Patti Smith

Accords et partitions

1959

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Listen to my story. Got two tales to tell. One of fallen glory. One of vanity. The world's roof was raging, but we were looking fine; 'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings, In Nineteen-Fifty-Nine.

After The Gold Rush

A E D B C#m

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armour coming, Sayin' something about a queen. There where peasants singin' and drummers drummin' And the archer split the tree. There was a fanfare blowin' to the sun

Aint It Strange

Bbm Am Ab G F C

[Chorus] Down in Vineland there's a clubhouse Girl in white dress boy shoot white stuff Oh don't you know that anyone can join And they come and they call and they fall on the floor

April Fool

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Come, be my April fool Come, you're the only one Come on your rusted bike Come, we'll break all the rules

Ask The Angels

D F F#m A D# C#

Ask the angels who they're calling, Go ask the angels if they're calling to thee Ask the angels while they're falling Who that person could possibly be

Because The Night

D Em C G B F

Take me now, baby, here as I am. Pull me close try and understand. Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe. Love is a banquet on which we feed. Come on now, try and understand

Beneath The Southern Cross

D G A

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Song information: the song's signature meter is 12/8. BPM is around 100. Listen to the Song for the strumming pattern and accents (first chord of the bar is louder than the Others). Mostly the pattern consists of downstrokes, but there are variations. Give Attention to the rhythm. Play the first chord of the bar fully, the other chords only the 'higher sounding' ones.

Blame It On The Sun

Am Em Bm D G C

[Chorus 1] But I'll blame it on the sun, the sun that never shined. I'll blame it on the wind and trees. I'll blame it on the time, that never was enough. I'll blame it on the tide and sea.

Blue Poles

C Em G B F D

Verse 1 Mother as I write the sun dissolves Blood life streaming cross my hand And these words, these words Hope dashed immortal hope

Break It Up

A G Em D Bm C

[Chorus] He cried, "Break it up, oh I don't understand Break it up, I can't comprehend Break it up, oh, I want to feel you Break it up, don't talk to me that way, I'm not listening"

Broken Flag

E A D F#m C#m Bm

Nodding tho the lamp's lit low, Nod for passers underground. To and fro she's darning, The land is weeping red and pale.

Changing Of The Guards

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[Verse 1] Sixteen years Sixteen banners united over the field Where the good shepherd grieves Desperate men, desperate women divided

Dancing Barefoot

Em D A C G

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She is sublimation She is the essence of thee She is concentrating on He who is chosen by she

Dead To The World

F C Dm G Am

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Verse 1 Dead to the world my body was sleeping? On my mind was nothin? at all

Death Singing

Am F E C

With a throat smooth as a lamb Yet dry as a branch not snapping He throws back his head And he does not sing a thing mournful

Distant Fingers

F# A#m C# G# D#m B

When, when will you be landing? When, when will you return? Feel, feel my heart expanding You and your alien arms

Dream Of Life

Dm Bb Cm Gm Ab Am

[Verse 1] I'm with you always, You're on my mind You´re the light to last a whole life through Each way I turn, the sense of you surrounds In every step I take, In all I do-------

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

G F#m D Em A

Welcome to your life Aadd4/D G There's no turning back Aadd4/D G Even while we sleep

Farewell Reel

D G C Dm

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It?s been a hard time And when it rains it rains on me The sky just opens And when it rains it pours

Frederick

Dmaj7 E F# C#m7 C# C#m

Hi hello wake from thy sleep God has given your soul to keep All of the power that burns in the flame Ignites the light in a single name

Free Money

G Am F Em

Every night before I go to sleep Find a ticket, win a lottery Scoop the pearls up from the sea Cash them in and buy you all the things you need

Ghost Dance

Am G Dm

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We shall live again, we shall live. What is it children that falls from the sky ? Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye. Mana from Heaven from the most high, Food from the father, tayi, taye aye.

Gloria

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And then I hear this knockin' on my door Hear this knockin' on my door And I look up into the big tower clock And say, "oh my God here's midnight!" And my baby is walkin' through the door

Going Under

G Am F Dm Em C

[Verse 1] Sun is rising on the water, light is dancing a-gain Let's go under where the sun beams, let's go under my friend Are we sleeping, are we dreaming, are we dancing a-gain Is it heaven, crack it open, and we'll slide down its stream

Goodbye To You

D E F#m A Db F#

Those times I waited for you seemed So long ago I wanted you far too much to Ever let you go You know you never got bio beat it tudes(??)

Grateful

D Am G C

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[Verse] Ours is just another skin That simply slips away You can rise above it It will shed easily

Helpless

C G F /B /D /A

There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there.

It Takes Time

D F G

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[Verse] No equation To explain the division of the senses No sound to reflect The radiance of time

Libbies Song

G D

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If it wasn't for your piercing stare I would not be alone I would not waltz in a widow's line What was yours would not be mine

Looking For You Was I

A F#m E Bm D

[Verse 1] A Dsus2 A In the medieval night, twas love's design And the sky was open like a valentine Dsus2 A Dsus2 A

Mercy Is

Dm A Gm C F

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Mercy is as mercy does Wandering the wild The stars arise watching you A breath upon a cloud

Mother Rose

B A G#m

Roses growing by my door Climbing up the vine All the thorns and pain obscured Roses shall divine Where we feel no pain And the love inside Where roses climb Roses shall divine Roses shall divine Holy mother

My Blakean Year

Am E Dm C

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In my blakean year I was so disposed Toward a mission yet unclear Advancing pole by pole Fortune breathed into my ear

My Madrigal

Am G F C Dm Em

(change tuning from 440 Hz to 432 Hz) DADGAD tuning [Verse 1]

Nine

D G C Am7

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A woman lay and cries At the sister of Mercy On a Sabbath day Night a nine of diamonds

One Voice

D F C G Em Bb

In the garden of consciousness In fertile mind there lies the dormant seed When blooming as charity Conscience breathes a sigh of relief Aah confessions of sleep unfolding peace

Paths That Cross

A E D F#m Bm C#m

[Verse 1] Speak to me Speak to me heart I feel a needing To bridge the clouds

Peaceable Kingdom

D G Bm A Em7

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[Verse] Yesterday I saw you standing there With your hand against the pane Looking out the window At the rain

People Have the Power

D G A Em F#m

I was dreaming in my dreaming Of an aspect bright and fair And my sleeping it was broken But my dream it lingered near In the form of shining valleys

Pissing In A River

Am C Dm F

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Pissing in a river, watching it rise Tattoo fingers shy away from me Voices voices mesmerize Voices voices beckoning sea Come come come come back come back

Privilege Set Me Free

G A D Am C E

[Verse] I see it all before me The days of love and torment The nights of rock and roll I see it all before me

Pumping

C# B F# E D# G#

[Verse 1] Oh I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-piraling up there And oh oh into the center of my brain. And baby come, baby go and free the hurricane. Oh I go into the center of the airplane.

Redondo Beach

E B F# D

Down by the ocean it was so dismal I was just standing with shock on my face The hearse pulled away, and the girl that had died, it was you You'll never return into my arms cause you were gone gone Never return into my arms cause you were gone gone

Revenge

Cm Fm Ab Bb Eb C

[Verse 1] I feel upset. Let's do some celebrating Come on honey don't hesitate now Needed you. You withdrew. I was so forsaken Ah, but now the tables have turned. My move

Smells Like Teen Spirit

D C Am F

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[Verse] Load up on guns bring your friends Its fun to lose, and to pretend She's over bored And self assured Oh no, I know a dirty word

Summer Cannibals

G Am F C

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The cauldron was a bubbling, the flesh was lean And the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream They spread themselves before me an offering so sweet And they beckoned and they beckoned come on darling eat

This Is The Girl

Bb Cm Dm Eb F

This is the girl for whom all tears fall This is the girl who was having a ball Just a dark smear masking the eyes Spirited away, hurried in size

Trespasses

G C Em D Am F

[Chorus] Trespasses stretch like broken fences Winding as they may Trespasses stretch like broken fences Hope to mend them one day

We Three

Am F G Em C Bm

[Verse 1] You say you want me. I want another. Say you dream of me. Dream of your brother.

When Doves Cry

Am G E Dm F

[Verse] Dig if you will the picture, Of you and I engaged in a kiss The sweat of your body covers me Can you my darling, Can you picture this? Dig if you will a courtyard

White Rabbit

F# D# E C# A B

[Verse 1] One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall

Wing

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I was a wing In heaven blue Soared over the ocean Soared over Spain And I was free