Songs In Red And Gray chords by Suzanne Vega

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

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

Difficulty: Intermediate

Title: Title Track
Album: Songs in Red and Gray
Artist: Suzanne Vega
Method: Fingerpicking
Tempo: Andante moderato

Capo on 4th fret

Chords:
A minorAm    x0221x
Asus2Asus2  x0220x
Fadd#11 x3220x
G/DG/D   x5540x
Csus4Csus4  x3300x
E MajorE    02210x

Intro:
A minorAm Asus2Asus2 Fadd#11 x4
G/DG/D Csus4Csus4 E MajorE

Verse 1:
   A minorAm       Asus2Asus2      Fadd#11
The reproach on your daughter's most beautiful face
    A minorAm     Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
Made me wonder just how she could know
    A minorAm       Asus2Asus2    Fadd#11
Of that something that happened between you and me
    A minorAm     Asus2Asus2   Fadd#11
So much more than a long time ago

Verse 2:
  G/DG/D             Csus4Csus4
Her mother, I can see, lives within her still
   G/DG/D            Csus4Csus4
Cause she looked at me with her eyes
G/DG/D          Csus4Csus4
Though I had only just met her right then
 E MajorE
I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise

Instrumental:
A minorAm Asus2Asus2 Fadd#11 x2

Verse 1:
  A minorAm     Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
Did I break the thread, or did you break the thread?
    A minorAm      Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
Well at this point we could ask who cares
A minorAm     Asus2Asus2  Fadd#11
As for the promises broken and frayed
     A minorAm   Asus2Asus2    Fadd#11
Well it's 19 years late for repairs

Verse 2:
  G/DG/D            Csus4Csus4
The grey pewter vase held the deep red rose,
G/DG/D         Csus4Csus4
 One piece of coral shone white,
    G/DG/D             Csus4Csus4
By the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat,
  E MajorE
Is everything I can recall of one night

Vocal & Instrumental Solo:
A minorAm Asus2Asus2 Fadd#11 x4
G/DG/D Csus4Csus4 E MajorE

Verse 1:
     A minorAm       Asus2Asus2  Fadd#11
Will you please tell me why I remember these things
   A minorAm     Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
After all of this time, I don't know
A minorAm     Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
I must have left all those feelings inside
      A minorAm      Asus2Asus2    Fadd#11
Cause that year I had no courage to show

Verse 2:
G/DG/D            Csus4Csus4
 Was I the name you could never pronounce?
G/DG/D         Csus4Csus4
Did I even figure at all?
G/DG/D          Csus4Csus4
All of this happened before she was born
   E MajorE
Did I shadow her young pencil marks on the wall

Verse 1:
A minorAm     Asus2Asus2   Fadd#11
 Still I am sure I was only but one
   A minorAm     Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
Of a number who darkened that door
    A minorAm      Asus2Asus2     Fadd#11
Of your home and your heart and your family and wife
      A minorAm     Asus2Asus2  Fadd#11
Who'd been darkened so often before

Verse 2:
    G/DG/D           Csus4Csus4
And the red leaf it looks to the hard gray stone
    G/DG/D           Csus4Csus4
To each other they know what they mean
G/DG/D            Csus4Csus4
Somewhere their future is still yet to come
  E MajorE
In ways that are yet as of now unforeseen

Outro:
A minorAm Asus2Asus2 Fadd#11 x2
G/DG/D Csus4Csus4 E MajorE