Fred Jones Part 2 Chords

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               Fred Jones Part 2 – Ben Folds
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Written by: Ben Folds
From: "Rockin’ the Suburbs" (2001)
 
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
 
Not always easy to decide which chords to play when playing a piano song
on guitar. Here is my reading of this beautiful song. Suggestions
highly welcome!
 
The C/D and C/E are single notes leading from the C chord to F.
 
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CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
Cadd9     x-3-2-0-3-0
Amadd9    x-0-2-4-1-0
Em7       0-2-2-0-3-0
Fadd9     x-x-3-2-1-3
D7sus4    x-x-0-2-1-3
Gsus4     3-x-0-0-1-x
G5        3-x-0-0-3-x
C*        x-3-2-0-1-3
 
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[Intro]
| Cadd9 Amadd9 | Em7 G |
| Cadd9 Amadd9 | Em7 G |
 
[Verse 1]
C          Am7         Em          G
Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark
           C             Am7         Em           G
There's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall
       Am              F               Am          F
He has cleared all his things and he's put them in boxes
C                        G
Things that remind him: 'Life has been good'
Fadd9                  D7sus
Twenty-five years he's worked at the paper
  C                          | G Gsus4 | G5 Gsus4 G    |
A man's here to take him downstairs
        C      C/D C/E F     G   [ Cadd9 ]
And I'm sorry, Mis-ter Jones it's time
 
[Interlude]
| Cadd9 Amadd9 | Em7 G |
| Cadd9 Amadd9 | Em7 G |
 
[Verse 2]
C            Am7    Em            G
There was no party, there were no songs
         C            Am7          Em          G
'Cause today's just a day like the day that he started
Am       F               Am              F
No one is left here that knows his first name
    C                      G
And life barrels on like a runaway train
          Fadd9                        D7sus
Where the passengers change they don't change anything
        C                       | G Gsus4 | G5 Gsus4 G    |
You get off; someone else can get on
        C      C/D C/E F     G   [ Cadd9 ]
And I'm sorry, Mis-ter Jones it's time
 
[Interlude]
| Cadd9 Amadd9 | Em7 G |
| Cadd9 Amadd9 | Em7 G |
 
[Middle 8]
    Am                                Em
The streetlight it shines through the shades
        F                      C            G
Casting lines on the floor and lines on his face
     F             C
He reflects on the day
 
[Solo]
| Amadd9 | Em7 | Amadd9 | Em7 |
| F | Em7 | Amadd9 | Em |
| F | Em7 | D C* | D |
 
[Verse 3]
C             Am7            Em          G
Fred gets his paints out and goes to the basement
   C            Am7    Em     G
Projecting some slides onto a plain white
Am         F          Am           F
Canvas and traces it, fills in the spaces
   C                            G
He turns off the slides, and it doesn't look right
          Fadd9                      D7sus
Yeah, and all of these bastards have taken his place
        C                 | G Gsus4 | G5 Gsus4  G7    |
He's forgotten but not yet gone
 
[Coda]
        C      C/D C/E F     G
And I'm sorry, Mis-ter Jones 
        C      C/D C/E F     G
And I'm sorry, Mis-ter Jones 
        C      C/D C/E F     G    C
And I'm sorry, Mis-ter Jones it's time
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