AMERICAN TUNE

	C	F	C	Dm	C	G
a	ny's the ti	me I'v	e bee	n mis	ta	ken

	Am	E	Am	C	F	C	Dm	C	G	E
and	many ti	mes conf	used →	Yes and	oft	en fe	lt f	ors	ake	n

	Am	E	Am
and c	ertain	ly mi	sused

	F	G	F	C
But I	'm a	ll right, I'm a	ll ri	ght

	F	C	G	Am
I'm just w	ear	y	to my b	ones

D	G	G7
Still, you do	n't ex	pect to be

	C	G	D	G	C	F	C	G	G7	G	Am
	bright	and	bon vi	vant →	So	far	awa	y fr	om	hom	e

F	C	G	C
So f	ar aw	ay from ho	me

And I don't know a soul →  who's not been battered

I don't have a friend who →  feels at ease

I don't know a dream that's →  not been shattered

or driven to its knees

But it's all right, it's all right

We've lived so well so long

Still when I think of the road

We're travelling on → I wonder what went wrong

I can't help it, I wonder →  what went wrong

↓

C	G
And I dreamed I was dying → And I dreamed that my s	oul

	Am	D	G
rose unexpe	ctedly → And loo	king back do	wn at me

	F	C	G	C
Smi	led reassuri	ngl	y → And I dreamed I was fl	ying

	G	G	Am
And high ab	ove my ey	es →  could cl	early see

	D7	G	F	C	G
The st	atue of libe	rty → Sail	ing aw	ay to	sea

	C
And I dreamed I was F	lying

We come on the ship they call

The Mayflower → We come on the ship that

sailed the moon → We come in the age's most

uncertain hour → And sing an american tune

But it's all right, it's all right

You can't be forever blessed → Still tomorrow's going to be

another working day

And I'm trying to get some rest

That's all I'm trying to get → some rest.

DIAMONDS AND RUST

Em	Em	C
Well	I'll be damned → Here comes your	ghost again

	G
But that's not u	nusual

	D
Its just that the	moon is full

	Em	Em
And you happened to	call → And	here I sit

	C
Hand on the	telephone

	G
I'm hearing a vo	ice I'd known

	D	Em
A couple of	light years ago → Heading straight for a	fall

As I remember,

Your eyes were bluer than robins' eggs

My poetry was lousy you said → Where are you calling from?

A booth in mid-west → Ten years ago

I bought you some cuff-links → You bought me something

We both know what memories can bring

They bring diamonds and rust

You burst on the scene → Already a legend

The unwashed phenomenon → The original vagabond

You strayed into my arms → And there you stayed

Temporarily lost at sea

↓

The madonna was yours for free

The girl on the half-shell → Could keep you unharmed

	Bm
Now I	see you standing with brown leaves falling all

	Am
around → And snow in your	hair

	Bm
Now y	ou're smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel

	Am
Over Washington	square

	C
Our br	eath comes out of white clouds

	G	Fmaj7
Mingles and hangs in the	air → Speaking	strictly for me

	G	B7
We both could have died then and	there

Now your telling me  → Your not nostalgic

Then give me another word for it

You who are so good with words

And keeping things vague

'Cos I need some of that vagueness now

Its all come back too clearly

Yes I loved you dearly

And if you're offering diamonds and rust

I've already paid

Everybody Hurts

F	A#	F
When your day is long	→  And the night,

	A#
The night is yours alo	ne.

F	A#	F
When you think you've had enou	gh of this life,

	A#
Well, hang	on.

Gm	C	Gm	C
Don't let yourself g	o, →	Cause everybody cr	ies

Gm	C	F	A#
And everybody h	urts →  Some	times.

	F	A#
Sometimes everything is wr	ong.

	F
Now it's time to sing alo	ng.

	A#	F
When your day is night, ho	ld on,

(Hold on, hold on)

	A#
If you feel like letting g	o,

	F
(Hold	on)

	A#	F
If you're sure you've had too	much of this l	ife,

↓

	A#
To hang o	n.

Gm	C	Gm
Cause everybody hu	rts →  Somet	imes.

	C
Take comfort in your fr	iends.

Gm	C
Everybody hu	rts...

A7	Dm	A7	Dm
Don't blow your ha	nd, →  O	h, n	o,

A7	Dm
Don't blow your ha	nd.

D#	A#
If you feel like you're a	lone,

D#	C
No, no, no, you're not al	one.

F	A#	F
If you're on your own	→  In this lif	e,

	A#
And the days and nights are	long,

F	A#
If you're sure you've had too	much

	F	A#
Of this li	fe →  To hang	on.

Gm	C
Well, everybody hu	rts

↓

	Gm	C
Som	etimes, everybody cr	ies

	Gm	C
Som	etimes, →  Everybody hu	rts...

	F	A#
Some	times.

	F	A#
Everybody hurts s	ometimes	.

	F	A#	F	A#
So, hold	on, hold	on, →  Hold	on, hold	on,

	F	A#	F	A#
Hold	on, hold	on, →  Hold	on, hold	on,

	F	A#
'Cause no, you're not alone.

F A# ... F

Forever Young

	G
May God bl	ess and keep you always

	C	G
May your wi	shes all come t	rue

	A	A/G	D
May you always do for others → And let oth	ers	do for y	ou

	G
May you bu	ild a ladder to the stars

	C	Am
And c	limb on every r	ung

	G	D	C
And may you s	tay f	orever y	oung

	G	D	C	G
May you s	tay for	ever y	oung

[Verse 2]

	G
May y	ou grow up to be righteous

	C	G
May you gro	w up to be true

May you always know the truth

	A	A/G	D
And see the	lig	hts surr	ounding you

	G
M	ay you always be courageous

↓

	C	Am
Sta	nd upright and	be strong

	G	D	C
And may you s	tay f	orever y	oung

G	D	C	G
May you	stay	fore	ver young

[Verse 3]

	G
M	ay your hands always be busy

	C	G
May your fe	et always be sw	ift

May you have a strong foundation

	A	A/G	D
When the wi	nds	of chang	es shift

	G
M	ay your heart always be joyful

	C	Am
M	ay your song al	ways be sung

	G	D	C	G	D	C	G
May you stay	fore	ver youn	g →	May you	stay	fore	ver young

Frank Mills

	C	G
	I met a boy called	Frank Mills,

	Am
on Sep	tember 12th right here,

F	C
in front of the	Waverly,

	F	G	C
but un	fortunately,	I lost his address.

	C
	He was last seen with his friend,

C	Am	F
a drummer he re	sembles George Harrison of	the

Beatles,

	C	F	G	C
but he	wears his hair tied	in a small	bow at	the

	Gm
back. →  I	love him,

	F
but it em	barrasses me to walk down the street with

	C
	him.

Em	Am	Em
He lives in	Brooklyn	somewhere,

	Am	G
	and he wears his white crash	helmet.

	C
He has	golden chains on his leather jacket,

↓

	F	C
and	on the back, are	written on the names

	F	Am	F	C
	Mary and	Mom and Hells	Angels.

	C	G
	I would gratefully	appreciate it

	Am	F
	if you see him,	tell him

	C	F
	I'm in the park with my	girlfriend,

	G	C	G
and	please, tell him	Angela and	I

	Am	F	G	C
don't want the	two dollars	back,	just	him.

Hallelujah

[Intro]

C	Am	C	Am

[Verse]

	C	Am
Now I'	ve heard there was	a secret chord

	C	Am
That	David played and it	pleased the Lord

	F	G	C	G
But	you don't really	care for music,	do you	?

	C	F	G
It	goes like this, the	fourth, the	fifth,

	Am	F
The	minor fall, the	major lift,

	G	E	Am
The	baffled king comp	osing, Halle	lujah.

[Chorus]

	F	Am	F
Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah,

	C	G	C	Am	C	Am
Halle	lu	-	jah.

↓

[Verse]

	C	Am
Your	faith was strong but you	needed proof,

	C	Am
You	saw her bathing	on the roof:

	F	G	C	G
Her	beauty and the	moonlight overthr	ew ya	.

	C	F	G
She	tied you to a	kitchen	chair,

	Am	F
She	broke your throne, and she	cut your hair,

	G	E	Am
And	from your lips she	drew the Halle	lujah.

[Chorus]

	F	Am	F
Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah,

	C	G	C	Am	C	Am
Halle	lu	-	jah.

[Verse]

	C	Am
You	say I took the	name in vain,

	C	Am
Though	I don't even	know the name,

	F	G	C	G
But	if I did, well	really, what's it	to ya	?

↓

	C	F	G
There's a	blaze of light in	every	word,

	Am	F
It	doesn't matter	which you heard:

	G	E	Am
The	holy or the	broken Halle	lujah.

[Chorus]

	F	Am	F
Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah,

	C	G	C	Am	C	Am
Halle	lu	-	jah.

[Verse]

	C	Am
I	did my best, it	wasn't much,

	C	Am
I	couldn't feel so I	tried to touch.

	F	G	C	G
I've	told the truth, I	didn't come to	fool ya	.

	C	F	G
And	even though it	all went	wrong

	Am	F
I'll	stand before the	Lord of Song

	G	E	Am
With	nothing on my	tongue but Halle	lujah.

[Chorus]

↓

	F	Am	F
Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah, Halle	lujah,

	C	G	C	Am	C	Am
Halle	lu	-	jah.

Hello In There

covered by 10,000 maniacs

G	C	D
We had an ap	artment in t	he city

Me and Loretta liked living there

Bm	C
And it'd been years since the k	ids had grown

G	D
A life of their own,	left us alone

John and Linda live in Omaha

And Joe is somewhere on the road

And we lost Davy in the Korean War

And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore

Chorus → Chorus

	C	D
Y	ou know that old trees just	grow stronger

	C	D
A	nd old rivers get wilder eve	ry day

	Bm	C
O	ld people just get lo	nesome

	G	D
W	aiting for someone to say "Hell	o in there,

	G	C	D
Hell	o.	"

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more

↓

She sits and stares through the back door screen

And all the news just repeats itself

Like some forgotten dream that we=D5ve both seen

Some day I'll go and call up Rudy

We worked together at the factory

But what'll I say when he asks, "What's new?"

"Nothin'. What's with you?" Nothin' much to do.

Chorus

So if you're walkin' down the street some day

And spot some hollow, ancient eyes

Please don't just pass 'em by and stare

As if you didn't care, say "Hello in there, Hello."

Hotel California

Bm	F#
On a dark desert highway,	cool wind in my hair

A	E
Warm smell of colitas,	rising through the air

G	D
Up ahead in the distance,	I saw a shimering light

Em	F#
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,	I had to stop

for the night

Bm	F#
There she stood in the doorway,	I heard the mission bell

A	E
And I was thinking to myself: this could be	heaven or

this could be hell

G	D
Then she lit up a candle	and she showed me the way

Em	F#
There were voices down the corridor;	I thought I heard

them say:

Chorus

	G	D
"	Welcome to the Hotel Califor	nia

F#	Bm
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place), such a	lovely

face

G	D
Plenty of room at the Hotel Califor	nia

↓

	Em	F#
Any	time of year (any time of year), you can	find it

here"

Bm	F#
Her mind is Tiffany twisted,	she got the Mercedes Benz

A	E
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys,	that she calls

friends

G	D
How they dance in the courtyard,	sweet summer sweat

Em	F#
Some dance to remember,	some dance to forget

Bm	F#
So I called up the captain, "	Please bring me my wine", He

said

A	E
"We haven't had that spirit here since	nineteen

sixty-nine"

G	D
And still those voices are calling from	far away

Em	F#
Wake you up in the middle of the night,	just to hear them

say:

	G	D
"	Welcome to the Hotel Califor	nia

F#	Bm
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place), such a	lovely

↓

face

	G	D
They	livin' it up at the Hotel Califor	nia

	Em
What a	nice surprise (what a nice surprise), bring your

	F#
	alibis"

Bm	F#
Mirrors on the ceiling,	the pink champagne on ice, and

she said

	A	E
"	We are all just prisoners here,	of our own device"

G	D
And in the master's chambers,	they gathered for the

feast

Em	F#
They stab it with their steely knives but they	just can't

kill the beast

Bm	F#
Last thing I remember, I was	running for the door

A	E
I had to find the passage back to the	place I was before

	G	D
"	Relax," said the night man, "We are	programmed to

receive

Em	F#
You can check out any time you like, but	you can never

leave"

↓

chorus

House of the Rising Sun

	Am	C	D	F	Am	C
T	here is a h	ouse in N	ew Orl	eans they c	all the R	ising

	E
S	un,

	Am	C	D	F	Am
And it's b	een the r	uin of m	any a poor g	irl, and	me, oh

	E7	Am
	God, for	one.

If I had listened to what my mother said, I'd have been at

home today,

But I was young and foolish, oh God, let a rambler lead me

astray.

My mother is a tailor, she sews those new blue jeans.

My sweetheart is a drunkard, Lord, drinks down in New

Orleans.

The only thing a drunkard needs is a suitcase and a trunk,

The only time he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk.

He'll fill his glasses to the brim, he passes them around,

And the only pleasure that he gets out of life is bumming

from town to town.

Go tell my baby sister never do like I have done.

But shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising

Sun.

↓

It's one foot on the platform, and the other on the train.

I'm going back to New Orleans, to wear the ball and chain.

I'm going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run,

I'm going back to spend my life beneath that Rising Sun.

Imagine

	C	Cmaj7	F
Verse1: →	Imagine there's no	heaven

C	Cmaj7	F	C	Cmaj7	F
It's easy if you	try	→	No hell b	elow us

C	Cmaj7	F	Am	Dm7	F/C
Above us onl	y sky	→ Imagine all	the peop	le

G	C/G	G7	C
Living for	today	AH

	C	Cmaj7	F
Verse2: →	Imagine there's	no countries

C	Cmaj7	F	C	Cmaj7	F
It isn't hard	to do	→	Nothing to kill	or die	for

C	Cmaj7	F	Am	Dm7	F/C
And no religion	too	→ Imagine all	the peop	le

G	C/G	G7
Living life	in pe	ace

Bridge#1:

F	G	C	E7	F
You may sa	y I'm a dre	amer

F	G	C	E7	F
But I'm n	ot the only one

F	G	C	E7	F
I hope some da	y you'll	join us

	G	C
and the wor	ld will b	e as one

↓

	C	Cmaj7	F
Verse3: →	Imagine no	possessions

C	Cmaj7	F	C	Cmaj7	F
I wonder if you	can	→	No need for greed	or hunger

C	Cmaj7	F	Am	Dm7	F/C
A brother hood	of man	→ Imagine all	the peop	le

G	C/G	G7
Sharing all	the W	orld

Bridge#2:

F	G	C	E7	F
You may sa	y I'm a dre	amer

F	G	C	E7	F
But I'm n	ot the only one

F	G	C	E7	F
I hope some da	y you'll	join us

	G	C
and the wor	ld will	live as one

Joe Hill

Intro C C

	C	F
I dr	eamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and	me

	C

	F	C
Says I,	But Joe, you are ten years	dead

	D	G	G7
I n	ever died, said he. I	never di	ed, said he

	C

	C	F
The Cop	per Bosses killed you Joe, they shot you Joe,	says

	C
I

	F	C
Takes more th	an guns to kill a man

	D	G	G7	C
Says Joe	, I didn't die. sa	ys Joe, I di	dn't die

	C
And stand	ing there as big as life, and smiling with his

	F	C
eyes

	F	C
says Joe,	What they can never kill

↓

	D	G	G7	C
Went on t	o organize, wen	t on to organ	ize

C	F
From San Diego up to Maine, in every mine and	mill

	C

F	C
Where working man defend their rig	hts

	D	G	G7
It's	there you'll find Joe Hill,	it's there y	ou'll find

	C
Joe Hill

	C	F
I dre	amed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and	me

	C

	F	C
Says I,	But Joe, you are ten years	dead

	D	G	G7
I n	ever died, says he. I n	ever died	, says he

	C	C	C

My Way

	F
And	now, the end is near

	Cm6	D7
And so I	face the final c	urtain.

	Gm	Gm7
My f	riend, I'll say it cl	ear

	C7	F
I'll state my	case of which I'm c	ertain.

	F7
I've lived a life that's f	ull

	Bb	Bbm
I travelled	each and every h	ighway

	F	C7
And m	ore, much more than th	is,

	Gm	F
I did it	my w	ay.

Regrets, I've had a few

But then again too few to mention.

I did what I had to do

And saw it through, without exemption.

I planned each charted course

Each careful step, along the byway

And more, much more than this,

I did it my way.

	Cm7
Yes there were times, I'm sure you k	new,

↓

	Bb
When I bit	off more than I could chew

	Gm7	C7
But through it	all, when there was	doubt

	Am7	Dm
I ate it	up, and spit it o	ut,

	Gm7	C7
I faced it	all, And I stood t	all,

	Gm	F
And did it	my	way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried

I've had my fill, my share of losing.

And now, as tears subside, → I find it all so amusing.

To think, I did all that,

And may I say, "not in a shy way",

Oh no, oh no not me, → I did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got,

If not himself, then he has not,

To say the things, he truly feels,

And not the words of one who kneels.

The record shows, I took the blows,

And did my way.

Never dreamed you`d leave in summer

C	F	C
I never dr	eamed you'd leave in	summer

C	F	D7	Am
I thought you wo	uld go then come bac	k hom	e

Dm	A7	Dm
I thought the	cold would leave by	summer

	Bb	A	Ab	G
But my	quiet nights wil	l be spent a	lone

[Verse 2]

C	F	C
You said t	here would be warm lo	ve in springtime

C	F	D7	Am
That was when yo	u started t	o be	cold

Dm	A7	Dm
I never	dreamed you'd leave in	summer

Bb A Ab G (change key) A7

But now I find myself all alone

[Verse 3]

D	G7	D	G7
You said then y	ou'd be the life	in aut	umn

D	G7	E7	Bm
Said you'd be t	he one to see	the	way

Em	B7	Em
I never d	reamed you'd leave in	summer

C	B	Bb
But now I find my	love has gon	e away

↓

A6	D	D7	D	G7
Why didn't	yo	u st	ay?

No Frontiers

C	G
If life is a river and your	heart is a boat

C	G
And just like a water baby baby	born to float

C	G
And if life is a wild wind that	blows way on high

C	G
And your heart is Amelia	dying to fly

F	G	A
Heaven	knows no fron	tiers

Dm	G	C
And I've seen	heaven in your	eyes

C	G
And if life is a bar room in	which we must wait

C	G
'Round the man with his fingers on the	ivory gates

C	G
Where we sing until dawn of our fe	ars and our fates

↓

C	G
And we stack all the dead men in	self addressed crates

	C	G
In your ey	es faint as the singing of a	lark

	Am
That somehow this black	night

	F
Feels warmer for the	spark

	C
Warmer for the s	park

	G
To hold us 'til the d	ay

	Am
When fear will lose it's	grip

	F
And heaven has its	way

	G	A
Heaven	knows no front	iers

Dm	G	C
And I've seen	heaven in your	eyes

↓

C	G
If your life is a rough bed o	f brambles and nails

C	G
And your spirit's a slave to man's w	hips and man's jails

C	G
Where you thirst and you hunger for	justice and

right

C	G
And your heart is the pure flame o	f man's constant night

	C	G
In your ey	es faint as the singing of a	lark

	Am
That somehow this black	night

	F
Feels warmer for the	spark

	C
Warmer for the s	park

	G
To hold us 'til the d	ay

↓

	Am
When fear will lose it's	grip

	F
And heaven has its	way

	C
And heaven has its	way

	G
When all will harmo	nise

	Am
And know what's in our	hearts

	F
The dream will rea	lise

	G	A
Heaven	knows no fron	tiers

Dm	G	F
And I've seen h	eaven in your	eyes

	G	A
Heaven	knows no fro	ntiers

Dm	G	C
And I've seen	heaven in your	eyes

One For My Baby

C6 C13/E F6 F#dim7 C6/G

Ab7	G9	C6	Ab7	G13	G7

C6	G11
Its quarter to three

C6	Dm7
There's no one in the place

C6	Dm7
cept you and me

C6/E Ebdim7 G7/D

C6	G11	C6	Dm7
So set em up joe	→	I got a little story

C6	Gm7
I think you should kn	ow

C13

Fmaj7	Gm7
Were drinking my friend

Fmaj7	Bb13	Cmaj9
To the end	of a  →	brief episode

	Bb7	A7	Fmaj7/G	Am7
So m	ake it on	e fo	r my baby

Dm7	Em	F	F/G	C9
And one	more	for	the road

↓

F#m11	B7	Emaj7	B11
	→	I know the r	outine

Emaj7	B11	B7	Emaj7	B11
Put another n	ickel	→	in that there m	achine

Emaj7	B11	Emaj7	F#m7
	→	Im feeling so	bad

G#m7	F#m11	B7	Emaj9	Bm7
Wont you make the music	easy a	nd sad

E13

A	A	Amaj7	A6
I could te	ll you a	lot

G9	F#7	F7
But you gotta to b	e

Emaj7	F#m11
true to your cod	e

G#m7

E13	D9	C#m7	F#m7	G#m
So make it one	for my baby

A	A/B	E6
And one more fo	r the road

Bm11	E13	Em11	A13
	→	Youd never know i	t

Em11	A13
But buddy Im a ki	nd of poet

↓

	G#9	C#7	F#7	B7	E6
And Ive got a l	ot of thi	ngs I wan	na sa	y

E13

Em11	A13	A13	Adim	A9
And if Im glo	omy, please	listen	to me

F#7 C9 (#11) B9(#5)

Till it's all, all talked away

B7

	Emaj7	F#m7
Well, t	hat's how it goes

	G#m7	F#m11
And j	oe I know you're gettin

Emaj7	F#m11
anxious to c	lose

G#m7	F#m11

B7	Emaj7	F#m11
S	o thanks for the c	heer

G#m7	F#m11
I hope you di	dn't mind

B7	Emaj7	Bm7
	My bending your	ear

E9	A	A	Amaj7	A6	A13	D13
But t	his	torch t	hat I fo	und →	Its gotta be drow	ned

↓

D9	Emaj7	F#m7
Or it	soon might expl	ode

G#m7

C#7	G#9	C#7
So make it	one for my	baby

F#m7 G#m7

	A6	B11	G#9
And one	more fo	r the road

C#9	F#13	B11
That	long → So Long

	E6	E13/G	A6	A#dim	E6/B
The lon	g

C13	B13	E6
Win	ding road.

Prison Trilogy Billy Rose

G	Hm
Billy Rose was a low rider,	Billy Rose was a night

fighter

C	G	D
Billy Rose knew trouble like the	sound of his own	name

Am	C
Busted on a drunken charge  →	Driving someone else's car

	Cm	G
The	local midnight sheriff's claim to f	ame

	G	Hm
In an	Arizona jail there are	some who tell the tale, how

C	G	D
Billy fought the sergeant for some	milk that he de	manded

Am

Knowing they'd remain the boss

C

Knowing he would pay the cost

	Cm	G
They	saw he was severely reprim	anded

	Em	Hm
In the	blackest cell on	A Block

	Em	Hm
He	hanged himself at	dawn

↓

	Em	Hm
With a	note stuck to the	bunk head

	Am	D
Don't	mess with me, just take me	home

	Em	D
Come and	lay, help us	lay

	G
young Billy	down

G	Hm
Luna was a Mexican the	law calls an alien

	C	G	D
For	coming across the border with a	baby and a	wife

	Am
Though the	clothes upon his back were wet

C

Still he thought that he could get

	Cm	G
Some	money and things to start a l	ife

	G	Hm
It	hadn't been too very long when it	seemed like

everything went wrong

	C	G	D
They	didn't even have the time to	find themselves a	home

	Am
This	foreigner, a brown-skin male

C

Thrown inside a Texas jail

↓

	Cm	G
It	left the wife and baby quite al	one

	Em	Hm
He	eased the pain in	side him

	Em	Hm
With a	needle in his	arm

	Em	Hm
But the	dope just cruci	fied him

	Am	D
He	died to no one's great a	larm

	Em	D	G
Come and	lay, help us	lay  → Young Luna	down

	Em	D
And we're gonna	raze, raze the	prisons

	G
To the	ground

G	Hm
Kilowatt was an aging con of	65 who stood a chance to

	C
s	tay alive

	G	D
And leave the joint and	walk the streets	again

	Am
As the	time he was to leave drew near

	C
He	suffered all the joy and fear

	Cm	G
Of	leaving 35 years in the p	en

↓

	G	Hm
And	on the day of his release he	was approached by the

police

	C	G	D
Who	took him to the warden walking	slowly by his	side

AM

The warden said "You won't remain here

C

But it seems a state retainer

Cm	G
Claims another 10 years of your l	ife."

	Em	Hm
He stepped	out in the Texas	sunlight

	Em	Hm	Em	Hm
The	cops all stood a	round  → Old	Kilowatt ran	50 yards

	Am	D
Then	threw himself down on the	ground

	Em	D
They might as	well just have	laid

	G
The old man	down

	Em	D
And we're gonna	raze, raze the	prisons

	G
To the	ground

	Em	D
Help us	raze, raze the	prisons

↓

	G
To the	ground

Rocket Man

	Em7	A9
	She packed my bags last night - pre-f	light

	Em7	A9
	Zero hour, nine A.	M.

	C	G	Am	D
	And I'm gonna be	high as a	kite by	then

	Em7	A9
	I miss the earth so much, I	miss my wife

	Em7	A9
	It's lonely out in s	pace

	C	G	Am	D
	On such a	timeless	flight as	this

Chorus:

	G
	And I think it's gonna be a long long

	C
	time

	G
Til touchdown brings me 'round to	find

I'm not the man they think I am at

	C
	home

	G	A9
Oh no, no,	no, I'm a	rocket man

	C	G
	Rocket man, burnin' out his up	here

↓

alone

	Em7	A9
	Mars ain't the kinda place to	raise your kids

	Em7	A9
	In fact it's cold as	hell

	C	G	Am
	And there's no one t	here to	raise them if you

	D
	did

	Em7	A9
	And all this science, I don't unde	rstand

	Em7	A9
	It's just my job five days a	-week

	C	G	Am	D
	Rocket ma	n -	- - rocket	man

Chorus

	G
	And I think it's gonna be a long long

	C
	time

	G
Til touchdown brings me 'round to	find

I'm not the man they think I am at

	C
	home

	G	A9
Oh no, no,	no, I'm a	rocket man

	C	G
	Rocket man, burnin' out his up	here

↓

alone

	C	G
	And I think it's gonna be a	long long

time

	C	G
	And I think it's gonna be a	long long

time

Shiver Me Timbers

Gb	Cb/Db	Gb	Ebm7
I'm leaving my	family →	leaving all my	friends

Gb	Ab7	Abm9/Gb	Db7
my body's at	home → but my	hearts in the	wind

	Gb	Cb/Db
where the	clouds are like	headlines

	Gb	Ebm7	Gb	Ab7
on a	new frontpage	sky → my	tears are salt	water

	Abm9/Gb	Db7	Gb
that	comes to	my ey	es

And I know Martin Eden's → gonna be proud of me

many before me → has been drawn by the sea

To be up in the crow's nest  → singing my say

Shiver me Timbers → as I'm sailing away

	Ebm7
Chorus → /Now the	fog's lifting

	D7/Bb	Gb/Cb	Ab9
and the	sand's shifting →  I'm	drifting on	out

Old captain Ahab

	Db7
he ain't got [Db7sus4]nothing on	me

repeat chords as above

↓

So swallow me , follow me →  I'm travelling alone

Blue waters my daughter →  I'm gonna skip like a stone

so please call my misses → tell her not to cry

'cause my goodbye is written → by the moon in the sky

Nobody knows me → I can't fathom my stayin'

shiver me timbers → as I'm sailing away

Now the fogs liftin'......

I'm leaving my family → leaving all my friends

my body's at home  → but my hearts with the wind

where the clouds are like headlines

on a new frontpage sky → shiver me timbers

as I'm sailing goodbye........

Someone Like You

A	E	F#m	D

A	E
I heard that you're	settled down

	F#m	D
That you	found a girl and you're	married now

A	E
I heard that your	dreams came true

	F#m	D
Guess she	gave you things I didn't	give to you

A	E
Old friend, why are you	so shy?

	F#m	D
Ain't like	you to hold back or	hide from the light

[Pre-Chorus]

	E	F#m
I	hate to turn up out of the	blue uninvited

	D
But I	couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it

	E	F#m
I'd	hoped you'd see my face and	that you'd be reminded

	D
That for	me it isn't over

[Chorus]

↓

A	E	F#m	D
Never mind, I'll	find someone like	you

	A	E	F#m	D
I wish	nothing but the	best for	you	too

	A	E	F#m	D
Don't for	get me, I	beg, I'll re	member you	say

	A	E
Sometimes it	lasts in love but	sometimes it hurts

	F#m	D
in	stead

	A	E
Sometimes it	lasts in love but	sometimes it hurts

	F#m	D
in	stead

[Verse 2]

	A	E
You	know how the	time flies

F#m D

Only yesterday was the time of our lives

	A	E
We were	born and raised in a	summer haze

	F#m	D
Bound	by the surprise of our	glory days

[Pre-Chorus]

	E	F#m
I	hate to turn up out of the	blue uninvited

↓

	D
But I	couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it

	E	F#m
I'd	hoped you'd see my face	and that you'd be reminded

	D
That for	me it isn't over

[Chorus]

A	E	F#m	D
Never mind, I'll	find someone like	you

	A	E	F#m	D
I wish	nothing but the	best for	you	too

	A	E	F#m	D
Don't for	get me, I	beg, I'll re	member you	say

	A	E
Sometimes it	lasts in love but	sometimes it hurts

	F#m	D
in	stead,	yeah

[Bridge]

E

Nothing compares, no worries or cares

	F#m
Re	grets and mistakes, they are memories made

D	Bm	A	D
Who would have known how bitter	sweet	this would	taste?

[Chorus]

↓

A	E	F#m	D
Never mind, I'll	find someone like	you

	A	E	F#m	D
I wish	nothing but the	best for	you

	A	E	F#m	D
Don't for	get me, I	beg, I'll re	member you	say

	A	E
Sometimes it	lasts in love but	sometimes it hurts

	F#m	D
in	stead

[Chorus]

A	E	F#m	D
Never mind, I'll	find someone like	you

	A	E	F#m	D
I wish	nothing but the	best for	you	too

A E F#m D

Don't forget me, I beg, I'll remember you say

	A	E
Sometimes it	lasts in love but	sometimes it hurts

	F#m	D
in	stead

	A	E
Sometimes it	lasts in love but	sometimes it hurts

	F#m	D
in	stead

[Outro]

↓

G

Sound of Silence

[Verse 1]

CAPO: 6

Am	G
Hello darkness, my old fr	iend,

	Am
I've come to talk with you	again,

	F	C
Because a vision s	oftly	creeping,

	Am	F	C
Left its	seeds while I w	as sle	eping,

	F	C
And the v	ision that was planted in my bra	in

	Am
Still r	emains

	G	Am
Within the so	und of s	ilence.

[Verse 2]

	Am	G
I	n restless dreams I walked a	lone

	Am
Narrow streets of cobble	stone,

	Am	F	C
'	Neath the halo of a	street l	amp,

↓

	Am	F	C
I turned my co	llar to the c	old and d	amp

	F	C
When my	eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon l	ight

	Am
That split the	night

	G	Am
And touched the	sound of	silence.

[Verse 3]

Am	G
And in the naked light I sa	w

	Am
Ten thousand people, maybe	more.

Am	F	C
People talking wit	hout spe	aking,

Am	F	C
People hearing without	listeni	ng,

	F	C
People writing so	ngs that voices never sh	are

	Am
And no one	dare

	G	Am
Disturb the s	ound of s	ilence.

[Verse 4]

Am	G
Fools said I, you do not kn	ow

↓

	Am
Silence like a cancer	grows.

Am	F	C
Hear my words that I mi	ght teach y	ou,

Am	F	C
Take my arms that I mi	ght reach yo	u.

	F	C
But my wo	rds like silent raindrops f	ell,

	Am	G	Am
And ec	hoed → In the	wells of	silence

[Verse 5]

Am	G
And the people bowed and p	rayed

	Am
To the neon God they	made.

Am	F	C
And the sign flashed out i	ts warn	ing,

Am	F	C
In the words that it wa	s form	ing.

	Am	F
And the s	ign said, the wo	rds of the prophets

	F	C
Are writ	ten on the subway wal	ls

	Am
And tenement ha	lls.

	G	Am
And whispered in the s	ounds of s	ilence.

The Boxer

C	Am
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom	told

	G
I have	squandered my resistance

	Dm	G	C
For a	pocket full of	mumbles, such are	promises

	Am	G	F
All lies and	jest, still a	man hears what he	wants to

	C	G	F	F	C
hear → And disregards the	rest

	C
When I	left my home and my family, I was no more than a

	Am	G
	boy → In the	company of strangers

	Dm	G	C
In the	quiet of a	railway station,	running scared

	Am	G	F
Laying	low, seeking	out the poorer	quarters

	C
Where the ragged people	go

	G	F	F	C
Looking	for the places	only	they would	know

Chorus

	Am	G	Am
Lie la	lie, Lie la	lie la lie la lie, Lie la	lie,

G	F	C
Lie la lie la la la la, lie	la la la la	lie.

↓

	C	Am
Asking	only workman's wages I come looking for a	job

	G
But I get no	offers

	Dm	G	C
Just a	come-on from the	whores on Seventh	Avenue

	Am	G	F
I do de	clare, there were	times when I was	so lonesome

	C	G	F	F	C
I took some comfort	there →	Lie lie lie lie la

	C
Then I'm	laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was

	Am
	gone

	G	Dm	G
Going	home where the	New York City winters	aren't

	C	Am	G	F	C
	bleeding me	→ Leading	me,	going	home.

	C
In the	clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his

	Am
	trade

	G	G7
And he	carries a reminder of ev'ry	glove that laid him

down

	C	Am
Or	cut him till he cried out in his anger and his	shame

↓

	G	F
I am	leaving, I am	leaving

	C
But the fighter still re	mains

Chorus

The Man Who Sold The World

F	F	Dm
		→ [Verse 1]

	Dm	A	Dm
W	e passed upon the	stair, we spoke in was and	when

	A	F
Although I wasn't t	here, he said I was his frien	d

	C	A
Which came as a sur	prise, I spoke into his e	yes

	Dm	C
I thought you died al	one, a long long time a	go

[Chorus]

C	F	C	F
Oh no, not	me → We n	ever lost contro	l

C	F
You're face to f	ace

C

With The Man Who Sold The World

[Bridge]

A	Dm	F	F	Dm

[Verse]

↓

	Dm	A	Dm
I	laughed and shook his h	and, and made my way back h	ome

	A	F
I searched a foreign la	nd, for years and years I roam	ed

	C	A
I gazed a gazeless sta	re, we walked a million hi	lls

	Dm	C
I must have died al	one, a long long time a	go

[Chorus]

C	F	C	F
Who knows? Not	me → I	never lost contro	l

C	F
You're face to	face

C

With The Man Who Sold The World

[Bridge]

A	Dm

[Chorus]

C	F	C	F
Who knows? Not	me → We	never lost contro	l

C	F
You're face to	face

↓

C

With The Man Who Sold The World

A	Dm

F

F

Dm

Dm

A

A

Dm

Dm

F

F

Dm

Dm

A

A

Dm

Dm

F

	F	Dm	Dm	A	A	Dm	Dm	F

The Rose

	C	G7	F	G
Some say	love, it is a	river, that	drowns the	tender

	C
	reed

	C	G7	F	G
Some say	love, it is a ra	zor, that	leads your	soul to

	C
	bleed

	Cmaj7	F	G7
Some say	love it is a	hunger, and endless aching	need

	C	G	F	C
I say	love it is a	flower and	you its only	seed

	C	G7	F	G
It's the	heart afraid of	breaking that	never	learns to

	C
	dance

	C	G7	F	G
It's the	dream afraid of	waking that	never	takes a

	C
	chance

	Em	Am7	F
It's the	one, who won't be	taken who	cannot seem to

	G
	give

	C	G	F	G
And the	soul afraid of	dying that	never	learns to

↓

	C
	live

	C	G7	F
When the	night has been too	lonely and the	road has

	G	C
	been too	long

	C	G7	F	G
And you	find that love is	only for the	lucky	and the

	C
	strong

	Em	Am7	F	G
Just re	member in the	winter for 'n	eath the bitter	snow

	C	G	F
Lies the	seed that with the	sun's love, in the	spring

	G	C
be	comes the	rose

What a Wonderful World

	F	Am	Bb	Am
I see t	ree	s of	green, red	roses too

Gm7	F	A7	Dm
I see them	bloom fo	r me	and you

	Db	Gm7(C)	C7	F	F+5	Bmaj7
And I th	ink to my	self wha	t a wonder	ful w	orld

C7	F	Am	Bb	Am
I see	skie	s of blue	and clou	ds of white

	Gm7	F	A7	Dm
The br	ight blesse	d da	y, the dark	sacred night

	Db	Gm7(C)	C7	F	Bb	F
And I th	ink to my	self wh	at a wonde	rful	world

	C7	F
The co	lours of the rainbow	, so pretty in the sky

	C7	F
Are al	so on the face	s of people goin' by

	Dm	C(E)	Dm(F)	C(G)
I see f	riends s	hakin' hand	s, sayin' "Ho	w do you do!"

Dm(F)	F#dim	Gm7	F#dim	C7
They're re	ally s	ayin	' I lo	ve you

	F	Am	Bb	Am
I hea	r bab	ies c	ry, I watch	them grow

Gm7	F	A7	Dm
They'll learn so	much more th	an	I'll ever know

	Db	Gm7(C)	F	Am7-5
And I th	ink to my	self what a wond	erful	world

D7	Gm7	C7-9	F	Bb6	F
Yes I	think to myself w	hat a wonder	ful wo	rld.

When a Man Loves a Woman

key of C

intro C G/B Am7 Am/G F G C G6

	C	G/B	Am
verse1 When a	man loves a	woman,	can't keep his

	C7/G
mind on	nothing else

	F	G
	He'll trade the w	orld for the good thing he's

	C	G
f	ound

	C	G/B	Am
If she's	bad he can't	see it	she can do

	C7/G
no	wrong

	F	G
	Turn his back on his b	est friend if he put her

	C	G
d	own

verse2 When a man loves a woman, spend his very last

dime

Tryin' to hold on to what he needs

He'd give up all his comfort, sleep out in the

rain

If she said that's the way it ought to be

Chorus → Chorus

	F	G	C
	Well, this	man loves a w	oman

↓

	F	G	C
	I gave you	everything I	had

	F	G	C	E7/B	Am
	Tryin' to h	old on to	your	precious	love

	D7	F/G	G+5
	Baby, please don't treat me	bad

verse3 When a man loves a woman, down deep in his soul

She can bring him such misery

If she plays him for a fool, he's the last one

to know

Lovin' eyes don't ever see

chorus

	C	G/B	Am
outro When a	man loves a	woman,	I know exactly

	C7/G
how he	feels

	F	G	C	G
Coz	baby baby b	aby you're my w	orld

(repeat outro until tired)