Love Is The Real Thing chords by The Trews

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: Bb majorBb

Difficulty: Novice

"Love Is The Real Thing" (The Trews & Gord Sinclair)
 From "Hope & Ruin" (2011)

Colin and John-Angus both capo at the 3rd fret.

chorus:

G+G        C majorC   G+G
Love is it the real thing?
G+G      C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Give me the real thing love!
G+G         C majorC   G+G
Love...is it the real thing?
G+G      C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Give me the real thing love!

verse:

C majorC     G/BG/B   Dsus2/A   G+G
I've been trying to leave you alone
   C majorC   G/BG/B   Dsus2/A G+G
But I get so lonesome on my own
C majorC    G/BG/B   Dsus2/A  G+G
I keep checking my cell phone
   C majorC      G/BG/B    Dsus2/A  G+G   D MajorD
For missed calls from your mother's home...
  C majorC               D MajorD
I guess you could say that I'm desperate-

chorus:

G+G        C majorC  G+G
Love is it the real thing?
G+G      C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Give me the real thing love!
G+G          C majorC   G+G
Love...give me the real thing!
G+G  C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
The real thing Love!

verse:

C majorC    G/BG/B  Dsus2/A G+G
I'm not crazy, I'm alone.
G+G C majorC    G/BG/B    Dsus2/A G+G
I wait for friends I used to know.
C majorC     G/BG/B  Dsus2/A G+G
You've got to be pretty cold
G+G  C majorC   G/BG/B  Dsus2/A G+G
To lead me on and let me go...
  D MajorD
In love...

middle eight:

C majorC             D MajorD    E minorEm
Everything feels like it's out of control
  C majorC              D MajorD
I guess you could say that I'm out of it...

chorus:

G+G        C majorC   G+G
Love is it the real thing?
G+G   C majorC  G+G     C majorC  G+G
The real thing! The real thing!
G+G
Love....

Piano/slide guitar solo over verse x1

  C majorC     G/BG/B   Dsus2/A G+G
If you don't love me let me know,
    C majorC   G/BG/B  Dsus2/A  G+G
Don't lead me down a dead-end road.
G+G  C majorC   G+G   D MajorD
You're raking me over the coals,
  C majorC     G/BG/B  Dsus2/A
I guess that I'm a fool in...

chorus:

 G+G       C majorC   G+G
Love is it the real thing?
G+G  C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
The real thing love.
G+G          C majorC   G+G
Love...give me the real thing
G+G  C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
The real thing love....

end chorus:

G+G         C majorC   G+G
Love give me the real thing!
G+G   C majorC  G+G     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
The real thing! The real thing love...
G+G         C majorC   G+G
Love...is it the real thing?
G+G   C majorC  G+G
The real thing?
G+G   C majorC  G+G
The real thing?
G+G   C majorC  G+G
The real thing?
D MajorD
Love....
  C majorC              D MajorD      G+G
I guess you could say that I'm desperate enough.

EADGBE chord shapes: G: 320033 C: x32033 G/B: x20033 Dsus2/A: x00230