Take The Long Way Home Chords

TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME
 
transcription and chart Peter Kruger
casparus50@yahoo.ca
 
small case letters above chord symbols
indicate individual notes:
c4: middle C, and notes above in that octave...
c5: C above middle C
c3: C below middle C  etc.
numbers behind notes will only be indicated
when notes enter another octave or begin a new line
 
 
fade in synth
      c6.......................................................
piano:                                  c2......................
 
 
 
synth:  c6...................c6..........................
                             bb5..........................
                             c5...........................
 
piano...c4 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
        c2 c c c c c c c c   c c
 
 
 
piano with harmonica ad lib:
 
|Cm7            |Bb/C           |F/C            |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
|Bbsus2/C       |Bbsus2/C       |C              |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
|Cm7            |Bb/C           |F/C            |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
|Bbsus2/C       |Bbsus2/C       |C              |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
 
[Verse 1]
Cm7                       Bb/C
    So you think you're a Romeo
F/C                     C
    playing a part in a picture-show
         Bbsus2/C Bb/C    Bbsus2/C
Take the long     way home
         C
Take the long way home
 
 
[Verse 2]
Cm7                           Bb/C
    If you're the joke of the neighborhood
F/C                               C
    Why should you care if you're feeling good
         Bbsus2/C  Bb/C     Bbsus2/C
Take the long      way home
         C
Take the long way home
 
 
[Bridge]
Em                              Em7                     Am        G6
   But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery
        F         F6             Bb    F/A
all the greenery       is comin' down, boy
G                             Em7
  And then your wife seems to think you're part of the
Am        G6              F      Fmaj7  F6           Bb     F/A  G
furniture     oh, it's pe culiar,           she used to be  so   nice.
 
 
[Verse 3]
Cm7                          Bb/C
    When lonely days turn to lonely nights
F/C                        C
    you take a trip to the city lights
             Bbsus2/C Bb/C     Bbsus2/C
And take the long     way home
         C
Take the long way home
 
 
[Verse 4]
Cm7                        Bb/C
    You never see what you want to see
F/C                       C
   Forever playing to the gallery
             Bbsus2/C Bb/C     Bbsus2/C
You take the long     way home
              strings: e4  g  c5  b4
         C
Take the long way home
 
 
[Bridge]
Em                           Em7                 Am
   And when you're up on the stage, it's so unbe lievable,
G6               F        F6             Bb   F/A
    Ohh    unfor gettable,    how they a dore you,
G                              Em7                      Am
   But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity,
G6        F      Fmaj7 F6           Bb   F/A   G
   oh, ca lamity,          is there no   way   out?
 
 
[sax solo]
|Eb             |Bb             |F              |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
|Fsus4/C        |Fsus4/C        |C              |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
|Eb             |Bb             |F              |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
|Fsus4/C        |Fsus4/C        |C              |C            |
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
 
[verse 5]
Em                       Em7                Am
   Does it feel that you life's become a ca tastrophe?
G6         F         F6 F            Bb    F/A
    Oh, it has to be      for you to grow, boy.
G                            Em7                    Am
   When you look through the years and see what you could
          G6           F               Fadd9 F6
have been     oh, what might have been,
         Bb   F/A   G
if you'd had  more  time.
 
 
[closing sequence]
Cm7                           Bb/C
    So, when the day comes to settle down,
F/C                          C
    Who's to blame if you're not around?
             Bbsus2/C Bb/C     Bbsus2/C
You took the long     way home
             Ab/C
You took the long way home...........
             F/C
You took the long way home...........
             Bbsus2/C Bb/C     Bbsus2/C
You took the long     way home...........
             Ab/C
You took the long way home...........
             F/C
You took the long way home...........
 
             Bbsus2/C  Bb/C     Bbsus2/C
You took the long      way home...........
             F/C
You took the long way home...........
 
F6/C           C
aaa   aaaaa    aaaaa   aaaaaaaaa
F6/C           G/C     C
ooo   ooooo    ooooo   ooooo
F6/C           C
aaa   aaaaa    aaaaa   aaaaaaaaa
 
Bbsus2/C Bb/C        Ab/C            F/C
long     way home    long way home   long way home
Bbsus2/C Bb/C         Ab/C            F/C
long     way   home   long way home   long way home
               harmonica:  g4........
Bbsus2/C Bb/C                 C
long     way ho-o-o-o-ome
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