Friends And Company Chords
by Melanie
Friends And Company by Melanie is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em, D7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G C D G Em C D G (2x)
C D G
Too much singing for my living tonight
Em C D D7
To a song for friends and company
G C D G
Too much is the matter with the giving on spite
Em C D G
Here's one for the giving and the other for free
C D G
The straw that broke the camel's back
Em C D D7
Has blown upon my window sill
G C D G
I may look beaten, but I don't look back
Em C D G
When you break my heart, you feed my will
Bridge:
Em G
This should be an Instrumental
D
But it seems I've made up words
Em C Em
Though they have a way of getting in the way
D Em
What a way to be absurd
D Em G
It's a way of being heard
INTERLUDE: C D Em D
Ba da, ooh la la laa
G C D G
Too much is the matter with the giving on spite
Em C D G
Here's one for the giving and the other for free
Em G
Too much time for resting easy
D
Not enough to sleep all night
Em C
And the shooting star I take for dreaming
D Em
Wakes me down, the doctor's right
D Em
Is the doctor ever right?
INTERLUDE:
G Em D
Oh oh laa, oh-oh oh-laa
G Em D Em C D
Oh-oh oooh, oh oh oh oh
G C D G C
Oh god, I need to swallow you whole again
D G C
I gotta mend the old soul again
D C D
All I need is some inner peace
G C D G C
Oh god, I need to swallow you whole again
D G C
I've gotta mend the old soul again
F C D
All I need is some inner peace
G C D Em D
Oh, inner peace
G Em C D G
Oh-oh ooh, oh oh oh oh
C D G
Give the soul a way to fly
Em C D D7
Soothe the eyes of memory
G C D G
Let's give it all for an answer why
Em C D G
If you reach the heaven, the spirit's on me
C D G
There's too much singing for my living tonight
Em C D
To a song for friends and company
G C D G
Too much is the matter with the giving on spite
Em C D G
Here's one for the giving and the other for free