Eyolf Østrem

G /f# Em /d C /b Am D

la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la
la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la

la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la *)

G
I've got a wife and five little children

I'm gonna take a trip on the big McMillan
     Em
With Sarah Jane
Bm    Am
Sarah Jane
      C          G
Ain't nothin' to do
       G      /f#   Em
But to sit down and sing
/d  C             D     G
And rock about my Sarah Jane.

Whistle done blows and the fiddler squalls
Captain gone through the hole-in-the-wall
Oh Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane
Ain't nothin' to do
But to set down and sing

C

  C            /b               Am            /g
I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you
F            G
 In worn out shoes
    C              /b               Am            /g
The silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
F             G
That old soft shoe
F             C          E       Am   C/g
 He'd jump so high, he'd jump so high
D7/f#                   G    C/g  G7
Then he'd lightly touch down

Am          Em
   Mister Bojangles,
Am          Em
   Mister Bojangles,
C  /b  Am  /g  F     G
dance

G  . . C/g . . G  . . C/g . .

G            C/g     G        C/g
Oh fare thee well my own true love
G                        D
Fare thee well but for a while
    G       C/g             G    /f#   Em
The ship is waitin' an' the wind blows high
    G    C/g    G           C/g
An' I am bound away for the sea,
     G
Mary Ann.
          C/g    G           C/g       G    C/g   G    C/g
    (I am bound away for the sea, Mary Ann)

Ten thousand miles away from home
Ten thousand miles or more
The sea may freeze an' the earth may burn
If I never no more return to you,
Mary Ann.

E    /d# C#m /b       A     G#m  F#m   B7
Wise men say     only fools rush in
    A B6    C#m  A  G#m  F#m E    B    E
But I can't help falling in  love with you.

Shall I stay, will it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you?

D#7

G#m          D#7   G#m           D#7
Like a river flows surely to the sea
G#m            D#7        G#m                  F#m    B7
Darling, so it goes, some things were meant to be.

Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you.

G

     C                                     G
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot
  D                                         G
A pink hotel, a boutique an' a swingin' hot spot
                Bm
Don't it always go to show
    C                                 G
You never know what you got till it's gone
     C         D          C          D        G
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.

They took all the trees, they put them in a tree museum
They charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
Don't it always go to show

G                              C     /b     Am
Gather round me, people, and a story I will tell
D                          G
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
                                  C           /b       Am
From the tribe of Pima Indians, a proud and a peaceful band,
     D                            G
They farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land.

Down their ditches for a thousand years the sparkling water rushed,
Till the white man stole their water rights and the running water hushed.

Album version

Chords:

D: “Let’s keep that take. Right after that take, put down this wild track, would you? It just consists of:”

Corn
beans
peas
Succotash
guacamole

second coming coffee
and climax tobacco

“End of take”

Billy 1

Several verses instrumental intro

Original album version

Capo 1st fret (original key Ab major)

The G — C/g — G (320003 — 3x2013 — 320003) pattern goes through the whole song. One could play just a sustained G as well. The change of this pattern that I’ve indicated in lines 2 and 4 is mainly to get an approximation to what the second guitar plays there. Likewise, in the last line there seems to be very little activity — maybe there should be just a G all through it.