Chords with lyrics
"Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody"
by Joni Mitchell
>From the album "Wild Things Run Fast" (1982)
Standard tuning.
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Intro:
E-------------------------------------------------------------
B--3-----5---3------5---7---3------3---------5---7---(strum D MajorD)
G-------------------------------------2---6-------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------
Verses:
D MajorD GMaj9Gmaj9 Am7Am7
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1:Caught in the middle... middle class, we're... wild in the old days
2:Uranium money is.........old home town now.... sleek concrete
3:Christmas is.... ..Carol's lawn... ...childhood games
GMaj9Gmaj9 E minorEm C6/9
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1: Birth of rock'n'roll days.... Now your kids are... and my child's a
stranger
2: Tearing the old landmarks ....brave little parks... Indian land again
3: With kids nearly grown... ...so fast... ...turn of a page...
Am7Am7 GMaj9Gmaj9
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1:I bore her... raise her.
2:How long?.... business man.
3:We look... ...when we were those kids' age
Bridge:
E minorEm D MajorD
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Nothing lasts for long, nothing lasts for long
C6/9
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Nothing lasts for long...
Chorus:
Am7Am7 E minorEm
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Down at the Chinese Cafe... dreamin on our dimes.
E minorEm
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We'd be playin...
Cadd9Cadd9 Am7Am7 Fmaj7Fmaj7
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1: Oh my love, my darling...
2: You give.. love, so sweetly...
Fmaj7Fmaj7
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One more time...
After "we'd be playin" on third verse, segue to Unchained Melody:
Cadd9Cadd9 Am7Am7 Fmaj7Fmaj7 G+G C majorC
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Oh my love, my darling, I've hungered... your touch
Am7Am7 G+G
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A augmentedA long, lonely time
C majorC Am7Am7 Fmaj7Fmaj7 G+G C majorC
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And time goes... by, so slowly... time... so much
Am7Am7 E minorEm
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Are you still mine?
C majorC G+G Am7Am7
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I need your love... I need your love
FF G+G
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God speed your love....
D MajorD
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To me.....
(...time goes, where does the time go? i wonder where the...)
What a heartwarming song on middle age. I hope you enjoy my submission.
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