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Squirrel Nut Zippers

Good Enough For Granddad

by Squirrel Nut Zippers
Squirrel Nut Zippers

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Squirrel Nut Zippers are a big band/jazz/alternative rock band which formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1993. They split in 2000 and reunited in 2007. They consist of Jim Mathus (vocals, guitar, trombone), Katharine Whalen (banjo, ukulele, vocals), Stuart Cole (bass), Je Widenhouse (cornet), Will Dawson (saxophone), Henry Westmoreland (saxophone) and Chris Phillips (drums). Former members of the band include Ken Mosher (guitar, saxophone), Stacy Guess (trumpet) and Tom Maxwell (guitar, saxophone, clarinet)

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Casey Connor [email protected]
Subject: s/squirrel_nut_zippers/good_enough_for_granddad.crd

Good Enough For Granddad
the Squirrel Nut Zippers

James Malthus and Don Raleigh
Transcription by [email protected]
>From the album "The Inevitable"

Chords from left->right = bass string->"soprano" string :-)

466444: G#m/G#
335353: C7/G
224242: B7/F#
x65640: Eb7
464544: G#7
x46464: C#7
242322: F#7
x24242: B7
x21202: alternate B7
020102: E7add9
x02022: A7add6
x2102x: B9aug5
076750: E7
020122: "E7maj7min7add9" :-)
076770: E7add9*
575655: A7
686766: A#7
797877: B7*
x02022: A7add6

"Intro" part (repeat four times, bass last two times)

| E7 G#m/G# | C7/G B7/F# | (bassline notes, double up: E G# G F#)

Play twice: (call it "Verse A" except for the Intro at the end)

| E7 | Eb7 | G#7 | G#7 | C#7 | F#7 B7 | Intro Once |

Play Once: (call it "Verse B")

| E7add9 | E7add9 | A7add6 | A7add6 | F#(7?) | F#(7?) | B7 | B7 |
^^^^^^
(doubled bass notes B C# D D# |
Verse A again:

| E7 | Eb7 | G#7 | G#7 | C#7 | F#7 B7 | Intro Twice |

Verse A twice with singing:

|E7 |Eb7 |G#7 | |
If it's good enough for granddad it's good enough for me

|C#7 |F#7 B7 |
Way it was that's the way it's got to be

|E7 |Eb7
Told me all about the good times that he had

|G#7 | |C#7 |F#7 B7 |
Even when the times were sad ... was good enough for granddad.

"Intro once", then

|E7add9 | |A7add6 |
Been to all kinds of places ... been to every old foreign land

|F#7 | |B7 | |
Ain't a man alive sure can jive better than granddad can

|E7 |Eb7 |G#7 | |C#7
All the good times that he had they were good enough for granddad,

|F#7 B7 |
they're good enough for me

(horn solo, Verse A under it, one "intro" at end)

Play Verse B for this:

Been to all kinds of places ... been to every old foreign land
Ain't a man alive sure can jive better than granddad can

Play Verse A:

All the good times that he had even when the times was sad
they was good enough for granddad.

Bridge:

| A7 | A#7 | B7* | B7* | F#7 | F#7 | B9aug5 | B9aug5 |
(yeah dad!)

Verse A:

All the good times that he had they were good enough for granddad
they're good enough for me

Play Intro 3 times, and then the ending which is something like

---2-3-4---------- ---2-3-4-----------|
------------------ -------------------|
---2-3-4---1-2-3-4 ---2-3-4-----------|
------------------ OR: -------------------|
------------------ -------------0-1-2-|
------------------ -----------4-------|

Then the ending strum which is something like Emaj7min7add9 or simply E7add9.




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