Chords for How To Play Cat Stevens Where Do The Children Play (intro only)

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_ _ _ Let's follow the song sheet as we look at where do the children play.
It's strummed
throughout so the tag won't help us very much.
This is going to be a hybrid version.
On the
record there are two guitars, Cat Stevens and Alan Davis, and we're going to create
a version that gets a sense of both guitar parts on one guitar.
_ Starting with the intro,
the first couple of lines of the intro sound like [A] this. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So we've got [Eb] a normal D chord and
we're going to strum this pattern.
[D] Down, up, down, down, down, up. _
_ _ I'll give you the
count in a minute but the key thing is this first string finger which is going on, [A] on,
off, on, off, off. _ _ _
That's how to get a sense of [F] what's happening on the track.
Then go
to this G6 chord which is like a normal G chord but without the first string finger.
The first string is open.
And here we'll go [G] down, up, down, down, up, down, up.
_ But
the finger on [B] and off is going to be on the second string third [B] fret where it's [G] off, off,
on, off, on, on, off.
_ _ _ [B] Did you get that?
Let me play that whole thing.
[N] I'm going to do
the ons and offs because it's the key to sounding [D] like the track. _
On, on, off, on, [A] off, [G] off,
off, on, _ off, on, on, off.
_ _ Downs and ups.
[D] Down, up, down, down, down, [G] up, down, up,
down, down, up, down, up.
_ And finally the count.
_ One ee and two [G] and a three ee and four
ee and a. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now that's enough on [F] that kind of detail because basically the whole song is
going to do the same thing.
There are a couple of small changes that I'll show you when we
get there but a lot of the [Ab] song is that D to [Eb] G6 played over and over and over like that.
_ Four times he does it on the intro before going to the [Bb] first new chord which is a C
chord.
Still in the intro here.
C to C over B.
C is normal [Dm] and C over B leaves the index
finger where it is [D] and has the middle finger go to the fifth string [Eb] second fret.
You [C] can
play _ down, down, up, down, down, up.
Or actually [F] it's pick the bass note.
[C] So five down, up,
down, down, up.
And then [G] to C over B the same.
[B] Five [Bm] down, up, down, [G] down, up. _ _
[D] Then a little
so [C] that's one and a two [Bm] and a three [G] and a four and a.
Then there's [Eb] a three beat bar
where you'll go on a C chord.
Five [C] down, up.
_ [Gm] C over B [B] five down, up.
_ _ [Eb] Normal A chord five
[A] down, up.
_ And back [D] to the main riff which [G] _ _ _ _ you'll play twice more before the vocal comes
in.
_ [Eb] So what I'm going to do now [F] is play through that whole intro all the way through.
_ [A] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
Well [D] I think it's [G] fine. _ _
[D] Build and jumble please.
[G] _ _ _
_ So can you see [Bm] as we begin the vocal there that the D to [N] G6