Seventies Singer
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: ECapotraste:
4th traste
From the album "Waitsgiving" (2021)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/MYnAf_xByNs
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/2fS80lFeLNkMXcwTfZxn8R?si=4d06373515044132
Capo on 4th fret. If you want to play without capo, you can set the "Transpose" button
on +4.
[Intro]
| C | Em | Am | C |
| C | Em | Am | C G |
| C | C | C | C |
[Verse 1]
C Em
I was thirty-three in the seventies
Am C
When I killed my career
C Em
Writing melodies for nobody
Am C G
I had filled seventeen years
Am C
If a tree falls in the woods
Em G
Was there ever a tree there at all?
F F
The analogy botched in my practice garage
G G
Bandmates stare up at the wall
[Verse 2]
C Em
I clarify "If no one is listening
Am C
I've got a plan where
C Em
We bury our last album
Am C G
Under a two foot plaque on the town square
Am C
And we'll play one final concert
Em G
Say that we'll rise up someday"
F F
I hung press releases, pestered baristas
G G
But in the end nobody came
[Chorus 1]
F F
We dig anyway that we could to move on for good
C G
The leftover merch lit up like firewood
Dm Dm
My drummer decides to start limousine driving
C G F
The bass built a barbecue shack in his old neighborhood
F C G
And where we once stood it still sits there today
F C G
A time capsule plaque with my firstborn's birthdate
F
And the word "Wait"
[Post-Chorus]
| C | C | C | C |
[Verse 3]
C Em
I was fifty-three in the nineties
Am C
When my daughter found the plaque
C Em
The discovery was embarrassing
Am C G
I held back
Am C
So proud as the founder
Em G
Of the town's first Waitsgiving Day
F F
She asked for an anthem, I sat down and wrote one
G G
The last song that I ever made
[Instrumental]
| C | Em | Am | C |
| F | F | G | G |
| C | Em | Am | C |
| F | F | G | G |
[Chorus 2]
F F
And lately I'm found jogging downtown
C G
Stopped at the plaque where I'm scratching the ground
Dm Dm
With a grapefruit spoon and then one afternoon
C G F
A song on the radio calls out my digging somehow
F C G
The track after that is a song I once sang
F C G
About the long run, so I run, run away
F C G
Past the stand with the snowcones and hear my old bass player say
F
That I don't
C
Have to wait
[Post-Chorus]
| C | C | C | C |
[Verse 4]
C Em
Now at seventy-three, I ask humbly
Am C
In my garage
C Em
If you'd all agree to form a team
Am C G
And take back the album I lost
Am C
If a tree falls in the woods
Em G
It might sound like one last final plan
F F
Naysayers will say you can't take back the past
G G
But in this case I think that we can
[Outro]
| F | F | G | G | G |
| C |
How to play Seventies Singer
Use the controls above to change the key and text size. Follow the highlighted chords while listening, then practice each section slowly before playing at the original tempo.
What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.