Chinatown chords by Jets To Brazil

Jets To Brazil
Chinatown
Orange Rhyming Dictionary
1998 Jade Tree Records

Key: A

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
D -   xx0232
E -   022100
A -   x02220
Bm -  x24432
C#m - x46654

Intro: D--E--D--E-- x2

then

D--E--D-A-Bm-C#m- x2


Verse 1:
D           E
  candle is blue could see
   D
me through but I'm color
A    Bm C#m D
blind        they tell
        E
me it's blue and I'm a
  D
believer that's why I'm
A    Bm C#m D
blind        live on
    E
the freeway listen
   D
to signs and we drive
   A   Bm C#m D
by feel        be a
  E
believer believe
     D
everything you'll
   A     Bm   C#m D   E D E D E D E
be right half the time


D E D A Bm C#m x2


Verse 2:
D           E
  candle is waxing
          D
takes my apartment
              A    Bm C#m
I bask in its magic
D            E
  all of the firefighters
           D
put out my fires took
       A      Bm C#m
all my matches
D            E
  staying up later waking
   D
up old and I'm leaving
    A    Bm C#m D
her never        ordering
E
in all friends and
D
lovers and we're
           A
making our weather
Bm     C#m        D   E D E D E D E
with a lone light bulb


Chorus 1:
D              E
  I'm tired of fighting
         D
so I'm demolished
           E  D
that's the way some
       E
make exhaustion a
          D
mode of expression
                 E
and that's their way
D            E
  I'm just a question
           D
knowing my answer I
         E    D
hope I'm wrong but
           E
I know the answer it's
            D
four in the morning
           E
I'm right again and
         D   E D A Bm C#m x2
I'm chinatown


Verse 3:
D          E
  now in a hurry rubbing
   D
up urgent to get home
   A  Bm C#m D
to dot        was my
       E
missed mistress messed
      D
up my mattress I missed
    A    Bm C#m D
the catch        last
       E
of the pitchers catfish
     D
done hunting harry
A    Bm C#m D
lundt        most
       E
of the killers never
    D
get famous and it's
A   Bm C#m
hard   on everyone


Chorus 2:
D              E
  I'm tired of fighting
D              E
  I'm tired of fighting
D              E
  I'm tired of fighting
D              E
  I'm tired of fighting


Chorus 3:
D              E
  I'm tired of fighting
         D
so I'm demolished
           E  D
that's the way some
       E
make exhaustion a
          D
mode of expression
                 E
and that's their way
D            E
  I'm just a question
           D
knowing my answer I
         E    D
hope I'm wrong but
           E
I know the answer it's
            D
four in the morning
           E
I'm right again and
         D   D(hold) E x4
I'm chinatown


Outro:
D--E--D--A-Bm-C#m- x6