Billy Joel – Wheres The Orchestra (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Billy Joel Tabbed by: maguri From: "The Nylon Curtain" (1982) Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
INTRO
Cm/B      6-x-5-3-4-x
Gaug      3(2)1-0-0-3

SONG
Gaug      3(2)1-0-0-3
Cm7       x-3-1-3-1-x
Cm6       x-3-1-2-1-x
G/B       x-2-0-0-0-3
B6        x-1-3-0-3-x

Gaug/B    x-2-1-0-0-3
Gm7       3-x-0-3-3-1
Bb/C      x-3-x-3-3-1

Eb/D      x-x-0-3-4-3
Dm7-5     x-x-0-1-1-1 or x-5-6-5-6-x

Fmaj7     1-x-2-2-1-0
Ebdim7    x-x-1-2-1-2
C/E       x-x-2-0-1-0
A7sus4    x-0-2-0-3-0
A7        x-0-2-0-2-0
F/A       x-0-3-2-1-1
Fm/Ab     4-x-3-1-1(1)

OUTRO
Gmaj7/B   x-2-0-0-0-2
Gmaj7     3-x-0-0-0-2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | Eb | Bb | Cm Cm/Bb Cm/Ab | G | Gaug | [Verse]
            C
Where's the orchestra?

Cm             Cm7      Cm6  G/B
Wasn't this supposed to be a musical?

Bb6     Gaug/B  C
Here I am in the balcony

Cmaj7              Gaug/B           Gm7        Bb/C
How the hell could I have missed the overture?

  Fmaj7    D7
I like the scenery

Dm7                Fm         Gaug
Even though I have absolutely no
[Verse]
 C
Idea at all

Cm            Cm7     Cm6      G/B
What is being said despite the dialogue

Bb6 Gaug/B  C
There's the leading man

    Cmaj7          Gaug/B        Gm7        Bb/C
The movie star who never faced an audience

Fmaj7       D7
Where's the orchestra?
[Middle 8]
Dm7
After all

        Ab    Bb Eb           Eb/D
This is my big  night on the town

   Cm7                 Gm
My introduction to the theatre crowd

    Ab                               Dm7-5
I assumed that the show would have a song

         Gaug
So I was wrong
[Verse] (variation)
           C
At least I understand

Cm          Cm7 Cm6      G/B
All the innuendo and the irony

Bb6 Gaug/B C
And I     appreciate

    Cmaj7            Gaug/B     Gm7              Bb/C
The roles the actors played, the point the author made
[Coda]
    Fmaj7     D7
And after the closing lines

Ebdim7 C/E      A7sus      A7
  And after the curtain calls

    Bb             F/A
The curtain falls

   Fm/Ab            G7             [ C ] 
On empty chairs ...     where's the orchestra?
[Outro] | C | Gmaj7/B | C | Gmaj7/B | | C | Gmaj7/B Gmaj7 | | C | Gmaj7/B Gmaj7 |
| C | Gmaj7/B Gmaj7 |
[melody: Allentown]
(repeat and fade)