f	arm

	A	D
L	et me hear your balalaikais rin	ging out

	C	D
C	ome and keep your comrade w	arm

	A
I’m back in the U.S.S.	R., hey

	C	D
Y	ou don’t know how lucky you a	re boy

Hard stop on “back”

	D	A	D	E	A
B	ack in the U.S.S.	R.

Oh, let me tell you honey

A

Woo...

Optionally do D/C/A on “wooh”

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