Take The Long Way Home

small case letters above chord symbols
indicate individual notes:
c4: middle C, and notes above in that octave...
c5: C above middle C
c3: C below middle C  etc.
numbers behind notes will only be indicated
when notes enter another octave or begin a new line


fade in synth
      c6.......................................................
piano:                                  c2......................



synth:  c6...................c6..........................
                             bb5..........................
                             c5...........................

piano...c4 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
        c2 c c c c c c c c   c c



piano with harmonica ad lib:

|Cm7     |Bb/C      |F/C       |C        |

|Fsus4/C |          |C         |         |


|Cm7     |Bb/C      |F/C       |C        |

|Fsus4/C |          |C         |         |


Cm7                       Bb/C
    So you think you're a Romeo

F/C                     C
    playing a part in a picture-show

         Fsus4/C
Take the long way home

         C
Take the long way home

Cm7                             Bb/C
      If you're the joke of the neighborhood

  F/C                               C
     Why should you care if you're feeling good

         Fsus4/C
Take the long way home

          C
Take the long way home

Em                              Em7                     Am        G6
   But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery

        F         F6               Bb    F/A
all the greenery         is comin' down, boy

G                              Em7
   And then your wife seems to think you're part of the

Am        G6              F      Fmaj7   F6           Bb     F/A  G
furniture     oh, it's pe culiar,            she used to be  so   nice.

Cm7                          Bb/C
    When lonely days turn to lonely nights

F/C                        C
    you take a trip to the city lights

             Fsus4/C
And take the long way home

         C
Take the long way home

Cm7                        Bb/C
    You never see what you want to see

F/C                       C
   Forever playing to the gallery

             Fsus4/C
You take the long way home

              strings: e4  g  c5  b4
         C                        Em
Take the long way home

                             Em7                 Am
   And when you're up on the stage, it's so unbe lievable,

    G6       F        F6             Bb   F/A
Ohh    unfor gettable,    how they a dore you,

G                              Em7                      Am
   But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity,

G6         F      Fmaj7 F6          Bb F/A G
   oh, ca lamity,          is there no way out?

sax ad lib

|Eb      |Bb       |F        |C        |


|Fsus4/C |         |C        |         |


|Eb      |Bb       |F        |C        |


|Fsus4/C |         |C        |         |


Em                       Em7                Am
   Does it feel that you life's become a ca tastrophe?

G6         F         F6 F            Bb    F/A
    Oh, it has to be      for you to grow, boy.

G                            Em7                    Am
   When you look through the years and see what you could

          G6           F               Fadd9 F6
have been     oh, what might have been,

         Bb  F/A  G
if you'd had more time.

Cm7                           Bb/C
    So, when the day comes to settle down,

F/C                         C
   Who's to blame if you're not around?

             Fsus4/C
You took the long way home

             Ab/C
You took the long way home...........

             F/C
You took the long way home...........

             Fsus4/C
You took the long way home...........

             Ab/C
You took the long way home...........

             F/C
You took the long way home...........

             Fsus4/C
You took the long way home...........


             F/C
You took the long way home...........

F6             C
aaa   aaaaa    aaaaa   aaaaaaaaa


F6             G/C     C
ooo   ooooo    ooooo   ooooo


F6             C
aaa   aaaaa    aaaaa   aaaaaaaaa

Fsus4/C         Ab/C            F/C
long way home   long way home   long way home

Fsus4/C         Ab/C            F/C
long way home   long way home   long way home

               harmonica:  g4........
Fsus/C                     C
long way ho-o-o-o-ome



transcription and chart Peter Kruger
casparus50@yahoo.ca