[HANASHIR:13845] Re: chirds and words for "A Way to Say Ah"

[Stephen Meltzer <steve...>]

Yonatan --

"A Way to To Say Ah" is in Beth's new songbook, which can be found at 
http://www.soundswrite.com/swstore8b.html#bssongbook.


B'shalom,

Steve Meltzer
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Yonatan Y. Koch" <listmember (at) ldwriter(dot)com>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Date:  Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:58:58 -0500

>Hi there,
>
>I was wondering, if by any miracle anyone has the lyrics to Beth Schafer's 
>song "A Way to Say Ah". I wanted to use the song in a lesson I'm doing 
>tomorrow. Thank you for any help you can provide.
>
>Yonatan
>Private religious tutor
>Certified in Special Education
>
>
>Yonatan Koch is the (soon to be) author of "So What? I Learn Differently!"- A 
>First-person perspective on Learning Disabilities/ Learning Differences. Check 
>this project out at www.Ldwriter.com. To have him speak to your group or class 
>please email him at ykoch (at) Ldwriter(dot)com(dot) Thank You.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Jag121842 (at) aol(dot)com 
>  To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org 
>  Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 11:40 PM
>  Subject: [HANASHIR:13843] Re: non-Jewish song request
>
>
>  Here are the chords for Right Field:
>
>  G       G/F#         Em
>  Saturday summers when I was a kid  
>  Am                                        D
>  We'd run to the schoolyard and here's what we did
>            C            Am        C                  Am
>  We'd pick out the captains, we'd choose up the teams
>                G        G/F#     Em
>  It was always a measure of my self esteem
>               C           Am             C            Am
>  'Cause the fastest the strongest played shortstop and first
>  C
>  The last ones they picked were the worst
>  C  (or alternate C/Am)
>  I never needed to ask it was sealed
>           Am                         D
>  I just took up my place in right field.
>               G    G/F#     Em
>  Here in right field, it's easy to know
>  C
>  You can be awkward, you can be slow
>               C           D           C           D           G
>  That's why I'm here in right field just watchin' the dandelions grow.
>
>         There are two other verses which you can pull off the internet.  I've 
> played this one a bunch of times at camp and NFTY stuff, these chords should 
> work pretty well.  If the key is bad for you (this is the key they wrote it 
> in, but can be difficult to sing), then do it in C, it's a relatively easy 
> transposition.
>
>  Hope this helps,
>  Josh Goldsmith
>
>
>

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