Piano Man Uke tab by Billy Joel

11 Chords used in the song: C, Em7, Am, F, D7, G, G7, Em, A7, Am7, CMaj7

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Artist: Billy Joel

Album: The Essential Billy Joel

Year: 1973

Difficulty:

2.59

(Beginner)

Key: unknownChords and Tablature

Piano Man, simplified in a chord-melody style. I kept the vocal melody on the highest strings, and built the chords underneath it. This is kind of a "bare bones" arrangement, but there's enough here to work with, if you wanted to perform it.

Both verse and chorus use these changes:

          C           Em7            Am(m6)        C             F          
A||--10-|-10------10-|-10--8---7---|-8-----------|-------------|-3---3---3---|
E||-----|-8----------|-7-----------|-8-12-8------|-8-------8---|-1-----------|
C||-----|-9----------|-7-----------|-9-----------|-7-----------|-0-----------|
G||-----|-0----------|-0-----------|-------------|-5-----------|-2-----------|
          *   *   *    *   *   *     *    *   *    *   *   *     *   *   * 
  
  C             D7            G             C            Em7           Am(m6)                        
|-3---3---5---|-5-----------|---------10--|-10------10-|-10--8---7--|-8-----------|
|-0-----------|-5-----------|-7-----------|-8----------|-7----------|-8-12-8------|
|-0-----------|-7-----------|-7-----------|-9----------|-7----------|-9-----------|
|-0-----------|-5-----------|-7-----------|-0----------|-0----------|-------------|
  *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *    *   *   *    *    *   * 

  C             F            G7           C         F         Em        A7
|-------------|-0-------8--|-8---7------|-3-------|---------|---------|---------||
|-8-------5---|-1----------|-7-------8--|-0-------|-1-------|-3-------|-3-------||
|-7-----------|-0----------|-7----------|-0-------|-0-------|-4-------|-2-------||
|-5-----------|-2----------|-7----------|-0-------|-2-------|-0-------|-0-------||
  *   *   *     *   *  *    *   *   *     *  *  *    *  *  *  *  *  *   *  *  *

And then the "La - De - Da" part goes like this:

  Am            Am7           D7            F             Am                    
|-0-----------|-0---2---3---|-2-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
|-0-----------|-0-----------|-2-----------|-1-----------|-0-----------|
|-0-----------|-0-----------|-2-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
|-2-----------|-0-----------|-2---2-------|-2-----------|-2-----------|
  *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *    

  Am7           D7                       G          G7        CMaj7     G7
|-0---2---3--|-2----------|-2----------|-10-------|-8-------|-7-------|-5-------||
|-0----------|-2----------|-2-------3--|-7--------|-7-------|-7-------|-3-------||
|-0----------|-2----------|-2----------|-7--------|-7-------|-7-------|-5-------||
|-0----------|-2----------|-2---2------|-7--------|-7-------|-5-------|-4-------||
  *   *   *    *   *   *    *   *   *    *  *  *    *  *  *   *  *  *   *  *  *   

Possible lyric substitution:
"Sing us a song, Ukulele Man; sing us a song tonight..."

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Uke tab by BMcCue7, 21 May 2009

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ralphed34

(Fort Smith)

Just curious as to why you did not resolve the G7 with a C at the end.

Other wise sounds really good.

11 Jun 2009

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About this song: Piano Man

"Piano Man" was Billy Joel's first major hit and is considered Joel's signature song. The verses of the song are sung from the point of view of a bar piano player who focuses mainly on everyone else at the bar: John the bartender, the waitress, and bar regulars like Paul and Davy. Most of these characters have unfulfilled dreams, and the pianist's job, it seems, is to help them "forget about life for a while".

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