TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
(C)Bust ed flat in Bat on Rouge, the wait in’ for a train,
when I’s feel in’ near ly fad ed as my (G7)jeans.
Bob by thumbed a die sel down through just be fore it rained,
and rode us all the way to New Or (C)leans.
I pulled my har poon out of my dirt y, red ban dan na.
I was play in’ soft while (C7)Bob by sang the (F)blues.
With them wind shield of wip ers slap pin’ time I’s (C)hold in’ Bob by’s hand in mine; be (G7)we sang ev ’ry song that driv er (C)knew.
(F)Free dom’s just an oth er word for (C)noth in’ left to lose.
Noth in’ ain’t worth noth in’ but it’s (C)free.
(F)Feel in’ good was eas y, Lord, when Bob by sang the blues.
And feel in’ good was good e nough for me,
good e nough for me and Bob by Mc Gee.
From the (C)coal mines of Ken tuck y to the Cal i for nia sun,
when I’s Bob by shared the se crets of my (G7)soul.
Stand in’ right be side me, Lord, through ev ’ry thing I done,
and ev ’ry night he kept me from the (C)cold.
One day a near Sa as, Lord, I let him slip a way.
na.
I He’s look in’ for that (C7)home I hope he’ll (F)find.
But I’d trade all of my to mor rows for one (C)sin gle yes ter day in to be (G7)hold in’ Bob by’s bod y next to (C)mine.
(F)Free dom’s just an oth er word for (C)noth in’ left to lose.
Noth in’ left is all he left for (C)me.
(F)Feel in’ good was eas y, Lord, when Bob by sang the blues.
And bud dy, that was good e nough for me,
good e nough for me and Bob by Mc Gee.
From the Gee.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- C
- Tempo
- 140 BPM
- Plays
- 1
- Category
- Rock
- Artist
- Janis Joplin