Main riff (played during the verse):
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A|--0-0-----3h4-----------4-2-----0-0--3h4---------------------/
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Intro: E A F#m E (x2)
verse 1:
E E7 A (riff)
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
F#m B7 E F#m B7
It's a wonder I can think at all
E E7 A (riff)
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
F#m B E E7
I can read the writing on the wall
Chorus 1:
A C#7 F#
Kodachrome
F#7 Bm E
You give us those nice bright colors
A D
You give us the greens of summers
B E A C#7 F#
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
F#7 Bm E
I got a Nikon camera
A D
I love to take a photograph
B E A C#m F#m B B7
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
verse 2:
E E7 A (riff)
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
F#m B7 E F#m B7
And brought them all together for one night
E E7 A (riff)
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
F#m B B7 E E7
And everything looks worse in black and white
Chorus 2:
A C#7 F#
Kodachrome
F#7 Bm E
You give us those nice bright colors
A D
You give us the greens of summers
B E A C#7 F#
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
F#7 Bm E
I got a Nikon camera
A D
I love to take a photograph
B E A C#m F#m
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Outro:
A C#m F#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
A C#m F#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
A C#m F#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
A
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
C#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
F#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
A
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
C#m
Leave your boy so far from home
F#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
A C#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome whewwwwww!
F#m
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
A C#m F#m
(through fade out)