The Downtown Lights chords by The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights - Transcribed 15/04/98 by Mike Garoghan
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>>>>>>>mike@psiron.demon.co.uk

This song does not obviously lend itself to a solo guitar rendition.
However with the possible exception of the outro I think this works rather
well.


E/Eb     -021100
E6      -022120
E5      -x02400
Asus2/Ab   -002100
Abm      -466444 * or E5+G# -4x2400
Dbm7     -x46454 * or C#m7-5 -x42400
Dbm7/E    -x46650
F#m      -244222
F#maddA    -242225
Bsus4/A    -x24252
B7      -x24242
B       -x24442
A/E      -577600
Dbm7add11/E  -099999
Dbm7add11/E(2)-09999(11)
Dbm7add11/E(3)-09999(12)

The Downtown Lights

E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6


E5
Sometimes ..........
E5        Abm   Dbm7
When all I ...............
E5
Is love .................
E5           Abm   Dbm7
There is just ..................
E5           Dbm7
Nobody loves ...........
F#maddA   F#m
It's alright
     Bsus4/A  B7
Can't you see?
        E/Eb E6  E/Eb E6
The downtown lights


E5             Abm
In love..................
   Dbm7       E5      B
We're walking ...................
     Abm       Dbm7
And with nobody ..............
   F#maddA F#m      Bsus4/A  B7
Empty streets,     ...............
        E/Eb E6
The downtown ......

A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How ....................
A/E
How ....................
A/E
How do I ...................

E5            Bsus4/A B7
       Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
      E/Eb E6   E/Eb E6
it's alright

E5
Tonight and.............
E5             Abm     Dbm7
Let's go walking ..................
   E5            Dbm7
Let's walk ......................
     F#maddA  F#m
Wrong or ......
   Bsus4/A
Be at .........
       Dbm7/E
The downtown .......
    F#m
It will ..........
    Bsus4/A
It will ..........
        E/Eb E6
The downtown .......
E/Eb E6
Yeah, yeah

A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How .....................

   Asus2/Ab   E5
It's alright
   Bsus4/A B7
It's alright
       E/Eb E6
The downtown lights

E/Eb E6
Yeah    x4

A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How .....................


<---------E drone throughout

Asus2/Ab E5        Asus2/Ab E5
        Yeah, yeah
Asus2/Ab E5      Asus2/Ab E5  ------>
        The downtown lights

Dbm7add11/E

Dbm7add11/E
The neons.................
              Dbm7add/E(2) Dbm7add11/E(3)
Rented rooms and ...........
Dbm7add11/E(2)
The crowded ......................
Dbm7add11/E
Chimney tops............
Dbm7add11/E(2)
The golden lights..................
Dbm7add11/E(3)
The coloured ......................
Dbm7add11/E(3)
I'm tired of ....................
Dbm7add11/E(3)
The downtown ........
Yeah, yeah

(You could play C#msus 0(11)9(11)99 over this outro with another guitar
playing the top 4 strings as transcribed)


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Amended 13.05.98---------
Asus2 throughout has been replaced with E5.
Alternative to Abm for E5+g# added
Also alternative outro chord of C#msus----------
Thanks due to Ralph DelGuidice -