Fluorescent Adolescent

Fun song, enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw&feature=share

D Bm Em A x2

 D
You used to get it in your fishnets
 Bm
Now you only get it in your night dress
 Em
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
 A
Landed in a very common crisis
 D
Everything's in order in a black hole
 Bm
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
Em
The Bloody Mary's lacking her Tabasco
 A
Remember when you used to be a rascal?

 Em
Oh the boy's a slag
 A
The best you ever had
 Em
The best you ever had
A
Is just a memory and those dreams
 Em
But as daft as they seem
 A
As daft as they seem
 G
My love when you dream them up...

 D
Flicking through a little book of sex tips
 Bm
Remember when the boys were all electric?
 Em
Now when she's told she's gonna get it
 A
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it
 D
Clinging to not getting sentimental
 Bm
Said she wasn't going but she went still
 Em
Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle
 A
Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?

 Em
Oh the boy's a slag
 A
The best you ever had
 Em
The best you ever had
 Em
Is just a memory and those dreams
 A
But as daft as they seem
 Em
As daft as they seem
 G
My love when you dream them up

 F#m Bm
 Oh, where did you go?
 Em
Where did you go?
 F#m Em
Where did you go? Woah.

 D Bm Em A
                                   
 D Bm
 Falling about        
 Em A
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
 D Bm
You were just sounding it out        
 Em A
You're not coming back again.

 D Bm
 Falling about      
 Em A
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
 D Bm A
You were just sounding it out          
 Em A
You're not coming back again.

 D
You used to get it in your fishnets
 Bm
Now you only get it in your night dress
 Em
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
 A
Landed in a very common crisis
 D
Everything's in order in a black hole
 Bm
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
 Em
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco
 A
Remember when he used to be a rascal?

End on Bm

Back for good

Playing Tom Traubert's Blues just made me realise the chords here are similar, so here it is:

[F] [Gm7] [Bb] [F] [C] [F] [Gm7] [Bb] [F] [C]

[F] I guess [Gm7] now it's time [Bb] [C] for me to give up [F] [Gm7] I feel it's time
[Bb] [C] Got a [F] picture of you beside [Gm7] me got your [Bb] lipstick mark still [C] on your
coffee cup [F] [Gm7] Oh Yeah [Bb] [F] [C] Got a [F] fist of pure emo[Gm7]tion Got a
[Bb] head of shattered [C] dreams gotta [Dm7] leave it, gotta [F] leave it all behind [Bb] now

[F] [C]

What[F]ever I said, what[Gm7]ever I did I didn't [Bb]mean it I just [C] want you back for
[F]good (Want you back,[Gm7] want you back, [Bb] want you back for [C] good)
When[F]ever I'm wrong just [Gm7] tell me the song and I'll [Bb] sing it you'll be [C] right and
under[F]stood (Want you back, [Gm7] want you back) I [Bb] want you back for good [C]
[F] Unaware [Gm7] but underlined [Bb] [C] I figured out this sto[F]ry (no no) [Gm7] It wasn't
good
[Bb] (no no) [C] But in the [F] corner of my mind [Gm7] (corner of my [Bb] mind) [C] I
celebrated  glo[F]ry [Gm7] but that [Bb]was not to be [F] [C]
in the [F] twist of separa[Gm7]tion you exce[Bb]lled at being free [C] can't you [Dm7] find a little [F] room inside for [Bb] me? [F] [C]
What[F]ever I said, what[Gm7]ever I did I didn't [Bb]mean it I just [C] want you back for
[F]good (Want you back,[Gm7] want you back, [Bb] want you back for [C] good)
When[F]ever I'm wrong just [Gm7] tell me the song and I'll [Bb] sing it you'll be [C] right and
under[F]stood (Want you back, [Gm7] want you back) I [Bb] want you back for good [C]

[Bb] And we'll be together, [F] [Bb] this time is forever [F]
[Bb] We'll be fighting and forever [F] we will be so com[Dm]plete in our love [F] we will
[Bb] never be uncovered again [C]

What[F]ever I said, what[Gm7]ever I did I didn't [Bb]mean it I just [C] want you back for
[F]good (Want you back,[Gm7] want you back, [Bb] want you back for [C] good)
When[F]ever I'm wrong just [Gm7] tell me the song and I'll [Bb] sing it you'll be [C] right and
under[F]stood (Want you back, [Gm7] want you back) I [Bb] want you back for good [C]
What[F]ever I said, what[Gm7]ever I did I didn't [Bb]mean it I just [C] want you back for
[F]good (Want you back,[Gm7] want you back, [Bb] want you back for [C] good)
When[F]ever I'm wrong just [Gm7] tell me the song and I'll [Bb] sing it you'll be [C] right and
under[F]stood (Want you back, [Gm7] want you back) I [Bb] want you back for good [C]

[F] [Gm7] [Bb] [F] [C]
[F] I guess [Gm7] now it’s time [B] that [F] you came [C] back for [F] good

Tom Traubert's Blues

This version on uke is a good guide, though I'd keep up the slow picking (in 4/4 time) and not the strum. It is a long song too, so leaving out a verse or too might be wise.

F Gm7 F Bb
F G7 C7 (end with note C on A string)

Bb                      F                                   Gm7          C7         F C7 F
Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did, I've got what I paid for now
 Bb       F                          G9 2212             C7
 See you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you
  F Gm7 F Bb
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
  F                   Gm7      C7
 You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley
And I'm tired of all these soldiers here
No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking
A lot they can do for me
I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open,
And I'm down on my knees tonight
 Bb                            F                         
Old Bushmill's I staggered, you'd bury the dagger
G9 2212                                C7
In your silhouette window light go
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

Now I lost my Saint Christopher now that I've kissed her
And the one-armed bandit knows
And the maverick Chinamen, and the cold-blooded signs,
And the girls down by the strip-tease shows, go
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

No, I don't want your sympathy, the fugitives say
That the streets aren't for dreaming now
And manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories,
They want a piece of the action anyhow
Go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

And you can ask any sailor, and the keys from the jailor,
And the old men in wheelchairs know
And Matilda's the defendant, she killed about a hundred,
And she follows wherever you may go
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

And it's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace,
And a wound that will never heal
No prima donna, the perfume is on an
 Gm7              C7   F      Gm7      F7
 Old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey
 Bb                                                       F
 And goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers
 Gm7               C7 F
 And goodnight to Matilda, too
 Gm7 F Bb F Gm7 C7 F

Inchworm

A deceptively simple little song by Frank Loesser that he wrote along with Thumbelina and Wonderful Copenhagen for the movie Hans Christian Andersen starring Danny Kaye in 1952. Paul McCartney covered it for his recent album Kisses On The Bottom

Other songs he wrote? What Are You Doing New Years Eve?,  On a Slow Boat to China and the xmas favourite: Baby, It's Cold Outside (he won an Oscar for that).

F                          Eb7 3131
Two and two are four
F                           Eb7
Four and four are eight
F                        Bb        Bbm
Eight and eight are sixteen
F                                     C              C7
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two

F                           Eb7
Inchworm, inchworm
F                           Eb7
Measuring the marigolds
F                        Bb        Bbm
You and your arithmetic
F        G7                C
You'll probably go far

F                           Eb7
Inchworm, inchworm
F                           Eb7
Measuring the marigolds
F                        Bb        Bbm
Seems to me you'd stop and see
F        C                    F
How beautiful they are

Bein' Green

A classic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZxxHbJGbY (Kermit)
Even Van Morrison covered it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3L9P4RlrjQ

Gmaj7 0222
It's not easy bein' green
F#7 3421
Having to spend each day
Dm6 4210
The color of the leaves
E7
When I think it could be nicer
Am7
Bein' red or yellow or gold
D7                                                       G  D7
Or something much more colorful like that

Gmaj7
It's not easy bein' green
F#7
It seems you blend in
Dm6
With so many other ordinary things
E7
And people tend to pass you over
Am7
'Cause you're not standing out
D7
Like flashy sparkles on the water
                        G D7
Or stars in the sky

Fmaj7 2413
But green's the color of spring
Bbmaj7 3210
And green can be cool and friendly like
Em7
And green can be big like an ocean
A7                                              Am7              D7
 Or important like a mountain or tall like a tree

Gmaj7
When green is all there is to be
F#7                      Dm6
It could make you wonder why
E7
But, why wonder, why wonder?
Am7
I'm green and it'll do fine
D7                                                           G
It's beautiful and I think it's what I want to be

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Susanne was a friend who'd committed suicide. There's a lot of pain in this one though written when Taylor was only 22. I mean, what's Taylor Swift got to complain about compared to that!

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/firerain.asp

C                      Gm7       0211          F                     C
Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
                     G                                     Bb
Susanne the plans they made put an end to you
C                           Gm7               F                        C
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
 G          Bb
I just can't remember who to send it to

F              Dm7 2213     G11 0213   C               F                            Dm7   G11   C
I've seen fire and          I've seen rain I seen sunny days that I thought would never end
          F                                       Dm7       G11     C
 I saw lonely times when I could not find a friend
           Bb                           F                 Gm7  
But I always thought that I'd see you again

                         C                      Gm7 0211       F                     C
Won't you look down upon me Jesus you got to help me make a stand
                     G                                     Bb
You just got to see me through another day
C              Gm7               F                        C
My bodies aching and my time is at hand
            G            Bb
An' I won't make it any other way

(chorus)

C                      Gm7       0211          F                     C
Been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun
                     G                                     Bb
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn you head around
                    C                           Gm7                      F                        C
Well there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come
                     G              Bb
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
(chorus)