My Old School chords by Steely Dan

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:

Em7   C

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                 Em
  California ..

 C        D          C/G G C/G   G
  Soon ..

 G                        Em
  Tried ..

 C           D           C/G  G C/G  G
  But ..Well I


 C
  Hear ..

 D
  Take ..


CHORUS
-------

G Em
Oh No

G   Em      F/C C F/C C
Guadalahara ..

D          Am     Bm  Em7
Did ..

D      Am    Bm   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 Cdim D


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     Am  Bm  Em  D7  Am  Bm  Em  D  D7   G


Chord Shapes:

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

 Em7   C     G     C/G    D      Em


EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
X33211  X02210  X24432  X3X020  xx0212

 F/C   Am    Bm    Cdim   D7





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

a bit mixed up)

Howard  Email : spxhaw@uk.ac.cf.thor