Kodachrome       By Paul Simon

 

E----4-4---4-4---4-4---------------------------------------------------   F#m  B7  E         

B----5-4---5-5---5-5---------------------------------------------------                                                  

G--4-----4------4----4-4-1-1--------------------------------------------

D---------------------------------------------------------------------------

A-------------------------------------4-4-7-7-4-4------4-4-7-----------    

E--------------------------------5-5----------------5-5---------4-3-2----

 

.                     E                      E7                       A                    A-------4-4-7-7-4-4------4-4-7-----------

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school     E--5-5----------------5-5---------4-3-2---

F#m              B7                  E     F#m  B7

It's a wonder I can think at all.

                          E                 E7               A                             A-------4-4-7-7-4-4------4-4-7-----------

And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none,          E--5-5----------------5-5---------4-3-2---

F#m               B7                   E

I can read the writing on the wall.

 

          A  C#7  F#7                                 Bm              E                                    A            D

Kodachro-o-ome,    They give us those nice, bright colors, they give us the greens of summers,

                              B7       E                        A     Db  F# 

Makes you think all  the world's a sunny day,   Oh yeah,

           Bm     E                                   A         D

I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph,

                             B7         E                    A      C#m   F#m   B

So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

                   E                  E7                         A                   A------4-4-7-7-4-4------4-4-7-----------

If you took all the girls I knew when I was single            E--5-5----------------5-5---------4-3-2---

        F#m                        B7                  E         F#m  B7

And brought them all together for one night,

                       E                        E7               A                   A------4-4-7-7-4-4------4-4-7-----------

I know they'd never match my sweet imagination,           E--5-5----------------5-5---------4-3-2---

        F#m                     B7                          E

And everything looks worse in black and white.

 

          A  C#7  F#7                                  Bm              E                                    A             D

Kodachro-o-ome,    They give us those nice, bright colors,  they give us the greens of summers,

                            B7       E                        A     Db  F# 

Makes you think all  the world's a sunny day,  Oh yeah,

           Bm     E                                   A         D

I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph,

                             B7         E                    A      C#m   F#m  

So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.     

                    A           C#m               F#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away        (2 more times)

 

A                                                      C#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome, Mama don’t take my Kodachrome,

F#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away 

 

A                                                      C#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome, leave your boy so far from home,

F#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away  (repeat)

A                                                      C#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome, Ooooheeeoo

F#m

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away