Intro
(Spoken)
B G#m7 B Emaj7 F#7
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
B G#m7 Emaj7 B
[Verse]
E B C#m7 E G#m7 B
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
B Em B
There is nothing I want more than to play like him
B Emaj7 B C#m7
He goes to the basement and builds me a cookie-tin banjo
C#m7 B F# B
He builds me a cookie-tin banjo
B G#m
The strings are made of rubber bands
Emaj7 B
The strap is an old red neck tie
E B B6 G#m B E B
The body is the big round lid of a metal cookie-tin
B E B E
When he plays his old guitar I play my cookie-tin banjo
B
I play my cookie-tin banjo right along with him
[Interlude]
B Bm7 A#m7 Am7 D C# B
e|---5---5---4----3---1---0---2--|
B|---7---6---5----4---1---0---3--|
G|---7---5---4----3---2---1---2--|
D|---7---7---6----5---3---2---0--|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|
[Verse]
E B B6 E B
The more we play together the more I fall in love with music
B E B
And I realize that my banjo is a toy that I've outgrown
B E B
I want strings of steel and something new and something real
B G#m F#
So he gets me a guitar to call my own
Bm7 A#m7
e|--5----------------------------4---|
B|--6----------------------------5---|
G|--5----------------------------4---|
D|--7----------------------------6---|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
Then dad says to me on this fine afternoon
Am7 D D#m7 B
e|----3--------------------1--------2------2--|
B|----4--------------------1--------2------3--|
G|----3--------------------2--------2------2--|
D|----5--------------------3--------2------0--|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
Let's sit on the stairs, I'll teach you a tune
Bm7 A#m7
e|--5--------------------4---|
B|--6--------------------5---|
G|--5--------------------4---|
D|--7--------------------6---|
A|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|
He hands me a pick, one that's little and black
Am7 D B6
e|---3-------------------1------------------2--|
B|---4-------------------1------------------0--|
G|---3-------------------2------------------2--|
D|---5-------------------3------------------0--|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
He shows me the g chord, I've never looked back
[Outro]
B6 B G#m
Now buried somewhere in a closet is my cookie-tin banjo
E G#m B
In my arms is my guitar, my greatest source of joy
E B6 C#m7 G#m7
For the life that I have now I'm grateful to my father
G#m7 C#m7
He gave the gift of music to his boy
C#m7 B
It started with a simple homemade toy
- 1. Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan