EASY SONGS FOR GUITAR
1 Me and Bobby Mc Gee
( K. Kristofferson as sung by Janis Joplin)
2 Redemption Song ( Bob Marley)
3 Bad Moon Rising
(Creedence C R)
4 Beautiful World
(Colin Hay)
5 Girl (Beatles)
6 Carey
(Joni Mitchell)
7 Mr Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan as sung by The Byrds)
8 Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)
9 Ill Be(Edwin McCain)
10 Chords that are good to know.
11 Thank You (Dido)
12 Nowhere Man
(Beatles)
13 Come Away with Me (Norah Jones)
14 High and Dry
(Radiohead)
15 Yellow
(Coldplay)
16 Ive Just seen a face(Beatles)
18 Simple twist of Fate (Bob Dylan)
19 Wonderwall ( Oasis)
20 Green Eyes (Coldplay)
21 Bar Chords
22 Hallelujah ( Cohen, as sung by Jeff Buckley)
10 Chords that are good to know.
21 Bar Chords
3 Bad Moon Rising
4 Beautiful World
6 Carey
13 Come Away with Me
5 Girl
20 Green Eyes
22 Hallelujah
14 High and Dry
9 Ill Be
16 Ive Just seen a face
1 Me and Bobby Mc Gee
7 Mr Tambourine Man
12 Nowhere Man
2 Redemption Song
18 Simple twist of Fate
8 Sweet Baby James
11 Thank You
19 Wonderwall
15 Yellow
Redemption song
Bob Marley
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Old pirates yes they rob I
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Sold I to the merchant ships
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Minutes after they took I
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|D
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from the bottomless pit
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But my hand was made strong
C
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By the hand of the almighty
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We forward in this generation
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triumphantly
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Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
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Cause all I ever had
redemption songs, redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book*
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D
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Bad Moon Rising
CCR
D
A
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D
I see the bad moon arising.
D
A
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D
I see trouble on the way.
D A
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I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
D
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I see bad times today.
(CHORUS:)
G
Don't go around tonight,
D
Well, it's bound to take your life,
A
G
D
There's a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
(CHORUS)
All right!
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
(CHORUS)
Girl / Beatles
Rubber Soul
Lennon/McCartney
Capo on 8th
Em
B7
Em Em7
Is there anybody going to listen to my story
Am
Am7
G
B7
All about the girl who came to stay?
Em
B7
She's the kind of girl you want so much
Em
Em7
It makes you sorry
Am
Am7
Em
Still, you don't regret a single day
G
Bm
Am
D
Ah girl
Girl
When I think of all the times I've tried so hard to leave her
She will turn to me and start to cry
And she promises the earth to me
And I believe her
After all this times I don't know why
Ah, girl
Girl
Am
E
She's the kind of girl who puts you down
Am
When friends are there, you feel a fool
Am
When you say she's looking good
E
She acts as if it's understood
Am
C
She's cool, cool, cool, cool
G
Bm
Am
D
Girl
Girl
Was she told when she was young that pain
Would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn
His day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?
Ah girl
Girl
Girl
Ah girl
Girl
Girl
Then:
E
Instrumental verse
Fade on Chorus
Carey
C
The wind is in from Africa
G
Last night, I couldn't sleep
F
C
Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey
G
But it's really not my home.
C
G
My fingernails are filthy
I've got beach tar on my feet
F
C
G
And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne.
chorus
C
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Oh Carey get out your cane, and i'll put on some silver
F
G
C
Oh your a mean old daddy, but i like you
Come on down to the mermaid cafe and i will buy you a bottle of wine
And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down
Lets have a round for these freaks and these soldiers,
A round for these friends of mine
Lets have another round for the bright red devil, who keeps me in this tourist town.
chorus
Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam, or maybe I'll go to Rome
And rent me a grand piano and put some flowers round my room,
But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now, the night is a starry dome
And they're playing that scratchy rock n roll beneath the Matella moon
chorus
The wind is in from Africa
Last night i couldn't sleep
Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here, but its really not my home.
Maybe its been too long a time since I was scrambling down in the streets,
Now they got me used to that clean white linen and that fancy French cologne.
chorus
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
by Bob Dylan and sung by the Byrds
intro: D A D A
G
A
D
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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
D
G
A 2x
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
G
A
D
G
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
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D
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A
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.
(Bob only)
Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet,
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.
G
A
D
G
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.
D
G
D
G
My senses have been stripped, May hands can't feel to grip,
D
G
My toes too numb to step,
D
G
A 2x
Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.
G
A
D
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I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade,
D
G
D
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Into my own parade. Cast your dancing spell my way,
G
A 2x
I promise to go under it.
(Bob only)
(Bob only)
Though you might hear laughing, spinning,
Take me disappearing through
swinging madly across the sun,
the smoke rings of my mind.
It's not aimed at anyone,
Down the foggy ruins of time,
It's just escaping on the run,
far past the frozen leaves,
And but for the sky there are no fences facing.
The haunted frightened trees,
And if you hear vague traces of
Out to the windy bench,
skipping reels of rhyme,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
To your tambourine in time.
Yes to dance beneath the diamond
It's just a ragged clown behind,
sky with one hand waving free,
I wouldn't pay it any mind,
Silhouetted by the sea,
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing.
Circled deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Sweet Baby James
Intro: 3/4
G ( f#) Em7 A7sus4
J. Taylor
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There is a young cowboy; he lives on the range.
Bm
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His horse and his cattle are his only companions.
Bm
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F#m
He works in the saddle and sleeps in the canyons,
G
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Em7
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waiting for summer, his pastures to change.
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A7sus4 D
And as the moon rises, he sits by his fire
Bm
G
D
A
thinking about women and glasses of beer.
G
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A7sus4 D
And closing his eyes as the doggies retire.
Bm
G
D
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He sings out a song which is soft but its clear,
E7sus4
E7
A7sus4
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A7
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as if maybe someone could hear.
Chorus:
D
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D
Goodnight you moonlight ladies
Bm
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Rock-a-bye sweet baby James
Bm
G
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/
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose
E7sus4 E7
A7sus4
A7
Wont you let me go down in my dreams
G
A
D
and rock-a-bye sweet baby James.
Now the first of December was covered in snow
so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston
though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of the frosting
with ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go.___You know
There's a song that they sing when they take to the highway
a song that they sing when they take to the sea
a song that they sing of their home in the sky
Maybe you can believe if it helps you to sleep
The singing works just fine for me.
3/4 strum :
I'll be
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D U D U
Edwin McCain
G
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Cadd9
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The strands in your eyes that color them wonderful
G
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Dsus4 Cadd9
Stop me and steal my breath
G
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Cadd9
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Emeralds from mountains thrust toward the sky
G
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Dsus4 Cadd9
Never revealing their depth
G D/F# Em
D
Tell me that we belong together
G
D/F#
Em
D
Dress it up with the trappings of love
G
D/F#
Em
D
I'll be captivated I'll hang from your lips
G
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D/F#
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Instead of the gallows of heartache that hang from above
D
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Chorus:
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I'll be your crying shoulder
G /
Dsus4 Cadd9
I'll be your love suicide
G
/ Cadd9
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and I'll be better when I'm older
G /
Dsus4 Cadd9
G
I'll be the greatest fan of your life
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Cadd9
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G
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Dsus4
Rain falls angry on the tin roof
As we lie awake in my bed
You're my survival, you're my living proof
My love is alive not dead
Tell me that we belong together
Dress it up with the trappings of love
I'll be captivated I'll hang from your lips
Instead of the gallows of heartache, that hang from above
Repeat Chorus
Em
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I've been dropped out, burned up, fought my way back from the dead
Em
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C / / /
Tuned in, turned on, Remembered the things that you said
Repeat Chorus
F
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Cadd9
Come Away with me
intro
Norah Jones
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ending C
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chorus G
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Come away with me in the night
C
Am
Em
come away with me and I will write
F
C
G
you a song.
Am
Come away with me and we'll kiss
on a mountain top
come away with me and I'll
never stop loving you.
Am
solo
C
Am
C
Am
Come away with me on a bus
C
Am
Em
F
come away where they can't tempt us
C
with their lies.
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F
I want to walk with you
C
on a cloudy day
G
F
In fields where the yellow grass grows
C
knee high.
G
C
So won't you try to come...
And I want to wake up with the rain
falling on a tin roof
while I'm safe there in your arms
so all I ask is for you
Come away with me in the night
come away with me
Em
F
G
High and Dry
F#m11
Radiohead
Aadd9
E
Two jumps in a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy.
F#m11
Aadd9
E
Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop.
F#m11
Aadd9
E
You'd kill yourself for recognition; kill yourself to never ever stop.
F#m11
Aadd9
E
You broke another mirror; you're turning into something you are not.
F#m11
Aadd9
Don't leave me high,
F#m11
E
don't leave me dry
Aadd9
Don't leave me high,
E
don't leave me dry
Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk.
All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you. You will be the one screaming out.
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
It's the best thing that you've ever had, the best thing that you've ever, ever had.
It's the best thing that you've ever had; the best thing you've had has gone away.
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
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I've Just Seen a Face
VERSE
VERSE
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Lennon/McCartney
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CHORUS
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18 SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
Bob Dylan
|D
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They sat together in the park
|Dmaj7
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As the evening sky grew dark
|D7
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She looked at him and he felt a spark
|G/B
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Tingle to his bones
|Gm
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'Twas then he felt alone
|D
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And wished that he'd gone straight
D
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And watched out for a simple twist of fate
4
He woke up, the room was bare
He didn't see her anywhere
He told himself he didn't care
Pushed the window open wide
Felt an emptiness inside
To which he just could not relate
Brought on by his simple twist of fate
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2
They walked along the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel
With the neon burning bright
He felt the heat of the night
Hit him like a freight
Train moving with a simple twist of fate
6
People tell me its a sin
To know and feel too much within
I still believe she was my twin
But I lost the ring
She was born in spring
But I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate
3
A saxaphone someplace far off played
As she was walking down by the arcade
As the light burst through a beat up shade
Where he was waking up
She dropped a coin into the cup
Of a blind man at the gate
And forgot about a simple twist of fate
D
Dmaj7
Strum: D D U D U D U
D7
5
He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks
Were the saliors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again
How long must he wait?
One more time for his simple twist of fate
G/B
Gm
A7
Green Eyes
Coldplay
verse
A
E
Bm change mid measure: A
E
Bm
Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand
A
E
Bm
And I come here to talk
Bm
The green eyes
Bm
And how could
A
E
Bm
I hope you understand
D
A
E
Yeah the spotlight
Shines upon you
D
A
E
Anybody
Deny you
Bm
D
I came here with a load
A
G
And it feels so much lighhhh..ter
D
Now I met you
Bm
D
A
G
Honey you should know
That I could never go .... on
D
Bm
Without you
Green eyes
verse
Honey you are the sea
And I came here to talk
Upon which I float
I think you should know
Bm
D
A
E
That green eyes
You're the one that I wanted to fi.......nd
Bm
D
A
E
And anyone who tried to deny you,
Must be out of their mi......nd
Bm
D
Because I came here with a load
D
since I met you
A
G
And it feels so much lighhhh..ter
Bm
D
A
G
And Honey you should know
That I could never go .... on
Bm
A
Bm
Green eyes, green eyes, ohohoh... ohohoh...
ohohoh...
A
E
Bm
Honey you are a rock
A
E
Bm
Upon which I stand.
Strum : D DU UDU (with “swing” feel)
A
E
Bm
D
D
Without you
Hallelujah Intro: |G
Capo 5
|Em7 |G
by Leonard Cohen, as performed by Jeff Buckley
|Em7 |
G
Em7
G
Em7
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased
the Lord,
C
D
G
D
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
G
C
D
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
Em
C
D
B7
Em7
The minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing Hallelujah!
Chorus:
(G) C
Em
C
G D G Em7
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah!
G Em7
Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof;
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew There was a time you let me know
you.
What’s really going on below
But she tied you to a kitchen chair
But now you never show it to me, do you?
She broke your throne, she cut your
I remember when I moved in you,
hair,
And the holy dove was moving, too.
and from your lips she drew the
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah!
(Chorus)
Hallelujah!
(Chorus)
You say I took the name in vain;
But I don’t even know the name.
But if I did, well, really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light in every word;
It doesn’t matter which you heard;
The holy, or the broken Hallelujah!
Now maybe there’s a God above
But all I ever learn from love
Is how to shoot at somebody who outdrew
you.
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night,
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light,
it’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah!
(Chorus)
Chorus:
Baby, I’ve been here before. I know this
C
Em
C
G D
room,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-uI’ve walked this floor.
repeat...
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch,
Love is not a victory march.
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah! (Chorus)
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