WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Gentle Giant - Funny Ways Chords | Version #1
* 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, live he is
tuned down a full tone, and then a capo added at the 2nd fret
to bring it back to standard tuning. Presumably having it in a
lower tuning helped take pressure of the guitar neck, or maybe
for other songs in a live set using the acoustic he was in a
dropped tuning of DGCFAD and just took the capo off for those...?
[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 have 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 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 in the intro,
and also during Kerry Minnear's vibraphone solo...
Emadd9 Cmaj7 C#m7b5 Cmaj7
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| [Repeat]
Emadd9 = 024000 Cmaj7 = x35000 C#m7b5 = x45000