Tabs
Stranger With The Melodies Harry Chapin
As recorded (approximately :)) on 🏷Legends of the Lost and Found
Information:
TAB: one space equals one eigth note
main pattern repeats through out song (note variations at end of choruses):
D MajorD D/G 
D/ED/E 
D/AD/A
e|----3---|2---0---|----3---|2---0---|----3---|2---0---|----3---|2---0---|
BB|--3---3-|--2---3-|--3---3-|--2---3-|--3---3-|--2---3-|--3---3-|--2---3-|
G+G|-2-2-2-2|-3-3-2-2|-2-2-2-2|-3-3-2-2|-2-2-2-2|-3-3-2-2|-2-2-2-2|-3-3-2-2|
D MajorD|0-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
A augmentedA|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|0-------|--------|
E MajorE|--------|--------|3-------|----(2)-|0-------|--------|--------|--------|
end of verse progression:
A augmentedA 
A7A7 
A major 6A6 A augmentedA
E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e
o-o-------o o-o-------- o-o-------- o-o-------o
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| | 2 2 2 | | | 2 2 2 | | | 2 2 2 2 | | 2 2 2 |
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other verse pattern (I don't know the pick pattern, so I just strum these):
B minorBm 
FF 
A minorAm 
E minorEm
FF E minorEm G+G A augmentedA A7A7 A major 6A6 A augmentedA
last chord:
D MajorD (final)
E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e
x o o
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INTRO:
D MajorD D/G D/ED/E D/AD/A
D MajorD D/G D/ED/E D/AD/A
D MajorD
It was my first night ...
D/G
in the last room ...
D/ED/E
I heard a hoarse voice...
D/AD/A
comin' through the ....
D MajorD
A augmentedA crazy nonsense ...
D/G
it did not mean ...
D/ED/E
But for the first of ...
D/AD/A
this is what I ....
CHORUS:
D MajorD
Hold that "D" ....
D/G
'till I find ....
D/ED/E
Drop it down to ...
D/AD/A D MajorD D/AD/A
'till the "A" chord rolls ....
D MajorD D/G
I had to lay there listening, it ...
D/ED/E D/AD/A
The stranger with the melodies, ...
B minorBm FF
And he repeated it over and over again....
A minorAm E minorEm
It was kind of like a music ...
FF E minorEm
And he sang it, he hummed it, ...
G+G A augmentedA A augmentedA A7A7 A major 6A6
He laughed it, and he cried it...
CHORUS:
A augmentedA D MajorD
Hold that "D" ...
D/G
'till I find ...
D/ED/E
Drop it down to old ...
D/AD/A D MajorD D/AD/A
'till the "A" chord ...
D MajorD D/G
So I lay there in that lumpy bed, ...
D/ED/E D/AD/A
'till I banged on the wall ....
(D MajorD) (stop pattern, just base) (G+G)
A augmentedA sudden void of ......
(E MajorE) (A augmentedA) D MajorD (resume pattern) D/AD/A
"It weren't so long ago....
D MajorD D/G
So I said, "It's kind of ....
D/ED/E D/AD/A
He answered, "I need my music most .....
B minorBm FF
You see I've tried gettin' high ....
A minorAm E minorEm
Stayin' dry don't work out better, boy....
FF E minorEm
Won't you please let me ....
G+G A augmentedA A augmentedA A7A7 A major 6A6
You see I'm not singin' to .....
CHORUS:
A augmentedA D MajorD
Hold that "D" chord on ....
D/G
'till I find ...
D/ED/E
Drop it down to old ...
D/AD/A D MajorD D(strum) D(strum) A augmentedA
'till the "A" chord rolls ....
C majorC G+G
That's when I said, if I'm ...
C majorC G+G
one quick ....
FF C majorC A augmentedA
Why in the hell do you sing ...
(spoken) And this is ...
D MajorD D MajorD D MajorD D/G
I gave her the music...
D/ED/E D/AD/A
Together we'd write the kinds of ...
D MajorD D/G
Of course, we'd fight like cats ....
D/ED/E D/AD/A
Still, where ever we'd go, ...
D MajorD D/G
I can't remember now if I'd done ...
D/ED/E D/AD/A
Still, all I know is when I let ....
B minorBm
That's when I said, "You ....
FF
He said, "That's ....
A minorAm
But you can't wrap a ....
E minorEm
'cause it really ....
FF E minorEm
You see, a song don't have ....
G+G A augmentedA A augmentedA A7A7 A major 6A6 A augmentedA
What she could do was ....
D MajorD
He started singin' again, ....
D/G
and maybe I'd dreamed ...
D/ED/E
about the stranger ....
D/AD/A
who'd gone and ....
CHORUS:
D MajorD
Hold that "D" chord on ...,
D/G
'till I ...
D/ED/E
Drop it down to ...
D/AD/A D MajorD D(final)
'till the "A" chord rolls ...
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