Georgia on My Mind
The chords and lyrics are below, and the video illustrates some fairly easy fingering for the changes on this lovely Hoagy Carmichael song, made famous by the great Ray Charles. Georgia was written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics). Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy’s sister, Georgia Carmichael. The lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or to a woman named “Georgia”, a fact I only came to realize recently.
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[Intro] C C#dim | Dm7 G (2X)
CM7 | E7 | Am Am7 | D7 Fm
Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through
C Am | Dm G | C C#o | Dm7 G
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind (on my mind)
CM7 | Bdim E7 | Am Am7 | D7 Fm
I said Georgia, Georgia, a song of you
C A7 | Dm G7 | C6 F Fm | C E7
Comes as sweet and clear as moonlight through the pines
Am Dm | Am F7 […]
I’ll Be Your Baby
“I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” is a 1967 song by Bob Dylan first released on John Wesley Harding. It features Pete Drake on pedal steel guitar, and two other Nashville musicians, Charlie McCoy on bass guitar and Kenneth Buttrey on drums, both of whom had appeared on Dylan’s previous album, Blonde on Blonde.
Dylan first performed the song in concert at the Isle of Wight Festival with the Band on August 31, 1969. Since then, he has included it in more than 650 live performances. “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” has been covered by many artists, including Robert Palmer with UB40 in 1990.
Dylan’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight was the first track on the 1968 CBS budget sampler album The Rock Machine Turns You On which, in the aftermath of the 1960s British dominance of pop music, was a successful marketing exercise in introducing the UK audience to contemporary USA pop output.
“Charlie Christian showed me a lot and was a great help, but even then, I realized that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie.” – Barney Kessel
Help me Make it Through The Night
Help me make it through the night chords and lyrics
Help Me Make It Through the Night” is a country ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album Kristofferson. It was covered later in 1970 by Sammi Smith, on the album Help Me Make It Through the Night. In 1982, Kris did a re-recording with Brenda Lee for the compilation album The Winning Hand. It has been covered since by many other artists from Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash to Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, Bryan Ferry, Mark Eitzel, Tyler Childers and Engelbert Humperdinck also as a duet between Michael Bublé and Loren Allred.
Smith’s recording of the song (in May 1970) remains the most commercially successful, and best-known, version in the United States. Her recording ranks among the most successful country singles of all time in terms of sales, popularity, and radio airplay. It topped the country singles chart, and was also a crossover hit, reaching number eight on the U.S. pop singles chart. “Help Me Make It Through The Night” also became Smith’s signature song.
In May 2024, Rolling […]
How to play “Fools Fall in Love”
“Fools Fall in Love” is a song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by the Drifters, who took it to number 10 on the R&B chart in 1957. The song reached number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1977, “Fools Fall in Love” was recorded by Jacky Ward. His version reached number 9 on the US country music chart, and number 16 on the Canadian country chart.
- Sammy Turner recorded a version in 1960.
- Elvis Presley recorded a more up-tempo version on May 28, 1966. His rendition, charting in tandem with “Indescribably Blue“, reached number 11 in Australia. Elvis’s cover also reached number 102 in the U.S. as a separate B-side.
“If you’re into what you’re playing, that’s the most important thing.” – James Hetfield
White Christmas
White_Christmas tabs and chords
C | F C | F | G7 F | G7 | C | C
I’m dream-ing of a white Christmas. Just like the ones I used to knowC CM7 | C7 | F | Fm C | C | Dm7 | G7
Where the tree tops glisten and children listen. To hear sleigh bells in the snowC | F C | F | G7 F | G7 | C | C
I’m dream-ing of a white Christmass With ever Christmas card I writeC CM7 | C7 | F | Fm […]
How to play “Bye Bye Blackbird”
C A7
Pack up all my cares and woe,
Dm7 G7 C
here I go singing low,
C C Dm7 G7
Bye Bye Black bird.
Dm Dm7
Where somebody waits for me
Dm7 G7
sugar’s sweet, so is she.
Dm7 G7 C7 C
Bye Bye Black bird.
C7 A7
No one here can love and under stand me,
Dm […]
Dock of the Bay on guitar
Dock of the bay lead sheet
“(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just three days before his death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. The song was released on Stax Records’ Volt label in 1968, becoming the first ever posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song in Memphis with the help of Cropper, who was a Stax producer and the guitarist for Booker T. & the M.G.’s. The song features whistling and sounds of waves crashing on a shore.
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that what is deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -E. E. Cummings
Cry Me a River
Arthur Hamilton later said of the song: “I had never heard the phrase. I just liked the combination of words… Instead of ‘Eat your heart out’ or ‘I’ll get even with you,’ it sounded like a good, smart retort to somebody who had hurt your feelings or broken your heart.” He was initially concerned that listeners would hear a reference to the Crimea, rather than “..cry me a…”, but said that “..sitting down and playing the melody and coming up with lyrics made it a nonissue.”
A bluesy jazz ballad, “Cry Me a River” was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the 1920s-set film Pete Kelly’s Blues (released 1955). According to Hamilton, he and Julie London had been high school classmates, and she contacted him on behalf of her husband, Jack Webb, who was the film’s director and was looking for new songs for its soundtrack. After the song was dropped from the film, Fitzgerald first released her version on Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! in 1961. The song was also offered to Peggy King, but Columbia Records A&R chief Mitch Miller objected to the word “plebeian” in the lyric.
The song’s first release was by actress and singer Julie […]
How to play “Ain’t Misbehavin'” on guitar
aint misbehavin chart
How to play “Ain’t Misbehavin'” on guitar
ain’t misbehavin’. First performed at the premiere of Connie’s Hot Chocolates in Harlem at Connie’s Inn as an opening song by Paul Bass and Margaret Simms, and repeated later in the musical by Russell Wooding’s Hallelujah Singers. Connie’s Hot Chocolates was transferred to the Hudson Theatre on Broadway during June 1929, where it was renamed to Hot Chocolates and where Louis Armstrong became the orchestra director. The script also required Armstrong to play “Ain’t Misbehavin‘” in a trumpet solo, and although this was initially slated only to be a reprise of the opening song, Armstrong’s performance was so well received that the trumpeter was asked to climb out of the orchestra pit and play the piece on stage. As noted by Thomas Brothers in his book Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Armstrong was first taught “Ain’t Misbehavin'” by Waller himself, “woodshedding” it until he could “play all around it”; he cherished it “because it was ‘one of those songs you could cut loose and swing with.'”
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: the only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.” – Kurt Vonnegut