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Where's the Orchestra? - Billy Joel
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Billy Joel
Where's the Orchestra? (1982)
(Billy Joel)
From: "The Nylon Curtain"
Beautiful song but not easy ... What I found out sounds alright to me.
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capo: 3rd fret
play: A
key: C
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
INTRO
Am x-x-x-2-1-0
Am/G x-x-x-0-1-0
Am/F x-x-3-2-1-0
SONG
Eaug x-x-2-1-1-0
Am7 x-0-2-2-1-3
Am6 x-0-2-2-1-2
E/G# 4-x-2-1-0-0
G6 3-2-0-0-0-0
Eaug/G# 4-x-2-1-1(0)
Amaj7 x-0-2-1-2-0
Em7 0-2-2-0-3-0
G/A x-0-5-4-3-x
C/B x-2-x-0-1-0
Bm7b5 x-2-3-2-3-x
Cdim x-3-4-2-4-x
A/C# x-4-2-2-2(0)
F#7sus 2-4-2-4-2-2
F#7 2-4-2-3-2-2
G 3-x-0-0-3-x
D/F# 2-x-0-2-3-x
Dm/F 1-x-0-2-3-x
E7 0-2-2-1-3-x
OUTRO
A x-0-2-2-2-x
Emaj7/G# 4-x-2-4-4-x
Emaj7 0-x-2-4-4-x
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INTRO
| C | G | Am Am/G Am/F | E | Eaug |
VERSE
A
Where's the orchestra?
Am Am7 Am6 E/G#
Wasn't this supposed to be a musical?
G6 Eaug/G# A
Here I am in the balcony
Amaj7 Eaug/G# Em7 G/A
How the hell could I have missed the overture?
Dmaj7 B7
I like the scenery
Bm7 Dm Eaug
Even though I have absolutely no
VERSE
A
Idea at all
Am Am7 Am6 E/G#
What is being said despite the dialogue
G6 Eaug/G# A
There's the leading man
Amaj7 Eaug/G# Em7 G/A
The movie star who never faced an audience
Dmaj7 B7
Where's the orchestra?
MIDDLE 8
Bm7
After all
F G C C/B
This is my big night on the town
Am7 Em
My introduction to the theatre crowd
F Bm7-5
I assumed that the show would have a song
Eaug
So I was wrong
VERSE (variation
A
At least I understand
Am Am7 Am6 E/G#
All the innuendo and the irony
G6 Eaug/G# A
And I appreciate
Amaj7 Eaug/G# Em7 G/A
The roles the actors played, the point the author made
CODA
Dmaj7 B7
And after the closing lines
Cdim7 A/C# F#7sus F#7
And after the curtain calls
G D/F#
The curtain falls
Dm/F E7 [A]
On empty chairs ... where's the orchestra?
OUTRO
| A | Emaj7/G# | A | Emaj7/G# |
| A | Emaj7/G# Emaj7 |
| A | Emaj7/G# Emaj7 |
| A | Emaj7/G# Emaj7 |
[melody: Allentown]
(repeat and fade)
