Intro:
tack piano (chords implied; piano omits roots):
Gm7 Fmaj7
/ / / / / / / /
sitar:
Gm7 Fmaj7 v v v v v v v v ---------0---1---|-0---------------| -3---------------|---------3---1---| -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------|
Verse 1 (sitar and tack piano first two lines):
Gm7 Fmaj7 [1: Gm7] A Dm
[2: Em7]
It's much too groovy a summer's day
Gm7 Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7 [N.C.]
To waste runnin' round in the city
bass fill 1:
v v v v v ----|-9---7--10-9-7-----| --7-|-------7------10---| ----|-------------------| ----|-------------------|
[band enters]
Gm7 Fmaj7 Em7 A Dm
But here on the sand I can dream away
Gm7 Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7
Or look at the girls if they're pretty
Chorus (electric piano replaces tack piano):
Gm7 /C Fmaj7
It's a turn-down day
Em7 A Dm7
[1,3: Nothin' on my mind
[2,4: Just a turn 'round day]
Gm7 /C Fmaj7
It's a turn-down day
Bb
And I dig it
Refrain 1:
Gm7 Fmaj7 Em7 A Dm
There's nothing easier I can do
Gm7 Fmaj7 Asus4 D7 [N.C.]
Than lyin' around doing nothing
bass fill 2:
v v v v v -----|-----------------| ---0-|-1---2---3---4---| -----|-----------------| -----|-----------------|
[repeat chorus]
Instrumental break (sitar/tack piano solo):
Gm7 /C Fmaj7 /Bb Em7 A7 Dm
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gm7 /C Fmaj7 /Bb Bb
/ / / / / / / / / / r / / r / /
Verse 2:
Soft summer breeze and the surf rolls in
To laughter of small children playin' [bass fill 1]
Someone's radio has the news tuned in
But nobody cares what he's sayin'
Dont you know it's a
[repeat chorus]
Refrain 2:
Things that are waiting to mess my mind
Will just have to wait 'til tomorrow [bass fill 2]
[repeat chorus]
sitar fill [slide if you can't manage this three-fret prebend]:
v v v v -----------------| b6r3-------------| -----------------| -----------------| -----------------| -----------------|
Coda [repeat to fade]:
Gm7 /C Fmaj7
It's a turn-down day
Em7 A Dm7
Nothin' on my mind
Gm7 /C Fmaj7
It's a turn-down day
Em7 A Dm7
Just a turn 'round day
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers