Songs

Note to casual browsers - This is just an experiment to see if I can make my songbook "transportable", for playing along with friends. This is not meant to be for public consumption so no apologies for taste. 

Under each hyperlink are the words, and either chords or tabs. Many of these arrangements are not exactly the same as the originals - they are my interpretation, or how I perform them. Again, no apologies. 

Kevin Ayers

I don't exactly have a Kevin Ayers obsession, just a similar voice-range, which makes it easier for me to cover his songs than other people's.

Some of these arrangements are mirrored to the Kevin Ayers fansite "Why are we sleeping", but there may be newer versions here (I occasionally discover I have been playing in the wrong key or something).

• Town Feeling (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Joy of a Toy")
• Lady Rachel (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Joy of a Toy")
• The Clarietta Rag (Kevin Ayers, from "Joy of a toy")
• Eleanor's Cake (which ate her) (Kevin Ayers, from "Joy of a toy")
• All this crazy gift of time (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Joy of a Toy")
• Whatevershebringswesing (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Whatevershebringswesing")
• Margaret (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Whatevershebringswesing")
• Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Whatevershebringswesing")
• Oh my (Kevin Ayers, from the album "Whatevershebringswesing")
• Gemini Child ((Kevin Ayers, not from the album "Shooting at the Moon")
• Puis-je (Kevin Ayers, French version of "May I" on "Shooting at the Moon". From "Odd Ditties")
• The Oyster and the Flying Fish (Kevin Ayers from "Shooting at the Moon")
• Clarence in Wonderland (Kevin Ayers, from "Shooting at the Moon")
• Shouting in a Bucket Blues (Kevin Ayers, from "Bananamour")
• Decadence (Kevin Ayers, from "Bananamour")
• Thank you very much (Kevin Ayers, from a single I think)
• See you later (Kevin Ayers - The confessions of Dr Dream)
• Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues (Kevin Ayers - The confessions of Dr Dream)
• Diminished but not finished (Kevin Ayers - Sweet Deceiver)
• Farewell again (Kevin Ayers, from "Sweet Deceiver")
• The ballad of Mr Snake (Kevin Ayers, from "Yes, we have no mananas")
  

• Kevin Ayers discography (more or less)
• For more Ayers stuff, visit the new Kevin Ayers site (which replaces the old site at http://www.ping.be/~ping8683/), or the somewhat excellent fanzine "Why are we sleeping".

Others

• Magdalene's Song - (Mick Softley)
• Stranger in the room - (Michael Chapman, from "Fully Qualified Survivor")
• Carolina in my mind - (James Taylor)
• Lady Eleanor - (Lindisfarne, from "Nicely out of Tune")
• Train in G major - (Lindisfarne, from "Fog on the Tyne")
• I am yours - (Eric Clapton, from Layla and other assorted love songs)
• Effervescing Elephant - (Syd Barrett, from "Barrett")
• Camarillo Brillo - (Frank Zappa, from "Overnite Sensation")
• Just like a woman - (Dylan, from "Blonde on blonde")
• Alice's Restaurant Massacree - (Arlo Guthrie)
• Her father didn't like me anyway - (Humblebums)
• How sweet to be an idiot - (Neil Innes)
• Lay, lady, lay - (Bob Dylan)
• Tom Traubert's Blues - (Tom Waits)
• Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands - (Dylan, from "Blonde on blonde")

Tim Adams
Noumea 12 June, 2000 to 21 March, 2006  
tim (AT) dhanjal-adams.com