Tornado 87 chords by The Rural Alberta Advantage

Chords with lyrics

Capo on 5. All chords relative to capo.

This is a great Canadian song about a tornado that devastated Edmonton on July 31st, 1987.
That day has come to be known as Black Friday.


This is the strumming pattern used in the first line,
of which variations are used throughout the song.
The same patterns for the chords are used,
but with different chord progressions.

  A minorAm        C majorC         G+G         DmDm
 E MajorE  E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E  E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E  E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E  E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE
e|--0-----0---0---0---------------------------------------0h1-1-1-1-1-0-0-0---|
BB|--1---1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-----1---1---1---------------------3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3---|
G+G|--0h2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----0---0---0---2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
D MajorD|--2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0h2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----0---0---0-----|
A augmentedA|--------------------3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-0h2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0---------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------3-----3---3---3-----------------------|

This just details the pattern for F.

  DmDm  FF
  E MajorE E E MajorE E  E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE E E MajorE
...-0-0-0-0h1-1-1-1-1-0-0-0--|
...-3-3-3-1---1-1-1-1-1-1-1--|
...-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|
...---0---3-----3---3---3----|
...--------------------------|
...--------------------------|

A minorAm     C majorC     G+G   DmDm
 Oh lord I lost you I held you tight
  A minorAm   C majorC        G+G      A minorAm
Oh I will hold on to your love in the night
     C majorC       G+G       DmDm
And the black sky will come before our eyes
  FF     C majorC         G+G    DmDm
Oh I, let's lie down in the basement tonight
FF
Oh


A minorAm       C majorC      G+G   DmDm
 Oh lord I've found you, I held you tight
  A minorAm     C majorC      G+G       A minorAm
Oh I, and the buildings are pulled into the sky
     C majorC       G+G
And our hearts shakin in
      DmDm     FF
This summer night, oh I
    C majorC         G+G    DmDm
Let's lie down in the basement tonight
FF
Oh

A minorAm      C majorC       G+G
 I let you go, I let you go,
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm       C majorC         G+G
 Black sky comes to take you from me
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm     C majorC       G+G
 I let you go, I let you go,
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm       C majorC        G+G        DmDm
 Black sky comes, black sky comes, black sky comes and I hold you


A minorAm       C majorC      G+G   DmDm
 Oh lord I've found you I held you tight
  A minorAm     C majorC      G+G       A minorAm
Oh I and the black skies above our eyes tonight
     C majorC       G+G      DmDm    FF
And our hearts breakin in the end tonight, oh I
    C majorC         G+G   DmDm
Let's lie down in the basement tonight
FF
Oh


A minorAm      C majorC       G+G
 I let you go, I let you go,
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm       C majorC         G+G
 Black sky comes to take you from me
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm     C majorC       G+G
 I let you go, I let you go,
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm       C majorC         G+G
 Black sky comes to take you from me
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you


(Single strums)
A minorAm     C majorC      G+G   DmDm
 Oh lord I lost you, I held you tight
  A minorAm
Oh I
     C majorC       G+G       A minorAm
And the black sky will come for us tonight
     C majorC       G+G       DmDm   FF
And our heart's shakin in the empty night, oh I
    C majorC         G+G    DmDm
Let's lie down in the basement tonight
FF
Oh


A minorAm      C majorC       G+G
 I let you go, I let you go,
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm       C majorC         G+G
 Black sky comes to take you from me
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm     C majorC       G+G
 I let you go, I let you go,
       DmDm
I let you know that I hold you
A minorAm       C majorC        G+G        DmDm
 Black sky comes, black sky comes, black sky comes and I hold you