Helplessly Hoping Acordes de ukulele

Helplessly Hoping
From their eponymous album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1969
 
Helplessly Hoping is famous for the marvelous vocal harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, but the song itself
is musically interesting. Written in G, it’s basically a simple Am-C-G-D (ii-IV-I-V) chord progression.
(And if you want to simplify the song, you can just play it that way.) What makes the song interesting are
the chord embellishments, the -7s, add9s, sus2s and sus4s, etc. Stephen Stills cleverly wove these variations
in to allow the chords to seamlessly blend into each other, often changing just one or two notes moving from
chord to chord, and maximizing use of open strings. The song is intended for fingerpicking; individual notes
continue to ring from one chord setting to the next. Matt Dahlberg applies the classical guitar term,
campanella, to this technique. It produces a bell-like sound quality as the chords transition. I use a simple
out-in, four-finger, p-a-i-m (thumb-ring-index-middle) picking pattern, repeated twice per measure throughout
the song. For those who prefer to strum, the specified DDUUDU “island strum” pattern works well. All chords
are played for a full measure, except chord pairs surrounded by ‘| |’ vertical brackets, e.g., |G Cadd9|.
Chord pairs surrounded by vertical brackets are played half a measure each. All chords use their default
Ultimate Guitar ukulele voicings.
 
[Intro]
Am Am7 C Cadd9 G |G Cadd9|D Dsus2|D
 
[Verse 1]
Am         Am7
Helplessly hoping
    C         Cadd9
Her harlequin hovers
    G  |Cadd9 G    |D Dsus2|D
Nearby, await-ing a word
Am         Am7
Gasping at glimpses
   C           Cadd9
Of gentle true spirit
   G    |Cadd9   G       |D Dsus2|D
He runs, wishing he could fly
        Am7        |C     Cadd9 |G Cadd9|D Dsus2|D
Only to trip at the sound of goodbye.
 
[Verse 2]
 
Am         Am7
Wordlessly watching
   C            Cadd9
He waits by the window
    G              |Cadd9 G      |D Dsus2|D
And wonders, at the empty place inside
Am          Am7
Heartlessly helping
   C           Cadd9
Himself to her bad dreams
   G           |Cadd9 G         |D Dsus2|D
He worries, did he    hear a goodbye
   Am7 |C  Cadd9|G
Or even hello?
 
 
[Chorus]
         G   Gsus4
They are one person
         G   Gsus4
They are two alone
         G     Gsus4
They are three together
         G  Dm      C     C
They are fo-or each other.
 
[Verse 3]
Am           Am7
Stand by the stairway
           C         Cadd9
You'll see something certain
   G        |Cadd9     G      |D Dsus2|D
To tell you, confusion has its cost.
Am         Am7
Love isn't lying
     C          Cadd9
It's loose in a lady
    G       |Cadd9  G     |D Dsus2|D
Who lingers, saying she is lost
    Am7       |C  Cadd9|G
And choking on hello.
 
[Chorus]
         G   Gsus4
They are one person
         G   Gsus4
They are two alone
         G     Gsus4
They are three together
         G  Dm      C     G
They are fo-or each other.
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