Janis Ian - Fly too high
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Capo: 1
Tuning: E A D G B E
Song: Fly too high
Artist: Janis Ian
Composers: Janis Ian and Giorgio Moroder
Album: Night rains
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com) 16th June 2019
Full album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4aHm2St7A
NOTE: This tab is the full album version, the shortened single
version does not include the 3rd verse and goes straight to the
final chorus after the sax break.
CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Fm)
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suggest and use the typed shapes shown in the chart below:
Em7 = 020000 C9 = x32330 F6 = xx3231
F#m11 = 244200 B7 = x24242 Fadd9 = xx3213
G = 355433 G6 = 355430 F = xx3211
Am11 = x05530 Fmaj7 = xx3210 F#m7-5 = 202210
C7 = x32310
N.C. = No chords
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[Intro]
||: Em7/ / / / | F#m11 / / / / | Em7 / / / / | F#m11 / / / / :|| [x4]
[Verse 1]
A Em7>- nonymous, autonomous,
Will F#m11likely get the best of us Em7yet, F#m11
Be - Em7fore you disappear, if you can F#m11lend me half an ear,
I'll re - Em7gret F#m11 ...if I Em7treat you like a number,
It's be - F#m11cause I can't remember your Em7name, F#m11hmmm,
So Em7have another cigarette, and F#m11help me to forget why I Em7came Em7 N.C.
[Chorus]
Em7Run Gtoo Am11fast, C9 ...fly too Em7high,
Em7Run too Am11fast, B7 ...N.C.fly too Em7high------F#m11
||: Em7/ / / / | F#m11 / / / / :|| [x3]
[Verse 2]
On Em7dark and lonely nights,
I'm only F#m11right when things are bright on the Em7floor, F#m11
Em7Dancing and romancing, galli - F#m11vanting with a handsome, I Em7scoreF#m11,
And Em7if you don't believe me,
You should F#m11see me when I'm ready to Em7roar, F#m11
'Cause I Em7lose my concentration with a F#m11new infatuation,
I'm Em7sure... Em7 N.C.
[Chorus]
...You Em7run Gtoo Am11fast, C9 ...fly too Em7high,
Em7Run too Am11fast, C9 ...fly too Em7high,
You Em7got no Am11past, C9 ...no good - Em7bye,
You Em7run too Am11fast, B7 ...N.C.and you fly too Em7high F#m11
||: Em7/ / / / | F#m11 / / / / :|| [x3]
[Bridge]
G6Would you be - Glieve I was G6once gonna Gbe some - Am11body?
I G6packed up my Gbags, and I G6took what I Ghad to the Am11city,
C7Man, it was rough, to find the best I could be,
Em7Waiting for the limit on a colour TV,
Now I've Fmaj7made it this F6far,
Fadd9 F F#m7-5 B7 N.C. (Em7)
Got a room on the park, in a view, ...brand new, fly too high
[Saxophone break)
Em7 F#m11 Em7 F#m11 Em7 F#m11
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
| Em7 / / / / | F#m11 / / / / | Em7 / / / / | F#m11 / / / / :||[x2]
[Chorus]
Em7Run Gtoo Am11fast, C9 ...fly too Em7high,
Em7Run too Am11fast, B7 ...N.C.fly too Em7high F#m11
||: Em7/ / / / | F#m11 / / / / :|| [x3]
[Verse 3]
Em7Hanging around on the in-field,
What F#m11do you steal, but another feel at the Em7top? F#m11
Em7Making believe in the long run,
When a F#m11shotgun...is a way to get out of the Em7shop, F#m11
Em7Hang tail in a new jail,
You can F#m11go bail, you can dance until you Em7drop, F#m11
'Cause there's Em7no fool like an old fool,
In a F#m11new school, ...you just can't Em7stop Em7 N.C
[Chorus]
Em7Run Gtoo Am11fast, C9 ...fly too Em7high,
You Em7run too Am11fast, C9 ...fly too Em7high,
A - Em7Run too Am11fast, C9 ...fly---- Em7too high,
Em7Run too Am11fast, C9mmm, fly too Em7high...
[Suggestion for ending]
Em7Run ...Gtoo ...Am11fast, B7 ...N.C.fly ...too ...Em7high------