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 -