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From: Andrew Rogers
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:49:11 -0400
Subject: m/manfred_mann/my_name_is_jack.crd
"My Name Is Jack"
(John Simon)
[Note: the record is somewhere between Db and D; I've notated it in D.]
Intro:
(recorder arr. for guitar):
v v v v v v v v
----12--14-------|12---------------|
-15----------15--|---------15------|
-----------------|----14-----------|
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v v v v v v v v
-12-14-15-14--12--|-----12----------|
------------------|-15--------------|
------------------|--------14-------|
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Verse 1 [partial]:
(w/recorder and electric piano):
D Em D
My name is Jack and I live in the back
G A D
Of the Greta Garbo Home
A F#/A#
With friends I will remember
Bm E A
Wherever I may roam
Chorus:
G D/F#
And my name's Jack
Em /A D
And I live in the back
G F#m B
Of the Greta Garbo Home For Wayward Boys And Girls
We all love Jack
And we live in the back
Of the Greta Garbo Home For Wayward Boys And Girls
Bb A D [N.C.; drum fill]
/ / / / / / / / /
Verse 2:
D Em D/F#
There goes Fred with his hands on his head
G A D
'Cause he thinks he's heard the bomb
A F#7
And here comes Superspade [US single: Superman]
Bm E A
Who really puts it on
It's lots of fun and I love to run
Up and down the stairs
I make as much noise as I want
And no one ever cares
[repeat chorus]
Verse 3:
There's Carl over there with his funny old hair
And he's never sad at all
And when I grow up I want to run
As fast as my friend Paul
There's the prettiest girl in the whole wide world
And her name is Melody Mend
And here comes Ma with Brother Tom
Who's probably my best friend
Bb
My best friend
[key changes to Eb]
Chorus [in Eb]:
Ab Eb/G
And my name's Jack
Fm /Bb Eb
And I live in the back
Ab Gm C
Of the Greta Garbo Home For Wayward Boys And Girls
We all love Jack
And we live in the back
Of the Greta Garbo Home For Wayward Boys And Girls
Cb Bb Eb [N.C.; drum fill]
/ / / / / / / / /
Partial verse [fades as chorus re-enters]:
Eb Fm Eb/G
My name is Jack and I live in the back of the... [fade]
Coda:
[repeat 2X]:
Ab Eb/G
We all love Jack
Fm /Bb Eb
And we live in the back
Ab Gm C
Of the Greta Garbo Home For Wayward Boys And Girls
[repeat to fade]:
C
My name is Jack
And I live in the back
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
