With A Few Good Friends

Carly Simon

RockAdvanced for beginners10 chords

How to play it

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

BDiagram coming soon

C#mDiagram coming soon

F#mDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              Verse/Chorus: 
 
       D                      G 
With a few good friends And a stick or two 
  A                   Bm 
A house is built at a corner called Pooh 
       D                     G 
With a friend and a stick Or three or four 
  A                       Bm     C        Bm    A 
A house is built where it wasn't before 
 
Bridge: 
 
       Em 
With a window here 
     A 
And there a door 
      Em 
And a nail and peg 
        A 
For the coat of Eeyore 
 
Verse/Chorus: 
 
       D                      G 
With a few good friends And a stick or two 
  A                   Bm 
A house is built at a corner called Pooh 
       D                     G 
With a friend and a stick Or three or four 
  A                       Bm     C        Bm    A 
A house is built where it wasn't before 
 
Bridge: 
 
Em 
Dress it down 
   A 
Or dress it up 
       Em 
Invite Tigger for tea 
    A 
And Owl for supper 
 
Final Verse/Chorus: 
 
       E                      A 
With a few good friends And a stick or two 
  B                   C#m 
A house is built at a corner called Pooh 
       E                     A 
With a friend and a stick Or three or four 
  B                       C#m     D        C#m    B 
A house is built where it wasn't before 
 
Instrumental: 
 
E | A | B | C#m x2 
 
F#m | B x2

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Chord set

D · G · A · Bm · C · Em · E · B · C#m · F#m

Practice tip

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