Acoustic Picks

Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills
And put your helmet on
C Em / : / Am Am7 / D7 /

Ground control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition
And may God’s love be with you

This is ground control to Major Tom
You’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know
Whose shirts you wear
Now it’s time to leave the capsule
If you dare
C E7 / F / Fm C / F / Fm C / F

This is Major Tom to ground control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
Em7 / Fmaj7 Em7 / Bb Am / G F /

[Instrumental break]
C F G A / : / Fmaj7 Em7 / A C / Dsus2 E7

Though I’m past 100,000 miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows
Which way to go
Tell my wife I lover her very much
She knows

Ground control to Major Tom
Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear me Major Tom

Can you hear
Am I floating ’round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do

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One more for your S&G set. Don’t be worried about all the chords, a lot of that is due to the different root notes.

Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together
I’ve got some real-estate hear in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for America
C C/B Am C/G F / C C/B Am Am7 / Em7 A7 Em7 A7 / D C G C C/B Am7 Am7/G F

Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
And I’ve come to look for America

Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suite was a spy
I said be careful his bow tie is really a camera
Bbmaj7 Bb C / Bbmaj7 C C/B Am C/G / F Fmaj7 C C/B Am C/G Am7/G Fmaj7

Toss me a cigarette I think there’s one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field

“Cathy, I’m lost” I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all come to look for America
They’ve all come to look for America
They’ve all come to look for America
[As in other verses followed by] D G D Cmaj7 / : / D G D Cmaj7 C

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Continuing on today’s Simon & Garfunkel trend…

I was 21 years when I wrote this song
I’m 23 now, but I won’t be for long
Time hurries on
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
C Dm G C / C F G C / F G / C Bb F G C

[Chorus]
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand
Am / Dm G

Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl
I held her close, but she faded in the night
Like a poem I meant to write
And the leaves that are green turn to brown

[Chorus]

I threw a pebble in a brook
And watched the ripples run away
And they never made a sound
And the leaves that are green turn to brown

[Chorus]

Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
That’s all there is
And the leaves that are green turn to brown

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A group whose music I like to slaughter more than most.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
Em D / – Em / C G / : / : / Em / G D Em

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

Fools said I you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls”
And whispered in the sounds of silence

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I don’t know if this is a very well known song, but I like it.

She hangs her head and cries in my shirt
She must be hurt very badly
Tell me what’s making you sad Li?
Open your door, don’t hide in the dark
You’re lost in the dark, you can trust me
‘Cause you know that’s how it must be
Lisa, Lisa, sad Lisa, Lisa
Em D C / D Em D G / D Em A / Em A D C / D Em D G / D Em A / Em A D Em

Her eyes like windows tricklin’ rain
Upon her pain getting deeper
‘though my love wants to relieve her
She walks alone from wall to wall
Lost in a hall, she can’t hear me
‘though I know she likes to be near me
Lisa, Lisa, sad Lisa, Lisa

She sits in a corner by the door
There must be more I can tell her
If she really wants me to help her
I’ll do what I can to show her the way
And maybe someday I will free her
‘though I know no one can see her
Lisa, Lisa sad Lisa, Lisa

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If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and go rent it.

As I travel down the back roads
Of this home I love so much
Every carpenter and cowboy
Every lame man on a crutch
They’re all talking about a feeling
‘Bout a taste that’s in the air
They’re talking about this mighty wind
That’s blowing everywhere
C / Am G F / C Am / Dm G / F Em / F G / F C Am / F G C

[Chorus]

Oh a mighty wind’s a blowing
It’s kickin’ up the sand
It’s blowin’ out a message
To every woman, child and man
Yes a mighty wind’s a blowing
‘Cross the land and ‘cross the sea
It’s blowing peace and freedom,
It’s blowing equality
Bb F / : / Am D7 / Bb G / Bb F / C C/B Am G / F C Am / F G C

From a lighthouse in Barr Harbor
To a bridge called Golden Gate
From a trawler down in Shreveport
To the shore of one great lake
There’s a star on the horizon
And its burning like a flame
Its lighting up this mighty wind
That’s blowing everywhere

[Chorus]

When the blind man sees the picture
When the deaf man hears the word
When the fisherman stops fishing
When the hunter spares the herd
We’ll still hear the wondrous story
Of a world where people care
The story of this mighty wind
That’s blowing everywhere

[Chorus]

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