# This is a long shot - any chart-reading musicians know "Two for the Road"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 14, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-long-shot-any-chart-reading-musicians-know-two-for-the-road/132154 "2002-10-14T00:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-long-shot-any-chart-reading-musicians-know-two-for-the-road/132154/1 "2002-10-14T00:19:32Z")

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The Mancini tune.

I need to play this with a singer at a wedding. Don’t know the tune, can’t find a chart, can’t find a vocal recording. What I do have is a Dave Grusin album (_Two For the Road_) with an instrumental arrangement.

Transcribing the chords is no problem, but I need help assembling the tune’s three sections into the usual form that a vocalist will know. (I don’t know the lyrics, and plan to look them up online - ignoring my scruples - this may help. But meanwhile…)

If anyone is familiar with both charts and this tune, can you help me assemble the pieces into a beginning, middle, and end, with a name like “ABAC”? The way Grusin has arranged it, I can’t distinguish intro from top from bridge from coda.

Here are the sections:

```php
Em7 B7 Em7 A7
Dm A7 Dm G7
Em7-5 A7 Ab7 G7
C Bm7-5/E7 Am/Ab7 Gm/C7

```

followed by

```php
F#m7-5 -/- B7 -/-
E- E-/D Cmaj7 G/B
Asus A7 Dsus D7
Gmaj -/- F#m7-5 B7

```

from here it either goes back to the  
section starting w/ Em7, or it goes on  
as follows:

```php
C/E G/D C# C-7/F7
Bm7 G7 Cmaj F#7
Bm7 Bb7 A- D7
G -/- -/- -/-

```

Then it goes back to the F#m7-5 section, or ends here. I think the order’s different on the second pass through, on the Grusin album.

(Sorry about the wacky colors; php was the only way I could figure out that preserved the spacing.)

So, maybe by numbering the above sections A-B-C – if that’s what they are – could someone give me a basic form?

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**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-long-shot-any-chart-reading-musicians-know-two-for-the-road/132154/2 "2002-10-14T00:44:20Z")

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I have found [this](http://www.geocities.com/scoguitar/two.txt) which may help for the music, and the lyrics are [here](http://www.scififilmmusic.com/sfan/mancini/lyrics/24theroad.htm).