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This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretations of the
songs from the theatre libretto of the theatrical show HAiR. It is
intended only for private study, scholarship and research.
Source: I follow the "Original Broadway Cast" recording for the order of the
songs and verses, with assistance from David Pirmann's
(pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu) transcription (12/10/93). David's material
provides additional lyrics from Rado & Ragni's "HAiR" (Pocket Books, 1969)
and the London 1993 production libretto. He thanks European "net people"
Peter Mendelsohn, Jan Olov Algren and Harry Blom. For their contributions
to David's transcription, I thank them as well. I also consulted the piano
sheet music from the movie soundtrack "Vocal Selections From HAiR:THE FILM"
(Big3 Publications, 1979) transposing and correcting guitar chords where
necessary.
"Aquarius"
(Note: the sheet music for two arrangements of this song, the movie
soundtrack & Fifth Dimension versions, are in different keys. I transposed
to C because the chords were more 'open' and sounded better.)
"Donna"
Donna!! Em7
Sodomy... G
Fellatio... D
Cunnilingus... Em
Pederasty. A
Father, why do these words sound so nasty? C D7
Masturbation G
can be fun D Em/D
Join the holy orgy Em
Kama Sutra C
Everyone!! GCG
Shit! (and if you ask him to dinner, you're gonna feed him:) E7
So You Say!
"Manchester England"
"Air"
Cat-o-clysmic ectoplasm D G A7 D
Fallout, atomic orgasm D G A7 G
Vapor and fume GA
At the stone of my tomb AG
Breathing like a sullen perfume A7 G
Eating at the stone of my tomb. A7 D
F-B-I-C-I-A C Am Dm7
L-S-D; G C;
Eh-eh-el...Be...Jay C G C
"High school dropouts, don't give up! Dial oh-R-7 7-3-9-oh for
our free booklet... Telling how you can get it at home..."
Emancipation proclamation Em G
Oh, Dr. Lincoln D
My head needs shrinkin' G
Lu lu lu lu lu lu lu E
Lucifer and me Am
Doomed from here D
To e-ter-ni-ty! G C-G: C
"Hair"
CHORUS:
Hair! (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair) Cm Ab Cm
Flow it, Show it; Eb Bb7
Long as God can grow it, My Hair! Eb7 Ab Bb7, Eb Bb11
CHORUS
You know, kids; I wish every mom and dad would make a speech to
their teenagers and say "Kids, be free, be whatever you are, do
whatever you want to do, just so long as you don't hurt anybody.
And remember kids, I am your friend."
(intro) C-F
I would just like to say that it is my conviction CF
That longer hair and other flamboyant affectations GF
of appearance are nothing more D7/F# G
than the male's emergence from his drab camouflage C C7
into the gaudy plumage F
which is the birthright of his sex. CGC
"Easy To Be Hard"
My heart beats true; for the red, white and blue! FGC
Crazy for the blue, white and red F G Em A
Crazy for the blue, white and red F G Em A
and yellow... fringe... F G Em A
Crazy for the blue, white, red and yellow! FGC
"Frank Mills"
"Where Do I Go?"
"Black Boys"
"White Boys"
Mixed Media! Bb F
"Walking In Space"
"Abie Baby"
(Very freely adapted from the sheet music to the Broadway cast)
"All You Have To Do" (London '93, the Buddha song, not arranged)
"Three-Five-Zero-Zero"
Prisoners in Niggertown G
It's a dirty little war G
Three-five-zero-zero CGD
Take weapons up and begin to kill D F-G-C
Watch the long long armies drifting home C G E7 A7 D7 G
(sing out!)
I have of late G
but wherefore I know not Am D7
lost all my mirth. G
This goodly frame G
The earth G7
seems to me a sterile promontory CG
(middle eight)
Gliddy glub gloopy; Nibby nabby noopy G
La la la lo lo... Am7 D7 Am7 D7
Sabba sibby sabba; Nooby abba nabba Am7 D7; Am7 D7
Le le lo lo... G G7
Tooby ooby walla; Nooby abba nabba C B7; Em Am7
Early morning singin' song. G D7 G
Somewhere Bm
inside something there is a rush of
greatness
Who knows what stands in front of A
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space Bm D
Silence tells me secretly Bm F#7
Everything; Everything... F#7 Bm; G D