Read The Blessed Page chords by Belle And Sebastian

Chords with lyrics

Key: D MajorD

* always strum once

🎸 Intro:

 D MajorD
e|------0h2------|------0h2----|
BB|----3-----3----|----3--------|
G+G|--2---------2--|--2----------|
D MajorD|0--------------|0------------|
A augmentedA|---------------|-------------|
E MajorE|---------------|-------------| x 2

🎸 Verse 1:

D MajorD
Love and pain and sorrow
     D/G*  D/A* D MajorD
Keep the band together
D MajorD
She was like my soulmate
     D/G* D/A* D MajorD
Whispered in my ear
E minorEm
Love was playing music
    Em/G* Em/F#* F# minorF#m
It was all we wanted
E minorEm
Making plastic records
    Em/G* D MajorD
Of our histo-ry

🎸 Verse 2:

D MajorD
How I knew it mattered
   D/G*  D/A* D MajorD
To a certain person
D MajorD
Heard the boy in London
      D/G*   D/A* D MajorD
Called out from the crowd
E minorEm
Said something that echoes
   Em/G*   Em/F#* F# minorF#m
To me ten years later
E minorEm
Wishing that he still called
    Em/G*    D MajorD
Like he called that night

🎸 Instrumental:

          Bmaj7sus2
 B minorBm          v  F#F#        D MajorD
e|----------7-7---7-7-|6--7-9---------------|-----------10-10---10-10-|
BB|--------7-----------|--------7-7------7---|------7-10---------------|
G+G|------7-------------|-------------------9-|7-7-7--------------------|
D MajorD|9-9-9---------------|---------------------|-------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------|---------------------|-------------------------| (flute)

 D MajorD   A augmentedA       E minorEm                A augmentedA           B minorBm
e|9--10-12------------|---------7-------------------------------------|---5--6-|7----|
BB|---------10-10------|8-7-8-10---10-8-7-------7-8-7------------------|--------|-----|
G+G|--------------------|------------------9-8-9-------9-7-6-7---6------|--------|-----|
D MajorD|--------------------|--------------------------------------9---7----|---7--8-|9----|
A augmentedA|--------------------|-----------------------------------------------|--------|-----|
E MajorE|--------------------|-----------------------------------------------|--------|-----| (flute)

                            A augmentedA           B minorBm
e|--------------------|----------------------------------------------|---5--6-|7-----|
BB|--------------------|----------------------------------------------|--------|------|
G+G|--------------------|--------0-------------------------------------|--------|------|
D MajorD|--------------------|2-1-2-4---4--2-0-------0-2-0------------------|---7--8-|9-----|
A augmentedA|--------------------|-----------------4-3-4-------4-2-0------------|--------|------|
E MajorE|--------------------|----------------------------------------------|--------|------| (guitar)

 D MajorD   A augmentedA       E minorEm                 A augmentedA           B minorBm
e|9--10-12------------|------------------------------------------------|---5--6-|7----|
BB|---------10-10------|8-7-8-10-12-10-8-7-------7-8-7------------------|--------|-----|
G+G|--------------------|-------------------9-8-9-------9-7-6-7---6------|--------|-----|
D MajorD|--------------------|-----------------0---------------------9---7----|---7--8-|9----|
A augmentedA|--------------------|7-6-7-9--10-9--7---------5-7-5-----0------------|--------|-----|
E MajorE|--------------------|-------------------9-8-9-------9-7--------------|--------|-----| (or: flute + guitar)

 D MajorD
e|------0h2------|------0h2----|
BB|----3-----3----|----3--------|
G+G|--2---------2--|--2----------|
D MajorD|0--------------|0------------|
A augmentedA|---------------|-------------|
E MajorE|---------------|-------------|

🎸 Verse 3:

D MajorD
Pulling songs from thin air
    D/G*    D/A*  D MajorD
Pulling songs from bridges
D MajorD
Smell the air in small towns
     D/G*    D/A* D MajorD
Where the train line stops
E minorEm
Ever will I love you
     Em/G*   Em/F#* F# minorF#m
Now your chapter's over
E minorEm
Ever will I love you
     Em/G*  D MajorD
You were good to me

🎸 Verse 4:

D MajorD
Now a pain in memory
   D/G*    D/A* D MajorD
Is a cherished story
D MajorD
Moan about the present
  D/G*   D/A* D MajorD
Venerate the past
E minorEm
Love is like a novel
     Em/G*  Em/F#* F# minorF#m
Read the blessed pages
E minorEm
Did I do my best dear?
    Em/G*  D MajorD
That is all you ask

🎸 Outro:

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