Pinkfloyd

Pink Floyd: "If" (from the album: Atom Heart Mother)

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   (I nabbed the lyrics from some Floyd ftp site: thanks to

    whomever typed them in: I didn't save your name(s))



        Nothing tricky about this song guitar-wise.  Live, as on the

record "the Pink Floyd Live in the BBC studios: 1972", either Waters  

or

Wright plays the classical guitar.



  If I were a swan,          I'd be gone...

  E                          D

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  If I were a train,         I'd be late...

  E                          D

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  And if I were a good man,  I'd talk to you more often than I

  E               C#7            F#               B7

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  do...

  E                           B7

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These chords repeat with the following stanzas:



If I were to sleep, I could dream.

If I were afraid, I could hide.

If I go insane, please don't put

Your wires in my brain.



If I were the moon, I'd be cool.

If I were a book, I would bend for you.

If I were a good man, I'd understand

The spaces between friends.



If I were alone, I would cry.

And if I were with you, I'd be home and dry.

And if I go insane,

Will you still let me join in the game?



(electric guitar solo)



If I were a swan, I'd be gone.

If I were a train, I'd be late again.

If I were a good man,

I'd talk with you

More often than I do.



(electric guitar solo)



add bass, 12-string acoustic (strumming the chords), piano and drums  

to taste.



        -Josh Ronsen

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