Are You Ready to Soft Rock?

"True Colors".  The song made famous by Cyndi Lauper in 1986.  This is the song I'm going to learn for the guitar this week.

See the following links:
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cyndi_lauper/true_colors_tab.htm
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cyndi_lauper/true_colors_ver4_crd.htm

The first is a link to a guitar tab, which is probably close to the actual guitar part for this song.  Not impossible to play, but somewhat intricate, and singing the lyrics while playing this part would be difficult to accomplish in a week.  The second link is to chords for the song, which are easy enough to play while singing.  While I am not an accomplished guitarist, I feel confident that I could learn the chords and lyrics in a day, so I feel that a greater challenge is in order.

See this link:
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cyndi_lauper/true_colors_ver2_crd.htm
Here's what I am working from.  Chords for the verses, and a tab for the intro / interludes.  I feel that this "splits the difference" and offers a little challenge, mostly in the intro, but also provides some variation on basic chords.  I plan to take some liberty with the verses, largely because the "whisper-speak" of the third verse seems unnecessary.

So stay tuned this week to see how I progress!  There's a fair chance that I will become frustrated and settle for playing a simple Tom Petty song by Wednesday, but I'm going to make an effort to learn "True Colors."  If my understanding of webcams is any better than my understanding of guitars, I will post some video / audio here.

As an aside, I heard a sound byte from Cyndi Lauper on the radio last week, and her voice sounds awful.  That sound byte must have been the longest twenty or thirty seconds of my entire week.