Chords for Bill Bailey - Major / Minor (We Are Most Amused and Amazed 2018)

_ _ Now, _ I've always preferred the minor key.
Scales, the building blocks of music.
The minor scale is much more evocative.
The beautiful melodic minor.
_ [Ab] _ [C] The hopeful ascent, the depressing descent.
Things [Dm] are looking [Ab] happy and joyful.
No, they're not.
They're depressing and bleak.
[G] _ _ The harmonic minor with that little Indian [C] raggar at the end.
[Abm] _ _ _ [G] It's impossible to play that without [D] playing this.
_ [Abm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ [Am] Minor key is so much more evocative.
The major [C] key, too eager to please.
Like me, like me, like me, like me.
_ _ [Em] _
_ [Abm] _ [G] I prefer the minor key.
Some of the world's great classical music
is written in the minor key like Furi Lisa.
_ _ [E] _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ In the major key, it doesn't [G] work, does it? _
[A] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now, some of the great national anthems
are written in the major key.
In fact, most national anthems are in the major key.
Celebratory, uplifting.
I like to experiment with them
and play them in a different key.
And the one I'm thinking of is the Star-Spangled Banner,
the American national anthem,
which I think is appropriately now,
I think it should be played in the minor key.
[E] It _ takes on a totally different [Cm] dynamic. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Gm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [G] It actually makes it sound a bit Russian.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _