Guitar chords & lyrics
“Sing-along” songs
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Van Morrison - Brown-eyed girl
Elbow - One day like this
Mumford & sons – winter winds
Beautiful south – everybody’s talking
Beatles
Working Class Hero
Roxette – it must have been love
Beatles Hey Jude?
Pink Floyd – wish you were here
Shed 7 – chasing rainbows
G
G
Bm
Bm
Em7
Em7
C
C
Am7
F
Em7
Hey Jude
G
G7
D
C
D7
Am
D
D
G,
G
C
(G7
I saw her standing
A
D
E7
x2
D
E
A hard day’s night
(fret 2)
G
Bm
Cadd
Em
G
Bm
Dm7
G
G
Em
x2,
C
C
D
D
G
Ticket to ride
D
, Em7 A7 , Bm
(Bridge) Bm
A7 (Em7)
G
D ,
Bm
G7
C,
A7
G7
A ???
Can’t buy me love
intro:
v:
ch:
Em
C
Em
Am x 2 ,
F7
C
Am
C
Dm7
G
Em
G
F7
Am
C
Dm7
G
I feel fine
A7
E7
D7
A ,
A
C#m
D
E7 “baby’s good to me...”
She loves you
ch:
v:
Am
C
D7
Am
F
Em
C
G7 x 2, C
Am
Fm
You can’t do that
(open)
Ben Howard
Keep your head up
(fret 5, C-harp)
Ben Harper
In the Lord’s Arms
(fret 5, G-harp)
(3/4 finger pick)
Another lonely day
(fret 2, finger pick)
G7
C7
G
D7
B7 (fret 7) Em (fret 7) Am
G
D
G,
D) , G F C (nah, nah, nah)
C9
G
G7
C7 x 2 “I got something to say that might cause
B7
Em , Am
D7
C
Em7 G
G/F# x lots then D, Em7 D
C x4
“I spent my time watching the spaces that have grown between us
& I cut my mind on second best, oh the scars that come with the greenness
And I gave my eyes to the boredom, still the seabed wouldn’t let me in
And I try my best to embrace the darkness, in which I swim
Now walking back down this mountain, the strength of a turning tide, Oh the wind
G
F
C
Am
G
D
“Like the wings stolen from an angel, like pebbles gone from the road, like a dove
And the wind it blew straight through us, and whispered to me in tongues, I was told
So I raise this glass to him with each glass of memories, he left with his crown
C prog to Am A thing (002000 )
G ,
F
Am
G
“yes indeed, Im alone again, and here comes emptiness crashing in, its either love
1
Bob Marley
Redemption Song
(G harp)
v:
ch:
G
G
Em
C
C
D
Could you be loved
(fret 3)
Bm
D
Em
Bm7
Bm
G
Em , Bm
G F#m Em Bm
G F#m A
D
“don’t let them fool ya or even try to school ya...”
No woman no cry
(fret 3 – pick)
C
C
G/B (020003)
G/B
Am
Am
F ,
F
C
F
C
Dm
Em
G x2 ,
F
G
F
F
G x2
Em
Dm
Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone
G
G
Am
C
F
C
C x2 , F
G
C
G
Once upon a time you dressed so fine, You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall" You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about, Everybody that was hangin' out,
Now you don't talk so loud, Now you don't seem so proud, about having to be scrounging for your next meal.
How does it feel, To be without a home, Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Bryan Adams
Summer of 69
(Dsus-D-Dsus4-D , Asus-A-Asus4-A)
D
A x lots ,
Bm
A
(middle 8:
F
Bb
C
“I got my first real 6 string...”
D
G
Bb...)
Baby when you’re gone
(Dm
G
C )x3 ,
Dm
Bb
G
(fret 4)
(Dm
F
C
G) x3
Dm
Bb
G
“Ive been wandering around the house all day, wondering what the hell... Im trying to concentrate but all I...
Well the phone don’t ring cos my friends aint home, I’m tired of being all alone.
Got the TV on cos the radio’s playing songs that remind me of you.”
Buena Vista Social Club
El Cuarta del Tula
Am
E7
x?
Dm
E7
Am
Am
G
F
E,
G
C,
E7
Am
“El en barrio la Cachimba se ha formado la corradera, alla fureon los bombers con...
Que has hecho?
Eb
Bb7
Eb
C7
Fm
F7
Bb7
Chan Chan
Dm
F
Gm
A7sus
“de alto cedro voy para macane, llego a cueto voy para mayari
El carino que te tengo, ya si no pudeo negar, se me sale la babita, yo no lo pudeo evotar
Cuando juanica y chan chan, en el mar cernian arean, come sacudia el jibe, a chan chan le daba pena
Limpia el camino de pajas, Que yo me quiero sentar, En aquel tronco que veo, Y asi no puedo llegar
The Beautiful South
Everybody’s talking at me
(D harp)
D (various...)
Em7
A7
2
D
D7
Cat Stevens
Father to Son
(fret 2?)
Cold Play
Yellow
(fret 3?)
“It’s not time to make a change, just relax & take it easy”
G
D
C
Am
G
Em
Am
D
G
Em
D
G
A
E
Dsus2 x3 , A
Asus4 A
D
F#m
E
D x3, A
“look at the stars..., I came along..., & so I took my turn..., CH: & your skin..”
Credence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou E7 (fret 5, intro)
D
A
(open, plectrum) “Now when I was just a little boy, standin to my daddy’s knee
My poppa said Son don’t let the man get you, do what he done to me
Now I can remember the 4th of July, running through the backwood bare
And I can still hear my old hound dog barking, chasing down a hoodoo there
Tracey Chapman
Revolution (fret 3)
Sorry
(open, A-harp)
G
Cadd Em
D
“don’t you know..., Poor people gonna rise up..,
Wasting time in..., Cos finally..., Ooh I think you better run...”
D
G
A
(Em)
“Sorry is all that you can say, years gone by & still, words don’t mean anything
Forgive me..., I love you,
And you can say baby, baby can I hold you tonight
Give me one reason
E7
A7
E7 , E7 A7 E7 , B7
A7
E7
(fret 5, D-harp)
“Give me one reason to stay here & I’ll turn right back around, Cause I don’t wanna leave
(slow plectrum) Baby I got your number & I know that..., You can call me baby, you can call me anytime
I don’t want no one to squeeze me, they might take away my life, I just want someone to...
Johnny Cash
Hurt
(fret 3, finger strum)
Am
Dsus2 Am
C
Dsus2 Am , C
G
C
F
C
G x 2 Am F G Am F G Am C D
“I hurt myself today...; I wear this crown of thorns... full of... beneath the stains of
JJ Cale
Cocaine
E
D
x lots
The Breeze
E7
A
B7
Cajun Moon
Dm
G
A
C
C
F
Am
F
Am
x 2,
G
F
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah
(fret 2 or 3)
,
E
D
C
Bb
F
Am
C
G
F
G
C
G
C
G
Em
Am
I heard there was a secret chord, That David played and it pleased the lord, But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth, The minor fall and the major lift, The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof, You saw her bathing on the roof, Her beauty & t’moonlight o-threw U
She tied you to her kitchen chair, She broke your throne & she cut your hair, And from your lips she drew the hallelujah
Suzanne
G
C
G
D
C
3
“Suzanne takes you down, to her place”
Eric Clapton
Layla
Dm
C#m
Bb
G#m
C
C#m
Lay down sally
A
D
A
(bar chords, funky blues, open, plectrum)
Dm,
C
D
“what’ll you do when you get lonely...”
E,
F#m
B7
E
A
D
E ,
A
D
E
A
There is nothing that is wrong wanting you to stay here with me
I know you got somewhere to go, but won’t you make yourself at home & stay with me, & don’t U ever leave
Lay down Sally come rest here in my arms, don’t you think you want someone to talk to
Lay down Sally, no need to leave so soon I’ve been waiting all night long just to talk to you
The sun ain't nearly on the rise, We still got the moon and stars above,
Underneath the velvet skies, Love is all that matters, won't you stay with me
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Teach your children
C
F
C
G7 ,
C
F
C
Almost cut my hair
(fret 3, plectrum)
Am
C
G
Em
D x4 ,
Am
Am7
F
Em7
Dsus4 D
Am
F
G
C
Am
G
D
“Almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day, it’s getting kinda long, I coulda said it was in my way
The Cure
Close to me (fret 2, finger strum triplets)
B
Abmin F#
x4
,
E
B x 2
“I've waited hours for this, I've made myself so sick, I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end, I never thought tonight could ever be this close to me
Just try to see in the dark, just try to make it work, to feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close, I pull my eyes out hold my breath and wait until I shake...
But if I had your faith, then I could make it safe & clean, If only I was sure that my head on the door was a
dream
Lovecats
(fret 2, barre chords)
Boys don’t cry
Del Amitri
Nothing ever happens
(fret 2?, finger strum)
The Eagles
New kid in town
Take it to the limit
(fret 5, C-harp)
Am
G
F
G
x 4
,
C
Dm
“We move like cajun tigers, We couldn't get closer than this
x2
A
Bm
C#m D
“I would say I’m sorry if I thought that it would change your mind but I know that
A
F#m x 2 , D A
E
F#m
D
A
E
D
A
D
A , ch: A
D
A
D
F#m
D
E
D
“post office clerks put up sign saying... secretaries turn off typewriters & put on
Janitors padlock the gates..... bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
2. Gentlemen time please, you know we...
3. Telephone exchanges click when
D
Em7
(004422)
A
F#
Em7
(Bm
A
G
E) x 3 Em7
A
A
(G C) x 2
(G C) x 2
C
G
G
Am
C
B7
C
G
Em
D
D
C
C (hold)
G
D
D
D (hold)
4
D
x2
“there’s talk on the streets”
“all alone at the end...”
“and Ive always been a
G
DG
Hotel California
Am
F
E
C
G
E
D
Am
F
F
C
C
Dm
Dm
E
E
x2
Desperado
G
Em
Em
G7
Bm
Bm
C
C
C
Cm
G
G
G
Em7
A7
Em7
C
Am7
A7
G
D
D7
D
D7
x2
E
E
A (fret 6, not bar)
Dsus A
E
A
E
Elbow
One day like this
(fret 5, plectrum)
B (fret 8)
Drinking in the morning sun, blinking in the morning sun, Shaking off the heavy one, yeah heavy like a loaded gun
What made me behave that way? Using words i never say, I can only think it must be love, Oh anyway, it's looking like a...
Someone tell me how I feel, it's silly wrong but vivid right, Oh, kiss me like a final meal, yeah kiss me like we die tonight
Cause holy cow i love your eyes and only now i see the light, Yeah lying with you half awake, Oh anyway it's looking like a
So throw those curtains wide, One day like this a year, it'd see me right,
Elvis
Teddy Bear
(fret 2, plectrum)
A
D
A
E
A
bridge: D
E x4 A
“baby let me be your loving teddy bear, put a chain around my neck and lead me...
Heartbreak Hotel
(fret 2, plectrum)
A
A7
ch:
D
E7
A
“Well since my baby left me, Ive found a new place to dwell, down at the end of...
In the Ghetto
(fret 2, plectrum)
C
Em
F
G
x2 ,
G
F
C
F
G
C , G F C F Em F G
“As the snow flies, On a cold and grey chicago mornin', A poor little baby child is born, In the ghetto
And his mama cries, 'cause if there's one thing that she don't need, It's another hungry mouth to feed in the G
People don't you understand, The child needs a helping hand, Or he'll grow to be an angry young man some D
Take a look at you and me, Are we too blind to see, Do we simply turn our heads and look the other way
Well the world turns, And a hungry little boy with a runny nose, Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
And his hunger burns, So he starts to roam the streets at night, And he learns how to steal, And... fight”
George Michael
Something to save
(fret 5, finger strum)
D
G x 4 C ,
C
D x4 ,
C
G
D
“if you’ve got something to say why don’t you say it, if you’ve got something to give
Gabrielle
Out of Reach
C
Am
G
F x2, Am7
Gsus4
F
G7sus4 “felt the signs”
Jose Gonzalez
Heartbeats
D/Dsus
Bm
G
(A)
(open)
“One night to be confused, one night to speed up truth, we had a promise, 4 hands & then...
“Both under influence, we had divine scent, to know what to say, mind is a razor blade
To call for hands of above to lean on, wouldn’t be good enough.
One night of magic rush, the start, a simple touch, One night to push and scream & then...
Ten days of perfect tunes, The colors, red and blue, We had a promise made, We were in...”
Green Day
American Idiot
D
G
A
D
A
G , ch: D
A
E
“Dont wanna be an American idiot, don’t wanna nation controlled by the media
Dan you hear the paranoia, the subliminal mind-fuck America
5
Hendrix
Hey Joe (fret 4?)
C
G
D
A
E
(E7)
Lynryd Skynrd
Sweet Home Alabama
D
Cadd9 G
(fret 4, finger pick)
“big wheels keep on turning, carry me home to my kin, singing songs about the...
Well I heard mister young sing about her, and I heard old Neil put her down, well I
In Birmingham they loved the govnor, and we all did what we could do, now W
Tuesday’s Gone
(fret 3, C-harp on verse)
A
E
F#m
D ,
A
E
D
x 2
A
G
D
A
E
D
“Train roll on, on down the line, Won't you please take me far away?
Now I feel the wind blow outside my door, Means I'm leaving my woman...
Live
Lightning crashes
E
B
F#
(Fret 3 & plectrum) “Lightning crashes...a new mother cries, Her placenta falls to the floor...
The angel opens her eyes, the confusion sets in, before the doctor can even close the
Lightning crashes...an old mother dies, Her intentions fall to the floor...
The angel closes her eyes, the confusion that was hers, Belongs now to the baby down
The Levellers
One Way
(fret 4, plectrum)
D
Bm
F
D
G x lots
E5
A
G
D
A
My father when I was younger took me up onto the hill, that looked down on the city smog above the factory spill
He said “this is where I come to when I want to be free”, well he never was in his lifetime, but these words stuck with me
And so I ran from all of this, and I climbed the highest hill, and I looked down onto my life as the family disagree
Then all my friends on the starting line their wages off to chase, yes all my friends & all their jons & all the bloody waste
There’s only one way of life and that’s your own
Massive Attack
Unfinished Sympathy
(open, fast plectrum)
Teardrop
(finger pick, fret 1)
Dm
F
G (hey x 3),
Bb
C x 2 , Am
Dm
Bb
C
(x02420)
G
D
,
F
G
to 1st chord
“Love, love is a verb, love is a doing word, fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion, shakes me makes me lighter, fearless on my breath, Teardrop...
Nine night of matter, black flowers blossom
John Martyn
May you never
intro x02225
x02023 D
Dsus2 x00230
A?
(open) A
A7
x0222x
x0223x
x0225x
D x20033
x20032 , D
x20032
“May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold, may you never make bed out in the
You’re just like great strong brother of mine & I know that you love you true, & you don’t talk dirty
Marillion
Sugar Mice
(fret 2, finger pick)
Kayleigh
G
C x lots
D
C
G
D
C
G
“I was flicking though the channels on the TV, on a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rain
Bm
A
F#m
G ,
D
D/A (xx0220) G
D , C
G
D
“Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on a playground wall,
“do you remember, dawn escaped from moon-washed college halls, cherry blossom
6
Metallica
Whisky in the jar
Nothing else matters
C
G
Am
C
F
F
C
G
x 2 “As I was going over the Cork & Kerry...”
C
Em
D
C x3 G
B
Em
C
A
D
C
“so close no matter how far, couldn’t be much more from the heart, forever...”
Never opened myself this way, life is ours we live it our way, oh these words I don’t
Moby
Natural Blues
A#
G#
C#
D# , A#
A#
F#
G#
(fret 2, slow plectrum) “Oh lordy, trouble so hard. ‘Aint nobody knows... Went down the hill the other day
Mumford & sons
Winter Winds
(open, fast plectrum
or finger strum)
E
A
B
E
C#m
A
A
E
B
“As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts, Oh the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms
Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt
And my head told my heart, "Let love grow", But my heart told my head, "This time no this time no"
We'll be washed and buried one day my girl, And the time we were given will be left for the world
The flesh that lived and loved will be eaten by plague, So let the memories be good for those who stay”
My Chemical Romance
Teenagers
E
B
A
E
B
E
(open, plectrum)
They're gonna clean up your looks, with all the lies and the books, to make a citizen out of you
because they sleep with a gun, and keep an eye on you son, so they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work, they gonna give you a smirk, cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip out your heads, your aspirations to shreads, another caught in the murder machine
They say all teenagers scare the living shit out of me, they could care less as long as someone will bleed
so darken your clothes, or strike a violent pose, maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
Neil Young
Old Man
D
After the Gold Rush
(open)
D G x2
Bm
C
F
C
G
,
D
Am7
G
D
G
A
C
G
D
A,
A
C
G
“Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming, Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and Drummers drumming And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing To the sun That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run, In the nineteen seventies.
- I was lying in a burned out basement, With the full moon in my eyes...
- Well, I dreamed I saw the silver Space ships flying In the yellow haze of the sun,
Heart of Gold
Dm
Bb
C
F x 2? Dm
F
Bb
F
“I want to live, I want to give, I’ve been a miner for....”
Harvest
(fret 5 & G-harp)
Finger strum
D
A
G
D
A ,
G
A
Bm
E
D
“Did I see you down in a young girl’s town, with your mother in so much pain”
7
Helpless
(fret 4)
G
D
C
“There is a town in north Ontario, dream comfort memory
Out on a weekend
(fret 5, D-harp)
Bm
E x 2
C#m F#
Bm
E ,
A
Bm E
Bm
“think I’ll pack it in, but a pickup, take it down to LA. Find a place to call my own &
The woman I’m thinking of she loved me all up but Im so down today, she’s so fine...
The Needle & the damage done
D (add) Em7 prog down
C
F
Esus4 E
(fret 2)
“I caught you knocking at my cellar door, I love you baby can I have some more, Oh Oh the damage done
I hit the city and I lost my van, I watched the needle take another man, Gone gone the damage done
I sing the song because I love the man, I know that some of you don't understand, Milk blood to keep from...
I've seen the needle and the damage done, A little part of it in everyone, Every junky's like a setting sun”
Alabama
(fret 4, plectrum)
F
F
G
G
Em7
Em7
F
F
G
D
F
E
C
F
G ,
Am7
C
D
“Oh Alabama, the devil fools with the best laid plans, Swing low Alabama, you got spare change,
you got to feel strange, and now the moment is all that it meant. Alabama, you got the weight on your
shoulders that’s breaking your back, your Cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch and a wheel on the track
Nick Drake
Riverman
Am9 (x02500)
Gm7
F
Aadd9 (x02420)
Betty came by on her way, said she had a word to say, bout things today and the falling leaves
Said she hadn’t heard the news, hadn’t had the time to choose, a way to lose what she believes
Gonna see the Riverman, gonna tell him all I can, about the plan for my return
If he tells me all he knows, about the way the river flows, & all night shows in summertime
Paulo Nutini
New shoes
(fret 5, plectrum)
Or D-harp , open
Oasis
Half the world
(fret 2, D-harp)
A
Cadd9 G , A Cadd9 E x 2 , Dsus2 , A E
Dsus2
“Woke up cold one Tuesday, Im looking tired and Im feeling quite sick, it felt like
So I quickly opened the wardrobe, pulled out some jeans & a t-shirt that seemed
Hey I put some new shoes on & suddenly everything is right,
(C F x 2
Am
C
C
E7
Am
Am
D
F
Dsus
Fm
F)
G
Don’t look back in anger
(fret 2)
“slip inside the eye...”
(C
G
Am
E7
F
G
(F
Fm
C) x3 G G#/E7 (420100)
C
G
Am
E7
F
G
She’s Electric
(open)
G#
C#m A x 3
Amaj7 (002120) x 2
E7
F#m7add4 (XX4200)
E
A
E
x2
G7
C) x2 Am
Am G F G
C
G
C
D
E “She’s electric, shes in a
A
C#m E
E7 “And I want you
B “cause I’ll be you and you’ll be me
Don’t look back in anger
C
G
Am
E
F
G
C
Am
G x 2
(fret 3, finger strum)
F
Fm
C x 3 , G Abdim (003434) Am
G
F
G
“Slip inside the eye of your mind... you said that you’d never be & all the things that
So I start a revolution from my bed... so Sally can wait... Take me to the place that...
8
Little by little
(fret 4)
Emadd9 (024000) A7 x 4 ,
D
D/F# G
Em7 A7sus4 (x02040)
G
D
A
Em7 D/F# x 3 ,
G
D Cadd9 G A7sus4
“we the people fight for our existence, we don’t claim to be perfect but we’re free
We dream our dreams alone with no resistance, faded like the stars we wish to be...
True perfection has to be imperfect....the day has come and now you’ll have to
Cigarettes & Alcohol
intro: Esus4 (0022000) F#
A ,
E
F#
A
E x2
(fret 4, slow plectrum) A
E
x 3
E
D
A
E
“Is it my imagination, or have I finally found something worth looking for,
I was looking for some action, but all I found was Cigarettes and Alcohol,
You could wait for a lifetime, to spend your days in the sunshine,
You might as well be a white lie, 'cause when it comes on top, you gotta make it happen x 4
Is it worth the agravation, to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for,
It's a crazy situation, but all I need are Cigarettes and Alcohol,
Merry Xmas
G
Bm
D x2 , C
G x2
Am
C
D
(fret 4, slow plectrum)
G
D
Bb
D x2
“Are you hanging up your stockings on the wall, is it time that every Santa has a ball
Stand by me
(fret 2, plectrum)
C
E
F
G x2, F
G
C
Am
D
F
C
G
Dm
F Bb G C
“Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday I've... Gotta lot of things to learn
Said I would and I'll be leaving one day, Before my heart starts to burn
So what's the matter with you? Sing me something new... don't you know
The cold and wind and rain don't know, They only seem to come and go away
Stand by me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be....
All around the world
(fret 4, plectrum)
B
C#
B
F#
E
C#
E
Abm
E
Abm
F#
B
F#
G
x2
B
E
G
F# F E
Its a bit early in the midnight hour for me, To go through all the things I wanna be
I dont believe in everything I see, You know Im blind so why dyou disagree?
Take me away, cause I just dont wanna stay, And the lies you make me say, Are getting deeper every day
These are crazy days but they make me shine, Time keeps rolling by... All Around The World,
Pink Floyd
One of my turns
(open, plectrum)
C
Eb
Em
F
Bb x 2
C,
Dm
C
Am
Em
Dm
G7
(D G) “day after day, love turns grey...
Comfortably numb
Bm
A
G
Em
Bm
x 3
(fret 2, finger pick)
D
A x 2 , C
G x2
“Hello, is there anybody in there, just nod if you can hear me, is there anybody
Come on, Now, I hear you're feeling down, I can ease your pain, Get you on your feet again
Relax, I'll need some information first, Just the basic facts, Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receding, A distant ship's smoke on the horizon, You are only... When
I was a child I had a fever, My hands felt just like Two balloons
Wish you were here
(fret 4, finger pick/strum)
G intro C
D
Am
G
D
C
Am
G
“so, so you think you can tell, heaven from hell, blue skies from pain,...
Coming back to life
Fmaj7
C
Am
G
9
F x2 ,
(fret 4, fast plectrum)
Am7 F
Am
Bb
Am7 Gsus4 C
“Where were you, when I burned and I was broken, while the days slipped by from
And where were you, when I was hurt and I was helpless, because the things you
While you were hanging yourself on someone else’ words, dying to believe...
Shine on you crazy..
Em
Eb
G
C
Am
D x2
(fret 4, finger strum)
Em
Em/maj7 (021003) Em7 A7 C Edim7 (xx2323) G Bm B7 Em
“Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
You were caught in the crossfire, of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr
Tom Petty
Last dance with Mary Jane
Am
G
D x2 ,
Dsus Asus
(fret 5, C-harp)
“She grew up in an Indiana town, Had a good lookin' momma who never was around
(plectrum)
But she grew up tall and she grew up right, With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night
Well she moved down here at the age of 18, She blew the boys away, it was more than
I was introduced and we both started groovin', She said, "I dig you baby but I got to
The Pogues
Fairytale of New York
(3:4, fret 5, C-harp?)
Dirty Old Town
(fret 2, D-harp)
Queen
’39
(G)
(fret 4, plectrum)
G
G
G
C
C
D
D
G
G
G
G
Em
C
F
C
G
Am
“I met my love by the gas works wall, dreamed a dream by the old canal, I kissed
I heard a siren from the docks, saw a train set the night on fire, I smelled the spring
Im gonna make me a big sharp axe, shining steel tempered in the fire, I’ll chop you
D
Em
C
G
D
Em
Em7 C
D(add G)
G
G
D
B7
Em
Am , G
D
C Em C D C G D
G
C
G
D G F#/G (200033) Em D C B/G (x20033) Am...
Em
D
G
“In the year of ’39 assembled here the volunteers, in the days when lands were few
Radiohead
Creep
F#
Bb
B
Bm
Red Hot chillies
Under the bridge
C
G
Am
F
REM
Man on the moon
(fret 3)
Everybody hurts
D
x lots (slow – finger pick)
C
D
G
intro to fast section
C
(the boys...), G
C
D
(& the bells)
Dm
F
G
“Mott the Hoople and the game of life...
C
D
x lots, Am
G x3 ,
G
Am
C
Bm
G
Am
G
Am
C
Bm
Am
C
D
D
C
G
D
G x lots ,
Middle 8:
F#
,
Em
A x lots
Bm x lots
10
Dm
A
Find the river
(open, plectrum)
(intro on D)
D
G
Dm
A
Dsus2 Dsus4 (alternate) x 4
D
Em
G
A
D
Hey, now little speedy head, the read on the speed-meter says, you have to go to the task in the city
Where people drown and people serve, don’t be shy, your just deserve is only just light years to go
Ch: Me, my thoughts are flower strewn, ocean storm bayberry moon, I have got to leave to find my way
Watch the road and memorize this life that pass before my eyes, nothing is going my way
The ocean is the river’s goal, a need to leave the water knows, we’re closer now than light years to go
I have got to find the river, bergamot & vetiver, run through my head & fall away
Leave the road and memorise this life that pass before my eyes, nothing is going my way.
Robbie Williams
Angels
(fret 4, finger strum)
E
E
F#m7 A
Bsus4 C#m
Feel
(fret 4)
Am/C (x32210)
F
C
Dm
Bb
Rolling Stones
Sympathy for Devil
Paint it Black
A2 (002420)
C#m
C#m A2 , Dsus2
A2
E x 2 , F#m7
B x 2 , “I sit and wait, does an angel...
A2
E
Dsus2 A2
E
Dsus2 A2
E
Am/C (x42220) A7
Gm
Dm/F (x03231) A
“come and hold my hand, I wanna contact the living...
Not sure I understand this role Ive been given. I sit and talk...
E7
D
A
Dm
Dm
A
C
D x2,
F
C
“I see a red door &..., no colours any more...”
Dm , C
F
C
Am
A
F
F
C
Am
Roxette
It must have been love
(open, finger strum)
C
ch: C
E7 ,
B7
G
Dm
E7
“please allow me to...”
F
Dm
G x2
G
Am
C
F
Lay a whisper on my pillow, leave a winter on the ground, I wake up lonely, there's air of silence
in the bedroom and all around. Touch me now, I close my eyes and dream away
It must have been love, but its over now, It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love but its over now, from the moment we touched till the time had run out
Make believing, we're together, that I'm sheltered by your heart, But in and outside I've turned to water
like a teardrop in your palm. And its hard, winter's day, I dream away
Shed 7
Chasing Rainbows
(fret 3, plectrum)
Am
Em
G
G
C
D
Am
G
Em
C
Em
C
G x 2
C
G
D
D
Dsus
C
There are things that I regret, Like being called a nervous wreck, And working up another sweat for you
There's nothing that I can do, For counterparts and bleeding hearts, And all the things that fall apart for you
I don't keep my secrets there, I hide them everywhere
I could deny, But I'll never realise, I'm just chasing rainbows, All the time (repeat with “all my life)
And then I missed my cue, Everybody had a laugh and then went for an early bath did you?
The Smiths
Cemetery gates
(open, finger strum)
Sheila take a bow
C
G
Am
F x 2 ,
Am
G
“A dreaded sunny day, so I meet you at the cemetery gates, Keats & Yeats are...
B
E
E
D
D
F#m
A
,
,
C
11
E
D
A
E
C#m (B on 2nd)
G
Simon & Garfunkel
Sound of silence
Am
F
G
Dm
Am ,
C
F
Am,
C
C
The Boxer
G
Ch:
Em
Em
D
C
C
D
G ,
Em D C G , C
D
G
(Bm on “laying out my winter clothes...)
Homeward Bound
(fret 3)
C
C
Em
F ,
Gm6 (000330) A7
Dm
Bb
C
F ,
(C Dm C Bb F ) x 3
C
G7
G7
C
C
Wednesday 3am
(fret 2)
F
F
Dm
Dm
Bb
Bb
C
F
Gm
Scarborough Fair
(fret 4)
Em
D
Em , G
Em
G
A
Em
G
F#m
Em
D , Em
D
Em
D
“Cambric shirt, without no seams or needlework; Acre of land, between salt water..”
Sound of Silence
(fret 4)
(Dm)
C
Bb
Dm
F
(F)
Dm
Bb
F
F
C
Mrs Robinson
(fret 4)
Bb
G7
Gm
C7
Bb
C9
Gm
F7
Eb
Bb
F7 , Bb Gm Bb
Eb
Cm
G
The Smiths
Cemetery gates
(open, finger strum)
C
G
Am
F x 2 ,
Am
G
“A dreaded sunny day, so I meet you at the cemetery gates, Keats & Yeats are...
Spin Doctors
Two Princes
(Fret 2, finger strum)
D
Bm
A
G x lots ,
G
D
G
A
“One two princes kneel before you... Princes. Princes who adore you, One has
The Stone Roses
I am the resurrection
(open, finger strum)
James Taylor
Fire and rain
Am ,
Am ,
F
F
F
G
Gm
Gm
C
Am
C
Bb
Bb
Dm
F
F
Gm Eb Cm G
F7
B
A
E x 2 ,
G#m E
B G#m
E
F#
E
B
E
B
G#m
E
“Down, down you bring me down, I hear you knocking at my door & I cant sleep...
Your face it has no place, No room for you inside my house, I need to be alone
Dont waste your words, I don’t need anything from you, I don’t care where you’ve...
Turn turn I wish you'd learn, there's a time and place for everything, Ive got to get
Cut loose 'cos your no use, I couldn't stand another, Second in your company
C
C
Gm
G
F
Bb
C
F
U2
Still haven’t found...
(open, C-harp)
C
F
G
Van Diemen’s Land
(fret 4)
G
C
G
Em
C
D
Em
C
G
D
G
“hold me now, oh hold me now, till this hour has gone around, & Im gone on the...
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Dm7
G7
One
(fret 3, plectrum)
Trip through your wires
(fret 2, D-harp)
Beautiful Day
(fret 2, plectrum)
Stuck in the moment
(fret 4, finger strum)
Van Morison
Brown Eyed girl
(fret 2 , A-harp)
The Verve
The drugs don’t work
x 2 (3rd string hammer on/off) “Is it getting better”
x2
C
Am
C
G
F
C
Am
Dsus2 Fmaj7 G
C
Am
F
C
Bridge:
C
Am
G
F9
C9 , C
G
Bb
C/F
G
“In the distance she saw me coming round, I was calling out, I was calling out
Still shaking, still in pain, you put me back together again, I was cold and you
A
Bm
D
G
D
A
A5
B5
D5
G5
D5
A5
“the heart is a bloom, shoots up through... there’s no room, no space to rent in this
E
A
E
B
C#m A
E
“I am not afraid of anything in this world, there’s nothing you can throw at me that I
Im just trying to find a decent melody, a song that I can sing in my own company
C#m A
F#
A ,
C#m
A
C#m
B
I never thought you were a fool but darling look at you, you gotta stand up straight
Ch: same as verse “you’ve got to get yourself together, now you’re stuck in the
G
C
G
D,
G
Em
C
D
“Hey where did we go, days when the rains came, down in the hollow, playing a...”
G
Em
Em
Bm
Bm
C
C
D
Lucky Man (fret 4)
G
D
Asus4 ,
Paul Weller
Wild Wood
Bm
F#m7
Em7
F#7(b9)
The Wonder-stuff
Circle-square
riff:
Em
G
C9 (D)
D
G
x2
Em
G
D
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Asus4
Fret
3
ch: riff
C9
G
Misc. folk, pop & rock
Fields of Athenry
(fret 2, A-harp)
G
C
G
D,
G
C
D
etc
G
C
G
Em
G
D
etc
“my lonely prison walls, I heard a young girl calling, Michael they are taking...
“my lonely prison walls, I hear a young man calling, nothing matters Mary...
“my lonely harbour walls, watching the last hour falling
Those were the days
Em
Em
Am
Am
Em ,
D7
Em
E
G , C Am
Am,
B7
Am
C
Em
B7
Em “once upon a time there was”
Flowers on the wall
C
Am
D
G , Am F
G
“I keep hearing you’re concerned...”
C
C
Em
Em
G
G
G7
F
Where do you go to my lovely?
(fret 2 – D-harp)
F
F
Em
G
G7
“You talk like Marlene Dietrich & you dance..., you clothes are all made by Balman & theres...
You live in a fancy appt, in the Boulevard of St Michel, where u keep your Rolling Stones records...”
Nights in White Satin
(fret 3)
Em
D x 2, C
G
F
Em,
A
C
Em
D
Em
“Nights in WS, never reaching the end, letters are written, never meaning to send.
Beauty I’d always missed, with these eyes before, just what the truth is, I cant say...”
Fisherman’s Blues
G
F
Am
C
(fret 2, A-harp)
“I wish I was a fisherman, tumbling on the sea, far away from dry land & its bitter...
(slow plectrum strum) Casting out my sweet line with abandonment & love, no ceiling bearing down on me
‘cept the starry sky above, With light in my head, with you in my arms...WOO!”
Ye Jacobites
Em
D
Em
G
D
Em
D
“Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, your faults ...your doctrines... you shall hear.
What is right... by the law, a short sword..., a weak arm or a strong, for to draw.
What makes heroic strife, famed afar...to whet the assassin’s knife, or haunt a...”
No Rain (Blind melon) E
(open, A-harp)
E
D
D
Dsus
E
,
D
Englishman in New York
(fret 5)
Em
A
Bm
A
G
E7
“i don’t drink coffee, I take tea my dear, I like my toast
No ordinary love
Bm
Bmsus4 (022422) Gmaj7/B (x20002)
Linger (Cranberries)
(fret 3, plectrum?)
D
A
C
E
Em7
F#m7 (022222) Bm Bm7
G
If you, if you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade.
I'm sure I'm not being rude, but it's just your attitude,
It's tearing me apart, It's ruining everything.
I swore, I swore I would be true, and honey, so did you.
So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand?
Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?
But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha. Do you have to let it linger?
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Teenage kicks
(fret 2 + claps)
D
Db
Bm
Db
D
Db
Bm
(A) G G#
Ab
A
Db
D
“teenage kicks so hard to beat, every time she walks down the street
Down in the river
(fret 2)
C
G
F x2 ,
G
C
F
C x2
As I went down in the river to pray, studying about that good old way
And who shall wear the robe and crown, Good lord, show me the way
Man of constant sorrow
(fret 2, finger pick)
C
F
C
F
G
F
C
“I am a man of constant sorrow, I’ve seen trouble all my days
I bid farewell to old Kentucky, the place where I was born & raised
For 6 long years, Ive been in trouble, no pleasure here on Earth Ive found
For in this world, Im bound to ramble, I have no friends to help me now
I miss You (Blink 182)
(fast finger pick, open)
C
C/B? Am
G ,
G
C/B? Am
G
F
Fm
“Hello there, the angle from my nightmares, the shadow in the background
The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley, we can live like Jack &
Where you can always find me, we’ll have Halloween on Xmas & in the night
Where are you, and Im so sorry, I cannot sleep I cannot, I cannot dream...
Wade in the water
(open)
Am
G
F
E
x3
(x76780)
“who’s that young girl dressed in blue, must be the children...
Somebody I used to know
Am
G x lots ,
ch:
Am
G
F
G
(fret 3)
“Now & then I think of when we were together, like when you said you felt so happy
Told myself that you were right for me, but felt so lonely in your company
But that was love & it’s an ache I still remember
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, like resignation to the end always
So when we found out we could not make sense, you said that we would still be...
Littlest hobo
(fret 2, finger strum)
Dm
Dm
C
Bb
Dm
F
What I am (Edi Brickel) Bmsus Dmsus Amsus
(fret 2)
C
Am7
F
Dm
Dm
Gm
ch: Em D
Bb
Bb
C
F “There’s a voice
F “Maybe tomorrow...
“Im not aware of too many things
Perfect day (Lou Reed) Am
D
G
C
F
Dm
E
(fret 2)
A
D
C#m D
A
E
F#m
E
D
C#m D
A
“You’re going to reap what you sow..
“Oh what a perfect day, drink Sangria...And later when it gets dark we go home
Oh... feed animals in the zoo, & later a movie too and then home
Oh... weekenders on our own, its such fun, you made me forget myself, I thought...
Jolene (Parton)
(fret 2, A-harp)
Hush
(open, plectrum)
Am
C
G
Am
G
Em
Am
“your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin
Your smile is like a breath of spring, your voice is soft like summer rain & i cannot
Ab
Eb
Bb
F ,
C
Cmy F
“I got a certain little girl she's on my mind, No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had, Sometime's she's gonna make me feel so bad
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House of the rising sun
(fret 2, plectrum)
Am
C
D
F
Am
C
E
Am
C
D
F
Am
E
Am
“there is a house in NO, they call the rising sun & its been the ruin of many
My mother was a tailor she sewed my new blue jeans, my father was a
The only thing that a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk and the only
Mother go tell your children not to do what I have done, to spend you life
Ive got one foot, one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train
Leave right now
F
Bb
F
Bb
Dm
C
(fret 4, finger strum) “Im here just like I said, thought its breaking every rule I ever made,
my racing heart is just the same, why make it strong to break it once again
Bb
Am
Bb
Dm
C And I’d love to say I do, give everything to you
Bb
C
Am
F
I think I’d better leave right now before I fall any
King of the Swingers
Flake (Jack Johnson)
(open, plectrum)
Em
Bb
x2
D
G
E7
A7
“Im the king of the swingers yeah, the jungle VIP, I reach the top & I had to stop &
Dm
F
F
C
Bb
Dm
F x 3 end on C
A
Bb
C
F
C
I know she said it's alright, But you can make it up next time, I know she knows it's not right, There ain't no use in lying
Maybe she thinks I know something, Maybe x2 she thinks its fine, Maybe she knows something I don't, I'm so tired of...
It seems to me that maybe, It pretty much always means no, So don't tell me you might just let it go
And often times we're lazy, It seems to stand in my way, Cause no one no not no one, Likes to be let down
Sweet child ‘o mine
(open, plectrum)
D
Cadd9
G x lots ,
A
C
D
So be easy and free
C
G7
C
F
C
Am
C
G7
(open, finger pick)
“Oh my name in Jock Stewart, I’m a canny young man but a roving young fellow I’ve been. So be easy & free...
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