streetlife serenade

Billy Joel

RockAdvanced for beginners20 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Fmaj7Diagram coming soon

GsusDiagram coming soon

AsusDiagram coming soon

Asus2Diagram coming soon

F#mDiagram coming soon

C#mDiagram coming soon

EsusDiagram coming soon

G#Diagram coming soon

Dsus4Diagram coming soon

BbDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              G Dm G Em-Dm-C 
G Dm G Em E A 
 
 
 
 
A         G    Fmaj7     G (Gsus G) 
Streetlife serenader 
              D       D  C  A 
Never sang on stages 
 
(rinse and repeat) 
 
 
Needs no orchestration 
Melody comes easy 
 
Midnight masquerader 
Shoppin' center heroes 
Child of Eisenhower 
New world celebrator 
 
G Dm G Em E A 
 
Streetlife serenaders 
Have such understanding 
How the words are spoken 
How to make the motions 
 
G Dm G Em-Dm-C 
G G/F Asus A Asus Asus2 
A F#m C#m E Esus E7/G# G Dsus4 Em Bm Dsus4 D C A 
 
 
Streetlife serenaders 
Have no obligations 
Hold no grand illusions 
Need no stimulation 
 
Midnight masqueraders 
Workin' hard for wages 
Need no vast arrangements 
To do their harmonizing 
 
A G F Bb Asus A 
 
(into guitar solo over verse changes) 
 
(outro) 
D C A 
A F#m C#m E Esus E7/G# G Dsus4 Em Bm Dsus4 D C A 
 
 
 
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Transcribed By: EricOcasio  
 
Streetlife Serenader 
Billy Joel 
 
 
Obviously the solo piano parts are lacking but it works decently for solo acoustic guitar.  I spent about 15 minutes on this so there might be mistakes.  Enjoy.  Feel free to send any comments/corrections to eocasio AT fau DOT edu. 
 
G Dm G Em-Dm-C 
G Dm G Em E A 
 
 
 
 
A         G    Fmaj7     G (Gsus G) 
Streetlife serenader 
              D       D  C  A 
Never sang on stages 
 
(rinse and repeat) 
 
 
Needs no orchestration 
Melody comes easy 
 
Midnight masquerader 
Shoppin' center heroes 
Child of Eisenhower 
New world celebrator 
 
G Dm G Em E A 
 
Streetlife serenaders 
Have such understanding 
How the words are spoken 
How to make the motions 
 
G Dm G Em-Dm-C 
G G/F Asus A Asus Asus2 
A F#m C#m E Esus E7/G# G Dsus4 Em Bm Dsus4 D C A 
 
 
Streetlife serenaders 
Have no obligations 
Hold no grand illusions 
Need no stimulation 
 
Midnight masqueraders 
Workin' hard for wages 
Need no vast arrangements 
To do their harmonizing 
 
A G F Bb Asus A 
 
(into guitar solo over verse changes) 
 
(outro) 
D C A 
A F#m C#m E Esus E7/G# G Dsus4 Em Bm Dsus4 D C A

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Chord set

G · Dm · Em · C · E · A · Fmaj7 · Gsus · D · F · Asus · Asus2 · F#m · C#m · Esus · E7 · G# · Dsus4 · Bm · Bb

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.