Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter (along with partner Walter Becker) of Steely Dan. Fagen is known for his use of complex jazz harmonies, elaborate arrangements, and exacting attention to detail and launched his successful, if sporadic solo career in 1982.
Fagen penned a group of songs based on his experiences as a young man in 1950's America
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The quick Bb/C before the Abmaj9 thoroughout the verses is actually A Bbmaj7/C. A Bb/C works fine here- A Bbmaj7/C will be truer to the original recording.
|F/CBb |Eb6 |Cm7Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb|
|Ebmaj9 |Cm7Bb/C|Abmaj9 |Fm7Abmaj7/Bb|
Ebmaj9 Snowbound Cm7 Let's sleep in today Bb/CAbmaj9 Wake me up Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb When the wolves come out to play Ebmaj9 Heat up Cm7 These white nights Bb/CAbmaj9 We're gonna turn this town Fm7Abmaj7/Bb Into a city of lights
F/AF13-9Gm7 At Nervous Time Ebm7F/AbDbm7 We roll down town Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 We've got scenes to crash Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 We're gonna trick and trash Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 Ebm7sus4 We're gonna find some fun
Gm7 We hit the street Ebm7F/AbDbm7 With vi sors down With our thermasuits Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 Sealed up tight
Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 We can beat the freeze Gb11Bmaj7 And get saved to night B/AEbsus4/Ab Let's stop off at the Metroplex B/AGb/Ab That little dancer's got some style B13D/FEmaj13 She's the one I'll be waiting for E/F# At the stage door
Ebmaj9 Snowbound Cm7 Let's sleep in today Bb/CAbmaj9 Wake me up Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb When the wolves come out to play Ebmaj9 Heat up Cm7 These white nights Bb/CAbmaj9 We're gonna turn this town Abmaj7/BbF/A Into a city of lights F13-9Gm7 We take the tube Ebm7F/AbDbm7 To Club Hi Ho Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 It's a bout deadspace Dbm13 It's a marketplace Dbm7Ebm7 And a party house too
Gm7 Something new Ebm7F/AbDbm7 From Char lie Tokyo Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 It's a kind of pyramid Gb7sus4/DbDbm7 With a human heart Gb11Bmaj7 Beating in an ion grid
B/A A critic grabs us Abm9 And says without a smile B/AGb/Ab The work seduces us with light B13D/FEmaj13 Eviva laughs and we step out E/F# Into the blue-white night
Ebmaj9 Snowbound Cm7 Let's sleep in today Bb/CAbmaj9 Wake me up Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb When the wolves come out to play Ebmaj9 Heat up Cm7 These white nights Bb/CAbmaj9 We're gonna turn this town Fm7Abmaj7/Bb Into a city of lights
guitar ad lib:
|Bb7sus4/Eb |G7+9+5/Eb |Bb7sus4/Eb |Eb9 |
woodwinds:
|Cmaj9 |Bb11 |Ebm9FF7|Gm7 |
|F#m7Ab/B |Em7A7sus4/EEm7| |Em13 | | 2/4
|Bm9 | |F#m7Ab/B |Em7A7sus4/EEm7|
| |Em13 |Dmaj7 | | 5/4
G9D7 We sail our icecats on the frozen river Bb9F/EbE/DC9 Some loser fires off a flare, a men C9Bm7 For seven seconds it's like Christmas day Db/BGmaj9F#7+9Bm9 And then it's dark a gain D9Gmaj7G/AE/F#Abmaj7/Bb Ohh And then it's dark again
Ebmaj9 Snowbound Cm7 Let's sleep in today Bb/CAbmaj9 Wake me up Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb When the wolves come out to play Ebmaj9 Heat up Cm7 These white nights Bb/CAbmaj9 We're gonna turn this town Fm7Abmaj7/Bb Into a city of lights
Ebmaj9 Snowbound Cm7 Let's sleep in today Bb/CAbmaj9 Wake me up Fm7Fm7/BbG/Bb When the wolves come out to play Ebmaj9 Heat up Cm7 These white nights Bb/CAbmaj9 Turn this town