My Old School chords by Steely Dan

Chords with lyrics

From Howard Wright                 Jun 15 '94 at 9:52 am wet


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Someone requested tab for this one - It's all based on pretty simple chords,
so I'm just going to give the chord shapes for most of it.

My memory's failed me on the words , so I'll type some to give an idea of
how chords and words match up


         MY OLD SCHOOL    -  STEELY DAN
         ---------------

INTRO:

E minor 7Em7   C majorC

A-----------5-----------
E-----3-5s7---7s5-3-5-0-3

s=slide

VERSE:
-------

(each chord is strummed on the 2 and 4 beats for most of the verse)


 G+G                 E minorEm
  California ..

 C majorC        D MajorD          C/GC/G G+G C/GC/G   G+G
  Soon ..

 G+G                        E minorEm
  Tried ..

 C majorC           D MajorD           C/GC/G  G+G C/GC/G  G+G
  But ..Well I


 C majorC
  Hear ..

 D MajorD
  Take ..

CHORUS
-------

G+G E minorEm
Oh No

G+G   E minorEm      F/CF/C C majorC F/CF/C C majorC
Guadalahara ..

D MajorD          A minorAm     B minorBm  E minor 7Em7
Did ..

D MajorD      A minorAm    B minorBm   G+G
Never ...


Rhythmic riff-thing:

G---7----9----------------7-9-7-9
D---7----9--7---7--9-9----7-9-7-9----}
A---5----7--7---7--9-9----5-7-5-7----}-  Play three times
E-----------5---5--7-7---------------}


C majorC CdimCdim D MajorD


Then back to another verse

Just after the riff above, before the last verse (I think) there's
a bit more instrumental stuff with saxes.

The chords for this are:

G+G     A minorAm  B minorBm  E minorEm  D7D7  A minorAm  B minorBm  E minorEm  D MajorD  D7D7   G+G


Chord Shapes:

EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE
022030  X32010  3X0003  3X2013   XX0232   022000

 E minor 7Em7   C majorC     G+G     C/GC/G    D MajorD      E minorEm


EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
X33211  X02210  X24432  X3X020  xx0212

 F/CF/C   A minorAm    B minorBm    CdimCdim   D7D7




Any Queries - let me know! (But ignore my words even *I* know there

a bit mixed up)

Howard  Email : [email protected]