Long Distance chords by The Kinks

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


N.C.
Hello this is long distance, who do you wish to call?

Hello this is long distance, who do you wish to call?

Hello this is long distance, who do you wish to call?


Verse:
  A augmentedA         D MajorD
Spent last winter playing in the sand
       A augmentedA        D MajorD
With the prisoners of the motherland
 A augmentedA       D MajorD      E MajorE
Damn hotel is feeling like a cell

      A augmentedA     D MajorD
And even paradise can be so cruel
 A augmentedA       D MajorD
Sitting by the swimming pool
 A augmentedA        D MajorD
Trying to keep my head together
 A augmentedA      D MajorD
In that hot Australian weather

 A augmentedA               D MajorD      E MajorE
Three days to kill and my per diem's getting low
     B minorBm
'Cause I spent all my money calling long distance

F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m

 B minorBm           E MajorE          A augmentedA
Calling long distance, such a long way from home

F# minorF#m       E MajorE       F# minorF#m      E MajorE
A minorAm I talking to long distance, can you put me through?
 F# minorF#m              E MajorE
Twelve thousand miles but I've got no resistance
    D MajorD            D MajorD             A augmentedA
Long distance, long distance, long distance, long distance

     A augmentedA          D MajorD
Now the Road Hog's face is turning red
  A augmentedA      D MajorD
Larry's still asleep in bed
 A augmentedA       D MajorD       E MajorE
Romeo he can't get no head at all
 A augmentedA            D MajorD
And the Doctor looks on so annoyed
 A augmentedA         D MajorD
You disappoint me, Mr. Boyd
      A augmentedA         D MajorD        E MajorE
And the Electric Dwarf wishes he was six foot tall

 B minorBm
Now Romeo's patience is wearing thin
 A augmentedA     D MajorD
C'mon baby, let me in
    A augmentedA         D MajorD            E MajorE
It's five a.m. and I've been creeping 'round the hall
 B minorBm
Got no resistance calling long distance

F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m

   B minorBm            E MajorE          A augmentedA
You sound so close but your such a long way from home

 F# minorF#m       E MajorE       F# minorF#m        E MajorE
A minorAm I talking to long distance, can you put me through?
 F# minorF#m              E MajorE
Twelve thousand miles but I've got not resistance
  D MajorD                 D MajorD           A augmentedA
Long distance, long distance, long distance, long distance

   B minorBm
Still no points for my merrymen
  A augmentedA        D MajorD
Except Ricard, he just scored ten
   A augmentedA             D MajorD
Now Road Hog's getting drunk again
    A augmentedA      D MajorD
And I only get to hold my pen
 A augmentedA        D MajorD        E MajorE
Instead of what I love to hold the most

 B minorBm
I feel so lonesome I could cry
 A augmentedA         D MajorD
Count the hours as they roll by
 A augmentedA
It's day time now
  D MajorD         E MajorE
I think I'll make a call

 F# minorF#m          E MajorE
Hello long distance, calling long distance

F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m C# minorC#m F# minorF#m

   B minorBm            E MajorE          A augmentedA
You sound so close but you're such a long way from home
     E MajorE          A augmentedA
You're such a long way from home

 B minorBm           F# minorF#m   A augmentedA            E MajorE
Have to admit I got no resistance to the red light on the wall
 B minorBm       F# minorF#m
The message said I had a call
   D MajorD                A augmentedA
Long distance, long distance, long distance, long distance