During last week's Yacht Rock theme in the Seasons of the Ukulele, UkeCan1 requested that someone play this song. I bought several books of Chicago sheet music when I was a teenage trumpet player in the '70s, and I still have some of them. Plus, I remembered a discussion of this song about a year ago on either the TAB or "Help with a Song" board. So I started messing with this a week ago, and found a little time tonight to make a video.
I had assumed that since the song is all arpeggios, it would take a uke with a low G string to play it. But it turned out that I didn't use the G string at all in playing it, except for the final chord.
Here's a Tab for it:
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COLOUR MY WORLD - CHICAGO
The whole song is eighth notes in 12/8 time.
Play the whole thing twice, with the vocals the second time.
If you've got someone handy to play the flute solo, repeat a third time.
Note that there's four different major seventh chords, you use the same chord
shape for all of them, just
starting on a different fret for each.
Fmaj7 Am
A |-------7-----------7---------3-7-3-------3-7-3---
E |---5-8---8-5---5-8---8-5---5-------5---5-------5-
C |-5-----------5-----------4-----------4-----------
G |-------------------------------------------------
Bb Ebmaj9
A |-----5-8-5-------5-8-5-------5-8-5-------5-8-5---
E |---6-------6---6-------6---6-------6---6-------6-
C |-5-----------5-----------7-----------7-----------
G |-------------------------------------------------
Abmaj7 Gbmaj7
A |--------10-------------10------------8-----------8-----
E |---8-11----11-8---8-11----11-8---6-9---9-6---6-9---9-6-
C |-8--------------8--------------6-----------6-----------
G |-------------------------------------------------------
D9 D7 Gmaj7
A |-------7-----------5------------9-------------9------
E |---5-8---8-5---5-8---8-5---7-10---10-7---7-10---10-7-
C |-6-----------6-----------7-------------7-------------
G |-----------------------------------------------------
E9 C7
A |-----4-8-4-------4-8-4---------7-----------7-----
E |---6-------6---6-------6---6-8---8-6---6-8---8-6-
C |-7-----------7-----------7-----------7-----------
G |-------------------------------------------------
C7 Fmaj7 Bb C
A |-------7-----------7-----------7-----------7---------5-----7-
E |---6-8---8-6---6-8---8-6---5-8---8-5---5-8---8-5---6-----8---
C |-7-----------7-----------5-----------5-----------5-----7-----
G |-------------------------------------------------------------
ENDING:
Fmaj7
A |-------7-8-10---12------------------------------
E |---5-8----------12------------------------------
C |-5--------------12------------------------------
G |----------------10------------------------------
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