ecilia Simon & arfunkel Intro: Z chord (2 bars) (2 bars) Strum: U / U HORUS: ecilia, you're breaking my heart You're shaking my confidence daily Oh ecilia, I'm down on my knees I'm begging you please to come home REPEAT ome on home Making love in the afternoon with ecilia Up in my bedroom I got up to wash my face When I come back to bed Someone's taken my place... HORUS Bo po bo bo... Bo po bo bo Bo po bo bo Bo po bo Jubilation, she loves me again I fall on the floor and I'm laughing Jubilation, she loves me again I fall on the floor and I m laughing Wo ho ho oh... oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 1
A Message to You, Rudy - The Specials Ska strum: 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & X ^ X ^ X ^ X ^ INTRO : (*4) (*2) (*2) Stop your messing around (ah-ah-ah) Better think of your future (ah-ah-ah) Time you straighten right out reating problems in town (ah-ah-ah) horus Ru -dy A message to you, Rudy A message to you Stop your fooling around (ah-ah-ah) Time you straighten right out (ah-ah-ah) Better think of your future Else you ll wind up in jail (ah-ah-ah) horus Stop your messing around (ah-ah-ah) Better think of your future (ah-ah-ah) Time you straighten right out reating problems in town (ah-ah-ah) horus A message to you, Rudy A message to you, Rudy The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 2
Sweet aroline - Neil iamond Intro: 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Where it began I can t begin to know it 7 But then I know it s growing strong Was in the spring, and spring became a summer 7 Who d have believe you d come along 6 Hands touching hands Reaching out touching me touching you HORUS 7 Sweet aroline ood times never seemed so good 7 I ve been inclined - to believe they never would m But now I Look at the night and it don t seem so lonely 7 We fill it up with only two And when I hurt, hurting runs off my shoulders 7 How can I hurt when holding you 6 Warm touching warm Reachin out touching me touching you HORUS m Oh no no HORUS * 2 Sweet aroline The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 3
Slipping Away - Max Merritt & The Meteors Intro: sus4 sus4 m Baby I've been watching you watching everything you do And I just can't help the feeling Someone else is stealing you away from me m I see it written in your eyes you confirm it with your lies Though the way that you weep can hold me I would rather that you told me where you wanna be m Oo oh slipping a way from me m Oo oh slipping a way from me m And it's breaking me in two watching you slipping away m Baby I've been watching you watching everything you do And I just can't help the feeling Someone else is stealing you away from me m I see it written in your eyes you confirm it with your lies Though the way that you weep can hold me I would rather that you told me where you wanna be m Oo oh slipping a way from me m Oo oh slipping a way from me m And it's breaking me in two watching you slipping away m And it's breaking me in two watching you slipping away m And it's breaking me in two watching you slipping away The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 4
Every ay - on McLean Intro: A7 A7 A7 1. Every day it's a getting closer, going faster than a roller coaster. A7 A7 love like yours will surely come my way, a-hay, a-hay-hay. A7 A7 Every day, it's a getting faster, everyone said, "o out and ask her!". A7 7 Love like yours will surely come my way, a-hay, a-hay-hay. Every day seems a little longer, every way, love's a little stronger. Bb A7 ome what may, do you ever long for true love from me? A7 A7 2. Every day, it's a getting faster, everyone said, "o out and ask her!". A7 7 Love like yours will surely come my way, a-hay, a-hay-hay. - - A7 - - A7 - - A7 - - - 7 Every day seems a little longer, every way, love's a little stronger. Bb A7 ome what may, do you ever long for true love from me? A7 A7 3. Every day it's a getting closer, going faster than a roller coaster. A7 A7 love like yours will surely come my way, a-hay, a-hay-hay. A7 - - Love like yours will surely come my way! The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 5
Reason To Believe - Tim Hardin Intro: Am Am If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Am Still I look to find a reason to believe Am Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else Am Someone like you makes it easy to give never thinking about myself Am If I gave you time to change my mind I'd find a way to leave the past behind Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Am Still I look to find a reason to believe Am Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else Am Someone like you makes it easy to give never thinking about myself Am If I gave you time to change my mind I'd find a way to leave the past behind Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Am (slow down to end) Still I look to find a reason to believe The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 6
Lazin' On A Sunny Afternoon The Kinks Intro: Play on E string: 10, 10, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1, 1, 0, 0 m The taxman's taken all my dough, and left me in my stately home A A7 m Lazin' on a sunny afternoon And I can t sail my yacht, he's taken everything I've got A A7 m All I've got's this sunny afternoon 7 7 Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze 7 A7 I gotta big fat mama tryin' to break me m m 7 And I love to live so pleasantly, Live this life of luxury A m A7 m A7 Lazin' on a sunny afternoon, In the summertime m My girlfriend's run off with my car, And gone back to her ma and pa A A7 m Tellin' tales of drunkenness and cruelty Now I'm sittin' here, sipping on my ice-cold beer A m Lazin' on a sunny afternoon 7 7 Help me, help me, help me sail away 7 A7 ive me two good reasons why I ought to stay m m 7 'os I love to live so pleasantly, Live this life of luxury A m A7 m A7 Lazin' on a sunny afternoon, In the summertime m A7 In the summertime (x3) Outro The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 7
Wagon Wheel - (Old row Medicine Show) Intro - - - - - - (2x) 1. Heading down south to the land of the pines, and I'm thumbin' my way into North aroline, starin' up the road and pray to od I see headlights. I made it down the coast in seventeen hours, pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers and I'm a hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight. So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel; - rock me, mama, any way you feel! He...y, mama, rock me! Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain - rock me, mama, like a south-bound train! He...y, mama, rock me! + - - - - - - 2. Runnin' from the cold up in New England, I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband, - my baby plays the guitar I pick a banjo now. Oh, North country winters keep a gettin' me now, lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave but I ain't a turnin' back to livin' that old life no more. + HORUS 3. Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke, I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke, but he's a headed west from the umberland ap to Johnson ity, Tennessee. And I gotta get a move on fit for the sun, I hear my baby callin' my name, and I know that she's the only one, and if I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free. + * HORUS * 2 The laddagh Songbook Bracket 16 8