Chords for Madman quick and dirty

_ _ _ Okay, it's a little video lesson on _ Elton John's song, Madman Across the Water.
This particular version _ that I'm going to show you here is done by Warren Haynes, the
band Government Mule.
And it's an unplugged version, acoustic version, kind of a campfire version.
It's pretty straightforward.
And hopefully you'll enjoy it.
At any rate, the song starts on an A minor. _
There's a little intro that I'll show you real quick.
But what I typically do is I'll hit the open A string and work this chord.
I'll play it through real quick and then show you what I'm doing. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [N] _ So what's happening there is, like I said, hit the open A [A] string [Am] and [N] give a quick shot
on that A minor.
And then I'm catching the E string on the third fret, sliding up to the fifth fret.
[A] _ And then [A] I'm rolling over and I'm catching the A string on the fifth fret and rolling
it up to the seventh.
_ [E] [B] Kind of like so. _ _ _
And then [D] you can _ _ do whatever you like with it.
I've heard it just slide back down on the A a little bit like so.
_ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F]
Or you [D] can hit that harmonic and just add a little something depending on which strings you catch.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [A] And [N] so on and so forth.
However, whatever sounds good to you.
_ _ It's a very basic deal.
So anyway, that's the intro.
And we start off in the verse.
It's an A minor to a G to an F.
And I'm not going to sing this.
I don't sing very well.
But _ [Eb] _ let me just run through it and we'll go from there.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [G] So that's basically [Bbm] the verse.
_ _ _ [Am] It's A minor, [G]
a G, [F] an F with a little _ hammer on there.
Walk [C] to a C.
Then a [D] D7. _
_ _ [D] _ Little hammer with the pinky. _
_ Then the [G] F, G, [Am] A minor.
And back to the [E] _ _ [Am] run.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Now when we get to the _ _ end of the first verse, the chorus, _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ that's [G] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ an E.
Is _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [E] [G] that wrong?
[Am] _
_ It's a [C] _ C with your pinky down [G] to a G [E] to an E to _ the A minor.
_ [C] C, _ [E]
D7, [G] F, G, [Am] A minor.
So [G] that goes kind of quick.
But this is running into the chorus.
So it's [C] to _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ the E, _ _ _ A [C] minor, [E] C, D7, [G] F, G, [Am] A minor.
_ [E] _ _ [C] _ [C] And that [G] repeats.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _
That repeats in the chorus.
We'll come again next Thursday [C] afternoon.
_ _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
And there's a little change that goes to the F.
[F] _ _ _
_ Then to an [E] E. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And [D] then we're back to the_
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So [N] I think that should be enough to get you started, hopefully.
Just have fun with it.
It's a campfire song.
It's all in major chords, all in the first position.
And _ I'm sure it can be played better than that.
So enjoy