Chords for Queen: A Night At The Opera - Good Company

Tempo:
183.9 bpm
Chords used:

F#

B

C#

D

G#

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Queen: A Night At The Opera - Good Company chords
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This is a George Formby, genuine George Formby ukulele.
It has him on there, you can see his picture.
And this is the instrument my dad carried with him all through the war,
Second World War.
It's a ukulele banjo.
It's not a ukulele or a banjo.
It's a ukulele banjo.
And it makes this particular sound, which was part of my upbringing.
My dad used to sit and put this on his knee and go, go.
[B] [N]
This is how I learned the guitar.
The chord shapes that my dad taught me to play things like that
transferred quite easily onto the guitar.
And I remember they got the guitar for my seventh birthday
and started working out the chords for the guitar.
So the idea for a good company obviously comes from here.
I'd like to take good care of what you've got.
My father said to me, as he puffed his pipe and baby beat
and on his knee, take care of those you call your own and keep good company.
[B]
[D]
It's been 20 years, you know.
Take care of those you call your own and keep good company.
[C#] Soon they grew and grew [D#] into [F#] my very good friends and me.
[C#] Play all day with Sally J, [F#] the girl from number four.
Very [B] soon I [Am] read her [C#] words and kept a [F#] company.
It also developed to a number of other things.
I grew up in another place, which is the place of the jazz band.
[G] That's very much part of my childhood too.
The Dixieland jazz band was kind of revived when I was a kid.
And there was a wonderful group called the Temperance Seven
who played a mixture of Dixieland and very arranged pseudo-twenties music.
And I learned a lot of my arrangement from those guys.
So when it came to doing the solo part for Good Company,
I wanted it to sound like a jazz band.
And of course I wanted the guitar to be the jazz band.
It was very work intensive.
Every note was done separately to get the actual proper trumpet sounds
and the trombone sounds, etc.
Very painstaking, but a lot of fun because it had never been done before.
I don't think I would do it these days really,
unless there was a very good reason.
I just loved this stuff.
It was wonderful to be able to take the time to do this stuff in the studio,
which I'd always dreamed of doing, I guess.
That's the great thing about Night at the Opera.
We had the time, that we were given the opportunity
to explore all those avenues rather than be rushing in and out.
It's hard to believe that it is guitar and that somebody actually created that.
Am I a Queen fan?
Do I sound like a Queen fan?
I don't know.
Even if I wasn't a fan, you'd have to just go, what is that?
How did that happen?
Who's responsible for that?
This is roughly what they sound like without anything else.
[G#] [F]
[F#]
[D] [C#]
[A#m] [B] [F] [F#]
[D]
[F#] [A#m] [G#]
[A#] [B] [G#]
[F#]
[C#] [B] [F]
[F#]
[C#] [D]
[C#] [D#] [F#]
[B] And the bells.
[A] [A#m] [F#]
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F#
134211112
B
12341112
C#
12341114
D
1321
G#
134211114
F#
134211112
B
12341112
C#
12341114
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This is a George Formby, _ genuine George Formby ukulele.
It has him on there, you can see his picture.
And this is the instrument my dad carried with him all through the war,
Second World War.
_ It's a ukulele banjo.
It's not a ukulele or a banjo.
It's a ukulele banjo.
_ _ And it makes this particular sound, which was part of my upbringing.
My dad used to sit and put this on his knee and go, go. _ _
[B] _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ This is how I learned the guitar.
The chord shapes that my dad taught me to play things like that
transferred quite easily onto the guitar.
And I remember they got the guitar for my seventh birthday _
and started working out the chords for the guitar.
So the idea for a good company obviously comes from here.
I'd like to take good care of what you've got.
My father said to me, as he puffed his pipe and baby beat
and on his knee, take care of those you call your own and keep good company.
[B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ It's been 20 years, you know. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Take care of those you call your own and keep good company. _ _
_ [C#] Soon they grew and grew [D#] into [F#] my very good friends and me.
_ _ [C#] Play all day with Sally J, [F#] the girl from number four.
_ _ Very [B] soon I [Am] read her [C#] words and kept a [F#] company. _
It also developed to a number of other things.
I grew up in another place, which is the place of the jazz band.
_ [G] _ That's very much part of my childhood too.
The Dixieland jazz band was kind of revived when I was a kid.
And there was a wonderful group called the Temperance Seven
who played a mixture of Dixieland and very _ arranged pseudo-twenties music.
And I learned a lot of my arrangement from those guys.
_ So when it came to doing the solo part for Good Company,
I wanted it to sound like a jazz band.
_ And of course I wanted the guitar to be the jazz band.
It was very work intensive.
Every note was done separately to get _ the actual proper trumpet sounds
and the trombone sounds, etc.
_ _ _ Very painstaking, but a lot of fun because it had never been done before.
I don't think I would do it these days really,
_ unless there was a very good reason.
I just loved this stuff.
It was wonderful to be able to take the time to do this stuff in the studio,
_ _ _ which I'd always dreamed of doing, I guess.
That's the great thing about Night at the Opera.
We had the time, that we were given the opportunity
to explore all those avenues rather than be rushing in and out.
It's hard to believe that it is guitar and that somebody actually created that.
Am _ _ _ I a Queen fan?
Do I sound like a Queen fan?
I don't know.
_ _ Even if I wasn't a fan, you'd have to just go, what is that?
How did that happen?
Who's responsible for that?
This is roughly what they sound like without anything else. _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [A#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [F] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F#] _ [A#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
_ [A#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G#] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [D#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[B] And the bells.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [A#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _

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