Chords with lyrics
Song: The chauffeur
Artist: Duran Duran
Album: Rio
Tabbed by DJ
23rd June 2015
TUNING: The original album track is quite flat of concert pitch,
to match use a chromatic tuner and de-tune all strings approx. -40
D MajorD = xx0232 
BB = x24442 
C majorC = x32010 
EmMaj7Emmaj7 = 021000
G+G = 320033 
B7B7 = x21202 C7/Bb = x13010
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[Intro]
(G+G) (BB)
| / / / / |[Fade-in]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x3]
[Verse 1]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7
Out on the tar plains ...the glides are moving,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
All looking for a new place to drive,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7
You sit be - side me, ...so newly charming,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
Sweating dewdrops glisten, fresh in your side!
[Chorus]
G+G B7B7
And the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
E minorEm B7B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G+G BB E minorEm BB
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
G+G BB E minorEm B7B7 G+G BB E minorEm B7B7
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
B7B7
| / / / / | / / |
[Verse 2]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7
Way down the lane a way, living for a - nother day,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
The aphids swarm up in the ...drifting haze,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7
Swim seagull in the sky to - wards that hollow western isle,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
My envied Lady holds you fast in her gaze!
[Chorus]
G+G B7B7
And the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
E minorEm B7B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G+G BB E minorEm BB
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Chorus]
G+G B7B7
Then the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
E minorEm B7B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G+G BB E minorEm BB B7B7
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Bridge]
C majorC C7/Bb BB B7B7
Sing------ blue silver-----! | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7
And watching lovers part, ...I feel you smiling,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind?
E minorEm D MajorD
To tear out from your eyes,
G+G B7B7
With a thought to stiffen brooding lies,
E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
And I'll only watch you leave me further be - hind!
[Chorus]
G+G B7B7
And the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
E minorEm B7B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G+G BB E minorEm BB B7B7
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Chorus]
G+G B7B7
Then the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
E minorEm B7B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G+G BB E minorEm BB B7B7
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Bridge]
C majorC C7/Bb BB B7B7
Sing------ blue silver-----! | / / / / |
C majorC C7/Bb B7B7
Sing, sing---- blue silver-----!
[Coda - Repeat]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7 E minorEm D MajorD G+G BB
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x7]
E minorEm D MajorD G+G B7B7 EmMaj7Emmaj7
| / / / / | / / / / | / ||
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[Some versions have a sample of a narrator over parts of the coda,
taken from a natural history recording, talking about insects]
There's more to this kind of camouflage,
more than just ...colour and shape!
