Take The A Train Chords by Duke Ellington

this is an old jazz standard written by Duke but played by hundreds of jazz 
artist every where.  There are words to it but it is most often played as an 
instrumental with solo's over the whole form- for the melody listen to the 
recording or buy sheet music.

here are the chords 
/ = bar of music ended
need to know some jazz extensions to play it

Cmaj7 (6) / Cmaj7 (6) / D7b5 / D7b5 /

Dm7 / G7 (13) / C6 / C6 /

Cmaj7 (6) / Cmaj7 (6) / D7b5 / D7b5 /

Dm7 / G7 (13) / C6 / C9/

Fmaj7 / Fmaj7 / Fmaj7 / Fmaj7 /

D9 / D9 / Dm7 / G9 G7b9/

Cmaj7 / Cmaj7 / D7b5/ D7b5/

Dm7 / G9 / Cmaj7 / Cmaj7*

*on the last "turn around chord try a cmaj13 or maybe C augmented (C7#5)
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