Randy Newman - Old Man

      
 
 ...OLD MAN... by Randy Newman

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 *from 'Sail Away' (1972)*
 
 *CAPO 4th FRET*
 
 (Original Key: E)
 
 Verse 1:
 
 C      F/C            C   
  Every-one has gone a-way;
 G7               
  Can you hear me?
 Em       C       
  Can you hear me?
 
 C       F/C             C    
  No one cared enough to stay.
 Bb/F             
  Can you hear me?
 Em       C       
  Can you hear me?
 
 Chorus 1:
 
     F             C          
 You must remember me old man,
   Dm7/C                    F   
 I know that you can if you try.
         C    F/C     D7sus     D7  
 So just open up your eyes, old man,
 F                   F/G      C   
  Look who's come to say good-bye.
 
 Interlude:
 
 G7 C/G C7/E,
 F D7 F/C C 
     
 (x2)
 
 Verse 2:
 
     C                Gm       F   
 The sun has left the sky, old man,
     C                  F9  
 The birds have flown a-way.
     Csus   C       D7sus    D7  
 And no one came to cry, old man,
      F        F/G       C   
 Good-bye, old man, good-bye.
 
 Verse 3:
 
     C               Gm       F  
 You want to stay, I know you do,
        C               F9  
 But it ain't no use to try.
      Csus    C    
 'Cos I'll be here,
         D7sus     D7  
 And I'm just like you,
      F        F/G       C   
 Good-bye, old man, good-bye.
 
 Chorus 2:
 
       F/G          C           
 Won't be no God to comfort you,
               G7  
 You taught me not,
                 C   
 To believe that lie.
           F            
 You don't need anybody,
    C          F   
 No-body needs you;
 C#dim7          Em         Ebmaj7 
  Don't cry, old man, don't cry;
 C#dim7 Dm6  C/Eb 
  Every-body dies.
 
 CHORD DIAGRAMS:

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 C F/C G7 Em Bb/F Dm7/C 
      
 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 
 x32010 x33210 323000 022000 113331 x30211
 
 D7sus D7 F/G C/G C7/E Gm 
      
 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 
 xx0013 xx0212 303210 332010 012010 3x330x
 
 Csus C#dim7 Ebmaj7 Dm6 C/Eb 
      
 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 
 x30011 xx4545 x68786 xx0201 xx1010
 
 Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004
 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)