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Cmon Billy by PJ Harvey

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C'MON BILLY

by Polly Jean Harvey
Performed by PJ Harvey
from "To Bring You My Love" LP
Chords written out by David Heggie

Firstly, the song itself is fairly easy to play chord-wise -
there's no hard chords in it at all.  There's a fair amount of
muting of the strings, very like in her other song on the same
album, "Send His Love To Me". No amount of describing would tell
you how to play this - just listen to the record and play along -
 you'll get the hang of it.

The chords used & how to play them are :

     Chord diagramA minorAm    Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramDmDm    Chord diagramE minorEm e:---0-----0----1-----0-----  Notice how she plays the Chord diagramA minorAm chord
B:---1-----1----3-----0-----  it's played this way (hammering on
G:---0h2---0----2-----0-----  the Chord diagramE MajorE and Chord diagramA augmentedA notes) throughout the
D:---0h2---2----0-----2-----  verses.  Again, to make it
A:---0-----3----0-----2-----  clearer, listen to the record.
E:---0----(3)---x-----0-----

Here's how they fit into the Verse and Chorus :
[VERSE]

Chord diagramA minorAm           Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramC majorC
  C'mon ..
Chord diagramA minorAm                    Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramDmDm Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA minorAm
  You ...
Chord diagramA minorAm           Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramA minorAm                   Chord diagramC majorC
  C'mon ..
Chord diagramA minorAm                          Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramDmDm Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramA minorAm
  Don't ..
Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA minorAm                Chord diagramC majorC
  I ..
Chord diagramA minorAm                   Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramDmDm Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA minorAm
  The ..
Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA minorAm                   Chord diagramC majorC
  I ..
Chord diagramA minorAm               Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramDmDm Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramDmDm Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramDmDm
  My ..


[CHORUS]
Chord diagramDmDm          Chord diagramA minorAm
  Come ..
Chord diagramE minorEm                Chord diagramA minorAm
  Your ..
Chord diagramDmDm         Chord diagramA minorAm
  Come ..
Chord diagramE minorEm
  Tomorrow ..
[VERSE]
C'mon ..
How ..
Don't ..
Damn ..


[INSTRUMENTAL] for rest of verse

Then just repeat :

Chord diagramA minorAm                Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramC majorC
  Come ..

Until ...
Easy-Peasy.
 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
| David Heggie, SCOT, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh |
| EMail: [email protected] OR [email protected] |
 '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''


VERSION 2


PJ HARVEY: "C'MON BILLY"
(Polly Jean Harvey)
from the album To Bring You My Love


(Don't strum all the strings on the following chords although on some strokes
you will need to. It's not too hard once you get the feel of it.)
Chord diagramG4G4 -- 330003
A4 -- 002200


Verse one:
-------------
Chord diagramG4G4  A4              Chord diagramG4G4
         C'mon ..
A4               Chord diagramG4G4
  Come ..
A4                               Chord diagramG4G4
  You ..
  A4                           Chord diagramG4G4
I ..
A4                Chord diagramG4G4
   C'mon ..
A4                              Chord diagramG4G4
  You're ..
A4                                           Chord diagramG4G4
   Don't ..
        A4                            Chord diagramG4G4
You ..

A4                  Chord diagramG4G4
   I ..
A4                    Chord diagramG4G4
   Lovers' ..
A4                                     Chord diagramG4G4
   The ..
      A4                         Chord diagramG4G4
We ..
A4                    Chord diagramG4G4
      I ..
A4                                Chord diagramG4G4
   The ..
A4                     Chord diagramG4G4
   My ..
          A4
Come ..


Verse two:
--------------
Chord diagramA minorAm
   Come ..
Chord diagramC/AC/A
   It's ..
Chord diagramDmDm                             Chord diagramC/AC/A
   Your ..
Chord diagramA minorAm
   Come ..
Chord diagramC/AC/A
   To ..
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7 (770007)
   Tommorrow ..


Verse three (as verse one):
-----------------------------------
(Instr -- using chords from verse two)


Ending:
---------
Chord diagramG4G4  A4                                                  Chord diagramG4G4   X7
       Come ..
A4                                    Chord diagramA minorAm
Come ..


--- Matt ([email protected])

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