Sweet Jane chords by Cowboy Junkies

Chords with lyrics

FROM alt.guitar.tab Mon Jan 24 14:13:47 1994

"Sweet Jane"
Lou Reed
(this transcription based off of the Cowboy Junkies' cover)

verse 1:
(play progression with beat dum dum dum-dum)
D MajorD      A augmentedA     G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Anyone ...

D MajorD      A augmentedA       G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Wouldn't ..

D MajorD      A augmentedA       G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Anyone ..

D MajorD      A augmentedA     G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Wouldn't ..

Chorus:

D MajorD      A augmentedA     G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Sweet    ..

D MajorD      A augmentedA     G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Sweet    ..

D MajorD      A augmentedA     G+G G MajorG     G+G     A augmentedA     D MajorD D
Ah,     ..

verse 2 & 3 are the identical musically

verse 2:

chorus

verse 3:

chorus

interlude:
D MajorD | DD |  DD | DDDDDDDD |
   ^    ^   ^ ^ ^ ^
  (Strum up and down)

(let chords ring)
D MajorD    DbDb       G+G         A augmentedA   A augmentedA
Heavenly ..
D MajorD    DbDb       G+G         A augmentedA   A augmentedA
Heavenly ...                   When you smile...
D MajorD      A augmentedA      C majorC      G+G
La ..
D MajorD      A augmentedA      C majorC      G+G
La ...

(with dum dum dum-dum beat)
D MajorD   A augmentedA    G+G G MajorG   G+G     A augmentedA   D MajorD D
Sweet ...
D MajorD   A augmentedA    G+G G MajorG   G+G     A augmentedA   D MajorD D
Sweet ...


I play this clean-tone on my electric, with lots of reverb. All the chords
are barre chords.

I couldn't figure out a nice way of writing the rhythm, so I didn't. The
verson above is one worked out by me and my vocalist, and i am not too
familiar with either the CJ or the VU versions, but this is what we do. I
humbly offer it for the acoustic guitar mailing list.
(From: "josh ronsen")