Intro
(Spoken)
A F#m7 A Dmaj7 E7
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
A F#m7 Dmaj7 A
[Verse]
D A Bm7 D F#m7 A
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
A Dm A
There is nothing I want more than to play like him
A Dmaj7 A Bm7
He goes to the basement and builds me a cookie-tin banjo
Bm7 A E A
He builds me a cookie-tin banjo
A F#m
The strings are made of rubber bands
Dmaj7 A
The strap is an old red neck tie
D A A6 F#m A D A
The body is the big round lid of a metal cookie-tin
A D A D
When he plays his old guitar I play my cookie-tin banjo
A
I play my cookie-tin banjo right along with him
[Interlude]
A Am7 Abm7 Gm7 C B A
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]
D A A6 D A
The more we play together the more I fall in love with music
A D A
And I realize that my banjo is a toy that I've outgrown
A D A
I want strings of steel and something new and something real
A F#m E
So he gets me a guitar to call my own
Am7 Abm7
e|--5----------------------------4---|
B|--6----------------------------5---|
G|--5----------------------------4---|
D|--7----------------------------6---|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
Then dad says to me on this fine afternoon
Gm7 C C#m7 A
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
Am7 Abm7
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
Gm7 C A6
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]
A6 A F#m
Now buried somewhere in a closet is my cookie-tin banjo
D F#m A
In my arms is my guitar, my greatest source of joy
D A6 Bm7 F#m7
For the life that I have now I'm grateful to my father
F#m7 Bm7
He gave the gift of music to his boy
Bm7 A
It started with a simple homemade toy
- 1. Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar F)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar F)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan