Billy Joel

Piano Man (ver. 2)

Billy Joel

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Piano Man (ver. 2)

Written by Billy Joel

	  		       C    Em         Am     C 
it's nine o'clock on a Saturday 
 
        F   C/E         D7 G 
the regular crowd shuffles in 
 
            C        Em     Am     C/G  
There's an old man  sitting next to me 
 
       F           G11       C     F/C   Cmaj7  G11 
Makin' love to his tonic and gin 
 
         C          Em        Am     C/G 
He says Son can you play me a memory 
 
    F          C/E         D7     G 
I'm not really sure how it goes  
 
         C             Em         Am        C/G 
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete 
 
     F        G11            C 
when I wore a younger man's clothes" 
 
 
Am       Am/G  D7/F#    F   Am  
Da da da de de da 
 
      Am/G      D7/F#   D7    G    G/F   C/E  G7/D  
da da de de             da da da 
 
C         Em/B             Am          C/G 
Sing us a song, you're the piano man, 
 
F         C/E     D7     G 
sing us a song to night  
 
           C          Em/B       Am 
Well we're all in the mood for a melody 
 
C/G  F            G11         C      F/C   Cmaj7  G11 
and you've got us feeling all right 
 
 
     C          Em       Am              C 
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine,  
 
   F          C/E        D7     G 
he gets me my drinks for free 
         C             Em        Am            C/G 
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke, 
 
            F               G11         C    F/C  Cmaj7  G11 
but there's some place that he'd rather be 
 
         C        Em            Am           C/G 
He says "Bill I believe this is killing me" 
 
     F         C/E          D7       G 
As a smile ran away from his face 
 
          C           Em         Am    C/G  
"Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star 
 
   F           G11         C 
If I could get out of this place" 
 
{c:Chorus} 
 
    C         Em          Am         C 
Now Paul is a real estate novelist 
 
    F          C/E       D7      G 
who never had time for a wife 
 
         C            Em          Am           C/G   
And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy, 
 
    F        G11         C      F/C   Cmaj7  G11 
and probably will be for life 
 
        C           Em         Am 
And the waitress is practicing politics, 
 
C/G    F            C/E       D7      G 
as the businessmen slowly get stoned  
 
            C         Em               Am   C/G 
Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness, 
 
         F           G11       C 
but it's better than drinking alone 
 
 
       C           Em           Am       C 
It's a pretty good crowd for a saturday  
 
        F       C/E        D7      G 
and the manager gives me a smile 
 
          C               Em                   Am        C/G 
`Cause he knows that it's me that they've been coming to see 
 
      F         G11        C      F/C    Cmaj7   G11 
To forget about life for a while 
 
        C     Em           Am      C/G 
And the piano sounds like a carnival 
 
        F          C/G           D7    G 
and the microphone smells like a beer  
 
         C          Em          Am          C/G 
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar 
 
         F            G11       C 
and say "Man what are you doing here ? 
 

		  

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