Never Die Young Am F Fmaj7 G

They would rise from among us like a big balloon,

C F G Am F Fmaj7 C F E Am F Fmaj7 Am F Fmaj7 G
G Am F G Am F G Am F G Am F G Am F take the sky, forsake the ground.
C F G C F G
We were ring-around-the-rosy children, Oh, yes, other hearts were broken,
C F G C F G
they were circles around the sun. yeah, other dreams ran dry
Am F Fmaj7 G Am F Am F Fmaj7 G Am F
Fmaj7 but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old, Fmaj7 G C
never beneath another sky.
G
ever die young.
C F G C F G C F G
Synchronized with the rising moon, (Let other hearts be broken, let other dreams run
C F G dry)
even with the evening star, Am F Fmaj7
Am F Fmaj7 G but our golden ones sail on,
they were true love written in stone, G Am F Fmaj7 G C F G Am
Am F Fmaj7 G CF sail on to another land beneath another sky,
Am F G C F E Am F Fmaj7
they were never alone, they were never that far beneath another sky.
apart. G Am F G Am F G Am F
F G G
And we who couldn't bear to believe they might Hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold
make it, them up,
F G
we got to close our eyes.
F G F hold them up,
Cut up our losses into doable doses, ration our A F
tears and hold them up…
G
sighs.
C F G
Oh, you could see them on the street on a
Saturday night.
C F G
Everyone used to run them down.
Am F Fmaj7 G
They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight,
Am F Fmaj7 G
not enough tough for this town.
C F G
Couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole,
C F G
no, it didn't seem to rattle at all.
Am F Fmaj7 G
They were glued together body and soul,
Am F Fmaj7 G C
that much more with their backs up against the
wall.
F G Am F Fmaj7
G Am F G Am F G
Oh, hold them up, hold them up, never do let them
fall
Am F G Am F
pray to the dust and the rust and the ruin that
names us
G Am
and claims us and shames us all.
(Instrumental) F G F G F G F Am G
C F G
I guess it had to happen someday soon-
C F G
wasn't nothing to hold them down.
 G Bm7 E7 Am Cdim
I'd love to get you on a slow boat to
Slow boat to China China
G B7 C (E7 Am)
All to myself alone
Am Cdim G /F# Em
Get you and keep you in my arms ever more
A7 Em A7
Leave all your lovers
Am7 D7
Weepin' on a far away shore

G Bm7 E7 Am dim
Out on the briny with the moon big and shiny
G B7 C (E7 Am)
Melting your heart of stone
Am F7 F#7 G /F# Em
Honey I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China
A7 Am7 D7 G
All by myself alone

G Bm7 E7 Am dim
I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China
G B7 C (E7 Am)
All to myself alone
Am Cdim G /F# Em
A twist in the rudder and a rip in the sails
A7 Em A7
Driftin' and dreamin'
Am7 D7
Honey throw the compass over the rail

G Bm7 E7 Am dim
Out on the ocean far from all the commotion
G B7 C (E7 Am)
Melting your heart of stone
Am F7 F#7 G /F# Em
Bb dim
Honey I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China
A7 Am7 D7 G
All by myself alone
Am F7 F#7 G /F# Em
 Honey I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China
A7 Am7 D7 G
All to myself alone

Who Knows Where The Time

Goes Oh but then you know it was time for
them to go
But I will still be here I have no thought
E -- 022100 G#m -- 466444 of leaving
Esus4 -- 044200 A -- X02220 I do not count the time
E(2) -- 066400 B9 -- 799800 For who knows where the time goes
F#m -- 244222 A9 -- 577600 Who knows where the time goes

E Esus4 E Esus4
(instrumental)
E Esus4
Across the evening sky all the birds are E Esus4 E(2) Esus4
E(2) Esus4
leaving E Esus4 E(2) Esus4

E Esus4 B9 A9 E F#m A9 F#m E

Oh but then you know it was time for
E(2) Esus4 I know I'm not alone while my love is
them to go near me
I know that it's so until it's time to go
F#m G#m F#m G#m All the storms in winter and the birds in
By the winter fire I will still be dreaming spring again
I do not count the time
A E For who knows where the time goes
I do not count the time Who knows where the time goes

B9 A9
For who knows where the time goes
B9 A9
E F#m Who knows where the time goes
Who knows where the time goes
A9 F#m E E F#m
Who knows where the time goes
A9 F#m E
Sad deserted shore
Your fickle friends are leaving
 Capt. Jim’s Dream
D Bm7 D Bm7
Now you country fools in your one-horse town, you can laugh at me
D Bm7 D Bm7
It's plain as rain that you've never been down to the southern sea
D Bm7 D Bm7
To see me now is like watching a fish on dry land
D Bm7 C/G G
I only wish you could see me down in the is- lands
G A Bm
Mister, that's my home
C G Em7 G/A D Bm7
What a fool I was to leave the only happiness I've known.

You see me comin', you wink your eye and call me Captain Jim
And when I don't do nothin' but to walk on by you say, "Baby get a load of him."
All I need is the sea and the sky and I know where I stand
instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks deciding I ain't a man
You'll never understand;
C G Em7 A
Up here I'm just a whiskey bum but down there I'm a king
C G Em7 Asus4 A7
It sounds just like the angels up in heaven when they sing:
D Bm7 D Bm7 D Bm7
"Welcome home, welcome home." -- Such a sight to see
C G D/F# Em7
instead of some Salvation Army sister singin'
G/A D Bm7 D Bm7
"Nearer My God to Thee."

Now I know that the Yankee whiskey is takin' away my mind

and I know that run is the only drink suitable to man-kind
And I know that this tree I'm under is shaped entirely wrong
I need to see a gentle palm tree and I won't wait too long
I can feel that it's comin' on strong
The first cold wind of winter is flappin' in my clothes
Showin' me the way with the direction that it blows.
Welcome home, welcome home, let it blow. [repeat and fade]
 Daddy's All Gone
D Em7 A G/A
I don't have much to say
Thought I'd call you up anyway
Just to try to show you the way
F7 Bm7
That I feel today
C/G G
Oh, I miss you ba-by

I sure am on the road

I don't need to say much more
Just the same old well-known stranger
That I was before
It seems like yesterday now

Daddy's all gone

Only halfway home
He's holding on to the telephone
Saying, Please don't let the show go on.

There's a bus every other hour

There's even the midnight train
But that don't leave me the power
To see your face again
It's not that simple

You see, there's a room full of smiling faces

There's a man standin' by the door
Says it's time to change our places
And get down on the floor
Kill 'EM, baby

Daddy's all gone

He's just halfway home
He's holding on to the microphone
Singing, Please don't make the show go on.
 MEXICO

F C G F
Way down here you need a reason to move
Feel a fool running your stateside games
Lose your load, leave your mind behind,
Baby James
D Bm A G
Oh, Mexico
It sounds so simple I just got to go
The sun's so hot I forgot to go home
F C/E D
Guess I'll have to go now

"Americano" got the sleepy eye

But his body's still shaking like a live wire
Sleepy "Senorita" with the eyes on fire

Oh, Mexico
It sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low
Moon's so bright like to light up the night
Make everything all right

Baby's hungry and the money's all gone

The folks back home don't want to talk on the phone
She gets a long letter, sends back a postcard; times are hard

Oh, down in Mexico

I never really been so I don't really know
Oh, Mexico
I guess I'll have to go

Oh, Mexico
I never really been but I'd sure like to go
Oh, Mexico
I guess I'll have to go now
 Mud Slide Slim
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
Oh, Mud Slide, I'm dependent on you
I don't know but I've been told
There's a time from time to time
I can't eat, I can't sleep
But I just might move my feet
'Cause there's nothing like
The sound of sweet soul music
To change a young lady's mind
And there's nothing like a
Walk on down by the bayou
To leave the world behind
Mud Slide I'm depending upon you
Mister Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon

I've been letting the time go by

Letting the time go by
Yes, I'm letting the time go by
Letting the time go by

I'm gonna cash in my hand and

Pick up on a piece of land
And build myself a cabin back in the woods
Lord, it's there I'm gonna stay
Until there comes a day
When this old world starts to changing for the good
Now the reason I'm smiling is over on a island
On a hillside in the woods where I belong
I wanna thank Jimmy, Jimmy, John, Nick and Laurie
The No Jets Construction for setting
Me down a homestead on the farm

Mud Slide, I'm depending upon you

Mister Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
 Whenever I see your smiling face

Whenever I see your smiling face

I have to smile myself
Because I love you (Yes, I do)
And when you give me that pretty little pout
It turns me inside out
There's something about you, baby (I don't know)

(Chorus)
Isn't it amazing a man like me
Can feel this way
Tell me how much longer
It will grow stronger every day
Oh, how much longer

I thought I was in love

A couple of times before
With the girl next door
But that was long before I met you
Now I'm sure that I won't forget you
And I thank my lucky stars
That you are who you are
And not just another lovely lady
Sent down to break my heart

Isn't it amazing a man like me

Can feel this way
Tell me how much longer
It can grow stronger every day
How much longer

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today

Whenever I see you smile at me
No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today
Whenever I see your smiling face my way
No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today
No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today
Sentimental Lady
Amaj7 E7sus Amaj7 E7sus Amaj7 E7sus Amaj7
(pause)
Dmaj7 E7
You are here and warm,
Dmaj7 E7 F#m
But I could look away and you'd b e gone.
Dmaj7 E7
'Cause we live in a time,
Dmaj7 E7 F#m
When meaning falls in splinters from our minds.
Dmaj7 E7
And that's why I've traveled far,
Dmaj7 E7 F#m
'Cause I come so together where you are.

Pre Chorus:
C#m E7sus
And all of the things tha t I said that I wanted
C#m E7sus
Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you
C#m E7sus
Fourteen joys and a will to be merry
C#m E7sus
All of the things that you say are very...

Chorus:
Amaj7 Bm7
Sentimental gentle wind
Amaj7 Bm7
blowin' through my life again,
Amaj7 Bm7 Amaj7 E7sus E7
Sentimental lady, gentle one - (all I need is)

Now you are here today,

But easily you might just slip away.
'Cause we live in a time,
When paintings have no color, words don't rhyme.
And that's why I've traveled far
'Cause I come so together where you are.

And all of the things that I said that I wanted

Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you
Fourteen joys and a will to be married
All of the things that you say are very...

Shower the people

 D A
You can play the game and you can act out the part
Bm D/A G
Though you know it wasn't written for you
D A A#dim7
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Bm D/A G
Ashamed of playing the fool
D A Bm D/A G
One thing can lead to an-other; it doesn't take any sac-ri-fice
D A A#dim7
Oh, father and mother, sis-ter and brother,
Bm D/A G (D/F#)
if it feels nice, don't think twice

D/F# Em7 A
Just shower the people you love with love
Em7 A
Show them the way that you feel
Em7 A A#dim7 Bm F#dim7
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Em7 A
Shower the people you love with love
Em7 A
Show them the way that you feel
Em7 A A#dim7 Bm
Things are gonna be much better if you only will. [C G]

You can run but you cannot hide;

this is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
when you're all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
you can feel it beginning to ease
I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel
always getting the grease.

Better to shower the people you love with love…

Em7 A Em7 A
||: Shower the people you love with love; show them the way that you feel :||

Ad lib:
They say in every life, They say the rain must fall, Just like pouring rain
Make it rain, Love is sunshine.

Up On The Roof
Em D/f# G6 A7sus4

When this old world starts a getting me down, [ D Bm7 F#m7 ]

And people are just too much for me to face, [ Em7 G/A (D A/D D G/D A)]

I'll climb way up to the top of the stairs, [ D Bm7 F#m7 ]

And all my cares just drift right into space. [ Em7 G/A (D A/D D G/A A D)]

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be, [ G A G/B A Em7 (D/f# G6 A7)]

And there the world below don't bother me, no, no. [D A/D Bm7 F#m7 Em7 G/A]

So when I come home feeling tired and beat, [ D Bm7 F#m7 ]

I'll go up where the air is fresh and sweet, [ Em7 G/A (D A/D D G/D A)]

I'll get far away from the hustling crowd, [ D Bm7 F#m7 ]

And all the rat race noise down in the street. [ Em7 G/A (D A/D D G/A A D) ]

On the roof, that's the only place I know, [ G A G/b A Em7 (D/f# G6 A7) ]

Where you just have to wish to make it so. [ D A/D Bm7 F#m7 Em7]

Let's go up on the roof. [ tacet ]

[ D A/D D A/B Bm7 A/B Bm7 Em7 D/f# G A7 D A/D D G/A A D ]

At night the stars put on a show for free [ G A G/B A Em7 (D/f# G6 A7)
]
And, darling, you can share it all with me. [ D A/D Bm7 F#m7 Em7 ]

That's what I said. Keep on telling you that [ G/A ]

right smack dab in the middle of town, [ D Bm7 F#m7 ]
I found a paradise that's trouble proof. [ Em7 G/A D (A/D D G/D A) ]
And if this old world starts a getting you down, [ D Bm7 F#m7 ]
There's room enough for two up on the roof. [ Em7 G/A ]
[ D A/D D A/B Bm7 A/B Bm7 Em7 D/f# G A D ]

SUNNY SKIES
James Taylor

Sunny Skies
(James Taylor) 1969,1970

Sunny skies sleeps in the morning. [ Cmaj7 Dm7 G11 ]

He doesn't know when to rise [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]
He closes his weary eyes upon the day [ Cmaj7 Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 ]
Look at him yawning, [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]
throwing his morning hours away [ Cmaj7 Dm7 Cmaj7 ]
He knows how to ease down slow(ly) [ Cmaj7 Dm7 G9 Cmaj7 ]
Every thing is fine in the end [ Dm7 C ]
And you will be pleased to know [ Dm7 G9 Cmaj7 ]
that Sunny Skies hasn't a friend. [ Dm7/G ]

Sunny skies weeps in the ev'nin'. [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]

It doesn't much matter why [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]
I guess he just has to cry from time to time [ Cmaj7 Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 ]
Everyone's leavin' [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]
and Sunny skies has to stay behind [ Cmaj7 Dm7 Cmaj7 ]
Still he knows how to ease down slow(ly) [ Cmaj7 Dm7 G9 Cmaj7 ]
Everything is fine in the end. [ Dm7 C ]
And you will be pleased to know [ C Dm7 G9 Cmaj7 ]
that Sunny Skies hasn't a friend. [ Dm7/G ]

Sunny skies sleeps in the morning. [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]

He doesn't know when to rise [ Cmaj7 Dm7 ]
He closes his weary eyes upon the day [ Cmaj7 Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 ]
and throws it all away. [ Dm7 Cmaj7 F6 Cmaj7 ]
Looking at the snow and trees that [ F6 G9 Cmaj7 ]
grow outside my window [ F6, F6 Cmaj7 ]
Looking at the things that pass me by. [ F6 G9 Cmaj7 F6 Cmaj7 ]
Wondering if where I've been is [ F6 G9 Cmaj7 ]
worth the things I've been through [ F6 Cmaj7 F6 Cmaj7 ]
Ending with a friend named Sunny Skies. [ F6 G7 Cmaj7 ]

A Em A
Something in the way she moves,
Em D G A9
or looks my way, or calls my name

Em G C D
that seems to leave this troubled world behind.

A Em A
And if I'm feeling down and blue

Em D G A9
or troubled by some foolish game,

Em G C A9
she always seems to make me change my mind..

A Em D G A9
And I feel fine anytime she's around me now,

F#m Bm E7sus4 E7
she's around me now almost all the time.

A Em D G A9
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now.

F#m Bm E7sus4 E7
She's been with me now quite a long, long time

Bm E A G D A
and I feel fine.

D D/C
Every now and then

G/B C6(9) D
the things I lean on lose their meaning

G/B C6(9) D
and I find myself careening
D/C G/B Em A7sus4 A7
in places where I should not let me go.

D D/C
She has the power to go
G/B C6(9) D
where no one else can find me
 G/B C6(9) D
Yes, and to silently remind me
G/B C6(9) D A Bm E
of the happiness and the good times that I know,
Bm E
But I say I just got to go then.

A Em A
It isn't what she's got to say
Em D G A9
but how she thinks and where she's been.
Em G C D
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
A Em A
I like to hear them best that way,
Em D G A9
it doesn't much matter what they mean.
Em G C A9
she says them mostly just to calm me down

A Em D G A9
And I feel fine anytime she's around me now,
F#m Bm E7sus4 E7
she's around me now almost all the time.
A Em D G A9
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now.
F#m Bm E7sus4 E7
She's been with me now quite a long - long - time
Bm E A G D A
Yes and I feel fine.