Piano Man Uke tab by Billy Joel

11 Chords used in the song: C, Em7, Am, F, D7, G, G7, Em, A7, Am7, CMaj7

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Artist: Billy Joel

Album: The Essential Billy Joel

Year: 1973

Difficulty:

2.59

(Beginner)

Key: unknownChords and Tablature

Piano Man, simplified in a chord-melody style. I kept the vocal melody on the highest strings, and built the chords underneath it. This is kind of a "bare bones" arrangement, but there's enough here to work with, if you wanted to perform it.

Both verse and chorus use these changes:

          C           Em7            Am(m6)        C             F          
A||--10-|-10------10-|-10--8---7---|-8-----------|-------------|-3---3---3---|
E||-----|-8----------|-7-----------|-8-12-8------|-8-------8---|-1-----------|
C||-----|-9----------|-7-----------|-9-----------|-7-----------|-0-----------|
G||-----|-0----------|-0-----------|-------------|-5-----------|-2-----------|
          *   *   *    *   *   *     *    *   *    *   *   *     *   *   * 
  
  C             D7            G             C            Em7           Am(m6)                        
|-3---3---5---|-5-----------|---------10--|-10------10-|-10--8---7--|-8-----------|
|-0-----------|-5-----------|-7-----------|-8----------|-7----------|-8-12-8------|
|-0-----------|-7-----------|-7-----------|-9----------|-7----------|-9-----------|
|-0-----------|-5-----------|-7-----------|-0----------|-0----------|-------------|
  *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *    *   *   *    *    *   * 

  C             F            G7           C         F         Em        A7
|-------------|-0-------8--|-8---7------|-3-------|---------|---------|---------||
|-8-------5---|-1----------|-7-------8--|-0-------|-1-------|-3-------|-3-------||
|-7-----------|-0----------|-7----------|-0-------|-0-------|-4-------|-2-------||
|-5-----------|-2----------|-7----------|-0-------|-2-------|-0-------|-0-------||
  *   *   *     *   *  *    *   *   *     *  *  *    *  *  *  *  *  *   *  *  *

And then the "La - De - Da" part goes like this:

  Am            Am7           D7            F             Am                    
|-0-----------|-0---2---3---|-2-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
|-0-----------|-0-----------|-2-----------|-1-----------|-0-----------|
|-0-----------|-0-----------|-2-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
|-2-----------|-0-----------|-2---2-------|-2-----------|-2-----------|
  *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *     *   *   *    

  Am7           D7                       G          G7        CMaj7     G7
|-0---2---3--|-2----------|-2----------|-10-------|-8-------|-7-------|-5-------||
|-0----------|-2----------|-2-------3--|-7--------|-7-------|-7-------|-3-------||
|-0----------|-2----------|-2----------|-7--------|-7-------|-7-------|-5-------||
|-0----------|-2----------|-2---2------|-7--------|-7-------|-5-------|-4-------||
  *   *   *    *   *   *    *   *   *    *  *  *    *  *  *   *  *  *   *  *  *   

Possible lyric substitution:
"Sing us a song, Ukulele Man; sing us a song tonight..."