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Illinois ( Full Album ) by Sufjan Stevens
Illinois ( Full Album )
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Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL
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G Am Em Bm C
G Am Em Bm C
G Am
When the revenant
Em
came down
Bm C
We couldn't imagine what it was
G Am
In the spirit of
Em
three stars
Bm C
The alien thing that took its form
G D Am
Then to Lebanon
Em
Oh, God
Bm C
The flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow
G D Am Em
Oooooooooooo, History involved itself
Bm C
Mysterious shade that took its form
G D Am
Or what it was, incarnation
Em
three stars
Bm C
Delivering signs and dusting from their eyes
G D Am G D A
Ooooooooooooooooooo
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The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel
Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience
But You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I have fought the Big Knives and
will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!'
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A F D Dm Am D Dm
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh
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Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
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C
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Cmaj7
Oh great intentions
I've got the best of interventions
But when the ads come
I think about it now
In my infliction
Entrepreneurial conditions
Take us to glory
I think about it now
Cannot conversations cull united nations?
If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients
Cannot all creation call it celebration?
Or united nation. Put it to your head.
Oh great white city
I've got the adequate committee
Where have your walls gone?
I think about it now
F Am C E
Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion
F C
Oh Columbi-A!
F Am C E
From Paris, incentive, like Cream of Wheat invented,
F C
The Ferris Wheel!
Oh great intentions
Covenant with the imitation
Have you no conscience?
I think about it now
Oh God of Progress
Have you degraded or forgot us?
Where have your laws gone?
I think about it now
Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific
Typically terrific, busy and prolific
Classical devotion, architect promotion
Lacking in emotion. Think about it now.
Chicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?
Oh Columbia!
Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures
Like the Ferris Wheel!
Cannot conversations cull united nations?
If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients
F D
Columbi-A!
D Bm F#m A
I cried myself to sleep last night
D Bm F#m A
And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window
D Bm F#m A
I was hypnotized, I was asked, To im-pro-vise
D Bm
On the attitude, the regret
F#m A
Of a thousand centuries of death
D Bm
Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer
F#m
I am riding all alone
A
I am writing all alone
Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition
I am riding all alone
I am running all alone
And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines
We were asked at the attitudes
They reminded us of death
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated
Are you writing from the heart?
Are you writing from the heart?
Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level
Are you writing from the heart?
Are you writing from the heart?
And I cried myself to sleep last night
For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated
Are you writing from the heart?
Are you writing from the heart?
Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level
Are you writing from the heart?
Are you writing from the heart?
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John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
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Capo III
Dm Cadd9 Am F
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His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne's t-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things, rotting fast, in their sleep
Oh, the dead
Twenty-seven people
Even more, they were boys
With their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God
Are you one of them?
He dressed up like a clown for them
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed
He kissed them all
He'd kill ten thousand people
With a sleight of his hand
Running far, running fast
To the dead
He took off all their clothes for them
He put a cloth on their lips
Quiet hands, quiet kiss
On the mouth
And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floor boards
For the secrets I have hid
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Jacksonville
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Capo III
[D]I'm not afraid of the [Bm]black man running
He's [F]got it right he's got a [Am7] better life coming
[D]I don't care what the [Bm]captain said
I [F]fold it right at the [Am7]top of my head
[D]I lost my sight and the [Bm]state packs in
I [F]follow my heart and it [Am7]leads me right to Jackson
Oh Keller oh oh oh
She gave us a medal she gave us a map
Oh Canner Row, oh oh oh
If seeing is right, then look where you're at
I'm not afraid of Nichol's Park
I ride the train and I ride it after dark
I'm not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it one more try
I said things that I meant to say
The bandstand chairs and the Dewey Day parade
I go out to the golden age
The spirit is right and the spirit doesn't change
Oh Keller oh oh oh
She gave us mirror she gave us a map
Oh Canner Row, oh oh oh
If seeing is right then look where you're at
[D]Andrew Jackson, [Bm]all I'm asking
[F]Show us the wheel and[Am7] give us the wine
[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!
[D]Raise the banner,[Bm]Jackson hammer
[F]Everyone goes to the [Am7]capitol line
[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]woohoo[Am7]!
[D]Colored preacher,[Bm] nice to meet you!
[F]The spirit is here and the [Am7]spirit is fine!
[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!
[D]Education,[Bm]ask the nation
[F]You gave us our sight and the[Am7] hearing is fine
[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!
[D]Andrew Jackson [Bm]all I'm asking
[F]Give us the wheel [Am7] and give us the wine
Very End: D Bm F Am7
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A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons
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Capo III
D Dsus2 D6sus2 Dm6 Dm Dsus2 D6sus2 D
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Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
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Capo V
Intro
C G Am G C
D
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Verse
C G Am G
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b|---1-1----3------1-------3--|
g|---0------0------2-------0--|x4 Then back to intro
d|--2--------------------0----|
a|3------2------0------2------|
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End
C G D
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Our stepmom, we did everything to hate her
She took us down to the edge of Decatur
We saw the lion and the kangaroo take her
Down to the river where they caught a wild alligator
Sangamon River, it overflowed
It caused a mudslide on the banks of the operator
Civil War skeletons in their graves
They came up clapping in the spirit of the aviator
The sound of the engines and the smell of the grain
We go riding on the abolition grain train
Steven A. Douglas was a great debater
But Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator
Chickenmobile with your rooster tail
I had my fill and I know how bad it feels
Stay awake and watch for the data
No small caterpillar, go congratulate her
Denominator, go Decatur, go Decatur
It's the great I Am
Abominate her, go Decatur, why did we hate her?
It's the great I Am
Denominator, go Decatur, anticipate her
It's the great I Am
Appreciate her, appreciate her
Stand up and thank her
[just end]
Stand up and thank her
It's the great I Am
Stand up and thank her
It's the great I Am
Stand up and thank her
It's the great I Am
Stand up and thank herà C D Em D7
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One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman
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Capo V
G N.C.
Whoo-hoo!
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Chicago
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Capo V
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Chorus: Asus Em7 G Bm - D/F#
Verses: Asus Em7 G D - D/F#
I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
I drove to New York
In the van, with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
If I was crying
In the van, with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
(I made a lot of mistakes)
All things know, all things know
(I made a lot of mistakes)
You had to find it
(I made a lot of mistakes)
All things go, all things go
(I made a lot of mistakes)
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Casimir Pulaski Day
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CAPO III
Chord Progression for (almost) the entire song:
D Csus Am G
Goldenrod and the 4H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone
Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car into the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry
In the morning, through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulderblade
I could see what you were reading
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth
Tuesday night at the Bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens
I remember at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse
In the morning at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared
All the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you
Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I found the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of you mother
On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom
In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window
In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March, on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see His face
In the morning in the window
All the glory when He took our place
But He took my shoulders and He shook my face
And He takes and He takes and He takes
Ending chords: D Csus Am Em
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To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
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Dm C Gm F
Dm C Gm F
Dm Am Gm F
Dm Am Gm F
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Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
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Intro/Chorus
(power chords or similar)
E5 A5 D5 F#5 x2
Verse
E A D F#m (fingerpick)
Trouble falls in my home
Troubled man, troubled stone
Turn a mountain of lies
Turn a card for my life
Man of Steel, Man of Heart
Tame our ways, if we start
To devise something more
Something halfways
Only a steel man came to recover
If he had run from gold, carry over
We celebrate our sense of each other
We have a lot to give one another
I took a bus to the lake
Saw the monument face
Yellow tides, golden eyes
Red and white, red and wise
Raise the flag, summer home
Parted hair, part unknown
If I knew what I read
I'll send it half ways
[back to powerchords, repeat intro x2]
Only a real man can be a lover
If he had hands to lend us all over
We celebrate our sense of each other
We have a lot to give one another
[back to fingerpicking, repeat progression x4]
Took my bags, Illinois
Dreamt the lake took my boy
Man of Steel, Man of Heart
Turn your ear to my part
There are things you have said
Raise the boat, and raise the dead
If you take us away
Still can we say:
Only a steel man can be a lover
If he had hands to tremble all over
We celebrate our sense of each other
We have a lot to give one another
[back to powerchords, repeat intro x2, then repeat chorus
repeat chorus over la-la-la, then fall apart
(recording then revives changes out of time, dreamlike)]
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Prairie Fire That Wanders About
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A Am Bb G [twice for intro, then rest of tune]
Peoria! Destroyia!
Infinity! Divinity!
For Lydia! Octavia!
And Jack-of-Trades!
The Cubs! Hooray!
[time feel starts]
The Opera House
Where Emma sang!
America! Oh will it play?
And Santa Clause!
The Great Parade!
Peoria!
You have it made!
Gm Am F#m Dm
In-to the crossfire
Edim A7 Dm (Dm/C skipping one beat)
Faithfully run
Middle America
One on one
Peoria!
We saddle the fun times
Am – Gm (x4)
Am – Gm – Dmaj7
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A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential
in the Great Godfrey Maze
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Absolutely no idea on this one, perhaps:
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The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
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CAPO II
D Bmadd11 Gmaj7
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Thinking outrageously I write in cursive I hide in my bed with the
Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers I see my own breath on the
Oh I am not quite sleeping Oh I am
There on the wall inthe bedroom creeping I see a wasp with her
Em9
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lights on the floor
face of the door
fast in bed
wings outstretched
[first instrumental break over verse chords]
North of Savannah we swim in the Palisades
I come out wearing my brother's red hat
There on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times
he was washing his face in his hands
Oh how I meant to tease him
Oh how I meant no harm
Touching his back with my hand I kiss him
I see the wasp on the length of my arm
[fingerpick another verse over "la's"; starting on 4th descending]
D A Em G
Oh great sights u---pon this state, Hallelujiah
Wonders bright and river's wake , Hallelujiah
Trail of Tears and Horseshoe Lake , Hallelujiah
Trusting things be--yond mistake , Hallelujiah
(On "Trail of Tears," Sufjan enters)
D A Em G
We were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait
We were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait
We were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait] over
D A Em G
Lamb of God we sound the horn, Hallelujiah
to us your ghost is born, Hallelujiah
[fingerpick over new changes]
I can't explain the state that I'm in,
the state of my heart, he was my best friend.
Into the car, from the backseat,
oh admiration, in falling asleep.
All of my powers, day after day,
I can tell you, we swaggered and swayed.
Deep in the Tower, the prairies below,
I can tell you, but telling gets old.
[Here, the chanting resumes from "Oh great sights . . ."]
Terrible sting, terrible storm,
I can tell you, the day we were born.
My friend is gone, he ran away,
I can tell you, I love him each day.
Though we have sparred, wrestled, and raged,
I can tell you, I love him each day.
Terrible sting, terrible storm
I can tell you
[end: long held D5 chord]
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They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
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Intro: Am Dm Am Em
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus?
Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan
In the grave with Xylophagan
Do you know the ghost community?
Sound the horn, address the city
(Who will save it? Dedicate it?
Who will praise it? Commemorate it for you?)
Am Dm Am
We are awaken with the ax
Em Am
Night of the Living Dead at last
Dm Am
They have begun to shake the dirt
Em Am
Wiping their shoulders from the earth
Dm Am
I know, I know the nations past
Em Am
I know, I know they rust at last
Dm Am
They tremble with the nervous thought
Em Am
Of having been, at last, forgot
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus?
B-|U-D-A! Caledonia! S-E-C-O-R! Magnolia!
B-I-R-D-S! And Kankakee! Evansville and Parker City
Speaking their names, they shake the flag
Walking the earth, it lifts and lags
We see a thousand rooms to rest
Helping us taste the bite of death
I know, I know my time has passed
I'm not so young, I'm not so fast
I tremble with the nervous thought
Of having been, at last, forgot
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus?
Comer and Potato Peelers! G-R-E-E-N ridge! Reeders
M-C-V-E-Y! And Horace! E-N-O-S! Start the chorus
Corn and Farms and Tombs in Lemmon
Sailor Springs and all things feminine
Centerville and Old Metropolis
Shawneetownn, you trade and topple us
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Hold your tongue and don't divide us
I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Land of God, you hold and guide us
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Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All
the Way Out in Bushnell
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Am G/B C Dm C/E F
Am G/B C Em G Em
[repeat pattern 4 times]
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In This Temple, As in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth
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F Am F Am
F Am F Am
Dm Am F Dm
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The Seer’s Tower
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Dm Gm Am/Amsus4 (held for long time)
[Intro: pattern repeated several times]
In the tower above the earth
There is a view that reaches far
Where we see the universe
I see the fire, I see the end
Seven miles above the earth
There is Emmanuel of mothers
Dm Gm Am C
With his sword, with his robe
He comes dividing man from brothers
In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel
In the powers of the earth, we wait until it rails and rails
In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel
Oh, my mother, she betrayed us, but my father loved and bathed us
F C Bb
Still I go to the deepest grave
Where I go to sleep alone
[end on long held Bb to F6 to a cappella humming]
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The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders
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Bass line;
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Vamps: Amaj Asus2 [keep in mind 11/8 time]
Amaj Aadd4 Amaj
Amaj Asus2 x3
F C Dm
[repeat 4 times]
[bass line]
I count the days the Great Frontier
Forgiving, faced the seventh year
I stand in awe of gratefulness
I can and call forgetfulness
[first/second vamp]
And when I, and when I call
The patient, the patient fall
The Spirit, the Carpenter
Invites us to be with her
F D
What have we become America?
Soldiers on the Great Frontier!
Carpenter and Soldier, one on one
It's the battle, volunteer!
[over vamp part II]
Run from yourself
From your friends, from ya- farm, it's from here
Run for your life
For your friends, for ya- cornerstone, the baker
America, merica, meri- audition and the disher
Oh Illinois, Illinois, Illi- gum, dreamcatcher
I count the days the Great Frontier
Forgiving, faced the seventh year
I stand and strain to make ends meet
Five Spirits on the Grand Marquee
And when I, and when I call
The patient, the patient fall
The Spirit, the Carpenter
Invites us to be with her
F A Em
There was a man at the wall
C
He was grateful for us all
F A Em
I saw the Wise Woman sing
C D
She wasn't asking anything
E
She wasn't asking anything
Am G A
How she made the nations sing!
A D E D x2
F D
What have we become America?
Soldiers on the Great Frontier!
Dm – Em – F – G – D
Dm – Em – F – G – N.C.
Run from yourself!
From your friends, from ya- at the movies
Run for your life!
For your friends, for ya- wakes the ocean
America, merica, meri- architect's rendition
Oh Illinois, Illinois, Illi- got at Sears
[bass line x4 into vamp I]
F – Dm – Am – C
Oh, Great Fire of Great Disaster
Oh, Great Heaven, oh, Great Master
Oh, Great Goat, the curse you gave us
Oh, Great Ghost, protect and save us
Oh, Great River, green with envy
Oh, Jane Addams, spirit send thee
Oh, Great Trumpet and the singers
Oh, Great Goodman, King of Swingers
Oh, Great Bears and Bulls, Joe Jackson
Oh, Great Illinois
[during “Great Trumpet”]
Given what you lost, are you better off?
Given what you had, has it made you mad?
Celebrate the few, celebrate the new
It can only start with you
End on : A major chord
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Riffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis
Armstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King of Swing, To Name A Few
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Free-form solo, mostly focusing on E in octaves, mixing in other notes from an E minor chord
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Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run
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|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-|...[continue ost. Bass]
[build on ost. Pattern to an Emaj7add6 chord]
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