Baker Street Chords

by Gerry Rafferty
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author PlasticArmy 135.
2 contributors total, last edit on May 11, 2020
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Chords

A
Em
G
D
Dm7
Am7
C

Strumming

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[Verse]
 
A
Winding your way down on Baker Street
 
Light in your head, and dead on your feet
       Em                    G
Well, another crazy day, you drink the night away
       D
And forget about everything
 
A
This city desert makes you feel so cold, it's got
 
So many people but it's got no soul
         Em                   G
And it's taken you so long to find out you were wrong
         D
When you thought it held everything
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Dm7                           Am7
You used to think that it was so easy
Dm7                         Am7
You used to say that it was so easy
    C              G             D
But you're tryin', you're tryin' now
Dm7                         Am7
Another year and then you'd be happy
Dm7                               Am7
Just one more year and then you'd be happy
    C              G             A
But you're cryin', you're cryin' now
 
 
[Verse]
 
A
Way down the street there's a light in his place
 
You open the door, he's got that look on his face
       Em                              G
And he asks you where you've been, you tell him who you've seen
        D
And you talk about anything
 
A
He's got this dream about buyin' some land
 
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
    Em                           G
And then he'll settle down, in a quiet little town
       D
And forget about everything
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Dm7                       Am7
But you know he'll always keep moving
Dm7                       Am7
You know he's never gonna stop moving
      C             G                D
Cause he's rollin', he's the rolling stone
Dm7                         Am7
And when you wake up it's a new morning
Dm7                        Am7
The sun is shining, it's a new morning
    C             G            A
And you're going, you're going home
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36 comments
northerntowne
If we are all just sitting and jamming with friends, aren't all these little corrections just minutia? If we were getting paid or doing session work, then it would matter. I'm 48 and only been playing 9 months so all of this is still really confusing. All I know is the more I practice and the more effort I put in to getting better, the more it sounds like music. So, thanks everyone for all the help(PlasticArmy) and others. Someday I'll sack-up and write something. Got a new lease on life by picking up a $300.00 Yamaha so if I can do it with my sausage fingers, ANYONE CAN!. Keep working and breaking through those barriers
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NintEndO
I think the chords for the sax riff are: Dm C Am G
+13
kesterjay
me and my little bro learned this song when it first came out we dicided it was the best song we had ever heard, till this day it still is.
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