Intro
(Spoken)
G Em7 G Cmaj7 D7
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
G Em7 Cmaj7 G
[Verse]
C G Am7 C Em7 G
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
G Cm G
There is nothing I want more than to play like him
G Cmaj7 G Am7
He goes to the basement and builds me a cookie-tin banjo
Am7 G D G
He builds me a cookie-tin banjo
G Em
The strings are made of rubber bands
Cmaj7 G
The strap is an old red neck tie
C G G6 Em G C G
The body is the big round lid of a metal cookie-tin
G C G C
When he plays his old guitar I play my cookie-tin banjo
G
I play my cookie-tin banjo right along with him
[Interlude]
G Gm7 Gbm7 Fm7 A# A G
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]
C G G6 C G
The more we play together the more I fall in love with music
G C G
And I realize that my banjo is a toy that I've outgrown
G C G
I want strings of steel and something new and something real
G Em D
So he gets me a guitar to call my own
Gm7 Gbm7
e|--5----------------------------4---|
B|--6----------------------------5---|
G|--5----------------------------4---|
D|--7----------------------------6---|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
Then dad says to me on this fine afternoon
Fm7 A# Bm7 G
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
Gm7 Gbm7
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
Fm7 A# G6
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]
G6 G Em
Now buried somewhere in a closet is my cookie-tin banjo
C Em G
In my arms is my guitar, my greatest source of joy
C G6 Am7 Em7
For the life that I have now I'm grateful to my father
Em7 Am7
He gave the gift of music to his boy
Am7 G
It started with a simple homemade toy
- 1. Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan