Archive:2013 VOC Songbook

Beta Version

[beta version]

notes on current version

CA = Clemens Adolphs' comments.

other notes: put chords in all verses
CA: I suggest putting chords in all verses when the timing might be difficult (cf. American Pie) but skip it for straight forward songs (Yellow Submarine).

• 5 days in may - OUT probably not, easy but boring. CA: Chords correct. Indead a bit boring. Will leave it for now but can scrap it later.
• adia - beautiful but very high to sing, correct chords easy to play, can play without capo. CA: Scrap it! Too hard to sing imho and NOT easy to play.
• all i really want - OUT CA: Agreed
• American Pie CA: Corrected the chord placement and song structure. Matches up with the 'official' recording off youtube.
• American Women - get rid of the stupid stuff at beg? Lenny version? Lenny version has lots of instrumental stuff w/o chords. Not so sure.
• Barrett's Privateers - chords in all verses makes the timing easier.
• Black boys on Mopeds - S is not a chord, chords may be to late. This is really sad and slow. But requested... CA: Fixed chords, made up chords where they were missing. Fits all together.
• blister in the sun - fine CA: 2nd verse chords were misplaced a bit. Corrected now. A bit silly :D
• blowing in in the wind - nice and easy. CA: I remember the lyrics as "Yes 'n" instead of "Yes and"
• bohemian - do we need the chords? CA: As much as I like this song, I think it's never going to be played properly in a hut setting (lack of a piano, and someone would have to learn the actual instrumental parts). It's just in there for the fun of people singing it terribly wrong and having a good time with it, so let's just go with the lyrics.

• both sides now - OUT - there are two choruses with different lyrics (life instead of clouds) would need someone who REALLY knows this song - hard to sign CA: Agreed.
• boxer- need hint for bridge and repeated chorus CA: Added those. Chords sound alright when I play them alongside the original audio clip (transposed down by 1/2).
• brown eyed girl - check chords before chorus? what do these mean, solo guitar part? CA: Chords are okay now and should be in the right spots. Mostly a good song due to the easy refrain. :)

• Build me up - another build me up in the second to last line of the chorus CA Checked, moved some stuff around. Nice now.
• California dreamin' - CA: Did this get axed? Wasn't in the wiki. Chords are okay and although the original version uses a capo, it's totally doable without. It's fun to sing. I made the chords of the instrumental break explicit since the old description was quite confusing
• Cant help falling in love with you - there is another chorus and last verse (minus last line) PLAY FASTER. CA Corrected lines. Chords okay. Easy.
• Cat came back - uh? not sure what the hell this is? CA Unless someone else wants to bother with it, I'd say out.
• cats in the cradle - recheck chords Annika thinks they are wrong(is this a simple version?) CA Chords correct but in wrong spots. Simple version indeed without the finger-picking. Now matches the Ugly Kid Joe youtube video (although his guitar is tuned down by 1/2).
• Cecilia - CA Wasn't in the Wiki but in the songbook. Fun and easy. Old version had capo on 4th, which makes it suck if you don't have a capo. My version has still easy chords and capo, but capo on 2nd isn't THAT crucial for singers.
• DARK Angel - OUT - too slow too boring. CA Agreed
• Dont think twince its alright - OUT might be very hard to sing. probably out CA Agreed
• Down on the Corner - CA Personally I find it a bit boring but I have seen people play it with great enthusiasm. Chords seem solid to me.
• duct tape - impossible to sing but hiralious - CA Unless someone speaks up in favor, I won't put it in for now.
• dust in the wind - should copy older version
• el condor pasa - wrong text in the beg, or different version? need to add chords everywhere

• faith - very hard to sing... a bit to fast and unpredicable. maybe no guitar? remove solo
• father and sons - remove the background lines (above the normal lyrics)

• folson prison blues - check shords, fix spacing to fit with pauses in the first verson.
• free fallin - check vs the old version

• from hank to hendrix - unknown... OUT

• gambler - check the chords, note to repeat the chorus at the end three times
• good day sunshine - OUT take it or leave it. easy to sing, but no known.
• Hair - OUT
• Have you seen the rain - place F slightly before the "I" in chorus b/c chord change is earlier
• heart of gold - needs a C at the beg of the last line in the first verse.

• Help - need to repeat the A at the beg of the verse, better key than the old.

• Here comes the Pow - needs chords
• Here comes the Sun (should come first) - write out 'sun sun sun' part, put non-capo chords....
• hey Jude - needs the better, better, better, get ride of F in 'take a sad song'
• home for a rest - need C over drunk and Home, missing line 'kept the shine on the bar', put the chords for the bridge and the take me home!

• hotel california- capitalization? repeats in the chorus, what happens at the end...? lyrics in th chorus -> find 'it' here
• house of the rising sun - passing chords needs Am first, typo last verse, iknow. check the D at the end...

delete Well in well, ive got one foot, delete all the pick-up wells

• i am a rock - OUT take it or leave it, seems hard to sing with out a longer chorus.

• i wont back down- OUT - meh, C chord is floating in the first verse, chorus is wrong i think, easy enough to play, but could be axed
• I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meatloaf - original song to the I would do anything to ski
• i would do anything to ski - needs chords... there are extra lines in one verse, marked in the pdf.
• ice cream - OUT
• I want to be - fine
• Into the great wide open - OUT
• Ionic - OUT not good for singing
• It aint me babe - probably out
• The Joker - i guess keep

• Knocking on heavens door - lyrics in the first verse 'for me to see'
• Lady in red - OUT - nobody likes it
• leave on a jet - move D over 'go' in the chorus and at the end. Others might be in the wrong places? delete last line?

• like a rolling stone - didnt look at this one
• living on a prayer -

• Lost together - its slow and i dont think anyone will sing
• Lucy in the sky - seems to be fine
• mary janes last dance - check the E, fix the words in the chours. easy to sing along with someone
• maxwells silver hammer - OUT? never heard any one sing this...(Ben, Frances and Sandra sing it)
• me and bobby macgee - OUT. nobody knows and it never gets song. maybe leave it and remove the
• mrs robinson - is there a version without a capo? eaven needs an H
• my girl - OUT this is actually more difficult to sing than we think. get rid of the chord change, need to repatition in the chorus. lyrics - bees instead of birds.
• new york - doesnt really need guitar
• no woman no cry - maybe not repeat all the chorus's
• ob-la-di - fix lyrics in the chorus - lalalala life goes one. maybe there is a better key for this.
• one tin soldier - all chords are out of place with the lyrics in the chorus.
• the outdoor type - version without capo?
• piano man - non capo version (seems to be fine without?), capilazation in the lyrics
• pocahantas - OUT
• pretty women - fine
• Proud Mary - move 'on a river boat queen' up to previous line. cut the 'intro'
• revolution - meh... I have never heard anyone sing this song. what are the stars next to the chords.
• ring of fire -
• rocking in the free world - OUT
• say it aint so- OUT
• sesame street - OUT
• sexual healing - not really a songbook song... no guitar
• sgt lonely hearts club band - out, there are better beattles songs than this
• shelter from the strom - OUT mostly talking and to fast to sing with
• slip sliding - OUT
• sound of silence - find non capo version, i like the old version, need to make sure you note the last funky line (no Am)
• stand by me - F minor sharp! put chords on each line,
• summer time - probably to hard to sing.

songs to add

• Stan Rogers - Maid on the shore
• Caviar song from 1975 song book
• Mrs Robinson?
• lemon tree
• last S pirate - arrogant worms
• here it goes it again - ok go
• island in the sun weezer
• halelueah - leonard cohen
• dont you cry - guns and roses
• mombo #5
• all my loving - beatles
• lion sleeps tonight - with guitar
• far, far away
• http://www.lyricsmania.com/mahna_mahna_lyrics_muppets_the.html
• zombie
• freshman - verve pipe
• farewell to nova scotia
• summer of 69
• take me home, country roads
• live forever - oasis
• wonderwall - oasis