A-Ha - Take On Me

Originally in Bm, I play in Am

If solo acoustic, just Am until the lyrics start,

skip all the intro goop. Also play fast.

Just drums @ start

Intro, just texture

Am	Em	Am	Em

Keys riff starts

Am	D	G	C	C/B
Am	D	G	C	C/B
Am	D	Am	Am/D

	Am	D
We’re	talking away

G	C	C/B
I don’t know what	I’m to	say

Am	D
I’ll say it anyway

G	C	C/B
Today’s another	day to	find you

Am	D
Shying away

Em	C
I’ll be coming for your	love O.K.

In G, start chorus lines on D, G, B

That D is a whole step below “O.K.”

G	D/F#	Em	C
Take	on	me

G	D/F#	Em	C
Take	me	on

G	D	Em	C
I’ll	be	gone i	n a day or two

G

D/F#

Em

C

	Am	D	G
So	needless to say	I’m	odds and ends

C	C/B
But I’	ll be

Am	D
Stumbling away

G	C	C/B
Slowly learning that	life is O.	K.

Am	D
Say after me

Em	C
It’s no better to be	safe than sorry

G	D/F#	Em	C
Take	on	me

G	D/F#	Em	C
Take	me	on

G	D	Em	C
I’ll	be	gone i	n a day or two

G

D/F#

Em

C

Trippy bridge

Bm	F	Bm	F	Am	D

Intro riff, just keys

Am	D	G	C	C/B
Am	D	G	C	C/B
Am	D	Am	Am/D

Am	D
The things that you say

G	C	C/B
Is it live or	just to	play

Am	D
My worries away

G	C	C/B
You’re all the things I’ve	got to re	member

Am	D
You’re shying away

Em	C
I’ll be coming for you anyway

G	D/F#	Em	C
Take	on	me

G	D/F#	Em	C
Take	me	on

G	D	Em	C
I’ll	be	gone i	n a day or two

G

D/F#

Em

C

After 2 choruses, ends on “day”, with keys fading...

Abba - Mamma Mia

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 - You Shook Me All Night Long

Originally in G, I play in A capo 2

A	D	A	D	A	E
	→	→	→	→

A	E	A	E	A
→	→	→	→

x2

Riff goes through the verse, approximating here

	A	D
She was a	fast machine, she kept her	motor clean

	E	A
She was the	best damn woman that I	ever seen

	A	D
She had the	sightless eyes, telling	me no lies

	E	A
K	nockin’ me out with those Am	erican thighs

	A	D
Taking	more than her share, had me	fighting for air

	E	A
She	told me to come, but I was	already there

	A	D
‘Cause the w	alls start shaking, the	Earth was quaking

	E	E7
My	mind was aching, and w	e weren’t thinkin’ and

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong

	A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
Yeah yo	u, shook me al	l n	ight l	ong

	A	D
Working dou	ble time on the se	duction line

	E	A
She was o	ne of a kind, she’s just m	ine, all mine

	A	D
Wanted	no applause, just an	other course

	E	A
Made a	meal out of me and ca	me back for more

	A	D
Had to c	ool me down to take a	nother round

	E	A
Now I’m	back in the ring to take a	nother swing

	A	D
‘Cause the w	alls were shaking, the E	arth was quaking

	E	E7
My	mind was aching, and w	e weren’t thinkin’ and

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong

	A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
Yeah yo	u, shook me al	l n	ight l	ong		, knockin’ me out

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong		, you had me shakin’

	A	D	A/C#	E
And	you shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong

E

Yeah you shook me, well you took me

Solo on verse chords if appropriate

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong		, oooh

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong		, yeah yeah

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong		, you really got me and

A	D	A/C#	E	D	A/C#
You shook me al	l ni	ght l	ong,	yeah you	shook me

Hard stop on “you” (yes, that’s really how the song ends)

E	D	A/C#	E
	Yeah you	shook me,	oh no you

Aerosmith - Amazing

Originally in C, I play in C capo 4

Am	G/A	Am	Em7

	Am	G/A
I kept the righ	t ones out and let the	wrong ones in

	C7	F
Had an a	ngel of mercy to see me through all my s	ins

	Fm6/Ab	C/G
There were	times in my life when I was g	oin’ insane

F#m7b5	F
Tryin’ to walk through the p	ain

	Am	G/A
When I l	ost my grip and I	hit the floor

	C7	F
Yeah, I	thought I could leave but couldn’t get out the d	oor

	Fm6/Ab	C/G
I was so	sick and tired of l	ivin’ a lie

	F#m7b5	F
I was wi	shin’ that I would d	ie

	C	Em7	F	C/E	G	C/G	G7
It’s a	mazing,	with the	blink of an eye you	finally see the l	ight

	C	Em7	F	C/E	G	C/G	G7
It’s a	mazing	when the m	oment arrives that you	know you’ll be alr	ight

	F	Em7	D7	G	C
It’s a	mazing	and I’m sa	yin’ a prayer for the	desperate hearts ton	ight

	Am	D7
That	one last shot’s a permanent vac	ation

	F	C	G/B
And	how high can you fly with broken win	gs?

Am	D7
Life’s a journey not a dest	ination

	F	G	C/G	G7
And I	just can’t tell just what tomorrow	brings

	Am	G/A
You have to	learn to crawl before you	learn to walk

	C7	F
But I j	ust couldn’t listen to all that righteous t	alk

	Fm6/Ab	C/G
Well, I was	out on the street, just t	ryin’ to survive

F#m7b5	F
Scratchin’ to stay al	ive

	C	Em7	F	C/E	G	C/G	G7
It’s a	mazing,	with the	blink of an eye you	finally see the l	ight

	C	Em7	F	C/E	G	C/G	G7
It’s a	mazing	when the m	oment arrives that you	know you’ll be alr	ight

	F	Em7	D7	G	C
It’s a	mazing	and I’m sa	yin’ a prayer for the	desperate hearts ton	ight

C	Dm7
	Desperate hearts, desperate hearts

Dm7	C/E
	Did you wanna see without and give what I got

C/F	F
	Oh, wada, wada ah ka kow, ah ka ka ka kow

Solo/outro, with ad libs

C	Dm7	C/E	F
C/G	Am	C/G	F
C	Dm7	C/E	F
C	C7

Aerosmith - Cryin’

Originally in A, I play in D or D capo 1

The highest part is the “breathin’ room” after

the first chorus, it goes up to the 4.

When acoustic, I also play something for the main riff

that looks a little more like Bb5 Bb5/G Bb5 C5,

or Eb Eb Bb5 C5. Even just Bb5 Bb5 Bb5 C5 works.

D#5	F5	A#5	C5
x3

D#5	F5	A#5	C5	D#5

D	A
There was a	time

Bm	F#m
When I was so	broken-hearted

G	D	A
Love wasn’t	much of a	friend of mine

D	A
The tables have	turned, yeah

Bm	F#m
‘Cause me and them	ways have parted

G	D	A
That kind of	love was the	killin’ kind, listen

C	G	C	G
All I	want is some	one I can’t re	sist

Vox start this line on the same note as the last line,

and go a half-step up on “way”

F	C	A
I know all I	need to know by the	way that I got kissed

	D	A
I was	cryin’ when I	met you

	Bm	G
Now I’m	tryin’ to for	get you

D	A	G
Your love is	sweet miser	y

	D	A
I was	cryin’ just to	get you

	F#m	G
Now I’m	dyin’ ‘cause I	let you

D	A	G
Do what you	do, down on	me

Vox in on the 1 of whatever chord is last in this phrase.

That’s C if you’re playing in D. Chords are just the intro

riff.

D#5	F5	A#5	C5
			Now there’s not even breathin’ room

D#5	F5	A#5	C5
			Between pleasure and pain

D#5	F5	A#5	C5
			Yea you cry when we’re makin’ love

D#5	F5	A#5	C5	D#5
			Must be one and the	same

D	A
It’s down on me

Bm	F#m
Yeah I got to tell	you one thing

G	D	A
It’s been on my m	ind, girl	I gotta say

D	A
We’re partners in cri	me

Bm	F#m
You got that certai	n something

G	D	A
What you give to	me takes m	y breath away

	C	G	C	G
Now the	word out on the	street is the	devil’s in your	kiss

F	C	A
If our love goes	up in flames it’s a	fire I can’t resist

	D	A
I was	cryin’ when I	met you

	Bm	G
Now I’m	tryin’ to for	get you

D	A	G
Your love is	sweet miser	y

	D	A
I was	cryin’ just to	get you

	F#m	G
Now I’m	dyin’ ‘cause I	let you

D	A	G
Do what you	do, down on	me

Solo over intro chords

Vox in on the 5 of the first chord

That’s a D# if you’re playing in D

	G#	D#
‘Cause	what you got in	side

	G#	D#
Ain’t	where your love should	stay

Vox down a whole step on “our”, then up a whole step to “ain’t”,

and up a half-step on “give”.

	C#	G#
Yeah	, our love, sweet love	, ain’t love

	A
Yill ya	give your heart away

Note the minor chords are switched in this chorus

	D	A
I was	cryin’ when I	met you

	F#m	G
Now I’m	tryin’ to for	get you

D	A	G
Your love is	sweet miser	y

	D	A
I was	cryin’ just to	get you

	Bm	G
Now I’m	dyin’ to	let you

D	A	G
Do what you	do, down on	baby baby...

Solo

D	A	F#m	G	D	A	G
D	A	Bm	G	D	A	G

Aerosmith - Dream On

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

Aerosmith - I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing

Originally in D, I play in A

Highest note that matters is the 5

Intro, loosely

B/F#	G#m7	Bsus4	Bsus4
			x 2

Vox on 3 5 6 on “stay awake”, up to the higher 3 on “hear”

F#m	A	E/G#	F#m7
I could	stay awake	just to hear you	breathin’

	D	C#m	Bm7
Watch you	smile while you are	sleepin’, while you’re	far away and dreamin’

	A	E/G#	F#m7
I could	spend my life	in this sweet surr	ender

	D	A/C#	Bm7
I could	stay lost in this	moment, for	ever

	C#m7	Dmaj7	Esus4
Every moment	spent with	you is a moment I	treasure

A	E/G#
I don’t want to	close my eyes

Bm7	D
I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d	miss you baby

	E	A
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

	E/G#
‘Cause even when I	dream of you

Bm7	D
The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still	miss you baby

Hang the last chord in this line

	E	A	E/G#	Bm7
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

	A	E/G#	F#m7
Lyin’ c	lose to you feelin	g your heart beat	ing

	D	A/C#
And I’m wo	nderin’ what you’re	dreaming

	Bm7
Wonderin’	if it’s me you’re seein’

	A	E/G#	F#m7
Then I k	iss your eyes and	thank God we’re to	gether

	C#m7	Dmaj7	Esus4
I just want to	stay with	you in this moment for	ever, forever and ever

A	E/G#
I don’t want to	close my eyes

Bm7	D
I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d	miss you baby

	E	A
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

	E/G#
‘Cause even when I	dream of you

Bm7	D
The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still	miss you baby

	E	A
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

Bridge

	G	D/F#
I don’t want to	miss one smile, I don’t want to	miss one kiss

	F	C/E
I just want to	be with you right here with you,	just like this

	G	D/F#
I just want to	hold you close, feel your heart so	close to mine

	Am7	Esus4
And just	stay here in this moment, for all the	rest of time

Yeah, yeah, yeaaaah

A	E/G#
I don’t want to	close my eyes

Bm7	D
I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d	miss you baby

	E	A
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

	E/G#
‘Cause even when I	dream of you

Bm7	D
The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still	miss you baby

	E	A
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

A	E/G#
I don’t want to	close my eyes

Bm7	D
I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d	miss you baby

One-off minor chord

	E	F#m
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

	E/G#
‘Cause even when I	dream of you

Bm7	D
The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still	miss you baby

	E	A
And I don’t want to	miss a th	ing

Aerosmith - What it Takes

Originally in G-ish, I play in D

However high you think this song is, it’s higher...

F#m7b5 as 2x221x

D	Asus4	Bm7	Gadd9

	D
T	here goes my old girlfriend, there’s a

A

Another diamond ring

	Bm
And uh,	all those late night promises

	G
I gu	ess they don’t mean a thing

	D
So b	aby, what’s the story

	A
Did you	find another man?

	Bm
Is it	easy to sleep in the bed that we made?

	G
When you d	on’t look back

	A
I guess the feelings start to fade aw	ay

	D
I	used to feel your fire

	Bm
But now it’s c	old inside

	G
And you’re b	ack on the street

Like you didn’t miss a beat, yeah

F	C
Tell me what it takes to let you g	o

F	C
Tell me how the pain’s supposed to g	o

F	E	Am
Tell me how it	is that you can sl	eep

	Am/G
In the	night

	F#m7b5
Without th	inking you lost

Everything that was good

	F
In your life to the toss of the di	ce

F	G#	C
Tell me what it	takes to let you g	o, yeah

Make sure to get all the way down to the 5

of this chord (A if the chord is D)

	D
G	irl, before I met you

	A
I was	F.I.N.E. fine

	Bm
But your l	ove made me a prisoner

	G
Yeah my h	eart’s been doing time

	D
You sp	ent me up like money, oh then you

A

Hung me out to dry

	Bm
It was	easy to keep all your lies in disguise

	G
‘Cause you h	ad me in deep with the devil in your eyes

F	C
Tell me what it takes to let you g	o

F	C
Tell me how the pain’s supposed to g	o

F	E	Am
Tell me how it	is that you can sl	eep

	Am/G
In the	night

	F#m7b5
Without th	inking you lost

Everything that was good

	F
In your life to the toss of the di	ce

F	G#	C
Tell me what it	takes to let you g	o

Solo

G	Am	F	C	G	Am	F

Vox on the 5 of this chord, so D if the chord is G

G	D
Tell me that you’re happy that you’re on your	own

	F
Yeah, yeah, y	eah

	C
Tell me that it’s better when you’re all al	one

Vox on the 3 of this chord, so Eb if the chord is Cm

Cm	A#	G#
Tell me that your body doesn’t	miss my t	ouch

	D#
Tell me that my lovin’ didn’t mean that m	uch

	G
Tell me you ain’t dyin’ when you’re cryin’ for m	e

F	C
Tell me what it takes to let you g	o

F	C
Tell me how the pain’s supposed to g	o

F	E	Am
Tell me how it	is that you can sl	eep

	Am/G
In the	night

	F#m7b5
Without th	inking you lost

Everything that was good

	F
In your life to the toss of the di	ce

Note random chord on “no no no”

F	G#	C	Gdim7
Tell me who’s to b	lame for thinkin’ tw	ice,	no no no no

F	G#	C
‘Cause I don’t wanna	burn in parad	ise

	Am
Let it g	o, let it go, let it go, let it go

	F
Let it g	o, let it go, let it go, let it go

	C
Let it g	o, let it go, let it go, let it go

	Am	F	C
I don’t wanna b	urn, I don’t wanna burn

	Am
Let it g	o, let it go, let it go, let it go

	F
Let it g	o, let it go, let it go, let it go

	C
Let it g	o, let it go, let it go, let it go

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

Originally in Ebm, I play in Em capo 3

Em

Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell

Em

Jimmy Rodgers on the Victrola up high

Em

Mama’s dancing with baby on her shoulder

Em

The sun is setting like molasses in the sky

Vox are basically on the 4 of the key the whole prechorus

Bsus4	B	Asus4	A
The boy could	sing and knew how to	move	everything

Gsus4	G	Dsus4	D
Always	wanting more	, it leaves you	longing for

Am	D
Black velvet in that l	ittle boy’s smile

Am	F	C
Black velvet with that s	low southern	style

Am	D
A new religion that’ll	bring you to your knees

C	B7	Em
Black v	elvet if you	please

Em

Up in Memphis the music’s like a heatwave

Em

White lightning, bound to drive you wild

Em

Mama’s baby’s in the heart of every school girl

Em

“Love me tender” leaves ‘em cryin’ in the aisle

Bsus4	B	Asus4	A
The way he	moved, it was a	sin, so s	weet and true

Gsus4	G	Dsus4	D
Always wan	ting more	, he’d leave you	longing for

Am	D
Black velvet in that l	ittle boy’s smile

Am	F	C
Black velvet with that s	low southern	style

Am	D
A new religion that’ll	bring you to your knees

C	B7	Em
Black v	elvet if you	please

Em

Am	B	Em
Every word of every	song that he sang is for y	ou

Am	F
In a flash he was	gone

	C	B7	Em
It happened so	soon,	what could you	do?

Solo if appropriate

Em

Am	D
Black velvet in that l	ittle boy’s smile

Am	F	C
Black velvet with that s	low southern	style

Am	D
A new religion that’ll	bring you to your knees

C	B7	Em
Black v	elvet if you	please

America - Sister Golden Hair

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

C#m	A	E	E

I prefer to skip this part of the intro

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

	E
Well I	tried to make it Sunday, but I

G#m

Got so damn depressed

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

G#m

Got myself undressed

	A	F#m
I ain’t	ready for the	altar

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

	F#m
When a	woman sure can

A	E	Esus4	E
Be a friend of mine

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

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

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

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

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

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	end?

	B
Will you	love me just a little?

	A	E
Just e	nough to show you	care?

Hanging chords

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

	A
I	just can’t make it

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

With doo doo, da doo doo

	E
Well I	keep on thinkin’ bout you

	G#m
Sister	golden hair surprise

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

	G#m
Can’t you	see it in my eyes?

With aaaah’s

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

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

	F#m
But it	doesn’t mean you

A	E	Esus4	E
Ain’t been on my mind

	B
Will you	meet me in the middle?

	A	E
Will you	meet me in the	end?

	B
Will you	love me just a little?

	A	E
Just e	nough to show you	care?

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

	A
I	just can’t make it

American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak

Originally in Bb, play in G capo 2.

Em

G	D	Em
She paints her	nails and she don’t	know

	C	G
He’s got her	best friend on the	phone

	D	Em
She’ll wash her	hair, his dirty	clothes

	C	Em
Are	all he gives to	her

	C	D
And he’s got	posters on the	wall

	A7
Of	all the girls he wished she was

C	D	G
And he means	everything to	her

G	D
Her boyfriend,	he don’t know

Em	C
Anything	about her

	G	D
He’s	too stoned,	Nintendo

Em	C	G
I wish that	I could make her	see

D	Em
	She’s just the

C	G	D	Em
Flavor of the	weak

G	D	Em
It’s Friday	night and she’s all a	lone

	C	G
He’s a m	illion miles a	way

G	D	Em
She’s dressed to	kill, the TV’s	on

	C	Em
He’s con	nected to the	sound

	C	D
And he’s got	pictures on the	wall

	A7
Of	all the girls he’s loved before

C	D	G
And she knows	all his favorite	songs

G	D
Her boyfriend,	he don’t know

Em	C
Anything	about her

	G	D
He’s	too stoned,	Nintendo

Em	C	G
I wish that	I could make her	see

D	Em
	She’s just the

C	G	D	Em
Flavor of the	weak

Quiet

G	D
Her boyfriend,	he don’t know

Em	C
Anything	about her

	G	D
He’s	too stoned,	too stoned

Em	C
Too stoned	too stoned

G	D
Her boyfriend,	he don’t know

Em	C
Anything	about her

	G	D
He’s	too stoned,	Nintendo

Em	C	G
I wish that	I could make her	see

D	Em
	She’s just the

C	G	D	Em
Flavor of the	weak

C	Gmaj7
She makes me	weak

Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being a Friend

Originally in Bb, I play in A capo 1

A

Thank you for being a friend

D/A

Traveled down the road and back again

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

A

I’m not ashamed to say

D/A

I hope it always will stay this way

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

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

	Dmaj7	C#7
In	vited everyone you	knew

	F#m/E	A7
Well,	you would	see

	Bm7	F#m
The biggest	gift would be from	me

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

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

	D/A
Thank you for being a	friend

	E/A
Thank you for being a	friend

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

A

If it’s a car you lack

D/A

I’d surely buy you a Cadillac

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

A

I’m not ashamed to say

D/A

I hope it always will stay this way

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

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

	Dmaj7	C#7
With	walking canes and hair of	gray

F#m/E	A7
Have no	fear

	Bm7	F#m
Even	though it’s hardly	here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	Fmaj7	A/E
Into the	night, the milky	way

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

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

No instruments...

Thank you for being a...

Instruments back in...

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

This time with baa baa baa baa

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

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

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

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

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

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

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

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

	A
Thank you for being a	friend

A

Thank you right now for being a friend

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

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

A	A/G#	A	A/G#	A/F#	A/E
	→

D	D/C#	D	D/C#	D/B	D/A
	→

A

Annie - Tomorrow

Originally in E, I play in A.

All the big “tomorrows” at the end are on the 6.

Esus4

	A	Amaj7
The	sun’ll come out	tomorrow

Dmaj7	C#m7
Bet your bottom	dollar

	F#m	F#m/E	Dmaj7	E
That to	morrow	, there’ll be	sun

	A	Amaj7
Just	thinkin’ about	tomorrow

Dmaj7	C#m7
Clears away the	cobwebs

	F#m	F#m/E	Dmaj7	E
And the	sorrow	till there’s	none

	Am
When I’m stuck with a	day

	C/G	F	G
That’s	gray and	lonely

	C
I just stick out my	chin

	Cmaj7	E7sus
And	grin, and	say

E

Oh

	A	Amaj7
The	sun’ll come out	tomorrow

Dmaj7	C#m7
So you got to	hang on

	F#m	F#m/E	Dmin	E7sus	E7
Till to	morrow	, come what	may

	A	Amaj7
Tomo	rrow, to	morrow

	A7	D	Dm
I	love ya to	morrow

	A	E7sus
You’re	only a	day

E7	A
A wa	y

Ritard

E7	A	Amaj7
Tomo	rrow, to	morrow

	A7	D	Dm
I	love ya to	morrow

	A	E7sus
You’re	only a	daaaay

E7	A	Dm	A
Aaa waaaa	y

Anthrax - Only

Originally in Bm, I play in Em capo 2, with the main

riff as Em7, Cadd9, G/B, Cadd9, then to power chords

E5	E5/C	E5/B	E5/C
E5	E5/C	E5/B	A5

All the i5’s alternate w/VII5, which I leave out here.

E5

Everything is perfect

G5	C#5	C5
Everything is	sick, that’s	it

E5

You can’t tell me to stop it

G5	C#5	C5
You can’t tell me not to	quit, that’s	it

Em7

Revolve around yourself

It’s you and no one else

C#dim	C5
Hard for me to	stay

Em7

Swinging moods that change

From calmness to deranged

C#dim	C5	A5
Unpredictable,	unpredicta	ble

	E5	E5/C
You would see if	on	ly

	E5/B	A5
You hadn’t	taken things out of my	hands

Actually does i, i/3, i/2, IV, but I prefer the same i, i/6, i/5, IV

	E5	E5/C	E5/B	A5
If	on	ly you never	wanted to under	stand

E5

Classic ways to live here

G5	C#5	C5
Compromise for	me

E5

I’m at both ends of the spectrum

G5	C#5	C5
You’re somewhere in the	between,	I come clean

Em7

Revolve around yourself

It’s you and no one else

C#dim	C5
Hard for me to	stay

Em7

Swinging moods that change

From calmness to deranged

C#dim	C5	A5
Unpredictable,	unpredicta	ble

	E5	E5/C
You would see if	on	ly

	E5/B	A5
You hadn’t	taken things out of my	hands

	E5	E5/C	E5/B	A5
If	on	ly you never	wanted to under	stand

Solo, skip acoustic, basically a zillion i5’s, then a chorus

With regular chorus lyrics

E5	E5/C	E5/B	A5
Crucified,	terrified,	sacrifice,	my whole life

E5	E5/C	E5/B	A5
My whole life,	my whole life,	my whole life,	my whole life

Actually does i VII IV here, I play chorus chords

	E5
I can’t con	tain myself

	E5/C
I can’t con	tain myself

	E5/B	A5
I just can’t	take myself

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans

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

Avicii - Wake Me Up

Originally in Bm, I play in Am

Intro

Am	F	C	G
Am	F	C	G	G	E
				→

Am	F	C
Feeling my	way through the	darkness

Am	F	C
Guided by	a beating hear	t

Am	F	C
I can’t t	ell where the j	ourney will end

Am	F	C
But I kno	w where to star	t

Am	F	C
They tell me I	’m too you	ng to understand

Am	F	C
They say I’m c	aught up in a d	ream

Am	F	C
Well life will p	ass me by if I	don’t open up my eyes

Am	F	C
Well that’s	fine by	me

	Am	F	C
So wake me u	p when it	’s all	over

G	Am	F	C
When I’m wis	er	and I’m o	lder

E	Am	F	C
All this tim	e I was f	inding mys	elf and I

G	Am	F	C
	Didn’t	know I was	lost

	E	Am	F	C
So	wake me u	p when it	’s all	over

G	Am	F	C
When I’m wis	er	and I’m o	lder

E	Am	F	C
All this tim	e I was f	inding mys	elf and I

G	Am	F	C
	Didn’t	know I was	lost

Am	F	C	G	Em
			→	x 2

Am	F	C
I tried	carrying the	weight of the world

Am	F	C
But I	only have two	hands

Am	F	C
Hope I	get the chance to	travel the world

Am	F	C
But I don’t h	ave any	plans

Am	F	C
I wish that	I could stay for	ever this young

Am	F	C
Not afr	aid to close my	eyes

Am	F	C
Life’s a	game made for e	veryone

Am	F	C
And	love is the	prize

	Am	F	C
So wake me u	p when it	’s all	over

G	Am	F	C
When I’m wis	er	and I’m o	lder

E	Am	F	C
All this tim	e I was f	inding mys	elf and I

G	Am	F	C
	Didn’t	know I was	lost

	E	Am	F	C
So	wake me u	p when it	’s all	over

G	Am	F	C
When I’m wis	er	and I’m o	lder

E	Am	F	C
All this tim	e I was f	inding mys	elf and I

G	Am	F	C
	Didn’t	know I was	lost

Am	F	C
Didn’t	know I was	lost

Am	F	C
Didn’t	know I was	lost

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business

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

Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)

Originally in B, I play in A, and may or may not change keys

Vox on the root of the chord on “like”

	E	A	F#m
I’d	like to thank the	guy, who wrote the	song

	D	E
That made my	baby fall in	love with me

One measure just drums

Swept chords in the chorus

A

Who put the bomp

	F#m
In the	bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

D

Who put the ram

	E
In the	rama lama ding dong?

A

Who put the bop

	F#m
In the	bop shoo bop shoo bop?

D

Who put the dip

	E
In the	dip da dip da dip?

A	C#7	D	B/D#
Who was that	man? I’d	like to shake his	hand

	A	F#m	D	E	A	E
He	made my	baby	fall in	love with	me (	Yeah!)

Full strum in the verse

A	F#m	D
When my baby	heard	bomp bah bah bomp

	E
Bah	bomp bah bomp bomp

A	F#m	D	E
Every word went	right into her	heart

	A	F#m
And	when she heard them	singing

D	B/D#
Rama lama lama lama	lama ding dong

A	F#m	D	E	A	E
She	said we’d	never	have to	part	so

A

Who put the bomp

	F#m
In the	bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

D

Who put the ram

	E
In the	rama lama ding dong?

A

Who put the bop

	F#m
In the	bop shoo bop shoo bop?

D

Who put the dip

	E
In the	dip da dip da dip?

A	C#7	D	B/D#
Who was that	man? I’d	like to shake his	hand

Key change coming on ‘yeah’

	A	F#m	D	E	A	F
He	made my	baby	fall in	love with	me (	Yeah!)

Key change, up a half-step

	A#	Gm	D#
Each	time that we’re	alone	boogity boogity boogity

	F
Boogity	boogity boogity shoop

A#	Gm	D#	F
Sets my baby’s	heart all a	glow

	A#	Gm	D#
And	every time we	dance to	dip da dip da dip

C/E

Dip da dip da dip

A#	Gm	D#	F	A#	F
She	always	says she	loves me	so	so

A#

Who put the bomp

	Gm
In the	bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

D#

Who put the ram

	F
In the	rama lama ding dong?

A#

Who put the bop

	Gm
In the	bop shoo bop shoo bop?

D#

Who put the dip

	F
In the	dip da dip da dip?

A#	D7	D#	C/E
Who was that	man? I’d	like to shake his	hand

	A#	Gm	D#	F	A#	F
He	made my	baby	fall in	love with	me (	Yeah!)

Spoken

A#	Gm	D#	F
Darlin’,	bomp bah bah	bomp, bah	bomp bah bomp bomp

A#	Gm	D#	F
And my honey,	rama lama ding	dong,	forever

	A#	Gm	D#
And when I	say, dip da dip,	da dip, da dip,	dip dip

	F
You	know I mean it from the

A#	Gm	D#	F
Bottom of my	boogity, boogity,	boogity, boogity	shoop

Fade on verse chords, with bomps and da-dips

A#

Gm

D#

F

Ben E. King - Stand by Me

Originally in A, I play in C capo 4.

Highest note is the 1 (darlin’, DARlin’)

Start with single notes or octaves

Cadd9	Am7	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9

Vox in on the 6 on “night”

	Cadd9
When the	night has come

Am7

And the land is dark

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
And the mo	on is the on	ly light we’ll see

	Cadd9
No, I	won’t be afraid

	Am7
No, I	won’t be afraid

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
Just as lo	ng as you stand	, stand by me

Start to fade the chords in

	Cadd9
So, darling, darling,	stand by me

	Am7
Oh,	stand by me

	Fmaj7	G
Oh,	stand,	stand by me

Cadd9

Stand by me

	Cadd9
If the	sky that we look upon

Am7

Should tumble and fall

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
Or the mo	untain should	crumble to the	sea

	Cadd9
I won’t	cry, I won’t cry

	Am7
No, I	won’t shed a tear

	Fmaj7	G	Cadd9
Just as lo	ng as you stand	, stand by me

	Cadd9
So, darling, darling,	stand by me

	Am7
Oh,	stand by me

	Fmaj7	G
Oh,	stand,	stand by me

Cadd9

Stand by me

	Cadd9
Whenever you’re in trouble won’t you	stand by me

	Am7
Oh,	stand by me

	Fmaj7	G
Oh,	stand,	stand by me

Cadd9

Stand by me

Betty Everett - The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In Hiss Kiss)

Originally in D (Cher in C), I play in G

Vox easier if you leave out the “oh no”’s

Vox on the 1 of the first chord

D

Does he love me?

C

I wanna know

D

How can I tell if he loves me so?

	Am7	D	Am7	D7
(Is it i	n his ey	es?) Oh	no you’ll be	deceived

	Am7	D	Am7	D7
(Is it i	n his ey	es?) Oh	no he’ll make be	lieve

With shoop shoop...

	G	Em	C	D	G
If you w	anna kno	w if	he loves you	so it’s in his kiss

	C	D
(	That’s where it is	oh yea)

	Am7	D7	Am7	D7
(Or is i	t in his	face?) Oh	no that’s just his	charm

	Am7	D7	Am7	D7
(In his	warm emb	race?) Oh	no that’s just his	arms

With shoop shoop...

	G	Em	C	D	G
If you w	anna kno	w if	he loves you	so it’s in his kiss

	C	D	G
(	That’s where it is	) Oh it’s in his	kiss

	C	G
(	That’s where it is	)

With bom bom bom...

B

Kiss him and squeeze him tight

This line starts on the high 1 of the chord and

ends on the low 1 of the chord

Em

And find out what you wanna know

A

If it’s love if it really is

D7

It’s there in his kiss

	Am7	D7	Am7	D7
(How ‘bout t	he way h	e acts?) Oh	no that’s not the	way

	Am7	D7	Am7	D7
And you’	re not l	istening to	all I	say

With shoop shoop...

	G	Em	C	D	G
If you w	anna kno	w if	he loves you	so it’s in his kiss

	C	D	G
(	That’s where it is	) Oh it’s in his	kiss

	C	D
(	That’s where it is	)

Solo

Am7	D	Am7	D
G	G/D	G	G/D
Am7	D	Am7	D

Hard stop

G

With bom bom bom...

B

Kiss him and squeeze him tight

Em

And find out what you wanna know

A

If it’s love if it really is

D7

It’s there in his kiss

	Am7	D7	Am7	D7
(How ‘bout t	he way h	e acts?) Oh	no that’s not the	way

	Am7	D7	Am7	D7
And you’	re not l	istening to	all I	say

With shoop shoop...

	G	Em	C	D	G
If you w	anna kno	w if	he loves you	so it’s in his kiss

C	D	G
(That’s where it	is) Oh it’s in his	kiss

C	D
(That’s where it	is)

Repeat to fade

Big and Rich - Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)

Intro, with Mr.-Brownstone-y b3’s

E	A
	x 4

Vox on the 1

	E
Well, I	walk into the room

	A
Passing out	hundred dollar bills

	E
And it kills,	and it thrills, like the horns on my

A

Silverado grill

	E
And I	buy the bar a double round of Crown

	A
And	everybody’s getting down

	E	A
And this town,	ain’t never gonna be the	same

Vox originally on the b3 the whole line, but

easier to do the 1 until “horse”

	E
‘Cause I	saddle up my horse

	A
And I	ride into the city

	E
I	make a lot of noise

	A
‘Cause the	girls they are so pretty

E

Riding up and down Broadway

	A
On my	old stud Leroy

	D	E	G	A
And the girls say	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

	D	E	G	A
Everybody says	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

	E	A
Well I	don’t give a dang about	nothing

	E
I’m singing and bling-	blinging

While the girls are drinking

Hard stop on “long”

A

Long necks down

	E
And I	wouldn’t trade ol’ Leroy

	A
Or my	Chevrolet for your Escalade

	E
Or your	freak parade

	A
I’m the only John Wayne	left in this town

	E
And I	saddle up my horse

	A
And I	ride into the city

	E
I	make a lot of noise

	A
‘Cause the	girls they are so pretty

E

Riding up and down Broadway

	A
On my	old stud Leroy

	D	E	G	A
And the girls say	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

	D	E	G	A
Everybody says	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

Solo on verse chords

More or less spoken

	E
I’m a	thouroughbred that’s what she said

	A
In the	back of my truck bed

	E
As I was g	ettin’ buzzed on suds

	A
Out on	some back country road

	E
We were	flying high, fine as wine

A

Having ourselves a big and rich time

	E	A
And I	was going, just about as far as she’d	let me go

Spoken, with harmony the high octave

	E
But	her evaluation

	A
Of my c	owboy reputation

	E
Had me b	egging for salvation

	A
All nigh	t long

	E
So I	took her out giggin’ frogs

	A
Introd	uced her to my old bird dog

Hard stop on "think

	E	A
And	sang her every Wilie Nelson song I could	think of

And we made love

	E
And I	saddle up my horse

	A
And I	ride into the city

	E
I	make a lot of noise

	A
‘Cause the	girls they are so pretty

E

Riding up and down Broadway

	A
On my	old stud Leroy

	D	E	G	A
And the girls say	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

	D	E	G	A
Everybody says	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

	D	E	G	A
What? What?	→	Save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

Last two chords implied (on “ride a cowboy”

	D	E	G	A
Everybody says	→	save a horse,	ride a	cowboy

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine

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

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 - 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	Chevrolet

	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 root chord

Billy Joel - Miami 2017

Intro

Siren noises are roughly...

Bb

Piano intro, skip on guitar

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

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

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

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

	D/A	A
They all bought	Cadillacs

	Gadd9	G	A
And left there	long ago

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

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

Hanging stops

D/F#	G
They turned our	power down

D/A	G/B
And drove us u	nderground

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

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

D	Bm	D	Bm	D	D/A	A	D/A	A
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

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

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

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

	D/A	A
We’d seen it	all the time

	G	G	A
On Forty-	Second Street

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

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

D/F#	G
The flames were e	verywhere

D/A	G/B
But no one	really cared

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

D	Bm	D	Bm	D	D/A	A	D/A	A
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

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

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

F#m7	Bm
The boats were waiting at the	Battery

	D/A	A
The union w	ent on strike

	G	G	A
They never	sailed at all

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

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

D/F#	G
They said that	Queens could stay

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

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

D	Bm	D	Bm	D	D/A	A	D/A	A
	→	→	→	→	→		→

x2

Hanging stop on “lights”, mellow out

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

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

F#m7	Bm
Before we all lived here in	Florida

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

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

Bm	Gadd9	A
They say a	handful still	survive

D/F#	G
To tell the	world about

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

A	G/B	Bb
And keep the me	mory alive

Repeat intro

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

Billy Joel - Movin’ Out

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 capo 2.

D	D	D	G
			x4

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

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

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

	Em7	A	E	A
In cat	hedrals of our	own	→

	Bm	Bm/A
Now I have	seen that sad	surrender

	G	G	D/F#
In my	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	→

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

	G	G	D/F#
Inhu	manity

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

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

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

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

A	D
Sadness or eu	phoria

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

F#	Bm	Bm/A	G	D/F#
→

E	E/G#	A	A
D	Em7	G	A
G	C	G	A
	→

PPM do a full verse here on “la”

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

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

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

	A	G	C	G
With our resp	ective simi	larities	→

	A	G
It’s either	sadness or eup	horia

Hanging end on G, I usually stop here

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

Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls

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

I play in D capo 2.

As much walking between chords as you can fit in

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	G	G

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

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

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

	G	A7	E7	A7
In cat	hedrals of our	own	→

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

	G	G	G/F#
In my	lover’s eyes

	E7	A7
And	I can only stand apart and	sympathize

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

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

D	D/F#	Em7	G
A7	A7	G	G

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

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

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

	Em7	G	A7	E7	A7
Our	separate conc	lusions are the	same	→

	A7/Bb	Bm	Bm/A
Now	we are	forced to recog	nize our

	G	G	D/F#
Inhu	manity

	E7	A7
Our	reason coexists with our in	sanity

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

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

A

Instrumental if appropriate

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

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

	E7	E7/G#	A
Perh	aps we don’	t fulfill each other’s	fantasies

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

	A7	G	C	G
With our resp	ective simi	larities	→

	A7	D
It’s either	sadness or euph	oria

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

Billy Joel - Tell Her About It

Originally in Bb, I play in A

A	A	G	D
			x2

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

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

	C#m	C	Bm
She’s a	real nice girl and she’s	always there for	you

	Dm	A/C#	Bm	E
But a n	ice girl wouldn’t	tell you what you should	do

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

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

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

	Dm	A/C#	Bm	A	B
But t	hat’s just the kind of	thing she ought to k	now

	E	G#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	everything you feel

C#m	C#m7	F#m7	B7sus4
Give her every	reason to ac	cept that you’re for	real

	E	G#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	all your crazy dreams

C#m	C#m7	F#m7	B7sus4	B7
Let her know you	need her, let her	know how much she	means

A	A	G	D
			Oooh x2

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

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

	C#m	C	Bm
When you	love someone you’re	always insec	ure

	Dm	A/C#	Bm	A	B
And there’s	only one good	way to reass	ure

	E	G#m
T	ell her about it, let her	know how much you care

C#m	C#m7	F#m7	B7sus4
When she can’t be	with you, tell her	you wish you were	there

	E	G#m
T	ell her about it every	day before you leave

C#m	C#m7	F#m7	B7sus4	B7
Pay her some at	tention, give her	something to be	lieve

Bridge

G	Em	F
‘Cause now and t	hen she’ll get to w	orrying

	G	Am	D	Em	D/F#
Ju	st bec	ause you haven’t s	poken for so l	ong

	G	Em	F
And th	ough you	may not have done	anything

	G	Am	D	B/D#	E
W	ill that	be a consol	ation when she’s	gone?

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

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

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

	Dm	A/C#	Bm	A	B
But a	girl like that won’t	tell you what you should	do

	E	G#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	everything you feel

C#m	C#m7	F#m7	B7sus4
Give her every	reason to ac	cept that you’re for	real

	E	G#m
T	ell her about it, tell her	all your crazy dreams

C#m	C#m7	F#m7	B7sus4	B7
Let her know you	need her, let her	know how much she	means

Outro

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

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

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

	A	G	D
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	C	D
The	things I did not	know at first I learned by	doin’	twice

	G
Ah, but	still they come to haunt me

	C/E	C
S	till they want their	say

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

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

	D	G
And they	go their merry wa	y

G

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

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

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

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

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

D	G
It all becomes the s	ame

G

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

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

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

	C	D
Gotta	get those fees to the	agencies

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

	D	G
So I	just don’t have the ti	me

G

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

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

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

C/E	C
Best years of my	life

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

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

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

G

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

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

	G
Ah, you’ve	seen me in the papers

	C/E	C
I’ve	been in the ma	gazines

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

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

	D	G
Like a	nother can of be	ans

G

Hanging stops

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

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

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

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

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

	D	G
If I	don’t stay on the ch	arts

G

Billy Joel - The 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

Piano

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

D	B/D#

Whistle

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

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

Em	C7	Em	C7

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

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

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

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

Em	C7	Em	C7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Em	C7	Em	C7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Em	C7	Em	C7

Billy Joel - Travelin’ Prayer

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

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

Em	G
Slow down, you c	razy child

Vox on the 4 3 3 2 on “juveni-ile”

	D	F
You’re s	o ambitious for a	juvenile

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

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

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

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

	C
You’ve got	so much to do and

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

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

C	D
But you know that when the	truth is told

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

Vox on the 4 of the chord on “even”

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

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

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

G

Em	G
Slow down, you’re	doing fine

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

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

	B9	B7
Toni	ght

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

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

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

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

	B9	B7
You’re righ	t

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

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

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

B7	Em7	A7
All come true	, ooh o	oh

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

Solo on a half-verse

C	D7
Slow down you	crazy child

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

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

B7	Em	A7
Day or two	, ooh o	oh

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

C	D
And you know that when the	truth is told

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am7b5/D#

D7

G

Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst

Intro, with weird wah noises

D7

Enter normal instrumentation

C	G	Bb	F

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

Bb	F
Tomorrow morning I could	be a bum

C	G
It doesn’t matter which di	rection though

Bb	F
I know a woman in New M	exico

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong

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

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

C	G
I do my writing on my r	oad guitar

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

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong

Bridge, half-time

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “lightning”

Bb	F
Lightning and th	under

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

	C	G
F	lashed across the roads we drove	upon

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

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

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong, oh

C	G
Fun ain’t easy if	it ain’t free

B	F
Too many people got a	hold on me

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

Bb	F
I know a woman in New	Mexico

Dm7	G
Worse comes to	worst

Dm7	G
I’ll get a	long

Dm7	G
I don’t know	how but sometimes

Dm7	G
I can be s	trong

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

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Originally in Em, I play in Am capo 5.

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	G
Can you help me?

	Am	G
Occupy my brai	n, oh	yeah

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	F	G	Am

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

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

Am	G	C	G	Am
		→

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

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

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

are all really E major.

D5	E5
x 4

D5	E5
Generals gathered in their masses

D5	E5
Just like witches at black masses

D5	E5
Evil minds that plot destruction

D5	E5
Sorcerers of death’s construction

D5	E5
In the fields the bodies burning

D5	E5
As the war machine keeps turning

D5	E5
Death and hatred to mankind

D5	E5
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

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

E5

Politicians hide themselves away

E5

They only started the war

E5

Why should they go out to fight?

E5

They leave that role to the poor

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

E5

Time will tell on their power minds

E5

Making war just for fun

E5

Treating people just like pawns in chess

E5

Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah!

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

D5	E5
x 2

D5	E5
Now in darkness, world stops turning

D5	E5
Ashes where the bodies burning

D5	E5
No more war pigs have the power

D5	E5
Hand of God has struck the hour

D5	E5
Day of judgment, God is calling

D5	E5
On their knees, the war pigs crawling

D5	E5
Begging mercy for their sins

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

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

Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling

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 - Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright

Originally in C capo 4, I play in C capo 5.

C	C	G	G	Am	Am/G
F	F/E	C/G	C/G	G	G
C	C

	C	G	Am
It	ain’t no use to s	it and wonder	why, babe

F	C	G
It don’t matter, anyho	w

	C	G	Am
And it	ain’t no use to s	it and wonder wh	y, babe

D7	G
If you don’t know by no	w

	C	C7
When your roo	ster crows at the b	reak of dawn

F	D7
Look out your window and I’	ll be gone

C	G	Am	F
You’re the rea	son I’m tr	av’lin’ on

C	G	C
Don’t think tw	ice, it’s all righ	t

	C	G	Am
It	ain’t no use in tu	rnin’ on your lig	ht, babe

F	C	G
That light I never knowe	d

	C	G	Am
And it	ain’t no use in t	urnin’ on your l	ight, babe

D7	G
I’m on the dark side of the r	oad

	C	C7
Still I	wish there was somethin’ you would	do or say

	F	D7
To t	ry and make me change my m	ind and stay

C	G	Am	F
We never d	id too much ta	lkin’ an	yway

C	G	C
Don’t think tw	ice, it’s all r	ight

	C	G	Am
It	ain’t no use in ca	llin’ out my na	me, babe

F	C	G
Like you never did befo	re

	C	G	Am
And it a	in’t no use in c	allin’ out my n	ame, babe

D7	G
I can’t hear you anymore

	C	C7
I’m a-th	inkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all	the way down the road

	F	D7
I o	nce loved a woman, a ch	ild I’m told

	C	G	Am	F
I g	ave her my he	art but she wa	nted my s	oul

C	G	C
Don’t think tw	ice, it’s all r	ight

	C	G	Am
And I’m	walking down that	long lonesome	road babe

F	C	G
Where I’m bound, I can’t t	ell

	C	G	Am
But goo	dbye is t	oo good a w	ord, babe

D7	G
So I’ll just say fare thee well

C	C7
I ain’t sayin’ you treated	me unkind

	F	D7
You co	uld have done better but	I don’t mind

C	G	Am	F
You just	kinda wasted	my precious	time

	C	G	C
But do	n’t think tw	ice, it’s al	right

Outro

C	C	G	G	Am	Am/G
F	F/E	C/G	C/G	G	G
C	C

Bob Dylan - If You Gotta Go

Originally in F#, Flying Burrito Brothers in E

Dylan version does I→IV throughout the verse,

I follow the Burrito Brothers arrangement that

doesn’t do this until the chorus.

I also mix the lyrics from different versions here.

Intro

E

	E
Listen to m	e baby

I’ve come to make you see
I want to be with you, girl

Hard stop on “you”

	E
If	you want to be with me

	E	A	E
But if you got to	go

	E	A	E
That’s all	right

	A	E
But if you got to	go, go	now

	B	E
Or e	lse you got to stay all n	ight

	E
It ain’t that I’m que	stionin’ you

To take part in any kind’a quiz
It's just that I ain't got no watch

	E
An’ you keep	askin’ me what time it is

	E	A	E
But if you got to	go

	E	A	E
That’s all	right

	A	E
But if you got to	go, go	now

	B	E
Or e	lse you got to stay all n	ight

E

I am just a poor boy lookin’ to connect

And I certainly don’t want you thinkin’

	E
That	I haven’t got any respect

	E	A	E
But if you got to	go

	E	A	E
That’s all	right

	A	E
But if you got to	go, go	now

	B	E
Or e	lse you got to stay all n	ight

E

It ain’t that I’m wantin’

Anything you never gave before
It's just that I'll be sleepin' soon

	E
It’ll be too da	rk for you to find the door

	E	A	E
But if you got to	go

	E	A	E
That’s all	right

	A	E
But if you got to	go, go	now

	B	E
Or e	lse you got to stay all n	ight

	E	A	E
Said if you got to	go

	E	A	E
That’s all	right

	A	E
But if you got to	go, go	now

	B	E
Or e	lse you got to stay all n	ight

Bob Dylan - Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Chords are a combination of the Dylan and GnR versions

G	D	Am7
G	D	C

G	D	Am	Am7
Mama,	take this badge from	me

G	D	C
I can’t	use it any	more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G	D	C
I can’t	shoot them any	more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C	G
Ooohhhh... oh oh	yea

Bob 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

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin’

	G	Em
Come	gather ‘round	people

	Am	G
Wher	ever you	roam

	G	Em
And ad	mit that the	waters

	C	D
A	round you have	grown

	G	Em
And ac	cept it that	soon

	C	G
You’ll be	drenched to the	bone

	G	Am	D
If your	time to	you is worth	savin’

	D	D/C
Then you	better start	swimmin’

	G/B	D
Or you’ll	sink like a	stone

	G	C	D	G
For the	times	they are a-	chan	gin’

	G	Em
Come	writers and	critics

	Am	G
Who prophe	size with your	pen

	G	Em
And	keep your eyes	wide

	C	D
The chance	won’t come a	gain

	G	Em
And	don’t speak too	soon

	C	G
For the	wheel’s still in	spin

	G	Am	D
And there’s	no tellin’	who that it’s	namin’

	D	D/C
For	the loser	now

	G/B	D
Will be	later to	win

	G	C	D	G
For the	times	they are a-	chan	gin’

	G	Em
Come	senators,	congressmen

Am	G
Please heed the	call

	G	Em
Don’t	stand in the	doorway

	C	D
Don’t	block up the	hall

	G	Em
For	he that gets	hurt

	C	G
Will be	he who has	stalled

	G	Am
There’s a	battle	outside

	D
And it’s	ragin’

	D	D/C
It’ll	soon shake your	windows

	G/B	D
And	rattle your	walls

	G	C	D	G
For the	times	they are a-	chan	gin’

	G	Em
Come	mothers and	fathers

Am	G
Throughout the	land

	G	Em
And	don’t criti	cize

	C	D
What you	can’t under	stand

	G	Em
Your	sons and your	daughters

	C	G
Are be	yond your com	mand

	G	Am	D
Your	old road is	rapidly	agin’

	D	D/C
Please get	out of the	new one

	G/B	D
If you	can’t lend your	hand

	G	C	D	G
For the	times	they are a-	chan	gin’

	G	Em
The	line it is	drawn

	Am	G
The	curse it is	cast

	G	Em
The	slow one	now

	C	D
Will	later be	fast

	G	Em
As the	present	now

	C	G
Will	later be	past

	G	Am	D
The	order is	Rapidly	fadin’

Cool ending from the Eddie Vedder cover...

	D	D/C
And the	first one	now

	G/B	D
Will	later be	last

	D	D/C
Please get	out of the	new one

	G/B	D
If you	can’t lend your	hand

	D	D/C
It’ll	soon shake your	windows

	G/B	D
And	rattle your	walls

	D	D/C
For	the loser	now

	G/B	D
Will be	later to	win

	D	D/C
Then you	better start	swimmin’

	G/B	D
Or you’ll	sink like a	stone

	G	C	D	G
For the	times	they are a-	chan	gin’

Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff

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

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

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

Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
			x2

	F	Dm7	Gm	C7
Some	where		be	yond the

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
Sea	some	where	waiting for

F	A7	Dm7	C7
Me		my	lover

F	Dm7	Bb	D7	Gm
Stands on	golden	sands

	C7	F	Dm7
And	watches the	ships	that go

G	G7	C	C7
Sail	ing

	F	Dm7	Gm	C7
Some	where		be	yond the

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
Sea	she’s	there	watching for

F	A7	Dm7	C7
Me			If I could

F	Dm7	Bb	D7	Gm
Fly like	birds on	high

	C7	F	Dm7
Then	straight to her	arms	I’d go

The F at the end of this line is just two beats,

then two beats on the E7.

	Gm7	C7	F	E7
S	ail	ing

	A	F#m	Bm	E7
It’s	far		be	yond a

G7 at the end of this line is just a hit on 4

A	F#m	Bm	E7	A	A	G7
Star	it’s	near	beyond the	moon

	C	Am	Dm7	G7
I k	now		be	yond a

C	Am	Dm7	G7	C	Am	C7/G	C7
Doubt	, my	heart	will	lead me	there soon

	F	Dm7	Gm	C7
We’ll	meet		bey	ond the

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
Shore,	we’ll	kiss	just as

	F	A7	Dm7	C7
Be	fore			happy we’ll

F	Dm7	Bb	D7	Gm
Be bey	ond the	sea

	C7	F	Dm7
And	never a	gain,	I’ll go

G7	C7	F
Sail	i	ng

Solo over first verse chords

	C	Am	Dm7	G7
I k	now		be	yond a

C	Am	Dm7	G7	C	Am	C7/G	C7
Doubt	, my	heart	will	lead me	there soon

	F	Dm7	Gm	C7
We’ll	meet, I	know we’ll	meet, bey	ond the

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
Shore,	we’ll	kiss	just as

	F	A7	Dm7	C7
Be	fore			happy we’ll

F	Dm7	Bb	D7	Gm
Be bey	ond the	sea

	C7	F	Dm7
And	never a	gain,	I’ll go

G7	C7	F
Sail	i	ng

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
			No more sailing

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
			So long sailing

F	Dm7	Gm	C7
			Bye bye sailing

F

Bobby Darin - Dream Lover

Originally around C, I play in A

I play straight-8ths, almost punk

A	F#m	A	F#m

A	F#m
Every night I hope and pray, a	dream lover will come my way

A	F#m
A girl to hold in my arms, and	know the magic of her charms

	A	E7	A	D
Because I	want a	girl to	call my	own

	A	F#m	Bm7	E7	A	E
I want a	dream	lover so	I don’t have to	dream a	lone

A	F#m
Dream lover, where are you,	with a love, oh, so true

A	F#m
And a hand that I can hold, to	feel you near as I grow old

	A	E7	A	D
Because I	want a	girl to	call my	own

	A	F#m	Bm7	E7	A	E
I want a	dream	lover so	I don’t have to	dream a	lone

D	A
Someday, I don’t know how,	I hope she’ll hear my plea

B7	E7
Some way, I don’t know how,	she’ll bring her love to me

A	F#m
Dream lover, until then,	I’ll go to sleep and dream again

A	F#m
That’s the only thing to do,	till all my lover’s dreams come true

	A	E7	A	D
Because I	want a	girl to	call my	own

	A	F#m	Bm7	E7	A	A#
I want a	dream	lover so	I don’t have to	dream a	lone

Key change up a half-step

A#	Gm
Dream lover, until then,	I’ll go to sleep and dream again

A#	Gm
That’s the only thing to do,	till all my lover’s dreams come true

	A#	F7	A#	D#
Because I	want a	girl to	call my	own

	A#	Gm	Cm7	F7	A#
I want a	dream	lover so	I don’t have to	dream a	lone

Gm	A#
Please don’t make me	dream alone

Gm	A#
I beg you don’t make me	dream alone

Gm	A#
No, I don’t wanna	dream alone

Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

Vox start on the 6

Bobby darin in Bb, I play in Bb

Bb

	Bb6	Cm
Oh, the	shark, babe, has such	teeth, dear

	F7	Bb6
And it	shows them pearly	white

	Bb/D	Dbdim	Cm
Just a	jackknife	has old Mac	Heath, babe

	Bb6
And he keeps it out of sight

	Bb6	Cm
You know when that	shark bites with his	teeth, babe

	F7	Bb6
Scarlet	billows start to	spread

	Bb/D	Dbdim	Cm
Fancy	gloves, though	wears old Mac	Heath, babe

	Bb6
So there’s never, never a trace of	red

B

	B	Dbm
On a	sidewalk, ooh sunny	mornin uh-huh

	Gb7	B6
Lies a	body just	oozin’ life

	B/Eb	Ddim	Dbm
Some, someone’s	sneakin’	’round a	corner

	B6
Could that someone be old Mack the	Knife?

C

	C6	Dm
There’s a	tugboat down by the	river, don’t you know

	G7	C6
Where a	cement bag, just a’	droopin’ on down

	C/E	Ebdim	Dm
Oh, that cem	ent is	just it’s there for the	weight, dear

	C6
Five’ll get you ten old Macky’s back in	town

Db6

	Db6	Ebm	Ab7
Now d’ja	hear ‘bout Louie	Miller? He disap	peared, babe

	Db6
After drawin’ out all his	hard earned cash

	Db/F	Edim	Ebm
And now Mac	Heath spend	just like a sa	ilor

	Db6
Could it be our boy’s done somethin’	rash?

D

	D6	Em
Jenny	Diver, yeah, yeah, Sukey	Tawdry

	A7	D6
Ooh Miss	Lotte Lenya, and old	Lucy Brown

	D/Gb	Fdim	Em
Oh the	line forms,	on the	right, babe

	D6
Now that Macky’s back in	town

Eb

	Eb6	Fm
I said, Jenny	Diver, Sukey	Tawdry

	Bb7	Eb6
Look out Miss Lotte	Lenya and old	Lucy Brown

Last chord in this line is not a typo, this line

lands on the ii in every other verse, but on the

V in this verse.

	Eb/G	Gbdim	Bb
Oh that	line forms	on the	right, babe

	Fm7	Bb	Fm7	Bb	Fm7	Bb	Bb
Now, that	Mac	ky’s

	Eb	Db7	Eb	Db7	Eb	Db7
Back in	town

Eb	Eb7#9
Look out, old Macky is back

Bobby Vee - Take Good Care of My Baby

Originally in F, I play in E capo 1

Vox on the 5

E	C#m
My tears are	fallin’

	A	B
‘Cause you’ve	taken her a	way

	E	Eaug
And	though it really	hurts me so

Vox up to the 3 of the chord

	A	B
There’s	something that I’ve gotta	say

E	C#m	A	B
Take good	care of my	ba	by

E	C#m	A	B
Please don’t	ever make her	blue

E	E7
Just tell her	that you love her

A	Am
Make sure you’re	thinking of her

E	C#m	A	B
In every	thing you say and	do

E	C#m	A	B
Take good	care of my	ba	by

E	C#m	A	B
Now don’t you	ever make her	cry

E	E7
Just let your	love surround her

A	Am
Paint a rainbow	all around her

E	A	B	E
Don’t let her	see a	cloudy	sky

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “once”

F#m7	B	E	C#m7
Once upon a	time, that	little girl was	mine

F#m7	B	E	C#m7	F#m7	B
If I’d been	true, I	know she’d	never	be with	you, so...

E	C#m	A	B
Take good	care of my	ba	by

E	C#m	A	B
Be just as	kind as you can	be

E	E7
And if you	should discover

A	Am
That you don’t	really love her

E	C#m	A	B	E
Just send my	baby back	home	to	me

Key change up a half-step

E

Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba

C

Waahhhh... ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba

F	Dm	A#	C
Take good	care of my	ba	by

F	Dm	A#	C
Be just as	kind as you can	be

F	F7
And if you	should discover

A#	A#m
That you don’t	really love her

F	Dm	A#	C	F
Just send my	baby back	home	to	me

F	Dm	A#	C
F	Dm	A#	C
Take good	care of my	ba	by

Repeat to fade

BoJack Horseman - Kyle and the Kids

Originally in C, I play in A

A	D/A

A	E/G#	F#m	F#m7/E
Kyle	and the	kids

Bm7	E
Kyle’s a dad and	Charlotte’s married to him

A	E/G#	F#m	F#m7/E
And they’ve	got some	kids

Vox on 7 5 of the chord on “Penny”

	Bm7	C#m7
There’s	Penny, she’s going to	high school

	D	D#dim	E
She’s got a	brother, her	brother’s name is	Trip

They’re the perfect family

Key change

A#	F/A	Gm	Gm7/F
Kyle	and the	kids

	Cm7	F	A#
He	loves his wife and there’s	nothing you can	do

A#	F/A	Gm	Gm7/F
Kyle	and the	kids

	Cm7	F	A#
Oh no, it’s gonna	be alright,	be alright oh	no

Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

Originally in F, I play in C capo 2.

F	C	F	C
			(x2)

	F	C
S	itting here wasted and wounded at this old pi	ano

	F
Trying h	ard to capture the moment

	C
This morning I d	on’t know

	Em	F
‘Cause a b	ottle of vodka is still	lodged in my head

	C
And some bl	ond gave me nightmares

	F
Think she’s still in my b	ed

	F
As I dr	eam about movies they

G	C
Won’t make of me when I’m d	ead

	F
With an	ironclad fist

	C
I wake up and French kiss the m	orning

	F
While some m	arching band keeps its own beat

	C
In my head while we’re	talking

	Em	F
About	all of the things, that I	long to believe

	C
About l	ove, the truth, what you mean to me

	F
And the tr	uth is

F	G	C	G/B
Baby, you’re	all that I	need

	Am
I wanna l	ay

	G	F	C
You	down in a	bed of r	oses

	Am
For ton	ight

	G	F	C
I s	leep on a	bed of n	ails

	F	C
Oh, I want to b	e just as c	lose as

	F	C
The h	oly g	host is

	Am	G	F
And l	ay	you	down

	C
On a bed of	roses

	F
Well I’m s	o far away

	C
Each step that I take’s on my w	ay home

	F
A king’s r	ansom in dimes

	C
Given each night to see through this p	ay phone

	Em
Still I r	un out of time

	F
Or it’s	hard to get through

	C
Till the b	ird on the wire flies me back to you

	F
I’ll j	ust close my eyes, whisper

F	G	C	G/B
Baby,	blind love is	true

	Am
I wanna l	ay

	G	F	C
You	down in a	bed of r	oses

	Am
For ton	ight

	G	F	C
I s	leep on a	bed of n	ails

	F	C
Oh, I want to b	e just as c	lose as

	F	C
The h	oly g	host is

	Am	G	F
And l	ay	you	down

	C
On a bed of	roses

Bridge

	F
Well this h	otel bar’s hangover

	G	C
W	hiskey’s gone dry the bark	eeper’s wig’s crooked

And she’s giving me the eye

	F
I m	ight have said yes

	F	G	C	G/B
But I	laughed so hard	I think I	died

Solo on chorus chords, more or less

	F
Now as y	ou close your eyes

	C
Know I’ll be thinking ab	out you

	F
While my m	istress she calls me

	C
To stand in her spotlight	again

	F
Tonight I w	on’t be alone

	C
But you know that don’t mean I’m not l	onely

	Am	G	F
I’ve got n	othing to p	rove for it’s	you

	F	C	G/B
That I’d	die to def	end

	Am
I wanna l	ay

	G	F	C
You	down in a	bed of r	oses

	Am
For ton	ight

	G	F	C
I s	leep on a	bed of n	ails

	F	C
Oh, I want to b	e just as c	lose as

	F	C
The h	oly g	host is

	Am	G	F
And l	ay	you	down

	Am
I wanna l	ay

	G	F	C
You	down in a	bed of r	oses

	Am
For ton	ight

	G	F	C
I s	leep on a	bed of n	ails

	F	C
Oh, I want to b	e just as c	lose as

	F	C
The h	oly g	host is

	Am	G	F	C
And l	ay	you	down on a bed of	roses

Bon Jovi - In These Arms

Originally in E, I play in A capo 2

Highest note is the 5

A	Asus4
	x 8

	A	Asus4
You want c	ommitment, take a loo	k into these eyes

	A	Asus4
They burn with f	ire, yeah, unti	l the end of time

	F#m	D
And I would	do anything, I’d beg, I’d steal, I’d	die

	Esus4	A	Asus4
To have you in	these arms to	night

	A	Asus4
Baby I	want you, like the	roses want the rain

	A	Asus4
You know I n	eed you, like the	poet needs the pain

	F#m	D
And I would give	anything, my blood, my love, my l	ife

	E
If you were i	n these arms tonight

A	E
I’d hold you,	I’d need you

F#m	D	A
I’d get down on	my knees for y	ou

	F#m	E
And make	everything alr	ight

	D
If you were	in these arms

A	E
I’d love you,	I’d please you

F#m	D
I’d tell you that I’d	never leave you

A	F#m	Esus4
And love you	till the end of ti	me

	D	A	Asus4
If you were	in these arms ton	ight

	A	Asus4
We’d stare at the s	un, and we made a pro	mise

	A	Asus4
A promise this wo	rld, would never bl	ind us

	F#m	D
And these were our	words, our words were our so	ngs

	F#m
Our songs are our p	rayers, these prayers keep me strong

	D	E
And I still bel	ieve if you were i	n these arms

A	E
I’d hold you,	I’d need you

F#m	D	A
I’d get down on	my knees for y	ou

	F#m	E
And make	everything alr	ight

	D
If you were	in these arms

A	E
I’d love you,	I’d please you

F#m	D
I’d tell you that I’d	never leave you

A	F#m	Esus4
And love you	till the end of ti	me

	D	A	Asus4
If you were	in these arms ton	ight

	E
Your c	lothes are still scattered all over our room

	D
This w	hole place still smells like your cheap perfume

E

Everything here reminds me of you

	D
There’s n	othing I wouldn’t do

Solo

A	E	F#m	D	A	E	Bm	Dsus2

Dsus2	E
And these were our wo	rds, they keep me strong, baby

A	E
I’d hold you,	I’d need you

F#m	D	A
I’d get down on	my knees for y	ou

	F#m	E
And make	everything alr	ight

	D
If you were	in these arms

A	E
I’d love you,	I’d please you

F#m	D
I’d tell you that I’d	never leave you

A	F#m	Esus4
And love you	till the end of ti	me

	D	A	Asus4
If you were	in these arms ton	ight

A	E	F#m	D	A
		If you were	in these arms to	night

Repeat to fade

Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer

Originally in Em, I play in Am capo 2 (so in Bm).

On piano, I play in Em but sing it down a fifth or so.

Am	F	G

Am	F	G
Once upon a time,	not so long ago

Am

Tommy used to work on the docks

Am

Union’s been on strike, he’s down on his luck

	F	G	Am
It’s t	ough,	so tough

Am

Gina works the diner all day

Am

Working for her man, she brings home her pay

	F	G	Am
For	love,	for lo	ve

	F	G	G	Am
She says we’ve got to h	old	on to	what we’ve	got

	F	G	G	Am
It	doesn’t make a	difference if we	make it or	not

	F	G	G	Am	F
We’ve g	ot each o	ther and	that’s a	lot for l	ove

	G
We’ll	give it a shot

Am	F	G	C	F	G
Who	a, we’re hal	fway there,	who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am	F	G
Take my h	and we’ll m	ake it I swear

C	F	G
Who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am

Tommy’s got his six string in hock

Now he’s holding in what he used to make it talk

	F	G	Am
So	tough,	so tough

Am

Gina dreams of running away

When she cries in the night Tommy whispers

	F	G	Am
Baby it’s	O.K.,	some day

	F	G	G	Am
We’ve got to h	old	on to	what we’ve	got

	F	G	G	Am
It	doesn’t make a	difference if we	make it or	not

	F	G	G	Am	F
We’ve g	ot each o	ther and	that’s a	lot for l	ove

	G
We’ll	give it a shot

Am	F	G	C	F	G
Who	a, we’re hal	fway there,	who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am	F	G
Take my h	and we’ll m	ake it I swear

C	F	G
Who	oa,	livin’ on a prayer

F	G	Am
Livin’	on a	prayer

Originally a solo on chorus chords, I just let the i ring for a while

then come back in with slow, hanging chords.

Am	F	G	G	Am
Oooooooooh, we’ve got to h	old	on	ready or n	ot

	F	G
You li	ve for the fight when it’s a	ll that you’ve got

Original goes up 1.5 steps, I usually skip that, and do one half-time,

super-melodramatic chorus here.

Am	F	G	C	F	G
Who	a, we’re hal	fway there,	who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am	F	G
Take my h	and we’ll m	ake it I swear

C	F	G
Who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am	F	G	C	F	G
Whoo	a, we’re hal	fway there,	who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am	F	G
Take my h	and we’ll m	ake it I swear

C	F	G
Who	a,	livin’ on a prayer

Am

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive

Originally in D, I play in A. In A, play all the Gadd9’s as G.

4 measures high riff on A minor, chords are approximately:

Am	G	F	Em7	C	D	Am
						x 2

4 measures low riff on C → A minor, chords are approximately:

Bm	G	C	A5
			x 3

Bm	G	C	A

A	Gadd9	D
It’s all the same,	only the names wil	l change

	Gadd9	D	C	A
And	ev’ry	day, it seems we’re	wasting a	way

	A	Gadd9	D
A	nother place, where the	faces are so	cold

	Gadd9	D	D	C	A
I’d	drive all	night, just to	get	back	home

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m a	cowboy	, on a	steel horse I	ride

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m	wanted	,	dead or a	live

Gadd9	D	C	A
Wanted	,	dead or a	live

4 measures high riff on A minor

	A	Gadd9	D
Some	times I sleep, some	times it’s not for	days

	Gadd9	D	C	A
And	people I meet	, always	go their separate	ways

	A	Gadd9	D
Some	times you tell the day, by the	bottle that you	drink

	Gadd9	D	D	C	A
Some	times when you’re a	lone,	all you	do is	think

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m a	cowboy	, on a	steel horse I	ride

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m	wanted	,	dead or a	live

Gadd9	D	C	A
Wanted	,	dead or a	live

Solo

When a soloist is available, play the chorus chorus,

and come out in a chorus with vocals.

For typical acoustic performance, let everything just

ring out in A minor for a while, then fade right into the verse.

	A	Gadd9	D
And I	walk these streets, a loaded	six string on my	back

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I	play for keeps	, ‘cause I	might not make it	back

A	Gadd9	D
I been ev’ry where, still I’m	standing	tall

Hard stop on “rocked”

	Gadd9	D	D	C	A
I’ve	seen a milion	faces, and I’ve	rocked	them all

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m a	cowboy	, on a	steel horse I	ride

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m	wanted	,	dead or a	live

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m a	cowboy	, I got the	night on my	side

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I’m	wanted	,	dead or a	live

	Gadd9	D	C	A
Dead or a	live	,	dead or	alive

	Gadd9	D	C	A
I still	try I still	ride,	dead or	alive

Gadd9	D	C	A
Dead or a	live,	dead or	alive

Gadd9	D	C	A
Dead or a	live,	dead or	alive

End with high riff in A minor, then a cadence on A major.

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For a Hero

Originally in Am, I play in Am capo 5, or possibly in Em

Highest note is the 5 (in the bridge)

I play just once through the intro, play the first

verse slow and rubato, and hit it hard on the first chorus.

Am	Am7/G	Fmaj7	Eaug	E
				x2, second time with “do do do”

Vox on the 5

Am	G
Where have all the good men gone and	where are all the gods?

F	Eaug	E
Where’s the street-wise Hercules to	fight the rising	odds?

Am	Em
Isn’t there a white knight u	pon a fiery steed?

Dm	Eaug	E
Late at night I toss and turn and I dr	eam of what I n	eed

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the end of the night

	F
He’s	gotta be strong and he’s gotta be fast

	C	G
And he’s	gotta be fresh from the f	ight

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the morning light

	F
He’s	gotta be sure, and it’s gotta be soon

	C	G
And he’s	gotta be larger than	life

	Am
Larger than	life

Am

Do do do do

Am7/G

Do do do do

Fmaj7

Do do do do

Eaug	E
Aaah	aaah

Am	G
Somewhere after midnight in my	wildest fantasy

F	Eaug	E
Somewhere just beyond my reach there’s	someone reaching back for	me

Am	Em
Racing on the thunder and ri	sing with the heat

The “yeah” is an extra measure in this line

Dm	Eaug	E
It’s gonna take a superman to	sweep me off my	feet, yeah!

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the end of the night

	F
He’s	gotta be strong and he’s gotta be fast

	C	G
And he’s	gotta be fresh from the f	ight

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the morning light

	F
And he’s	gotta be sure, and it’s gotta be soon

Empty measure after this line

	C	G
And he’s	gotta be larger than	life

	Am
I need a	hero

	Em
I’m holding out for a	hero till the end of the night

Bridge

Am	Am	Am	Am
F/A	Dm/A	Bm7b5/A	Am

Am

Up where the mountains meet the heavens above

F

Out where the lightning splits the sea

Dm	E	Am
I could swear there is	someone somewhere	watching me

Am

Through the wind and the chill and the rain

F

And the storm and the flood

Dm	E	Am
I can feel his approach	like the fire in my	blood

Ebdim7

Like the fire in my blood, like the fire in my blood

	Eaug	E
Like the fire in my blood, like the fire in my	blood,	aah

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the end of the night

	F
He’s	gotta be strong and he’s gotta be fast

	C	G
And he’s	gotta be fresh from the f	ight

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the morning light

	F
He’s	gotta be sure, and it’s gotta be soon

	C	G
And he’s	gotta be larger than	life

	Am	Em
I need a	hero, I’m holding out for a	hero till the end of the night

F	C	G
Am

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Originally around Bbm, I play in Em capo 1

Intro

Em