Dan’s Big Awesome Acoustic Songbook

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Table of Contents

A-Ha - Take On Me
Abba - Dancing Queen
Abba - Mamma Mia
AC DC - Highway to Hell
AC DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Aerosmith - Amazing
Aerosmith - Angel
Aerosmith - Cryin’
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith - Eat the Rich
Aerosmith - Fever
Aerosmith - I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
Aerosmith - Livin’ on the Edge
Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Aerosmith - The Other Side
Aerosmith - What it Takes
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Alice In Chains - Man in the Box
America - Sister Golden Hair
American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak
Amos Lee - Sweet Pea
Amy Grant - Baby, Baby
Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat
Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being a Friend
Annie - Tomorrow
Anthrax - Only
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Aretha Franklin - You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
Avicii - Wake Me Up
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Bad Company - Bad Company
Bad Company - Can’t Get Enough
Bad Company - Shooting Star
Badfinger - No Matter What
Barry Manilow - Copacabana
Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth
Ben E. King - Stand by Me
Bette Midler - The Rose
Betty Everett - The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In Hiss Kiss)
Big and Rich - Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
Bill Haley and His Comets - Rock Around the Clock
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - I’ve Had the Time of My Life
Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Billy Joel - Allentown
Billy Joel - Big Shot
Billy Joel - I Go to Extremes
Billy Joel - Keeping the Faith
Billy Joel - Miami 2017
Billy Joel - Movin’ Out
Billy Joel - My Life
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Billy Joel - Shameless
Billy Joel - Somewhere Along the Line
Billy Joel - Still Rock and Roll to Me
Billy Joel - Stop in Nevada
Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls (PPM arrangement)
Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls
Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
Billy Joel - The Ballad of Billy the Kid
Billy Joel - The Downeaster ‘Alexa’
Billy Joel - The Entertainer
Billy Joel - The Longest Time
Billy Joel - The River of Dreams
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Billy Joel - Travelin’ Prayer
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Billy Joel - Vienna
Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire
Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst
Billy Joel - You May Be Right
Black Sabbath - Changes
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blink 182 - All the Small Things
Blondie - One Way or Another
Blondie - The Tide is High
Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling
Blues Traveler - Hook
Blues Traveler - Run-Around
Bob Dylan - Blowin’ in the Wind
Bob Dylan - Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
Bob Dylan - If You Gotta Go
Bob Dylan - Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin’
Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff
Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
Bob Seger - Turn The Page
Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
Bobby Day - Rockin’ Robin
Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry Be Happy
Bobby Vee - Take Good Care of My Baby
BoJack Horseman - Kyle and the Kids
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses
Bon Jovi - Born to Be My Baby
Bon Jovi - I’ll Be There For You
Bon Jovi - I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Bon Jovi - In These Arms
Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer
Bon Jovi - Runaway
Bon Jovi - Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Bonnie Raitt - Something to Talk About
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For a Hero
Bonnie Tyler - It’s a Heartache
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Boston - More than a Feeling
Boston - Rock and Roll Band
Boyz II Men - End of the Road
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again
Brownsville Station - Smokin’ in the Boys Room
Bruce Springsteen - Because the Night
Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife
Bryan Adams - Do I Have To Say the Words
Bryan Adams - Everything I Do
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Bryan Adams - Summer of ‘69
Bryan Adams - Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Buddy Holly - It’s So Easy
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly - That’ll Be The Day
Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth
Bush - Glycerine
Cake - Let Me Go
Candlebox - Far Behind
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
Caspar Babypants - 9.99
Cat Stevens - The First Cut is the Deepest
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
Cher - If I Could Turn Back time
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Christina Aguilera - Fighter
Chubby Checker - Let’s Twist Again
Chubby Checker - The Twist
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry - Memphis, Tennessee
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
Counting Crows - Hanginaround
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Damn Yankees - High Enough
Dan Morris - Another Thanks I’m Doing Fine
Dan Morris - Everything You’re Not
Dan Morris - Flowers in the Rain (no capo movement)
Dan Morris - Flowers in the Rain
Dan Morris - Lincoln Tunnel
Dan Morris - Personal Picasso
Dan Morris - Unusually Blue Bluebird
Dan Morris - Why Should It Be You?
Danny and the Juniors - At The Hop
Danzig - Mother
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
David Bowie - Modern Love
David Bowie - Space Oddity
David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo
Dean Martin - Sway
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Def Leppard - Bringin on the Heartbreak
Def Leppard - Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - Let’s Get Rocked
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Def Leppard - Miss You in a Heartbeat
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Def Leppard - Two Steps Behind
Del Amitri - Roll To Me
Deniece Williams - Let’s Hear it for the Boy
Derek and the Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Dion - Runaround Sue
Dion - The Wanderer
Dion and the Belmonts - A Teenager in Love
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Disney - DuckTales Theme
Disney - For the First Time in Forever
Disney - Gummi Bears Theme
Disney - How Far I’ll Go
Disney - Kiss The Girl
Disney - Let it Go
Disney - Love is an Open Door
Disney - Part of Your World
Disney - The Bare Necessities
Disney - Under the Sea
Disney - When Will My Life Begin
Disney - You’ve Got a Friend in Me
Dixie Chicks - Long Time Gone
Dixie Chicks - Travelin’ Soldier
Dobie Gray - Drift Away
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Islands in the Stream
Don Henley - Heart of the Matter
Don Henley - I Will Not Go Quietly
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
Don McLean - American Pie
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Dream Theater - Surrounded
Dream Theater - Take Away My Pain
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Dusty Springfield - I Only Want to Be with You
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise
Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down
Elle King - Ex’s and Oh’s
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
Elton John - Daniel
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John - Love Lies Bleeding
Elton John - Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
Elton John - Your Song
Elvis Presley - Don’t Be Cruel
Elvis Presley - Fever
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Elvis Presley - That’s Alright Mama
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
Eric Clapton - After Midnight
Eric Clapton - Lay Down Sally
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Eve 6 - Inside Out
Evita - Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
Extreme - Hole Hearted
Extreme - More Than Words
Faces - Stay With Me
Faith No More - Epic
Faith No More - Falling to Pieces
Fastball - Out of My Head
Fastball - The Way
Fats Domino - Ain’t That a Shame
Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
Five for Fighting - 100 Years
Five for Fighting - Superman (It’s Not Easy)
Five Man Electrical Band - Signs
Fleetwood Mac - Don’t Stop
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy’s Mom
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon
Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Frankie Valli - Working My Way Back
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)
Free - All Right Now
Garth Brooks - Ain’t Goin’ Down
Garth Brooks - Papa Loved Mama
Garth Brooks - Rodeo
Garth Brooks - The River
Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls
Gary Lewis and the Playboys - Count Me In
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Genesis - That’s All
George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
George Michael - Faith
Gerry and the Pacemakers - How Do You Do It
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
Grease - Freddy My Love
Grease - Summer Nights
Grease - You’re the One That I Want
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Basket Case
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Green Day - Good Riddance
Green Day - Holiday
Green Day - Longview
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
Green Day - Welcome to Paradise
Green Day - When I Come Around
Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman
Guns and Roses - 14 Years
Guns and Roses - Breakdown
Guns and Roses - Don’t Cry
Guns and Roses - Locomotive
Guns and Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Guns and Roses - November Rain
Guns and Roses - Paradise City
Guns and Roses - Patience
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child o’ Mine
Guns and Roses - Used to Love Her
Guns and Roses - Yesterdays
Guns and Roses - You Ain’t the First
Hall and Oates - Maneater
Hall and Oates - Rich Girl
Hall and Oates - She’s Gone
Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True
Hanson - MMMBop
Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line
Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Heart - Alone
Heart - What About Love
Herman’s Hermits - I’m Into Something Good
Herman’s Hermits - Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
Hootie and the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
Huey Lewis - Do You Believe in Love
Huey Lewis - If This is It
Huey Lewis - Stuck With You
Huey Lewis - The Heart of Rock and Roll
Huey Lewis - The Power of Love
Imagine Dragons - Demons
Incubus - Drive
INXS - Need You Tonight
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Irene Cara - What a Feeling
Izzy Stradlin - Shuffle It All
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
Jackie DeShannon - Put a Little Love In Your Heart
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
James Taylor - You’ve Got a Friend
Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
Jason Mraz - I’m Yours
Jay and the Americans - Come a Little Bit Closer
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now
Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Jim Croce - I’ll Have To Say I Love You In a Song
Jim Croce - Operator
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
Joan Jett - I Hate Myself for Loving You
Joan Jett - I Love Rock N’ Roll
Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good
John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Fogerty - Centerfield
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Instant Karma
John Lennon - Just Like Starting Over
John Mayer - No Such Thing (Simplified)
John Mayer - No Such Thing
John Mellencamp - Authority Song
John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
John Mellencamp - Small Town
John Parr - St. Elmo’s Fire
John Waite - Missing You
Johnny Mathis - Without Us
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man
Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Journey - Any Way You Want It
Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
Journey - Faithfully
Journey - Lights
Journey - Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’
Journey - Open Arms
Journey - Separate Ways
Journey - Wheel In the Sky
Judas Priest - Angel
Juice Newton - Queen of Hearts
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Kermit the Frog - The Rainbow Connection
Kid Rock - Picture
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Kirsty MacColl - There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
Kiss - Beth
Labelle - Lady Marmalade
Laura Branigan - Gloria
Lazlo Bane - Superman (Scrubs Theme)
Led Zeppelin - D’yer Mak’er
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Lesley Gore - It’s My Party
Lifehouse - Hanging By a Moment
Lifehouse - You and Me
Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time
Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram - Somewhere Out There
Linkin Park - In the End
Lionel Richie - Hello
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Little Eva - The Locomotion
Live - I Alone
Lorde - Royals
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd - What’s Your Name
Madonna - Borderline
Madonna - Crazy for You
Madonna - Express Yourself
Madonna - Into the Groove
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Madonna - Material Girl
Madonna - Open Your Heart
Madonna - Vogue
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (Weeds Theme)
Mama Cass - Dream a Little Dream
Marshall Tucker Band - Can’t You See
Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Matchbox Twenty - Unwell
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth - Foreclosure of a Dream
Melissa Etheridge - Come to My Window
Melissa Etheridge - I’m the Only One
Men At Work - Land Down Under
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Metallica - Fade to Black
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Metallica - Sad But True
Metallica - The Unforgiven
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder and Lead
Misc - California Christmas Time
Misc - Charles in Charge Theme
Misc - Cheers Theme
Misc - Commercial Medley
Misc - Crazy Ex Girlfriend Theme
Misc - Facts of Life Theme
Misc - Free Credit Report Car Song
Misc - Free Credit Report Pirate Song
Misc - Full House Theme
Misc - Gilligan’s Island Theme
Misc - Greatest American Hero Theme
Misc - Growing Pains Theme
Misc - Happy Days Theme
Misc - Happy Peanuts Soar (Snickers Commercial)
Misc - Laverne and Shirley Theme
Misc - Ode to the Wingman
Misc - Over the Rainbow (hybrid)
Misc - Over the Rainbow (Israel K)
Misc - Over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz)
Misc - Perfect Strangers Theme
Misc - Route 66
Misc - Saved by the Bell Theme
Misc - Strawberry Shortcake Berry Bitty Theme
Misc - The Hogan Family Theme
Misc - Theme to It’s the Garry Shandling Show
Misc - Three’s Company Theme
Misc - Who’s The Boss Theme
Misc - Winter Wonderland
Misc - You Are My Sunshine
Modern English - Melt With You
Motley Crue - Angela
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Mr. Big - Just Take My Heart
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
Nirvana - In Bloom
Nirvana - Lithium
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishin’ in the Dark
No Doubt - Don’t Speak
Norah Jones - Don’t Know Why
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man’s Party
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
Orleans - Dance With Me
Orleans - Still the One
Otis Redding - (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne - Mama I’m Coming Home
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Ozzy Osbourne - Road to Nowhere
Paper Lace - Billy Don’t Be a Hero
Paramore - Still Into You
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night
Patsy Cline - Crazy
Patty Smyth - Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough
Paul McCartney - Another Day
Paul McCartney - Let Me Roll It
Paul McCartney - Maybe I’m Amazed
Paul McCartney - My Brave Face
Paul McCartney - Sally
Paul McCartney and Wings - Jet
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Paul Simon - Kathy’s Song
Paul Simon - Kodachrome
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Pearl Jam - Alive
Pearl Jam - Better Man
Pearl Jam - Black
Pearl Jam - Evenflow
Pearl Jam - Once
Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
Peter Cetera - Glory of Love
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Peter, Paul, and Mary - El Salvador
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Going to the Zoo
Peter, Paul, and Mary - I Dig Rock and Roll Music
Peter, Paul, and Mary - If I Had a Hammer
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff, the Magic Dragon
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Right Field
Peter, Paul, and Mary - This Land is Your Land
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Petula Clark - Downtown
Pharrell Williams - Happy
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Phish - Sample in a Jar
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
Pink Floyd - Time
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Portal - Still Alive
Portal - Want You Gone
Prince - When Doves Cry
Pure Prairie League - Amie
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen - Somebody to Love
R.E.M. - Don’t Go Back to Rockville
R.E.M. - It’s the End of the World
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
R.E.M. - Man on the Moon
R.E.M. - Pop Song 89
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
R.E.M. - Stand
R.E.M. - The One I Love
R.E.O. Speedwagon - Can’t Fight This Feeling
R.E.O. Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
R.E.O. Speedwagon - Take it on the Run
R.E.O. Speedwagon - Time For Me to Fly
Radiohead - Creep
Raffi - Baby Beluga
Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
Ray Charles - Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Richard Marx - Hazard
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
Richard Marx - Take This Heart
Ricky Martin - Livin’ La Vida Loca
Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou
Ricky Nelson - Travelin’ Man
Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
Rob Thomas - This is How a Heart Breaks
Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
Robert Plant - Ship of Fools
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song
Rod Stewart - Forever Young
Rod Stewart - Have I Told You Lately
Rod Stewart - The Rhythm of My Heart
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Roxette - The Look
Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
Rupert Holmes - Escape (the Pina Colada Song)
Rush - Fly By Night
Sam and Dave - Soul Man
Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Sam Cooke - Twistin’ the Night Away
Sam Cooke - What a Wonderful World
Santana - Smooth
Sara Bareilles - Brave
Savatage - All That I Bleed
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Scandal - Goodbye To You
Scandal - The Warrior
Sesame Street - I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up the Sun
Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough
Simon and Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia
Simon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Skid Row - I Remember You
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Smash Mouth - All Star
Songsmith - Another Boring Love Song
Songsmith - On Your Way to a Song
Songsmith - These Cups of Coffee
Songsmith - What a Happy Home We’ll Have
Sonny and Cher - I Got You Babe
Soul Asylum - Somebody to Shove
Soul Asylum - Without a Trace
Soul Brothers Six - Some Kind of Wonderful
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Squeeze - Tempted
Starship - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
Starship - We Built This City
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
Stephen Stills - Love the One You’re With
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Steve Miller - Jungle Love
Steve Miller - Swingtown
Steve Miller - Take the Money and Run
Steve Miller - The Joker
Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
Stevie Nicks and Don Henley - Leather and Lace
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Life by the Drop
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Sting - Fields of Gold
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Styx - Blue Collar Man
Styx - Come Sail Away
Styx - Renegade
Sublime - Santeria
Sugar Ray - Every Morning
Sugar Ray - Someday
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Sweet - Fox on the Run
Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn
Taylor Swift - Blank Space
Taylor Swift - Mean
Taylor Swift - Shake it Off
Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
The 88 - At Least It Was Here (Community Theme)
The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky
The Allman Brothers - Melissa
The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
The Backstreet Boys - Larger than Life
The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann
The Beach Boys - Be True to Your School
The Beach Boys - California Girls
The Beach Boys - Don’t Worry Baby
The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda
The Beach Boys - I Get Around
The Beach Boys - In My Room
The Beach Boys - Kokomo
The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe
The Beach Boys - Sloop John B
The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl
The Beach Boys - Surfin’ Safari
The Beach Boys - Surfin’ USA
The Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
The Beatles - Across the Universe
The Beatles - All I’ve Got To Do
The Beatles - All My Loving
The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
The Beatles - And I Love Her
The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
The Beatles - Any Time At All
The Beatles - Ask Me Why
The Beatles - Baby It’s You
The Beatles - Baby’s In Black
The Beatles - Back in the USSR
The Beatles - Can’t Buy Me Love
The Beatles - Come Together
The Beatles - Do You Want to Know a Secret?
The Beatles - Don’t Let Me Down
The Beatles - Don’t Pass me By
The Beatles - Drive My Car
The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles - For No One
The Beatles - From Me To You
The Beatles - Get Back
The Beatles - Getting Better
The Beatles - Good Night
The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life
The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye
The Beatles - Help!
The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere
The Beatles - Hey Jude
The Beatles - Hold Me Tight
The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
The Beatles - I Feel Fine
The Beatles - I Me Mine
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles - I Should Have Known Better
The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles - I Will
The Beatles - I’ll Be Back
The Beatles - I’ll Follow the Sun
The Beatles - I’ll Get You
The Beatles - I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
The Beatles - I’m Only Sleeping
The Beatles - I’m So Tired
The Beatles - I’ve Just Seen a Face
The Beatles - If I Fell
The Beatles - In My Life
The Beatles - It Won’t Be Long
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Beatles - Love Me Do
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
The Beatles - Michelle
The Beatles - Misery
The Beatles - Mother Nature’s Son
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
The Beatles - Nowhere Man
The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
The Beatles - Octopus’s Garden
The Beatles - Oh! Darling
The Beatles - P.S. I Love You
The Beatles - Paperback Writer
The Beatles - Penny Lane
The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Beatles - Revolution
The Beatles - Rocky Raccoon
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
The Beatles - She Loves You
The Beatles - She’s Leaving Home
The Beatles - Something
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles - Tell Me Why
The Beatles - The Ballad of John and Yoko
The Beatles - The Fool on the Hill
The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road
The Beatles - The Night Before
The Beatles - There’s a Place
The Beatles - Things We Said Today
The Beatles - This Boy
The Beatles - Ticket to Ride
The Beatles - Twist and Shout
The Beatles - Two of Us
The Beatles - Wait
The Beatles - We Can Work It Out
The Beatles - When I’m Sixty-Four
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
The Beatles - Yes It Is
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Beatles - You’re Going to Lose that Girl
The Beatles - You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
The Bee Gees - I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You
The Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive
The Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
The Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels
The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
The Box Tops - The Letter
The Brady Bunch - Keep On
The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
The Cars - Good Times Roll
The Cars - Just What I Needed
The Cars - Magic
The Cars - You Might Think
The Carter Family - When I’m Gone (Cups)
The Chiffons - One Fine Day
The Choirboys - Run To Paradise
The Contours - Do You Love Me
The Corrs - Breathless
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
The Cure - Friday I’m in Love
The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
The Dave Clark Five - Because
The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
The Del-Vikings - Come and Go With Me
The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
The Doors - Love Me Two Times
The Doors - People Are Strange
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
The Doors - Touch Me
The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk
The Eagles - Already Gone
The Eagles - Desperado
The Eagles - Heartache Tonight
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
The Eagles - Lyin’ Eyes
The Eagles - New Kid in Town
The Eagles - One of These Nights
The Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
The Eagles - Please Come Home for Christmas
The Eagles - Seven Bridges Road
The Eagles - Take It Easy
The Eagles - Take It To The Limit
The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream
The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love
The Everly Brothers - Cathy’s Clown
The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
The Everly Brothers - When Will I Be Loved
The Five Satins - In the Still of the Night
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
The Four Seasons - Walk Like a Man
The Four Tops - I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey bunch)
The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
The Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
The Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
The Grateful Dead - Truckin’
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Hollies - Bus Stop
The House Jacks - Gone
The Human League - Don’t You Want Me
The Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
The Isley Brothers - Shout
The Jackson Five - I Want You Back
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin
The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
The McCoys - Hang on Sloopy
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
The Monkees - Daydream Believer
The Monkees - I’m a Believer
The Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
The Offspring - The Kids Aren’t Alright
The Outfield - Your Love
The Penguins - Earth Angel
The Pointer Sisters - I’m So Excited
The Police - Can’t Stand Losing You
The Police - Canary in a Coalmine
The Police - Don’t Stand So Close To Me
The Police - Every Breath You Take
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
The Police - Message in a Bottle
The Police - Roxanne
The Police - So Lonely
The Police - Synchronicity II
The Police - Walking on the Moon
The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
The Rembrandts - I’ll Be There For You (Friends Theme)
The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
The Righteous Brothers - You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp
The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones - Shattered
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones - Time Is on My Side
The Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You Want
The Romantics - What I Like About You
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Scorpions - No One Like You
The Scorpions - Winds of Change
The Searchers - Love Potion Number Nine
The Searchers - Needles and Pins
The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Skyliners - Since I Don’t Have You
The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin’
The Supremes - You Can’t Hurry Love
The Temptations - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
The Temptations - My Girl
The Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
The Turtles - Happy Together
The White Stripes - Little Ghost
The White Stripes - We’re Going to Be Friends
The Who - Baba O’Riley
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
The Who - Pinball Wizard
The Wonders - That Thing You Do
The Young Rascals - Good Lovin’
The Zombies - She’s Not There
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul Not Constantinople
They Might Be Giants - Particle Man
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
Three Dog Night - Shambala
Three Doors Down - Kryptonite
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Before You Were Born
Toad the Wet Sprocket - In My Ear
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Is It For Me
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean
Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
Tom Petty - American Girl
Tom Petty - Don’t Do Me Like That
Tom Petty - Free Fallin’
Tom Petty - I Won’t Back Down
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open
Tom Petty - Refugee
Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream
Tom Petty - You Don’t Know How it Feels
Tom Petty - You Wreck Me
Tommy James - I Think We’re Alone Now
Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover
Tommy James and the Shondells - Mony Mony
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 Jenny
Toto - Africa
Toto - Hold the Line
Train - Drops of Jupiter
Train - Hey Soul Sister
Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It
U2 - All I Want is You
U2 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
U2 - Mysterious Ways
U2 - One
U2 - Pride
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
U2 - With or Without You
Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
Uncle Kracker - Follow Me
Van Halen - Dreams
Van Halen - Right Now
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison - Moondance
Van Morrison - Wild Night
Vanessa Williams - Save the Best for Last
Waylon Jennings - Dukes of Hazzard Theme
We Five - You Were On My Mind
Weezer - Beverly Hills
Weird Al - One More Minute
Weird Al - The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
Weird Al - You Don’t Love Me Anymore
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Wicked - Defying Gravity
Willie Nelson - Always on My Mind
Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
Willy Wonka - Pure Imagination
Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land
Yngwie Malmsteen - Heaven Tonight
Zooey Deschanel - Hey Girl (short)
Zooey Deschanel - Hey Girl

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 C/B 
Am C/B 
Am Am Am/D 
   
Am 
We’re talking away
C/B 
I don’t know what I’m to say
Am 
I’ll say it anyway
C/B 
Today’s another day to find you
Am 
Shying away
Em 
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.”

D/F# Em 
Take on me 
D/F# Em 
Take me on 
Em 
I’ll be gone in a day or two
D/F# Em 
Am 
So needless to say I’m odds and ends
C/B 
But I’ll be
Am 
Stumbling away
C/B 
Slowly learning that life is O.K.
Am 
Say after me
Em 
It’s no better to be safe than sorry

D/F# Em 
Take on me 
D/F# Em 
Take me on 
Em 
I’ll be gone in a day or two
D/F# Em 

Trippy bridge

Bm Bm Am 
     

Intro riff, just keys

Am C/B 
Am C/B 
Am Am Am/D 
   
Am 
The things that you say
C/B 
Is it live or just to play
Am 
My worries away
C/B 
You’re all the things I’ve got to remember
Am 
You’re shying away
Em 
I’ll be coming for you anyway

D/F# Em 
Take on me 
D/F# Em 
Take me on 
Em 
I’ll be gone in a day or two
D/F# Em 

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

Abba - Dancing Queen  

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

down an octave.

C/G C/G 
C/G D/G C/G 
   Ooh →  

Vox on the 6 of the chord on “you”

B7 
You can dance, you can jive
Em A/C# 
Having the time of your life
Am7 
Ooh ooh ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
D7 C/G 
Digging the dancing queen  

C/G 
 → 
C/G 
 → 

C/G 
Friday night and the lights are low 
Em 
Looking out for a place to go 
G/D 
Where they play the right music 
Getting in the swing
Em Em  Em 
You come to look for a king  → 

C/G 
Anybody could be that guy 
Em 
Night is young and the music’s high
G/D 
With a bit of rock music 
Everything is fine
Em Em Em 
You’re in the mood for a dance  
Am7 D7 
And when you get the chance 

C/G C/G 
You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen 
C/G C/E 
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah 

B7 
You can dance, you can jive
Em A/C# 
Having the time of your life
Am7 
Ooh ooh ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
D7 C/G 
Digging the dancing queen

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

C/G 
 
C/G 
 → 
C/G 
 → 

C/G 
You’re a teaser, you turn ‘em on 
Em 
Leave them burning and then you’re gone
G/D 
Looking out for another 
Anyone will do
Em Em Em 
You’re in the mood for a dance  → 
Am7 D7 
And when you get the chance 

C/G C/G 
You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen 
C/G C/E 
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah 

B7 
You can dance, you can jive
Em A/C# 
Having the time of your life
Am7 
Ooh ooh ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
D7 C/G C/G 
Digging the dancing queen  
C/G D7/A C/G C/G 
  Digging the dancing queen  

Abba - Mamma Mia  

Originally in D, I play in A

Aaug Aaug 
   x2

E/A 
I’ve been cheated by you since I don’t know when
E/A 
So I made up my mind it must come to an end
Aaug 
Look at me now,  will I ever learn?
Aaug 
I don’t know how, but I suddenly lose control
There’s a fire within my soul
A/C# 
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
A/C# 
One more look and I forget everything

Mamma mia, here I go again
G/D A/C# 
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
G/D A/C# 
My my, just how much I’ve missed you

E/G# 
Yes, I’ve been broken-hearted
F#m C#m/E 
Blue since the day we parted
G/D Bm 
Why, why did I ever let you go?
F#m 
Mamma mia, now I really know
G/D Bm 
My my, I could never let you go

Aaug Aaug 
   
E/A 
I’ve been angry and sad about things that you do
E/A 
I can’t count all the times that I told you we’re through
Aaug 
And when you go,  when you slam the door
Aaug 
I think you know,  that you won’t be away too long
You know that I’m not that strong
A/C# 
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
A/C# 
One more look and I forget everything

Mamma mia, here I go again
G/D A/C# 
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
G/D A/C# 
My my, just how much I’ve missed you

E/G# 
Yes, I’ve been broken-hearted
F#m C#m/E 
Blue since the day we parted
G/D Bm 
Why, why did I ever let you go?

Mamma mia, even if I say
G/D A/C# 
Bye bye, leave me now or never
Mamma mia, it’s a game we play
G/D A/C# 
Bye bye doesn’t mean forever

Mamma mia, here I go again
G/D A/C# 
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
G/D A/C# 
My my, just how much I missed you

E/G# 
Yes, I’ve been broken-hearted
F#m C#m/E 
Blue since the day we parted
G/D Bm 
Why, why did I ever let you go?
F#m 
Mamma mia, now I really know
G/D Bm 
My my, I could never let you go

Repeat to fade

Aaug 
 

AC DC - Highway to Hell  

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

Intro

D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
                             x2

“Livin’ easy” is roughly b7 1 b3 b3

D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Livin’ easy,   livin’ free  
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
 Season ticket on one way ride
D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Askin’ nothin’ leave me be  
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
 Takin’ everythin’ in my stride

D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Don’t need reason,   don’t need rhyme 
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
 Ain’t nothin’ I’d rather do
D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Goin’ down,   party time  
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
  My friends are gonna be there too

D/A D/F# 
I’m on the highway to hell  
D/A D/F# 
On the highway to hell   
D/A D/F# 
Highway to hell,  I’m on the 
D/A 
Highway to hell

D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   No stop signs speed limit 
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
  Nobody’s gonna slow me down
D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Like a wheel,   gonna spin it  
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
  Nobody’s gonnmess me around

D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Hey Satan,   payin’ my dues 
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Playin’ in rockin’ band
D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# 
   Hey mama,   look at me 
D/F# D/F# D/F# 
 I’m on my way to the promised land, whoa

D/A D/F# 
I’m on the highway to hell  
D/A D/F# 
Highway to hell,  I’m on the 
D/A D/F# 
Highway to hell  
D/A 
Highway to hell

Dsus4 
Mmmmmmm    
Dsus4 Dsus4 
Don’t stop me     

Solo on verse chords

D/A D/F# 
I’m on the highway to hell,  uh
D/A D/F# 
Highway to hell,  I’m on the 
D/A D/F# 
Highway to hell,  on the

Hard stop here

D/A 
Highway to 

D/F# 
 
D/A D/F# 
Highway to hell, I’m on on the highway to hell
D/A 
Highway to hell
D/A 
Highway to hell

Let ring at the end of this line

D/A 
Highway to hell

And I'm going down, aaaooohwaayyy

AC DC - You Shook Me All Night Long  

Originally in G, I play in A capo 2

  →  →  →  → 
 →  →  →  → 

x2

Riff goes through the verse, approximating here

She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen
She had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies
Knockin’ me out with those American thighs

Taking more than her share, had me  fighting for air
She told me to come, but I was already there
‘Cause the walls start shaking, the Earth was quaking
E7 
My mind was aching, and we weren’t thinkin’ and 

A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long 
A/C# A/C# 
Yeah you, shook me all night long 

Working double time on the seduction line
She was one of a kind, she’s just mine, all mine
Wanted no applause, just another course
Made a meal out of me and came back for more

Had to cool me down to take another round
Now I’m back in the ring to take another swing
‘Cause the walls were shaking, the Earth was quaking
E7 
My mind was aching, and we weren’t thinkin’ and 

A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long 
A/C# A/C# 
Yeah you, shook me all night long , knockin’ me out
A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long , you had me shakin’
A/C# 
And you shook me all night long
Yeah you shook me, well you took me

Solo on verse chords if appropriate

A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long , oooh
A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long , yeah yeah
A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long , you really got me and
A/C# A/C# 
You shook me all night long, yeah you shook me

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

A/C# 
 Yeah you shook me, oh no you

Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes  

Intro

   
With the heartbreak open, so much you can’t hide
Put on a little makeup, makeup 
Make sure they get your good side, good side

If the words unspoken get stuck in your throat
Send a treasure token token 
Write it on a pound note, pound note

 
Goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes
Goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?
You don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?
Subtle innuendos follow
There must be something inside

 
We don’t follow fashion, that would be a joke
You know we’re gonna set them, set them 
So everyone can take note, take note

When they saw you kneeling, crying words that you mean
Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs 
Pretending that you’re Al Green, Al Green

 
Goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes
Goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?
Subtle innuendos follow
Must be something inside

The original does an awkward series of key changes here, just to get back

to the original key in the chorus.  Skipping that.

 
No one’s gonna tell me what’s wrong or what’s right
Or tell me who to eat with, sleep with 
Or that I’ve won the big fight, big fight

Look out or they’ll tell you, you’re a superstar
Two weeks and you’re an all time legend 
I think the games have gone much too far

If the word’s unspoken, it gets stuck in your throat
Send a treasure token, token 
Write it on a pound note, pound note

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Subtle innuendos follow
Must be something inside

You said don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Subtle innuendos follow
Must be something inside

You said don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Subtle innuendos follow
Must be something inside

You said don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?

Subtle innuendos follow

Hard stop on “must”

G# 
Must be something inside  → 

(Outro)

Aerosmith - Amazing  

Originally in C, I play in C capo 4

Am G/A Am Em7 
   
Am G/A 
I kept the right ones out and let the wrong ones in
C7 
Had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins
Fm6/Ab C/G 
There were times in my life when I was goin’ insane
F#m7b5 
Tryin’ to walk through the pain

Am G/A 
When I lost my grip and I hit the floor
C7 
Yeah, I thought I could leave but couldn’t get out the door
Fm6/Ab C/G 
I was so sick and tired of livin’ a lie
F#m7b5 
I was wishin’ that I would die

Em7 C/E C/G G7 
It’s amazing,  with the blink of an eye you finally see the light  
Em7 C/E C/G G7 
It’s amazing when the moment arrives that you know you’ll be alright  
Em7 D7 
It’s amazing and I’m sayin’ a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight

Am D7 
That one last shot’s a permanent vacation
G/B 
And how high can you fly with broken wings? 
Am D7 
Life’s a journey not a destination
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 
But I just couldn’t listen to all that righteous talk
Fm6/Ab C/G 
Well, I was out on the street, just tryin’ to survive
F#m7b5 
Scratchin’ to stay alive

Em7 C/E C/G G7 
It’s amazing,  with the blink of an eye you finally see the light  
Em7 C/E C/G G7 
It’s amazing when the moment arrives that you know you’ll be alright  
Em7 D7 
It’s amazing and I’m sayin’ a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight

Dm7 
  Desperate hearts, desperate hearts
Dm7 C/E 
  Did you wanna see without and give what I got
C/F 
  Oh, wada, wada ah ka kow, ah ka ka ka kow

Solo/outro, with ad libs

Dm7 C/E 
C/G Am C/G 
Dm7 C/E 
C7 

Aerosmith - Angel  

Originally in Eb, I play in A

  →  x 3
F#m 
  → 

Dsus4 
I’m alone yeah I don’t know if I can face the night  
F#m C#m 
I’m in tears and the crying that I do is for you  

F#m 
I want your love let’s break the walls between us
F#m 
Don’t make it tough, I’ll put away my pride
F#m 
Enough’s enough, I’ve suffered and I’ve seen the light

Hard stop

Baby

F#m 
You’re my angel   come and save me tonight   
F#m Dsus4 
You’re my angel   come and make it alright    

Dsus4 
Don’t know what I’m gonna do about this feeling inside  
F#m C#m 
Yes, it’s true loneliness took me for a ride 

F#m 
Without your love, I’m nothing but a beggar
F#m 
Without your love, a dog without a bone
F#m 
What can I do, I’m sleeping in this bed alone

Baby

F#m 
You’re my angel   come and save me tonight  
F#m 
You’re my an-gel yeah come and make it alright  
Come and save me tonight

Solo if appropriate

F#m 
  →   →   → 
F#m 
 →   →   →   → 

Vox on the b7 of the chord (!)

 You’re the reason I live
 You’re the reason I die
 You’re the reason I give
F#m 
 When I break down and cry
 Don’t need no reason why

Hard stop on the last “baby”

Baby, baby, baby

F#m 
You’re my angel   come and save me tonight  
F#m 
You’re my an-gel yeah come and make it alright  
F#m 
You’re my an--gel come and save me tonight, living in the air
F#m 
You’re my angel come and take me alright  
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
F#m 
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight

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 
    
There was a time
Bm F#m 
When I was so broken-hearted
Love wasn’t much of a friend of mine
The tables have turned, yeah
Bm F#m 
‘Cause me and them ways have parted
That kind of love was the killin’ kind, listen

All I want is someone I can’t resist

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

and go a half-step up on “way”

I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed

I was cryin’ when I met you
Bm 
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
F#m 
Now I’m dyin’ ‘cause I let you
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

It’s down on me
Bm F#m 
Yeah I got to tell you one thing
It’s been on my mind, girl I gotta say
We’re partners in crime
Bm F#m 
You got that certain something
What you give to me takes my breath away

Now the word out on the street is the devil’s in your kiss
If our love goes up in flames it’s a fire I can’t resist

I was cryin’ when I met you
Bm 
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
F#m 
Now I’m dyin’ ‘cause I let you
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 inside
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
Yill ya give your heart away

Note the minor chords are switched in this chorus

I was cryin’ when I met you
F#m 
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
Bm 
Now I’m dyin’ to let you
Do what you do, down on  baby baby...

Solo

F#m 
Bm 

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 B7 
Everybody’s got their dues in life to pay

Em 
Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
Em 
I know it’s everybody’s sin
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 
All the things come back to you

Em 
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Em 
Sing with me, if it’s just for today
B7 
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away, yeah

Am B7 Cmaj7 
Dream on dream on dream on
Em 
Dream until the dream come true

Am B7 Cmaj7 
Dream on dream on dream on
Em 
Dream until the dream come true

Am B7 
Dream on dream on 
Cmaj7 
Dream on dream on

Am B7 
Dream on dream on 
Cmaj7 B7 
Dream on ah ah

Em 

Aerosmith - Eat the Rich  

Originally in E, I play in E and sing the chorus an octave down

Intro

NC 
Wake up kids, it’s half past the youth

Ain’t nothin’ really changin’ but the date
You're a grand slammer, but you're no Babe Ruth
You gotta learn how to relate
Or you'll be swingin' from the pearly gate
Yeah, I got all the answers, and lo and behold you got the right key baby
But the wrong key hole, yo

More Em, than E, mix in some 7#9’s

E5 
E5 
Well, I woke up this morning on the wrong side of the bed
E5 
And a-how I got to thinkin’ about all those things you said
E5 
About ordinary people and how they make you sick
E5 
And if callin’ names kicks back on you then I hope this does the trick

E5 F#5 
Cause I’m sick of your complainin’ about how many bills
E5 F#5 
And I’m sick of all your bitchin’ ‘bout your poodles and your pills
E5 F#5 
And I just can’t see no humor about your way of life
And I think I can do more for you with this here fork and knife

Simplifying the riff to chords, removing some V’s for playability

E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, there’s only one thing that they’re good for
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now and come back for more
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I gotta get this off my chest
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now, spit out the rest, uh-huh

E5 
E5 
So I called up my head shrinker and I told him what I’d done
E5 
He said you’d best go on a diet, yeah I hope you have some fun
E5 
And a’don’t go burst a bubble on the rich folks who get rude
E5 
‘Cause you won’t get in no trouble when you eats that kinda food

E5 F#5 
Well now their smokin’ up their junk bonds, and then they go get stiff
E5 F#5 
And they’re dancin’ in the yacht club, with Muff and Uncle Biff
E5 F#5 
But there’s one good thing that happens, when you toss your pearls to swine
Their attitudes may taste like shit, but go real good with wine

E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, there’s only one thing that they’re good for
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now and come back for more
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I gotta get this off my chest
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now, spit out the rest

Repeat intro riff

E5 

Solo, with hard stops

   

No more hard stops, band back in

E5 
E5 F#5 
Believe in all the good things, that money just can’t buy
E5 F#5 
Then you won’t get no belly ache, from eatin’ humble pie
E5 F#5 
I believe in rags to riches, your inheritance won’t last
So take your Grey Poupon my friend, and shove it up your ass!

E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, there’s only one thing that they’re good for
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now and come back for more
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I gotta get this off my chest
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now, spit out the rest

E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, there’s only one thing that they’re good for
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, I take one bite now and come back for more
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, don’t stop me now I’m going crazy
E5 D5 A5 D5 A5 E5 
Eat the rich, that’s my idea of a good time baby

Aerosmith - Fever  

Originally in E, I play in E capo 3

Play the 5’s as 7#9’s

E5 

Vox on the 5 on “rip”

E5 
I got a rip in my pants and a hole in my brand new shoes
E5 
I got a Margarita nose and a breath full of Mad Dog booze

Now it’s definitely a major chord, maybe with 6th

I got the fever, fever, fever, fever
Yeah, they threw me out of jail I tell you it ain’t fair
I tried to kiss the judge from the electrical chair
But we all here cause we’re not all there tonight  → 

E5 
E5 
The guitar’s cranked and the bass man’s blown a fuse
E5 
And when the whole gang bangs tell me then what’s your excuse?

We got the fever, fever, fever, fever
Fever gives you lust with an appetite
It hits you like the fangs from a rattlesnake bite
We all here cause we’re not all there tonight 

 →    →   →   → 
 →    →   →   → 

That pattern continues through the bridge, but I’m only writing the second chord from each pair

Vox basically on the 4 of the key (5 of the first chord for the entire bridge, until “caviar”

D5 A5 
We can’t run away from trouble
G5 A5 
There ain’t no place that far
D5 A5 
But if we do it right at the speed of light
G5 A5 B5 
There’s the back seat of my car, caviar

E5 

Lyrics move a little faster here, no pause after the first line

E5 
I was feeling so high I forgot what day
E5 
Now I’m feeling low down even slow seems way too fast
E5 
And now the booze don’t work ‘cause the drugs ran out of gas

I got the fever, fever, fever, fever
The buzz that you be getting from the crack don’t last

Every once in a while, I find a line so awkward that I change it for awesomesongbook.com...

I’d rather be O.D.in’ in the back of the class
Yeah we all here ‘cause we’re not all there tonight

 →    →   →   → 

Same deal, just writing the second chord in each pair

D5 A5 
My first time ever lover
G5 A5 
We fell asleep out on the lawn
E5 B5 
And when I woke up I was all alone
A5 B5 
Makin’ love to the crack of dawn
D5 A5 
So yo, I beg your pardon sir
G5 A5 B5 
The gang...ster of love rides again

Harmonica solo

   
   
I got the fever (you know I got the chill)
Fever (it give me such a thrill)
Fever (like a burnin’ plague)
Fever (yeah, get outta my way)
Fever may be hell and a cross to bear
As long as I’m in heaven honey I don’t care
You look so good baby look so fine
I tell you you’re the image of the perfect crime
You gets so tired holding on so tight
If you think you’re going crazy well you may be right
Yeah, we’re all here ‘cause we’re not all there, that’s right

 → 

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, or just skip this

B/F# G#m7 Bsus4 Bsus4 
       x 2

 

Vox on 2 2 3 5 6 on “i could stay awake”, up to the higher 3 on “hear”

E/G# F#m7 
I could stay awake just to hear you breathin’
C#m Bm7 
Watch you smile while you are sleepin’, while you’re far away and dreamin’
E/G# F#m7 
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
A/C# Bm7 
I could stay lost in this moment, forever
C#m7 Dmaj7 Esus4 
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure

E/G# 
 I don’t want to close my eyes
Bm7 
 I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d miss you baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing
E/G# 
‘Cause even when I dream of you
Bm7 
 The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still miss you baby

Hang the last chord in this line

E/G# Bm7 
And I don’t want to miss a thing  

E/G# F#m7 
Lyin’ close to you feeling your heart beating
A/C# 
And I’m wonderin’ what you’re dreaming 
Bm7 
Wonderin’ if it’s me you’re seein’
E/G# F#m7 
Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we’re together
C#m7 Dmaj7 Esus4 
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever, forever and ever

E/G# 
 I don’t want to close my eyes
Bm7 
 I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d miss you baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing
E/G# 
‘Cause even when I dream of you
Bm7 
 The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still miss you baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing 

Bridge

D/F# 
I don’t want to miss one smile, I don’t want to miss one kiss
C/E 
I just want to be with you right here with you, just like this
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

E/G# 
 I don’t want to close my eyes
Bm7 
 I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d miss you baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing
E/G# 
‘Cause even when I dream of you
Bm7 
 The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still miss you baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing

E/G# 
 I don’t want to close my eyes
Bm7 
 I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d miss you baby

One-off minor chord

F#m 
And I don’t want to miss a thing
E/G# 
‘Cause even when I dream of you
Bm7 
 The sweetest dream would never do, I’d still miss you baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing

Aerosmith - Livin’ on the Edge  

Originally in D, I play in A

Intro

Asus2 

Vox on the 5

There’s something wrong with the world today, I don’t know what it is
F#m F#m 
Something’s wrong with our eyes  → 
We’re seeing things in a different way, and god knows it ain’t his
F#m 
It sure ain’t no surprise, yeah!

Vox on 5 3 2 1 3 on “livin’ on the edge”

We’re livin’ on the edge
Livin’ on the edge
Livin’ on the edge 
Livin’ on the edge

There’s something wrong with the world today, the lightbulb’s getting dim
F#m F#m 
There’s meltdown in the sky  → 
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
F#m 
Then mister you’re a better man than I

We’re livin’ on the edge (you can’t help yourself from falling)
Livin’ on the edge (you can’t help yourself at all)
Livin’ on the edge  (you can’t stop yourself from falling)
Livin’ on the edge

Bridge

Vox on the b7 of the chord

C# 
Tell me what you think about your situation
C# 
Complication, aggravation
F#m 
Is getting to you, yeah!
C# 
If Chicken Little tells you that the sky is fallin’
C# 
Even if it was then would you still come crawling
Back again, I bet you would, my friend
Again and again and again and again and again

Solo

D/A 
   →  
   

Yeah!

C# 
Tell me what you think about your situation
C# F#m 
Complication, aggravation is getting to you
C# 
If Chicken Little tells you that the sky is fallin’
C# 
Even if it was, would you still come crawling
Back again, I bet you would, my friend
Again and again and again and again

Vox on octave higher than the other verses

There’s something right with the world today, and everybody knows it’s wrong

Hard stop, with a long pause for space noises

F#m 
Well we could tell ‘em no, we could let it go but I would rather be hangin’ on

Livin’ on the edge (you can’t help yourself from falling)
Livin’ on the edge (you can’t help yourself at all)
Livin’ on the edge (you can’t stop yourself from falling)
Livin’ on the edge

Livin’ on the edge 
Livin’ on the edge 
A# 
Livin’ on the edge 
A# 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah 

Asus2 
Livin’ on the edge (you can’t help yourself from falling)
Livin’ on the edge (you can’t help yourself at all)
Livin’ on the edge (you can’t stop yourself from falling)
Livin’ on the edge

Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator  

Originally in E, I play in A

Intro

A7#9 A7#9 A7#9 A7#9 
 

Vox on the b5 on this line

All these I’s could be I, or I7, i, or I7#9, or I5... I play I7

The IV at the end of this line is a bVI originally

Workin’ like a dog for the boss-man 
Workin’ for the company 
I’m bettin’ on the dice I’m tossin’ 
I’m gonna have a fantasy

But where am I gonna look 
They tell me that love is blind 
really need a girl like an open book
To read between the lines

Love in an elevator
Livin’ it up when I’m goin’ down
Love in an elevator
D# 
Lovin’ it up till I hit the ground

Jackie’s in the elevator 
Lingerie second floor 
She said can I see you later 
And love you just a little more 

I kinda hope we get stuck
Nobody gets out alive 
She said I’ll show you how to fax in the mailroom, honey
And have you home by five

Love in an elevator
Livin’ it up when I’m goin’ down
Love in an elevator
Lovin’ it up till I hit the ground

In the air, in the air, in the air
Honey one more time now it ain’t fair

Love in an elevator
Lovin’ it up when I’m goin’ down

 

Solo on Intro riff, then bizarre breakdown I’m not trying to write out

A7#9 A7#9 A7#9 A7#9 
           x4

Gonna be a penthouse pauper 
Gonna be a millionare 
I’m gonna be a real fast talker
And have me a love affair 

Gotta get my timin’ right
It’s a test that I got to pass
I’ll chase you all the way to stairway, honey
Kiss your sassafrass

Love in an elevator
Livin’ it up when I’m goin’ down
Love in an elevator
Livin’ it up till I hit the ground

Do you care, do you care
Honey one more time now it ain’t fair

Aerosmith - The Other Side  

Original starts with some noodling in D (the VII of the minor key

Originally in Em, I play in Em capo 3

Em 
Mm mm mm, mm mm mm, mm mm mm, mm mm mm mm mm
Em 
 Yeah, come on

Em 
Lovin’ you has go to be (take me to the other side)
Em 
Like the devil and the deep blue sea (take me to the other side)
Em 
Forget about your foolish pride (take me to the other side)
Oh take me to the other side (take me to the other side)

 My mamma told me there’d be days like this
And man she wasn’t foolin’
 ‘Cause I just can’t believe the way you kiss
 Uh huh

 You opened up your mouth with baited breath
You said you’d never leave me
You love me, you hate me, I tried to take the loss

Vox on the bVII of the chord for most of this line

You’re cryin’ me a river but I got to get across

Em 
Lovin’ you has go to be (take me to the other side)
Em 
Like the devil and the deep blue sea (take me to the other side)
Em 
Forget about your foolish pride (take me to the other side)
Oh take me to the other side (take me to the other side)

 I’m lookin’ for another kind of love
Oh lordy, how I need it
 The kind that likes to leap without a shove
Oh, honey best believe it

 To save a lot of time and foolish pride
I’ll say what’s on my mind, girl
You loved me, you hate me, you cut me down to size
You blinded me with love and yeah it opened up my eyes

Em 
Lovin’ you has go to be (take me to the other side)
Em 
Like the devil and the deep blue sea (take me to the other side)
Em 
My conscience got to be my guide (take me to the other side)
Oh honey take me, take, take, take, take, take

Em Em 
       x 3
Em Em 
   Take me to the other side

I’m lookin’ for another kind of love
Oh lordy, how I need it
 The kind that likes to leap without a shove
Honey, you best believe it

 Now I ain’t one for sayin’ long goodbyes
hope all is forgiven
You loved me, you hate me, I used to be your lover
You know you had it comin’ girl so take me to the other 

Em Em 
Side, take me to the other side, take me to the other side
Em 
Lovin’ you has go to be (take me to the other side)
Em 
Like the devil and the deep blue sea (take me to the other side)
Em 
My conscience got to be my guide (take me to the other side)
Honey take me to the other side (take me to the other side)

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

Asus4 Bm7 Gadd9 
   
There goes my old girlfriend, there’s a
Another diamond ring
Bm 
And uh, all those late night promises
I guess they don’t mean a thing
So baby, what’s the story
Did you find another man?
Bm 
Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made?
When you don’t look back
I guess the feelings start to fade away

used to feel your fire
Bm 
But now it’s cold inside
And you’re back on the street

Like you didn’t miss a beat, yeah

Tell me what it takes to let you go
Tell me how the pain’s supposed to go
Am 
Tell me how it is that you can sleep
Am/G 
In the night
F#m7b5 
Without thinking you lost

Everything that was good

In your life to the toss of the dice
G# 
Tell me what it takes to let you go, yeah

Make sure to get all the way down to the 5

of this chord (A if the chord is D)

Girl, before I met you
I was F.I.N.E. fine
Bm 
But your love made me a prisoner
Yeah my heart’s been doing time
You spent me up like money, oh then you
Hung me out to dry
Bm 
It was easy to keep all your lies in disguise
‘Cause you had me in deep with the devil in your eyes

Tell me what it takes to let you go
Tell me how the pain’s supposed to go
Am 
Tell me how it is that you can sleep
Am/G 
In the night
F#m7b5 
Without thinking you lost

Everything that was good

In your life to the toss of the dice
G# 
Tell me what it takes to let you go

Solo

Am Am 
      

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

Tell me that you’re happy that you’re on your own
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Tell me that it’s better when you’re all alone

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 touch
D# 
Tell me that my lovin’ didn’t mean that much
Tell me you ain’t dyin’ when you’re cryin’ for me

Tell me what it takes to let you go
Tell me how the pain’s supposed to go
Am 
Tell me how it is that you can sleep
Am/G 
In the night
F#m7b5 
Without thinking you lost

Everything that was good

In your life to the toss of the dice

Note random chord on “no no no”

G# Gdim7 
Tell me who’s to blame for thinkin’ twice, no no no no
G# 
‘Cause I don’t wanna burn in paradise

Am 
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Am 
I don’t wanna burn, I don’t wanna burn 
Am 
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet  

Originally in Ebm, I play in Em capo 3

Em 
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 Asus4 
 The boy could sing and knew how to move everything
Gsus4 Dsus4 
 Always wanting more, it leaves you longing for

Am 
 Black velvet in that little boy’s smile
Am 
 Black velvet with that slow southern style
Am 
 A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees
B7 Em 
 Black velvet 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 Asus4 
 The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true
Gsus4 Dsus4 
 Always wanting more, he’d leave you longing for

Am 
 Black velvet in that little boy’s smile
Am 
 Black velvet with that slow southern style
Am 
 A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees
B7 Em 
 Black velvet if you please

Em 
Am Em 
 Every word of every song that he sang is for you
Am 
 In a flash he was gone
B7 Em 
It happened so soon,  what could you do?

Solo if appropriate

Em 
Am 
 Black velvet in that little boy’s smile
Am 
 Black velvet with that slow southern style
Am 
 A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees
B7 Em 
 Black velvet if you please

Alice In Chains - Man in the Box  

Originally in E5, I play in A5, highest note is the 5 (“fee-ee-ee-eed my eyes”)

Intro

A5 
A5 
Ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, oh
A5 
Ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, oh

Vox on the 5

A5 
I’m the man in the box
A5 
Buried in my pit
C5 A5 
Won’t you come and save me, save me

Am 
Fee-e-e-e-eed my eyes
Can you sew them shut?
Am 
Jee--e-e-e-sus Christ
Deny your maker

Am 
Hee--e-e-e-e who tries
Will be wasted
Am 
Oh, fee--e-e-eed my eyes
Now you’ve sewn them shut

A5 
Ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, oh

A5 
I’m the dog who gets beat
A5 
Shove my nose in spit
C5 A5 
Won’t you come and save me, save me

Am 
Fee-e-e-e-eed my eyes
Can you sew them shut?
Am 
Jee--e-e-e-sus Christ
Deny your maker

Am 
Hee--e-e-e-e who tries
Will be wasted
Am 
Oh, fee--e-e-eed my eyes
Now you’ve sewn them shut

Solo on verse chords, repeat chorus

America - Sister Golden Hair  

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

C#m 
   

I prefer to skip this part of the intro

G#m G#m 
C#m 
   
Well I tried to make it Sunday, but I
G#m 
Got so damn depressed
That I set my sights on Monday, and I
G#m 
Got myself undressed
F#m 
I ain’t ready for the altar
C#m G#m 
But I do agree there’s times
F#m 
When a woman sure can
Esus4 
Be a friend of mine   

Well I keep on thinkin’ bout you
G#m 
Sister golden hair surprise
And I just can’t live without you
G#m 
Can’t you see it in my eyes?
F#m 
I been one poor correspondent and I been
C#m G#m 
Too, too hard to find
F#m 
But it doesn’t mean you 
Esus4 
Ain’t been on my mind   

Will you meet me in the middle?
Will you meet me in the air?
Will you love me just a little?
Just enough to show you care?

Hanging chords

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

C#m 
G#m G#m 
C#m 
   

With doo doo, da doo doo

Well I keep on thinkin’ bout you
G#m 
Sister golden hair surprise
And I just can’t live without you
G#m 
Can’t you see it in my eyes?

With aaaah’s

F#m 
I been one poor correspondent and I been
C#m G#m 
Too, too hard to find
F#m 
But it doesn’t mean you 
Esus4 
Ain’t been on my mind   

Will you meet me in the middle?
Will you meet me in the air?
Will you love me just a little?
Just enough to show you care?
F#m G#m 
Well I tried to fake it, I don’t mind saying
just can’t make it

American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak  

Originally in Bb, play in G capo 2.

Em 
Em 
She paints her nails and she don’t know
He’s got her best friend on the phone
Em 
She’ll wash her hair, his dirty clothes
Em 
Are all he gives to her
And he’s got posters on the wall
A7 
Of all the girls he wished she was
 And he means everything to her

Her boyfriend, he don’t know
Em 
Anything about her
He’s too stoned, Nintendo
Em 
I wish that I could make her see
Em 
   She’s just the
Em 
Flavor of the weak  

Em 
It’s Friday night and she’s all alone
He’s a million miles away
Em 
She’s dressed to kill, the TV’s on
Em 
He’s connected to the sound
And he’s got pictures on the  wall
A7 
Of all the girls he’s loved before
And she knows all his favorite songs

Her boyfriend, he don’t know
Em 
Anything about her
He’s too stoned, Nintendo
Em 
I wish that I could make her see
Em 
   She’s just the
Em 
Flavor of the weak  

 Quiet

Her boyfriend, he don’t know 
Em 
Anything about her
He’s too stoned, too stoned
Em 
Too stoned  too stoned

Her boyfriend, he don’t know
Em 
Anything about her
He’s too stoned, Nintendo
Em 
I wish that I could make her see
Em 
   She’s just the
Em 
Flavor of the weak  

Gmaj7 
 She makes me weak 

Amos Lee - Sweet Pea  

Originally in E, I play in C capo 3

E7 Am 
   
Am Dm7 
 →  →  →  x 2

E7 
 Sweet pea,  apple of my eye
Am 
 Don’t know when and I  don’t know why
Am 
 You’re the only  reason I 
Dm7 
 Keep on  coming  home 

Am Dm7 
   
E7 
 Sweet pea, what’s all  this about?
Am 
 Don’t get your way, all you do  is fuss and pout
Am 
 You’re the only  reason I 
Dm7 
 Keep on  coming  home 

Am Dm7 
   
E7 
I’m like the  Rock of Gibraltar, I always seem to falter
Am 
And the  words just get in the way
Oh, I  know I’m gonna crumble

I’m trying to stay humble

But I  never think before I say

E7 Am 
   
Am Dm7 
 →  →  →  x 2

 

E7 
 Sweet pea,  keeper of my soul
Am 
 I know, sometimes, I’m  out of control
Am Dm7 
 You’re the only  reason I  keep on  coming
Am Dm7 
 You’re the only  reason I  keep on  coming, yeah
Am Dm7 
 You’re the only  reason I  keep on  coming  home 

Amy Grant - Baby, Baby  

Originally in F#, I play in A capo 2

Highest note that matters is the 3

Intro

D6 D6 A/E 
    →  x4

Vox on 3 5 6 1 on “baby baby”

D6 D6 A/E 
 Baby, baby I’m taken with the notion
D6 D6 A/E 
 To love you with the sweetest of devotion
D6 D6 A/E 
 Baby, baby my tender love will flow from
D6 D6 A/E 
 The bluest sky to the deepest ocean

Gmaj9 Em11 
Stop for a minute, baby I’m so glad you’re 
D6 D6 A/E 
Mine  yeah   → 

D6 D6 A/E 
     → 

D6 D6 A/E 
 Baby, baby the stars are shining for you
D6 D6 A/E 
 And just like me I’m sure that they adore you
D6 D6 A/E 
 Baby, baby go walking through the forest
D6 D6 A/E 
 The birds above are singing you a chorus

Gmaj9 Em11 
Stop for a minute, baby they’re so glad you’re 
D6 D6 A/E 
Mine  oh yeah   → 

E6 D6 
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
E6 D/G 
Baby I realize that there’s just no getting over you

Original changes key here, I don’t

D6 D6 A/E 
    →  x2

D6 D6 A/E 
 Baby, baby in any kind of weather
D6 D6 A/E 
 I’m here for you always and forever
D6 D6 A/E 
 Baby, baby no muscle man could sever
D6 D6 A/E 
 My love for you is true and it willnever

Gmaj9 Em11 
Stop for a minute, baby I’m so glad you’re
D6 D6 A/E 
Mine    → 

E6 D6 
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
E6 D6 
Baby I realize, there’s no getting over you

Solo, the original is back in the starting key now

D6 C6 Bm7 
       x4

E6 D6 
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
E6 D6 
Baby I realize that there’s just no getting over you

Now the orignal goes back to the higher key

E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
    →  Over you
E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
    → 

E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
 Baby, baby, always and forever
E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
    → 

E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
I’m here for you baby,  I’m so glad you’re mine
E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
    → 

E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
When I think about you it makes me smile  baby, baby be mine
E6 Am/C E6 A/E 
    → 

Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat  

Originally in A, I play in D, highest note is the 2 (“stake my claim”)

Em7 
   x2

 Hear me speak what’s on my mind
Em7 
 Let me give this testimony
 Reaffirm that you will find
Em7 
 That you are my one and only

Em7 
 No exception to this rule

Vox on the 7 and #4 (!) of the chord on “I’m simp”

Cmaj7 
 I’m simple but I’m no fool
Em7 
 I’ve got a witness happy to say
G/B D/A 
Every hour every day

F#m 
Every heartbeat bears your name
Bm 
Loud and clear they stake my claim
F#m 
 My red blood runs true blue
D/F# 
And every heartbeat belongs to you

Bm 
 Classic case of boy meets girl
Em7 
 Moving in the same direction
 You’re not asking for the world
Em7 
 I’m not asking for perfection

Em7 
 Just a love that’s well-designed
Cmaj7 
 For passing the test of time
Em7 
 I’m here to tell you, I’m here to stay

G/B D/A 
Every hour every day

F#m 
Every heartbeat bears your name
Bm 
Loud and clear they stake my claim
F#m 
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s true
D/F# 
That every heartbeat belongs to you

F#m 
Every heartbeat bears your name
Bm 
Loud and clear they stake my claim, yeah
F#m 
 My red blood runs true blue
D/F# 
And every heartbeat belongs to you

Trippy bridge

Am Am Em7 
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh 
Am Am 
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh

Em7 
Yeah, sure maybe I’m on the edge
But I love you, baby and like I said
 I’m here to tell you
D/C 
I’m here to stay

G/B D/A 
Every hour, every day

Let ring

F#m 
Every heartbeat bears your name
Bm 
Loud and clear they stake my claim
F#m 
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s true
D/F# 
That every heartbeat belongs to you

Band back in

F#m 
Every heartbeat bears your name
Bm 
Loud and clear they stake my claim, yeah
F#m 
 My red blood runs true blue
D/F# 
And every heartbeat belongs to you

Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being a Friend  

Originally in Bb, I play in A

 Thank you for being a friend
D/A 
 Traveled down the road and back again
E/A 
Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant

 I’m not ashamed to say
D/A 
 I hope it always will stay this way
E/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 
Invited everyone you  knew
F#m/E A7 
Well, you would see
Bm7 F#m 
The biggest gift would be from  me
D/C# D/B D/A 
And the card  attached  would  say

Thank you for being a  friend
D/A 
Thank you for being a  friend
E/A 
Thank you for being a  friend
Thank you for being a  friend

A/G# A/G# A/F# A/E 
   →   
D/C# D/C# D/B D/A 
   →   

 If it’s a car you lack
D/A 
 I’d surely buy you a Cadillac
E/A 
Whatever you need any time of the day or night

 I’m not ashamed to say
D/A 
 I hope it always will stay this way
E/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/C# D/B D/A 
I will  stand  real  close  and  say

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

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

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

A/D A/E Em6/G F#m 
  And when we die and float away
Fmaj7 A/E 
Into the night, the milky  way
Em6/G F#m 
You’ll hear me call as we ascend
Fmaj7 A/E 
I’ll say your  name, then once again

No instruments...

Thank you for being a...

Instruments back in...

A/G# A/G# A/F# A/E 
   →   
D/C# D/C# D/B D/A 
   →   

This time with baa baa baa baa

A/G# A/G# A/F# A/E 
   →   
D/C# D/C# D/B D/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)
Thank you for being a  friend

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)
Thank you for being a  friend

Thank you right now for being a friend
D/A 
I wanna tell you ‘bout now and I’ll tell you again
E/A 
I wanna thank you, thank you, thank you for being a friend

A/G# A/G# A/F# A/E 
   →   
D/C# D/C# D/B D/A 
   →   

Annie - Tomorrow  

Originally in E, I play in A.

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

Esus4 

Vox on 3 4 5 1 on “sun’ll come out”

Amaj7 
The sun’ll come out  tomorrow
Dmaj7 C#m7 
Bet your bottom dollar
F#m F#m/E Dmaj7 
That tomorrow, there’ll be sun 

Amaj7 
Just thinkin’ about  tomorrow
Dmaj7 C#m7 
Clears away the cobwebs
F#m F#m/E Dmaj7 
And the sorrow till there’s none 

Am 
When I’m stuck with a day
C/G 
That’s gray and lonely 
I just stick out my chin
Cmaj7 E7sus 
And grin, and say

Oh

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 tomorrow, come what may  

Amaj7 
Tomorrow, tomorrow
A7 Dm 
love ya tomorrow 
E7sus 
You’re only a day
E7 
A way

Ritard

E7 Amaj7 
Tomorrow, tomorrow
A7 Dm 
love ya tomorrow 
E7sus 
You’re only a daaaay
E7 Dm 
Aaa waaaa 

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, unpredictable

E5 E5/C 
You would see if only
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 only you never wanted to understand

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, unpredictable

E5 E5/C 
You would see if only
E5/B A5 
You hadn’t taken things out of my hands
E5 E5/C E5/B A5 
If only you never wanted to understand

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 contain myself
E5/C 
I can’t contain myself
E5/B A5 
I just can’t take myself 

Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools  

Originally in Cm, I play in Am capo 3 and sing an octave down (obviously)

Intro, rubato... appears only in some versions, usually skip this

Am7 
Oh, oh, oh, that’s the sound

Of a worried, a worried man

D7 
Ha ha,  ha ha ha ha ha
Am 
That’s the sound of  having a good time

Mmm, that’s the sound of pain

Vox on 3 4 5

Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain of fools

Am7 
For five long years, I thought you were my man
Am7 
But I found out, yeah, I’m just a link in your chain
Am7 
You got me where you want me, I ain’t nothing but your fool
Am7 
You treated me mean, oh, you treated me cruel

Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain of fools

Am7 
Every chain, has got a weak link
Am7 
I might be weak child, but I’ll give you strength

Instruments out, hard stops only

Am7 
You tell me to leave you alone

My father said come on home
My doctor said take it easy
Oh, but your lovin' is much too strong  
I'm added to your

Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain of fools

Am7 
One of these mornings, the chain is gonna break
Am7 
But up until then, I’m gonna take all I can take, oh yeah

Am Am7 
Chain, chain, chain 
Am7 Am 
Chain, chain, chain 
Am Am7 
Chain, chain, chain 
Am7 Am 
Chain of fools

Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain of fools

Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain, chain, chain
Am7 
Chain of fools

Aretha Franklin - Respect  

Aretha Franklin in C, Otis Redding in D, I play in A capo 3

Intro

A7 D7 
   x2

Vox on the b6 (!) on “what”

E7 D7 
 What you want,  baby, I got
E7 D7 
 What you need,  do you know I’ve got it
E7 
 All I’m asking
D7 A7 
 Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
D7 
Hey baby (just a little bit) when you get home
A7 D7 
 (Just a little bit) Mister (just a little bit)

E7 D7 
 I ain’t gonna do you wrong  while you’re gone
E7 D7 
 Ain’t gonna do you wrong  ‘cause I don’t want to
E7 
 All I’m asking
D7 A7 
 Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
D7 
Baby (just a little bit) when you get home
A7 D7 
 (Just a little bit) yeah  (just a little bit)

E7 D7 
 I’m about to give you  all my money
E7 D7 
 And all I’m asking  in return, honey
E7 D7 
 Is to give me  my propers
A7 
When you get home (just a, just a, just a, just a)
D7 
Yeah baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)
A7 
When you get home (just a little bit)
D7 
Yeah  (just a little bit)

Solo, skip if acoustic

Ebm Ab Ebm 
   
E7 D7 
Ooh, your kisses  sweeter than honey 
E7 D7 
 And guess what  so is my money 
E7 D7 
 All I want you to do for me
A7 
Is give it to me when you get home (re, re, re ,re)
D7 
Yeah baby (re, re, re ,re)
A7 
Whip it to me (respect, just a little bit)
D7 
When you get home, now  (just a little bit)

A7 
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
C7 D7 
 → Find out what it means to me
G7 A7 
 → R-E-S-P-E-C-T
C7 D7 
 → Take care, TCB

A7 
Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me (a little respect)
D7 
Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me
A7 
Whoa, babe (just a little bit)
D7 
A little respect (just a little bit)
A7 
I get tired (just a little bit)
D7 
Keep on trying (just a little bit)
A7 
Running out fool (just a little bit)
D7 
And I ain’t lyin’ (just a little bit)

Aretha Franklin - You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman  

 

Aretha Franklin in C, Carole King in E, I play in A capo 3

Dsus4 
 →  → 

E/G# 
 Looking out on the morning rain
A/C# Bm7 
I used to feel so uninspired  →  → 
E/G# 
 And when I knew I had to face another day
A/C# Bm7 
 Lord it made me feel so tired  →  → 

Vox on 7 2 7 2 of the chord on “before the day”

Dsus2/B C#m7 
 Before the day I met you
Dsus2/B C#m7 
 Life was so unkind
Dsus2/B C#m7 A/B 
 You’re the key to my peace of mind

You make me feel
You make me feel
D/F# A/E A/C# A/B Bm7 A/C# Bm7 
You make me feel like a natural woman  →  → 

E/G# 
 When my soul was in the lost and found
A/C# Bm7 
 You came along to claim it  →  → 
E/G# 
I didn’t know just what was wrong with me
A/C# Bm7 
 Till your kiss helped me name it  →  → 

Dsus2/B C#m7 
 Now I’m no longer doubtful
Dsus2/B C#m7 
 Of what I’m living for
Dsus2/B C#m7 A/B 
And if I make you happy I don’t need to do more

‘Cause you make me feel
You make me feel
D/F# A/E A/C# A/B Bm7 
You make me feel like a natural woman, woman

Bridge

Em7 
 Oh baby what you done to me
Em7 
 You make me feel so good inside
Dmaj7 Am 
 And I just wanna be
Dmaj7 C#m7 Bm7 
 Close to you, you make me feel so alive

You make me feel
You make me feel
D/F# A/E A/C# A/B Bm7 
You make me feel like a natural woman 

You make me feel
You make me feel
D/F# A/E A/C# A/B Bm7 
You make me feel like a natural woman  

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

Riding on the City of New Orleans
Bm 
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Bm 
Three conductors, and twenty five sacks of mail

Bm 
All along the southbound odyssey
F#m 
The train pulls out of Kankakee
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
And graveyards of the rusted automobiles

Good morning America, how are you?
Bm 
Say don’t you know me, I’m your native son
Bm 
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Dealing card games with the old men in the club cars
Bm 
penny a point, ain’t no one keeping score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Bm 
And feel the wheels rumbling ‘neath the floor

Bm 
And the sons of Pullman porters
F#m7 
And the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers’ magic carpet made of steel

Bm 
Mothers with their babes asleep
F#m7 
Rocking to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Good morning America, how are you?
Bm 
Say don’t you know me, I’m your native son
Bm 
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Nighttime on the City of New Orleans
Bm 
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennesee
Halfway home, and we’ll be there by morning
Bm 
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
The steel rail still ain’t heard the news

Bm 
The conductor sings his songs again
F#m7 
The passengers will please refrain
This train’s got the disappearin’ railroad blues

Good night America, how are you?
Bm 
Say don’t you know me, I’m your native son
Bm 
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Avicii - Wake Me Up  

Originally in Bm, I play in Am

Intro

Am 
Am 
    → 

Am 
 Feeling my way through the darkness 
Am 
 Guided by a beating hear
Am 
 I can’t tell where the journey will end
Am 
 But I know where to start

Am 
 They tell me I’m too young to understand
Am 
 They say I’m caught up in a dream
Am 
 Well life will pass me by if I don’t open up my eyes
Am 
 Well that’s fine by me

Am 
So wake me up when it’s all over 
Am 
When I’m wiser and I’m older  
Am 
All this time I was finding myself and I 
Am 
 Didn’t know I was lost

Am 
So wake me up when it’s all over 
Am 
When I’m wiser and I’m older 
Am 
All this time I was finding myself and I 
Am 
 Didn’t know I was lost

Am Em 
    →  x 2

Am 
 I tried carrying the weight of the world
Am 
 But I only have two hands
Am 
 Hope I get the chance to travel the world
Am 
 But I don’t have any plans

Am 
I wish that I could stay forever this young
Am 
 Not afraid to close my eyes
Am 
Life’s a game made for everyone
Am 
And love is the prize

Am 
So wake me up when it’s all over 
Am 
When I’m wiser and I’m older 
Am 
All this time I was finding myself and I 
Am 
 Didn’t know I was lost

Am 
So wake me up when it’s all over 
Am 
When I’m wiser and I’m older 
Am 
All this time I was finding myself and I 
Am 
 Didn’t know I was lost
Am 
 Didn’t know I was lost
Am 
 Didn’t know I was lost

 

Avril Lavigne - Complicated  

Originally in F, I play in G capo 3

Intro spoken

Em 
  Uh huh, life’s like this
Em 
 Uh huh, uh huh, that’s the way it is
Em 
   Cause life’s like this
Em 
 Uh huh, uh huh,  that’s the way it is

Vox start on the 1

 Chill out, whatcha yellin’ for?
Em 
 Lay back, it’s all been done before
 And if you could only let it be, you would see

 I like you the way you are
Em 
 When we’re drivin’ in your car
 And you’re talkin’ to me one-on-one, but you become

Somebody else ‘round everyone else
Em 
You’re watchin’ your back like you can’t relax
You’re tryin’ to be cool
You look like a fool to me, tell me

Get off of the vox on “complicated” pretty quickly

Em 
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
Em 
see the way you’re actin’ like you’re somebody else, gets me frustrated
Em 
Life’s like this, you,  you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into 
Am7 
Honesty and promise me, I’m never gonna find you fake it
No no no

 You come over unannounced
Em 
 Dressed up like you’re somethin’ else
 Where you are and where it’s at, you see

You’re makin’ me

 Laugh out when you strike your pose
Em 
 Take off all your preppy clothes
 You know, you’re not foolin’ anyone, when you become

Somebody else ‘round everyone else
Em 
You’re watchin’ your back like you can’t relax
You’re tryin’ to be cool
You look like a fool to me, tell me

Em 
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
Em 
see the way you’re actin’ like you’re somebody else, gets me frustrated
Em 
Life’s like this, you,  you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into 
Am7 
Honesty and promise me, I’m never gonna find you fake it
No no no

No no (no no)
Em 
No no (no no)
No no (no no)
No no (no no, no)

 Chill out, whatcha yellin’ for?
Em 
 Lay back It’s all been done before
 And if you could only let it be, you will see

Somebody else ‘round everyone else
Em 
You’re watchin’ your back like you can’t relax
You’re tryin’ to be cool
You look like a fool to me, tell me

Em 
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
Em 
see the way you’re actin’ like you’re somebody else, gets me frustrated
Em 
Life’s like this, you,  you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into 
Am7 
Honesty and promise me, I’m never gonna find you fake it

No no

Em 
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
Em 
see the way you’re actin’ like you’re somebody else, gets me frustrated

Em 
Life’s like this, you,  you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into 
Am7 
Honesty and promise me, I’m never gonna find you fake it
No no 

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business  

Originally in C, I play in A

       x2

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

You get up every morning from your ’larm clock’s warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There’s a whistle up above and people pushin’, people shovin’
And the girls who try to look pretty

And if your train’s on time you can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay
If you ever get annoyed, look at me I’m self-employed
love to work at nothing all day

And I'll be
Taking care of business  every day
Taking care of business  every way
I’ve been taking care of business it’s all mine
Taking care of business and working overtime, work out

       x2

If it were easy as fishin’ you could be a musician
If you could make sounds loud or mellow
Get a second-hand guitar, chances are you’ll go far
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows

People see you having fun, just a-lying in the sun
Tell them that you like it this way
It’s the work that we avoid, and we’re all self-employed
We love to work at nothing all day

And we been
Taking care of business  every day
Taking care of business  every way
I’ve been taking care of business, it’s all mine
Taking care of business and working overtime

Taking care of business  every day
Taking care of business  every way
I’ve been taking care of business,  it’s all mine
Taking care of business and working overtime

Solo on verse chords

       xN

   x2

Take good care  of my business 

When I’m away  every day  

       xN

You get up every morning from your ’larm clock’s warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There’s a whistle up above and people pushin’, people shovin’
And the girls who try to look pretty

And if your train’s on time you can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay
If you ever get annoyed, look at me I’m self-employed
love to work at nothing all day

And I been
Taking care of business  every day
Taking care of business  every way
I’ve been taking care of business, it’s all mine
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

Takin’ care of business  every day
Takin’ care of business  (very way
Takin’ care of businessm,  it’s all mine
Takin’ care of business and working overtime

Takin’ care of business
Takin’ care of business

Repeat to fade

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet  

Originally in A, I play in D capo 3

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

 
       x 4

I met a devil woman  
She took my heart away  
She said I had it comin’ to me  
But I wanted it that way  

G7 A# 
I think that  any love is good lovin’  
F#m7 Bm7 
So I took what I could get mmm
Em7 
She looked at me with big brown eyes and said

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet  
B-B-B-Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet  
Here’s something that you never gonna forget  
B-B-B-Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet  

       x 4

And now I’m feelin’ better  
‘Cause I found out for sure  
She took me to her doctor  
And he told me of a cure  

G7 A# 
He said that  any love is good lovin’  
F#m7 Bm7 
So I took what I could get mmm
Em7 
She looked at me with big brown eyes and said

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet  
B-B-B-Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet  
Here’s something that you never gonna forget  
B-B-B-Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet  

       x 4

G7 A# 
 Any love is good lovin’  
F#m7 Bm7 
So I took what I could get mmm
Em7 
She looked at me with big brown eyes and said

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet  
B-B-B-Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet  
Here’s something that you never gonna forget  
B-B-B-Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet  

       x 4

Bad Company - Bad Company  

Originally in Ebm, I play in Am capo 1

Em Am Am 
 →  →   x 4

Em Am Gsus4 Am 
Company, always on the run 
Em Am Gsus4 Am G/A Am 
Destiny, oohis the rising sun  

Em Am Gsus4 Am 
was born, six gun in my hand
Em Am Gsus4 Am G/A Am 
Behind the gun, I make my final stand  
That’s why they call me 

Vox on the 5 of the chord

 Bad company

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

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

so I stay where I am

Am G/A Am 
I can’t den  
 Bad, bad company
Am G/A Am 
Till the day I die  
Am G/A Am 
Till the day I die  

Em Am Am 
 →  →   x 2

Em Am Gsus4 Am 
Rebel souls, deserters we are called
Em Am Gsus4 Am G/A Am 
Chose a gun, and threw away the sun  

Em Am Gsus4 Am 
Now these towns, they all know our name
Em Am Gsus4 Am G/A Am 
Six gun sound  is our claim to fame  
I can hear them saying 

 Bad company
Am G/A Am 
I won’t den  
 Bad, bad company
Am G/A Am 
Till the day I die  
Am G/A Am 
Till the day I die  

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

 Bad company
Am G/A Am 
I can’t den  
 Bad company
Am G/A Am 
Till the day I die  
Am G/A Am 
  
  It’s bad company
Am G/A Am 
Oh yea yea yea  

 Bad company
Am G/A Am 
Till the day I die  

Bad Company - Can’t Get Enough  

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro

    →  →  x2

Well I’ll take whatever I want
And baby, I want you
You give me something I need
Now tell me I got something for you

 Come on, come on, come on and do it
Come on and do, do what you do   

 I can’t get enough of your love, huh
 I can’t get enough of your love
 I can’t get enough of your love 

 →  → 

    →  →  x2

Well it’s late and I want love
Love is gonna break me in two
Don’t hang me up at your doorway
Don’t hang me up like you do

 Come on, come on, come on and do it
Come on, come on and do  what you do   

 I can’t get enough of your love
 I can’t get enough of your love, huh
 I can’t get enough of your love

 →  → 

What'd I say now?

Solo on verse, prechorus, chorus

       x4

     
   x3

 →  → 

 I can’t get enough of your love
 I can’t get enough of your love, huh
 I can’t get enough of your love

 →  → 

Bad Company - Shooting Star  

Intro (chords approximate riff)

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

 Johnny was a schoolboy

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

When he heard his first Beatles song
 Love Me Do,  I think it was
And from there it didn’t take him long

 Got himself a guitar
Used to play every night
 Now he’s in a rock ‘n’ roll outfit
And everything’s alright
Don’t you know?  → 

 Johnny told his Mama
 Hey, mama, I’m goin’ away
 I’m gonna hit the big time
Gonna be a big star someday

 Mama came to the door
With a teardrop in her eye
Johnny said, don’t cry, mama
Smiled and waved goodbye
Don’t you know, yeah yeah

Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
Don’t you know, don’t you know
Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are  → 

 Johnny made a record
Went straight up to number one
 Suddenly everyone loved
To hear him sing his song

 Watchin’ the world go by
Surprisin’ it goes so fast
 Johnny looked around him and said
Well, I made the big time at last
Don’t you know?
Don’t you know?

Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
Don’t you know, whoa yeah
Don’t you know that you are a shooting star, yeah
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are, a shooting star

Solo, skip this and the following chorus acoustic

F#m 
       x3
F#m F#m 
   
Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
Don’t you know, yeah yeah
Don’t you know that you are a shooting star, naw
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are,  → 

 Johnny died one night
Gied in his bed
 Bottle of whisky
Sleeping tablets by his head

 Johnny’s life passed him by
Like a warm summer day
 If you listen to the wind
You can still hear him play
 Whoa whoa whoa

Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
Don’t you know, don’t you know
Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
Don’t you know  → 

Don’t you know that you are a shooting star
 →  Don’t you don’t you don’t you don’t you know
Don’t you know that you are a shooting star 

Badfinger - No Matter What  

Originally in A, I play in D

Intro

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

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

Down to the 2 of the key on “does”

Doesn’t matter what you do girl, ooh girl with you 

Em 
No matter what you do, I will always be around
Won’t you tell me what you found girl, ooh girl won’t you

Bm7 E7 A7 D7 
Knock down the old gray wall, be a part of it all
Em 
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do

Bm7 E7 A7 D7 
If you would give me all, as I would give it to you
Em 
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be 

Em 
No matter where you go, there will always be a place
Can’t you see it in my face girl, ooh girl want you

Bm7 E7 A7 D7 
Knock down the old gray wall, be a part of it all
Em 
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do

Bm7 E7 A7 D7 
If you would give me all, as I would give it to you
Em 
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be 

Em 
No matter what you are, I will always be with you
Doesn’t matter what you do girl, ooh girl with you 
Ooh girl, you girl won’t you
Ooh girl, you girl won’t you

Barry Manilow - Copacabana  

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

Gm9 Gm9 Gbm9 Fm9 
  →  →  
Fm9 Gbm9 Gm9 
 →  →  
Gm9 Gbm9 Fm9 Gbm9 Gm9 
 →  →  →  → 

Fm7 
Her name was Lola
Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
 She was a showgirl
Am7b5 D7 
With yellow feathers in her hair
Gm7 
And a dress cut down to there

Fm7 
She would merengue
Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
 And do the cha-cha
Am7b5 D7 
And while she tried to be a star
Gm7 
Tony always tended bar

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

Cdim7 D7 Gm 
Across the crow-ded floor
Cdim7 D7 Gm 
They worked from eight til four
Cm7 D7 
They were young and they had each other
Gm7 F#m7 Bb7/F 
Who could ask for more

Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
At the Copa,  Copacabana
Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
The hottest spot north of Havana
C9 Fm7 Ab/Bb Bb/C C7 
At the Copa,  Copacabaaaaana
Fm7 Bb7 Gm7 C7 Fm7 D7 
Music and passion were always the fashion at the Copa 
Gm9 
They fell in love

Gm9 Gm9 Gbm9 Fm9 
  →  →  
Fm9 Gbm9 Gm9 
 →  →  
Gm9 Gbm9 Fm9 Gbm9 Gm9 
 →  →  →  → 

Fm7 
His name was Rico
Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
 He wore a diamond
Am7b5 D7 
He was escorted to his chair
Gm7 
He saw Lola dancing there

Fm7 
And when she finished
Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
 He called her over
Am7b5 D7 
But Rico went a bit too far
Gm7 
Tony sailed across the bar

Cdim7 D7 Gm 
And then the punches flew
Cdim7 D7 Gm 
And chairs were smashed in two
Cm D7 
There was blood and a single gunshot
Gm7 F#m7 Bb7/F 
But just who shot who?

Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
At the Copa,  Copacabana
Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
The hottest spot north of Havana
C9 Fm7 Ab/Bb Bb/C C7 
At the Copa,  Copacabaaaaana
Fm7 Bb7 Gm7 C7 Fm7 D7 
Music and passion were always the fashion at the Copa 
Gm9 
She lost her love

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

Gm9 Gm9 Gbm9 Fm9 
  →  →  
Fm9 Gbm9 Gm9 
 →  →  
Gm9 Gbm9 Fm9 Gbm9 Gm9 
 →  →  →  → 

Fm7 
Her name is Lola
Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
 She was a showgirl
Am7b5 D7 
But that was thirty years ago
Gm7 
When they used to have a show

Fm7 
Now it’s a disco
Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
 But not for Lola
Am7b5 D7 
Still in the dress she used to wear
Gm7 
Faded feathers in her hair

Cdim7 D7 Gm 
She sits there so refined
Cdim7 D7 Gm 
And drinks herself half-blind
Cm D7 
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony
Gm7 F#m7 Bb7/F 
Now she’s lost her mind

Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
At the Copa,  Copacabana
Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebmaj7 
The hottest spot north of Havana
C9 Fm7 Ab/Bb Bb/C C7 
At the Copa,  Copacabaaaaana
Fm7 Bb7 Gm7 C7 Fm7 D7 
Music and passion were always the fashion at the Copa 
Gm9 
Don’t fall in love

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

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

Originally in B, I play in A

Originally changes key, I skip the key change

Vox on the root of the  chord on “like”

F#m 
I’d like to thank the guy, who wrote the song
That made my baby fall in love with me

One measure just drums

Swept chords in the chorus

Who put the bomp
F#m 
In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the bop
F#m 
In the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Who put the dip
In the dip da dip da dip?
C#7 B/D# 
Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand
F#m 
He made my baby fall in love with me (Yeah!)

Full strum in the verse

F#m 
When my baby heard bomp bah bah bomp
Bah bomp bah bomp bomp
F#m 
Every word went right into her heart 
F#m 
And when she heard them singing
B/D# 
Rama lama lama lama lama ding dong
F#m 
She said we’d never have to part so

Who put the bomp
F#m 
In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the bop
F#m 
In the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Who put the dip
In the dip da dip da dip?
C#7 B/D# 
Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand
F#m F# 
He made my baby fall in love with me, yeah

F#m 
Each time that we’re alone boogity boogity boogity
Boogity boogity boogity shoop
F#m 
Sets my baby’s heart all a glow 
F#m 
And every time we dance to dip da dip da dip
C/D# 
Dip da dip da dip
F#m 
She always says she loves me so so

Who put the bomp
F#m 
In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the bop
F#m 
In the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Who put the dip
In the dip da dip da dip?
D7 C/E 
Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand
F#m 
He made my baby fall in love with me (Yeah!)

Spoken

F#m 
Darlin’, bomp bah bah bomp, bah bomp bah bomp bomp
F#m 
And my honey, rama lama ding dong, forever
F#m 
And when I say, dip da dip, da dip, da dip, dip dip
You know I mean it from the 
F#m 
Bottom of my boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity shoop

Fade on verse chords, with bomps and da-dips

F#m 

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth  

Originally in C#m, I play in F#m

Let ring

F#m F#m 
Ooh baby do you know what that’s worth?
F#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F#m F#m 
They say in heaven love comes first
F#m 
We’ll make heaven a place on Earth
F#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth

Usually skip this

F#m F#m 
F#m 
F#m F#m 
F#m 
   
When the night falls down
I wait for you and you come around
And the world’s alive
With the sound of kids on the street outside

 When you walk into the room
 You pull me close and we start to move
Bm 
 And we’re spinning with the stars above
Am Bm 
And you lift me up in a wave of love

F#m F#m 
Ooh baby do you know what that’s worth?
F#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F#m F#m 
They say in heaven love comes first
F#m 
We’ll make heaven a place on Earth
F#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth

F#m 
When I feel alone
I reach for you and you bring me home
When I’m lost at sea
I hear your voice and it carries me

 In this world we’re just beginning
 To understand the miracle of living
Bm 
 Baby I was afraid before
Am Bm 
But I’m not afraid anymore

F#m F#m 
Ooh baby do you know what that’s worth?
F#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F#m F#m 
They say in heaven love comes first
F#m 
We’ll make heaven a place on Earth

Ends on I instead of vi this time

Ooh heaven is a place on Earth

Interlude

F#m 
       x2

Let ring

 In this world we’re just beginning
 To understand the miracle of living
Bm 
 Baby I was afraid before
Am Bm 
But I’m not afraid anymore

Chorus rhythm, instruments only

F#m F#m 
F#m 
F#m F#m 
  

G#m F# G#m 
Ooh baby do you know what that’s worth
F# G#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
G#m F# G#m 
They say in heaven love comes first
F# G#m 
We’ll make heaven a place on Earth
F# G#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F# G#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F# G#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F# G#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth
F# G#m 
Ooh heaven is a place on Earth

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 Cadd9 
    

Vox in on the 6 on “night”

Cadd9 
When the night has come
Am7 
And the land is dark
Fmaj7 Cadd9 
And the moon is the only light we’ll see

Cadd9 
No, I won’t be afraid
Am7 
No, I won’t be afraid
Fmaj7 Cadd9 
Just as long 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 
Oh, stand, stand by me
Cadd9 
Stand by me

Cadd9 
If the sky that we look upon
Am7 
 Should tumble and fall
Fmaj7 Cadd9 
Or the mountain should crumble to the sea
Cadd9 
I won’t cry, I won’t cry
Am7 
No, I won’t shed a tear
Fmaj7 Cadd9 
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

Cadd9 
So, darling, darling, stand by me
Am7 
Oh, stand by me
Fmaj7 
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 
Oh, stand, stand by me
Cadd9 
Stand by me

Bette Midler - The Rose  

Originally in C, I play in G

Intro

D/F# 
Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
D/F# 
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed

Bm Em 
Some say love, it is a hunger
D7sus4 
An endless aching need 
I say love, it is a flower and
You its only seed

It’s the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It’s the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance

Bm Em 
It’s the one who won’t be taken
D7sus4 
Who can not seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong

Bm Em 
Just remember in the winter
D7sus4 
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes the rose

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

Does he love me?
I wanna know
How can I tell if he loves me so?

Am7 Am7 D7 
(Is it in his eyes?) Oh no you’ll be deceived
Am7 Am7 D7 
(Is it in his eyes?) Oh no he’ll make believe

With shoop shoop...

Em 
If you wanna know if he loves you so it’s in his kiss
(That’s where it is  oh yea)

Am7 D7 Am7 D7 
(Or is it in his face?) Oh no that’s just his charm
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 
(In his warm embrace?) Oh no that’s just his arms

With shoop shoop...

Em 
If you wanna know if he loves you so it’s in his kiss
(That’s where it is ) Oh it’s in his  kiss
(That’s where it is )

With bom bom bom...

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
If it’s love if it really is
D7 
It’s there in his kiss

Am7 D7 Am7 D7 
(How ‘bout the way he acts?) Oh no that’s not the way
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 
And you’re not listening to all I say

With shoop shoop...

Em 
If you wanna know if he loves you so it’s in his kiss
(That’s where it is ) Oh it’s in his  kiss
(That’s where it is )

Solo

Am7 Am7 
G/D G/D 
Am7 Am7 

Hard stop

With bom bom bom...

Kiss him and squeeze him tight
Em 
And find out what you wanna know
If it’s love if it really is
D7 
It’s there in his kiss

Am7 D7 Am7 D7 
(How ‘bout the way he acts?) Oh no that’s not the way
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 
And you’re not listening to all I say

With shoop shoop...

Em 
If you wanna know if he loves you so it’s in his kiss
(That’s where it is) Oh it’s in his  kiss
(That’s where it is)

Repeat to fade

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

Intro, with Mr.-Brownstone-y b3’s

   x 4

Vox on the 1 

Well, I walk into the room
Passing out hundred dollar bills
And it kills,  and it thrills, like the horns on my
Silverado grill

And I buy the bar a double round of Crown
And everybody’s getting down
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”

‘Cause I saddle up my horse

Vox down to the 1 of the chord on “ride”

And I ride into the city
make a lot of noise
‘Cause the girls they are so pretty

Riding up and down Broadway
On my old stud Leroy
And the girls say  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy
Everybody says  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy

Well I don’t give a dang about nothing
I’m singing and bling-blinging

While the girls are drinking

Hard stop on “long”

 Long necks down

And I wouldn’t trade ol’ Leroy
Or my Chevrolet for your Escalade
Or your freak parade
I’m the only John Wayne  left in this town

And I saddle up my horse
And I ride into the city
make a lot of noise
‘Cause the girls they are so pretty

Riding up and down Broadway
On my old stud Leroy
And the girls say  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy
Everybody says  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy

Solo on verse chords

More or less spoken

I’m a thouroughbred that’s what she said
In the back of my truck bed
As I was gettin’ buzzed on suds
Out on some back country road

We were flying high, fine as wine
Having ourselves a big and rich time
And I was going, just about as far as she’d let me go

Spoken, with harmony the high octave

But her evaluation
Of my cowboy reputation
Had me begging for salvation
All night long

So I took her out giggin’ frogs
Introduced her to my old bird dog

Hard stop on "think

And sang her every Wilie Nelson song I could think of

And we made love

And I saddle up my horse
And I ride into the city
make a lot of noise
‘Cause the girls they are so pretty

Riding up and down Broadway
On my old stud Leroy
And the girls say  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy
Everybody says  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy
What? What?  →  Save a horse, ride a cowboy

Last two chords implied (on “ride a cowboy”

Everybody says  →  save a horse, ride a cowboy

Bill Haley and His Comets - Rock Around the Clock  

Originally in A, I play in E capo 2

With hard stops

Vox start on the 1

One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock, rock
Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock, rock
Nine, ten, eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock, rock
B7 
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight

Put your glad rags on and join me, hon
E7 
We’ll have some fun when the clock strikes one
A7 
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ‘til the broad daylight
B7 
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight

No hard stops this tieme

When the clock strikes two, three and four
E7 
If the band slows down we’ll yell for more
A7 
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ‘til the broad daylight
B7 
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight

Solo on verse chords

When the chimes ring five, six and seven
E7 
We’ll be right in seventh heaven
A7 
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ‘til the broad daylight
B7 
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight

When it’s eight, nine, ten, eleven too
E7 
I’ll be goin’ strong and so will you
A7 
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ‘til the broad daylight
B7 
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight

Solo on verse chords

When the clock strikes twelve, we’ll cool off then
E7 
Start a rockin’ round the clock again
A7 
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ‘til the broad daylight
B7 
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight

E7 E6 E(b6) 
 →  →  →  → 

 

 → 

Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - I’ve Had the Time of My Life  

Originally in E, which works for a duet, otherwise I play in A

Bill, rubato

F#m7 
Now I’ve had the time of my life
No, I never felt like this before
F#m7 
Yes I swear it’s the truth
And I owe it all to you 

Jennifer, rubato

F#m7 
‘Cause I’ve, had, the time of my life
And I owe it all to you

At tempo

Bill

G/A 
I’ve been waiting for so long

Now I’ve finally found someone

To stand by me

Jennifer

G/A 
We saw the writing on the wall
As we felt this magical fantasy

Both

G/A 
Now with passion in our eyes
There’s no way we could disguise it secretly
G/A 
So we take each other’s hand

’Cause we seem to understand

The urgency, just remember

Jennifer

 You’re the one thing

Bill

 I can’t get enough of

Jennifer

 So I’ll tell you something

Both

 This could be love because

F#m7 
 I had the time of my life
No, I never felt this way before
F#m7 
Yes I swear it’s the truth
And I owe it all to you 

G/A 
  Hey baby 

Jennifer

G/A 
With my body and soul
I want you more than you’ll ever know

Bill

G/A 
So we’ll just let it go
Don’t be afraid to lose control

Jennifer

G/A 
Yes I know what’s on your mind
When you say, stay with me tonight

Just remember

Bill

You’re the one thing

Jennifer

I can’t get enough of

Bill

So I’ll tell you something

Both

This could be love because

F#m7 
 I had the time of my life
No, I never felt this way before
F#m7 
Yes I swear it’s the truth

And I owe it all to you

F#m7 
‘Cause  I had the time of my life
And I searched through every open door
F#m7 
Till I found the truth
And I owe it all to you 

Original repeats the chorus rubato, then at tempo to fade

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   
Am Em Em/G Am 
It’s not warm when she’s away   
Dm7 
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
Em7 
And she’s always gone too long
Am Em Em/G Am 
Anytime she goes away   

Am Em Em/G Am 
Wonder this time where she’s gone   
Am Em Em/G Am 
Wonder if she’s gone to stay   
Dm7 
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
Em7 
And this house just ain’t no home
Am Em Em/G Am 
Anytime 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
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   
Am Em Em/G Am 
Only darkness everyday   
Dm7 
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
Em7 
And this house just ain’t no home
Am Em Em/G Am 
Anytime she goes away   
Am Em Em/G Am 
Anytime she goes away   
Am Em Em/G Am 
Anytime she goes away   
Am 
Anytime she goes away

Bill Withers - Lean on Me  

Originally in C, I play in A capo 2

   

Sometimes in our lives
We all have pain we all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there’s always tomorrow

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

Lean on me, when you’re not strong
And I’ll be your friend
I’ll help you carry on
For it won’t be long
Till I’m gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won’t let show

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

You just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you’d understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Let an extra measure hang here on the IV

Lean on me, when you’re not strong
And I’ll be your friend
I’ll help you carry on
For it won’t be long
Till I’m gonna need
Somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can’t carry
I’m right up the road
I’ll share your load
If you just call me

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

Billy Idol - White Wedding  

Intro

Bm 
Bm Bm 
Bm Bm 
Bm 
Bm 
Hey little sister, what have you done  
Bm 
Hey little sister, who’s the only one  
Bm 
Hey little sister, who’s your superman
Hey little sister, who’s the one you want
Bm 
Hey little sister, shotgun

Vox on the 4 of the chord on “nice day”

Bm 
It’s a  nice day to  start again 
Bm 
It’s a  nice day for a  white wedding 

Not yet...

Bm 
It’s a  nice day to  start again 

Bm 
Bm 
Hey little sister, who is it you’re with  
Bm 
Hey little sister, what’s your vice and wish  
Bm 
Hey little sister, shotgun, oh yeah
Hey little sister, who’s your superman
Bm 
Hey little sister, shotgun

Bm 
It’s a  nice day to  start again 
Bm 
It’s a  nice day for a  white wedding 

Ok now...

Bm 
It’s a  nice day to  start again 

Bm Bm 
Bm Bm 
Bm Bm Bm/E Bm/E 
Bm Bm 
Bm Bm 
 
Pick it up 
Bm 
Take me back home, yeah  

Bm 
There is nothin’ fair in this world
Bm 
There is nothin’ safe in this world
Bm 
And there’s nothin’ sure in this world
Bm 
And there’s nothin’ pure in this world
Bm 
Look for something left in this wo-o-orld 
Bm 
Start again

Bm 
Come on, it’s a  nice day for a white wedding,  whoa
Bm 
It’s a  nice day to  start again
Bm 
It’s a  nice day to  start again

Billy Joel - Allentown  

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

Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 C/G 
  →    

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “living”

Em7 A7sus4 
Well we’re living here in Allentown 
Am7 D9sus4 
And they’re closing all the factories down 
Em7 Bm 
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
F#m/A G6 D/F# A7sus4 
Filling out forms, standing in line 

Em7 A7sus4 
Well our fathers fought the Second World War 
Am7 D9sus4 
Spent their weekends on the Jersey shore 
Em7 Bm 
Met our mothers in the USO
F#m/A G6 D/F# Asus4 
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow 
Em7 A7sus4 
And we’re living here in Allentown  

F/A G/B G/C 
But the restlessness was handed down  

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

Am7 D9sus4 Em G/B 
And it’s getting very hard to stay   

Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 C/G 
  →    

Em7 A7sus4 
Well we’re waiting here in Allentown 
Am7 D9sus4 
For the Pennsylvania we never found 
Em7 Bm 
For the promises our teachers gave
F#m/A G6 D/F# A7sus4 
If we worked hard, if we behaved 

Em7 A7sus4 
So the graduations hang on the wall 
Am7 D9sus4 
But they never really helped us at all 
Em7 Bm 
No they never taught us what was real
F#m/A G6 D/F# A7sus4 
Iron and coke, chromium steel 
Em7 A7sus4 
And we’re waiting here in Allentown 

F/A G/B G/C 
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground  
Am D9sus4 Em G/B 
And the union people crawled away   

Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 
  →  

G/F 
 Every child had a pretty good shot
G/F Bb/F 
 To get at least as far as their old man got
G/F 
 But something happened on the way to that place
G/F Cadd9 
 They threw an American flag in our face

Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 C/G 
  →    

Em7 A7sus4 
Well I’m living here in Allentown 
F/A G/B G/C 
And it’s hard to keep a good man down  
Am D9sus4 Em G/B 
But I won’t be getting up today  

Cadd9 Em7 G/B 
  →   
Cadd9 Em7 
  → 

Instrumental bridge, more or less

G/F G/F Bb/F G/F 
           
Am7 D9sus4 Em G/B 
And it’s getting very hard to stay   
Em7 A7sus4 
And we’re living here in Allentown 

Billy Joel - Big Shot  

Basically keep downstroke 16ths going the whole song

Chorus chords:

G/F == x897xx

F/C == x332xx

F/D == xx0565

Em7add4 
Em7add4 
Em7add4 Bm/D 
Csus4 
 →  → 

Vox on the 4 of the chord

Em7add4 
Well you went uptown riding in your  limousine
Em7add4 
With your fine Park Avenue clothes
Em7add4 Bm/D 
You had the Dom Perignon in your hand
Csus4 
And the spoon up your nose  →  → 

Em7add4 
Ooh, and when you wake up in the morning with your head on fire
Em7add4 
And your eyes too bloody to see
Em7add4 Bm/D 
Go on and cry in your coffee but don’t
Csus4 
Come bitchin’ to me →  → 

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

G/F F/C G/F F/C 
Because you had to be a big shot , didn’t  you 
G/F F/C G/F F/C 
You had to open up  your mouth

G/F F/D 
You had to be a big shot,  didn’t you
F/D F/D 
All your friends were so knocked out 

G/F F/C G/F 
You had to have the last word,  last  night
F/C G/F F/C G/F 
You know what everything’s  about  

F/C F/C 
You had to have a white hot spotlight
G/D G/D 
You had to be a big shot last night, whoa

Em7add4 
Em7add4 
 Yeah! 
Em7add4 Bm/D 
Csus4 
 →  → 

Em7add4 
Yeah, they were all impressed with your Halston dress
Em7add4 
And the people that you knew at Elaine’s
Em7add4 Bm/D 
And the story of your latest success
Csus4 
Kept ‘em so entertained  →  → 

Em7add4 
Aww, but now you just don’t remember all the things you said
Em7add4 
And you’re not sure you want to know 
Em7add4 Bm/D 
I’ll give you one hint, honey you sure
Csus4 
Did put on a show  →  → 

G/F F/C G/F F/C 
Because you had to be a big shot , didn’t  you 
G/F F/C G/F F/C 
You had to prove it to  the crowd

G/F F/D 
You had to be a big shot,  didn’t you
F/D F/D 
All your friends were so knocked out 

G/F F/C G/F 
You had to have the last word,  last  night
F/C G/F F/C G/F 
So much fun to be  around  

F/C F/C 
You had to have the front page bold type
G/D G/D 
You had to be a big shot last night, whoa

Solo, with whoa

       x2

Em7add4 
Yeah, it’s no big sin to stick your two cents in
Em7add4 
If you know when to leave it alone
Em7add4 Bm/D 
But you went over the line, you couldn’t see
Csus4 
It was time to go home →  → 

G/F F/C G/F F/C 
No no no no no no you had to be a big shot , didn’t  you 
G/F F/C G/F F/C 
You had to open up  your mouth

G/F F/D 
You had to be a big shot,  didn’t you
F/D F/D 
All your friends were so knocked out 

G/F F/C G/F 
You had to have the last word,  last  night
F/C G/F F/C G/F 
You know what everything’s  about  

F/C F/C 
You had to have a white hot spotlight
G/D G/D 
You had to be a big shot last night, whoa

With whoa

       x2

Em7add4 

Billy Joel - I Go to Extremes  

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro

D/F# 
       x2

Vox on the 5

D/A 
Call me a joker, call me a fool
D/A 
Right at this moment I’m totally cool

A/C# 
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like I’m in the prime of my life

D/F# 
Sometimes it feels like I’m going too fast
A/E B7/D# 
I don’t know how long this feeling will last
A/E 
Maybe it’s only tonight

D/F# A/E 
Darling I don’t know why I go to extremes
D/F# A/E 
Too high or too low there ain’t no in betweens
G6 F#7 Bm Bm/C# Dm 
And if I stand or I fall, it’s all or nothing aall
D/F# A/E 
Darling I don’t know why I go to extremes

D/A 
Sometimes I’m tired, sometimes I’m shot
D/A 
Sometimes I don’t know how much more I got

A/C# 
Maybe I’m headed over the hill
Maybe I set myself up for the kill

D/F# 
Tell me how much do you think you can take
A/E B7/D# 
Until the heart in you’s starting to break
A/E 
Sometimes it feels like it will

D/F# A/E 
Darling I don’t know why I go to extremes
D/F# A/E 
Too high or too low there ain’t no in betweens
G6 F#7 Bm Bm/C# Dm 
You can be sure when I’m gone I won’t be out there too long
D/F# A/E 
Darling I don’t know why I go to extremes

Bridge

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

Out of the darkness, into the light, leaving the scene of the crime
Either I’m wrong or I’m perfectly right every time

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

F#m Dmaj7 
Sometimes I lie awake night after night
Coming apart at the seams

...and back to the 1 of the chord

Eager to please, ready to fight
Why do I go to extremes

Solo

D/F# 
       x2

G6 F#7 Bm Bm/C# Dm 
And if I stand or I fall, it’s all or nothing aall
D/F# A/E 
Darling I don’t know why I go to extremes

D/F# A/E 
No I don’t know why I go to extremes
D/F# A/E 
Too high or too low, there ain’t no in betweens
G6 F#7 Bm Bm/C# Dm 
You can be sure when I’m gone I won’t be out there too long
D/F# A/E 
Darling I don’t know why I go to extremes

D/F# 
   I don’t know why, I don’t know why
D/F# 
   I don’t know why, I don’t know why
D/F# 
       x2

Billy Joel - Keeping the Faith  

Originally in D, I play in A capo 2.

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

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

Oh, then you should have known me much better

Cause my past is something that never

Got in my way  oh no

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

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

E6 
And then I was saved, yeah
E6 
That’s why I’m keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

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

put on my shark skin jacket

You know the kind with the velvet collar

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

Combed my hair in a pompadour

Like the rest of the Romeos wore

E6 
A permanent wave yeah
E6 
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

Bridge

You can get just so much from a good thing
You can linger too long in your dreams
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

Learned stickball as a formal education

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

heard about sex but not enough
I found you could dance and still look tough anyway

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

thought I was the Duke of Earl

When I made it with a red-haired girl

E6 
In a Chevrolet 
E6 
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

Bridge

You can get just so much from a good thing
You can linger too long in your dreams
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.

You can get just so much from a good thing
You can linger too long in your dreams
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

Now I told you my reasons for the whole revival

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

I’m going to listen to my 45’s

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

E6 
Plays yeah
E6 
When the memory stays, yeah
E6 
I’m keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

Fade on the I

Billy Joel - Miami 2017  

Originally in D, I play in A capo 3

Intro

Siren noises are roughly...

Piano intro, skip on guitar

Gadd9 D6/F# F(#11) 
G6/9 D6/F# F(#11) 
A/C# Dmaj7 A/E D/F# 
E/G# D/F# A/G# D/F# 
    
D/A E/G# 
I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway  
F#m Dadd9 Esus4 Dadd9 
 I saw the Empire State laid low   
C#m7 F#m 
 And life went on beyond the Palisades
A/E 
They all bought Cadillacs 
Dadd9 
And left there long ago  

D/A E/G# 
They held a concert out in Brooklyn  
F#m Dadd9 Esus4 Dadd9 
 To watch the island bridges blow   

Hanging stops

A/C# 
 They turned our power down
A/E D/F# 
 And drove us underground
E/G# D/F# 
 But we went right on with the show

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

F#m F#m A/E A/E 
  

x2

D/A E/G# 
 I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway  
F#m A/E 
 I saw the ruins at my feet   
C#m7 F#m 
 You know we almost didn’t notice it
A/E 
We’d seen it all the time 
On Forty-Second Street  

D/A E/G# 
 They burned the churches up in Harlem  
F#m A/E 
 Like in that Spanish civil war  
A/C# 
 The flames were everywhere
A/E D/F# 
 But no one really cared
E/G# D/F# 
 It always burned up there before

F#m F#m A/E A/E 
  

x2

D/A E/G# 
 I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway  
F#m A/E Dadd9 
 I watched the mighty skyline fall   
C#m7 F#m 
 The boats were waiting at the Battery
A/E 
The union went on strike 
They never sailed at all  

D/A E/G# 
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk  
F#m A/E 
And picked the Yankees up for free  
A/C# 
 They said that Queens could stay
A/E D/F# 
 They blew the Bronx away
E/G# D/F# 
 And sank Manhattan out at sea

F#m F#m A/E A/E 
  

x2

Hanging stop on “lights”, mellow out

D/A E/G# 
You know those lights were bright on Broadway  
F#m Esus4 Dadd9 
 But that was so many years ago    
C#m7 F#m 
 Before we all lived here in Florida
A/E Dadd9 
Before the Mafia   took over Mexico  
D/A E/G# 
 There are not many who remember  
F#m Dadd9 
They say a handful still survive
A/C# 
 To tell the world about
A/E D/F# 
The way the lights went out
D/F# 
 And keep the memory alive

Repeat intro

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

Billy Joel - Movin’ Out  

Originally in Dm, I play in Am capo 3

Play Bdim as x2313x

Am Dm G/B 
    

With ooh and mmm

Am Dm G/B 
    
Am Dm7 
Anthony works in the grocery store
G/B 
Savin’ his pennies for someday
Am Dm7 
Mama Leone left a note on the door
G/B 
She said, sonny, move out to the country
Am 
Ah, but workin’ too hard can give you
D7 
A heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack
You oughta know by now

Am Dm7 
Who needs a house out in Hackensack?
G/B 
Is that all you get for your money?
And it seems such a waste of time
E7 Am 
If that’s what it’s all about
Bdim E7 Am 
Mama if that’s movin’ up then I’m movin’ out

Am Dm G/B 
 Mmm, I’m movin’ out   
Am Dm G/B 
    
Am Dm7 
Sergeant O’Leary is walkin’ the beat
G/B 
At night he becomes a bartender
Am Dm7 
He works at Mister Cacciatore’s down on Sullivan Street
G/B 
Across from the medical center
Am D7 
Yeah, and he’s tradin’ in his Chevy for a Cadillac-ack-ack-ack-ack
You oughta know by now

Am Dm7 
And if he can’t drive with a broken back
G/B 
At least he can polish the fenders
And it seems such a waste of time
E7 Am 
If that’s what it’s all about
Bdim E7 Am 
Mama if that’s movin’ up then I’m movin’ out

Am Dm G/B 
 Mmm, I’m movin’ out   
Am Dm G/B 
    
Am 
You should never argue with a
D7 
Crazy mi-mi-mi-mi-mind
You oughta know by now

Am Dm7 
You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime
G/B 
Is that all you get for your money?
And if that’s what you have in mind
E7 Am 
Yeah, if that’s what you’re all about
Bdim E7 Am 
Good luck movin’ up ‘cause I’m  movin’ out

Am Dm G/B 
 Mmm, I’m movin’ out   
Am Dm G/B 
    

Outro

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

E7 D7 C9 F9 F9 Bb 
    

D/F# 
Got a call from an old friend
We used to be real close
Said he couldn’t go on the American way
D/F# 
Closed the shop, sold the house
Bought a ticket to the West Coast
Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.

Rpt second part of intro

E7 D7 C9 F9 F9 Bb 
    

x2

D/F# 
I don’t need you to worry for me cause I’m alright
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home
D/F# 
I don’t care what you say anymore, this is my life
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
D/F# F#7 Bm Bm/A 
I still belong, don’t get me wrong 
E7sus4 E7 
And you can speak your mind
G6 G6 
But not on my time

D/F# 
They will tell you you can’t sleep alone in a 
Strange place
Then they’ll tell you you can’t sleep with somebody else
D/F# 
But sooner or later you sleep in your own space
Either way it’s okay you wake up with yourself

Rpt second part of intro

E7 D7 C9 F9 F9 Bb 
    

x2

D/F# 
I don’t need you to worry for me cause I’m alright
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home
D/F# 
I don’t care what you say anymore, this is my life
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
D/F# F#7 Bm Bm/A 
I still belong, don’t get me wrong 
E7sus4 E7 
And you can speak your mind
G6 G6 
But not on my time

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

Em 
Em 
    
Em 
Come out Virginia, don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Em 
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
might as well be the one

Em 
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Em 
But they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done

Only the good die young
That’s what I said 
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

Em 
You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain’t too pretty we ain’t too proud
Em 
We might be laughing a bit too loud
But that never hurt no one

Em 
So come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal I’ll throw you a line
Em 
The stained-glass curtain you’re hiding behind
Never lets in the sun

Darlin’ only the good die young
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa 
I tell ya only the good die young
Only the good die young

Bridge

You got a nice white dress and a
Party on your confirmation
You got a brand new soul, and a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn’t give you
Quite enough information
You didn’t count on me 
When you were counting on your rosary
G/B G/B Am7 
Oh woah woah woah

Em 
They say there’s a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it’s better but I say it ain’t
Em 
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun

You know that only the good die young
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa 
I tell ya only the good die young
Only the good die young

Solo on bridge chords if appropriate

 

Bridge

You say your mother told you all that I could
Give you was a reputation
Awww, she never cared for me
But did she ever say a prayer for me?
G/B G/B Am7 
Oh woah woah woah

Rhythm change in the melody here

Em 
Come out come out come out Virginia don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Em 
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
might as well be the one

You know that only the good die young
Tell you baby 
You know that only the good die young
Only the good die young

Only the goooo...   
Only the good die young 

Oooh... ooooh...   
Oooh... oooh... 

Billy Joel - Piano Man  

Loosely

Dm7 Bdim7 
 

In time

G/B F/A C/G 
Fmaj7 C/E D7 
G/B F/A C/G 
F/G 
F/C Cmaj7 F/C 
F/C Cmaj7 F/C 
   
G/B F/A C/G 
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday 
C/E D7 
The regular crowd shuffles in 
G/B Fadd9/A C/G 
There’s an old man  sitting next to me 
Fadd9 F/G 
Makin’ love to his tonic and gin

G/B F/A C/G 
F/G F/C F/C 
     
G/B F/A C/G 
He says, son can you play me amemory? 
C/E D7 
I’m not really sure how it goes 
G/B F/A C/G 
But it’s sad and it’s sweet and I knew it complete
F/G 
When I wore a younger man’s clothes

Am Am/G D/F# 
La la la diddy da 
Am Am/G D/F# G/F C/E G7/D 
La La diddy da da dum   

G/B F/A C/G 
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man 
C/E D7 
Sing us a song to night 
G/B F/A C/G 
Well we’re all in the mood for a melody 
F/G 
And you’ve got us feeling all right

G/B F/A C/G 
F/G 
F/C Cmaj7 F/C 
F/C Cmaj7 F/C 
   
G/B F/A 
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine 
C/E D7 
He gets me my drinks for free 
G/B 
And he’s quick with a joke or to
F/A C/G 
Light up your smoke
F/G F/C 
But there’s some place that he’d rather be 

G/B F/A C/G 
He says, Bill I believe this is killing me 
C/E D7 
As a smile ran away from his face 
G/B F/A C/G 
Well I’m sure that I could be a movie star 
F/G 
If I could get out of this place

Am Am/G D/F# 
Oh La la la diddy da 
Am Am/G D/F# G/F C/E G7/D 
La La diddy da da dum   

G/B F/A 
Now Paul is a real estate novelist 
C/E D7 
Who never had time for a wife 
G/B F/A C/G 
And he’s talking with Davy, who’s still in the Navy
F/G 
And probably will be for life

G/B F/A C/G 
F/G F/C F/C 
     
G/B F/A C/G 
And the waitress is practicing politics 
C/E D7 
As the businessmen slowly get stoned 
G/B F/A C/G 
Yes they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness 
F/G 
But it’s better than drinking alone

Solo

Am Am/G D/F# Dm/F 
Am Am/G D/F# Dm/F 
Am Am/G D/F# 
G7/F C/E G/D 
   
G/B F/A C/G 
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man 
C/E D7 
Sing us a song to night 
G/B F/A C/G 
Well we’re all in the mood for a melody 
F/G 
And you’ve got us feeling all right

G/B F/A C/G 
F/G 
F/C Cmaj7 F/C 
F/C Cmaj7 F/C 
   
G/B F/A 
It’s a pretty good crowd for a Saturday 
C/E D7 
And the manager gives me a smile 
G/B F/A C/G 
‘Cause he knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see
F/G F/C 
To for get about life for a while 

G/B F/A C/G 
And the piano sounds like a carnival 
C/E D7 
And the microphone smells like a beer 
G/B F/A C/G 
And theysit at the bar and put bread in my jar
F/G 
And say man what are you doing here?

Am Am/G D/F# 
Oh La la la diddy da 
Am Am/G D/F# G/F C/E G7/D 
La La diddy da da dum   

G/B F/A C/G 
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man 
C/E D7 
Sing us a song to night 
G/B F/A C/G 
Well we’re all in the mood for a melody 
F/G 
And you’ve got us feeling all right

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

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant  

Gm7 C7 
Bb/F C7 
  
Gm7/F 
A bottle of white,  a bottle of red
C/F Bb/F 
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C/Bb F/A 
Get a table near the street
F/A Gm7 
In our old familiar place
Gm7 C7 Gm7 Bb/C Bb/C 
You and I, face to face, um umm

Gm7/F 
A bottle of red, a  bottle of white
C/F Bb/F 
It all depends on your appetite
F/A G/B 
I’ll meet you anytime you want
Bb/D C/E 
In our Italian Restaurant

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 
   
D/G 
Things are okay with me these days
G7 G9 
Got a good job, got a good office
C7 
Got a new wife, got a new life
Am7 D7 
And the family’s fine

D/G 
Oh, we lost touch long ago
G7 G9 
You lost weight I did not know
C7 Am7 D7 
You could ever look so nice after so much time 

Eb Bb 
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green
Eb Bb 
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Eb Bb 
Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans
Eb Bb 
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights

Horn solo on the same chords as the previous verse

D/G G7 G9 
C7 Am7 D7 
D/G G7 G9 
C7 Am7 D7 
   
D7 

Piano solo, the first G is held for a long time

C/E 
C/E 
   

C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh
C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh

Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom 
G7/B 
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer 
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Am G/B 
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive

C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh
C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh

Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of seventy five 
G7/B 
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy 
Brenda you know that you’re much too lazy
And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
Am G/B 
Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh

F/C F/C 
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpets
And a couple of paintings from Sears
F/C F/C 
big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years
F/C F/C 
They started to fight when the money got tight
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

G7/B 
Am G/B C/D 
   
C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh

F/C F/C 
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
But it’s always the same in the end
F/C F/C 
They got a divorce as a matter of course
And they parted the closest of friends
F/C F/C 
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
Em A9 C/D 
But you can never go back there again, oh oh, oh oh

Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five 
G7/B 
From the high to the low to the end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn’t go back to the greasers 
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
We always knew they would both find a way to get by

Am G/B 
That’s all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Am G/B 
Can’t tell you more cause I told you already
Am G/B 
And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh
C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh
C/E 
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh

Bass notes are all that’s really played here,

chords somewhat fabricated

F/E G/B Am Bb Am F/E 
           
Gm7/F C/F Bb 
 Yeah  

Bb F/A 
F/A Bb 
Gm7 Gm7 
Bb Bb/C 
  

Gm7/F 
A bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white
C/F Bb/F 
Whatever kind of mood you’re in tonight
G/A G/B 
I’ll meet you anytime you want
F/A G/B 
I’ll meet you anytime you want
Bb/D C/E 
In our Italian Restaurant

Sax solo

Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Bbmaj7 
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Bbmaj7 
   

Billy Joel - Shameless  

D/F# Em Bb 
    x2

D/F# 
Well, I’m shameless when it comes to loving you
Em Bb 
I’ll do anything you want me to, I’ll do anything at all 
D/F# 
And I’m standing, here for all the world to see
Em 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”

You know now I’m not a man who’s ever been
Em Am7 
Insecure about the world I’ve been living in
don’t break easy I have my pride
Em F# 
But if you need to be satisfied

D/F# 
I’m shameless baby I don’t have a prayer
Em 
Every time I see you standing there
Bb 
I go down upon my knees 
D/F# 
And I’m changing swore I’d never compromise
Em 
Aw, but you convinced me otherwise 
Bb 
I’ll do anything you please 

You see in all my life I’ve never found
Em Am7 
What I couldn’t resist what I couldn’t turn down
I could walk away from anyone I ever knew
Em 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 
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

Em Bb 
Oh, I’m shameless    
Em Bb 
    
Em Bb 
   
You know it should be easy for a
Man who’s strong
Em Am7 
To say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong
I never lost anything I ever missed
Em 
But I’ve never been in love like this

It’s outta my hands

D/F# 
I’m shameless, I don’t have the power now
Em Bb 
I don’t want it anyhow so I’ve got to let it go 
D/F# 
I’m shameless, shameless as a man can be
Em 
You could make a total fool of me
Bb 
I just wanted you to know  

D/F# Em Bb 
Oh, I’m shameless    
D/F# Em Bb 

Billy Joel - Somewhere Along the Line  

Originally around G#, I play in G capo 1

D/F# C/E C/D 
     x2

Well it’s a rainy night in Paris
Am 
And I’m sitting by the Seine

Vox stay up on the 5

It’s a pleasure to be soaking
C/B Am 
In the European rain

Em 
Now my belly’s full of fancy food and wine
But in the morning there’ll be hell to pay
Somewhere along the line
G/B 
Oh, but in the morning there’ll be hell to pay
Somewhere along the line

D/F# C/E C/D 
     
Sweet Virginia cigarette
Am 
Burning in my hand
C/B 
Well you used to be a friend of mine
Am 
But now I understand

Em 
You’ve been eating up inside me for some time, oh
And I know you’re gonna get me
Somewhere along the line
G/B 
Well I know you’re gonna get me
Somewhere along the line

D/F# C/E 
   
D/Eb 
Somewhere along the line 
Em Em/D 
Well I know it’s just a matter of time
G/B 
When the fun falls through and the rent comes due
Am 
Somewhere along the line 

Well, you know I love my woman
Am 
And I would not let her down
And I did my share of lovin’
C/B Am 
When I used to get around

Em 
Now I’m satisfied and she is lookin’ fine, oh
G/B 
But you pay for your satisfaction
Somewhere along the line
G/B 
Well you pay for your satisfaction
Somewhere along the line

Solo

G/B 
   x2

D/F# C/E C/D 
     
Hey, it’s good to be a young man
Am 
And to live the way you please
Yes, a young man is the king
C/B Am 
Of every kingdom that he sees

Em 
But there’s an old and feeble man not far behind, oh
And it surely will catch up to him
Somewhere along the line
Well, you know it will catch up to him
Somewhere along the line
Well, and it surely will catch up to him
Somewhere along the line

D/F# C/E C/D 

Billy Joel - Still Rock and Roll to Me  

Em 
What’s the matter with the clothes I’m wearing?
Bb 
Can’t you tell that your tie’s too wide?
Em 
Maybe I should buy some old tab collars
Bb 
Welcome back to the age of jive
Em Am 
Where have you been hidin’ out lately, honey?
Em 
You can’t dress trashy till you spend a lot of money

Em Bb 
Everybody’s talking ‘bout the new sound
Am 
Funny, but it’s still rock and roll to me

Em 
What’s the matter with the car I’m driving?
Bb 
Can’t you tell it’s out of style?
Em 
Should I get a set of white wall tires?
Bb 
Are you gonna cruise the miracle mile?

Em Am 
Nowadays you can’t be too sentimental
Em 
Your best bet’s a true baby, blue Continental
Em Bb 
Hot funk, cool punk even if it’s old junk
Am 
It’s still rock and roll to me

Bridge

Oh it doesn’t matter what they say in the papers
Am 
‘Cause it’s always been the same old scene
There’s a new band in town but you can’t get the sound
Ab 
From a story in a magazine
Eb 
Aimed at your average teen 

Em 
How about a pair of pink sidewinders
Bb 
And a bright orange pair of pants?
Em 
Well, you could really be a Beau Brummel baby
Bb 
If you just give it half a chance

Em Am 
Don’t waste your money on a new set of speakers
Em 
You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers
Em Bb 
Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways
Am 
It’s still rock and roll to me

Solo if appropriate

Am 
E7 Ab Eb 
      
Em 
What’s the matter with the crowd I’m seeing?
Bb 
Don’t you know that they’re out of touch?
Em 
Should I try to be a straight A student?
Bb 
If you are, then you think too much

Em Am 
Don’t you know about the new fashion, honey?
Em 
All you need are looks and a whole lotta money
Em Bb 
It’s the next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways
Am 
It’s still rock and roll to me

Hard stops on each chord

Em Bb 
Everybody’s talking about the new sound
C9 
Funny, but it’s still rock and roll to me 

Billy Joel - Stop in Nevada  

D/F# D/F# 
He always found it hard to take her 
Em7 A7sus4 G/D 
She wouldn’t listen to advice 
D9 D/F# 
And though he never tried to make her 
Em7 G/B 
She often thought it would be nice 

A/C# D/F# 
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to California 
It’s been a long time comin’ but she’s 
A/C# D/F# 
Feeling like a woman tonight 
And she left a little letter said
A/C# D/F# 
She’s gonna make a stop in Nevada
D/F# Em7 
Goodbye, goodbye

Bm7 A/C# 
 
D/F# D/F# 
 She tried for years to be a good wife 
Em7 A7sus4 G/D 
It never quite got off the ground 
D9 D/F# 
And all those stories of the good life 
Em7 G/B 
Convinced her not to hang around 

A/C# D/F# 
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to California 
And she doesn’t know what’s comin’ but
A/C# D/F# 
She’s sure of what she’s leaving behind 
And she left a little letter said
A/C# D/F# 
She’s gonna make a stop in Nevada
D/F# Em7 
Goodbye, goodbye

Bm7 A/C# 
 

Interlude over verse chords

D/F# Em7 A7sus4 
        
D/F# D/F# 
 And though she finds it hard to leave him 
Em7 A7sus4 G/D 
She knows it would be worse to stay 
D9 D/F# 
He wouldn’t understand the reasons 
Em7 G/B 
That make a woman run away 

A/C# D/F# 
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to California 
With some money in her pocket she’s a
A/C# D/F# 
Rocket on the fourth of July 
And she left a little letter said
A/C# D/F# 
She’s gonna make a stop in Nevada 

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

D/F# Em7 
Goodbye, goodbye

A/C# D/F# 
Oh, and now she’s headin’ out to California 
With some money in her pocket she’s a
A/C# D/F# 
Rocket on the fourth of July 
And she left a little letter said
A/C# D/F# 
She’s gonna make a stop in Nevada
D/F# Em7 
Goodbye, goodbye

Bm7 A/C# Em7 

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

   x4

D/F# 
They say that these are not the best of times
D/F# Em7 D/F# 
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known  
D/F# D/F# 
And I believe there is a time for meditation
Em7 
In cathedrals of our own  

F#/A# Bm Bm/A 
Now I have seen that sad surrender 
D/F# 
In my lover’s eyes  
E/G# 
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
Em7 
For we are always what our situations hand us
It’s either sadness or euphoria 
Sadness or euphoria   

D/F# 
And so we’ll argue and we’ll compromise
D/F# Em7 
And realize that nothing’s really changed  
D/F# 
For all our mutual experience
D/F# Em7 
Our separate conclusions are the same 

F#/A# Bm Bm/A 
Now we are forced to recognize our
D/F# 
Inhumanity 
E/G# 
Our reason coexists with our insanity
Em7 
And so we choose between reality and madness
It’s either sadness or euphoria  

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

Sadness or euphoria

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

F# Bm Bm/A D/F# 
   
E/G# 
Em7 
  

PPM do a full verse here on “la”

F#/A# Bm Bm/A D/F# 
 How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies 
E/G# 
Perhaps we don’t fulfill each other’s fantasies
Em7 
So we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our respective similarities 
It’s either sadness or euphoria

Hanging end on G, I usually stop here

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

Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls  

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

I play in D

As much walking between chords as you can fit in

D/F# Em7 
A7 A7 
   
D/F# 
They say that these are not the best of times
Em7 D/F# Em7 
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known   
D/F# Em7 
And I believe that there’s a time for meditation
A7 
In cathedrals of our own   →  

F#/A# Bm Bm/A 
Now I have seen that sad surrender
D/F# 
In my lover’s eyes  
E7 A7 
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
D/F# Em7 
For we are always what our situations hand us
A7 
It’s either sadness or euphoria  

D/F# Em7 
A7 A7 
   
D/F# 
And so we’ll argue and we’ll compromise
Em7 D/F# Em7 
And realize that nothing’s really changed   
D/F# 
For all our mutual experience
Em7 A7 
Our separate conclusions are the same  →  

F#/A# Bm Bm/A 
Now we are forced to recognize our
D/F# 
Inhumanity  
E7 A7 
Our reason coexists with our insanity
D/F# Em7 
And though we choose between reality and madness
A7 
It’s either sadness or euphoria  

Instrumental if appropriate

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

Bm Bm/A D/F# 
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies  
E7 A7 
Perhaps we don’t fulfill each other’s fantasies
D/F# Em7 
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
A7 
With our respective similarities  → 
A7 
It’s either sadness or euphoria  
A7 
Sadness or euphoria

Billy Joel - Tell Her About It  

Originally in Bb, I play in E capo 2

       x2

Listen boy, I don’t want to see you let a good thing slip away
You know I don’t like watching anybody make the same mistakes I made

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

G#m F#m 
She’s a real nice girl and she’s always there for you
Am E/G# F#m 
But a nice girl wouldn’t tell you what you should do

Oh, listen boy, I’m sure that you think you got it all under control
You don’t want somebody telling you the way to stay in someone’s soul
G#m F#m 
You’re a big boy now and you’ll never let her go
Am E/G# F#m F# 
But that’s just the kind of thing she ought to know 

D#m 
Tell her about it, tell her everything you feel
G#m G#m7 C#m7 F#7sus4 
Give her every reason to accept that you’re for real
D#m 
Tell her about it, tell her all your crazy dreams
G#m G#m7 C#m7 F#7sus4 F#7 
Let her know you need her, let her know how much she means

   Oooh x2

Listen, boy, it’s not automatically a certain guarantee
To insure yourself, you’ve got to provide communication constantly
G#m F#m 
When you love someone you’re always insecure
Am E/G# F#m F# 
And there’s only one good way to reassure 

D#m 
Tell her about it, let her know how much you care
G#m G#m7 C#m7 F#7sus4 
When she can’t be with you, tell her you wish you were there
D#m 
Tell her about it every day before you leave
G#m G#m7 C#m7 F#7sus4 F#7 
Pay her some attention, give her something to believe

Bridge

Bm 
 ‘Cause now and then she’ll get to worrying
Em Bm A/C# 
Just because you haven’t spoken for so long  
Bm 
And though you may not have done anything
Em F#/A# 
Will that be a consolation when she’s gone?

Listen boy, it’s good information from a man who’s made mistakes
Just a word or two that she gets from you could be the difference that it makes
G#m F#m 
She’s a trusting soul, she’s put her trust in you
Am E/G# F#m F# 
But a girl like that won’t tell you what you should do 

D#m 
Tell her about it, tell her everything you feel
G#m G#m7 C#m7 F#7sus4 
Give her every reason to accept that you’re for real
D#m 
Tell her about it, tell her all your crazy dreams
G#m G#m7 C#m7 F#7sus4 F#7 
Let her know you need her, let her know how much she means

Outro

Tell her about it, tell her how you feel right now
Tell her about it, the girl don’t want to wait too long
You got to tell her about it, tell her now and you won’t go wrong
You got to tell her about it, before 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

Em 
Em 
Em G/B Am 
      

At tempo, straight, skip on guitar

F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    x2

Em 
From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia
Em 
Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand  
Em 
And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time 
G/B Am7 D7sus 
East and west of the Rio Grande

F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    x2

Em 
Well, he started with a bank in Colorado
Em 
In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid  
Em 
And his age and his size
G/B 
Took the teller by surprise and
Am7 D7sus 
The word spread  of Billy the Kid

F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    
Em Bm 
Well he never traveled heavy, yes he always rode alone
C/D F/G 
And he soon put many older guns to shame
Em Bm 
And he never had a sweetheart, and he never had a home
Dsus4 
But the cowboy and the rancher knew his name 

Em 
Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma
Em 
And the law just could not seem to track him down  
Em G/B 
And it served his legend well, for the folks they’d love to tell ’bout
Am7 D7sus 
When Billy the Kid came to town

F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    x2

Interlude if appropriate

C/E 
 
C/E 
 
Bb/C 
 
F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    x2

Em 
Well one cold day a posse captured Billy
Em 
And the judge said string him up for what he did  
Em G/B 
And the cowboys and their kin, like the sea came pourin’ in to to watch
Am7 D7sus 
 The hangin’  of Billy the Kid

F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    
Em Bm 
Well he never traveled heavy, yes he always rode alone
C/D F/G 
And he soon put many older guns to shame
Em Bm 
And he never had a sweetheart, but he finally found a home
Dsus4 
Underneath the Boot Hill grave that bears his name
Em 
From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island
Em 
Rode a boy with a six-pack in his hand  
Em 
And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time 
G/B Am7 D7sus 
East and west of the Rio Grande

F/G C/G C/G F/G 
    x2

Interlude if appropriate

C/E 
 
C/E 
 
Bb/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

Em 
Well I’m on the Downeaster Alexa
And I’m cruising through Block Island Sound
Am 
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
Em 
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
Em D/F# 
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner’s Bay
Like all the locals here I’ve had to sell my home
Em D/F# 
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

Em 
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
And I go where the ocean is deep
Am 
There are giants out there in the canyons
And a good captain can’t fall asleep

I’ve got bills to pay and children who need clothes
Em D/F# 
I know there’s fish out there but where God only knows
They say these waters aren’t what they used to be
Em D/F# 
But I’ve got people back on land who count on me

Em 
So if you see my Downeaster Alexa
And if you work with the rod and the reel
Am 
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
And I still have my hands on the wheel

Interlude, lots of ayyy-o and accordion noises

Em 
Em 
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
More and more miles from shore every year
Am 
Since they tell me I can’t sell no stripers
And there’s no luck in swordfishing here

I was a bayman like my father was before
Em D/F# 
Can’t make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea
Em D/F# 
But there ain’t no island left for islanders like me

D/F# Em 
Ay-ay yo,  oh

Billy Joel - The Entertainer  

G/B 
am the entertainer and I know just where stand
G/B 
Another serenader and another long-haired band
Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts
But I know the game, you’ll forget my name
Am7 Cmaj7 
And I won’t be here in another year
If I don’t stay on the charts

C/E G/D 
am the entertainer and I’ve had to pay my price
G/B G/B 
The things I did not know at first I learned by doin’ twice
Ah, but still they come to haunt me
C/E 
Still they want their say
So I’ve learned to dance with a hand in my pants
Am7 Cmaj7 
Let ‘em rub my neck and I write ‘em a check
And they go their merry way

C/E G/D 
am the entertainer, been all around the world
G/B G/B 
I’ve played all kinds of palaces and laid all kinds of girls
C/E 
can’t remember faces, I don’t remember names
Ah, but what the hell, you know it’s just as well
Am7 Cmaj7 
‘Cause after a while and a thousand miles
 It all becomes the same

C/E G/D 
am the entertainer, I bring to you my songs
G/B G/B 
I’d like to spend a day or two, but I can’t stay that long
C/E 
No, I’ve got to meet expenses, I got to stay in line
Gotta get those fees to the agencies
Am7 Cmaj7 
And I’d love to stay but there’s bills to pay
So I just don’t have the time

C/E G/D 
am the entertainer, I come to do my show
G/B G/B 
You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
Ah, it took me years to write it, they were the
C/E 
Best years of my life
Cmaj7 
It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long
Am7 
If you’re gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit
So they cut it down to 3:05

C/E G/D 
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age
G/B G/B 
make all kinds of money when I go on the stage
Ah, you’ve seen me in the papers
C/E 
I’ve been in the magazines
But if I go cold I won’t get sold
Am7 
I’ll get put in the back in the discount rack
Like another can of beans

Hanging stops

C/E G/D 
am the entertainer and I know just where stand
G/B 
Another serenader and another long-haired band
C/E 
Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts
But I know the game, you’ll forget my name
Am7 Cmaj7 
And I won’t be here in another year
If I don’t stay on the charts

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*".

Oh, oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time

A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
If you said goodbye to me tonight
A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
There would still be music left to write
C# F#m 
What else could I do
E7 A7 
I’m so inspired by you
Bm 
That hasn’t happened for the longest time

A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
Once thought my innocence was gone
A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
Now I know that happiness goes on
C# F#m 
That’s where you found me
E7 A7 
When you put your arms around me
Bm 
I haven’t been there for the longest time

Oh, oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time

A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
I’m that voice you’re hearing in the hall
A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
And the greatest miracle of all
C# F#m 
Is how I need you
E7 A7 
And how you needed me too
Bm 
That hasn’t happened for the longest time

E7 F#m 
Maybe this won’t last very long
G#7 
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
C#m F#m 
Maybe I’ve been hoping too hard
B7 
But I’ve gone this far
E7 
And it’s more than I hoped for

A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
Who knows how much further we’ll go on
A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
Maybe I’ll be sorry when you’re gone
C# F#m 
I’ll take my chances
E7 A7 
I forgot how nice romance is
Bm 
I haven’t been there for the longest time

E7 F#m 
I had second thoughts at the start
G#7 
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
C#m F#m 
Now I know the woman that you are
B7 
You’re wonderful so far
E7 
And it’s more than I hoped for

A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
don’t care what consequence it brings
A/G# A/F# Amaj7/E 
have been fool for lesser things
C# F#m 
I want you so bad
E7 A7 
I think you ought to know that
Bm 
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Oh, oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
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

In the middle of (I go walking in)
G9 
In the middle of (I go walking in)
Cmaj7 
In the middle of (I go walking in)
In the middle of (I go walking in)

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

G7 
From the mountains of faith
Cmaj7 
To the river so deep

I must be looking for something

Something sacred I lost

G7 
But the river is wide
Cmaj7 
And it’s too hard to cross

Em Gmaj7 
And even though I know the river is wide
Cmaj7 
I walk down every evening and stand on the shore
Cmaj7 Gmaj7 
I try to cross to the opposite side
A7 
So I can finally find out what I’ve been looking for

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

G7 
Through the valley of fear
Cmaj7 
To a river so deep

I’ve been searching for something

Taken out of my soul

G7 
Something I could never lose
Cmaj7 
Something somebody stole

Em Gmaj7 
don’t know why I go walking at night
Cmaj7 
But now I’m tired and I don’t want to walk anymore
Cmaj7 Gmaj7 
hope it doesn’t take the rest of my life
A7 
Until I find what it is I’ve been looking for

Hang for 1 measure

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

G7 
Through the jungle of doubt
Cmaj7 
To the river so deep

I know I’m searching for something

Something so undefined

G7 
That it can only be seen
Cmaj7 
By the eyes of the blind

In the middle of the night 

Note the lyrics are reversed wrt the intro

 I go walking in the, in the middle of the
G7 
I go walking in the, in the middle of the
Cmaj7 
 I go walking in the, in the middle of the
 I go walking in the, in the middle of the

 I go walking in the, in the middle of the
G7 
I go walking in the, in the middle of the
Cmaj7 
 I go walking in the, in the middle of the
 I go walking in the, in the middle of the

Em Gmaj7 
I’m not sure about a life after this
Cmaj7 
God knows I’ve never been a spiritual man
Cmaj7 Gmaj7 
Baptized by the fire
I wade into the river that is running through the promised land

Hang for 1 meaure and 2 extra beats

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

G7 
Through the desert of truth
Cmaj7 
To the river so deep

We all end in the ocean

We all start in the streams

G7 
We’re all carried along
Cmaj7 
By the river of dreams

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

Billy Joel - The Stranger  

Intro, skip on guitar

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

Whistle

Em Em/D Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 
E/F# E/G# Am Am/G D/F# C/E 
  →      
B/D# A/C# B/A Em 
    
Em C7 Em C7 
   
Em Am Em 
Well we all have a face that we hide away forever
Am 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 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 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 Bm Em 
Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself?

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

On guitar that iM7 just wants to be im.

Gmaj7 GmM7 D/F# 
Don’t be afraid to try again
D7 Gmaj7 GmM7 D/F# D7 
Everyone goes south every 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 yourself 

Em Am Em 
Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer
Am B7 
Then I came home to a woman that I could not recognize
Em Am Em 
When I pressed her for a reason she refused to even answer
Am 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 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 Bm Em 
Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself?

Gmaj7 GmM7 D/F# 
Don’t be afraid to try again
D7 Gmaj7 GmM7 D/F# D7 
Everyone goes south every 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 yourself 

Em Am Em 
You may never understand how the stranger is inspired
Am 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 Bm Em 
You’ll give in to your desire when the stranger comes along

Em C7 Em C7 
   

Billy Joel - Travelin’ Prayer  

Starts drums, then bass on D

C/D 
 x2

Hey lord, take a look all around
Tonight to find where my baby’s gonna be
Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
C/B 
‘Cause she is far across the sea

Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
Bb 
And make sure that she’s gonna be alright
And things are gonna be alright with me

      x2

Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
And make sure that all her dreams are sweet   
Said now, would ya guide her along the roads
C/B 
And make them softer for her feet
    → 

G9 
Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
Bb 
And make sure that she’s gonna be alright
Until she’s home and here with me

      x2

Hey, lord would ya look out for her tonight
If she is sleepin’ under the sky   
Said now, make sure the ground she’s sleepin’ on
C/B 
Is always warm and dry
    → 

Mmmm, don’tcha give her too much rain
Bb 
Try to keep her away from pain
Because my baby hates to cry

      x2

Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
‘Cause it gets rough along the way   
Said now, this song seems strange it’s just because
C/B 
don’t know how to pray
    → 

G9 
Mmmm, won’tcha give her peace of mind
Bb 
And if you ever find the time
Won’tcha tell her I miss her everyday

      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

Hey lord, take a look all around
Tonight to find where my baby’s gonna be   

Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
C/B 
‘Cause she is far across the sea
    → 

G9 
Hey lord, would ya look out for her tonight
Bb 
And make sure that she’s gonna be alright
Until she’s home and here with me 

With me
      x2

Hanging stop on 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

Bm 
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
C#m 
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Uptown girl
Bm C#m 
 She’s been living in her uptown world 
 I bet she never had a back street guy 
Bm C#m 
 I bet her mama never told her why 
 I’m gonna try for an 

Uptown girl
Bm C#m 
 She’s been living in her white bread world 
 As long as anyone with hot blood can
Bm C#m 
 And now she’s looking for a downtown man
 That’s what I am

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

Dm Gm C7 
And when she knows what she wants from her time
Dm Gm/D# C7 
And when she wakes up and makes up her mind
Bm 
She’ll see I’m not so tough
Em 
Just because I’m in love with an 

Uptown girl
Bm C#m 
 You know I’ve seen her in her uptown world 
 She’s getting tired of her high-class toys 
Bm C#m 
 And all her presents from her uptown boys 
 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”

D#dim7 Em 
Ohh...    → 
D#dim7 
Ohh...   

Uptown girl
Bm C#m 
  You know I can’t afford to buy her pearls 
 But maybe someday when my ship comes in
Bm C#m 
She’ll understand what kind of guy I’ve been
 And then I’ll win

Dm Gm C7 
And when she’s walking, she’s looking so fine
Dm Gm/D# C7 
And when she’s talking, she’ll say that she’s mine
Bm 
She’ll say I’m not so tough
Em 
Just because I’m in love with an

Uptown girl
Bm C#m 
 She’s been living in her white bread world 
As long as anyone with hot blood can
Bm C#m 
And now she’s looking for a downtown man
 That’s what I am

Bridge

D#dim7 Em 
Ohh...    
D#dim7 
Ohh...   

(Uptown girl, repeat to fade...)

Bm C#m 

Billy Joel - Vienna  

I play the intro as something like:

 |-G+------F7--------G-Cm-D7-G/D-|
 |------------------------------|
E|-7----7--5-5/7\5-3-3-3--2--3---|
B|-8----8--4---------3-4--1--3---|
G|-8-876---5---------4-5--2--4---|
D|-------------------5-------0---|

G+ G9+/F F#dim7 C/G 
Am7b5/D# D7 
  
Em 
Slow down, you crazy child

Vox on the 4 3 3 2 on “juveni-ile”

You’re so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you’re so smart, tell me
A7 B9 B7 
Why are you still so afraid?  → 

Em 
Where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about?
You’d better  cool it off before you burn it out
You’ve got so much to do and
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”

But you know that when the truth is told
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”

F#m7 
You’re gonna kick off before you even
B7 Em7 A7 
Get halfway through, ooh ooh
D#9 D7 
When will you realize  Vienna waits for you?

Em 
Slow down, you’re doing fine
You can’t be everything you want to be before your time
A7 
Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight  
B9 B7 
Tonight 

Em 
Too bad but it’s the life you lead
You’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know
F#m7 
You can’t always see when you’re right
B9 B7 
You’re righ

You’ve got your passion, you’ve got your pride
D/F# Em Em/D 
But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied?
F#m7 
 Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll
B7 Em7 A7 
All come true, ooh ooh
D#9 D7 
When will you realize  Vienna waits for you?

Solo on a half-verse

D7 
 Slow down you crazy child
D/F# Em Em/D 
And take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while
F#m7 
 It’s all right, you can afford to lose a
B7 Em A7 
Day or two, ooh ooh
D#9 D7 
When will you realize  Vienna waits for you?

And you know that when the truth is told
D/F# Em Em/D 
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
F#m7 
You’re gonna kick off before you even
B7 Em7 A7 
Get halfway through, ooh ooh
D#9 D7 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 

Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire  

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

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

Gadd9 Em7 
      x 2

 

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Em 
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Em 
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Em 
    
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Em 
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Em 
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
It was always burning since the world’s been turning

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Em 
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Em 
Dien... Bien... Phu... falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Em 
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Em 
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Bridge

Am 
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em 
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

Am 
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Em 
Stark weather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
Em 
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Em 
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Em 
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania
Em 
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

Hard stop on “what else”

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

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Em 
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Em 
Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

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

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Em 
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law

Hard stop on “rock”

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

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
But when we are gone
Em 
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning

We didn’t start the fire
Em 
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Billy Joel - Worse Comes to Worst  

Originally in C, I play in A

Intro, with weird wah noises

B7 B7 

Enter normal instrumentation

   
Today I’m livin’ like a rich man’s son
Tomorrow morning I could be a bum
It doesn’t matter which direction though
I know a woman in New Mexico

Bm7 
Worse comes to worst
Bm7 
I’ll get along
Bm7 
I don’t know how but sometimes
Bm7 
I can be strong

And if I don’t have a car I’ll hitch
I got a thumb and she’s a son of a bitch
I do my writing on my road guitar
And make a living at a piano bar, oh

Bm7 
Worse comes to worst
Bm7 
I’ll get along
Bm7 
I don’t know how but sometimes
Bm7 
I can be strong

Bridge, half-time

Vox on the 3 of the chord on “lightning”

 Lightning and thunder

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

Flashed across the roads we drove upon
Oh, but it’s clear skies we’re under

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

F#m 
When I am together, when I sing the song

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

Bm7 
Worse comes to worst
Bm7 
I’ll get along
Bm7 
I don’t know how but sometimes
Bm7 
I can be strong, oh

Fun ain’t easy if it ain’t free
Too many people got a hold on me
But I know something that they don’t know
I know a woman in New Mexico

Bm7 
Worse comes to worst
Bm7 
I’ll get along
Bm7 
I don’t know how but sometimes
Bm7 
I can be strong

Billy Joel - You May Be Right  

Friday night I crashed your party

Saturday I said I’m sorry

Sunday came and trashed me out again
Bm 
I was only having fun
Wasn’t hurting anyone
And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change

I was stranded in the combat zone

I walked through Bedford Sty alone

Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
Bm 
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I’m insane

You may be right I may be crazy
F#m 
But it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for
Turn out the lights don’t try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right

Remember how I found you there

Alone in your electric chair

I told you dirty jokes until you smiled
Bm 
You were lonely for a man
I said take me as I am
‘Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while

Now think of all the years you tried to

Find someone to satisfy you

I might be as crazy as you say
Bm 
If I’m crazy then it’s true
That it’s all because of you
And you wouldn’t want me any other way

You may be right I may be crazy
F#m 
But it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for
Turn out the lights it’s too late to change me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right

Solo if appropriate on verse chords

You may be right I may be crazy
F#m 
Hey but it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for
Turn out the lights, aww don’t try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
You may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right

Black Sabbath - Changes  

Originally in C, I play in G

Am/D 
  →  x2

Am/D Am/D 
I feel unhappy,  →  I feel so sad  → 
Am Am/D 
I’ve lost the best friend, that I ever had  → 
Am/D Am/D 
She was my woman,  →  I loved her s → 
Am Am/D 
But it’s too late now, I’ve let her go  → 

Bm Am 
 I’m going through changes 
Bm Am 
 I’m going through changes
Bm Am Am 
Em Em 
Em Em 
 →  

Am/D 
  →  x2

Am/D Am/D 
We shared the years,  →  we shared each day  → 
Am Am/D 
In love together, we found a way  → 
Am/D Am/D 
But soon the world  →  had its evil way  → 
Am Am/D 
My heart was blinded, love went astray  → 

Bm Am 
 I’m going through changes 
Bm Am 
 I’m going through changes
Bm Am Am 
Em Em 
Em Em 
 →  

Am/D 
  →  x2
Am 
Am/D 
  →  x3

Am/D Am/D 
It took so long  →  to realize  → 
Am Am/D 
And I can still hear her last goodbyes  → 
Am/D Am/D 
Now all my days  →  are filled with tears  → 
Am Am/D 
Wish I could go back and change these years  → 

Bm Am 
 I’m going through changes 
Bm Am 
 I’m going through changes
Bm Am Am 
Em Em 
Em Em 
 →  

Em Em 

Black Sabbath - Iron Man  

Originally in Bm, I play in Am

Intro, with “I am iron man”

Em 
 →  x3

Main riff

Am 
           x2

Am 
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Am 
Can he walk at all
Or if he moves will he fall?

Main riff

Am 
     
Am 
Is he live or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
Am 
We’ll just pass him there
Why should we even care?

Am Am Ab5 
   →  → 
F#5 Ab5 
 →  →  →  → 
Am Am Ab5 
   →  → 
F#5 Ab5 
 →  →  →  → 
Am Am Ab5 
   →  → 

Main riff

Am 
           x2

Am 
He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
Am 
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind

 Nobody wants him
Am 
 He just stares at the world

Very approximate chords for the riffy business

Am 
     x2
 Planning his vengeance
Am 
 That he will soon unfurl
Am 
     x2

Main riff

Am 
           x2

Am 
Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Am 
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

 Nobody wants him
Am 
 They just turn their heads
Am 
     x2
 Nobody helps him
Am 
 Now he has his revenge
Am 
     x2

Solo mostly on...

Bm 
Am 
     x4

Main riff

Am 
           x2

Am 
Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Am 
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again

Am Am Ab5 
   →  → 
F#5 Ab5 
 →  →  →  → 
Am Am Ab5 
   →  → 

Black Sabbath - Paranoid  

Originally in Em, I play in Am capo 3

Am Am 
   
Am Am 
   

Am Am 
Finished with my woman ‘cause she couldn’t help me with my mind
Am Am 
People think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time

Am Am 
   
Am Am 
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Am Am 
Think I’ll lose my mind if I don’t find something to pacify

Am 
 Can you help me?   
Am 
Occupy my brain, oh yeah

Am Am 
   

Am Am 
I need someone to show me the things in life that can’t find
Am Am 
I can’t see the things that make true happiness I must be blind

Am Am 
   
Am Am 
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and will cry
Am Am 
Happiness I cannot feel, so love for me is so unreal

Am Am 
   
Am Am 
And so as you hear these words telling you now of my fate
Am Am 
I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it’s too late

Am 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 F# E5 
D5 E5 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 F# E5 
D5 E5 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 F# E5 
D5 E5 F# E5 
     

Blind Melon - No Rain  

Originally in E, I play in A

Intro

       x2

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
A7 
like watchin’ the puddles gather rain 
And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
A7 
And speak my point of view but it’s not sane 
It’s not sane

 I just want someone to say to me oh
 I’ll always be there when you wake  yeah
 You know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
 So stay with me and I’ll have it made 

And I don’t understand why I sleep all day
A7 
And I start to complain that there’s no rain 
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
It rips my life away, but it’s a great escape

Escape, escape, escape

Solo

       x2

Let ring

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
You don’t like my point of view
You think that I’m insane
It’s not sane, it’s not sane

 I just want  someone to say to me oh
 I’ll always be there when you wake  yeah
 You know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
 So stay with me and I’ll have it made 

I’ll have it made 
I’ll have it made 
Oh oh oh oh 
Oh oh oh oh 

Blink 182 - All the Small Things  

Originally in C, I play in A

 → 
D/A 
 →  
D/A 
   
 All the,  small things
 True care,  truth brings
 I’ll take,  one lift
 Your ride,  best trip

 Always,  I know
 You’ll be,  at my show
 Watching,  waiting
 Commiserating

E/A 
 Say it ain’t so, I will not go
Turn the lights off, carry me home

Nana nana nana nana na na
Nana nana nana nana na na
Nana nana nana nana na na
Nana nana nana nana na na

D/A 
 →  
D/A 
 →  

 Late night,  come home
 Work sucks,   I know
 She left me roses
By the stairs
Surprises let me know she cares

 Say it ain’t so, I will not go
Turn the lights off, carry me home

Nana nana nana nana na na
Nana nana nana nana na na
Nana nana nana nana na na
Nana nana nana nana na na

Bridge

       x4

 

E/A 
 Say it ain’t so, I will not go
Turn the lights off, carry me home

 Keep your head still
I’ll be your thrill
The night will go on
My little windmill

 Say it ain’t so, I will not go
Turn the lights off
Carry me home

 Keep your head still, I’ll be your thrill
The night will go on
The night will go on
My little windmill

Blondie - One Way or Another  

Intro

C# 
    →  →  →
C# 
    →  →  →
C# 
    →  →  →
C# 
    →  →  →

Not writing out the passing notes the rest of the way

One way or another, I’m gonna find ya

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

One way or another, I’m gonna win ya’

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

One way or another, I’m gonna see ya’

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

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

I’m gonna meet ya’, I’ll meet ya’

Bm A/C# G/B F#m 
I will drive past your house
Bm A/C# G/B F#m 
And if the lights are all down
F# 
I’ll see who’s around 

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

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

One way or another, I’m gonna win ya’

I’ll get ya’, I’ll get ya’

One way or another, I’m gonna see ya’

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

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

Bm A/C# G/B F#m 
And if the lights are all out
Bm A/C# G/B F#m 
I’ll follow your bus downtown
F# 
See who’s hangin’ out 

F# 

Solo

F#m F#m C#m 
F#m F#m C#m 
   
F#m F#m 
   
One way or another, I’m gonna lose ya’

I’m gonna give you the slip

A slip of the hip or another, I’m gonna lose ya’

I’ll trick ya’, I’ll trick ya’

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

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

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

I’m gonna give you the slip

Bridge

   
I’ll walk down the mall, stand over by the wall
Where I can see it all, find out who ya’ call
Lead you to the supermarket check out 
Some specials and wrap, we’ll get lost in the crowd

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

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

Blondie - The Tide is High  

Originally in B, I play in A

Bm7 
   
The tide is high, but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one
I’m not the kinda girl who gives up just like that
Oh no 

It’s not the things you do that tease and hurt me bad
But it’s the way you do the things you do to me
I’m not the kinda girl who gives up just like that
Oh no 

The tide is high, but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one
Number one
E7 
Number one 

Every girl wants you to be her man
But I’ll wait, my dear, ‘til it’s my turn
I’m not the kinda girl who gives up just like that
Oh no 

The tide is high, but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one 
Number one
E7 
Number one 

Bm7 
   
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I’ll wait, my dear, ‘til it’s my turn
I’m not the kinda girl who gives up just like that
Oh no 

The tide is high, but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one 
Number one
Number one
E7 
Number one 

The tide is high, but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one
The tide is high, but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one

Slight rhythmic variation here

The tide is high, I’m  holding on
I’m gonna be your number one
The tide is high, I’m  holding on
I’m gonna be your number one, your  number one

Bm7 

Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper  

Am 
       x4

Vox on the 3 of the chord

Am Am 
Al our times have come   
Am Am 
Here  but now they’re gone   

Am 
Seasons don’t fear the reaper
E7 Am 
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain (we can be like they are)

Am 
Come on baby (don’t fear the reaper)
Am 
Baby take my hand (don’t fear the reaper)
Am 
We’ll be able to fly (don’t fear the reaper)
Am 
Baby I’m your man   

Am Am 
La-la-la-la-la   
Am Am 
La-la-la-la-la   

Am 
       x2

Hang here if you feel like it

Am 
Am 
       x4

Am Am 
Valentine is done    
Am Am 
Here but now they’re gone    

Am 
 Romeo and Juliet

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

E7 Am 
Are together in eternity (Romeo and Juliet)
Am 
Forty-thousand men and women everyday (like Romeo and Juliet)
Am 
Forty-thousand men and women everyday (redefine happiness)
Am 
Another forty-thousand coming everyday (we can be like they are)

Am 
Come on baby (don’t fear the reaper)
Am 
Baby take my hand (don’t fear the reaper)
Am 
We’ll be able to fly (don’t fear the reaper)
Am 
Baby I’m your man   

Am Am 
La-la-la-la-la  
Am Am 
La-la-la-la-la  

Am 
   

Let ring

Am 

Solo, approximating

Fm G7 
   x8

Am 
       x4

Am Am 
Love  of two is one   
Am Am 
Here  but now they’re gone   

Am 
Came the last night of sadness
E7 Am 
And it was clear that she couldn’t go o
Am 
Then the door was open and the wind appeared 
Am 
The candles blew and disappeared 
Am 
The curtains flew and then he appeared (saying don’t be afraid)

Am 
Come on baby (and she had no fear)
Am 
 And she ran to him (then he started to fly)
Am 
They looked backward and said goodbye (she had become like they are)
Am 
She had taken his hand (she had become like they are)
Am 
Come on baby (don’t fear the reaper) 

Am 
       x4
Am 

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

E7 
I can’t stop this feeling deep inside of me
Am B7 
Girl, you just don’t realize what you do to me 
G#7 
When you hold me in your arms so tight
C#m E7 
You let me know everything’s alright

Band enters on “feeling”

I-I-I-I-I, I’m hooked on a feeling 
I’m high on believing  

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

of 2/4

G#m 
That you’re in love with me  

E7 
Lips as sweet as candy their taste is on my mind
Am B7 
Girl you got me thirsty for another cup of wine
E7 
Got a bug from you girl but I don’t need no cure
Am B7 
I just stay a victim if I can for sure 
G#7 
All the good love when we’re all alone
C#m E7 
Keep it up girl, yeah you turn me on

I-I-I-I-I, I’m hooked on a feeling 
I’m high on believing 
G#m 
That you’re in love with me  

Hang the last chord

E7 Am 
    

band out, with ooka-chaka’s

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”

I-I-I-I-I, I’m hooked on a feeling 
I’m high on believing  

Ends with two hits on the last chord

G#m 
That you’re in love with me  

Repeat to fade

Blues Traveler - Hook  

Originally in A, I play in D capo 1

Intro

Bm F# 
    
Bm7 F#7 
 It doesn’t matter what I say 
 So long as I sing with inflection
Bm7 F#7 
 That makes you feel that I’ll convey 
 Some inner truth of vast reflection

Bm7 F#7 
 But I’ve said nothing so far 
 And I can keep it up as long as it takes
Bm F#7 
 And it don’t matter who you are 
If I’m doing my job, it’s your resolve that breaks

Bm F#7 
Because the hook brings you back 
I ain’t tellin’ you no lie 
Bm F#7 
The hook brings you back 
 On that you can rel

Bm F#7 
 There is something amiss 
 I am being insincere 
Bm F#7 
 In fact I don’t mean any of this 
 Still my confession draws you near 

Bm F#7 
 To confuse the issue I refer 
 To familiar heroes from long ago
Bm F#7 
 No matter how much Peter loved her 
 What made the pan refuse to grow 

Bm F#7 
Was that the hook brings you back 
I ain’t tellin’ you no lie 
Bm F#7 
The hook brings you back 
 On that you can rel

Solo

Bm F# 
   
 Suck it in, suck it in, suck it in
If you’re Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Bm F#7 
 Make a desperate move or else you’ll win
And then begin to see what you’re doing to me
This MTV is not for free
It’s so PC it’s killing me
So desperately I’ll sing to thee of

Love, sure but also rage and hate and pain
Bm F#7 
And fear of self, and I can’t keep these feelings on the
Shelf, I’ve tried, well, no in fact I’ve lied
Could be financial suicide but I’ve got too much pride inside to

Hide or slide, I’ll do as I’ll decide and 
Bm 
Let it ride until I’ve died
F#7 
And only then shall I abide
This tide of catchy little tunes
Or hip three-minute ditties
I wanna bust all your balloons
I wanna burn all of your cities

To the ground I’ve found
I will not mess around
Bm 
Unless I play then hey
F#7 
will go on all day
Hear what I say, I have a prayer to pray
That’s really all this was
And when I’m feeling stuck and need a buck
I don’t rely on luck because

Bm F#7 
Was that the hook brings you back 
I ain’t tellin’ you no lie 
Bm F#7 
The hoooooo   
 On that you can rel

Blues Traveler - Run-Around  

Originally in G, I play in D capo 2

Gadd9 Em 
       x6

Gadd9 Em 
Once upon a midnight dearie
Gadd9 Em 
I woke with something in my head 
Gadd9 Em 
couldn’t escape the memory
Gadd9 Em 
Of a phone call and of what you said 

Gadd9 Em 
Like a game show contestant with a parting gift
Em 
I could not believe my eyes 
Gadd9 Em 
When I saw through the voice of a trusted friend
Gadd9 Em 
Who needs to humor me and  tell me lies 
Gadd9 Em 
Yeah humor me and  tell me lies 

Gadd9 Em 
And I’ll lie too and say I don’t mind
Gadd9 Em 
And as we seek so shall we find
Gadd9 Em 
And when you’re feeling open I’ll still be here
Gadd9 Em 
But not without a certain degree of fear

Gadd9 Em 
Of what will be with you and me
Gadd9 Em 
I still can see things hopefully

Gadd9 Em 
But you   
Gadd9 Em 
Why you wanna give me a run-around 
Gadd9 Em 
Is it a sure-fire way to speed things up
Gadd9 Em Gadd9 Em 
When all it does is slooow me down   

Gadd9 Em 
And shake me and my confidence
Gadd9 Em 
About a great many thing
Gadd9 Em 
But I’ve been there I can see it cower
Gadd9 Em 
Like a nervous magician waiting in the wings 

Gadd9 Em 
Of a bad play where the heroes are right
Gadd9 Em 
And nobody thinks or expects too much
Gadd9 Em 
And Hollywood’s calling for the movie rights
Gadd9 Em 
Singing hey babe let’s keep in touch 
Gadd9 Em 
Hey baby let’s keep in touch 

Gadd9 Em 
But I want more than a touch I want you to reach me

Not a typo, he says “thing”, not “things”

Gadd9 Em 
And show me all the thing no one else can see
Gadd9 Em 
So what you feel become mine as well
Gadd9 Em 
And soon if we’re lucky we’d be unable to tell
Gadd9 Em 
What’s yours and mine, the finshing fine
Gadd9 Em 
And it doesn’t have to rhyme so don’t feed me a line

Gadd9 Em 
But you   
Gadd9 Em 
Why you wanna give me a run-around 
Gadd9 Em 
Is it a sure-fire way to speed things up
Gadd9 Em Gadd9 Em 
When all it does is slooow me down   

Solo

Gadd9 Em 
       x 8

Gadd9 Em 
Tra la la la la boaba dear this is the pilot speaking
Gadd9 Em 
And I’ve  got some news for you 
Gadd9 Em 
It seems my ship still stands no matter what you drop
Gadd9 Em 
And there ain’t a whole lot that you can do 

Gadd9 Em 
Oh sure the banner may be torn and wind’s gotten colder
Gadd9 Em 
 Perhaps I’ve grown a little cynical 
Gadd9 Em 
But I know no matter what the waitress brings
Gadd9 Em 
I shall drink it and always be full
Gadd9 Em 
Yeah I will drink it and always be full

Gadd9 Em 
Oh I like coffee and I like tea
Gadd9 Em 
I’d like to be able to enter a final plea
Gadd9 Em 
I still got this dream that you just can’t shake
Gadd9 Em 
I love you to the point you can no longer take
Gadd9 Em 
Well all right, okay, so be that way
Gadd9 Em 
I hope and pray that there’s something left to say

Gadd9 Em 
But you   
Gadd9 Em 
Why you wanna give me a run-around 
Gadd9 Em 
Is it a sure-fire way to speed things up
Gadd9 Em 
When all it does is sllw me down  

Gadd9 Em 
But you   
Gadd9 Em 
Why you wanna give me a run-around 
Gadd9 Em 
Is it a sure-fire way to speed things up
Gadd9 Em Gadd9 Em 
When all it does is slooow me down   

Bob Dylan - Blowin’ in the Wind  

Dylan in D, PPM in F, I play in C capo 2

Lyrics and chords follow PPM version

Intro

Am 
       
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man?

Am 
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?

How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?

Am 
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

How many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?

Am 
How many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?

How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?

Am 
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?

Am 
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?

How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?

Am 
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Am 
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Bob Dylan - Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright  

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

Am Am/G 
F/E C/G C/G 
 
Am 
It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
 It don’t matter, anyhow
Am 
And it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
D7 
 If you don’t know by now

C7 
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
D7 
 Look out your window and I’ll be gone
Am 
 You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on 
 Don’t think twice, it’s all right

Am 
It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
 That light I never knowe
Am 
And it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
D7 
 I’m on the dark side of the road

C7 
Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say
D7 
To try and make me change my mind and stay
Am 
 We never did too much talkin’ anyway
 Don’t think twice, it’s all right

Am 
It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, babe
 Like you never did before 
Am 
And it ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, babe
D7 
I can’t hear you anymore

C7 
I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road
D7 
I once loved a woman, a child I’m told
Am 
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul
Don’t think twice, it’s all right

Am 
And I’m walking down that long lonesome road babe
 Where I’m bound, I can’t tell 
Am 
But goodbye is too good a word, babe
D7 
 So I’ll just say fare thee well

C7 
 I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
D7 
You could have done better but I don’t mind
Am 
 You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s alright

Outro

Am Am/G 
F/E C/G C/G 

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

Listen to me baby

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

Hard stop on “you”

If you want to be with me

But if you got to go  
That’s all right  
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you got to stay all night

It ain’t that I’m questionin’ you

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

An’ you keep askin’ me what time it is

But if you got to go  
That’s all right  
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you got to stay all night

I am just a poor boy lookin’ to connect

And I certainly don’t want you thinkin’

That I haven’t got any respect

But if you got to go  
That’s all right  
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you got to stay all night

It ain’t that I’m wantin’

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

It’ll be too dark for you to find the door

But if you got to go  
That’s all right  
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you got to stay all night

Said if you got to go  
That’s all right  
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you got to stay all night

Bob Dylan - Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door  

Chords are a combination of the Dylan and GnR versions

Am7 
  
Am Am7 
 Mama, take this badge from me 
I can’t use it anymore
Am Am7 
 It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see 
Feels like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Am 
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
C7 
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door 
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door

Am Am7 
Mama, put my guns in the ground 
I can’t shoot them anymore
Am Am7 
That long black cloud is comin’ down 
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

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

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

Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Am 
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
C7 
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door 
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Ooohhhh... oh oh yea

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone  

Fmaj7/C 
   x 4

Dm7 
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Em 
You threw the bums a dime in your prime,  didn’t you?
Dm7 
 People’d call, say beware doll
Em 
You’re bound to fall, you thought they were all  a kiddin’ you

 You used to  laugh about
 Everybody that was  hangin’ out
Em Dm7 
 Now you don’t talk so loud
Em Dm7 
 Now you don’t seem so proud
Dm7 
About having to be scrounging for your next meal

How does it feel  
How does it feel  
To be without a home  
Like a complete unknown  
Like a rolling stone  

    
Dm7 Em 
Aww, You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get  juiced in it
Dm7 Em 
Nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you’re gonna have to get  used to it

 You said you’d never compromise
 With the mystery tramp, but now you  realize
Em Dm7 
 He’s not selling any alibis
Em Dm7 
 As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
Dm7 
And say do you want to  make a deal?

How does it feel  
How does it feel  
To be on your own  
With no direction home  
A complete unknown  
Like a rolling stone  

    
Dm7 Em 
Aww, you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did  tricks for you
Dm7 
You never understood that it ain’t no good
Em 
You shouldn’t let other people get your  kicks for you

 You used to ride on the chrome horse with your  diplomat
 Who carried on his shoulder a  Siamese cat
Em Dm7 
 Ain’t it hard when you discover that
Em Dm7 
 He really wasn’t where it’s at
Dm7 
After he took from you everything he could steal

How does it feel  
How does it feel  
To have you on your own  
With no direction home  
Like a complete unknown  
Like a rolling stone  

    
Dm7 
Aww, princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
Em 
They’re all drinkin’, thinkin’ that they  got it made
Dm7 
 Exchanging all precious gifts 
Em 
But you’d better take your diamond ring,  you’d better pawn it babe

 You used to be  so amused
 At Napoleon in rags  and the language that he used
Em Dm7 
 Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse 
Em Dm7 
 When you ain’t got nothing, you got  nothing to lose
Dm7 
 You’re invisible now, you got no secrets  to conceal

How does it feel  
Aw, how does it feel  
To be on your own  
With no direction home  
Like a complete unknown  
Like a rolling stone  

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

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 
 To make you feel my love

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 
 To make you feel my love

 I know you haven’t made your mind up yet
C+ 
 But I would never do you wrong
 I’ve known it from the moment that we met
Dm7 
No doubt in my mind where you belong

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 
 To make you feel my love

Solo

G/B Gm/Bb F/A 
Fm/Ab C/G D9/F# F/G 
    
 The storms are raging on the rolling sea
 And on the highway of regret
 The winds of change are blowing wild and free
Dm7 
You ain’t seen nothing like me yet

G/B 
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Gm/Bb F/A 
 There is nothing that I wouldn’t do
Fm/Ab C/G 
 Go to the ends of the Earth for you
D9/F# F/G 
 To make you feel my love
D9/F# F/G 
 To make you feel my love

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin’  

Em 
Come gather ‘round people
Am 
Wherever you roam
Em 
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
Em 
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone

Am 
If your time to you is worth savin’
D/C 
Then you better start swimmin’
G/B 
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Em 
Come writers and critics
Am 
Who prophesize with your pen
Em 
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
Em 
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin

Am 
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
D/C 
For the loser now
G/B 
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Em 
Come senators, congressmen
Am 
Please heed the call
Em 
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
Em 
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled

Am 
There’s a battle outside
And it’s ragin’
D/C 
It’ll soon shake your windows
G/B 
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Em 
Come mothers and fathers
Am 
Throughout the land
Em 
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Em 
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command

Am 
Your old road is rapidly agin’
D/C 
Please get out of the new one
G/B 
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

Em 
The line it is drawn
Am 
The curse it is cast
Em 
The slow one now
Will later be fast
Em 
As the present now
Will later be past

Am 
The order is rapidly fadin’

Cool ending from the Eddie Vedder cover...

D/C 
And the first one now
G/B 
Will later be last

D/C 
Please get out of the new one
G/B 
If you can’t lend your hand

D/C 
It’ll soon shake your windows
G/B 
And rattle your walls

D/C 
For the loser now
G/B 
Will be later to win

D/C 
Then you better start swimmin’
G/B 
Or you’ll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin’

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

Bm Em 
All around in my home town
Bm Em 
They’re trying to track me down
Bm Em 
They say they want to bring me in guilty
Bm Em 
For the killing of a deputy
Bm Em 
For the life of a deputy

With riff

But I say

Em 
I shot the sheriff
Am Em 
But I swear it was in self-defense
Em 
I shot the sheriff
Am Em 
And they say it is a capital offense

Bm Em 
Sheriff John Brown always hated me
Bm Em 
For what I don’t know
Bm Em 
Every time that I plant a seed
Bm Em 
He said “Kill it before it grows”
Bm Em 
He said “Kill it before it grows”

With riff

I say

Em 
I shot the sheriff
Am Em 
But I swear it was in self-defense
Em 
I shot the sheriff
Am Em 
But I swear it was in self-defense

Bm Em 
Freedom came my way one day
Bm Em 
And I started out of town yeah
Bm Em 
All of a sudden I see sheriff John Brown
Bm Em 
Aiming to shoot me down
Bm Em 
So I shot,  I shot 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

Bm Em 
Reflexes  got the better of me
Bm Em 
And what is to be must be
Bm Em 
Every day the bucket falls to the well
Bm Em 
But one day the bottom will drop out
Bm Em 
Yes, one day 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

Bm Em 
     x2

Original fade, I end on riff

Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry  

Originally in C, I play in G capo 2.

D/F# Em 
      
D/F# Em 
No woman, no cry 
D/F# 
No woman, no cry
D/F# Em 
No woman, no cry 
D/F# 
No woman, no cry, said, said

D/F# Em 
Said I remember when we used to sit 
D/F# Em 
In the government yard in Trenchtown 
D/F# Em 
Ob, observing all the hypocrits 
D/F# Em 
As they would mingle with all the good people we meet

D/F# Em 
Good friends we have good friends we’ve lost
D/F# Em 
  Along the way 
D/F# Em 
In this great future, you can’t forget your past
D/F# Em 
So dry your tears I say 

D/F# Em 
No woman, no cry  
D/F# 
No woman, no cry  
D/F# Em 
Here little darling don’t shed no tears
D/F# 
No woman, no cry, said, said

D/F# Em 
Said I remember when we used to sit 
D/F# Em 
In the government yard in Trenchtown 
D/F# Em 
And then Georgie would make the fire light
D/F# Em 
As it was like a wood burning through the night

D/F# Em 
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge
D/F# Em 
Of which I’ll share with you
D/F# Em 
My feet  is my only carriage, and so
D/F# Em 
I’ve got to push on through, but while I’m gone

D/F# Em 
Everything’s gonna be alright, everything’s gonna be alright
D/F# Em 
Everything’s gonna be alright, everything’s gonna be alright
D/F# Em 
Everything’s gonna be alright, everything’s gonna be alright
D/F# Em 
Everything’s gonna be alright, everything’s gonna be alright

D/F# Em 
No woman, no cry 
D/F# 
No woman, no cry
D/F# Em 
No my little sister don’t shed no tears
D/F# 
No woman, no cry

D/F# Em 
Said I remember when we used to sit 
D/F# Em 
In the government yard in Trenchtown 
D/F# Em 
And then Georgie would make the fire light
D/F# Em 
As it was like a wood burning through the night

D/F# Em 
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge
D/F# Em 
Of which I’ll share with you
D/F# Em 
My feet  is my only carriage, and so
D/F# Em 
I’ve got to push on through, but while I’m gone

D/F# Em 
No woman, no cry 
D/F# 
No woman, no cry
D/F# Em 
Oh my little darlin’ don’t shed no tears
D/F# 
No woman, no cry

D/F# Em 
 Little darlin’,  don’t shed no tears
D/F# 
No woman, no cry  
D/F# Em 
 Little sister don’t shed no tears
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 Em Em 
   
Em 
On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine, moanin’ out its one note song
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
When you’re riding sixteen hours and there’s nothing much to do
Em 
You don’t feel much like writing, you just wish the trip was through 

Em 
But here I am, on the road again
Em 
Here I am, up on stage
Here I go, playing the star again
Em 
There I go, turn the page

Em 
You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you, as you’re shaking off the cold
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
And it’s all the same cliches is that a woman or a man
Em 
And you always seem outnumbered, you don’t dare make a stand

Em 
But here I am, on the road again
Em 
Here I am, up on stage
Here I go, playing the star again
Em 
There I go, turn the page

Quiet, let chords ring...

Em 
Out there in the spotlight, you’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy you try to give away
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
The echoes of the amplifiers ringin’ in your head
Em 
And you smoke the day’s last cigarette, remembering what she said 

Em 
But here I am, on the road again
Em 
Here I am, up on stage
Here I go, playing the star again
Em 
There I go, turn the page

Now getting loud again...

Em 
But here I am, on the road again
Em 
Here I am, up on stage
Here I go, playing the star again
Em 
There I go, there I go

Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea  

Dm7 Gm C7 
   x2

Dm7 Gm C7 
Somewhere   beyond the
Dm7 Gm C7 
Sea  somewhere waiting for 
A7 Dm7 C7 
Me   my lover 
Dm7 Bb D7 Gm 
Stands on golden sands   
C7 Dm7 
And watches the ships that go 
G7 C7 
Sailing  

Dm7 Gm C7 
Somewhere   beyond the
Dm7 Gm C7 
Sea  she’s there watching for 
A7 Dm7 C7 
Me   If I could 
Dm7 Bb D7 Gm 
Fly like birds on high  
C7 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 E7 
Sail ing  

F#m Bm E7 
It’s far    beyond a

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

F#m Bm E7 G7 
Star  it’s near beyond the moon 
Am Dm7 G7 
I know   beyond a
Am Dm7 G7 Am C7/G C7 
Doubt, my heart will lead me there soon 

Dm7 Gm C7 
We’ll meet   beyond the 
Dm7 Gm C7 
Shore,  we’ll kiss just as 
A7 Dm7 C7 
Before   happy we’ll 
Dm7 Bb D7 Gm 
Be beyond the sea  
C7 Dm7 
And never a gain,  I’ll go 
G7 C7 
Sail ing

Solo over first verse chords, or just hit a II somewhere (G in F)

Am Dm7 G7 
I know   beyond a
Am Dm7 G7 Am C7/G C7 
Doubt, my heart will lead me there soon 

Dm7 Gm C7 
We’ll meet, I know we’ll meet, beyond the 
Dm7 Gm C7 
Shore,  we’ll kiss just as 
A7 Dm7 C7 
Before   happy we’ll 
Dm7 Bb D7 Gm 
Be beyond the sea  
C7 Dm7 
And never a gain,  I’ll go 
G7 C7 
Sail ing

Dm7 Gm C7 
       No more sailing
Dm7 Gm C7 
       So long sailing
Dm7 Gm C7 
       Bye bye sailing

Bobby Darin - Dream Lover  

Originally around C, I play in A

I play straight-8ths, almost punk

F#m F#m 
   
F#m 
Every night I hope and pray, a dream lover will come my way
F#m 
A girl to hold in my arms, and know the magic of her charms
E7 
Because I want a girl to call my own 
F#m Bm7 E7 
I want a dream lover so I don’t have to dream alone

F#m 
Dream lover, where are you, with a love, oh, so true
F#m 
And a hand that I can hold, to feel you near as I grow old
E7 
Because I want a girl to call my own 
F#m Bm7 E7 
I want a dream lover so I don’t have to dream alone

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

F#m 
Dream lover, until then, I’ll go to sleep and dream again
F#m 
That’s the only thing to do, till all my lover’s dreams come true
E7 
Because I want a girl to call my own 
F#m Bm7 E7 A# 
I want a dream lover so I don’t have to dream alone

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 alone

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

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?

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 cement 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 disappeared, babe
Db6 
After drawin’ out all his hard earned cash
Db/F Edim Ebm 
And now MacHeath spend just like a sailor
Db6 
Could it be our boy’s done somethin’ rash?

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 Macky’s     
Eb Db7 Eb Db7 Eb Db7 
Back in town     
Eb Eb7#9 
Look out, old Macky is back 

Bobby Day - Rockin’ Robin  

Originally in G, I play in E capo 1

F#m 
Tweedily deedily dee,  tweedily deedily dee
F#m 
Tweedily deedily dee,  tweedily deedily dee
F#m 
Tweedily deedily dee,  tweedily deedily dee
Tweet, tweet, tweet tweet

Vox on the b7 on “rocks”

E7 
He rocks in the treetops all day long

Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ his song
All the little birds on J-Bird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet

A7 
Rockin’ robin (tweet, tweet, tweet)
E7 
Rock, rock, rockin’ robin (tweet, tweedlee-dee)
B7 
Go rockin’ robin, cause we’re really gonna rock tonight

E7 
Every little swallow, every chickadee

Every little bird in the tall oak tree
The wise old owl, the big black crow
Flappin' their wings singin' go bird, go

A7 
Rockin’ robin (tweet, tweet, tweet)
E7 
Rock, rock, rockin’ robin (tweet, tweedlee-dee)
B7 
Go rockin’ robin, cause we’re really gonna rock tonight, oh

Solo

E7 E7 E7 E7 
A7 A7 E7 E7 
B7 A7 E7 E7 
   

Bridge

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “pretty”

pretty little raven at the bird man stand
Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand
He started goin’ steady and bless my soul
He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriole

E7 
He rocks in the treetops all day long

Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ his song
All the little birds on J-Bird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet

A7 
Rockin’ robin (tweet, tweet, tweet)
E7 
Rock, rock, rockin’ robin (tweet, tweedlee-dee)
B7 
Go rockin’ robin, cause we’re really gonna rock tonight

Well the pretty little raven at the bird man stand
Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand
He started goin’ steady and bless my soul
He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriole

E7 
He rocks in the treetops all day long

Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ his song
All the little birds on J-Bird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet

A7 
Rockin’ robin (tweet, tweet, tweet)
E7 
Rock, rock, rockin’ robin (tweet, tweedlee-dee)
B7 
Go rockin’ robin, cause we’re really gonna rock tonight

F#m 
Tweedily deedily dee,  tweedily deedily dee
F#m 
Tweedily deedily dee,  tweedily deedily dee
F#m 
Tweedily deedily dee,  tweedily deedily dee
Tweet, tweet, tweet tweet

Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry Be Happy  

Originally in B, I play in D and take the “oohs” down an octave, or make them “mmmms”

Or play in G, taking the verse vox up an octave

Intro, with whistling

Bm 
       x2

Vox on the 3

 Here’s a little song I wrote
Bm 
You might want to sing it note for note
Don’t worry, be happy

 In every life we have some trouble
Bm 
 But when you worry you make it double
Don’t worry, be happy (don’t worry, be happy now)

With oohs, and spoken “don’t worry be happy”

Bm 
   

Now with *harmonized* oohs

Bm 
 Ain’t got no place to lay your head
Bm 
 Somebody came and took your bed
Don’t worry, be happy

 The landlord say your rent is late
Bm 
 He may have to litigate
Don’t worry, be happy (look at me, I’m happy)

With ooh’s, and with spoken “let me give you me phone number, when you worry, call me, I make you happy”

Bm 
Bm 
 Ain’t got no cash, ain’t got no style
Bm 
 Ain’t got no gal to make you smile
But don’t worry, be happy

‘Cause when you worry your face will frown
Bm 
And that will bring everybody down
So don’t worry, be happy (don’t worry, be happy now)
Don’t worry, be happy now

With oohs, and spoken “don’t worry be happy”

Bm 
Bm 

Spoken

Don't worry, don't worry, don't do it
Be happy, put a smile on your face
Don't bring everybody down
Don't worry, it will soon pass whatever it is

Bobby Vee - Take Good Care of My Baby  

Originally in F, I play in E capo 1

High risk of being boring, do everything after the intro as a fast swing

Vox on the 5

C#m 
My tears are fallin’
‘Cause you’ve taken her away
Eaug 
And though it really hurts me so

Vox up to the 3 of the chord

There’s something that I’ve gotta say

C#m 
Take good care of my   baby
C#m 
Please don’t ever make her blue
E7 
Just tell her that you love her
Am 
Make sure you’re thinking of her
C#m 
In everything you say and do 

C#m 
Take good care of my  baby
C#m 
Now don’t you ever make her cry
E7 
Just let your love surround her
Am 
Paint a rainbow all around her
Don’t let her see a cloudy sky

Vox on the 1 of the chord on “once”

F#m7 C#m7 
Once upon a time, that little girl was mine
F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 
If I’d been true, I know she’d never be with you, so...

C#m 
Take good care of my  baby
C#m 
Be just as kind as you can be 
E7 
And if you should discover
Am 
That you don’t really love her
C#m 
Just send my baby back home to me

Key change up a half-step

   
Dm A# 
Take good care of my  baby
Dm A# 
Be just as kind as you can be
F7 
And if you should discover
A# A#m 
That you don’t really love her
Dm A# 
Just send my baby back home to  me
Dm A# 
Dm A# 
Take good care of my  baby

Repeat to fade

BoJack Horseman - Kyle and the Kids  

Originally in C, I play in A

D/A 
 
E/G# F#m F#m7/E 
Kyle and the kids 
Bm7 
Kyle’s a dad and Charlotte’s married to him
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#dim 
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 A# 
He loves his wife and there’s nothing you can do
A# F/A Gm Gm7/F 
Kyle and the kids 
Cm7 A# 
Oh no, it’s gonna be alright, be alright oh no

Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine  

Originally in E, I play in A

Intro

A7 A6 A7 
       x 2

 Your love is like bad medicine
 Bad medicine is what I need, whoa ho ho
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
 There ain’t no doctor that can
Cure my disease

Hard stop

 

Vox more or less on the b3

I ain’t got a fever got a permanent disease 
And it’ll take more than a doctor to prescribe a remedy 
I got lots of money but it isn’t what I need
Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me  
And I got all the symptoms count ‘em one, two, three

First you need (that’s what you get for falling in love)

Then you bleed (you get a little and it’s never enough)

And you’re on your knees (that’s what you get for falling in love)
Now this boy’s addicted ‘cause your kiss is the drug, whoa ho ho

 Your love is like bad medicine
 Bad medicine is what I need, whoa ho ho
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
 There ain’t no doctor that can
Cure my disease
Bad, bad medicine

I don’t need no needle to be giving me a thrill  
I don’t need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill  
I got a dirty-down addition that doesn’t leave a track
I got a jone for your affection like a monkey on my back  
There ain’t no paramedic gonna save this heart attack

When you need (that’s what you get for falling in love)

Then you bleed (you get a little and it’s never enough)

And then you’re on your knees (that’s what you get for falling in love)
Now this boy’s addicted ‘cause your kiss is the drug, whoa ho ho

 Your love is like bad medicine
 Bad medicine is what I need, whoa ho ho
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
 So let’s play doctor baby
Cure my disease
Bad, bad medicine, it’s what I want
Bad, bad medicine, oww, what I need

Solo

   

Let ring

I need a respirator cause I’m running out of breath 
Oh you’re an all-night generator wrapped in stockings and a dress 
When you find your medicine you take what you can get
‘Cause if there’s something better baby well they haven’t found it yet

Oh ho ho

 Your love is like bad medicine
 Bad medicine is what I need, whoa ho ho
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
 There ain’t no doctor that can
Cure my disease
 Your love, bad medicine

Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses  

Originally in F, I play in C capo 2.

Note this is IV → I, not I → IV.

       (x2)

Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment
This morning I don’t know
Em 
‘Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
Think she’s still in my bed
As I dream about movies they
Won’t make of me when I’m dead

With an ironclad fist
I wake up and French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps its own beat
In my head while we’re talking
Em 
About all of the things, that I long to believe
About love, the truth, what you mean to me
And the truth is
G/B 
Baby, you’re all that I need 

Am 
I wanna lay
You down in a bed of roses
Am 
For tonight
I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as
The holy ghost is
Am 
And lay you down
On a bed of roses

Well I’m so far away
Each step that I take’s on my way home
A king’s ransom in dimes
Given each night to see through this pay phone
Em 
Still I run out of time
Or it’s hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I’ll just close my eyes, whisper
G/B 
Baby, blind love is true 

Am 
I wanna lay
You down in a bed of roses
Am 
For tonight
I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as
The holy ghost is
Am 
And lay you down
On a bed of roses

Bridge

Well this hotel bar’s hangover
Whiskey’s gone dry the barkeeper’s wig’s crooked

And she’s giving me the eye

I might have said yes
G/B 
But I laughed so hard I think I died 

Solo on chorus chords, more or less

Now as you close your eyes
Know I’ll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonight I won’t be alone
But you know that don’t mean I’m not lonely
Am 
I’ve got nothing to prove for it’s you
G/B 
That I’d die to defend 

Am 
I wanna lay
You down in a bed of roses
Am 
For tonight
I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as
The holy ghost is
Am 
And lay you down

Am 
I wanna lay
You down in a bed of roses
Am 
For tonight
I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as
The holy ghost is
Am 
And lay you down on a bed of roses

Bon Jovi - Born to Be My Baby  

Originally starts in F#m, I start in Bm capo 3

Two, three, four!

Bm 
 Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na na
A/C# 
 Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na na
Bm Asus4 
 Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na na  → 

Bm 
Rainy night and we worked all day
Both got jobs ‘cause there’s bills to pay
But we got something they can’t take away
Dsus4 Dsus4 
Our love,