12 Songs

---------------------------------------------------------------------------                       12 Songs - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album chords and tabs by: maguri ALBUM INFO Released  February 1970 Genre     Roots music singer-sowngwriter Length    29:51 Label     Reprise Producer  Lenny Waronker Jack Nitzsche - co-producer on "Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield" TRACK LIST All songs written by Randy Newman except "Underneath the Harlem Moon" as indicated.  1. Have You Seen My Baby?           2:32  2. Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield    3:03  3. Mama Told Me Not to Come         2:12  4. Suzanne                          3:15  5. Lover’s Prayer                   1:55  6. Lucinda                          2:40  7. Underneath the Harlem Moon       1:52         (Mack Gordon Harry Revel)  8. Yellow Man                       2:19  9. Old Kentucky Home                2:40 10. Rosemary                         2:08 11. If You Need Oil                  3:00 12. Uncle Bob’s Midnight Blues       2:15 MUSICIANS Randy Newman - vocals piano Clarence White - lead guitar B-Bender electric guitar Ron Elliott - rhythm guitar Ry Cooder - slide guitar Lyle Ritz - bass guitar double bass Jim Gordon Gene Parsons - drums Roy Harte Milt Holland - percussion Al McKibbon - double bass ---------------------------------------------------------------------------             1. Have You Seen My Baby? - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | | % | % | % | [Verse 1] Have you seen my baby On the avenue? You know she’s driving me crazy With the funny things she do [Verse 2] I seen her with the milkman Ridin’ down the street When you’re through with my baby milkman Send her home to me [Chorus] Hold on hold on hold on Hold on hold on hold on You know it’s been so long Since she have been gone Hold on hold on hold on [Verse 3] I seen her with the gypsies   Dancin’ in the wood She’s always been unfaithful to me She never been no good [Verse 4] I say "Please don’t talk to strangers baby" But she always do She say "I’ll talk to strangers if I want to ’Cause I’m a stranger too" [Chorus] Hold on hold on hold on Hold on hold on hold on You know it’s been so long Since she have been gone Hold on hold on hold on Hold on hold on hold on [Outro] (repeat and fade) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------             2. Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS E     0-2-2-x-0-0 B5    x-2-4-4-x-2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | | % | [Verse 1] Let’s burn down the cornfield Let’s burn down the cornfield And we can listen to it burn [Verse 2] You hide behind the oak tree You hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger ’til I return [Middle 8] Oh it’s so good On a cold night To have a fire Burnin’ warm and bright [Verse 3] You hide behind the oak tree You hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger ’til I return [Solo] | | % | % | % | | | | % | [Verse 4] Let’s burn down the cornfield Let’s burn down the cornfield And I’ll make love to you while it’s burning [Outro] | | % | % | % | And I’ll make love to you while it’s burning (faded out over last line) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------          3. Mama Told Me Not To Come - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- capo: 3rd fret play: E key: G For chords in original key transpose this chord sheet + 3 to G. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Verse] riff   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|0-------------0-|--------------0-| B|------3---------|------3---------| G|--0h1-----0h1---|--0h1-----0h1---| |----2-------2---|----2-------2---| E|0-------0-------|0-------0-------| [Chorus] (lick)   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|----------------|----------------| B|----------------|4-2---0---------| G|1-2---3---4-----|----------3-2---| D|2-4---5---6-----|4-2---1---------| A|----------------|----------5-4---| E|----------------|----------------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS E7/G#   4-x-0-1-0-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | | % | % | % | [Verse 1] Will you have whiskey with your water Or sugar with your tea What are these crazy questions That they’re asking of me This is the wildest party That there ever could be Oh don’t turn on the light ’Cause I don’t want to see [Chorus]      Mama told me not to come      Mama told me not to come   Mama said that ain’t no way to have fun     (lick) [Verse 2] Open up the window Let some air into this room I think I’m almost choking on The smell of stale perfume And that cigarette you’re smoking ’Bout to scare me half to death Open up the window Let me catch my breath [Chorus] (instrumental) | / | | | / | | | / | |   (lick) [Interlude] | | % | % | % | [Verse 3] The radio is blasting Someone’s beating on the door Our hostess is not lasting She’s out on the floor I seen so many things here I ain’t never seen before I don’t know what it is But I don’t wanna see no more [Chorus]      Mama told me not to come      Mama told me not to come   Mama said that ain’t no way to have fun     (lick)     (lick) [Outro] (fade out) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------             4. Suzanne - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Piano patterns    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e |----------------|----------------|  |----------------|----------------| B |--0---0---3-----|--0---0---3-----|  |----------3-----|----------3-----| G |3---0---------3-|----0---------3-|  |--5---5---------|--5---5---------| D |----------------|----------------|  |4---4---------4-|----4---------4-| A |----------------|----------------|  |5-------5---5---|5-------5---5---| E |3------3----3---|3-------3---3---|  |----------------|----------------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | | % | [Verse 1] I saw your name baby In a telephone booth And it told all about you mama Boy I hope it was the truth [Verse 2] I took down your number Looked up your address Sue And I was hopin’ that maybe You could love me too [Verse 3] I’m gonna wait in the shadows For you to come by I’m gonna wait in the shadows For you to come by [Verse 4] N’I’m gonna jump from the shadows And try and catch your eye Gonna run my fingers through your hair And love you everywhere [middle 8] I don’t don’t even get too romantic That’s just not my way But when I get my arms around you I’m gonna rock you all the night       D7           Daug Gonna rock you all day [Verse 5] Suzanne you won’t know it But I’ll be behind you Don’t try and run away from me little girl Wherever you go I’ll find you (Yes I will ...) [Verse 6] And when you go to the pictures And I know you do Don’t take no one with you ’Cause I’ll be there too Suzanne [Outro] Suzanne Suzanne ...            (fade out) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------             5. Lover’s Prayer - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS G7      3-x-0-0-0-1 C7      x-3-2-3-1-x Bb/F    1-x-3-3-3-x --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | | / / | % | [Verse 1] Don’t send me no young girl to love me        With their eyes shinin’ bright        All the young girls are afraid of me   Send me a woman tonight          [Verse 2] Don’t send me no hand-holdin’ baby          ’Cause I been with babies before         Don’t send me nobody that’s crazy         Send me no young girls no more          [Middle 8] I was entertaining a little girl in my rooms Lord With California wines and French perfumes Lord She started to talk to me about the War Lord I said "I don’t want to talk about the War." [Interlude] | | / / | | | / / | | | / / | | | / / | % | [Verse 3] Don’t send me nobody with glasses        Don’t want no one above me       Don’t send nobody takin’ night-classes   Send me somebody to love me        [Outro] Please answer my prayer         Please answer my prayer         Please answer my prayer         (repeat and fade out) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------                6. Lucinda - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS F/C     x-3-x-2-1-1 Bb/F    1-x-3-3-3-x C/G     3-x-5-5-5-x --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | / / | % | [Verse 1] We met one summer evening    As the sun was going down     She was lying on the beach    In her graduation gown     She was wrapped up in a blanket     (I could tell she knew her way around) (instrumental) And as I lay down beside her    You know she never made a sound        [Verse 2] On down the beach      Came the beach-cleaning man      Scoopin’ up paper     And flattening down the sand     "Lucinda Lucinda Lucinda ... we’ve got to run away (instrumental) That big white truck is closin’ in      And we’ll get wounded if we stay"        [Verse 3] Now Lucinda lies buried     ’Neath the California sand       Put under     By the beach-cleaning man Lucinda Lucinda Lucinda - why’d you have to go? (instrumental)            G7 N.C. Well they sent her to high school      G7 N.C. They sent her to low school She just wouldn’t go no further [Outro] (repeat and fade out) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------          7. Underneath the Harlem Moon - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Mack Gordon/Harry Revel CHORDS G7+     3-x-3-4-4-3 sometimes G7+(add9) 3-x-3-4-4-6 Fm7     1-3-1-1-1-1 F7sus4  1-3-1-3-1-1 Am7     x-0-2-0-1-0 A#dim7  x-1-2-0-2(1) G7/B    x-2-3-0-3-x Ddim    x-x-0-1-3-x D/F#    x-x-4-2-3-x D+      x-x-4-3-3-x --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | + | % | [Verse 1] Creole ladies walk along with rhythm in their thighs Rhythm in their hips and in their lips and in their eyes           Where do highbrows find the kind of love that satisfies? Underneath the Harlem moon [Verse 2] There’s no fields of cotton; picking cotton is taboo They don’t live in cabins like the old folks used to do Their cabin is a penthouse up on Lennox Avenue Underneath the Harlem moon [Middle 8] They just live for dancing They’re never blue or forlorn Ain’t no sin to laugh and grin That’s why darkies were born [Verse 3] They shout "Hallelujah!" every time they’re feeling low ’N very sheik is dressed up like a Georgia gigolo You may call it madness but I call it hi-de-ho Underneath the Harlem moon                ---------------------------------------------------------------------------             8. Yellow Man - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Mack Gordon/Harry Revel From: “12 Songs” (1970) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard    [Intro]   N.C.             1 +  2 +  3  +  4  +   1  +  2 + 3 + 4 + e|8-11-8----------------|------------------| B|8-11-8-11-------------|------------------| G|-------10-12-10-------|------------------| D|----------12-10-13-10-|------------------| A|----------------13-10-|13-10-8-6---------| E|----------------------|13-10-8-6---------| [Link]   N.C.   1  +  2  +  3  +  4  + e|------------------------| B|------------------------| G|12-15-12----------------| D|12-15-12-15-12----------| A|---------15-12-15-12-10-| E|---------------15-12-10-| [Coda]   N.C.   1 +  2 +  3  +  4  +                  e|8-11-8----------------| B|8-11-8-11-------------| G|-------10-12-10-------| D|----------12-10-13-10-| A|----------------13-10-| E|----------------------| CHORDS Eb7     x-6-5-6-4-x D7      x-5-4-5-3-x A#dim7  x-1-2-0-2-x G7/B    x-2-3-0-3-x D#dim7  x-x-1-2-1-2 C/E     x-x-2-0-1-3 G13     3-5-3-4-5-3 G#aug   4-x-2-1-1-x C/G     3-x-2-0-1-x Am/F#   2-x-2-2-1-x --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | N.C. | % |        [Verse 1] Very far a- way in a foreign land                  Live the yel-low woman and the yellow man                [Verse 2] He’s been a- round for many-a- year                  They say they were there before we  were here                [Middle 8] Eatin’ rice all day While the children play You see he believes In the family Just like you and me - oh [Verse 3}    Yel-low man oh yel-low man                   We un- derstand you know we un- der- stand                     [Interlude] Da-da-da da-da-da-da da-da dah dah Da-da-da da-da-da-da da-da dah dah Da-da-da da-da-da-da da-da dah dah Da-da-da   (Link) [Verse 4] He keeps his money tight in  his hand                   With his yel-low woman he’s a yel-low  man                 [Coda] Got to have a yellow woman when you’re a yel-low man   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------              9. My Old Kentucky Home - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | | % | % | % | [Verse 1] Turpentine and dandelion wine I’ve turned the corner I’m doin’ fine Shootin’ at the birds on the telephone line Pickin’ them off with this gun o’ mine I got a fire in my belly and a fire in my head Growing higher and higher ’till I’m dead [Verse 2] Sister Sue she’s short and stout She didn’t grow up she grew out Mama thinks she’s plain but she’s just being kind Papa thinks she’s pretty but he’s almost blind We don’t let her out much except at night But I don’t care ’cause I’m all right [Chorus] O-ho the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home And the young folks roll on the floor Oh the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home Keep them hard times away from my door [Verse 3] Brother Gene he’s big and mean And he don’t have much to say Got a little woman who he whooped each day But now she’s gone away Got drunk last night kicked mama down the stairs But I’m all right so I don’t care [Chorus] O-ho the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home And the young folks roll on the floor Oh the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home Keep them hard times away from my door [Verse 4] Turpentine and dandelion wine I’ve turned the corner I’m doin’ fine Shootin’ at the birds on the telephone line Pickin’ them off with this gun o’ mine I got a fire in my belly and a fire in my head Growing higher and higher ’till I’m dead [Solo] | | % | | | | | % | | % | | | % | | | | | | Asus | % | (fade) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------            10. Rosemary - Randy Newman                --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS D7#9    x-5-4-5-6-x F7      x-8-7-8-6-x E7      x-7-6-7-5-x Eb7     x-6-5-6-4-x D7      x-5-4-5-3-x --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | | % | [Verse 1] Rosemary won’t you come out tonight? The moon is shining and the stars are bright If you stay inside how can I love you dear When you’re up there and I’m down here? [Verse 2] Come on down we’ll take a walk in the park I know a place there where it’s nice and dark I’ll hold yours baby and you’ll hold mine I’m thinking about you all the time [Middle 8] Hear that wind blow through your window And I call your name I need you so baby I’m ready to go baby                        2/4   Ain’t that a shame? Take your shoes off Come with me Take your shoes off ... [Verse 3] Rosemary won’t you come out tonight? The moon is shining and the stars are bright If you stay inside how can I love you dear When you’re up there and I’m down here? When you’re up there and I’m down here? [Outro] Rosemary                         Rosemary                         Rosemary                         (repeat and fade) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------            11. If You Need Oil - Randy Newman     --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Randy Newman From: “12 Songs” (1970)                                Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard CHORDS Bb9/D   x-x-0-1-1-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] There ain’t no moon There ain’t no stars         F7       F#dim7 Have to close up soon ’Cause there ain’t no cars Got no radio Got no telephone I’m just aw-ful bored And I’m so  a- lone [Verse 1] Baby please come to the station And I’ll wipe your windshield clean If you need oil I’ll give you oil And I’ll fill your tank with gasoline [Verse 2] Baby please come to the station You know I get so lonely there Bring some wine for inspiration And wear a ribbon in your hair [Middle 8] Hear those dogs  bark Man they can feel this cold And it’s so   dark   I need your hand to hold [Verse 3] Baby please come to the station   I need you so tonight Come and put your arms around me Baby come and hold me tight [Verse 4] Please baby come to the station I’ve taken all that I can take Baby how can you be sleeping When you know that I’m awake? [Outro] | | | | | (fade out over last four bars) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------             12. Uncle Bob’s Midnight Blues - Randy Newman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro} | | % | % | % | [Verse 1] I’m goin’ down to the corner Gonna have myself a drink I’m goin’ down to the corner Gonna have myself a drink ’Cause that shit that we been usin’   It sure confuse my thinking [Verse 2] I’m goin’ down to the drugstore Buy myself a goat Tie him up in my front yard For all my so-called friends to see Ain’t nobody gonna look in window and laugh at me baby I been up so long that it looks like down to me [Middle 8] Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone Baby are you against me too? [Verse 3] Had a great idea the other night Oh [... ?] Come-A-Ti-Yi-Yippie baby Look out When the blue of the night Meets the gold of the day [Outro] We love you We love you We love you We love you