Lyr/Chords Req: Dreams of the Everyday Housewife

Subject: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: oombanjo
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 02:04 PM

The wife asked me to learn this one. Dreams of the everyday houswife, by Glen Campbell, has any one the chords or tab.(Guitar)
                  Chee3rs Oombanjo.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 02:24 PM

Lyrics & chords unfortunately the chords aren't matched to the lyrics
Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: GUEST,John Hardly
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 02:40 PM

Do you have a deadline? If not, I'll see if I can work up some workable chords for you. I've searched the internet and, given my weak skills at googling, I haven't found a single site with chords (including the one posted just above). It seems to me I used to play this and it hinged on the opening chord. hmmmmmm

lemme know.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: oombanjo
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 02:47 PM

Cheers John. I don't have a time table, in fact I am on leave for the next week, Thanks John Y.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 02:58 PM

My mistake: I saw a line listing Chords at the top of the lyrics, how was I to know it was a URL for fingering choices?

Nigel

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: DREAMS OF THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWIFE
From: GUEST,John Hardly
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 03:55 PM

Dreams of The Everyday Housewife

(into to simulate strings -- 3XXXX2 ////////// 3XXXX3 3XXXX5 3XXXX3 3XXXX2 repeat 3X. hint: use your thumb to fret the G on teh low E string -- that way your fingers are free to cover the high E string from the F# to the A)

3XXXX2 She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles that
332000 weren't there yester- 332010 -day
And thinks of the young man that 3X0003 she almost married
332010 What would he 224242 think if he X02010 saw her this 224242 way?

3XXXX2 She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion as 332000 something comes into her 332010 mind
Slowly starts dancing 320003 rememb'ring her girlhood
And 332010 all of the 224242 boys she had 332010 waiting in X00232 line 002010 X00232

320003 Oh, such are the X02010 (if you'll finger this with your ring finger on the D string you can slide up to the next D chord) dreams of the X04230 everyday X02010 housewife
You 320003 see ev'ry- X02010 where any 320003 time of the X00232 day X02010 X00232
An everyday housewife who 332010 gave up the good life for 320003 me X02010 X24232 X02010

NOW WE MODULATE A WHOLE STEP UP

002224

The photograph album she takes from the closet and X00222 slowly turns the X00232 page
And carefully picks up the 002220 crumbling flower
The XO0232 first one he 446464 gave her now X00232 withered with 446464 age.

002224 She closes her eyes and touches the house dress that x00222 suddenly dis- x00232 -appears
And just for the moment she's 002220 wearing the gown
That x00232 broke all their 446464 minds back x00232 so many 022100 years x24232 022100

Oh, X02220 such are the X04230 dreams of the X06450 everyday X04230 housewife
You 002220 see ev'ry- X04230 -where any 002220 time of the 022100 day
An everyday housewife who X24232 gave up the good life for 002220 me X04230 X06450 X04230

Here, bub, yer on yer own! I can get you through the first modualation but there's gotta be someone here who can give you an easier fingering than I can for this next modulation!

It's prolly just X64446 446454 X68676 and following the same progression I outlined above.

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
FADE
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 11:52 PM

If I recall correctly, you can hear the song at Record Lady.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 07:42 PM

just a keeping-it-on-the-front-page bump.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 03:25 PM

bmp

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyr/Chrds The everyday housewife
From: oombanjo
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 02:21 PM

Thanks John, I will put the time in and hope to do it justice

Subject: Chords Add: DREAMS OF THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWIFE
From: M.Ted
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 05:17 PM

Here are the chords, written out in the key of G:
(Verse)
Gmaj7/Gmaj7/Gmaj7/Gmaj7/
Cmaj7/Cmaj7/Cmaj7/Cmaj7/
Cmja7/Cmaj7/Gmaj7/Cmaj7/
B7/Cmaj7/B7/B7/

Gmaj7/Gmaj7/Gmaj7/Gmaj7/
Cmaj7/Cmaj7/Cmaj7/Cmaj7/
Cmja7/Cmaj7/Gmaj7/Cmaj7/
B7/Cmaj7/D7/D7/C/D7
(Chorus)(use the funny fingerings:Am7 for C, and slide it up two frets for D)
G/C/D/C/G/C/D/D7/
C/D/C/D7/Gmaj7/C/D/C/
(Key Change)

The second verse and chorus are a full step higher than the first(in A)--just play barre chords--then there is a chorus a full step higher(in B) and another chorus a full step higher than that(C#)

Easiest to play it all as barre chords:
Gmaj7:
3-4-4-3-x-x
Cmaj7:
3-3-5-4-5-x
B7:
2-2-4-2-4-2
D7:
5-5-7-5-7-5

simply because it is so easy to slide up two frets for each key change and not worry about any other fingerings--

This song seems like the inspiration for The Eagle's "Lying Eyes" --it has that same Gmaj7 sound at the beginning and all through, and is a "she thinks about what might have been" song--