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We do what he Can
Tom: Am
Intro: E
E7 Am E7 Am
Downstairs they're playing Kenton, the house set to swing
E7+9 E7-9 Am E7* Am11
I lay in my bed and listen to everything
E7-9 E7 Am E7-9 E7 Am
Cause Leo's in rare form tonight, his trombone sings so sweet
E7+9 E7-9 Am A
This is the room where they all come to meet
Dm A/C# C G/B
He said "I do what I can, I live for the moment
Bb9-5 E' A *NB-see below*
and that's who I am, yeah that's who I am"
Dm A/C# C G/B
And isn't it good if we could freeze moments in time
Bb9-5 E' Am
We all would, but I do what I can, I do what I can
E7 E7-9 Am E7 E7+9 E7-9 Am
Downstairs he's playing Kenton, the Magnavox sighs
E7 Am E7 Am
But oh how the music has changed in all of our lives
E7 Am E7-9 E7 Am6
He says "nobody listens to modern jazz
E7+9 E7-9 Am A
and I'll never have what those guys have"
He says "I do what I can, I work for a living and that's who I am, yeah that's who I am" And it's good to be alive, but everything's different Since Leo died, I do what I can
E7-9 E7 Asus4 Am E7 Asus4 Am
Dm Asus4 Am
Is this the end of the modern world
E7 Asus4 Am
What could it mean for a young girl
E7-9 E7 Asus4 Am
Who sees the pain on his face?
E7 Am
He does what he can
Dm Asus4 Am
The procession on the TV screen
E7 Asus4 Am
What could it possibly mean
Dm Asus4 Am
For a man who's come this far
E7 Asus4 Am
just to turn around
Dm Asus4 Am } these two lines are
Could there still be life in Kenton's swing }-played in 4/4 time
E7 Asus4 Am } rather than 6/8
With the Kennedys gone and everything }
Dsus4 Dm Cadd9 C
Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colours
Dsus4 Dm Cadd9 C
Democrat grandparents and draft dodging brothers
Bbadd9 Bb E7sus4 E7
Riots down the street and discontented mothers
Am E7* Am E7+9 E7-9 Am
We do what we can
E7 Am E7 E7+9 E7-9 Am
Downstairs it's quiet - less alive, somehow
E7 Am A
Somehow he was everything that I am now
And he says "I do what I can, I work for a living And that's who I am, and that's who I am" But it's good to be alive, and these are the choices We make to survive - you do what you can ................
Soak Up The Sun Tom: E
E A E A
My friend the communist, holds meetings in his R.V
E A E A
I can't afford his gas, so I'm stuck here watching T.V
E A E A
I don't have digital, I don't have didley squat
E A E A
It's not having what you want, its wanting what you've got
Chorus:
E B F# G# A C# H
I'm gonna soak up the sun, gonna tell everyone to lighten up
E B
I'm gonna tell em that I got no one to blame, everytime I feel
F# G# A C# B
lame I'm lookin up
E A
I'm gonna soak up the sun
E A
I'm gonna soak up the sun
E A E A
I've got a crummy job, it don't pay near enough
E A E A
to buy the things it take, to win me some of your love
Bridge: E D# D C# Every time I turn around I'm lookin up your lookin down E D# G A Maybe somthings wrong with you that makes you act the way you do
Chorus:
E B F# G# A C# B
I'm gonna soak up the sun, gonna tell everyone to lighten up
E B
I'm gonna tell em that I got no one to blame, everytime I feel
F# G# A C# B
lame I'm lookin up
E A
I'm gonna soak up the sun
E A
While it's still free
E A
I'm gonna soak up the sun
E A
Before it goes out on me
E A E A
Don't have no master suite, but I'm still the king of me
E A E A
You have a fancy ride but baby, I'm the one who has the key
Bridge:
E D# D C#
Every time I turn around I'm lookin up your lookin down
E D# G A
Maybe somthings wrong with you that makes you act the way you do
G A
Maybe I am crazy too
Chorus:
E B F# G# A C# B
I'm gonna soak up the sun, gonna tell everyone to lighten up
E B
I'm gonna tell em that I got no one to blame, everytime I feel
F# G# A C# B
lame I'm lookin up
(Repeat)
(end)
E B F# G# A C# B
I'm gonna soak up the sun, I got my 45 on so I can rock on
Leaving Las Vegas Tom: G Intro: G G/C G/B Dsus4 D G G/C G/B Dsus4 D
1. Strophe: G G/C G/B Dsus4 D Life springs eternal on a gaudy neon street. G G/C G/B Dsus4 D Not that I care at all. G G/C G/B Dsus4 D I spent the best part of my losing streak G G/C G/B Dsus4 D In an Army Jeep for what I can’t recall.
2. Strophe: Oh, I#m begging my TV set. And I check the odds and I place my bet. Pour a drink and pull the blind. And I wonder what I’ll find.
Refrain: G G/C G/B Dsus4 D Leaving Las Vegas G G/C G/B Dsus4 D Lights so bright palm sweat Blackjack on a Saturday night. G G/C G/B Dsus4 D Leaving Las Vegas G G/C G/B Dsus4 D Leaving for good, leaving for good, leaving for good.
3. Strophe: Used to be I could drive up to Barstow for the night. Find some crossroad trucker to demonstrate his might. But these days it seems nowhere is far enough away. So I’m leaving Las Vegas today. Refrain:
Zwischenspiel:
Em
I’m standing in the middle of the desert.
Dsus4 D
Waiting for my ship to come in.
Em
But no joker, no jack, no king.
Dsus4 D
Can take this loser hand and make it win.
Refrain:
4. Strophe: I quit my job as a dancer at the Lido des Girls. Dealing Blackjack until one or two. Such a muddly line between the things you want. And the things you have to do. Refrain:
Run Baby Run Tom: E
E G#m She was born in November 1963 - the day that Aldous Huxley died
F#m And her mama believed that every man could be free
/G# A7 So her mama got high, high, high
/B C7 And her daddy marched on Birmingham singing mighty protest songs
Am7 /G And he pictured all the places where he knew that she'd belong
F Bb B But he failed and taught her young the only thing she'd need to carry on
NC
He taught her how to
E C#m G#m B
Run baby run baby run baby run baby run
E C#m G#m B
Run baby run baby run baby run baby run
A7 C7
Past the arms of the familiar and their talk of better days
A7 C7 D B
To the comfort of the strangers, slipping out before they say "so long"
E
Baby loves to run
She counts out all her money in the taxi on the way to meet her plane And stares hopeful out the window at the workers fighting through the pouring rain She's searching through the stations for an unfamiliar song And she's thinking 'bout all the places where she knows she still belongs And she smiles the secret smile because she knows exactly how to carry on
So run baby run baby run baby run baby run Run baby run baby run baby run baby run From the old familiar faces and their old familiar ways To the comfort of the strangers, slipping out before they say "so long" Baby loves to run
(Same chords as first half of verse)
She's searching through the stations for an unfamiliar song And she pictures all the places where she knows she still belongs And she smiles the secret smile that shows she knows exactly how to carry on
So run baby run baby run baby run baby run (repeat to fade) ...........
I think there's actually two electric guitars on the recording, but they're doing much the same thing as each other. During the verse, they're playing something along these lines
+ . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . .
(Stab) (Stab) (Stab) (Stab) |-------0-----|-------0-----|-------4-----|-------4-----| |-------0-----|-------0-----|-------4-----|-------4-----| |-------1-----|-------1-----|-------4-----|-------4-----| |-2-----------|-2-----------|-6-----------|-6-----------| |-2-----------|-2-----------|-6-----------|-6-----------| |-0-----------|-0-----------|-4-----------|-4-----------|
+ . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . .
(Stab) (Stab) |-------2-----|-------2-----|-------------|-------------| |-------2-----|-------2-----|-------2-----|-------2-----| |-------2-----|-------2-----|-----0---0---|-----0---0---| |-4-----------|-4-----------|---2-------2-|---2-------2-| |-4-----------|-4-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------| |-2-----------|-2-----------|-------------|-------------|
Arpeggiate the rest of the verse chords in this way as well.
The following is played over "Run baby run ..."
+ . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . + . . |---------------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------| |---------------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------| |---9--9---9---------9|-9--9----9---------9|----------------|-------------| |-9h11-9---9---------9|-11-9----9---------9|-9--9-----9-----|-------------| |----------------9h11-|-------11------9h11-|-11-9-----9---11|-9-----------| |---------------------|--------------------|--------11------|-7-----------|
The following is the pick-up into the last chorus
+ . . ---------------| ---------------| -9-------------| -9h11p9----9---| --------11-9---| ---------------|
Everything else just follows the chords.
Safe and Sound Tom: D
D G Bm A
Maybe this is forever, never fades away
D G Bm G
maybe this is a rocket into space
A Am A Am
I dont want to be sad, i dont want to break down
Dm G D Bb C G
after all I wont let go till youre safe and sound x2
D Dm C
there's beauty in release after all the seas
G A
for you and me
I dont mind that you're crying I know you really try Maybe if I could hold on through the night I don't be lonely I don't want to be scared All our friends are waiting there Till youre safe and sound x2 Theres beauty in release with no-one left to please But you and me
D Bb C G Feel like I could have held on Feel like I could have let go Feel like I could have helped you Feel like I could have changed you Feel like I could have held on Feel like I could have let you Feel like I was a stranger Feel like I was an angel Feel like I was a hero Feel like I was a zero Feel like I could have touched you Feel like I could have saved you Feel like I could have held you Feel like I could have moved you Feel like I could have killed you Feel like I could have told you Feel like I could have loved you . . .
Blue Christmas Tom: F
I'll have a blue Christmas without you; [F C7] I'll be so blue thinking about you. [Gm C7 F] Decorations of red [Cm D7 Cm] on a green Christmas tree [D7 Gm D7 Gm] Won't mean a thing if [G7] you're not here with me [C7 Bb B C]
I'll have a blue Christmas, that's certain; [F C7] And when that blue heart-ache starts hurtin', [Gm C7 F] You'll be doin' all right [Cm D7 Cm] with your Christmas of white, [D7 Gm D7 Abdim] But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas. [C7 F, Fdim F]
I Feel Happy Tom :D
Riff 1
Dsus2 Em11 Dsus2 Em11 Dsus2 Em11 E-0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0--- B-3---------3---------3---------3---------3---------3--- G-2---------0---------2---------0---------2---------0--- D-0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0--- A-0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0--- E-0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0--- (Repeat by changing chords extremely fast)
Riff 2
G D Dsus4 Bm11 Dsus4 D Dsus2 E-3---------2---------3---------5---------3---------2---------0- B-3---------3---------3---------5---------3---------3---------3- G-0---------2---------2---------4---------2---------2---------2- D-0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0- A-2---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0- E-3---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0---------0-
Other Chords Used: Gm(Add Eb) E E-3--------------0-- B-3--------------0-- G-3--------------1-- D-5--------------2-- A-6--------------2-- E-3--------------0--
Notes: Make sure your guitar is tuned say, to My Favorite Mistake.
Tune it now 1/2 step down.
Put Capo on 2nd fret.
R1 = Riff 1; R2 = Riff 2
R1
Mamma's got a feeling, she's up all night
R2
Do we give in? Do we give up the fight?
R1
I don't know
Don't wanna be dragged through, messed around, put down
R2
Everybody's got their little fights to fight
R1
I say no
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
E G
Nothing you can say or do
E G
Is ever gonna make me feel blue
R1
No, no
Monkey see and monkey do Follow me I'll follow you, well not tonight Not this time
So cool to be suicidal Maybe I will get up, I feel good today This is my life
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
E G
Nothing you can say or do
E G
Is ever gonna make me feel blue
R1
No, no
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
E G
Nothing you can say or do
E G
Is ever gonna make me feel blue
R1
No, no
(Solo)
End with E G E G m(Add Eb)
Monkey see and monkey do Follow me I'll follow you, well not tonight Not this time
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
E G
Nothing you can say or do
E G
Is ever gonna make me feel blue
R1
No, no
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
D G
I Feel Happy
E G
Nothing you can say or do
E G
Is ever gonna make me feel blue
R1
No, no
Rodeo Tom: E
Chords Used: C#m11 C#m7+5 Bm A E E-0---------0---------2---------0---------0- B-0---------0---------3---------2---------0- G-3---------6---------4---------2---------1- D-4---------7---------4---------2---------2- A-4---------7---------2---------0---------2- E-2---------5---------2---------0---------0-
Notes: Chords between () mean they continue from previous verse.
To make it easier:
C#m11 = 2 C#m7+5 = 3
E 2 3 There comes a son, A son of angels (3) Carrying an empty glass E 2 Trying to fill it to the surface 3 Well tell your thirst love has passed
E 2
You carry on, carry the world
3
You must get worn with all the weight
E 2 3
I take it in but you won't no where
(3)
And no where's where we're headed fast
[Chorus]
Bm A E
Oh, oh, Rodeo
Bm A A
Slow turning to and fro
Bm A E
Oh, oh, Rodeo
A
Where we land no one knows
E 2 3
no one knows...
We're not blind to what it is In other words, the ignorant kind Well life is short, but oh it's wide It's wide enough to change your mind
Well I believe in ever-after Just in case what's after that Don't I love you like the angels And could you ever love me back?
[Chorus]
Strangers now we are becoming Stranger now we have become If any fiction every returns Returned by the coolest one
[Chorus]
Crash and Burn Tom: G
G Dm I watched the sun come up on Portland G Dm C I waved goodbye to all my friends (C) F G C I packed my car and headed to LA (C) F G I gave away all my loose ends
G Dm Somebody said you gotta get away G Dm C To wanna go back home again (C) F G C I left my universe standing there (C) F G Holding the hand of my best friend
F Dm G
And it's laughter that I feel when I think of you
F Dm G F
It's one more dusty rose about to turn
(F) Dm G
I'll see you when I reach New Mexico
C F G
If I'm in the mood to crash and burn
(G) Dm G I wrote a letter that I never mailed (G) Dm C I rehearsed a dialogue in my head (C) F G C In case you ever wanted to track me down (C) F G I'll take my cell phone to bed
F Dm G
And it's laughter that I hear when I close my eyes
F Dm G
And it's one more punchline I forgot to learn
F Dm G C
I call you up when my bottle's dry
(C) F G
I'm on my way to crash and burn
G Dm Antigone laid across the road G Dm C And let a mack truck leave her there for dead (C) F G C Just because her lover split the scene (C) F G Well love might be great break but why lose your head
F Dm G
Well, it's laughter that comes up when I cry for you
F Dm G
And my heart may break again before it learns
F Dm G
And I might be stupid enough to want to fall again
C F G C
Cause I've gotten use to the crash and burn
(C) F G
I say I've gotten use to the crash and burn
Anything But Down Tom: Em
Em D
I light your cigarettes
Am C
I bring you apples from the vine
Em D
How quickly you forget
Am C Em
I run the bath and pour the wine
(Em) C G
I bring you everything that floats into your mind
(G) D Am G
But you don't bring me anything but down
(G) D Am G
You don't bring me anything but down
(G) D Am
You don't bring me anything but down
Em
When you come 'round
(Em) D
You are a raging sea
Am C
I pull myself out everyday
Em D
I plea insanity
Am C Em
Cause I can't leave but I can't stay
D C G
You say, won't you come find me and yes is what I say
(G) D Am G
You don't bring me anything but down
D Am Em
You don't bring me anything but down
F Am
Everything is crashing to the ground
G D
Maybe I'm not your perfect kind
Am C
Maybe I'm not what you had in mind
G D C
Maybe we're just killing time
G D Am (TWICE)
Em
(Em) D
You with your silky words
Am D Em
And your eyes of green and blue
(Em) D
You with your steel beliefs
Am C
That don't match anything you do
Em D C G
It was so much easier before you became you
(G) D Am G
You don't bring me anything but down
(G) D Am G
You don't bring me anything but down
(G) F Am
Everything just crashes to the ground
G F Am
When you come around
G F Am
When you come around
G D No more playing seek and hide Am C No more long and wasted nights G D Am C Can't you make it easy on yourself G D I know you wish you were strong Am C G You wish you were never wrong (G) F Am Well, I got some wishes of my own
Maybe That's Something
Tom: B
Intro:F#9 (three times) E9
F#9 (three times) E9 (three times)
B BM7 B7 G#m We lay around Just like gurus In borrowed robes B BM7 B7 And talk about nothing
Well....
F#
Maybe that’s something, maybe that’s something
F# (3 times)
F# E
You stretch out across a long long table
F# E
Without hesitation, you say “I’m willing and able”
Well.....
F#
Maybe that’s something
(F#)
Maybe it’s one thing more than I’ve seen
(F#)
(Maybe) That’s something more than
A B
Nothing....
F#
You say good, I say you should
E
Will you be there? Yeah yeah yeah
F#
Making miracles is hard work
E
Most people give up before they happen
Well.....
F#
Maybe that’s something
(F#)
Maybe it’s one thing more than I’ve been
(F#)
(Maybe) That’s something more than
D C#m
Nothing
D C#m
More than nothing
E
More than nothing
GUITAR SOLO F# (three times) E F# (three times) E
F#
Maybe that’s something
(F#)
Maybe its one thing more than I’ve seen
(F#)
(Maybe) That’s something more than
D C#m
Nothing
D C#m
More than nothing
D C#m
More than nothing
E
More than nothing
F#
Nothing, nothing, nothing
D C#m
D C#m
Am I Getting Through (Part I & II)
Riff: E7sus2 A E7sus2 E----------------------- B-------3-2---------3-5- G-----4-4-2-2-----4-4-2- D---2-----------2------- A----------------------- E-0-----------0---------
(Use Riff throughout verse)
I am strong I am able I spill milk on your table Then I cry like a baby Just to see if you save me
I am sweet I am ugly I am mean if you love me I try hard just to please you When I say I don't need you
I dress up with a conscience When I think you'll be watching I say all the right things I don't know what I mean
G A Am I C D Am I A Getting Through G A Am I C D Am I A Getting Through C D Am I F G Am I D Getting Through
(Back to Riff)
I am ignorant and rude I am fashionably crude And sometimes when it's quiet I'm an angel in white
When I pose in the mirror I want everyone near me I am scared that I'm weird I'm afraid I am queer
I am lovely and weak I am foul when I speak I am strange when I'm kind I am frying my mind
G A Am I C D Am I A Getting Through G A Am I C D Am I A Getting Through C D Am I F G Am I D Getting Through (I don't care, I don't care)
(Back to Riff)
Jesus loves me I know For my mom told me so I'm a loser at love I'm a flower in the mud
G A Am I C D Am I A Getting Through G A Am I C D Am I A Getting Through C D Am I F G Am I D Getting Through
Part II
C6 Asus4
Don't you hate it
Gsus4 Dsus2 C6 Asus4 Gsus4 Dsus2 C6
When the money starts to running out
(C6) Asus4 Gsus4
Your esoteric rants
Dsus2 C6
Remember twist and shout
I heard you moved
Now you're hangin on the Moulin Rouge
G
Don't you know no matter where you go
Dsus2
Somebody's always watching you
C6 Dsus2 Gsus4
That's what they saaaaaay--aayyyyyyy-ayyyyy
C6 Dsus2 Gsus4
That's what they saaaaaay--aayyyyyyy-ayyyyy
When the pages fade the love you made
Will seem one hundred light years away