The Wires Are Down chords by The Blue Nile

Chords with lyrics

The Blue Nile - The Wires Are Down - Transcribed 17/05/98 by Mike Garoghan

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The guitar is muted throughout this song and uses mostly bottom 3 strings.
The chords are created by the interaction of the Guitar and Bass.
So I have attempted to include the bass notes in the chords shown.
So this is not exactly what the guitar plays on the record.
For a solo rendition You could add the grace notes of A major 6A6 and B6(Number
denotes string)
during the first part of the verse to emulate the bass guitar part.
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The chords provided below may not be correctly named but I have provided
chord tabs for reference.

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Chords

B minorBm   -7x777x
Bm/E  -7x7750
A/D   -x5765x
Dsus2Dsus2  -x5775x
G(Intro)-3x000x
D MajorD    -x5777x
B minorBm   -7x777x
Bm/G  -357xxx
G/EG/E   -057xxx
G+G    -355xxx
A augmentedA    -577xxx
E minor 7Em7   -022030

Chords for Gtr Riff
D-xx77xx
D/E-xx79xx
A-xx76xx
G-xx57xx

@ The Wires Are Down

Intro

B minorBm Bm/E A/D Dsus2Dsus2  A/D Dsus2Dsus2  G+G

A/D Dsus2Dsus2  A/D Dsus2Dsus2  G+G

D MajorD
The wires are down
D MajorD
The wires are down
B minorBm            Bm/G G/EG/E
Nothing works .............
D MajorD
The road is ............
D MajorD
The day was ................
B minorBm             Bm/G G/EG/E
When I held you ...........
   G+G       A augmentedA
But I held ...........
A/D      Dsus2Dsus2
I look at the ................
A/D       Dsus2Dsus2
  Breaking the good ...........
A/D        Dsus2Dsus2
  I shout in the ..........
A/D       Dsus2Dsus2
  I get out of ...........

A/D Dsus2Dsus2  A/D Dsus2Dsus2  G+G

(Gtr Riff)

 D MajorD D/ED/E A augmentedA D MajorD G+G  D MajorD D/ED/E A augmentedA D MajorD
E--------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------
G-7779996667777---77799966677----------
D-7777777777775---77777777777----------
A--------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------

 D MajorD D/ED/E A augmentedA D MajorD G+G  D MajorD D/ED/E A augmentedA D MajorD
E-------------------------------(H)12--
B-777999666777----77799966677---(H)12--
G-777777777775----77777777777---(H)12--
D-------------------------------(H)12--
A-------------------------------(H)12--
E--------------------------------------
(H)=Harmonic

E minor 7Em7


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