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Song title:      What A Day
Original Album:	 I Was Going To Be An Astronaut

Words and Music by Greg Laswell
Copyright © 2014 Vanguard Records
Published by Vanguard

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.

INTRO:
Notes:
The C could be fretted as a Cadd9 (x3203x) but mostly you're playing the 3rd,
4th and 5th strings (which = C)

Chords:
Em   022000
D5   xx023x
C    x320xx

[play INTRO Figure]  [x4]

INTRO Figure

  Em                                               D5
|-0---------------0-----------0--|-0-------0----------------------|
|-0---------------0-----------0--|-0-------0-------3---3---3---3--|
|-0---------------0-----------0--|-0-------0-------2---2---2---2--|
|-2---------------2-----------2--|-2-------2-------0---0---0---0--|
|-2---------------2-----------2--|-2-------2----------------------|
|-0---------------0-----------0--|-0-------0----------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  C
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-0---------------0-----------0--|-0-------0-------0---0---0---0--|
|-2---------------2-----------2--|-2-------2-------2---2---2---2--|
|-3---------------3-----------3--|-3-------3-------3---3---3---3--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE:
Chords:
Em   022000
C    x320xx
D5   xx023x

Em                  C
  What a day to be alive
Em                 D5       C
  What a day to realize I'm not dead
Em                     C
  What a day to save a dime
Em              D5  C      
  What a day to die trying


[play: | Em | Em D5 | C | % |]  [x2]


VERSE:
Em                      C
  what a way to say goodbye
Em       D5        C
  What a wonderful life now all aligned
Em                       C
  What a way that you survive
Em              D5      C
  What a day to say goodnight


CHORUS:
Chords:
Am x02210    C  x320xx
G  320033    Em 022000
D  xx0232

                G          D       Am
Bring on the evening hour__ours, I cry
                G     D       C
Bring on the evidence   of my life,
      Em
Of my life


VERSE:
Chords:
Em 022000
C  x320xx
D5 xx023x

Em                     C
  What a day to give a damn
Em           D5   C
  What a day for "Gone With The Wind"
Em                     C
  What a day to start again
Em                   D5      C
  What a day to give up dry gin


CHORUS:
Chords:
Am x02210    C     x320xx
G  320003    Em    022000
D  xx0232    Cmaj7 x32003

Am                G          D       Am
  Bring on the evening hour__ours, I cry
                G     D       Am
Bring on the evidence   of my life
                G          D       Am
Bring on the evening hour__ours, I cry
                G     D       G
Bring on the evidence   of my life,


[play: | G | D | Cmaj7 |]  [x2]

G              D                Cmaj7
  Where to go? Where to go from here, I don't know
G              D                Cmaj7
  Where to go? Where to go from here, I don't know, don't know

[play: | G | D | Cmaj7 |]  [x2]


OUTRO:
Chords:
G  320003    D     xx0232
Em 022000    Cmaj7 x32003

G
  What a day to visit Seattle
Em
  What a day for San Francisco
G
  What a day, holy Toledo
Em
  What a day to get in the air and go
G
  What a day to give up smoking
Em
  What a day to absorb Jim Beam and
G                         Em
  What a day to welcome a    baby
                 G     | Em |
And to begin breathing


[play: | G | | D | Cmaj7 |]  [repeat to fade]