Reply To: A Laptop Like You Chords/Tabs Request.
This is a pretty good song for beginner guitar players. You can take or leave the nifty hammer-on stuff as you see fit. It’s not too difficult and it makes it sound like you’re a really good player. Of course I mess up the hammer-ons every time I try this song.
A Laptop Like You - Jonathan Coulton
transcribed by M_pony
fingerpick:
E
A 02
D 020
D G6 C9
D G6 C9 (fingerpick as above)
Here you are at last
D G6 C9
To bring my cold lonely soul sweet release
D G6 C9
From my weary past
D G6 C9 G
Always searching, the one missing piece was you
D
And I beg you, come away with me
G D D/C# Bm A E
And together we will find a place to call our own
G A7 (pause)
I can’t wait to see what I can do
D G6 C9
With a laptop like you
D G6 C9 (fingerpick as above)
It’s not your C-D slot
D G6 C9
Or the U-nix on which you are based
D G6 C9
You make my lap hot
D G6 C9 G
Cause underneath your alu-minum case there’s love
D
And I forgive your strange one-button mouse
G D D/C# Bm A E
I forgive the way your keyboard leaves marks on your screen
G A7
I can overlook a fault or two
D G6 C9
For a laptop like you
C6 D
We will always be together
C6 D
In love in spite of everything
B7 Em
Hang on tight through wind and weather
A7 Em7/A A7
Heaven knows what time may bring
D G6 C9 (fingerpick as above)
In a year or two
D G6 C9
You will seem big and heavy and slow
D G6 C9
I will carry you
D G6 C9 G
To wherever it is laptops go to die
D
Don’t think it won’t be hard on me
G D D/C# Bm A E
How’m I ever gonna find a way to just-i-fy
G A7
The money I will spend on something new
D G6 C9
For a laptop like you
D G6 C9
For a laptop like you
Fingerings:
D x00232
G6 x20030
C9 x32030 (technically a Cadd9)
A7 x02020
Em7/A x02030
For the verses, your ring finger stays put on the B string.
Hammer-on the strings to transition between chords.