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Subject: b/browne_jackson/for_everyman.crd
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:24:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Smith
for everyman (jackson browne: everyman)
this version is from the VH1 special. lyrics are different but not
to different. i have not heard to albumn version nly this version.
note: capital letters are CHORDS & lower case letters are NOTES
tunnig for this version is standard, but to Db not to E for
the lo E string.
---- ----|
intro: E ---- C#m ----| (repeat several times)
---- ----|
---- ----|
6--- 4-6-|
-7-4 ----|
riff 1: ------------|
------------|
------4-----| (2>4 is a slide from 2nd fret to 4th)
-----4-6-4--| (notes are: b-c# d# f# b g# f# d#)
2>4-6-----6-|
------------|
intro: E d# b g# C#m c# d# (played several times)
E E/Db C#m c# d# E E/Db
everybody i talk to is ready to leave with the light of the
C#m c# d# E E/Db C#m
morning that they’ve seen the end coming down long enough
c# d# E E/Db C#m
to be_lieve that they heard their last warning
c# d# e B C#m
standing a_lone each has his own__
Fm F# f# g# a B B/Db B
ticket for the in his hand
E B C#m
and as the evening decends i sit thinking about everyman
c# d# E d# b g# C#m c# d#
E E/Db C#m c# d# E E/Db
seems like i’ve always been looking for some other place to get
C#m c# d# E E/Db C#m
it together with a few of my friends i could
c# d# E E/D# C#m
give up the race and maybe find something better
c# d# e B C#m Fm
but all my fine dreams well thought out schemes to gain
F# B B/D# B A B
the motherland have all eventually come down
C#m c# d# E B
to waiting for everyman waiting here for everyman
E B A
make it on your own if you think you can
B E B A
if you see somehere to go i understand
B E B A
waiting here for everyman don’t ask if he’ll show
B
i don’t know
E d# b g# C#m c# d# (4x) a B C#m Fm F# f# g# a B B/D# B
E B A B
make it on your own if you think you can
E F#
somewhere later on you’ll have to take a stand
A (riff 1)
then you’re going to need a hand
E E/D# C#m c# d# E
everybody’s just waiting to hear from the one who can
E/D# C#m c# d# E E/D# C#m
give them the answers and lead them back to that place
c# d# E E/D# C#m
in the warmth of the sun where childhood still dances
c# d# e B C#m Fm
who’ll come a_long and hold out that strong and gentle
F# B B/D# B E B
father’s hand long ago i heard someone say something
C#m c# d# E B
about everyman waiting here for everyman
E B A
make it on your own if you think you can
B E B A
if you see somewhere to go i understand
E B A B
i’m not trying to tell that you i’ve seen the plan
E F# f# g# A
turn and walk away if you think i am
B C#m
but don’t think to badly of one who’s left holding
c# d# E A B
the sand he’s just another deamer
C#m c# d# E d# b g# C#m c# d#
dreaming about everyman
E d# b g# C#m c# d# (repeat a few times til end)
