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Song title: Words & Music
Original Album: Heartbeat Radio
Words and Music by Sylvie Lewis & Sondre Lerche
Copyright © 2009 Rounder Records Corp
Published by Rounder Records
Transcribed by Gavin Chart (
[email protected])
NOTES:
A few updates to my previous submission:
- updated intro chords repeated elsewhere
- updated final chorus and coda
INTRO:
[play: Guitar Figure 1]
Guitar Figure 1
(#5)
|--0--0--------1---1---0--|
|--1-----0--1--1---0---1--|
|--2-----------2---0---0--|
|--0-----------3---0---2--|
|------------------2---3--|
|------------------3------|
VERSE1:
Verse notes:
The second Am(maj7) might be an easier transition from the Fm(maj7) because
you re just sliding the voicing down to the 1st fret. Just a suggestion...
Chords:
x32010
G#mb5 x564xx
353333
x57565
x55433 or 355433
(maj7) x76555
Fm(maj7) 88 10 998
(maj7) x02110
020100
353463
G#mb5
You be words, and I ll be music
G#mb5 -
Ain t you heard, that s how they do it?
G#mb5 (maj7)
You re a poem when you re on your own
(maj7) (maj7)
I ll try not to get in your way
But of all the pretty poems I have known,
G#mb5
Baby, you give me something to say
VERSE2:
Chords:
x32010
G#mb5 x564xx
353333
x57565
x55433 or 355433
(maj7) x76555
Fm(maj7) 88 10 998
(maj7) x02110
020100
Bmb5 x897xx
Dmb5 10 11 12 10 xx
G#mb5
I ll be words, and you ll be music
G#mb5 -
I concur, I can t refuse it
G#mb5 (maj7)
You re a sad little tune by yourself
(maj7) (maj7)
So lovely I wanna sing along
If there s one thing I know I can tell,
E7 G#mb5 Bmb5 Dmb5
when we get together we re a song
CHORUS:
Chords:
x32010
779797
668686
557585
557575
(#5) xxx210
x33211
320001
x32010
Whenever I m with you it s true it s
-
Everything you say and do it s
(#5)
Words and music, you and I
VERSE3:
Notes: Same chords as VERSE2.
G#mb5
Listen here, I ve gotta say it
G#mb5 -
It s so clear, the way we should play it
G#mb5 (maj7) (maj7) (maj7)
I will carry you, together we ll float through the sky
G#mb5 Bmb5 Dmb5
We can marry too, together just look at us fly
CHORUS:
Notes: Same chords as previous CHORUS.
Whenever I m with you it s true it s
-
Everything you say and do it s
(#5)
Words and music, you and I
BRIDGE:
Chords:
355333
335553
x33211
xx2020
xx303x
xx505x
xx0231 or 557765
+ xx3221 or xx7665
xx0211 or 557565
353333
575555 or x02010
x02120
xx323x
xx545x
(#5) xxx210
320001
x32010
x32310
()
When we fight it s rock and roll
When we make it up, it s soul
+
And in the meanwhile, freestyle, play-by-ear, improvise
- -
It s clear we go together, it s been like this forever
(#5)
You and I are words and music
CHORUS:
Notes:
* these chords have no 5th
Chords:
x32010
779797
668686
557585
557575
* x5455x
Fm(maj7) 88 10 998
* x7677x
* x6566x
557765
x33211
Whenever I m with you it s true it s
Everything you say and do it s true
(maj7) * *
You and I are, you and I are
You and I are words and mu - sic
CODA:
Chords:
x32010
G#mb5 x564xx
x57565
x55433 or 355433
(#5) xxx210
x33211
320001
332010
[play - G#mb5 - - ]
[play C - G#mb5 - Dm7 - [Guitar Figure 1]]
[end on arpeggioed C/G]
