Chinese Cafe - Unchained Melody chords by Joni Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Verse 1:
D MajorD                    G+G
Caught in the middle
Carol, we're middle class
               Am7Am7
We're middle-aged, we were wild in the old days
           G+G     E minorEm
Birth of rock n' roll days, now your kids are coming up straight
C majorC            Am7Am7            G+G
My child's a stranger
I bore her but I could not raise her



🎸 Pre-Chorus:
          E minorEm
Nothing lasts for long
          D MajorD
Nothing lasts for long
          C6C6
Nothing lasts for long

🎸 Chorus:
Am7Am7
Down at the Chinese Café
E minorEm
We'd be dreaming on our dimes
E minorEm
We'd be playing
C majorC    Am7Am7     FF
"Oh my love, my darling"
FF
One more time

🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD                    G+G
Uranium money is booming in the old hometown now
            Am7Am7             G+G
It's putting up sleek concrete, tearing the old landmarks down now
          E minorEm               C6C6
Paving over brave little parks, ripping off Indian land again
Am7Am7                 G+G
How long, how long, short-sighted business man?

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
        E minorEm
Ah, nothing lasts for long
        D MajorD
Nothing lasts for long
        C6C6
Nothing lasts for long

🎸 Chorus:
Am7Am7
Down at the Chinese Café
E minorEm
We'd be dreaming on our dimes
         C majorC       Am7Am7     FF
We'd be playing, "You give your love so sweetly"
      D MajorD
One more time

🎸 Verse 3:
D MajorD                  G+G
Christmas is sparkling out on Carol's lawn
              Am7Am7           G+G
This girl of my childhood games with kids nearly grown and gone
      E minorEm         C6C6
Grown so fast like the turn of a page
       Am7Am7          G+G
We look like our mothers did now when we were those kids' age

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
         E minorEm
Nothing lasts for long
          D MajorD
Nothing lasts for long
          C6C6
Nothing lasts for long

🎸 Chorus:
Am7Am7
Down at the Chinese Café
      E minorEm
We'd be dreaming on our dimes
E minorEm
We'd be playing
C majorC    Am7Am7     FF
"Oh my love, my darling
G+G           C majorC
I've hungered for your touch
Am7Am7      G+G
A augmentedA long lonely time
C majorC       Am7Am7    FF
And time goes by so slowly
G+G         C majorC
And time can do so much
Am7Am7       E minorEm
Are you still mine?
C majorC       G+G
I need your love
Am7Am7
I need your love
FF     G+G  D MajorD
God speed your love to me"

🎸 Outro:
(Time goes - where does the time go
I wonder where the time goes)