Old Hanoi chords by Nanci Griffith

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: A augmentedA

🎸 Intro:

A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD



🎸 Verse 1:
A augmentedA                    D MajorD
 Where are all the satchel boys selling books outside the Metropole?
A augmentedA              D MajorD
 Books to read in English, books of light and sorrow
A augmentedA      D MajorD       E MajorE            A augmentedA D MajorD
Of this foreign land. And they are gone, and they've flown away.

🎸 Verse 2:
A augmentedA                   D MajorD
 Where are all the cyclos, with their drivers pedaling grace
A augmentedA               D MajorD               A augmentedA D MajorD
 Crowded out by motorbike, confined to lesser space in old Hanoi?
     E MajorE     B minorBm          A augmentedA D MajorD
And they grew wings, and they've flown away.


🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD           A augmentedA       E MajorE        A augmentedA
 And in the words of Graham Greene, like the Quiet American
D MajorD         A augmentedA            A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
 Searching these sacred streets for old Hanoi.
D MajorD           A augmentedA      E MajorE           A augmentedA
 And in all of these sacred things I’ve been blessed in life to see
B minorBm         A augmentedA         E MajorE
 I believe I'm in someone’s dream in history.


🎸 Verse 3:
A augmentedA                D MajorD
 Where is the eloquence of the ladies on their bicycles
A augmentedA                 D MajorD              A augmentedA
 Dressed in their au dias in the lotus flowered nights of Indochine?
D MajorD       B minorBm      E MajorE          A augmentedA  D MajorD
 And they rode to progress, and they've flown away.


🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD           A augmentedA       E MajorE        A augmentedA   B minorBm
 And in the words of Graham Greene, like the Quiet American
           E MajorE
Who's searching these sacred streets
     A augmentedA  D MajorD   A augmentedA  D MajorD   A augmentedA
For old Hanoi, old Hanoi, old Hanoi.
D MajorD        A augmentedA     D MajorD     A augmentedA
 Searching for Indochine, for old Hanoi.
D MajorD       A augmentedA     D MajorD   A augmentedA  D MajorD     A augmentedA
 Cherchant l’Indochine, old Hanoi, in old Hanoi.