Songs In Red And Gray chords by Suzanne Vega

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Title: Title Track
Album: Songs in Red and Gray
Artist: Suzanne Vega
Method: Fingerpicking
Tempo: Andante moderato

Capo on 4th fret

Chords:
Am       x0221x
Asus2    x0220x
Fadd#11  x3220x
G/D      x5540x
Csus4    x3300x
E        02210x

Intro:
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x4
G/D Csus4 E

Verse 1:
      Am             Asus2           Fadd#11
The reproach on your daughter's most beautiful face
        Am          Asus2         Fadd#11
Made me wonder just how she could know
        Am             Asus2        Fadd#11
Of that something that happened between you and me
        Am          Asus2     Fadd#11
So much more than a long time ago

Verse 2:
    G/D                         Csus4
Her mother, I can see, lives within her still
      G/D                       Csus4
Cause she looked at me with her eyes
G/D                    Csus4
Though I had only just met her right then
  E
I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise

Instrumental:
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x2

Verse 1:
    Am          Asus2          Fadd#11
Did I break the thread, or did you break the thread?
        Am            Asus2          Fadd#11
Well at this point we could ask who cares
Am         Asus2    Fadd#11
As for the promises broken and frayed
          Am      Asus2       Fadd#11
Well it's 19 years late for repairs

Verse 2:
    G/D                       Csus4
The grey pewter vase held the deep red rose,
G/D                  Csus4
 One piece of coral shone white,
       G/D                         Csus4
By the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat,
   E
Is everything I can recall of one night

Vocal & Instrumental Solo:
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x4
G/D Csus4 E

Verse 1:
         Am             Asus2   Fadd#11
Will you please tell me why I remember these things
      Am          Asus2         Fadd#11
After all of this time, I don't know
Am          Asus2          Fadd#11
I must have left all those feelings inside
           Am           Asus2       Fadd#11
Cause that year I had no courage to show

Verse 2:
G/D                       Csus4
 Was I the name you could never pronounce?
G/D                  Csus4
Did I even figure at all?
G/D                    Csus4
All of this happened before she was born
      E
Did I shadow her young pencil marks on the wall

Verse 1:
Am          Asus2      Fadd#11
 Still I am sure I was only but one
     Am         Asus2         Fadd#11
Of a number who darkened that door
        Am            Asus2          Fadd#11
Of your home and your heart and your family and wife
           Am          Asus2   Fadd#11
Who'd been darkened so often before

Verse 2:
        G/D                      Csus4
And the red leaf it looks to the hard gray stone
        G/D                      Csus4
To each other they know what they mean
G/D                       Csus4
Somewhere their future is still yet to come
   E
In ways that are yet as of now unforeseen

Outro:
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x2
G/D Csus4 E