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Song title:      Fred Jones Part 2
Original Album:  Rockin' The Suburbs

Words and Music by Ben Folds
Copyright © 2001 Epic Records
Published by Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 3/4. Strum gently


INTRO:
Chords:
C    x32013    Em7  020033
Am7  x02013    G    320033

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


Guitar Figure 1
  C                         Am7
|-3-------3____---3-p-0---|-3-------3____---3-p-0---|
|-1-------1____-----------|-1-------1____-----------|
|-0-------0____-----------|-0-------0____-----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-3________---------------|-0________---------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |


  Em7                       G
|-3-------3____---3-p-0---|-3-------3---5---0---1---|
|-3-------3____-----------|-0-----------------------|
|-0-------0____-----------|-0-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-2________---------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-3________---------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |



VERSE1:
Notes:
* play 4-chord figure as in the INTRO.

Chords:
C    x32010    G        320003    Em7    020030
Am7  x02010    F        x33211    Dm11   xx0011
Em   022000    Fmaj7/A  x03210    Gsus4  330013


| C        | Am7       | Em        | G
  Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark

         | C           | Am7       | Em         | G
There's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall

     | Am7           | F             | Am7       | F
He has cleared all his things and he's put them in boxes

| C           | %        | G           | %
  Things that remind him: "Life has been good"

| Fmaj7/A   | %        | Dm11        | %
  Twenty-five years he's worked at the paper

| C           | %          | G    | Gsus4 | G |
A man's here to take him downstairs

        C         F     G7 | C   | Am7 | Em7 | G |*
And I'm sorry, Mr Jones it's time



[play: 3/4| C | Am7 | Em7 | G |]



VERSE2:
Chords:
C    x32010    G        320003    Em7    020030
Am7  x02010    F        x33211    Dm11   xx0011
Em   022000    Fmaj7/A  x03210    Gsus4  330013


| C          | Am7  | Em          | G
  There was no party, there were no songs

       | C          | Am7        | Em        | G
'Cause today's just a day like the day that he started

| Am7     | F            | Am7           | F
  No one is left here that knows his first name

  | C          | %       | G     | % 
And life barrels on like a runaway train

        | Fmaj7    | %               | Dm11    | % 
Where the passengers change they don't change anything

      | C          |            | G | Gsus4 | G |
You get off; someone else can get on

      | C       | F   | G7 | C   | Am7 | Em7 | G |
And I'm sorry, Mr Jones it's time



[play: 3/4| C | Am7 | Em7 | G |]



BRIDGE:
Chords:
Am   x02210 or 577555    C    x32010 or x3555x
Em7  020030 or x79787    G/B  x20003
F    x33211


| Am                           | Em7
  Streetlight shines through the shades

      | F                    | C          | G/B
Casting lines on the floor and lines on his face

   | F           | C
He reflects on the day



PIANO INTERLUDE (over these chords:)

Chords:
Am7  x02010    Em     022000
Em7  020030    G      320003
F    x33211    D      xx0232
Am   x02210    Dsus4  xx0233


[play: 3/4| Am7 | Em7 | Am7 | Em7 |

          | F | Em7 | Am | Em7 |

          | F | Em  | G  | D Dsus4 D |]


VERSE3:
Chords:
C    x32010    G        320003    Em7    020030
Am7  x02010    F        x33211    Dm11   xx0011
Em   022000    Fmaj7/A  x03210    Gsus4  330013


| C           | Am7          | Em        | G
  Fred gets his paints out and goes to the basement

 | C          | Am7  | Em   | G7        | Am7      | F
Projecting some slides onto a plain white canvas and traces it,

| Am7        | F
  Fills in the spaces

 | C           | %            | G          | %
He turns off the slides, and it doesn't look right 

        | Fmaj7/A        | %           | Dm11    | %
Yeah, and all     of these bastards have taken his place

      | C                | G | Gsus4 | G |
He's forgotten but not yet gone



OUTRO:
Chords:
C  x32010
F  x33211
G  320003


      | C   | % | F    | G
And I'm sorry, Mr Jones

      | C   | % | F    | G
And I'm sorry, Mr Jones

      | C   | % | F   | G  | C
And I'm sorry, Mr Jones it's time