James Taylor - Hello Old Friend

      

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 JAMES TAYLOR - HELLO, OLD FRIEND. From WALKING MAN album.
 Released 1974.

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 Paris' rooftops were lovely to see.
 Switzerland's vertical landscape
 crossed my mind's eye just now.
 Canada's shoreline has been calling out to me,
 but it's been too long a time
 since last I crossed that vast Nantucket sound.
 
 Hello old friend, welcome me home again.
 Well, I've been away but that's all over now.
 Say I can stay for October, now, stay a while and play.
 
 Little dog David, I must look like a fool.
 I should've remembered you'd be forgetting my smell, well.
 Give me a week or two to recapture my cool,
 I've got stories to tell
 about how I snatched the devil's catch
 and out ran the hounds of hell.
 
 Hello old friend, welcome me home again.
 Well, I've been away but that's all over now.
 Say I can stay for October, now, stay a while and see.
 
 Hello old friend, welcome me home again.
 Well, I've been away but that's all over now.
 Isn??t it nice to be home again, over here it??s clear.
 Hello, old friend.

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 Bm7 F#m7 Dbm7 Abm7 
     

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 Paris's rooftops were lovely to see.

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 E11 Amaj7 
   

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 Switzerland's landscape my mind's eye just now.
 vertical crossed

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 Am7 D11 Gmaj7 Cmaj5 
     

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 Canada's has calling to me, but
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 Bm7 E9 F#7sus4 F#7 
     

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 too long a time since I crossed that vast
 last

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 Bm7 E9 Am7 D9 
     

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 Nantucket sound. Hello

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 Gmaj7 D11 
   

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 old friend, welcome again. Well,
 me home

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 G Gmaj7 G7 Fmaj7 Em7 
      

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 I've away but that's all over now now
 been

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 Say stay now,
 I can for October
 
 
 Dbm7 Abm7 Dbm7 F#7 
     

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 stay a while and play.

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 Little David, I must look a fool.
 dog like

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 I should've you'd be forgetting smell, well.
 remembered my

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 Give week or so to recapture cool, I've got
 me a my

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 stories to tell about I snatched the devil's and
 how catch out

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 ran hounds of hell. Hello
 the

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 old friend, welcome again. Well,
 me home

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 I've away but that's all over now now
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 Say stay now,
 I can for October

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 stay a while and see.
 
 
 
 E11 Amaj7 
   

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 E11 F#maj7 
   

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 (. x x
 Gmaj7 Emaj7 
   

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 Hello

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 old friend, welcome again. I know
 me home I've

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 away but that's all over now now
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 Isn't nice home again
 it to be

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 over here it??s clear.
 
 
 E11 Amaj7 E11 
    

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 P P P

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 (.
 Amaj7 
  

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 Hello, old friend
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 H Hammer-on
 P Pull-off
 ~ Vibrato
 + Harmonic
 x Mute note
 . Play note like a dot in standard notation
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