Song: Angie baby
Artist: Helen Reddy
Composer: Alan O'Day
Album: Free and easy
Tabbed by: DJ
24th Nov 2012
A great lyric, it plays out like an episode of 'The Twilight Zone'
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Gm)
Chords names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Em7 = 022030 C = x32010 D = xx0232
Am7 = x02213 D/C = x30232 E = 022100
D7 = xx0212 Em = 022000
Gmaj7 = 320002 F#m = 244222
Cmaj7 = x32000 G * = 355433
B7sus4 = x22202 or x24252 Ab = 466544
B7 = x21202 or x24242 A = 577655
^ = Emphasise the beat h = Hammer-on note p = Pull-off note
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[Intro]
Em7
e|--------------------|-------------------|
B|--------------------|-------------------|
G|--------------------|-------------------|
D|--2--2--2-h4-----0--|--2--2--2-h4--0----|
A|--2--2--------2-----|--2--2----------4--|
E|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
^ ^ ^ ^
[Verse 1]
Em7 Em7
You live your life in the songs you hear...
Em7 Em7
...on the rock'n'roll radi - o,
e|--0-----------------|
B|--3-----------------|
G|--0-----------------|
D|--2----------4---0--|
A|--2---0--h2---------|
E|--0-----------------|
Em7 Em7
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends,
Em7 Em7
That's a really nice place to go,
e|--0-----------------|
B|--3-----------------|
G|--0-----------------|
D|--2----------4---0--|
A|--2---0--h2---------|
E|--0-----------------|
Am7 D7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool, but they had to take you out of school,
B7sus4 B7 Em7
You're a little touched, you know, Angie ba-by!
e|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
B|--3--3--------------|--3--3-------------|
G|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
D|--2--2-----4--0--2--|--2--2--2-h4--0----|
A|--2--2--2-----------|--2--2----------4--|
E|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
^ ^ ^ ^
[Verse 2]
Em7 Em7
Lovers appear in your room each night,
Em7 Em7
And they whirl you across the floor,
e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|------------------|
D|--2---h4------0---|
A|-----------2------|
E|------------------|
Em7 Em7
But they always seem to fade away,
Em7 Em7
When your Daddy knocks on the door,
e|--0-----------------|
B|--3-----------------|
G|--0-----------------|
D|--2----------4---0--|
A|--2---0--h2---------|
E|--0-----------------|
Am7 D7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7
"Angie, girl, are you alright? Tell the radi - o, 'goodnight'!"
B7sus4 B7 Em7
All alone once more, Angie ba -by!
e|--0--0--------------------|
B|--3--3--------------------|
G|--0--0--------------------|
D|--2--2--------------------|
A|--2--2-------------0--h2--|
E|--0--0----0--2--3---------|
^ ^
[Chorus]
Am7 D7 Gmaj7 Am7 D7 Gmaj7
An - gie baby, you're a... spe - cial lady,
C D/C D/C Cmaj7 Cmaj7
Living in a world of make - be - lieve-----------,
^ ^ ^
Em7
Well... may -be!
e|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------------|
B|--3--3--------------|--3--3-------------------|
G|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------------|
D|--2--2-----4--0--2--|--2--2--2-p0-------------|
A|--2--2--2-----------|--2--2-------2-p0--------|
E|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------3--0--|
^ ^ ^ ^
[Verse 3]
Em7 Em7
Stopping at her house is a neighbour boy,
Em7 Em7
With evil on his mind,
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------------------|
D|--2-p0-------------|
A|-------2-p0--------|
E|-------------3--0--|
Em7 Em7 Em7
'Cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night,
Em7
Through her window blind,
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------------------|
D|--2-p0-------------|
A|-------2-p0--------|
E|-------------3--0--|
Am7 D7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7
"I see your folks have gone away! Would you dance with me today?
B7sus4 B7
I'll show you how to have a good time,
Em7
Angie ba - by!"(An-----gie, ba - by! An-----gie, ba - by!)
e|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0---------------------|
B|--3--3--------------------------|--3--3---------------------|
G|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0---------------------|
D|--2--2-----2-p0-----------------|--2--2--2-p0---------------|
A|--2--2----------2-p0------------|--2--2-------2-p0----------|
E|--0--0------------------3---0---|--0--0--------------3---0--|
^ ^ ^ ^
[Bridge]
(Em7)
When he walks in her room, he feels confused, like he walked into a play,
(Em7)
And the music's so loud, it spins him around, till his soul has lost it's way,
Em F#m G *
And as she turns the volume down,
G * Ab A
He's getting smaller with the sound,
C D
It seems to pull him off the ground, ...toward the radio he's bound,
E
Never to be found---------!
Em7
e|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
B|--3--3--------------|--3--3-------------|
G|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
D|--2--2-----4--0--2--|--2--2--2-h4--0----|
A|--2--2--2-----------|--2--2----------4--|
E|--0--0--------------|--0--0-------------|
^ ^ ^ ^
[Verse 4]
Em7 Em7 Em7 Em7
The headlines read that a boy disappeared, and everyone thinks he died,
Em7 Em7
'Cept a crazy girl with a secret lover,
Em7 Em7
Who keeps her satis - fied,
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------------------|
D|--2-p0-------------|
A|-------2-p0--------|
E|-------------3--0--|
Am7 D7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7 B7sus4 B7
It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain, radio by your side,
Em7
Angie ba -by!
e|--0--0--------------------|
B|--3--3--------------------|
G|--0--0--------------------|
D|--2--2--------------------|
A|--2--2-------------0--h2--|
E|--0--0----0--2--3---------|
[Chorus]
Am7 D7 Gmaj7 Am7 D7 Gmaj7
An - gie baby, you're a... spe - cial lady,
C D/C D/C Cmaj7 Cmaj7
Living in a world of make - be - lieve-------------------,
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[Coda - Repeat]
Em7
Well, may - be!(An-----gie, ba - by! An-----gie, ba - by!)
e|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0---------------------|
B|--3--3--------------------------|--3--3---------------------|
G|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0---------------------|
D|--2--2-----2-p0-----------------|--2--2--2-p0---------------|
A|--2--2----------2-p0------------|--2--2-------2-p0----------|
E|--0--0------------------3---0---|--0--0--------------3---0--|
^ ^ ^ ^