Acoustic Picks

I’m sure I’m not the only one who enjoys some Oasis as a guilty pleasure. Not to mention the chords look tough, but are easy to play.

Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
By now you should have somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now
Em7 G / Dsus2/A A7sus4 / ::: / Cadd9 Dsus2/A A7sus4

Backbeat, the word is on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I’m sure you’ve heart it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

[Pre-Chorus]
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I
Would like to say to you
But I don’t know how
Cadd9 Dsus2/A Em7 / : / Cadd9 Dsus2/A / G Dsus2/F# Em7 / G A7sus4

[Chorus]
Because maybe
You’re gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You’re my wonderwall
Cadd9 Em7 G / Em7 Cadd9 Em7 G / Em7 Cadd9 G / Em7 Cadd9 Em7

Today was gonna be the day
But they’ll never throw it back to you
By now you should’ve somehow
Realized what you’re not to do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

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Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
Is the city I live in, the city of angel
Lonely as I am, together we cry
E B C#m G#m A / E B C#m A / E B C#m G#m A / E B C#m A Emaj7

I drive on her streets cause she’s my companion
I walk through her hills cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy
I never worry, now that is a lie

[Chorus]
I don’t ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way
I don’t ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way
F#m E B F#m / E B F#m / ::

It’s hard to believe that there’s nobody out there
It’s hard to believe that I’m all alone
At least I have her love, the city she loves me
Lonely as I am, together we cry

[Chorus]
Oh no….yeah…and so on
A Am7 G6 Fmaj7 /

Em7 G6

Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away
A C / G6 Fmaj7 / :: / :: / ::

A Am7 G6 Fmaj7

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If you haven’t heard this song, and the odds seem reasonably high that you haven’t, it might be worth your time to check it out.

Elope with me Miss Private, and we’ll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping ’round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
F Bb F / Gm Dm / Gm C / Gm C / Bb D / Gm C Dm

San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no play to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you’ve ever read it always makes you cry
The statue’s crying now and well he may

I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the family why not that’s absurd
“You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”
Maybe, but not what she deserves

Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960’s style
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passerby
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away Renee”
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
Meet you at the statue in an hour

Meet you at the statue in an hour

This is more useful for the words than the chords because the chords are about as simple as it gets. Still, this song gets stuck in my head.

Hey there Delilah
What’s it like in New York City?
I’m a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can’t shine as bright as you
I swear it’s true
D / Fm / D / Fm / Bm / G A Bm / A

Hey there Delilah
Don’t you worry about the distance
I’m right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it’s my disguise
I’m by your side

[Chorus]
Oh, it’s what you do me (4x)
What you do to me
D Bm / D Bm / D Bm / D Bm / A

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I’ll pay thie bills with this guitar
We’ll have it good
We’ll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I’ve got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I’d write it all
Even more in love with me you’d fall
We’d have it all

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they’ve got planes and trains and cars
I’d walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
And we’ll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never be the same
And you’re to blame
G / A / Bm A / G / A / Bm A / G / A / Bm / A

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don’t you miss me
Two more years and you’ll be done with school
And I’ll be making history like I do
You know it’s all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here’s to you
This one’s for you

Anchorman brings an old classic back in style.

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto’s always been: when it’s right, it’s right
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night
/G – / Am7 – / G – / Am7 – /

When every thing’s a little clearer in the light of day
And you know the night is always gonna be there anyway
/ Am7 D7 / Am7 D7

Thinkin’ of you’s workin’ up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin’ sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
And the thought of runnin’ you is getting so exciting

[Chorus]
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
/ G / D B7 Em / Am7 Bm C D7 G /

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always thought a fish could not be caught who wouldn’t bite
But you’ve got some bait a waitin’ and I think I might
Try nibbling a little afternoon delight

[Chorus]

Please be waiting for me baby when I come around
We could make a lot of lovin’ ‘fore the sun goes down
/ Am7 D7 / Am7 D7 /

You’ll see a chord in here without a name, just its tab. I don’t know a short name for this (Fmaj7/D with no F?) Anyway, at least it’s easy to play.

I lose some sales and my boss won’t be happy
But I can’t stop listening to the sound
Of two soft voices blended in perfection
From the reels of this record that I found
C G/B Am G / F G C / F Am7/E Dm Am /- G F

Every day there’s a boy in the mirror
Asking me what are you doing here
Finding all my previous motives
Growing increasingly unclear

I traveled far and I burned all the bridges
I believed as soon as I hit land
All the other options held before me
Will wither in the light of my plan

So I lose some sales and my boss won’t be happy
But there’s only one thing on my mind
Searching boxes underneath the counter
On a chance that on a tape I’d find

A song for
Someone who needs somewhere
To long for
xx0210 / Am G F / C G/B Am G F G C

Homesick
‘Cause I no longer know
Where home is

This is one of those songs that you can’t seem to get out of your head.

[Intro]
Dm F Bb F / Dm F C / Dm F A Dm C Bb Bbm

Love of mine, someday you will die
But I’ll be close behind
I’ll follow you into the dark
No blinding light, or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
F Dm / Bb / F C / F Dm / Bb / F C

[Chorus]
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the “No”s on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I will follow you into the dark
Dm F / Bb F / Dm F C / Dm F / A Dm C / Bb Bbm F

Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised
By a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me, “Son
Fear is the heart of love”
So I never went back

[Chorus]

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes
Are all worn down, the time for sleep is now
But it’s nothing to cry about
Because we’ll hold each other soon

In the blackest of rooms…
Dm Bb

[Chorus]

[Chorus]
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
C F / – C / ::

This old engine makes it on time
Leaves Hazard Station ’bout quarter to nine
Hits Trouble Junction at seventeen to
At a quarter to ten you know it’s drivin’ again
C D / F G / C D / F E7 Am G7

[Chorus]

Trouble ahead, the lady in read
Take my advice, you’d be better off dead
Switchman sleeping, train hundred and two is
On the wrong tack and headed for you
C C# D / F G / C D / F E7 Am G7

[Chorus]

Trouble with you is the trouble with me
You got two good eyes but you still don’t see
Come round the bend, you know it’s the end
The fireman screams and the engine just gleams

[Chorus x2]

And you know that notion just crossed my mind
A7 D7 G7 C