Chords for Piano Man - Billy Joel

_ _ Hey guys, how's it going?
I got my buddy here Zach here with me.
He's gonna play a guitar
We're gonna do a song by Billy Joel.
It's called piano, man
[A#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ It's nine [E] o'clock on a Saturday
_ _ [D]
Regular [A] crowd [B] rushes in
[E] _ There's an old man
[F#m] Sitting next to [E] me [D] making love [E] to his tonic and gin
_ _ [A] _
_ He says son, [E] can you play [F#m] me a memory?
[E] _ [A] Not really sure [B] how it goes
[E] But it's sad and it's sweet and [A] I knew it complete [B] when I [E] wore younger [A] man's clothes
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_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
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_ _ Sing us a song [F#m] you're the piano [E] man [A] sing us a song [B] tonight
_ [E] Well, we're all in the mood [F#m] for a melody
[E] _ _ [B] You've [E] got us feeling all right
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Al John at [E] the bar, he's a friend of mine
_ [A] He gets me [A] my drinks for [B] free
_ [E] And [A] he's quick with a [E] joke or [F#m] to light up your [E] smoke, but there's some place that he'd rather [A] be _ _ _ _
_ He
Said James, [E] I believe [F#m] this is killing [E] me [A] as a smile ran away from [B] his face
[E] Well, I'm sure that I could be [F#m] a movie star
[E] _ [A] If I [E] could get out of [A] this place
_ _ [F#m] I
[E] _ _ [B] _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] Paul [E] is a real estate novelist
[A] He never had time [B] for a while
[E] _ [A] And he's talking with Davey who's still in [E] the Navy
[A] Probably [E] will [Am] be for life _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] and the [E] waitress is [F#m] practicing
Politics [D] as the [A] businessmen slowly [B] get stoned
[E] _ Well, they're sharing a drink.
They [F#m] call [E] loneliness, but it's better than drinking [A] alone
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _
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Sing us a song [F#m] you're the piano [E] man
_ [A]
Sing [B] us a song tonight
[E] _ Well, we're all in the mood [F#m] for a melody
[E] _ _ [D]
You've [E] got us feeling [A] all right _ _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ It's a pretty good [E] crowd for a Saturday and [A] the manager gives me [B] a smile
[E] Cuz [A] he knows that it's me.
They've been coming to see [E] to forget about life [A] for a while
_ _ _ _ _ And the piano [E] sounds [F#m] like a [F#] carnival
[F#m] And the microphone smells [B] like a [E] beard [A] and they sit [E] at the bar and [F#m] put bread in [E] my jar
And [A] say man, [E] what are you [A] doing?
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [F#m] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
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Sing us a song you're the piano man
_ [A] _
Sing us a song tonight
[E] _ Well, we're all in the mood [F#m] for a [E] melody _ _
You've got us [A] feeling all right _
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