Election Day chords by Arcadia

Chords with lyrics

Simon le Bonn, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor. It's pretty simple and classical for
new-wawe style :)

Before playing it in bass, you should put tune down on 1 step: DGDF


Intro tab (actually it plays on keyboards, but I adapted it for guitar):
E MajorE|------------------|------------------|------5-----------|
BB|------------10-10-|-13--p-12-------6-|-8--p-------------|
G+G|------------10-10-|-14--p-12-----7---|------------------|
D MajorD|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D MajorD|------------------|------------------|------------------|
(In intro and in couplets bass plays always D MajorD)

Coplet 1:
D MajorD             C majorC
Wild kind of look to the day
A augmentedA        G+G
Opening eyes impale neon flickers
D MajorD            C majorC
She moon she turning away
  A augmentedA             G+G
The city's her slave but he's cheating his mistress

D MajorD C majorC
   A augmentedA
She's moody and gray
   G+G
She's mean and she's so restless (so restless)


Couplet 2:
D MajorD           C majorC
All over you as they say
A augmentedA           G+G
Rumours or rivals yell at the strike force
D MajorD         C majorC
Hi guys, by the way
A augmentedA           G+G
Are you aware you're being illegal

D MajorD C majorC
   A augmentedA           G+G
It's making your saviour behaviour look evil


Chorus:
B minorBm     G+G
  Maximum big surprise
   B minorBm          E MajorE
Your smile is something new

End of the chorus:
D MajorD             C majorC
I pull my shirt off and pray
A augmentedA
We're sacred and bound
  G+G
To suffer the heatwave
D MajorD            C majorC
Pull off my shirt and pray
   A augmentedA      G+G
We're coming up on re-election day


Couplet 3:
 D MajorD              C majorC
Stretching my luck down the way
  A augmentedA         G+G
To your invitation stretching my body
D MajorD           C majorC
Use your intuitive play
A augmentedA             G+G
'cause maybe we have more play time than money


Chorus:
B minorBm     G+G
  Maximum big surprise
  B minorBm         E MajorE
She knows something new


End of the chorus:
D MajorD             C majorC
I pull my shirt off and pray
  A augmentedA
I'm saving myself
  G+G
To suffer the heatwave
D MajorD            C majorC
Pull off my shirt and pray
   A augmentedA      G+G
We're coming up on re-election day


Insrumental "talking" part:
B minorBm            G+G
  By roads and backways
  A augmentedA           G+G
A augmentedA lover's chance downwind
Cut open murmurs and sounds
Becalm hands on the skin
Carry further oh...
Entangled strands all sing
Saving some time to slip away
We could die oh...


End of "talking" part:
D MajorD        C majorC
 Shouldn't be asking
A augmentedA   G+G  D MajorD        C majorC
 Wild.......and scheming
      A augmentedA       G+G
Could be my election day


Chorus:
B minorBm     G+G
  Maximum big surprise
   B minorBm           E MajorE
Your smile is something new


Couplet 4:
D MajorD             C majorC
I pull my shirt off and pray
   A augmentedA
We're sacred and bound
  G+G
To suffer the heatwave
D MajorD            C majorC
Pull off my shirt and pray
   A augmentedA      G+G
We're coming up on re-election day


(plays till the end):
D MajorD C majorC A augmentedA
G+G