Notation Song

Phillip Mills
(TTTO: Wedding Song by Paul Stookey)


          G                                D/A
There are letters placed above the chicken-scratches on the page
Cadd9                                           G
Notes alone would send this troubadour off in a rage.
                  D/A             Cadd9         G
The union of your tones is what allows him to remain
        Em            G               D/A
For whenever three or more of you are gathered with a name
       Cadd9           G     
It's a chord -- it's a chord.


       G                    D/A           Cadd9             G
Well a tune must leave it's root note and wander 'round the scale
Em           G                   D/A
Traveling to 5ths and 3rds where harmony prevails.
      G            D/A           Cadd9          G
As it was in the beginning -- it will be at the end
     Em              G             D/A
When someone plays a 7th that will draw it back again
      Cadd9          G      A
Tonic chord -- Tonic chord.


          C         C/B    Am            D                 G
Well then what's to be the reason for constructing complex crap
   C      C/B   Am             D                G
Suspended or augmented or with added 9th that's flat
                    D/A                Cadd9             G
For if music is the reason what's that altered bass note for
  Em              G                   D/A
I do believe it's something that I've never seen before
         Cadd9              G      
That's a chord? -- that's a chord?