Archive for December, 2010


C                         D

So, so you think you can tell,

Am                  G

Heaven from Hell, blue skys from pain.

D                       C                    Am

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil,

G

Do you think you can tell?

C                   D

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts,

Am                    G                             D

Hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change,

C                        Am                         G

And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

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Capo  5

G (320003)

D (xx0232)

Em* (xx2000)

C (x32010)

D/F# (2×0232)

Bm7 (xx4323)

C/B (xx2010)

Em7/D (xx0003)

Em (022000)

G/B (x20003)

D/A (x00232)

|G   D   |Em*  C  |G   D   |

|Em*     |C       |

G        D/F#     C        G

ooo-ooo  ooo-ooo  ooo-ooo  ooo-ooo

C        Bm7      Em       C

ooo-ooo  ooo-ooo  ooo-ooo  ooo-ooo

G         D/F#             C/B     Em7/D

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high

C       G/B                      D/A            Em   C

And the dreams that you dream of once in a lullaby______

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Capo 4

D

D                                                 A

You’re on the phone with your girlfriend, she’s upset

Em

She’s going off about something that you said

G

‘Cause she doesn’t get your humor like I do

D                                       A

I’m in the room it’s a typical Tuesday night

Em

I’m listening to the kind of music she doesn’t like

G

And she’ll never know your story like I do

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Capo 5

Intro:   (Listen for rhythm and strumming pattern)

Am      C       x4

(To emulate banjo play   Am    Am-add6     Am    C    the last two times)

Verse 1:

Am

Weep for yourself, my man,                               C

you’ll never be what is in your heart.

Am

Weep little lion man,

C

you’re not as brave as you were at the start.

G

Rate yourself and rape yourself,

F            Fmaj7            C

take all the courage you have left.

G

Wasted on fixing all the

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{Intro (acoustic)

{e| |----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
{B| |----3-----3-----|----3-----3-----|----3-----3-----|----3-----3-----|
{G| |--0-----0-------|--0-----0-------|--0-----0-------|--0-----0-------|
{D| |5-----5---------|5-----5---------|5-----5---------|5-----5---------|
{A| |----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
{E| |----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

{Verse 1
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CAPO 4

Intro Chords (relative to Capo): G D Em C

Intro Tab (relative to Capo):

------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------|
--7/9-7-----7/9-7-----7/9-----------------------|
--------------------------9----9--9/10---10/5---|  x2

G

Well you dawned on me and you bet I felt it,

D

I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted,

Em

I fell right through the cracks,

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Standard Tuning

No Capo

D   Bm G (2x)

D

I’m so glad you made the time to see me

Bm

How’s life, tell me how’s your family

G                        D   A

I haven’t seen them in a while

D

You’ve been good, busier than ever

Bm

We small talk, work and the weather

G                              D  A

You’re guard is up, and I know why

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Capo 1

Intro: G Am Em C

Verse 1:

G                Am

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag,

Em                         C

drifting through the wind

G

wanting to start again?

Am                Em

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

C

like a house of cards,

G

one blow from caving in?

Am                   Em

Do you ever feel already buried deep?

C                            G

6 feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing

Am                   Em

Do you know that there’s still a chance for you

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Standard Tuning

Intro: C Am C Am

C                 Am

I 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

Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth

Am                 F

The minor fall and the major lift

G            Em             Am

The baffled king composing hallelujah

 

Chorus:

 

F           Am          F           C    G   C

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu-u-u-u-jah ….

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Nothing else matters  (Metallica)

Tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

Intro

6/8 time

Eb-------0-----|-------0-----|-------0-----|-------0---7-|
Bb-----0---0---|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|
Gb---0-------0-|---0-------0-|---0-------0-|---0---------|
Db-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
Ab-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
Eb-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|

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