Rotterdam Or Anywhere chords by The Beautiful South

Chords with lyrics

Song - Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)
  Artist - Beautiful South
  Album - Blue is the Colour

  Tabbed by Mike Castle ([email protected])


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  Define chords;

  Fmaj7Fmaj7 G+G  A minorAm  C/GC/G  C majorC  G7G7  D/F  E MajorE  E7E7

-e----0----3----0----0----0----1----2----0----0
-B----1----0----1----1----1----0----3----0----3
-G----2----0----2----0----0----0----2----1----1
-D----3----0----2----2----2----0----0----2----2
-A----3----2----0----3----3----2----0----2----2
-E----x----3----x----3----x----3----2(T)-0----0
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  Define playing styles;

Style 1: - Strummed chords - each beat is a triplet.
      Play Dah-de Dah-de Dah-de Dah-de=20

Style 2: - Each beat is a triplet (except the half-beats
      shown on the tab at *). The slide is played
      with 3rd finger barred across e and BB strings

Beat: 1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4

    Fmaj7Fmaj7

-e-----------3/5-0-----0-----------------------0-------|
-B-----------3/5-1-----1----------0------1-----1-------|
-G---------------2-----2-----0----0------2-----2-----0-|
-D---------------3-----3-3---------------3-----3-3-----|
-A-----3-----------------------3-----------------------|
-E-----------------------------------------------------|
                 |
                 * on the half-beat

Style 3 (at end of chorus)

Beat: 1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4

    G7G7
   a-lone---------            Anywhere a-

               $ quarter bend up with 4th
               | finger
-e-----1-----1--1-----------------------------3--------|
-B-----0-----0--0--------------------0-----3-----------|
-G-----0-----0--0--------0---3b------------------------|
-D-----0-----0--0--------------------------------------|
-A-----2-----2--2--------------------------------------|
-E-----3-----3--3--------------------------------------|
        |               |
        * half beat          * half beat
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INTRO:

Style 2 Fmaj7Fmaj7 twice, solo guitar. Bass and percussion come
in 3rd time through, repeat a 4th time

VERSE 1:

Keep playing Style 2 Fmaj7Fmaj7 through 1st verse a total of
4 times

BRIDGE:

Style 1

  G+G
The whole place ....

        A minorAm
The people..... sure

  G+G
And no-one.....

     C majorC         E MajorE   E7E7
Than they ever would do in a jar----

CHORUS:

Style 1

This could be

A minorAm      C/GC/G
Rotterdam or anywhere

A minorAm      C/GC/G
Liverpool or Rome, Cause

A minorAm      C/GC/G
Rotterdam is anywhere

D MajorD     G7G7 (Style 3)
Anywhere a-lone, Anywhere a-

Style 2 Fmaj7Fmaj7 twice

-lone

VERSE 2

Same as VERSE 1

BRIDGE

Same as before

CHORUS

Same again

Style 2 Fmaj7Fmaj7 four times, then straight into:

BRIDGE

Same as before

CHORUS/CHORUS (don't do the fiddly bit, just segue=20
        into the chorus again from the G7G7 -=20
        listen to the track - you'll see it!)

Style 2 Fmaj7Fmaj7 lots of times, singing the words of the
chorus in a jazzy style to fade out...