Biography:
Janis Ian (b. 1951) is a U.S. songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Her singing career was at its height in the 1960s and 1970s, and she has continued recording into the twenty-first century. In 1975 Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".
Born Janis Eddy Fink on 7th April 1951 to a Jewish family in New York City, she was primarily raised in New Jersey, initially on a farm, and attended East Orange High School and the New York City High School of Music & Art.
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Song: Tea and sympathy (LIVE version)
Artist: Janis Ian
Composer: Janis Ian
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
9th Dec 2012
NOTE:
This tab is based on the live 1976 'Old Grey Whistle Test' performance,
which differs in the intro and coda from the original album version.
Below is a link to the live video, the song starts at [0:44]:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-EMi87--Y
The performance has a simpler intro and coda from the album version.
During the coda Janis plays an arpeggio on a Bb shape that slides up
two frets to a C shape, but she doesn't play the top string on either.
She sings a G against the Bb which adds the 6th, so you can choose to
play a Bb, or the fuller Bb6 shape adding the top string in.
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the performance key of A)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G = 320003 B7 = x21202 Em7 = 022030
C/G = 3x2013 Em = xx2000 Bm = x24432
Am7 = x02010 Em7/D = xx0000 D9/F# = 200210
D7 = xx0212 Cmaj7 = x32000 Bb6 = x13333 or Bb = x1333x
D/F# = 20023x A7 = x02020 C = x3555x
Emadd9 = 024000
An alternative voicing for the progression in the last line of the verses:
G = xx5433 D/F# = xx4232 Em = xx2000 Em7/D = xx0000 Cmaj7 = x32000
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
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[Intro]
G C/G G C/G G C/G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
G Am7 D7 G D/F#
I don't want to ride... the milk train any - more,
Emadd9 Am7 B7 Em Em7/D
I'll go to bed at nine, and waken with the dawn,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Emadd9
And lunch at half past noon, ...dinner prompt at five,
G D/F# Em Em7/D Cmaj7
The comfort of a few old friends, long passed their prime!
[Verse 2]
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days long gone,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
Let's drink a toast to those who most be - lieve in what they've won,
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
G D/F# Em Em7/D D7 G C/G G C/G
I'll not write a - nother line, for my true love is gone!
[Verse 3]
G Am7 D7 G D/F#
And when the guests have done, I'll tidy up the room,
Emadd9 Am7 B7 Em Em7/D
I'll turn the covers down, and gazing at the moon,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Emadd9
I'll pray to go quite mad, ...and live in long a - go,
G D/F# Em Em7/D Cmaj7
When you and I were one, so very long ago!
[Verse 4]
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days long gone,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
Let's drink a toast to those who most be - lieve in what they've won,
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
G D/F# Em Cmaj7 D7 G C/G G C/G
I'll not write a - nother line, for my true love is gone!
[Verse 5]
G Am7 D7 G D/F#
And when I have no dreams to give you any - more,
Emadd9 Am7 B7 Em Em7/D
I'll light a blazing fire, and wait within the door,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
And throw my life a - way, 'I wonder why!' they all will say,
Am7 D9/F# G
Now I lay me down to sleep for - ever, and a day!
[Verse 6]
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days are dead,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
Let's drink a toast to those who best sur - vived the life they've lead,
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning, ...so build your fires high,
G D/F# Em Cmaj7
Now I lay me down to sleep,
D7 Bb6 C G C/G G
For - ever by your side-----! | / / / / | / / / / | / ||
Artist: Janis Ian
Composer: Janis Ian
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
9th Dec 2012
NOTE:
This tab is based on the live 1976 'Old Grey Whistle Test' performance,
which differs in the intro and coda from the original album version.
Below is a link to the live video, the song starts at [0:44]:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-EMi87--Y
The performance has a simpler intro and coda from the album version.
During the coda Janis plays an arpeggio on a Bb shape that slides up
two frets to a C shape, but she doesn't play the top string on either.
She sings a G against the Bb which adds the 6th, so you can choose to
play a Bb, or the fuller Bb6 shape adding the top string in.
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the performance key of A)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G = 320003 B7 = x21202 Em7 = 022030
C/G = 3x2013 Em = xx2000 Bm = x24432
Am7 = x02010 Em7/D = xx0000 D9/F# = 200210
D7 = xx0212 Cmaj7 = x32000 Bb6 = x13333 or Bb = x1333x
D/F# = 20023x A7 = x02020 C = x3555x
Emadd9 = 024000
An alternative voicing for the progression in the last line of the verses:
G = xx5433 D/F# = xx4232 Em = xx2000 Em7/D = xx0000 Cmaj7 = x32000
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
========================================================================
[Intro]
G C/G G C/G G C/G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
G Am7 D7 G D/F#
I don't want to ride... the milk train any - more,
Emadd9 Am7 B7 Em Em7/D
I'll go to bed at nine, and waken with the dawn,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Emadd9
And lunch at half past noon, ...dinner prompt at five,
G D/F# Em Em7/D Cmaj7
The comfort of a few old friends, long passed their prime!
[Verse 2]
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days long gone,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
Let's drink a toast to those who most be - lieve in what they've won,
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
G D/F# Em Em7/D D7 G C/G G C/G
I'll not write a - nother line, for my true love is gone!
[Verse 3]
G Am7 D7 G D/F#
And when the guests have done, I'll tidy up the room,
Emadd9 Am7 B7 Em Em7/D
I'll turn the covers down, and gazing at the moon,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Emadd9
I'll pray to go quite mad, ...and live in long a - go,
G D/F# Em Em7/D Cmaj7
When you and I were one, so very long ago!
[Verse 4]
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days long gone,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
Let's drink a toast to those who most be - lieve in what they've won,
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
G D/F# Em Cmaj7 D7 G C/G G C/G
I'll not write a - nother line, for my true love is gone!
[Verse 5]
G Am7 D7 G D/F#
And when I have no dreams to give you any - more,
Emadd9 Am7 B7 Em Em7/D
I'll light a blazing fire, and wait within the door,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
And throw my life a - way, 'I wonder why!' they all will say,
Am7 D9/F# G
Now I lay me down to sleep for - ever, and a day!
[Verse 6]
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days are dead,
Cmaj7 G D/F# Em7 Bm
Let's drink a toast to those who best sur - vived the life they've lead,
Am7 A7 A7sus4 A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning, ...so build your fires high,
G D/F# Em Cmaj7
Now I lay me down to sleep,
D7 Bb6 C G C/G G
For - ever by your side-----! | / / / / | / / / / | / ||
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