Chords with lyrics
A augmentedA very minor-key sad blues ballad!! From the 2011 album You Can´t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks.
Although it opens on Dm, it closes on the chord of Dm/C, so it just hangs there
unresolved, adding to the melancholy.
Notes
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Verse
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on the DmDm / DmDm C majorC sections. Roll on and off the open top E MajorE string to FF on the first fret.
Like so....
E MajorE ---1--p0-h1----1--p0-h1--|
BB ---3---3-------3---3-----|
G+G ---2---2-------2---2-----|
D MajorD -0-----------------------|
A augmentedA --------------3----------|
E MajorE -------------------------|
Refrain
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Little chromatic run on the E MajorE string, A augmentedA to AbAb to G, then G+G to G#G# to the A minorAm chord (all
marked down below)
OK here we go!
Intro
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Dm/C x4
Verse 1
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C majorC
When I walk down your street
C majorC
Through your barred windows you look at me
C majorC
And you wonder have I come to ask
C majorC
For one of your precious things that do not last
Refrain 1
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/G
All your treasures
/C
All your treasures
Dm/C x 2
Verse 2
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C majorC
You think you know me but you don't know
C majorC
That there's more to this picture than that shows
C majorC
And you fear that I come to steal
C majorC
Your sec-urity that ain't real
Refrain 2
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/G
All your treasures
/C
All your treasures
Break
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Dm/C x 6
C majorC
Dm/C x 2
Verse 3
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C majorC
I will leave now you won't cry
C majorC
With relief now you'll just sigh
C majorC
You'll re-member come one day
Dm/C
And you'll walk out your door
Dm/C
Cos you can't stay
Refrain 3
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/G
While all your treasures
/C
All your treasures slip away
Refrain 4
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/G
All your treasures
/C
All your treasures
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
June 2011