Homeward Bound Chords

by Simon & Garfunkel
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Bb
Capo: 3rd fret
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Chords

G
Bm
F
E
E7
Am
D
C

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Homeward Bound chords
Simon and Garfunkel  1966
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeward_Bound_(Simon_%26_Garfunkel_song)
 
Capo III
 
[Verse 1]
 
    G
I'm sitting in the railway station. 
      Bm            F        E E7
Got a ticket for my destination. 
Am                               F
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand. 
    G                                  D                  G
And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band. 
 
[Chorus]
 
         C
Homeward bound, 
         G
I wish I was, 
         C
Homeward bound 
 
G             F
Home where my thought's escaping, 
G             F
Home where my music's playing, 
G             F
Home where my love lies waiting 
D        G
Silently for me. 
 
[Verse 2]
 
G
Ev'ry day's an endless stream 
   Bm             F      E E7
Of cigarettes and magazines. 
    Am                                  F
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories 
    G                           D                         G
And ev'ry stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,
 
[Chorus]
 
         C
Homeward bound, 
         G
I wish I was, 
         C
Homeward bound
 
G             F
Home where my thought's escaping, 
G             F
Home where my music's playing, 
G             F
Home where my love lies waiting 
D        G
Silently for me. 
 
[Verse 3]
 
G
Tonight I'll sing my songs again, 
     Bm                F    E E7
I'll play the game and pretend. 
    Am                              F
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity 
     G                      D                       G
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me. 
 
[Chorus]
 
         C
Homeward bound, 
         G
I wish I was, 
         C
Homeward bound
 
G             F
Home where my thought's escaping, 
G             F
Home where my music's playing, 
G             F
Home where my love lies waiting 
D        G
Silently for me. 
 
[Outro]
 
D        G
Silently for me. 
 
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W4v3z
The first few chords are incorrect. It begins on G, but the bass note descend in a line cliche while keeping the upper structure of G intact. It's basically an open G with a changing bass note from G to F# to F, then to E7. Bm and F sound sort of correct, only because one is an inversion of G major, and F major shares it's bass note with the flat 7 of G. You can think about this descending line as: G, G/F#, G/F.
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Tom Hogg
With the capo on the third fret this verson plays right along with the recorded version. Good job !!
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Phoenix9
Walk the low G down to the F bar chord, but don;t play the bar, just leave the B and E strings open before dropping to the E chord. G I'm sittin in the railway station (low G down to F#) F (bar open) E got a ticket for my destination, mmm
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