Shades Of Gray chords by The Monkees

Chords with lyrics

Shades Of Gray:The Monkees.
Album - Headquarters - #1 on BB Hot
100 on COLGEMS Records in 1967.


INTRO: G+G

#1.
C majorC    E minorEm    FF         G+G
When the world and I were young, just yesterday.
C majorC    E minorEm   FF             G+G
Life was such a simple game, a child could play.
    C majorC         G+G
It was easy then to tell right from wrong.
A minorAm        E minorEm
Easy then to tell weak from strong.
FF         C majorC     A minorAm   DmDm   E minorEm FF
When a man should stand and fight, or just go along.

CHORUS:
G+G   FF     G+G   C majorC   A minorAm
But today there is no day or night.
 FF     G+G   C majorC
Today there is no dark or light.
 FF     G+G   C majorC    FF   C majorC       G+G
Today there is no black or white, only shades of gray.

#2.
C majorC  E minorEm   FF        G+G
I remember when the answers seemed so clear.
C majorC   Bb majorBb  FF          G+G
We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear.
    C majorC         G+G        A minorAm
It was easy then to tell truth from lies..selling out
   E minorEm
from compromise.
FF        C majorC   A minorAm    DmDm   E minorEm    FF
Who to love and who to hate, the foolish from the wise.

CHORUS:
G+G   FF     G+G   C majorC   A minorAm
But today there is no day or night.
 FF     G+G   C majorC
Today there is no dark or light.
 FF     G+G   C majorC    FF   C majorC       G+G
Today there is no black or white, only shades of gray.


INTERLUDE: C majorC FF G..C FF G+G

#3.
    C majorC         G+G       A minorAm
It was easy then to know what was fair, when to keep
  E minorEm
and when to share.
FF      C majorC      A minorAm  DmDm   E minorEm   FF
How much to protect your heart and how much to care.

CHORUS:
G+G   FF     G+G   C majorC   A minorAm
But today there is no day or night.
 FF     G+G   C majorC
Today there is no dark or light.
 FF     G+G   C majorC    FF   C majorC       G+G
Today there is no black or white, only shades of gray.


OUTRO:
C majorC       G+G
Only shades of gray..(Fade.)


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.