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April 14th, 2024

Minor (or major?) corrections on the chords in these following songs:
For the song Starwood in Aspen, it's not really much of a correction - I just changed the name of the chord "A6sus2/F#" to "B7sus4/F#" - which are exactly the same thing (F# A B E). I just think that the name "B7sus4/F#" suits the song's context a little better.

December 30th, 2023

The listening function on this website's Main Page and 404 Not Found Page relied solely on the Adobe Flash Player. However, because of Adobe abandoning the Flash Player in early 2020, all modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari etc) dropped support for the Flash plugin, and the mp3 players on this website have been non-functional ever since.
Fortunately, I came across a project called Ruffle yesterday, which could restore the obsolete swf files on modern websites. After carefully reading the project's documentaion, I successfully restored the mp3 players after only a few minutes editing the html. All credits go to the Ruffle project's developing team!

December 1st, 2023

Minor corrections on a few songs by Tom Paxton:

May 6th, 2023

A few songs by Tom Paxton were just added to the website:
The two topical songs When the Big Bad Book Go "Boo" and Who's Been Checking Out Dirty Books, though written more than 40 years apart, share the same topic, and are still relevant today around the world.

May 1st, 2023

Just finished adding the chords for Pat Sky's Reality Is Bad Enough album to the website:

April 28th, 2023

Eight songs by Patrick Sky were added to the website:

April 27th, 2023

Updated the lyrics to the additional verses in Tom Paxton and Bob Gibson's Outlaw.
Corrected a minor typo in Tom Paxton's Come and Grow Old With Me in Colorado.
Finally finished adding the chords and lyrics to two of John Denver's signature tunes in drop D tuning - Bells of Rhymney and Rocky Mountain High. They're much more complicated than I had remembered! I've always loved to play these drop D tuning songs on the guitar.
- John Denver Chords and Lyrics - The Bells of Rhymney
- John Denver Chords and Lyrics - Rocky Mountain High

April 25th, 2023

Updated the main page of Patrick Sky's Chords and Lyrics. Patrick was one of my favorite folksingers and I'm sure to have a dedicated page for him on this website.
Corrected the name of the second chord in the intro to John Denver's Daydream song. I believe it should be called a "B minor add 11th" chord.
Added a C major 7th chord in John Denver's Circus. It escaped my notice when I created the page.
Finished adding the chords and lyrics to songs from John Denver's 1971 Aerie album to the website (though most cover songs weren't included):

April 21st, 2023

I'm now beginning to update the website with some help from Microsoft Bing's AI technology. Hopefully it will get me to update more often..
Corrected the diminished chords in Bob Gibson's Army of Children song. It's a pretty simple descending progression of diminished chords - don't know why I didn't get it right several years ago when I created the page.
Corrected the 2nd chord in Bob Gibson's Baby, If You Don't Know Now. After carefully listening, I'm pretty sure that it's a D7 chord rather than an F chord. (Though an F might somehow sound okay too.)
Minor corrections to the lyrics in Gibson & Camp's Homemade Music.
Corrected the lyrics to Tom Paxton's Iron Man - "Taps" is the name of a military bugle call, so the "T" should be capitalized.
Minor corrections to the lyrics in Tom Paxton's Billy's Got Some Bad News Today.
The chords to the following songs were added to the website:

April 28th, 2022

Thanks to David Stanard for pointing out that the misheard phrase "Grandma Gerty" in the song It's a Sin to Tell a Lie should actually be "Gravel Gertie". Gravel Gertie was a character in the "Dick Tracy" segments of the 1971 animated television series "Archie's TV Funnies", produced by Filmation Associates. Gertie's appearance closely resembled her depiction in the comic strip.
The chords to the following two songs by Bob Gibson were added to the website. Both songs were originally sung as duets with Anne Hills.
- Bob Gibson Chords and Lyrics - What You Gonna Do About Love?
- Bob Gibson Chords and Lyrics - Leavin' for the Last Time

July 15th, 2021

Corrected the last two chords in the second line of the chorus in John Denver's rendition of Tom Paxton's The Last Thing on My Mind. I used to think that it was a D chord like Tom did in his original version, but after listening carefully I found that John used the Am - D progression instead. John's arrangement is clearly very different from Tom's original and has a more melancholy feeling to it.

July 6th, 2021

Minor corrections in Tom Paxton's Oh, Doctor, Doctor. I used to think that the song was played in A minor key shape with a tuned-down guitar, but after hearing a live version of the song, it is confirmed that the song should be played in E minor key shape with a capo.

April 14th, 2021

Just added chords to some brand new songs written by Tom Paxton and the DonJuans (Don Henry & Jon Vezner) after 2017, which are not yet released on albums:

April 7th, 2021

Just added chords to a few songs by Tom Paxton, including Is This Any Way to Run an Airline from 1966's Outward Bound album, which has some very interesting and unusual chord progression in it.

March 16th, 2021

We've just finished adding a lot of songs from the vaults of Broadside magazine. These songs include:

February 27th, 2021

We just noticed HUGE chord errors in Phil Ochs' The Trial. Corrections were made soon after a couple of minutes figuring out the correct chords. The song should absolutely be played in E shape with a down-tuned guitar.
Thanks so much to Jan Hauenstein for correcting the chords and to Peter Feld for correcting the lyrics in Phil Ochs' All Quiet on the Western Front. The live version from Philadelphia was too muffled for me to figure out the correct chords and words... Fortunately they released the Best of the Rest album!
Multiple minor corrections on various pages.

February 22nd, 2020

We just noticed HUGE chord errors in John Denver's I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free. Corrections were made soon after a couple of hours figuring out the correct chords.
Corrections in the lyrics to Tom Paxton's Something in My Life.

January 1st, 2020

The songs from Tom Paxton's 1963 Broadside Tapes were added to the Tom Paxton Chords index page. Though chords will still not be added until I have them figured out..

August 12th, 2019

A few minor corrections made in Tom Paxton's songs Johnson and A Long Way From Your Mountains.

December 19th, 2018

3 new pages added:

December 5th, 2018

2 new pages added:

December 2nd, 2018

Corrected the chords in the last refrain of The Mitchell Trio's version of If You Had Me in Shackles. Apparently they did the minor-major trick once again here, just like they did on That's the Way It's Gonna Be! One of my favorite Tom Paxton songs - glad it finally got a CD release.
Changed the first chord in the line "all on a beautiful morning" in John Denver's rendition of Civil War Suite from C to G. Bob Gibson did use C chord for that line, but John Denver used G chord. Both chords work just fine there, if you ask me.

November 30th, 2018

It's been a long time since the last time this website was updated! One new page was added today：

John Denver Chords and Lyrics - Storms of November

Also, a few minor corrections were made on these pages:

May 15th, 2018

Corrected the spelling for the German word "Nochmal" in Tom Paxton's song, A Thousand Years. Thanks Flo!
Added the lyrics to the additional last verse in Tom Paxton's Leaving London. That verse was written by Doc Watson and adopted by Tom himself in live shows in the 80's. You can hear it in his 1987 recording at the Bottom Line.

April 11th, 2018

Finally added the last two songs in John Prine's newest album, The Tree of Forgiveness:

And I also added the full lyrics to When I Get to Heaven. Previously it only has the chorus on the page. It took me a while to figure out the name of the Irish red ale-style beer, which is "Smithwick's".
Various minor and not-so-minor corrections in the other songs' lyrics.. Sorry for my poor vocabulary and grammar as a non-native speaker! Those misheard lyrics are just so embarrasing.

March 26th, 2018

Just noticed that Jason has all the "add" chords as "+" on his pages, i.e. "Gadd11" chord as "G+11". I asked him about this and he said it was in order to save space on the pages. However, to my knowledge, the "add" here could not be replaced by "+", so I changed them all back to "add". Please correct me if I'm wrong..!

February 23th, 2018