Oh Sister by Dan Bern To play with recording tune down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) fingerings : i = index finger m = middle finger r = ring finger p = pinky t = thumb Chords ------ fingering G' 3x0003 rx---p C/G 3x2013 rxm-ip D' 5x4035 rxm-ip (just the C/G slid up two frets) G 320002 D/F# 2x0232 Em 022000 C x32010 D xx0232 Amin x02210 Am7/G 3x2010 B7 x21202 I don't know the exact chord names for these. Eb? 66504x C shape at 4th fret D'' 55403x C shape at 3rd fret Intro G' C/G G' D' |--------|------------|------------|--------| |-----0--|-0-h-1---0--|-----0-h-1--|-1-/-3--| |-----0--|-0-------0--|-----0------|-0------| |-----0--|-0-h-2---0--|-----0-h-2--|-2-/-4--| |--------|------------|------------|--------| |-3------|------------|-3----------|--------| Verse G They say you taught me how to talk. D/F# Bet you wish you'd taught me how to stop. Emin C You're far away now. D I wish I could take a walk with you someplace. C You explained me to our parents. G Emin English wasn't their first language. Amin Am7/G They spoke German. Hated Germans. D D/F# Confusing times. (Chorus) G C/G G Oh Sister. C Down midwest backseat bumpy streets G Emin you sang my Beatles songs with me. Amin Am7/G And I sang your Broadway melodies. D D/F# Bad Harmony. C And where would Willie Mays have been G Emin without Jackie Robinson? Amin Am7/G And who can say what i'd been Dsus4 D D/F# |G C/G - -|- - - G|- - C/G G|D - - -| without you to lead the way. (Verse) After I showed some guys I could drink you picked me off the lawn, I think, and led me to the kitchen sink where I got rid of it. Some nights I laid awake in awe as squinting through the dark I saw you peeling off your teenage bra the door slightly ajar (Chorus) Oh Sister You lived just across the hall for eighteen summers, eighteen falls until you went away to that weird college in wisconsin. And where would Willie Mays have been without Jackie Robinson? And who can say what I'd been without you to lead the way. (Bridge) Emin B7 C G Eb? Trust yourself and you can do anything D'' this I give to you. (Verse) May your heart purr like a bumblebee may all your backyards have a tree may you always be hiv negative I hope you meet some nice guy who treats women better than I do I don't even car if he's a Jew or not. (Chorus) Oh Sister. I remember in the temple hall at our dear Father's funeral you sang like a nightingale one of his own songs and where would Willie Mays have been without Jackie Robinson? and who can say what I'd been without you to lead the way. Oh Sister by Dan Bern To play with recording tune down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) fingerings : i = index finger m = middle finger r = ring finger p = pinky t = thumb Chords
------ fingering G' 3x0003 rx---p C/G 3x2013 rxm-ip D' 5x4035 rxm-ip (just the C/G slid up two frets) G 320002 D/F# 2x0232 Em 022000 C x32010 D xx0232 Amin x02210 Am7/G 3x2010 B7 x21202 I don't know the exact chord names for these. Eb? 66504x C shape at 4th fret D'' 55403x C shape at 3rd fret Intro G' C/G G' D' |--------|------------|------------|--------| |-----0--|-0-h-1---0--|-----0-h-1--|-1-/-3--| |-----0--|-0-------0--|-----0------|-0------| |-----0--|-0-h-2---0--|-----0-h-2--|-2-/-4--| |--------|------------|------------|--------| |-3------|------------|-3----------|--------| Verse G They say you taught me how to talk. D/F# Bet you wish you'd taught me how to stop. Emin C You're far away now. D I wish I could take a walk with you someplace. C You explained me to our parents. G Emin English wasn't their first language. Amin Am7/G They spoke German. Hated Germans. D D/F# Confusing times. (Chorus) G C/G G Oh Sister. C Down midwest backseat bumpy streets G Emin you sang my Beatles songs with me. Amin Am7/G And I sang your Broadway melodies. D D/F# Bad Harmony. C And where would Willie Mays have been G Emin without Jackie Robinson? Amin Am7/G And who can say what i'd been Dsus4 D D/F# |G C/G - -|- - - G|- - C/G G|D - - -| without you to lead the way. (Verse) After I showed some guys I could drink you picked me off the lawn, I think, and led me to the kitchen sink where I got rid of it. Some nights I laid awake in awe as squinting through the dark I saw you peeling off your teenage bra the door slightly ajar (Chorus) Oh Sister You lived just across the hall for eighteen summers, eighteen falls until you went away to that weird college in wisconsin. And where would Willie Mays have been without Jackie Robinson? And who can say what I'd been without you to lead the way. (Bridge) Emin B7 C G Eb? Trust yourself and you can do anything D'' this I give to you. (Verse) May your heart purr like a bumblebee may all your backyards have a tree may you always be hiv negative I hope you meet some nice guy who treats women better than I do I don't even car if he's a Jew or not. (Chorus) Oh Sister. I remember in the temple hall at our dear Father's funeral you sang like a nightingale one of his own songs and where would Willie Mays have been without Jackie Robinson? and who can say what I'd been without you to lead the way.