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    Thursday, July 02, 2009
    Jackson Browne and "These Days": covers, chords, etc.

    I've grown to love Jackson Browne's "These Days," a track most people know through the version recorded by Nico and seen in this scene in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums.

    It's a simple song that runs down five chords: C, B, Am, G, and then F. I play it on my acoustic with the capo on the fifth fret.

    C B Am G F
    Well I've been out walkin'
    C B Am G F
    And I don't do that much talking, these days
    C G
    These days.
    F
    These days I seem to think a lot
    C G
    About the things that I forgot to do, for you

    C B Am G F
    And all the times I had a chance to


    The song has a history way past that Wes Anderson movie. A lot of people have covered it. It's outlined pretty well in the song's Wikipedia entry.


    Here's a version by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.




    One that follows the Nico version.



    Glenn Campbell's version.


    This version is the reason I started this post. It seems he doesn't perform this arrangement much more.

    Can't find the Paul Westerberg version online. Off to my iTunes I go.

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