Chords for Chuck Pyle - Step by Step
Tempo:
70.8 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
A
Bm
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D]
[Dm]
There's an old ancient saying in the wind,
[G] One must only [D] take the first step to [A] begin.
Then [G] you're on your way, [A] and you've done [D] the hardest part,
Now make your [A] journey with a [D] generous heart.
Step by step, side by side,
[G] Hand in hand we'll [D] soar up [A] better by [G] day.
[D] Step by step, side by side,
Take [G] a little stand with [D] your neighbor, side by side.
Well, in 1986, [G] Werner Erhard and Tim Turner [D] got together and they decided,
[G] which they were going to call the Goodwill [D] Games.
They couldn't decide [A] whether they were going to have it,
but they knew the proceeds were going [G] to go to the World Hunger [A] Project.
[D] Finally somebody said, well I [G] know Arm & Hammer, we could have it in [D] Moscow.
Everybody said, no, never going [A] to happen.
And it did happen, 1986, three years before the wall fell.
But the [G] catchwords were step by step, side by side,
and being [Bm] the little mimic that I am,
I [D]
wrote this song on the way to one of the benefits,
[A] at least I got it started and finished it up later.
They took it to [G]
Moscow [A] that first year,
came the [D] next year, and then back to Moscow the next year,
and then they ran out of funding.
That was [A] just the three years that they did it.
[D] They called it the Goodwill Games, [Bm] and this was one of their theme songs.
[G] [D] Well, we stumbled [G] and we broke in our [D] stride,
[G] Wearing on [D] our boots the wish [A] pride,
[G] Now we're going to put [A] on our [D] magic [G] shoes,
To run a race [B] in which no [D] one will be doomed.
Step by step, side by side, hand in hand,
[G] Hand in [D] hand, this old [B] world's a better ride.
[G] Step [D] by step, side by side,
[G] Take a little [D] step with your neighbor, side by [D] side.
Now if you see me [Em]
fall, you look [A] down,
You stop to lend a hand, what [E]
goes around comes around.
Round and around, [D] now if you run [G] to another [D] for help,
[G] It don't mean that [D] you can't do it [A] for yourself,
[G] No, it just means that your neighbor [E] is going to [G] know,
[D] That if he needs help, [A] he knows [D] where to go.
Step by step, side by side,
[G] Hand in hand, [D] this old world's a better [G] ride.
Step [D] by step, side by side,
Take [G] a little step with your neighbor, [D] side by side.
A lot of singers here.
[G] [Em] So, [D] if you can remember, maybe back in the 90s,
it wasn't so bad here, but I live in the West,
[G] and there was hardly any signal [D] in the interlands for cellular [G] phones.
And even though [D] I had one, I usually had to stop at a [A] pay phone to book a gig.
And you know how that [G] goes, you know, sometimes.
Most of the [A] time, nobody was there, and you had [D] to leave a message.
Then they got back to [G] you and you weren't there,
because you were out of signal.
I mean, it was just a whole circle of ten times more calls than should have been made.
[G] And so I really, really wanted an agent.
[Bm] My friend [G] Meredith Carson, who used to run [D] the Swallow Hill Music [A] Hall in Denver,
it's kind of our folklore [G] society there,
she called me and she said, well, this young gal,
[D] she's looking [G] for somebody to represent, she [D] wants to be an agent.
[A] She just got out of [D] business, music business school here in Denver.
[G] And she said, I gave her your name, [D] I don't know.
She said, she already knows you're playing tonight in [D] Boulder, maybe she'll come by.
[F#m] Well, sure enough, you know, after my show was over, [G] this person appeared.
She said, yeah, I'm Terry Stewart, [D] I'm the gal that's looking for somebody to represent.
I [A] liked what you did, I [D] really liked that song you closed with, that step-by-step song.
I said, yeah, [G] thank you, I'm so glad you like it.
[D] She said, but you know [Bm] that little dance that you did with it?
[G] I said, yeah.
She said, [D] don't do that again.
[F#m] [A] [G] So I [A] started going to cowboy [D] dances in anonymous.
Living in Boulder, you know.
[A] It was just a two-step program, [D] it wasn't that bad.
[G]
[D] [G] [D]
[A] [G] [G#]
[D] [A]
[D] Step by step, side by side.
Hand [G] in hand, this [D] old world's a better ride.
[G] Step [D] by step, side by side.
Take a little step with your [A] neighbor.
Take a little [D] step with your neighbor.
Take a little step with your neighbor, side [G] by side.
[D]
Remember, life is short, but it's wise.
[A] [F]
[Dm]
There's an old ancient saying in the wind,
[G] One must only [D] take the first step to [A] begin.
Then [G] you're on your way, [A] and you've done [D] the hardest part,
Now make your [A] journey with a [D] generous heart.
Step by step, side by side,
[G] Hand in hand we'll [D] soar up [A] better by [G] day.
[D] Step by step, side by side,
Take [G] a little stand with [D] your neighbor, side by side.
Well, in 1986, [G] Werner Erhard and Tim Turner [D] got together and they decided,
[G] which they were going to call the Goodwill [D] Games.
They couldn't decide [A] whether they were going to have it,
but they knew the proceeds were going [G] to go to the World Hunger [A] Project.
[D] Finally somebody said, well I [G] know Arm & Hammer, we could have it in [D] Moscow.
Everybody said, no, never going [A] to happen.
And it did happen, 1986, three years before the wall fell.
But the [G] catchwords were step by step, side by side,
and being [Bm] the little mimic that I am,
I [D]
wrote this song on the way to one of the benefits,
[A] at least I got it started and finished it up later.
They took it to [G]
Moscow [A] that first year,
came the [D] next year, and then back to Moscow the next year,
and then they ran out of funding.
That was [A] just the three years that they did it.
[D] They called it the Goodwill Games, [Bm] and this was one of their theme songs.
[G] [D] Well, we stumbled [G] and we broke in our [D] stride,
[G] Wearing on [D] our boots the wish [A] pride,
[G] Now we're going to put [A] on our [D] magic [G] shoes,
To run a race [B] in which no [D] one will be doomed.
Step by step, side by side, hand in hand,
[G] Hand in [D] hand, this old [B] world's a better ride.
[G] Step [D] by step, side by side,
[G] Take a little [D] step with your neighbor, side by [D] side.
Now if you see me [Em]
fall, you look [A] down,
You stop to lend a hand, what [E]
goes around comes around.
Round and around, [D] now if you run [G] to another [D] for help,
[G] It don't mean that [D] you can't do it [A] for yourself,
[G] No, it just means that your neighbor [E] is going to [G] know,
[D] That if he needs help, [A] he knows [D] where to go.
Step by step, side by side,
[G] Hand in hand, [D] this old world's a better [G] ride.
Step [D] by step, side by side,
Take [G] a little step with your neighbor, [D] side by side.
A lot of singers here.
[G] [Em] So, [D] if you can remember, maybe back in the 90s,
it wasn't so bad here, but I live in the West,
[G] and there was hardly any signal [D] in the interlands for cellular [G] phones.
And even though [D] I had one, I usually had to stop at a [A] pay phone to book a gig.
And you know how that [G] goes, you know, sometimes.
Most of the [A] time, nobody was there, and you had [D] to leave a message.
Then they got back to [G] you and you weren't there,
because you were out of signal.
I mean, it was just a whole circle of ten times more calls than should have been made.
[G] And so I really, really wanted an agent.
[Bm] My friend [G] Meredith Carson, who used to run [D] the Swallow Hill Music [A] Hall in Denver,
it's kind of our folklore [G] society there,
she called me and she said, well, this young gal,
[D] she's looking [G] for somebody to represent, she [D] wants to be an agent.
[A] She just got out of [D] business, music business school here in Denver.
[G] And she said, I gave her your name, [D] I don't know.
She said, she already knows you're playing tonight in [D] Boulder, maybe she'll come by.
[F#m] Well, sure enough, you know, after my show was over, [G] this person appeared.
She said, yeah, I'm Terry Stewart, [D] I'm the gal that's looking for somebody to represent.
I [A] liked what you did, I [D] really liked that song you closed with, that step-by-step song.
I said, yeah, [G] thank you, I'm so glad you like it.
[D] She said, but you know [Bm] that little dance that you did with it?
[G] I said, yeah.
She said, [D] don't do that again.
[F#m] [A] [G] So I [A] started going to cowboy [D] dances in anonymous.
Living in Boulder, you know.
[A] It was just a two-step program, [D] it wasn't that bad.
[G]
[D] [G] [D]
[A] [G] [G#]
[D] [A]
[D] Step by step, side by side.
Hand [G] in hand, this [D] old world's a better ride.
[G] Step [D] by step, side by side.
Take a little step with your [A] neighbor.
Take a little [D] step with your neighbor.
Take a little step with your neighbor, side [G] by side.
[D]
Remember, life is short, but it's wise.
[A] [F]
Key:
D
G
A
Bm
B
D
G
A
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
There's an old ancient saying in the wind,
_ [G] One must only [D] take the first step to [A] begin.
Then [G] you're on your way, [A] and you've done [D] the hardest part,
_ Now make your [A] journey with a [D] generous heart.
_ Step by step, _ side by side,
[G] Hand in hand we'll [D] soar up [A] better by [G] day.
[D] Step by step, side by side,
Take [G] a little stand with [D] your neighbor, side by side.
_ Well, in 1986, [G] Werner Erhard and Tim Turner [D] got together and they decided,
_ [G] which they were going to call the Goodwill [D] Games.
They couldn't decide [A] whether they were going to have it,
but they knew the proceeds were going [G] to go to the World Hunger [A] Project.
[D] Finally somebody said, well I [G] know Arm & Hammer, we could have it in [D] Moscow.
Everybody said, no, never going [A] to happen.
And it did happen, 1986, three years before the wall fell.
But the [G] catchwords were step by step, side by side,
and being [Bm] the little mimic that I am,
I [D]
wrote this song on the way to one of the benefits,
[A] at least I got it started and finished it up later.
They took it to [G]
Moscow [A] that first year,
came the [D] next year, and then back to Moscow the next year,
and then they ran out of funding.
That was [A] just the three years that they did it.
[D] They called it the Goodwill Games, [Bm] and this was one of their theme songs. _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] Well, we stumbled [G] and we broke in our [D] stride,
[G] Wearing on [D] our boots the wish [A] pride,
_ [G] Now we're going to put [A] on our [D] magic [G] shoes,
To run a race [B] in which no [D] one will be doomed.
_ _ Step by step, side by side, hand in hand,
[G] Hand in [D] hand, this old [B] world's a better ride.
[G] _ Step [D] by step, _ side by side,
[G] Take a little [D] step with your neighbor, side by [D] side.
Now if you see me [Em]
fall, you look [A] down,
You stop to lend a hand, what [E]
goes around comes around.
Round and around, [D] now if you run [G] to another [D] for help,
_ _ [G] It don't mean that [D] you can't do it [A] for yourself,
_ [G] No, it just means that your neighbor [E] is going to [G] know,
[D] That if he needs help, [A] he knows [D] where to go. _
Step by step, _ side by side,
[G] Hand in hand, [D] this old world's a better [G] ride.
Step [D] by step, _ side by side,
Take [G] a little step with your neighbor, [D] side by side.
A lot of singers here.
_ [G] _ [Em] So, [D] if you can remember, maybe back in the 90s,
it wasn't so bad here, but I live in the West,
[G] and there was hardly any signal [D] in the interlands for cellular [G] phones.
And even though [D] I had one, I usually had to stop at a [A] pay phone to book a gig.
And you know how that [G] goes, you know, sometimes.
Most of the [A] time, nobody was there, and you had [D] to leave a message.
Then they got back to [G] you and you weren't there,
because you were out of signal.
I mean, it was just a whole circle of ten times more calls than should have been made.
[G] And so I really, really wanted an agent.
[Bm] My friend [G] Meredith Carson, who used to run [D] the Swallow Hill Music [A] Hall in Denver,
it's kind of our folklore [G] society there,
she called me and she said, well, this young gal,
[D] she's looking [G] for somebody to represent, she [D] wants to be an agent.
[A] She just got out of [D] business, music business school here in Denver.
_ [G] And she said, I gave her your name, [D] I don't know.
She said, she already knows you're playing tonight in [D] Boulder, maybe she'll come by.
[F#m] Well, sure enough, you know, after my show was over, [G] this person appeared.
She said, yeah, I'm Terry Stewart, [D] I'm the gal that's looking for somebody to represent.
_ I [A] liked what you did, I [D] really liked that song you closed with, that step-by-step song.
I said, yeah, [G] thank you, I'm so glad you like it.
[D] She said, but you know [Bm] that little dance that you did with it?
[G] I said, yeah.
She said, [D] don't do that again.
_ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ [G] So I [A] started going to cowboy [D] dances in anonymous.
_ Living in Boulder, you know.
[A] It was just a two-step program, [D] it wasn't that bad.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [G#] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ Step by step, _ side by side.
_ Hand [G] in hand, this [D] old world's a better ride.
[G] _ Step [D] by step, side by side.
Take a little step with your [A] neighbor.
Take a little [D] step with your neighbor.
Take a little step with your neighbor, side [G] by side.
_ _ [D] _
_ Remember, life is short, but it's wise.
[A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
There's an old ancient saying in the wind,
_ [G] One must only [D] take the first step to [A] begin.
Then [G] you're on your way, [A] and you've done [D] the hardest part,
_ Now make your [A] journey with a [D] generous heart.
_ Step by step, _ side by side,
[G] Hand in hand we'll [D] soar up [A] better by [G] day.
[D] Step by step, side by side,
Take [G] a little stand with [D] your neighbor, side by side.
_ Well, in 1986, [G] Werner Erhard and Tim Turner [D] got together and they decided,
_ [G] which they were going to call the Goodwill [D] Games.
They couldn't decide [A] whether they were going to have it,
but they knew the proceeds were going [G] to go to the World Hunger [A] Project.
[D] Finally somebody said, well I [G] know Arm & Hammer, we could have it in [D] Moscow.
Everybody said, no, never going [A] to happen.
And it did happen, 1986, three years before the wall fell.
But the [G] catchwords were step by step, side by side,
and being [Bm] the little mimic that I am,
I [D]
wrote this song on the way to one of the benefits,
[A] at least I got it started and finished it up later.
They took it to [G]
Moscow [A] that first year,
came the [D] next year, and then back to Moscow the next year,
and then they ran out of funding.
That was [A] just the three years that they did it.
[D] They called it the Goodwill Games, [Bm] and this was one of their theme songs. _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] Well, we stumbled [G] and we broke in our [D] stride,
[G] Wearing on [D] our boots the wish [A] pride,
_ [G] Now we're going to put [A] on our [D] magic [G] shoes,
To run a race [B] in which no [D] one will be doomed.
_ _ Step by step, side by side, hand in hand,
[G] Hand in [D] hand, this old [B] world's a better ride.
[G] _ Step [D] by step, _ side by side,
[G] Take a little [D] step with your neighbor, side by [D] side.
Now if you see me [Em]
fall, you look [A] down,
You stop to lend a hand, what [E]
goes around comes around.
Round and around, [D] now if you run [G] to another [D] for help,
_ _ [G] It don't mean that [D] you can't do it [A] for yourself,
_ [G] No, it just means that your neighbor [E] is going to [G] know,
[D] That if he needs help, [A] he knows [D] where to go. _
Step by step, _ side by side,
[G] Hand in hand, [D] this old world's a better [G] ride.
Step [D] by step, _ side by side,
Take [G] a little step with your neighbor, [D] side by side.
A lot of singers here.
_ [G] _ [Em] So, [D] if you can remember, maybe back in the 90s,
it wasn't so bad here, but I live in the West,
[G] and there was hardly any signal [D] in the interlands for cellular [G] phones.
And even though [D] I had one, I usually had to stop at a [A] pay phone to book a gig.
And you know how that [G] goes, you know, sometimes.
Most of the [A] time, nobody was there, and you had [D] to leave a message.
Then they got back to [G] you and you weren't there,
because you were out of signal.
I mean, it was just a whole circle of ten times more calls than should have been made.
[G] And so I really, really wanted an agent.
[Bm] My friend [G] Meredith Carson, who used to run [D] the Swallow Hill Music [A] Hall in Denver,
it's kind of our folklore [G] society there,
she called me and she said, well, this young gal,
[D] she's looking [G] for somebody to represent, she [D] wants to be an agent.
[A] She just got out of [D] business, music business school here in Denver.
_ [G] And she said, I gave her your name, [D] I don't know.
She said, she already knows you're playing tonight in [D] Boulder, maybe she'll come by.
[F#m] Well, sure enough, you know, after my show was over, [G] this person appeared.
She said, yeah, I'm Terry Stewart, [D] I'm the gal that's looking for somebody to represent.
_ I [A] liked what you did, I [D] really liked that song you closed with, that step-by-step song.
I said, yeah, [G] thank you, I'm so glad you like it.
[D] She said, but you know [Bm] that little dance that you did with it?
[G] I said, yeah.
She said, [D] don't do that again.
_ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ [G] So I [A] started going to cowboy [D] dances in anonymous.
_ Living in Boulder, you know.
[A] It was just a two-step program, [D] it wasn't that bad.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [G#] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ Step by step, _ side by side.
_ Hand [G] in hand, this [D] old world's a better ride.
[G] _ Step [D] by step, side by side.
Take a little step with your [A] neighbor.
Take a little [D] step with your neighbor.
Take a little step with your neighbor, side [G] by side.
_ _ [D] _
_ Remember, life is short, but it's wise.
[A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _