PIANO MAN - Billy Joel
Intro:
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It's nine o' - clock on a Saturday
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The regular crowd shuffles in
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There's an old man sitting next to me
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Making love to his tonic and gin
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He says, " Son, can you play me a memory?
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I'm not really sure how it goes,
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But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it com - plete
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When I wore a younger man's clothes"
Am Am/G D7/F# Am/F - G -
Laa la laa litty daah,
Am Am/G D7/F# G G/F - C/Ei - G/D
La laa litty daa daah da dum
Chorus:
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Sing us a song, you're the piano man
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Sing us a song to - night
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'Cause we're all in the mood for a melody
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And you've got us feeling all - right
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Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
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He gets me my drinks for free
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And he's quick with a joke or a light up your smoke,
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But there's some place that's he'd rather be
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He says, " Bill, I be - lieve this is killing me,"
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As the smile ran a - way from his face
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"Well, I'm sure that I could be a movie star
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If I could get out of this place."
Am Am/G D7/F# Am/F - G -
Oh, Laa la laa litty daah,
Am Am/G D7/F# G G/F - C/Ei - G/D
La laa litty daa daah da dum
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/billy_joel/piano_man_crd_ver_9.html ]
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Now Paul is a real estate novelist
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Who never had time for a wife
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And he's talking to Davy who's still in the Navy
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And probably will be for life
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And the Waitress is practicing politics
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As the businessmen slowly get stoned
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Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness,
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But it's better than drinking a - lone
Break:
Am - Am/G - D7/F# - Am/F - G - 2x
Am - Am/G - D7/F# - G - G/F - C/Ei - G/D
Chorus:
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Sing us a song, you're the piano man
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Sing us a song to - night
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'Cause we're all in the mood for a melody
F G7sus4 C
And you've got us feeling all - right
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F/C - G/C - F/C - C - F/C - G/C - F/C
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It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
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And the manager gives me a smile
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'Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
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To for - get about life for a while
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And the piano sounds like a carnival
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And the microphone smells like a beer
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And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
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And say, " Man, what are you doin' here?"
Am Am/G D7/F# Am/F - G -
Oh, Laa la laa litty daah,
Am Am/G D7/F# G G/F - C/Ei - G/D
La laa litty daa daah da dum
Chorus:
C G/B F/A C/G
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
F C/E D7 G
Sing us a song to - night
C G/B F/A C/G
'Cause we're all in the mood for a melody
F G7sus4 C
And you've got us feeling all - right
C - G/B - F/A - C/G - F - G7sus4 - C - (slow down)
F/C - G/C - F/C - C - F/C - G/C - F/C - C //
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F/A x03211
C/G 332010
F 133211
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D7 xx0212
G 320003
G7sus4 330011
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