Easiest ways to play it:
1. Standard tuning, capo 7
2. No capo (transpose 5 steps down to the key of Em, play open chords)
Both lyrics and chords I transcribed by ear in about two hours.
My Youtube channel is www.youtube.com/CompleteDistortion
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You can kind of guess the chords of course, but I'll still point out how I play it.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE "Am/D" BELOW.
Am/D (actually it's a "C 6add9(no 5th)", but I wrote it as Am/D because that's easier to follow)
x00210
Am
x02210
Asus2
x02200
Cmaj7
x32000
Fmaj7
x33210
G
32003x
F
133211
Dm
xx0231
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INTRO:
Am Asus2 Am Asus2
VERSE 1:
Am Cmaj7 Am/D Fmaj7
To be rich is
Am Cmaj7 Am/D F
to still re- member
Am Cmaj7 G F
To treasure your first dime
Am Cmaj7 G F
To have a chance to say farewell
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
VERSE 2:
Am Cmaj7 Am/D Fmaj7
Far off lands, quests of old
Am Cmaj7 Am/D F
Self respect, true grit
Am Cmaj7 G F
Never care, what a fortune might buy
Am Cmaj7 G F
To seek is to be rich
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
BRIDGE:
Am C
All the strangers on your path
G
Crossroads, the letters from home
Dm
The cooling embers of a Yuletide hearth
Am C
All the sounds of wilderness
G
The truth in which you roamed
Dm F
Now your lost Rosebud has brought you back home
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
Guitar solo [which is very, very long…]
( Am C G F )
Outro
F
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Thanks for stopping by, I'm very much looking forward to Tuomas' upcoming solo
album "The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck."
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