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    Music For the Guitarists - Words & Chords, Web links etc...

    I think there are enough guitarists here in TehBasement to warrant this...I was away for 2 weeks camping and found it tough to find songs I could play along with. So, I had to do some research and find some.

    So...here's the first sing-along-song I found. A great one to play around a campfire. I heard it on our local radio in 1996 (KISM 92.9 Bellingham to be exact)

    Since I'm barely a singer, and barely a guitarist some would say, the songs I'll be posting should be singable to anyone who can kind of keep on key and playable by most amateur guitarists.

    Feel free to add to this thread your party favourites...I will be doing so later. I'll also have a link full of websites to get free tablature and chords.

    Anyway, here goes...

    Cows With Guns - By Dana Lyons



    Words & Chords

    Cows With Guns by Dana Lyons, copyright 1996

    Intro
    ------
    Am G Am


    [Am]Fat and docile, big and dumb
    They look so stupid, they aren't much fun
    [G]Cows aren't [Am]fun

    They eat to grow, grow to die
    Die to be et at the hamburger fry
    Cows well done

    Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
    No one imagined the great cow guru
    Cows are one

    He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
    He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary...veal
    Cow Tse Tongue

    He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
    He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd
    Cow doldrums

    He mooed we must fight, escape or we'll die
    Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
    Bad cow pun

    But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
    Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
    Cows are bummed

    He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
    No one suspected he was packing an Uzi
    Cows with guns

    They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
    He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
    Cow well hung

    Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
    Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
    Run cows run!

    He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay


    We are free roving bovines, we run free...today

    We will [F]fight for bovine [C]freedom
    And [E]hold our large heads [Am]high
    We will [F]run free with the [C]Buffalo, or [E]die
    Cows with [Am]guns

    They crashed the gate in a great stampede
    Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
    Cows have fun

    Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
    Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
    Much cow dung

    Black smoke rising, darkening the day
    Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way

    We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

    The President said "enough is enough

    These uppity cattle, its time to get tough"
    Cow dung flung

    The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
    Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
    Cows on buns

    The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
    They mooed their last moos,
    they chewed their last hay
    Cows out gunned


    The order was given to turn cows to whoppers
    Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
    But on the horizon surrounding the shoppers

    Came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

    We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

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    Personally, I can't stand the 2 songs I'm about to mention, but they go over well with the denizens in the coastal GA/FL communities, so it's a good idea to learn them if you're gonna be near the coastline near drunk people:

    Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville and Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl.


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    Brown Eyed Girl is a masterpiece

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Brown Eyed Girl is a masterpiece
    It was good the first 3852309847630298657203709384763024897 times I heard it

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    *sings*

    You're myyyyyyyyyyyy ...brown eyed girl

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    I like that song because it reminds my of little balloon knots






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    Quote Originally Posted by tehlancinator View Post
    It was good the first 3852309847630298657203709384763024897 times I heard it
    It wasn't good the first time I heard it. It got worse every other time I've heard it.... every one of the 5782634284027254828934839465728284191948492784 times I've heard it.



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    Brown-Eyed girl has a cool bass line and I read a "how to write a great song" book and it dissected Margaritaville as being one of the best...

    Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison. Sorry - the lack of proportional spacing in the quote means it won't be visible as right under the right word where the chord change is.

    G C G D7 G
    Hey, where did we go days when the rain came

    C G D7 G
    Down in the hollow playing a new game

    C G
    Laughing, and a running, hey, hey

    D7 G C
    Skipping and a jumping in the misty morning fog,

    G D7 C D7 G Em
    with our hearts a thumpin' and you, my brown eyed girl

    C D7 G D7
    You, my brown eyed girl

    Whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow
    Going down to the old mine
    With a transistor radio
    Standing in the sunlight laughing
    Hiding behind a rainbow's wall
    Slipping and a sliding
    All aling the waterfall
    With you, my brown eyed girl
    You, my brown eyed girl

    bridge:

    D7
    Do you remember when we used to sing

    G C G D7
    Sha la la la la la la la te da Just like that

    G C G D7 G
    Sha la la la la la la la te da la te da


    Now that I'm all on my own
    I saw you just the other day
    My, how you have grown
    Cast my memory back there Lord
    Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' 'bout it
    Laughing and a running hey, hey
    Behind the stadium
    With you, my brown eyed girl
    You, my brown eyed girl

    Do you remember when we used to sing

    D7 G C
    Sha la la la la la la la[/FONT]
    Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet


    INTRO
    e|--5------5-----5-----3------5------|--5-----5-----5---3-----5--|
    B|--7------7-----7-----5------7------|--7-----7-----7---5-----7--|
    G|-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
    D|-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
    A|-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
    E|-----------------------------------|---------------------------|

    e|-7-------7-----7-----5------3------|-2--(whole note)-----------|
    B|-8-------8-----8-----7------5------|-3-------------------------|
    G|-----------------------------------|-2-------------------------|
    D|-----------------------------------|-0-------------------------|
    A|-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
    E|-----------------------------------|---------------------------|


    D
    Nibblin on sponge cake, watchin the sun bake, all of those tourist covered
    A
    with oil. Strummin my six string, on my front porch swing, smell those
    D D7
    shrimp there beginnin' to boil.
    G A D D7 G A D D7
    Wastin away again in Margaritaville, searchin for my lost shaker of salt.
    G A D A G A D
    Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know, it's nobody's fault

    D
    Don't know the reason, I stayed here all season. Nothin to show but this
    A
    brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here
    D D7
    I haven't a clue.
    G A D D7 G A D D7
    Wastin away again in Margaritaville, searchin for my lost shaker of salt.
    G A D A G A
    Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, now I think, hell it could
    D
    be my fault.

    e|--5--5--5--3—-5----5--5--5--3--2-----5--5--7--5--5—-3—-2—-0--|
    B|--7--7--7--5--7----7--7--7--5--3-----7--7--8—-7--7—-5—-3—-2--|
    G|-------------------------------------------------------------|
    D|-------------------------------------------------------------|
    A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
    E|-------------------------------------------------------------|

    e|--7--7--10--10—-9----9---9---9---9-----2--5--5--2—-7—-5—-3-—2—-3—-2----|
    B|--8--8--12--12--10- -10--10--10--10---------------------------------3--|
    G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
    D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
    A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
    E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|


    e|--3--3--3--2—-0----2--2--2--0--------------------------------|
    B|--5--5--5--3--2----3--3--3--2--3-----------------------------|
    G|-------------------------------2-----------------------------|
    D|-------------------------------------------------------------|
    A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
    E|-------------------------------------------------------------|


    D
    I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top, cut my heal had to cruise on
    A
    back home. But there's booze in the blender, and soon it will render, that
    D D7
    frozen concoction that helps me hang on.
    G A D D7 G A D D7
    Wastin away again in Margaritaville, searchin for my lost shaker of salt.
    G A D A G A
    Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know, it's my own
    D D7 G A D A G
    damn fault. Yes and, some people claim that there's a woman to blame, and
    A D
    I know, it's my own damn fault.

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    You know, Noilly, I used to like you.





























    I'm kidding.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post


    You know, Noilly, I used to like you.





























    I'm kidding.




    Now you're just somebody that I used to know...somebodyyyyyyy......

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