Singalongsong – 方大同 Guitar Tab
Singalongsong is the first single taken off Khalil Fong’s (方大同) latest album, 橙月 (Orange Moon) – see album review. There’s both an English and a Chinese version of this song on the album. Khalil writes both the music and lyrics for the English version while the lyrics for the Chinese version is by 马嵩惟.
This is my favourite song on the album and I’ve been working on the tab for this song ever since the album came out. It took me almost two weeks because the bridge was difficult to figure out, no thanks to my poor aural skills and music theory.
Thankfully, I had a little help from Khalil. There’s a YouTube video of him playing this song on the guitar, which is rare because he has only played it on the keyboard so far. And it was only because the keyboard setup was terrible that he decided to play it on the guitar.
However, the tab I’ve worked out is a simplified version compared to what Khalil plays because he uses a lot of advanced chords and chord substitutions. Do check out the above video because his guitar version of this song has a great feel, if you’d overlook the one or two wrong chords and him forgetting a few lines of lyrics.
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Singalongsong
方大同
Original Key: F
Capo: 5th fret
Verse 1
C G F
I wrote this song It’s not too long
Dm7 G
‘Cos I’ve been thinking ’bout you
C G F
I wrote this song Maybe I’m wrong
F G
To be caught up about you
C G
Well I don’t know what you think about me
F G C
Maybe you think nothing at all
F Em
But maybe you could just lie to me
Dm7 F G
And we could be in love you see
Chorus
C G/B
Oh it’s a singalong song that’s not too long
Am Am/G
It’s when I think about you that I hear songs
F Em Am
And you can sing along Maybe if you want to
Fm G C
‘Cos baby I wrote this I wrote this for you
Short Interlude
Verse 2
I wrote this song It’s not too long
‘Cos I’m the one who loves you
I wrote this song This can’t be wrong
I don’t wanna smile without you
Well I just want to make you happy
But maybe you want nothing at all
And how I wish that you’re meant to be
Forever and a day with me
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
Em Am
In every way you mean more to me than you’ll ever know
Gm F
Girl I’ll do my best to show these words are true
Bbm Cm7
And if you’d like to make a song and be a perfect harmony with me
F
I’d find the greatest words to sing
Dm7 F G
So we could write our own romance
Repeat Chorus twice
Outro
Fm G C
‘Cos baby I wrote this I wrote this for you
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Download printable version (PDF)
Listen to the song:
Update, 23 March 2009:
For the chords that Khalil uses for Singalongsong, check out his manuscript for the song.
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dude well done but thats chords, not tabs
stanyu said this on January 23, 2009 at 10:20 pm |
Ah, you’re right in the proper usage of the word. I’m using it in its common usage on the Internet.
Thanks for your comments. Let me know if there is any mistake in the chords. 
w said this on January 24, 2009 at 9:14 am |
Hey dude, will you able to get the tabs that 方大同 play in the video and upload here
Kyle said this on February 26, 2009 at 10:49 pm |
Wow, that’s kinda challenging. Would love to play like he does in the video too. Well, guess I can try but it will take me some time to figure out those chords.
w said this on February 26, 2009 at 10:59 pm |
erm look, maybe this will help you to get the tabs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPpp0vZXxU
Hope to hear from you soon
Kyle said this on February 26, 2009 at 11:08 pm |
[...] album was the manuscript of ‘Singalongsong’ by Khalil. I wanted to see how much of the chords I figured out for this song was [...]
Manuscript of Singalongsong (方大同) « Music Rambling said this on March 22, 2009 at 11:11 pm |