3-4 Tango chords by Polar Bear Club

Chords with lyrics

Song: 3-4 Tango
Artist: Polar Bear Club
Album: Clash Battle Guilt Pride

Standard chords throughout.

I like to palm-mute the verses and I substitute the high E MajorE on the C majorC chord
from the chorus for a G:

  C majorC
E MajorE|-0->-3-|
BB|-1---1-|
G+G|-0---0-|
D MajorD|-2---2-|
A augmentedA|-3---3-|
E MajorE|-x---x-|

Intro: E minorEm - G+G - A minorAm - C majorC

E5E5
Arthur climbs the stairs in the back
G5G5
Wipes his feet on the welcome mat
A5A5
Puts his keys on the shelf that he built
C5C5
Checks the plants on the windowsill

E5E5
Catches a glimpse of himself in the glass
G5G5
Laughs cause his hair's stickin' up in the back
A5A5
He can't call his kids or his wife
      C5C5
Cause he'd drink 'till he'd cry to his daughter

About God and life

[Chorus]

C majorC
A augmentedA silhouette of innocence
G+G
A augmentedA shaving cut on common sense
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD
Laughing hardest to the comic's intro
C majorC
A augmentedA winter walk to clear your mind
G+G
Do your twenties suck until twenty-nine?
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD                E minorEm
Dance your heart out to the 3-4 Tango

E minorEm

(E5E5 - G5G5 - A5A5 - C5C5 through the 2nd verse, in the same manner as the 1st)

Sara disowned her whole family
And then her brother the writer penned the story
She said, "you just sit there and think that you
Know about people when really
You wanna hold the mirror to nature
Thinking you're the next Miller or Shakespeare
Will the glass ever come to you?
Cause who knows what you'd do?"

[Chorus]
C majorC
A augmentedA silhouette of innocence
G+G
A augmentedA shaving cut on common sense
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD
Laughing hardest to the comic's intro
C majorC
A augmentedA winter walk to clear your mind
G+G
Do your twenties suck until twenty-nine?
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD
Dance your heart out to the 3-4 Tango

D MajorD - C5C5
          G5G5          A5A5
It's that haunting thought and familiar ghost
        D5D5           C5C5   G5G5
That holds you hard and can't let you go,
    A5A5   D5D5
Let you go!
(Hey!)

C majorC - G+G - A minorAm - D MajorD x2

C majorC
Some use crowds of strangers
    E minorEm
Like a shield
   A minorAm       E minorEm
From love and being loved,
   A minorAm
Being loved

[Chorus]

C majorC
A augmentedA silhouette of innocence
G+G
A augmentedA shaving cut on common sense
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD
Laughing hardest to the comic's intro
C majorC
A augmentedA winter walk to clear your mind
G+G
Do your twenties suck until twenty-nine?
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD                C majorC
Dance your heart out to the 3-4 Tango

C majorC
A augmentedA silhouette of innocence
G+G
A augmentedA shaving cut on common sense
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD
Laughing hardest to the comic's intro
C majorC
A augmentedA winter walk to clear your mind
G+G
Do your twenties suck until twenty-nine?
A minorAm
Holding what can't let you go
D MajorD                E minorEm
Dance your heart out to the 3-4 Tango