{"id":28650,"date":"2026-01-06T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28650"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:29:21","slug":"thank-you-for-being-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/thank-you-for-being-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You for Being a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
I really like this song and the other versions were too hard for me to play,\r\nso I tried to simplify it. It's not perfect, and it's in C (Andrew Gold's\r\nversion works in A with a Capo on 1st fret), but it's easier for me to play.\r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\nC<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\nC<\/span>\r\n   Thank you for being a friend\r\nF<\/span>\r\n   Traveled down a road and back again\r\n      G<\/span>                                     C<\/span>\r\nYour heart is true, you\u00b4re a pal and a confidant \r\nN.C.\r\nI\u00b4m not ashamed to say\r\nF<\/span>\r\n   I hope it always will stay this way             (*1 strum each)\r\n    G<\/span>                                         C<\/span>    C<\/span>* G<\/span>* Am<\/span>*\r\nMy hat is off, won\u00b4t you stand up and take a bow \r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\nAm<\/span>                    C7<\/span>\r\n   And if you threw a party\r\n  F<\/span>                   E7<\/span>\r\nInvited everyone you knew\r\n      Gm<\/span>       C7<\/span>\r\nWell, you would see \r\n             Dm7<\/span>               Am<\/span>\r\nThe biggest gift would be from me\r\n         F<\/span>                  G<\/span>\r\nAnd the card attached would say\r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\nG<\/span>                      C<\/span>\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                       F<\/span>\r\nThank you for being a friend\r\n                       G<\/span>\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                       C<\/span>\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\nC<\/span>     F<\/span>\r\nC<\/span>\r\n  If it\u00b4s a car you lack\r\nF\r\n  I\u00b4d surely buy you a Cadillac\r\n    G                                     C\r\nWhatever you need any time of the day or night \r\nC\r\n  I\u00b4m not ashamed to say\r\nF\r\n  I hope it always will stay this way\r\n    G                                         C   C* G* Am*\r\nMy hat is off, won\u00b4t you stand up and take a bow \r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\nAm                        C7\r\n   And when we both get older \r\n     F                          E7\r\nWith walking canes and hair of gray\r\nGm      C7\r\nHave no fear \r\n      Dm7                Am\r\nEven though it's hardly here\r\n        F                    G\r\nI will stand real close and say\r\n \r\n[Chorus 2]\r\nG                      C\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       F\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       G\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       C\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\nCsus2                    C\r\nLet me tell ya bout' a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       F\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       G\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       C       C7\r\nThank you for being a friend\r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\n            Gm\r\nAnd when we die, \r\n           Am\r\nand float away \r\n          Fm (111330)\r\nInto the night, \r\n          C\/G  C\r\nthe milky way       \r\n               Gm\r\nYou'll hear me call \r\n       Am\r\nas we ascend \r\n              Fm (111330)\r\nI'll say your name \r\n           C\/G  C\r\nthen once again\r\nN.C.\r\nThank you for being a\r\nC                       F\r\nC                       F\r\nBaah  ba ba baah  ba ba baah\r\n \r\n[Chorus\/Outro]\r\n                       C\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       F\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       G\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       C\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\nCsus2                           C\r\nPeople let me tell ya bout' a friend \r\n                               (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       F\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       G\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                      (I wanna thank you)\r\n                       C\r\nThank you for being a friend\r\nCsus2                C\r\nOooh tell ya bout a friend \r\n           (let me thank you right now, for being a friend)\r\n                       F\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                   (I wanna tell you right now and I'll tell you again)\r\n                       G\r\nThank you for being a friend \r\n                   (I wanna thank you, thank you)\r\n                        C      C       F      C*\r\nThank you for being a friend, Whoa-oa whoa\r\n
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I really like this song and the other versions were too hard for me to play, so I tried to simplify it. It’s not perfect, and it’s in C (Andrew Gold’s version works in A with a Capo on 1st fret), but it’s easier for me to play. [Intro] C … CLICK TO VIEW SONGThank You for Being a Friend<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28651,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28650\/revisions\/28651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}