Angels Of Fenway Chords

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Angels Of Fenway by James Taylor is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em, A7, A, E, Bm, Am and Gbm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: G  G 


Verse 

G     C         D  G              C          D 
86 summers gone by, Bambino put a hex on the Bean 

Em                   A7             Em                    C         D          
 We were living on a tear and a sigh, in the shadow of the Bronx Machine 

G                 C        D     G                       C     D 
  Man, you could feel it smolder, the whole town had an attitude 

Em                      A7                  Em                    C          D           
Then they get a little chip on the shoulder, say something that's downright rude 

G   C           D      G                     C      D 
Oh, damn them Yankees, outspending everybody two to one 

Em                A7                 Em                  C   G     D 
Picking up on the cream of the crop, stealing everyone's favorite son 



D  A       E               Bm                   E      Am              C  D      
Angels of Fenway hear our prayers, we have been patient, we have been jacent 



Verse 

G               C      D    G          C       D 
Grandmama was a Fenway fan, even after Grandad died 

Em                   A7             Em          C            D 
I still remember her holding my hand, taking me along for the ride 

G               C   D  G                   C       D 
She was born in 19  18, last year that the Red Sox won 

Em                 A7            Em                   C             D 
Back the when they sold the Babe, something that they never shoulda ever have done  



Bridge 

One more! 

Bm              G      
Hey Nanna can I have another Coke?  

Bm               E             A   A             Gbm            
   Here come the hot dog ma-----n, look at that, his bat just broke 

A                  Gbm 
Gee, that's got to kill his hand 

Bm                G           Bm                   E  
Riding out on the Green Line, watching the town go by 

A                  Gbm         A               D 
Nanna made another Red Sox fan, till the day I die 


Verse 

G                C     D    G                    C         D 
That was back in sixty-five, doesn't seem like a long time ago 

Em                A7         Em                 C        D  
Grandmama keeping hope alive, watch them win in double-o-four 

G                   C         D  G              C      D   
Oh my God, it was beyond belief, down 3 needing 4 in a row 

Em                A7                Em              C       D 
Holding on by the skin of our teeth, like a hungry dog on a bone 

Chorus:

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante