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Blue Afternoon
Happy Time **************************** *** by Dann Butterfield **** *** comments/corrections *** ***** are welcome at ******* *** drumbo@geocities.com *** **************************** Happy Time Verse 1:
E Emaj7
Ah, it's a happy time inside my mind
E Emaj7
When a melody does find a rhyme and
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7 D
Says to me I'm comin' home to stay
Dmaj7 E Emaj7 E
Lord, home to stay
Emaj7 D Dmaj7 D
I'm comin' home to stay
Dmaj7 E Emaj7 E Emaj7
Home to stay
Verse 2:
Ah, lord, it's just the same old story
Something about love for glory
A nickel and a dime a dozen, Fame
Ah, it's such a shame
Ah, the way they use your name
Ah, you know it's such a shame
Verse 3:
When it's only mine to sing a song
Hoping that you'd cross along my way
Before I have to move along
Ah, now move along
Ah, but I'll be back again
Ooh back again
Verse 4:
Lord, it's a happy time inside my mind
When a melody does find a rhyme and
Says to me I'm comin' home to stay
Lord, home to stay
I'm comin' home to stay
Lord, Home to stay
Coda: (repeat E Emaj7 pattern, ending on a Emaj7)
Sleep late now mama
Let the mornin' sun warm your bed
While I'm away
While I'm away
Chase the Blues Away (Capo at first fret on recording)
Intro:
Em Esus2 Em Esus2
------------------------------- (This pattern continues for
------------------------------- the Em parts for the verses.
------------------------------- For the /F# chords, the bass note
-----2-----4---------2~--4----- shifts to the 2nd fret, and to
~--2~--2-----------2~--2------- the 3rd fret for the /G.)
-0---------------0-------------
Em Em/F#
Well come along walk with me
Em/G Am C
And learn the songs that lovers sing
Em
When they believe
Em Em/F#
We'll dance along the river's edge
Em/G Am C
Just arm and arm along the moonlit shore
Em
The midnight cries
Chorus:
G B C
I just came to chase the blues away
Em
For awhile
Verse 2:
Just like a child you'll cling to me
From every sound along that rushes near, I whisper
It's just the breeze
That licks your skin and rubs your breast
And as we lay our rivers flow away
Your woman fear
(chorus)
Lord I just came to chase the blues away
Ah, for awhile
(Instrumental break:) Em7: 022030
Em / Em7 Em (x4) (The timing is not exactly
D / / / (x2) accurate.)
(do this twice, then)
G / / / / / / / F#m / / / / / / /
Em / / / / / / / (as per intro)
Verse 3:
With the morning sun we'll wake
And lift our eyes and watch the eagle fly
Up mountain high
And on his wings our love will climb
And never fail until he soars and dives
Oh, he'll take your breath away
(chorus)
Well, he just came to chase the blues away
For awhile
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As I listen to this song, I notice that when some of
the chords change to Em, a slide up to the E note is
heard. At this time, the chord is: 0797xx
I Must Have Been Blind (capo at first fret)
Verse 1:
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7
Here I am believin' words again
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7
Here I am tryin' to find your love again
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7
Here I am down on my knees again
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7
Prayin' for a love that we used to know
Pre-chorus and chorus:
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7 E Emaj7
Both of us know how hard it is
D Dmaj7
To love and let it go
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7 E Emaj7
Both of us know how hard it is
D Dmaj7
To go on living that way
G A E Emaj7
When so few understand what it means
D Dma7
To fall in love
G A E Emaj7
And so few know how hard it is
D Dmaj7 E Emaj7
To live without it
D A E
Lord, I must have been blind
D A E
Oh, I must have been blind
D A E
Lord, I must have been blind
E Emaj7 D Dmaj7
Verse 2:
Ah, to hold something real
And not believe it
To live in her life
And never trust it
To give all you know and never feel it
And hold back each day
Until it dies away
(pre-chorus and chorus:)
Both of us know how hard it is
To love and let it go
And both of us know how hard it is
To go on living that way
And so few understand what it means to fall in love
And so few know how hard it is to live without it
Lord, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind
Yes, I must have been blind
The River Verse 1:
C Bb
I live by the river
C
And I hide my house away
Bb
Then just like the river
C
I can change my ways
Bb
Oh, if you come to love me
C
You would stay forever
Bb C
Inside my heart, inside my dreams
Bb Ab C
And time will fade
Bb Ab C
In time we'll love
Verse 2:
In the street we walk as beggars
In the alley faithless kings
Ah, but it's the truth of life
That chains us in between
Those lost moments we steal
To keep our love alive
And our prize so tired after all the pain
And time will fade
In time we'll love
Instrumental:
F / / / / / / / Eb / / / / / / / (x3)
F / / / / / / / Eb / / / Ab / / / C / / / / / / /
(repeat verse 1)
****
To get a sound closer to the recording, try playing
A G F D C with a capo at the third fret representing the
C Bb Ab F Eb respectively.
So Lonely Capo 1st fret
A E7
Oh, I don't get no letters
A E7
Nobody calls
A E7 A E7
Nobody comes 'round here no more
A E7
No pretty ladies
A E7
No pretty boys
A E7 A E7
Nobody comes 'round my door no more
C#m7 E7
It's just lonely, yeah
A E7 A E7
Mama you don't know
C#m7 E7
It's just lonely, yeah
A E7
Mama you don't know
A = x02220 E7 = 0201000 C#m7 = x 46454
Tabbed by Adrie Meijer, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Cafe Capo 1st fret
E7 A(add B)/C# E7 A(add B)/C#
I was just a curly-haired mountain boy
E7 F E7 F
On my way passing thru
A7 Dm A7 Dm
I heard a voice whisper good evening
A7 Dm E7
I turned to a shadow and saw her there
F E7
So all alone
(Bridge:) B E7
And then we waltzed to our heart beat
A7 Dm A7 Dm
All around the sea was swaying
A7 Dm E7
The breeze was praying never to leave
F E7
her alone
E7 = 0201000 A(add B)/C# = x42200 A7 = x02020 F = 133211 Dm =
xx0231 B = x24442
Tabbed by Adrie Meijer, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Blue Melody Capo 1st fret E6 Em6 Well I was born a blue melody E6 Em6 A little song my mama sang to me Gmaj7 E6 It was a blue melody Gmaj7 E6 Such a blue you've never seen (Bridge:) Am Am7 One summer mornin' I was raised but I don't know Am Am7 One summer mornin' I was left but I don't know Am7 E6 Em6 One summer mornin' so all alone E6 = 022120 Em6 = 022020 Gmaj7 = 35443x Am = x02210 Am7 = x02010 Tabbed by Adrie Meijer, Nijmegen, The Netherlands The Train Tuning CGCFAC
Intro: D(no 3rd) C* C#* D*
D(no 3rd) G7 G
Ah tell me mama, ah tell me darlin'
D(no 3rd)
Now that it's time for me to go
G7 G
D(no 3rd)
Ah, don't you hold me down and kill the man you love
C G/B D(no 3rd)
Sweet mama what you gonna do
C G/B D(no 3rd)
Ah, now darlin' what you gonna do
C G/B D(no 3rd)
Mama what you gonna do for love
(...)
D(no 3rd) A C G
D(no 3rd)
When I'm gone, when I'm gone, when I'm gone, when I'm gone,
A C G
D(no 3rd)
Ah when I'm gone, gone, gone, gone gone gone gone gone gone
(Play C* and C#* by sliding up from the 5th to the 6th fret
throughout the guitar solo and the vocal improvisation "darling so
young and tender...
C* C#* C* C#* ...................................................
Darlin' so young and tender so quick to surrender
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Everything that you don't own, know that you've got not
.....................................................................
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You make love like a skinned cat crawlin' across the highway
............................................
Tryin' to git to the other side
....................................................... C* C#*
D*
Don't know why you just gotta try
C* = xx5555 C#* = xx6666 D* = 007777 D(no 3rd) = 000230
C= x3201x G7 = 5x0003 G = 5x0005 A = x02222
Tabbed by Adrie Meijer, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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