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Someday I'll be Saturday Night (ver. beginner)

Bon Jovi

MetalAdvanced for beginners7 chords

How to play it

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

E
A×
BDiagram coming soon
G#mDiagram coming soon
F#m7Diagram coming soon
F#mDiagram coming soon
C#mDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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INTRO: E  A  E  A 
 
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Intro
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|-2-4/6---------4h6-4--2-|
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Riff
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|---7---6---4---2---0-----2-|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0-4-0-|
 
VERSE 
E  
Hey, my name is Jim, I fought in Vietnam 
A 
My life's a bargain basement, all the good shit's gone 
E 
I just can't hold a job. Where did I go wrong? 
A 
I'm sleeping in my car; My dreams moved on 
E 
My name is Billy Jean, my love is bought and sold 
A 
I'm only sixteen, I feel a hundred years old 
E 
My foster daddy went and took my innocence away 
A 
The street life ain't much better but at least I'm getting paid 
 
BRIDGE 
B 
Tuesday just might go my way 
A                       E 
It can't get worse than yesterday 
G#m 
Thursdays, Fridays ain't been kind 
A                F#m7 
But somehow I'll survive 
 
 
E                 
Hey, man, I'm alive 
   F#m                       A 
As long as I can breathe, as long as I can fight 
E                       F#m  A 
Hey man, I know I'll get by 
E                       F#m                          A 
When I wanna die I pick up all the pieces and what's left of my pride 
    B                           A                       E 
I'm feeling like a Monday but I wish I were a Saturday night  
 
VERSE 
E  
I can't say my name, my life is on the line 
A 
They say that I'm to blame, that I'm guilty of a crime 
E 
I wish that I could be in another time and place 
A 
With someone else's soul and someone else's face 
 
BRIDGE 
B                                A                  E      
This world ain't so cut and dry but I can't 'why?' wrong or right 
G#m                      A                  F#m7  
I ain't here to justify what I gotta do to survive 
 
 
E                 
Hey, man, I'm alive 
   F#m                       A 
As long as I can breathe, as long as I can fight 
E                       F#m  A 
Hey man, I know I'll get by 
E                       F#m                          A 
When I wanna die I pick up all the pieces and what's left of my pride 
    B                           A                       E 
I'm feeling like a Monday but I wish I were a Saturday night 
    B                           A                       E    C#m   E  C#m 
I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night 
 
SOLO 
E   C#m   A 
E   F#m   A 
E   C#m   A 
E   F#m   A 
 
BRIDGE 
B 
Tuesday just might go my way 
A                       E 
It can't get worse than yesterday 
B                
Thursdays, Fridays ain't been kind 
A 
Somehow I'll survive 
 
 
E                 
Hey, man, I'm alive 
   F#m                       A 
As long as I can breathe, as long as I can fight 
E                       F#m  A 
Hey man, I know I'll get by 
E                       F#m                          A 
When I wanna die I pick up all the pieces and what's left of my pride 
    B                           A                       E    C#m   E  C#m 
I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night 
    B                           A                       E  
I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night 
    B                           A                       E 
I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night 
          
 

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Chord set

E · A · B · G#m · F#m7 · F#m · C#m

Practice tip

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