Funny Ways keyboard

Funny Ways

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Artist: Gentle Giant
Song: Funny ways
Album: Gentle Giant
Tabbed by: DJ
2nd Sept 2014

Emadd9  = 024000    F        = 133211    F5    = x 8 10 10 x x
Fmaj7+11= 133200    Em       = 022000    C5    = x 3 5 5 x x
Cmaj7   = x35000    Eb       = xx5343    D5    = x 5 7 7 x x
Asus2   = x02200    Bb(addb9)= x13431    Eb5   = x 6 8 8 x x
D       = xx0232    Bm       = x24432    E5    = x 7 9 9 0 0
Gm      = 355333    Bm/A     = x04432    A     = x02220
Bb      = x13331    Gm7/F    = xx3333    C     = x32010
Dm      = xx0231

Riff in Verses 2 and 4:
      Eb          Bb
e |---3-----------1-------|
B |---4--------1--3-------|
G |---3---2-h3----3-------|
D |---5-----------3--3----|
A |---------------1-------|
E |-----------------------|

Gary Green played a 12 string acoustic on this track,
tuned down a full tone, and then adding a capo at the 2nd fret
to bring it back to standard tuning. Presumably having it in a
lower tuning helped take extra pressure of the guitar neck,
maybe he was using heavier gauge strings.

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Intro
    Emadd9          Fmaj7+11 Cmaj7  Asus2
||:  /   /   /   /  |   /      /     /     /  :||x2


Verse 1
Emadd9                    Asus2
 Sorry to have been ...so much of a bore,
            D               Cmaj7             Emadd9
But, in my own funny way, I find I learn much more,
Emadd9                   Asus2
   I realise ...what you think from your eyes,
              D                Cmaj7             Emadd9
But, in your own funny ways, I find I learn much more!


Verse 2
   Gm  Bb  Dm  F  Em    Dm             Gm
|  /   /   /   /__/  |  My ways are strange,

   Gm  Bb  Dm  F  Em    Dm             Eb    Bb
|  /   /   /   /__/  | They'll never change,

      Eb   Bb           Eb    Bb   Bb(addb9)
They stay   ...strange ways!


Verse 3
  Em9
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

Emadd9                    Asus2
 Sorry to 'ave been ...so close from the start,
          D                   Cmaj7                 Emadd9
But, for all that I cared, we could've been miles a - part,
Emadd9                 Asus2
   I understood ...that you never would...
             D            Cmaj7        Emadd9
...Under - stand a way of life I never could!


Verse 4
   Gm  Bb  Dm  F  Em    Dm             Gm
|  /   /   /   /__/  |  My ways are strange,

   Gm  Bb  Dm  F  Em    Dm             Eb    Bb
|  /   /   /   /__/  | They'll never change,

      Eb    Bb          Eb     Bb
They stay,     strange ways!


Piano riff
     D        Bm  Bm/A   D        Bm   Bm/A
||:  /__/  /__/  /  / |  /__/  /__/  /  / :||x2
     ^  ^     ^     ^    ^  ^    ^      ^

Bridge
      D                  Bm         Bm/A 
||:  Go your own way, or wait ...for me! :|| x4


Organ break
   Gm7/F      Em       Gm7/F      Em
||:  /__/  /__/  /  / |  /__/  /__/  /  / :||x2
     ^  ^     ^          ^  ^    ^

Brass break
     F5 C5    D5         F5 C5    Eb5
||:  /__/  /__/  /  / |  /__/  /__/  /  / :||x4
     ^  ^     ^          ^  ^     ^

  Eb5    E5
|  /  /  /  / |
   ^     ^

Guitar solo
   Em            A             D     C       Em
|  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |

   Em            A             D     C      Emadd9
|  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |


Verse 5
  Emadd9          Emadd9                   Asus2
|  /  /  /  /  |   And so you see ...what happened to me,
           D                    Cmaj7              Emadd9
Since the time when I judged my life in nights and days,
Emadd9                   Asus2
   I realised ...that my life was lies,
        D                  Cmaj7        Emadd9
So you see what I mean with all my funny ways!


Verse 6
Emadd9 Then no chords
 Sorry to have been ...so much of a bore,
But, in my own funny ways, I find I learn much more!


Coda
     Emadd9        Emadd9        Emadd9            Emadd9
Funny ways,   funny ways,   funny ways, funny ways------!

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In live versions Garry Green uses this chord sequence as the intro
and also during Kerry Minnear's vibraphone solo...

    Emadd9        Cmaj7          C#m7b5        Cmaj7
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / :|| Repeat

Emadd9 = 024000
Cmaj7  = x35000
C#m7b5 = x45000

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