# G Em C D : Greatest Hits

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 16, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-em-c-d-greatest-hits/571576 "2011-02-16T13:18:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-em-c-d-greatest-hits/571576/21 "2011-02-17T03:33:16Z")

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“Patterns” by Paul Simon is G Em C D

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> [@kevlaw](#):
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> A7 in the chorus.

Forgot about that one. Maybe the student can branch out a little? 🙂

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-em-c-d-greatest-hits/571576/23 "2011-02-17T15:57:28Z")

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Rocking in the Free World

Verse=Em-D-C  
Chorus=G-D-C

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-em-c-d-greatest-hits/571576/24 "2011-02-18T00:56:56Z")

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> [@JXJohns](#):
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> Forgot about that one. Maybe the student can branch out a little? 🙂

Yeah, A7 is easy to finger and so is D7 and G7. On the other hand, F and Bm and F#m were always difficult for me.

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-em-c-d-greatest-hits/571576/25 "2011-02-18T16:43:25Z")

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> [@K364](#):
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> Yeah, A7 is easy to finger and so is D7 and G7. On the other hand, F and Bm and F#m were always difficult for me.

Isn’t F generally considered to be the Chord from Hell? I seem to remember hearing that Joni Mitchell took up open tuning specifically so she would never have to play an F.

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-em-c-d-greatest-hits/571576/26 "2011-02-20T07:04:31Z")

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Two I’ve been playing recently which come to mind are:

Groovin’: G - C etc.

and

A Change Is Gonna Come (G a e) = the a minor can be also thought of as a C, probably, although away from the keyboard it’s hard to hear it for me. I usually play it in Bb, so maybe my intuition isn’t even close.

Blackbird is usually done in G – the chords are kind of f—ed, pardon my French, but the harmony is right around the four chords mentioned in the title with some passing chords.

All those are old tunes, though – I don’t know any hipper ones.

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