Half The World Away

{Intro}: C F (x3) {Verse}: C F I would like to leave this city C F This old town don't smell too pretty and C Em Am (Aadd9) D Dsus4 D F I can feel the warning signs running around my mind C F C F And when I leave this island I'll book myself into a soul asylum C Em Am (Aadd9) D Dsus4 D F And I can feel the warning signs running around my mind {Chorus}: Am C E7 Am (Aadd9) So here I go still scratching around the same old hole F Fm G G7 My body feels young but my mind is very old Am (Aadd9) C So what do you say? E7 Am (Aadd9) You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway F You're half the world away Fm Half the world away C Em Am Half the world away D Dsus4 D F I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down. {Verse 2}: {same as Chorus chords}: So here I go still scratching around in the same old hole My body feels young but my mind if very old So what do you say? You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway You're half the world away Half the world away Half the world away Fadd9 I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down {Outro}: C F( or Fadd9) G7 : 353433 Fadd9: xx3213 Aadd9: x02200 Half the World Away - Written by Noel Gallagher Third song on the Oasis "Whatever" CD single. Notes on playing: 1) This song (as it appears on the CD) is a mixture of an accoustic guitar strumming the chords, and an electric guitar picking out notes in the chord over the top (though much quieter than the accoustic guitar). In most cases, just strumming the chord will suffice, though in a couple of places you may want to try and strum/pick the chord to get a bit closer to the sound of this song (see next note). 2) The trickiest bit in this song (to me anyway) is the D7sus4 chord at the end of each verse. In a similar way with "Talk Tonight" I feel that the correct way to play this is probably a mixture of strumming and picking. In other transcriptions of this song I have seen this chord given as D7 or Dsus2, but listening to the song, I feel that either of these chords don't work on their own, if purely strummed and not picked. A simpler way to play it might be as follows: D7 F -2--3--2--0---1----- -1------------1----- -2------------2----- -0------------3----- -0------------1----- 3) The Am chord preceding the D7sus4, also has a little riff played on the electric guitar which you could play to lead into the D7sus4 chord. So you could pick both these, picking the Am chord and then picking out the other notes in the D7sus4 chord,to lead into the F chord. E.g. Am D7 F -------------------3-2-----1--- -------0-1-------1-----1---1--- -----2-----2---2---------2-2--- ---2---------0-------------3--- -0-------------------------3--- -x-------------------------1--- 4) The picking of the open B string in the Am chord, also seems to happen again after the E7 chord is played in the chorus, although maybe slightly differently from before, as in: E7 Am ------------------- ---------1-0-1----- -1-------------2--- -0-----2----------- -2---0------------- -0----------------- 5) Additional comment (where appropriate) are enclosed in asterisks. Chords Numbers refer to fret positions on each of the six (EADGBe) strings. C 032010 Fmaj7 033210 C/B 022010 Am 002210 D7sus4 x00213 E7 020100 F 133211 Fm 133111 G 355433 G7 355453 The Song Intro: C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 Verse: C Fmaj7 I would like to leave this city C F This old town don't smell too pretty and C C/B Am D7sus4 F I can feel the warning signs running around my mind C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 And when I leave this island I'll book myself into a soul asylum C C/B Am D7sus4 F Cause I can feel the warning signs running around my mind Chorus: Am C E7 Am So here I go still scratching around in the same old hole F Fm G G7 My body feels young but my mind is very old Am C So what do you say? E7 Am You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway F You're half the world away Fm Half the world away C C/B Am Half the world away D7sus4 F I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down. F *for 2 bars* Verse: C Fmaj7 And when I leave this planet C Fmaj7 You know I'd stay, but I just can't stand it C C/B Am D7sus4 F I can feel the warning signs running around my mind C Fmaj7 And if I could leave this spirit C Fmaj7 I'll find me a hole and I'd live in it C C/B Am D7sus4 F And I can feel the warning signs running around my mind Chorus: Am C E7 Am So here I go I'm still scratching around the same old hole F Fm G G7 My body feels young but my mind is very old Am C So what do you say? E7 Am You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway F You're half the world away Fm Half the world away C C/B Am Half the world away D7sus4 F I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down. Outro: F No, I don't feel down F No, I don't feel down F (for 1 bar) C Fmaj7 Don't feel down *fainter* C Fmaj7 Don't feel down C Fmaj7 Don't feel down C Fmaj7 Don't feel down *hold the word "down" for the next 3 bars or so* C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 *repeat to fade when vocals have finished*