Dont Take Me Alive

Also, I've included two different shapes for an F/G chord to be played at different times. One will be called F/G*, and the other F/G**. This tune is one of my favorite examples of brilliant Steely Dan lyrics and their usual superbly crafted music. First slowly strum out a G7#9 with this shape: EADGBE 355466 This may look like an impossibility, like a cruel, unusual and unplayable chord, but it can be done. You must use the power of the force. First you use your ring (3rd) finger to cover BOTH the 4th and 5th strings on the 5th fret (straight down on the fingertip, not barred), and next you use the baby finger to barr both the 1st and 2nd strings on the 6th fret. Of course your index finger is on the 6th string, 3rd fret, and your middle finger is on the 3rd string, 4th fret. Once you've let it ring for a few seconds you quickly play Eb/Ab and F/G* (shapes shown below) as the last two beats of a lead-in bar, and you're into the intro, which is a guitar solo over: ||| | | Cm Csus4 | Cm | F/G** | G7 | || | | |Fm7 Gm7 | Abmaj7 Bb | Csus4 | Csus4 Eb/Ab F/G* | ||| | | Cm Csus4 | Cm | F/G** | G7 | ||| | | Fm7 Gm7 | Abmaj7 Bb | Csus4 | Cm | Cm Gm7/C | Vs. I ||| | | Cm | Cm Cm7 | Agents of the law ||| | | Cm | Gm Gm7 | Luckless pe destrians | Gm Fm7 | I know you're out there | Bb/Eb C/F | D/G | With rage in your eyes and your megaphones ||| | |Eb/Ab F/G | Cm Cm7 | Saying all is forgiven | Cm | Gm Gm7 | Mad Dog sur render | Gm | Fm7 | How can I answer? | Bb/Eb C/F | D/G | A man of my mind can do anything. |Eb/Ab F/G* |Cm | I'm a book keeper's son | Cm | F/G** | G7 | I don't want to shoot no one Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me Csus4 Csus4 A live || F/G |Cm | Cm | Got a case of dyna mite | F/G** | G7 | I could hold out here all night | Fm7 Gm7 | Abmaj7 Bb | Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me | Csus4 | Csus4 | Csus4 | Csus4 | a live Vs. II Cm Cm7 Can you hear the evil crowd Gm Gm7 The lies and the laughter Fm7 I hear my insides, Bb/Eb C/F D/G Eb/Ab The mechanized hum of a nother world F/G Cm Cm7 Where no sun is shining Gm Gm7 No red light flashing Fm7 Here in this darkness Bb/Eb C/F I know what I've done D/G Eb/Ab I know all at once who I am * CHORUS * F/G* |Cm | I'm a book keeper's son | Cm | F/G** | G7 | I don't want to shoot no one Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me Csus4 Csus4 Alive || F/G |Cm | Cm | Got a case of dyna mite | F/G** | G7 | I could hold out here all night | Fm7 Gm7 | Abmaj7 Bb | Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me | Csus4 | Csus4 | Csus4 | Csus4 | alive BRIDGE: There is some keyboard and guitar work here which mostly is played over a 'C' bass note, and although it would be messy to try to write it out note for note, I think you can get away with playing these chords: (formations shown below).