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🦋 Here I Go

This is a fun song, by Syd Barrett. It is also quite easy to play on guitar, as I discovered this evening. I cannot guarantee the chords here are accurate but they sound alright. (Woops -- some of those chords were way off -- these should work a little better.)

 C                       G
This is a story bout a girl that I knew
           C                      G
She didn't like my songs and that made me feel blue
           B♭              A           G
She said a big band is far better than you.

    C              Am
She don't rock and roll
G
She don't like it
    C            Am
She don't do the stroll
         G
Well she don't do it right
    C            C7
And everything's wrong
       F           F6
And my patience is gone
       C
When I woke one morning
      G
And remembered this song.
C Am
G
   Kinda catchy,
C Am
G
 I hope 
              C          C7
That she will talk to me now
    F      F6
And even allow me
   C                                 G
To hold her hand and forget that old man.
F                        C  C7
I strolled around to her pad
F                            C  G
Her light was off and that's bad
F                       C        G
Her sister said that my girl was gone
F                       G            
But come inside boy and play play play me a song.

I said yeah
Here I go
She's kinda cute don't you know
That after a while 
Of seeing her smile
I knew we could make it
A-make it in style.
  
So now I've got, all I need
She and I are in love, we've agreed
She likes this song, and my, others too
So now you see my world is...
Because of this tune.
  
What a boon this tune,
I tell you soon we'll be
Lying in bed
Happily wed
And I won't think of that girl
What she said.

The key thing in picking this song is that nearly every time there is a G chord followed by a C chord, you need to end the measure of G by hammering on from an open G string to an A. That will establish the mood of the song -- for everything else you can pick and strum pretty loosely. Keep a nice walking pace, a little faster in the middle of the song.

posted evening of Wednesday, August 6th, 2003
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