Tokyo Rose chords by Van Dyke Parks

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

(Intro is a lot of strange noises sort of insinuating C#m I think)

Verse:
Eb                                      Ebaug        Ab       Eb
In sight of the lights of Roppongi the night life of To ki yo goes
Eb                           G7       Cm        Bb                 G     Cm     F7    Bb7
And out on the street with a beat from Tahiti a neon moon lollipop glows
Eb                           Ebaug       Ab         Eb
A woman in silken pajamas is seen on the screen of a door
Eb                      Cm              Eb      Bb      G               Cm
She slips on a ricepaper dress by Dior less the price of the ice on her clothes
Fm              Bb7     Eb
The girl I call To ki yo Rose

Interlude:
/G /G  /Bb /C Cm
/C  /C   /Eb
To  ky   o

Verse:
Fm
rose is blue
       Eb        Abmaj7
Tokyo knows it's true
          D7        G7       Db7     C7
What the night says we might like to do
          Fm    Bb
We're in Tokyo time
           G7        Cm
When that moon turns lime
     Adim7              D7              Bb7
And the sky is a lavender brew

Interlude:
Eb

Verse:
Eb                                      Ebaug        Ab           Eb
She trips through a door for hot sake unzips as her hips hit the floor
Eb              Abm             G7      Cm      Fm          Bb            Eb
Her pearls were strung in the harbor below in a bar where I asked her for more

Interlude:
Cm      Eb      G7      Cm      Eb      Ab      Eb

Verse:
Eb                         Ebaug     Ab        Eb
Down on a Cajun veranda a Barbajian band in a stew
Eb                G7        Cm            Bb                    Eb
Was playing a soca when I reawoke we were back at her penthouse us two

Eb
I spoke of my love for MacArthur
Ebaug           Ab      Eb
the man not the park in L.A.
Eb              G7           Cm             Bbm
"But you're so much older!" she covered her shoulder
Eb                      Ab
And I heard her say with a sigh
Cm              Bb         Eb
"A soldier may never say die!"