Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard
Difficulty: Intermediate
I SURRENDER Rainbow
Composed by Russ Ballard
Opening Riff:
|G5G5 | | | |
Verse:
C5C5 C5C5 D5D5 F5F5 F5F5 G5G5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5 A5A5 Bb5Bb5 F5F5 G5G5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5
I surrender to your heart babe do anything that you want me to do
C5C5 C5C5 D5D5 F5F5 F5F5 G5G5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5 A5A5 Bb5Bb5 F5F5 G5G5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5
please be tender I'm in your hands girl this is a feeling I never knew
|G5G5 |
Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb G minorGm
You know I tried to make it on my own. That's not the way it was meant to be
Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb Cm/A D MajorD
Spend my time waiting by the phone, oh darling come back to me
Chorus:
G minorGm Eb MajorEb FF DmDm Eb MajorEb C minorCm Eb MajorEb D MajorD
I surrender, I surrender I'm giving up the role of pretender.
G minorGm Eb MajorEb FF DmDm Eb MajorEb C minorCm D MajorD
Oh be tender, girl be tender can't you feel the love that I send you
Interlude:
|:Gm |C minorCm |FF |Bb majorBb |Eb MajorEb |D MajorD :| x2
I surrende -- ee ---- er. Oooh -- ooo --ooo....
Opening riff (the latter half only)
|G5G5 | |
Verse:
I remember, seems like a lifetime. Can't believe it's a matter of days
since you left me. I'm near to heartbreak, I want you so bad don't turn away.
What does it take to stay by my side? You know I'll do, what you want me to.
Don't take away this feeling inside, I'm still in love with you.
Chorus:
I surrender, I surrender I'm giving up the role of pretender
oh be tender, girl be tender can't you feel the love that I send you?
I surrendee -- ee -- eer.
I surrendee -- ee -- eer.
Bridge:
|G minorGm | | | |
Ooo -- ooh! Yea -- aah!
Chorus:
I surrender, I surrender darling now won't you be tender
I surrender, oh surrender feel the love that I send you
I surrendee -- ee -- eer.
I surrendee -- ee -- eer.
Instrumental:(repeat as you wish)
|:Gm |C minorCm |FF |Bb majorBb |Eb MajorEb |D MajorD :|
-- TIPS AND REMARKS --
On some notations the chords during the opening riff are marked for example:
|G minorGm Eb/GEb/G|Cm/G |x2
As I recall that might be the way it was written on the publised song book, but I don't
hear Rainbow playing it that way.
What you hear on the opening riff is basically this:
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|15--------------|
BB|8-----11--------|13--------------|8-----11--------|----------------|
G+G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D MajorD|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
For a more advanced technique you can try this. The bend should actually be more like a
"prebend". The two strings should really ring in unison. In the studio recording this
was probably done in multiple takes, but Richie also plays this live on some recordings.
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|15--------------|
BB|8-----11--------|13--------------|8-----11--------|18b20-----------|
G+G|10b12-12b14-----|15b17-----------|10b12-12b14-----|----------------|
D MajorD|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
The "Cm/A" is played as open chord arpeggio. The first time the latter half sounds like
a triplet to me:
[ - 3 - ]
e|--------3-------|
BB|------4----4----|
G+G|----5---------5-|
D MajorD|--5-------------|
A augmentedA|0---------------|
E MajorE|----------------|
...and the second time regular 1/8's:
e|--------3-------|
BB|------4---4-----|
G+G|----5-------5---|
D MajorD|--5-----------5-|
A augmentedA|0---------------|
E MajorE|----------------|