Intro: Dm | Dm | Dm | Dm (pick through this chord)
Dm
Smack, crack, bushwhacked
GDmDm
Tie another one to the racks, baby
Dm
Hey kids, Rock and Roll
GDmDm
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
F
What if I ride, what if you walk
Am
What if you rock around the clock
GG
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Em
What if you did, what if you walk
EmDmDm
What if you tried to get off, baby
Dm
Hey kids, where are you
GDmDm
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Dm
Hey kids, shake a leg
GDmDm
maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
F
Maybe you did, maybe you walked
Am
Baby you rocked around the clock
GG
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Em
Maybe I ride, maybe you walk
EmDmDm
Maybe I drive to get off, baby
Am
Hey kids, shake a leg
GDmDm
maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
Am
Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie
AmDmDm
Ollie Ollie in come free, baby
Am
Hey kids, where are you
GDmDmDmDm
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Dm
Smack, crack, shackalack
GDmDm
Tie another one to your back, baby
Dm
Hey kids, Rock and Roll
GDmDm
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
F
Maybe you did, maybe you walked
Am
Maybe you rock around the clock
GG
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Em
Maybe I ride, maybe you walk
EmDmDm
Maybe I drive to get off, baby
Am
Hey kids, where are you
AmDmDm
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Am
Hey kids, Rock and Roll
AmDmDmDmDmDm
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby
Ending: Dm (Strum)
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"TRY NOT TO BREATHE"
Intro: (12/8 time: / = an eighth note)
D// Am// C// G//
D// Am// C// G//
DAm
I will try not to breathe,
CGDAm
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees
CGD// Am// C//
These eyes are the eyes of the old,
GD// Am// C// G//
shiver in the cold
DAm
I will try not to breathe,
CGDAm
This decision is mine I have lived a full life
CGAmC
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember
G// D// G// D//
Oh
AmGDG// D//
I need something to fly over my grave again
AmC/////
I need something to breathe
DAmCG
I will try not to burden, I can hold these inside
I will hold my breath until all these shivers subside
Just look in my eyes
I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see
Leave it to memory me, shudder to breathe
AmCG// D// G// D//
I want you to remember
Am (you will never see)
I need something to fly (something to fly)
GDG// D//
Over my grave again (you will never see)
AmC /////
I need something to breathe (something to breathe)
Baby Don't shiver now,
Why do you shiver now (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to fly (something to fly)
Over my grave again (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe
Bridge: Em (One Bar)
AmEmAmEm
I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see
Leave it to memory me, don't dare me to breath
I want you to remember
Am (you will never see)
I need something to fly (something to fly)
GDG// D//
Over my grave again (you will never see)
AmC/////
I need something to breathe (something to breathe)
Baby Don't shiver now,
Why do you shiver now (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe
I want you to remember (I have seen things you will never see)
END: G
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"THE SIDEWINDER SLEEPS TONIGHT"
(Intro)
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
The transition to the verses:
CEm
e---------0-----|---------0---------
B-------------1-|-------------0-----
G---------------|-------------------
D-----2---------|-------------------
A-3-------------|-----2-------------
E---------------|-0-----------------
{F, C, and A's are barre chords}
FC
This here is the place where I will stay in
F
There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone
CF
Let it ring a long long long long time
AmCFC
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more, Ohhhhhhh...
FAmC
If I don't pick up, pick up, the sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
CEm {Play using above riff}
Ohhhh.....
FF
There are scratches all around the coin slot
C
Like a heart beat baby trying to wake up
FC
But this machine can only swallow money
you can't lay a patch by computer design
FAmC
Just a lot of stupid, stupid signs
FC
Tell her {yodeled}
FCF
Tell her she can kiss my ass and laugh and say that you were only kidding
AmC
That way she'll know that it was really, really, really, really me me
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAmCEm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
F
Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me
C
Today I need something more sub, stop, sub, sub, substantial
FCA can of beans or black eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice
FAmC
Candy bar, a fallen star, or a reading from Doctor Suess
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAmCEm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
Bridge:
(*During the Bridge, Am and Bm are played as A barres, and the picking
pattern is like this:
BmBmAmAm
e---------2------|---------2------|---------0------|---------0------|
B-------------3--|-------------3--|-------------1--|-------------1--|
G----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D-----4----------|-----4----------|-----2----------|-----2----------|
A-2--------------|-2--------------|-0--------------|-0--------------|
E----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
The C below is picked in the same pattern, i.e. A str, D str, e str, B str*)
BmAmBm
The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way.
Am
Always had a smile, never reason to pretend,
BmAmC
Their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream
Em
The sidewinder sleeps on his back
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAm
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
DGCGAmCEm (*)
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
(*But now this transition thing changes to what we'll call the New Transition*)
CEm
e---------0-----|-0-------0-----|
B-------------1-|-0-------0-----|
G---------------|-0-------0-----|
D-----2---------|-2-------2-----|
A-3-------------|-2-------2-----|
E---------------|-0-------2-----|
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
CEmD
You got a boogie woogie groove on this one
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"EVERYBODY HURTS"
Intro: DGDGDGDGD
When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone
GDG
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
E(low)---3---2---0--
EmAEmAEmADG
Don't let yourself go, cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes
DGD
Sometimes everything is wrong, now it's time to sing along
GD
When your day is night alone (hold on, hold on)
GD
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
GDG
If you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on
E(low)---3---2---0--
EmAEmAEm
Cause everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends
AGbBmGbBm
Everybody hurts, don't throw your hands, oh now,
GbBmC
don't throw your hands
GCAmD
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you're not alone
GDGD
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long
GDG
When you think you've had too much, with this life, to hang on
E(low)---3---2---0--
EAE
Well everybody hurts, sometimes
AEA NCDG
Everybody cries, and everybody hurts, sometimes
DGDGD
But everybody hurts sometimes so hold on, hold on, hold on,
GDGDG
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
DGDG
Everybody hurts
DGDGDG
You are not alone
Picking patten for the chords:
DGE----------2-----------2-------------3-----------3----------------------------
B--------3---3-------3---3---------3---3-------3---3--------------------------
G------2-------2---2-------2-----0-------0---0--------------------------------
D----0-----------0------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------3-----------3----------------------------------
(Note: the chords below may be picked or strummed)
AEE----------0-----------0-------------0-----------0----------------------------
B--------2---2-------2---2---------0---0-------0---0--------------------------
G------2-------2---2-------2-----1-------1---1--------------------------------
D----2-----------2------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------2-----------2----------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
D4: E-0-----0-----0-----0--
B---3-----3-----3------
G-----0-----0-----0----
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"SWEETNESS FOLLOWS"
Intro: DDD2
Readying to bury your father and your mother
DD2
What did you think when you lost another
DD2
I used to wonder why did you bother
DD2
Distance from one, one to the other
DD2
Listen here my sister and my brother
DD2
What would you care if you lost the other
DD2
I always wondered why did we bother
DD2
Distance from one, one to the other
BbCBbCDD
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
DD2
It's these little things, they can pull you under
DD2
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
DD2
I always knew this all together with thunder
DD2
It's lost to now or never lives
BbCBbCDD
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
BbCBbCDD
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
DD2
It's these little things, they can pull you under
DD2
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
DD2
Yea, yea we were all together
DD2
Lost to now or never lives
BbCBbCDD
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
BbCBbCDD
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
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"MONTY GOT A RAW DEAL"
(Capo 3rd fret)
Intro: EmGEmGEmGDCEmEmGEmG
Monty this seems strange to me, the movies had that movie thing
EmGDCEm
But nonsense has a welcome ring and heros don't come easy
EmGEmG
Now nonsense isn't new to me, I know my head I know my feet
EmGDCEmDCEm
But mischief knocked me in the knees so just let go, just let go
EmGEmG
I saw the ocean meet the man, I saw you buried in the sand
EmGDCEmA friend was there to hold my hand, so walk on by
EmGEmG
So I went walking through the stream, I saw you strung up in a tree
EmGDCEmDCEmA woman out there said to me, said hold your tongue, hold your tongue
GDCEmGDCEm
you Don't owe me anything, you don't want this sympathy [waste your breath]
GDCDCEm
Don't you waste your breath [waste your breath] for the silver screen
EmGEmG
That nonsense doesn't mean a thing, they tried to bust you in a sting
EmGDCEm
But virtue isn't everything so don't waste time
EmGEmG
Now Here's a rhyme that you must hear, put this on your reel to reel
EmGDCEmDCEm
Mischief through a rotten deal, Monty's laying low, he is laying low
DCEmDCEm
Just let go, just let go
GDCEmGDCEm
you Don't owe me anything, you don't want this sympathy [waste your breath]
GDCGDCEm
Don't you waste your breath [waste your breath] Monty this seems strange to me
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"IGNORELAND"
Riff: e:--------------------------
B:--6--sl--8-----------0---- then play funky open D(xx023x)
G:--5------7--5-sl--7--0----
D:------------5-sl--7-------
(Might also play Dm7 part as 000560 and Dm7+4 part as 000780)
(EADGBe)
Intro: Dm7(557565) Dm7+4(557585) (bend it .. all of it) repeat Riff lots
optional riff after G: D:--5-5-5-4-0---
funk D(xx023x) G(xx0033) A:------------0-
Bastards stole the power from the victims of the us v. them years,
DG
Wrecking all things virtuous and true
DG
The undermining, social, democratic, downhill slide of truth, abysmal
DG
lost, swam, off the precipice into trickle down runoff hope
C(335553) D(557775) CD
They hypnotized the summer, 1979,
CDDm7 Dm7+4
marched into the capital, pretty duplicitous lookin' at evil, media eventing,
Dm7
heartless, and they were super U.S. citizen, super achiever
Dm7 Dm7+4
mega ultra power dosing relax
Riff
defense, defense, defense, defense, yeah, yeah, yeah [march]
(Riff over and over)
Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea]
{same as above}
DG
The information nation took the clues from all the sound byte glut
DG
1980, 84, 88, 92, too .... too
DG
Hard to be what you can be jump down junk in your energy
DG
Hard to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes
C(335553) D(557775) CD
They can't supply the oil, 1979
CDDm7 Dm7+4
Calculate the capital, one for the public, ask any ask TV tells a million
Dm7 Dm7+4
lies that they twist down by the report anything that isn't handed
Dm7 Dm7+4
on a presidential spoon
Riff
I'm just put down and frustrated by all this so fuck you man
(Riff over and over)
Fuck 'em [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland
G(355433)
If there wasn't, tell me would he have created them
Bm
Maybe it is true
Bb(113331) D(577455)
But I'm resentful all the same, someone's got to take the blame
{same as above}
DG
I know that this is vitriol, no solution spleen-venting
DG
But I feel better having screamed on you
C(335553) D(557775) CD
They desecrate the winner, 1979
CDDm7 Dm7+4
capital collaterial, pretty duplicitous lookin' at evil, media eventing,
Dm7
heartless, and they were super U.S. citizen super achiever
Dm7 Dm7+4
mega ultra power doesn't relax
Riff
defense, defense, defense, defense, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Riff over and over)
Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea]
(Riff over and over)
Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea]
"This is not a revolution, I did not do the revolution, thank you"
-----
"STAR ME KITTEN"
GmDmGmDmGmDmGm
Humans cutting through for the icy ???
DmBbCBbC
Nothing's free but guarantee for a lifetime's lease
BbC
I've changed the locks
BbEbDmGm
And you canNOT have one
You, you know the other channel
The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear
I hear them screeching through the door
from our driveway
Hey love, look into your parlor, honest heart
letters there from you, been signed, this love, desire
I've changed the locks,
now at this gesture (question?)
?? ??
Have we lost our minds?
?? ??
Will this never end?
?? BbEbDmGm
It could depend on your take
You, me, we used to be on fire
If keys are all that stand between
Can I throw in the ring our gasoline
Just fuck me kitten
You are wild, and I am your possession
Nothing's free,
so fuck me kitten
I'm in your possession
so fuck me kitten
------
"MAN ON THE MOON"
Dadd4/add2 x54030
CDadd4/add2
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-1-------1---1-------1---1---1-|-1-/-3---3---3-------3---3---3-|
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-2-------2---2-------2---2---2-|-2-/-4---4---4-------4---4---4-|
|-3-------3---3-------3---3---3-|-3-/-5---5---5-------5---5---5-|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
C
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-3-\-1---1---1-------1---1---1-|-1-------1---1-------1---1---1-|
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-4-\-2---2---2-------2---2---2-|-2-------2---2-------2---2---2-|
|-5-\-3---3---3-------3---3---3-|-3-------3---3-------3---3---3-|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
Repeat 4 measures.
Verse:
CDadd4/add2 C
Mott the Hoople and the game of Life, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Monopoly, 21, checkers, and chess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Mr. Fred Blasy, and a breakfast mess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
I'll see you in heaven if you make the list, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pre-Chorus:
AmGAmG
Now Andy did you hear about this one, tell me are you locked in the punch?
AmGCD
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
Chorus:
GAm C(III) BmGAmD
If you believe they put a man on the moon, (man on the moon)
GAm C(III) BmAm
If you believe there's nothing up their sleeve and nothing is cruel
Verse:
CDadd4/add2 C
Moses went walking with a staff of wood, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Newton got beaned by the apple good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Mr. Charles Darwin had the gall to ask, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pre-Chorus:
AmGAmG
Now Andy did you hear about this one, tell me are you locked in the punch?
AmGCD
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
Chorus:
GAm C(III) BmGAmD
If you believe they put a man on the moon, (man on the moon)
GAm C(III) BmAm
If you believe there's nothing up their sleeve and nothing is cruel
GUITAR SOLO:
EmDEmDEmDD
Solo (approximation)
------12---|-----------|------12---|-----------|------12---|--------
12-12----12|-----------|12-12----12|-----------|12-12----12|--------
-----------|---11-12-11|-----------|---11-12-11|-----------|---11-12
-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------
-----------|12---------|-----------|12---------|-----------|12------
-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------
Verse:
CDadd4/add2 C
Here's a little agit for the never believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Here's a little ghost for the offering, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CDadd4/add2 C
Mr. andy Kaufman's gone wrestling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pre-Chorus:
AmGAmG
Now Andy did you hear about this one, tell me are you locked in the punch?
AmGCD
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
Chorus:
GAm C(III) BmGAmD
If you believe they put a man on the moon, (man on the moon)
GAm C(III) BmAm
If you believe there's nothing up their sleeve and nothing is cruel
< GUITAR SOLO >
Chorus: Play 3 times.
Em
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"NIGHTSWIMMING"
Intro....
G B(note)->CG B(note)->D
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night...
G B(note)->CDG B(note)->CACD
(over and over again for the whole song... the two lines above are played
for each line)
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard taken years ago
Turn around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals a picture and a Verse
Still It's so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
i'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago
The fear of getting caught
The recklessness in water
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by every day
Nightswimming remembering that night
September's coming soon
i'm pining for the moon
and what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun
A bright type could never drawn
could not describe, Nightswimming
You I thought I knew you, you I cannot judge,
you I thought you knew me, this one laughing quietly, underneath my breath
Nightswimming
The photograph reflects every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night
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"FIND THE RIVER"
-------2---------0----
----3--3------3--3----
Intro Riff: --2----2----0----0---- X 2
0------0--2------2----
----------------------
----------------------
DF A7su4 GDFA7sus4DFA7sus4G
Hey now little speedy head the read on the speedometer says
DFA7sus4
you have to go the task in the city
DF
Where people drown and people serve
A7sus4GDFA7sus4
Don't be shy, your just deserve is only just light years to go
GADEm
Me my thoughts are flowers strewn, an ocean storm may bury them
GAD (Dsus)
I have got to leave to find my way
GADEm
Watch the road and memorize this life that passed before my eyes
GAD
and nothing is going my way
DFA7sus4GDFA7sus4DFA7sus4G
The ocean is the river's goal, the need to leave the water knows
DFA7sus4
We're closer now, but light years to go
GADEm
I have got to find the river, Bergamot and bed of rose
GAD
Run through my head and far away
GADEm
Leave the road and memorize this life that
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.