Biography:
Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter (along with partner Walter Becker) of Steely Dan.
Fagen is known for his use of complex jazz harmonies, elaborate arrangements, and exacting attention to detail and launched his successful, if sporadic solo career in 1982.
Fagen penned a group of songs based on his experiences as a young man in 1950's America
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Other songs:
- Brite Nightgown
- Centurys End
- Countermoon
- Florida Room
- Good Stuff
- Goodbye Look
- Great Pagoda Of Funn
- Green Flower Street
- H Gang
- I
- Igy
- Im Not The Same Without You
- Mary Shut The Garden Door
- Maxine
- Memorabilia
- Miss Marlene
- Morph The Cat
- New Frontier
- On The Dunes
- Out Of The Ghetto
- Planet Drhonda
- Ruby Baby
- Security Joan
- Slinky Thing
- Snowbound
- Springtime
- Teahouse On The Tracks
- The New Breed
- The Night Belongs To Mona
- The Nightfly
- The Weather In My Head
- Tomorrows Girls
- Trans
- True Companion
- Walk Between The Raindrops
- What I Do
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SNOWBOUND
transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
[email protected]
*please note*
The quick Bb/C before the Abmaj9 thoroughout the verses is
actually A Bbmaj7/C. A Bb/C works fine here- A Bbmaj7/C will
be truer to the original recording.
|F/C Bb |Eb6 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb|
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
F/A F13-9 Gm7
At Nervous Time
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
We roll down town
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
We've got scenes to crash
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
We're gonna trick and trash
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7 Ebm7sus4
We're gonna find some fun
Gm7
We hit the street
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
With vi sors down With our thermasuits
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
Sealed up tight
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
We can beat the freeze
Gb11 Bmaj7
And get saved to night
B/A Ebsus4/Ab
Let's stop off at the Metroplex
B/A Gb/Ab
That little dancer's got some style
B13 D/F Emaj13
She's the one I'll be waiting for
E/F#
At the stage door
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Abmaj7/Bb F/A
Into a city of lights
F13-9 Gm7
We take the tube
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
To Club Hi Ho
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
It's a bout deadspace
Dbm13
It's a marketplace
Dbm7 Ebm7
And a party house too
Gm7
Something new
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
From Char lie Tokyo
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
It's a kind of pyramid
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
With a human heart
Gb11 Bmaj7
Beating in an ion grid
B/A
A critic grabs us
Abm9
And says without a smile
B/A Gb/Ab
The work seduces us with light
B13 D/F Emaj13
Eviva laughs and we step out
E/F#
Into the blue-white night
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
guitar ad lib:
|Bb7sus4/Eb |G7+9+5/Eb |Bb7sus4/Eb |Eb9 |
woodwinds:
|Cmaj9 |Bb11 |Ebm9 F F7|Gm7 |
|F#m7 Ab/B |Em7 A7sus4/E Em7| |Em13 | |
2/4
|Bm9 | |F#m7 Ab/B |Em7 A7sus4/E Em7|
| |Em13 |Dmaj7 | |
5/4
G9 D7
We sail our icecats on the frozen river
Bb9 F/Eb E/D C9
Some loser fires off a flare, a men
C9 Bm7
For seven seconds it's like Christmas day
Db/B Gmaj9 F#7+9 Bm9
And then it's dark a gain
D9 Gmaj7 G/A E/F# Abmaj7/Bb
Ohh And then it's dark again
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
Turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 |Abmaj9 ...........
transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
[email protected]
*please note*
The quick Bb/C before the Abmaj9 thoroughout the verses is
actually A Bbmaj7/C. A Bb/C works fine here- A Bbmaj7/C will
be truer to the original recording.
|F/C Bb |Eb6 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb|
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
F/A F13-9 Gm7
At Nervous Time
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
We roll down town
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
We've got scenes to crash
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
We're gonna trick and trash
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7 Ebm7sus4
We're gonna find some fun
Gm7
We hit the street
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
With vi sors down With our thermasuits
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
Sealed up tight
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
We can beat the freeze
Gb11 Bmaj7
And get saved to night
B/A Ebsus4/Ab
Let's stop off at the Metroplex
B/A Gb/Ab
That little dancer's got some style
B13 D/F Emaj13
She's the one I'll be waiting for
E/F#
At the stage door
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Abmaj7/Bb F/A
Into a city of lights
F13-9 Gm7
We take the tube
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
To Club Hi Ho
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
It's a bout deadspace
Dbm13
It's a marketplace
Dbm7 Ebm7
And a party house too
Gm7
Something new
Ebm7 F/Ab Dbm7
From Char lie Tokyo
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
It's a kind of pyramid
Gb7sus4/Db Dbm7
With a human heart
Gb11 Bmaj7
Beating in an ion grid
B/A
A critic grabs us
Abm9
And says without a smile
B/A Gb/Ab
The work seduces us with light
B13 D/F Emaj13
Eviva laughs and we step out
E/F#
Into the blue-white night
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
guitar ad lib:
|Bb7sus4/Eb |G7+9+5/Eb |Bb7sus4/Eb |Eb9 |
woodwinds:
|Cmaj9 |Bb11 |Ebm9 F F7|Gm7 |
|F#m7 Ab/B |Em7 A7sus4/E Em7| |Em13 | |
2/4
|Bm9 | |F#m7 Ab/B |Em7 A7sus4/E Em7|
| |Em13 |Dmaj7 | |
5/4
G9 D7
We sail our icecats on the frozen river
Bb9 F/Eb E/D C9
Some loser fires off a flare, a men
C9 Bm7
For seven seconds it's like Christmas day
Db/B Gmaj9 F#7+9 Bm9
And then it's dark a gain
D9 Gmaj7 G/A E/F# Abmaj7/Bb
Ohh And then it's dark again
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
We're gonna turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
Ebmaj9
Snowbound
Cm7
Let's sleep in today
Bb/C Abmaj9
Wake me up
Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb
When the wolves come out to play
Ebmaj9
Heat up
Cm7
These white nights
Bb/C Abmaj9
Turn this town
Fm7 Abmaj7/Bb
Into a city of lights
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7 Fm7/Bb G/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7 |Abmaj9 ...........
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