Song sheets

Here are some guitar song sheets I've worked up for my own use. They're songs that either: [a] I like (and can play) or [b] work well at parties. I'll leave it to you to guess which are which. Most importantly, they all "work". If they're here, they've been researched, tuned, tweaked, and tested, and are fairly guaranteed to be correct of lyric and playable, unlike a lot of stuff you'll find out there...

They're all in Microsoft Word format (free viewer here), and I use color to differentiate words from chords, though it's certainly not necessary to print them in color to use them. Oh, and I use an easy-to-read font called "Charter", available here.

I always juggle the formatting/font size/etc. to fit the whole song on one page, with a 1.5" left margin so I can three-hole punch them. Therefore, to save space, I don't put the chords above the words. Instead, I put the chords for a given line of lyrics in its left margin, like this:

C  Em  F  CPuff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea
F  C  AmAnd frolicked in the Autumn mist...

I figure if I can't hear/feel the changes in the song well enough to "get it" from this shorthand, I don't know the song well enough to perform it. These are performing sheets, not necessarily learning ones. (And, no, 'Puff' isn't one of the songs.)

Some notes on the notation.
- Hard/strange chords are written out at the bottom of the page in a low-to-high (pitch) 6-string list, like "C:x32010".
- I use lower case for bass notes so "D/a" is a D chord with an A as the bass note.
- I sometimes use periods to indicate descending bass lines, like "C . . G", which is equivalent to "C /b /a G".
- Mainly in the Christmas Songs, I put a little fraction next to diminished chords to tell me which two frets it lands on, so "C#dim" has a little "1/2" next to it telling me to play xx1212.

Anyway, they're here for the taking -- have fun!

Feel free to email me with any questions, comments, or corrections.

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Last update: 10-Jan-00 - 143 songs

Act Naturally
Alison
All Along the Watchtower
American Pie in C
American Pie
As I Roved Out
At the End of the Rainbow Trail
Autumn to May
A Whole New World
Better Off Without a Wife
Blue Montana Skies
Blue on Black
Brown Eyed Girl
Can't Find My Way Home
Careless
The Christmas Song
21 Christmas Songs
Cinnamon Girl
City of New Orleans
Colors of the Wind
Cool Water
Copperline
The Cowboy's In Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Daddy's Baby
Daydream
Daydream Believer
Desperado
Desperado in E
Dizzy
Down At the Twist and Shout
Down On the Corner
Eldorado to the Moon
Eleanor
El Paso
Ernie's Song
Every Minute
Fields Of Gold
Fire and Rain
Five O'Clock World
For Free
Free Man in Paris
Free Man in Paris in D
Gilligan's Island Theme
Ghost Riders In the Sky
Gorilla
Groovy Kind of Love
Handyman
Heartache Tonight
Hey Hey, My My
Homeless Brother
Hotel California
House at Pooh Corner
I Know Where Love Lives
I Wanna Be Like You
I Want To Be Seduced
I Will
I Wish I Was In New Orleans
I Would Not Be Here
Jenny Dreamed of Trains
Kokomo
The Lakes Of Ponchartrain
Landslide
Let Him Go On Momma
Little Wing
Little Suzy
Long Long Time
Losing My Religion
Love Has No Pride
Love Is All Around
Love Potion Number Nine
Lovely On the Water
Madge
Mercury Blues
Mexico
Millworker
Mr Bojangles
Mister Tambourine Man
Misty Moisty Morning
Monster Mash
No Particular Place to Go
On and On
The One I Love
One Morning in May
One More Night
Outbound Plane
Pancho and Lefty
People Get Ready
People Get Ready - JT
Pretty Woman
Psycho Killer
Rain at the Drive-In
Reason To Believe
Revolution
River
Rock and Roll Slave
Rocky Mountain High
Roll Over Beethoven
Runaway
Run For Your Life
Running On Empty
Salting of the Slug
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, JT style
Scarborough Fair
She's Always a Woman to Me
Shower the People
Small Town Saturday Night
Something That We Do
Soon As the Roundup's Through
Southern Cross
Standing Outside the Fire
The Streets of Laredo
Summertime Blues
Surfin Safari
Sweet Caroline
Take Me to the River
Tangled Up In Blue
Teach Your Children
Tears in Heaven
Thats How the Yodel Was Born
Times They Are A-Changin
Tom Traubert's Blues
Up on the Roof
Venus
Waltzing With Bears
The Water is Wide
We Can Work It Out
The Weight
The Whale
Whale of a Tale
When I'm Sixty Four
Whiter Shade Of Pale
Who Do You Love?
Wicked Game
Willin
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
With a Little Help From My Friends - JT version
Yellow Submarine
Yesterday
Yesterday in C - JT version
You Can Close Your Eyes
Young Love
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away