Seventh Avenue chords by Rosanne Cash

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

This song is fingerpicked with your pinky and index fingers dancing around the high strings
augmenting the basic chords.

D MajorD ---> D MajorD Dsus2Dsus2 Dsus4Dsus4
C majorC ---> C majorC Cadd9Cadd9 Csus4Csus4
G+G ---> G+G C/GC/G
A minorAm --> A minorAm Asus2Asus2 Asus4Asus4

C/GC/G (3 0 2 0 1 3)

Verse:

G+G            C/GC/G  G+G  C/GC/G  G+G
The world keeps getting smaller
    C majorC
'til it closes 'round my room
   D MajorD
And everything I feel now
   C majorC
Is hard and fast and true
G+G        C/GC/G  G+G   C/GC/G  G+G
My window is a spotlight
    C majorC
On the madness down below
      D MajorD
It takes a silent figure
  C majorC
To make this place a home


Chorus:

    A minorAm   E minor 7Em7    D MajorD
Now the candles burn all night
    E minorEm
Without you
    A minorAm     E minor 7Em7   D MajorD
And the moon hangs out of sight
  C majorC
So blue
  E minor 7Em7   Cadd9Cadd9
On Seventh Avenue

Verse:

G+G          C/GC/G  G+G  C/GC/G  G+G
I gave you what you wanted
    C majorC
And it took so many years
    D MajorD
Now I'm just a part of
  C majorC
The traffic and the tears
G+G      C/GC/G  G+G  C/GC/G  G+G
I am not a lighthouse
    C majorC
Not the answer or the truth
    D MajorD
But the love that I held onto
  C majorC
Is safe inside this room

Chorus:

    A minorAm   E minor 7Em7    D MajorD
Now the candles burn all night
    E minorEm
Without you
    A minorAm     E minor 7Em7   D MajorD
And the moon hangs out of sight
  C majorC
So blue
  E minor 7Em7   Cadd9Cadd9
On Seventh Avenue

Interlude:


Chorus:

    A minorAm   E minor 7Em7    D MajorD
Now the candles burn all night
    E minorEm
Without you
    A minorAm     E minor 7Em7   D MajorD
And the moon hangs out of sight
  C majorC
So blue
  E minor 7Em7   Cadd9Cadd9
On Seventh Avenue


Slow fade-out:

N.C
(all of the stories from all of our lives

N.C.
Are not lost from memory on these streets tonight)