April come she will is a song written by Paul Simon.

Utilizing the changing seasons as a metaphor for the capriciousness of a girl, “April Come She Will” was used very effectively in the film The Graduate and its soundtrack. Written in England in 1964 following a brief affair that Paul Simon had during his stay there, the lyrics were inspired by a nursery rhyme that the girl in question recited.

The changing seasons is merely a metaphor for the love affair he had in England and describes the different stages it went through until it ended.

P.S. This is the original nursery rhyme:

The cuckoo comes in April
She sings her song in May
In June she changes her tune
In July she prepares to fly
In August go she must.

(http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=102906)

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From: ihateuw@u.washington.edu (David Wong)
Subject: TAB: April Come She Will (Simon & Garfunkel)

	Here's the TAB for Simon & Garfukel's "April Come She Will".  Play the
section between the double bars and "o"s three times through, these marks are
supposed to look like the symbol to repeat.  However, when you get to the final
four measures the third time, skip the ones marked "\\1,2\" and continue on to
"\\3\".   To match the recording, try using a capo at the first or second
fret, I can't recall which.  The chord shapes are all actually fairly basic,
use:
	G/D (xx0787), G6/D (xx0780), D (xx0775), G (3x0003), C/G (3x2013), Am
(x02210), Emadd4/G (3x220x), Fmaj7 (1x221x) (for this one use either your thumb
or barre an Am shaped chord to get the bottom note), Em (022000), C (x3201x)
and Dadd4 (x5403x).
					-Dave

      G/D         G6/D      G/D        G6/D      G/D         G6/D
e-----7---------|-0-------|-7---------|0-------|-7---------|-0-------|
B--T------8-----|-----8---|-----8-----|----8---|-----8-----|-----8---|
G--A-----7--7---|---7---7-|----7---7--|--7---7-|----7--7---|---7---0-|
D--B--0---0---0-|-0---0---|-0---0---0-|0---0---|-0---0---0-|-0---0---|
A---------------|---------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|
E---------------|---------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|
      D             G            C/G G                C/G G
e-----5---------||-------3-----|---------|---3------|---------|------3------|
B--T------7-----||o------------|-1---0---|-------0--|-1---0---|-------------|
G--A-----7---0--||----------0--|---0---0-|-----0--0-|---0---0-|---------0---|
D--B--0---0---0-||-----0-----0-|-2---0---|------0---|-2---0---|----0------0-|
A---------------||o------------|---------|----------|---------|-------------|
E---------------|| -3----------|---------|-3--------|---------|-3-----------|
                                                               A--
          C/G   G             C/G G                 C/G G     Am
e-----3-------|------3------|---------|----3------|---------|-----------------|
B--T------1---|-------------|-1---0---|--------0--|-1---0---|-1--------1------|
G--A----0---0-|---------0---|---0---0-|------0--0-|---0---0-|------2----------|
D--B------2---|----0------0-|-2---0---|-------0---|-2---0---|-----2-------2---|
A-------------|-------------|---------|-----------|---------|-0-------0-------|
E-----3-------|-3-----------|---------|-3---------|---------|-----------------|
     pril                        come she will                  when steams are

      Emadd4/G     Fmaj7        Em                        C
e----------------|------------|------------|-0----------|------------|
B--T--0-------0--|-1------1---|-0------0---|--------0---|-1------1---|
G--A-------2-----|------2-----|------0-----|------0-----|------0-----|
D--B------2----2-|-----2----2-|-----2----0-|-----2----0-|-----2----2-|
A----------------|------------|------------|------------|-3-----3----|
E-----3-----3----|-1-----1----|-0-----0----|-0-----0----|------------|
     ripe and        swelled with rain-                  May
      Dadd4         G                  Em
e-----------------|------------------|------------------|-0----------------|
B--T--3------3----|------------------|------------0-----|------------0-----|
G--A-------0----0-|--------0---------|--------0---------|--------0---------|
D--B------4---4---|-----0------------|-----2--------2---|-----2--------2---|
A-----5-----5-----|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E-----------------|-3--------3---2---|-0--------0-------|-0--------0-------|
           she will          stay-
                                        \\1,2\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
      Am             Em                 Am             Em
e------------------|------------------|--------------|------------------|
B--T--1-------1----|-0----------0-----|-1-------1----|-0----------0-----|
G--A-------2-------|--------0---------|------2-------|--------0---------|
D--B------2------2-|-----2--------2---|-----2------2-|-----2--------2---|
A-----0------0-----|------------------|-0------0-----|------------------|
E------------------|-0--------0-------|--------------|-0--------0-------|
          rest-ing   in        my-         arms    a-gain.

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\  \\3\\
                          D                               G/D
e-----0--------------- ||-2-------------|-2-------------|-7---------|-0-------|
B--T------------------o||------3--------|------3--------|-----8-----|-----8---|
G--A------------------ ||---------2-----|----2------0---|----7--7---|---7---7-|
D--B------2----------- ||-0----0----0---|-0----0--------|-0---0---0-|-0---0---|
A---------------------o||---------------|---------------|-----------|---------|
E-----0-------0---2--- ||---------------|---------------|-----------|---------|

      G/D        G6/D      G/D         G6/D      D           G
e-----7---------|0-------|-7---------|-0-------|-5---------|-3------------|
B--T------8-----|----8---|-----8-----|-----8---|-----7-----|--------------|
G--A-----7---7--|--7---7-|----7--7---|---7---0-|----7---0--|--------------|
D--B--0---0---0-|0---0---|-0---0---0-|-0---0---|-0---0---0-|--------------|
A---------------|--------|-----------|---------|-----------|--------------|
E---------------|--------|-----------|---------|-----------|-3------------|

June, she'll change her tune.
In restless walks she'll prowl the night.
July, she will fly
And give no warning to her flight.

August, die she must.
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold.
September, I'll remember
A love once new has now grown old.
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“Time in a Bottle” was a posthumous number-one hit for singer-songwriter Jim Croce, reaching the top of the charts in December 1973, three months after his death in a plane crash.

The song was originally written for Croce’s son, A.J., and appeared on his first album in 1972, You Don’t Mess Around with Jim. The following year Croce would shoot to fame with his hit single “Bad Bad Leroy Brown“, just months before the September 20 plane crash. Time in a Bottle was later used as the title for a compilation album of Croce’s love songs.

The song started receiving widespread airplay in the fall of 1973, after it was featured in an ABC TV movie, She Lives!, starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Season Hubley. (Wikipedia)

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Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce.
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Transcribed by Brian O’Flaherty.

Intro.

-5—5—5–3—3—3—-3–0–1–3–1–0———-3–2–0—-
–3—2———————————–2–3–5–5–3–2—-
———-5—4—3—3—————————————
————————————————————–
————————————————————–
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Bridge

———–3–2–0–
–2–3–5–5–3–2–
——————–
——————–
——————–
——————–

Verse 1
Dm Dm7# Dm7 Dm6
If I could save time in a bottle
Gm6 Bridge
The first thing that I’d like to do
Dm Dm7 Gm6 Dm
Is to save every day ’til eternity passes away
Gm6 Bridge
Just to spend them with you.

Verse 2

If I could make days last forever,
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then again
I would spend them with you.

Chorus
D Dmaj7
But there never seems to be enough time
D6 D G G7 Em7 A7 Bridge
To do the things you want to do once you find them.
I’ve looked around enough to know that
your the one I want to go through time with.

Verse 3

If I had a box just for wishes
and dreams that had never come true.
The box would be empty except for the memory of
how they were answered by you.

Chords

Dm xx0231
Dm7# xx0221
Dm7 xx0211
Dm6 xx0201
Gm6 xx2333
Dmaj7 xx0222
D6 xx0202
G 320003
G7 320002
Em7 022030
A7 x02223

Ending
—–1—–1—0—–1—–1—0—–1—–1—0–1—–
—3—–3—0—–3—–3—0—–3—–3—0—-3—–
-2—–2———2—–2———2—–2———-2—–
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“Annie’s Song” is a song recorded and written by singer-songwriter John Denver. It was his second number one song in the USA, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. It also went to number one in the UK, where it was Denver’s only major hit single (many of Denver’s American hits were more familiar in the UK through cover versions by other artists).

“Annie’s Song” was written as an ode to Denver’s then-wife, Annie Denver (née Martell). Denver “wrote this song in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift” to the top of Bell Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having “just skied down a very difficult run” and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.[1][2]

The song has since become a wedding standard and an expression of love for many people, due to its grand imagery and the fact it could apply to anyone (Annie is not mentioned by name in any part of the song). (Wikipedia)

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Kathleen Mary “Kathy” Chitty (born 1947) worked part-time selling tickets at the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, UK in 1964. She became the girlfriend and muse of Paul Simon when he lived in England in 1964 and 1965. She is referred to directly or indirectly in at least four of his songs.

He met Kathy Chitty on 12 April 1964 at the very first English folk club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex. She was 17, he was 22 and they fell in love. Later that year they visited the US together, touring around mainly by bus. Kathy returned to England on her own with Simon returning to her some weeks later. When he was back in London he recorded the album The Paul Simon Songbook that included “Kathy’s Song”, and had a photo of Simon and Kathy on the cover. Also included in the album was another version of “The Sound of Silence”. (Wiki)

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“The Happy Wanderer” (“Der fröhliche Wanderer” or “Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann“) is a popular song by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller written shortly after World War II. It is often mistaken for a German folk song, but it is actually an original composition. His sister Edith Möller conducted a small amateur children’s and youth choir in Schaumburg County, Northern Germany, internationally named Obernkirchen Children’s Choir, in Germany named Schaumburger Märchensänger.

In 1953, BBC Radio aired the choir’s winning performance at Llangollen International Eisteddfod, an annual arts festival in north-east Wales. The broadcast turned the cheerful encore into an instant hit. On January 22, 1954, the song entered the UK singles chart, and would stay on the chart – only a Top 12 at the time – for 26 non-consecutive weeks. With BBC Radio’s strong international influence, “The Happy Wanderer” suddenly turned up everywhere, e.g. as the winning song of the 1955 calypso road march season of the Trinidad Carnival (prompting protest that from now on, only calypsoes should be chosen over foreign music).

The amateur choir, many of whose original members were war orphans, turned into an unlikely international phenomenon in the following years. The group performed on countless international tours under the name Obernkirchen Children’s Choir, with performances on TV shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show (November 29, 1964, and December 11, 1966).

The song’s original German lyrics have been translated into several languages, and it has since become a choir classic. The English lyrics were written by Antonia Ridge. Milton DeLugg wrote a famous arrangement, and is sometimes falsely credited as the composer of the song. (wikipedia)

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Words & Music by Antonio Ridge & Friedrich Moller
Recorded by Frank Weir, 1954 (#4)

   A                                         E7
I love to go a-wandering along the mountain track,

    E7          D        Bm     D        E7     A
And as I go, I love to sing, my knapsack on my back.

Refrain:

       E7          A
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,

       E7           A     D     A     D
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

       E7           A
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,

    D       E7     A
My knapsack on my back.

I love to wander by the stream that dances in the sun;
So joyously it calls to me, 霤ome, join my happy song!?
Refrain:
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah, come, join my happy song.

I wave my hat to all I meet, and they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet from ev'ry green wood tree.

Refrain:
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah, from ev'ry green wood tree.

Oh, may I go a-wandering until the day I die;
Oh, may I always laugh and sing beneath God's clear blue sky,.

Refrain:
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah, beneath God's clear blue sky.

“Wonderful World” (sometimes referred to as “(What a) Wonderful World“, but unrelated to the Louis Armstrong song “What a Wonderful World“) was written in the late 1950s by soul music pioneer Sam Cooke along with songwriters Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, although at first attributed to the pseudonym Barbara Campbell which was the maiden name of Cooke’s mother, and first recorded by Cooke in 1959 for Cooke’s self-titled debut album. The song was released as a single in 1960, reaching #12 in the US and #27 in the UK. A bouncy love song, the lyrics have the singer disavowing knowledge of academic subjects (the song is often referred to informally by its first line, “Don’t know much about history”), but affirming the object of his affection “but I do know that I love you”. Herman’s Hermits had major hit with an uptempo version of the song (omitting one verse) in the mid-1960s, which reached #4 in the U.S. and #7 in the UK. The Hermits’ version was, according to singer Peter Noone and guitarist Keith Hopwood, done as a tribute to Cooke upon his death.

In 2004, the song was placed 373rd in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. (Wikipedia)

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“I Can See Clearly Now” is a song written and recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972. It was covered by many artists throughout the years, including a 1993 hit version by Jimmy Cliff. (Wikipedia)

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I Can See Clearly Now

 Last Updated 02/13/96

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This song was orginally recorded in the key of C  (Way too high for me!)

A         D                A

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,

          D             E

I can see all obstacles in my way

A            D                A

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

                G                D

It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

          A

Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is the rainbow I’ve been prayin’ for

It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

Sun-Shiny day.

C                                    G

Look all around, there’s nothin’ but blue skies

C                                E          G#m  D  G#m G F#m  E

Look straight ahead, nothin’ but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

Sun-Shiny day.

“Imagine” is a song written and performed by English rock musician John Lennon. It is the opening track on his album Imagine, released in 1971. “Imagine” was released as a single in the United States where it reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. When asked about the song in one of his last interviews, Lennon declared “Imagine” to be as good as anything he had written with the Beatles.^[1] The song is one of three Lennon solo songs, along with “Instant Karma!” and “Give Peace a Chance“, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked “Imagine” the 3rd greatest song of all time.^{[2] (Wikipedia)}

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John Lennon/ Imagine.

Tabbed by John_Lennon28@hotmail.com.

Imagine

John Lennon

C       Cmaj7  F

C       Cmaj7  F

C             Cmaj7       F

Imagine there’s no heaven

C            Cmaj7   F

It’s easy if you try

C      Cmaj7   F

No hell below us

C        Cmaj7  F

Above us only sky

Am/E       Dm7  F/C

G          C/G   G7

Living for to – day

Imagine there’s no countries

It isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

(chorus)

F       G         C       Cmaj7  E  E7

You may say I’m a dreamer

F       G              C  Cmaj7  E E7

But I’m not the only one

F           G          C     Cmaj7  E E7

I hope some day you’ll join us

F       G          C

And the world will be as one

Imagine no posses – sions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope some day you’ll join us

And the world will live as one

Imagine all the people

Chords

C- X32010         G- 320003

Cmaj7- X32000     C/G-320001

F- XX3211         E – 022100

Am/E- XX2210      E7- 022130

Dm7- XX0211       F/C- X33211

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