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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 01:06:32 EDT
Subject: j/billy_joel/miami_2017.tab
Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
Off the album "Turnstiles"
This is how I play this on guitar. If anyone has a better way to
play this, please let me know! email protected, because this one's a
pain to play. (Sounds nice when you do it right, though...)
Let bass notes ring. The first note's a harmonic because you'll
have to slide up a bit. Practice it slow; this has to be perfect
to sound good. To perform it I have to rehearse it for several days
before the gig or I get rusty.
I use a clean sound with a touch of chorus, just a hint.
Legal, this is what I, Neil Fein, heard on the record.
----------10-14-15-14-------17- ----12---12-10---12-
-------10-------------15------- --------------------
--12-------------------14---- --9----9-------9----
------------------------------- -10-----------------
------------------------------- --------------------
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----12-------12-------12- -12-------12-------12----
-------15-------15------- ----15-------15-------15-
----------12-------12---- -------12-------12-------
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-14---------------------- -13----------------------
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This part is more or less the same, but an octave down:
-------2-3-2-----5- ---0-----0-----0-
-----3-------3----- -----3-----3-----
---2-----------2--- -------0-----0---
-0----------------- -----------------
------------------- -3---------------
------------------- -----------------
-----0-----0----- -0---------------
-3-----3-----3--- ---3-1-0---------
---0-----0-----0- ---------2-0-----
----------------- -------------4-2-
-2--------------- -1---------------
----------------- -----------------
DSeen the G/Dlights go out on DBroadwayA G/D/C#D
BmI saw the GEmpire State laid AlowG Asus A
D/F#And life went on beyond the GPalisadesG Gsus
They all bought ACadillacsAsus A
And left there Glong agoA
DThey held a cG/Doncert out in DBrooklynA G/D/C#D
BmTo watch the Gisland bridges AblowG Asus A
D/F#They turned our Gpower down
D/AAnd drove us G/Bunderground
A/C#But we went G/Bright on with the show
(Repeat with same chords)
I seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet
You know we almost didn^Òt notice it
They burned the churches up in Harlem
Like in that Spanish civil war
The flames were everywhere
It always burned up there before
I seen the lights go out on Broadway
I watched the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
And sank Manhattan out at sea
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
("alive" is on a G/D chord, I play it X55433)
(End with same as intro fingerstyle)