Long Strange Golden Road chords by The Waterboys

Chords with lyrics

• Submitter: Donczarski53

Tuning: Standard tuning


SONG:  LONG STRANGE GOLDEN ROAD
ARTIST: THE WATERBOYS
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: [email protected]

     LONG STRANGE GOLDEN ROAD
        THE WATERBOYS

INTRO:
C minorCm Bb majorBb  C minorCm Bb majorBb  C minorCm Bb majorBb  C minorCm Bb majorBb

VERSE:
   C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
I was longing to be wooed
   AbAb     C minorCm
I was ready to be humbled
    AbAb         C minorCm
by the words that you had written
    Bb majorBb      AbAb
by the syllables you mumbled
       C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
yeah, I was ready in my heart
  AbAb       C minorCm
to have my heart invaded
    AbAb       C minorCm
by the fervour of your passion
    Bb majorBb       AbAb
yes, I came to be persuaded

VERSE:
      C minorCm        Eb MajorEb
But when I heard your ragged voice
      AbAb        C minorCm
something switched in my perception
    AbAb      C minorCm
and I knew I was the victim
   Bb majorBb      AbAb
of a beautiful deception
    C minorCm      Eb MajorEb
all my once exact beliefs
   AbAb        C minorCm
like tangled threads unravelled
       AbAb       C minorCm
I walked out, stunned and liberated
 Bb majorBb       AbAb
and so began my travels

CHORUS:
     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Keep the river on your right
     Bb majorBb       C minorCm
and the highway at your shoulder
     AbAb         Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     AbAb     C minorCm
Keep your eye on the road
 Bb majorBb        C minorCm
remember what you told her
        AbAb F minorFm   C minorCm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
      C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
You better get yourself a coat
     AbAb      C minorCm
said the handsome taxi driver
    AbAb        C minorCm
and he sighed like seven bridges
    Bb majorBb       AbAb
like a natural-born survivor
    C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
as we drove into the night
     AbAb       C minorCm
I could feel the forest jangling
     AbAb      C minorCm
all the choices laid before me
      Bb majorBb     AbAb    Eb MajorEb
and their consequences dangling


VERSE:
     C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
We came upon a stricken ship
   AbAb          C minorCm
that must have once been splendid
 AbAb        C minorCm
the captain as he died said
      Bb majorBb       AbAb
“Boys, our revels now are ended”
      C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
I heard a wild holy band
     AbAb       C minorCm
playing jazz that was outrageous,
    AbAb        C minorCm
that recalled the days of rapture
     Bb majorBb             AbAb
when our love was still young and contagious


CHORUS:
     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Keep the river on your right
     Bb majorBb       C minorCm
and the highway at your shoulder
     AbAb         Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     AbAb     C minorCm
Keep your eye on the road
 Bb majorBb        C minorCm
remember what you told her
        AbAb F minorFm   C minorCm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
   C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
In a dim-lit motel room
     AbAb      C minorCm
two sad lovers were discoursing
    AbAb    C minorCm
on the dignity of exile
     Bb majorBb     AbAb
and the merits of divorcing
     C minorCm        Eb MajorEb
she said “all certainty is gone”
    AbAb        C minorCm
but he leapt up, still denying,
     AbAb        C minorCm
cried “I won’t believe the flame I lit
  Bb majorBb     AbAb
is dead or even dying”


VERSE:
 AbAb   C minorCm          Eb MajorEb
She left him drooling in the dust
     AbAb        C minorCm
and with rucksack packed begun her
AbAb          C minorCm
bitter journey to the border
     Bb majorBb        AbAb
which is where I wooed and won her
     C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
she was Aphrodite, Helen, Thetis,
AbAb      C minorCm
Eve among the satyrs
     AbAb        C minorCm
She was Venus in a v-neck sweater
     Bb majorBb      AbAb
she was all that ever mattered


CHORUS:
     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Keep the river on your right
     Bb majorBb       C minorCm
and the highway at your shoulder
     AbAb         Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     AbAb     C minorCm
Keep your eye on the road
 Bb majorBb        C minorCm
remember what you told her
        AbAb F minorFm   C minorCm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
   C minorCm        Eb MajorEb
Like Dean Moriarty’s ghost
      AbAb       C minorCm
I came in quest of secret knowledge
    AbAb      C minorCm
in the winter of my journey
    Bb majorBb       AbAb
to a crumbling Druid college
     C minorCm        Eb MajorEb
there I read the books of lore
   AbAb       C minorCm
and contemplated in seclusion
    AbAb       C minorCm
but I took my leave embittered,
 Bb majorBb          AbAb
still in love with my illusions


VERSE:
AbAb   C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
In the drizzling Irish rain
   AbAb       C minorCm
as a tender dawn was breaking
   AbAb       C minorCm
in a doorway I stood spellbound by
   Bb majorBb           AbAb
the ancient music they were making
      C minorCm         Eb MajorEb
I took my breakfast with the Gods
    AbAb       C minorCm
on a blushing summer morning
    AbAb         C minorCm
till a wind blew them all away
    Bb majorBb      AbAb
I had misread every warning


CHORUS:
     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Keep the river on your right
     Bb majorBb       C minorCm
and the highway at your shoulder
     AbAb         Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     AbAb     C minorCm
Keep your eye on the road
 Bb majorBb        C minorCm
remember what you told her
        AbAb F minorFm   C minorCm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
    C minorCm      Eb MajorEb
Under cold electric light
  AbAb        C minorCm
I watch the scenes mutating
    AbAb        C minorCm
like an old time frontier ballad
   Bb majorBb    AbAb
or a carousel rotating
      C minorCm       Eb MajorEb
As if in a moment from a film
 AbAb         C minorCm
with astonishing precision
   AbAb       C minorCm
the camera zooms in close
    Bb majorBb        AbAb
and a figure comes into vision


VERSE:
     C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
I’m in Tokyo, it’s dawn
     AbAb      C minorCm
and it’s raining hallelujahs
     AbAb       C minorCm
down the bright-lit neon canyons
      Bb majorBb       AbAb
along the sidewalks of Shibuya
   C minorCm        Eb MajorEb
I’m trying to take a stance
   AbAb         C minorCm
and rise above my contradictions
     AbAb            C minorCm
but I’m just a bunch of words in pants
   Bb majorBb        AbAb
and most of those are fiction


CHORUS:
     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Keep the river on your right
     Bb majorBb       C minorCm
and the highway at your shoulder
     AbAb         Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     AbAb     C minorCm
Keep your eye on the road
 Bb majorBb        C minorCm
remember what you told her
        AbAb F minorFm   C minorCm
this is all in code,  my dear


CHORUS:
     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Keep the river on your right
     Bb majorBb       C minorCm
and the highway at your shoulder
     AbAb         Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     AbAb     C minorCm
Keep your eye on the road
 Bb majorBb        C minorCm
remember what you told her
        AbAb F minorFm   C minorCm
this is all in code,  my dear


INSTRUMENTAL/OUTRO/SOLO:

(CHORUS CHORDS - 3x's)

AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb C minorCm AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb   AbAb C minorCm Bb majorBb C minorCm AbAb F minorFm C minorCm
AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb C minorCm AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb   AbAb C minorCm Bb majorBb C minorCm AbAb F minorFm C minorCm
AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb C minorCm AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb   AbAb C minorCm Bb majorBb C minorCm AbAb F minorFm C minorCm


===================== CAPO 1st FRET ======================


SONG:  LONG STRANGE GOLDEN ROAD
ARTIST: THE WATERBOYS
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: [email protected]

     LONG STRANGE GOLDEN ROAD
        THE WATERBOYS

CAPO: 1st FRET

INTRO:
B minorBm A augmentedA   B minorBm A augmentedA   B minorBm A augmentedA   B minorBm A augmentedA

VERSE:
   B minorBm       D MajorD
I was longing to be wooed
   G+G      B minorBm
I was ready to be humbled
    G+G         B minorBm
by the words that you had written
    A augmentedA       G+G
by the syllables you mumbled
       B minorBm     D MajorD
yeah, I was ready in my heart
  G+G       B minorBm
to have my heart invaded
    G+G        B minorBm
by the fervour of your passion
    A augmentedA       G+G
yes, I came to be persuaded


VERSE:
      B minorBm        D MajorD
But when I heard your ragged voice
      G+G        B minorBm
something switched in my perception
    G+G       B minorBm
and I knew I was the victim
   A augmentedA      G+G
of a beautiful deception
    B minorBm      D MajorD
all my once exact beliefs
   G+G         B minorBm
like tangled threads unravelled
       G+G        B minorBm
I walked out, stunned and liberated
 A augmentedA        G+G
and so began my travels


CHORUS:
     G+G       D MajorD
Keep the river on your right
     A augmentedA        B minorBm
and the highway at your shoulder
     G+G          D MajorD     A augmentedA
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     G+G      B minorBm
Keep your eye on the road
 A augmentedA         B minorBm
remember what you told her
        G+G  E minorEm   B minorBm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
      B minorBm       D MajorD
You better get yourself a coat
     G+G       B minorBm
said the handsome taxi driver
    G+G         B minorBm
and he sighed like seven bridges
    A augmentedA       G+G
like a natural-born survivor
    B minorBm       D MajorD
as we drove into the night
     G+G        B minorBm
I could feel the forest jangling
     G+G       B minorBm
all the choices laid before me
      A augmentedA      G+G    D MajorD
and their consequences dangling


VERSE:
     B minorBm       D MajorD
We came upon a stricken ship
   G+G          B minorBm
that must have once been splendid
 G+G         B minorBm
the captain as he died said
      A augmentedA       G+G
“Boys, our revels now are ended”
      B minorBm     D MajorD
I heard a wild holy band
     G+G        B minorBm
playing jazz that was outrageous,
    G+G         B minorBm
that recalled the days of rapture
     A augmentedA             G+G
when our love was still young and contagious


CHORUS:
     G+G       D MajorD
Keep the river on your right
     A augmentedA        B minorBm
and the highway at your shoulder
     G+G          D MajorD     A augmentedA
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     G+G      B minorBm
Keep your eye on the road
 A augmentedA         B minorBm
remember what you told her
        G+G  E minorEm   B minorBm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
   B minorBm       D MajorD
In a dim-lit motel room
     G+G       B minorBm
two sad lovers were discoursing
    G+G     B minorBm
on the dignity of exile
     A augmentedA      G+G
and the merits of divorcing
     B minorBm        D MajorD
she said “all certainty is gone”
    G+G        B minorBm
but he leapt up, still denying,
     G+G         B minorBm
cried “I won’t believe the flame I lit
  A augmentedA      G+G
is dead or even dying”


VERSE:
 G+G    B minorBm          D MajorD
She left him drooling in the dust
     G+G        B minorBm
and with rucksack packed begun her
G+G           B minorBm
bitter journey to the border
     A augmentedA        G+G
which is where I wooed and won her
     B minorBm     D MajorD
she was Aphrodite, Helen, Thetis,
G+G       B minorBm
Eve among the satyrs
     G+G         B minorBm
She was Venus in a v-neck sweater
     A augmentedA      G+G
she was all that ever mattered


CHORUS:
     G+G       D MajorD
Keep the river on your right
     A augmentedA        B minorBm
and the highway at your shoulder
     G+G          D MajorD     A augmentedA
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     G+G      B minorBm
Keep your eye on the road
 A augmentedA         B minorBm
remember what you told her
        G+G  E minorEm   B minorBm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
   B minorBm        D MajorD
Like Dean Moriarty’s ghost
      G+G        B minorBm
I came in quest of secret knowledge
    G+G      B minorBm
in the winter of my journey
    A augmentedA       G+G
to a crumbling Druid college
     B minorBm        D MajorD
there I read the books of lore
   G+G        B minorBm
and contemplated in seclusion
    G+G       B minorBm
but I took my leave embittered,
 A augmentedA           G+G
still in love with my illusions


VERSE:
G+G    B minorBm       D MajorD
In the drizzling Irish rain
   G+G        B minorBm
as a tender dawn was breaking
   G+G        B minorBm
in a doorway I stood spellbound by
   A augmentedA            G+G
the ancient music they were making
      B minorBm         D MajorD
I took my breakfast with the Gods
    G+G       B minorBm
on a blushing summer morning
    G+G         B minorBm
till a wind blew them all away
    A augmentedA       G+G
I had misread every warning


CHORUS:
     G+G       D MajorD
Keep the river on your right
     A augmentedA        B minorBm
and the highway at your shoulder
     G+G          D MajorD     A augmentedA
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     G+G      B minorBm
Keep your eye on the road
 A augmentedA         B minorBm
remember what you told her
        G+G  E minorEm   B minorBm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
    B minorBm      D MajorD
Under cold electric light
  G+G         B minorBm
I watch the scenes mutating
    G+G         B minorBm
like an old time frontier ballad
   A augmentedA     G+G
or a carousel rotating
      B minorBm       D MajorD
As if in a moment from a film
 G+G         B minorBm
with astonishing precision
   G+G        B minorBm
the camera zooms in close
    A augmentedA        G+G
and a figure comes into vision


VERSE:
     B minorBm     D MajorD
I’m in Tokyo, it’s dawn
     G+G      B minorBm
and it’s raining hallelujahs
     G+G       B minorBm
down the bright-lit neon canyons
      A augmentedA       G+G
along the sidewalks of Shibuya
   B minorBm        D MajorD
I’m trying to take a stance
   G+G         B minorBm
and rise above my contradictions
     G+G            B minorBm
but I’m just a bunch of words in pants
   A augmentedA         G+G
and most of those are fiction


CHORUS:
     G+G       D MajorD
Keep the river on your right
     A augmentedA        B minorBm
and the highway at your shoulder
     G+G          D MajorD     A augmentedA
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     G+G      B minorBm
Keep your eye on the road
 A augmentedA         B minorBm
remember what you told her
        G+G  E minorEm   B minorBm
this is all in code,  my dear


CHORUS:
     G+G       D MajorD
Keep the river on your right
     A augmentedA        B minorBm
and the highway at your shoulder
     G+G          D MajorD     A augmentedA
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     G+G      B minorBm
Keep your eye on the road
 A augmentedA         B minorBm
remember what you told her
        G+G  E minorEm   B minorBm
this is all in code,  my dear


INSTRUMENTAL/OUTRO/SOLO:

(CHORUS CHORDS - 3x's)

G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA  B minorBm G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G  B minorBm A augmentedA  B minorBm G+G E minorEm B minorBm
G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA  B minorBm G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G  B minorBm A augmentedA  B minorBm G+G E minorEm B minorBm
G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA  B minorBm G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA   G+G  B minorBm A augmentedA  B minorBm G+G E minorEm B minorBm


=========== IN CONCERT THEY PLAY IN THIS KEY ===============

SONG:  LONG STRANGE GOLDEN ROAD
ARTIST: THE WATERBOYS
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: [email protected]

     LONG STRANGE GOLDEN ROAD
        THE WATERBOYS

INTRO:
DmDm C majorC   DmDm C majorC   DmDm C majorC   DmDm C majorC

VERSE:
   DmDm       FF
I was longing to be wooed
   Bb majorBb     DmDm
I was ready to be humbled
    Bb majorBb         DmDm
by the words that you had written
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
by the syllables you mumbled
       DmDm     FF
yeah, I was ready in my heart
  Bb majorBb       DmDm
to have my heart invaded
    Bb majorBb       DmDm
by the fervour of your passion
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
yes, I came to be persuaded


VERSE:
      DmDm        FF
But when I heard your ragged voice
      Bb majorBb        DmDm
something switched in my perception
    Bb majorBb      DmDm
and I knew I was the victim
   C majorC      Bb majorBb
of a beautiful deception
    DmDm      FF
all my once exact beliefs
   Bb majorBb        DmDm
like tangled threads unravelled
       Bb majorBb       DmDm
I walked out, stunned and liberated
 C majorC        Bb majorBb
and so began my travels


CHORUS:
     Bb majorBb      FF
Keep the river on your right
     C majorC        DmDm
and the highway at your shoulder
     Bb majorBb         FF     C majorC
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     Bb majorBb     DmDm
Keep your eye on the road
 C majorC         DmDm
remember what you told her
        Bb majorBb G minorGm   DmDm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
      DmDm       FF
You better get yourself a coat
     Bb majorBb      DmDm
said the handsome taxi driver
    Bb majorBb        DmDm
and he sighed like seven bridges
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
like a natural-born survivor
    DmDm       FF
as we drove into the night
     Bb majorBb       DmDm
I could feel the forest jangling
     Bb majorBb      DmDm
all the choices laid before me
      C majorC      Bb majorBb    FF
and their consequences dangling


VERSE:
     DmDm       FF
We came upon a stricken ship
   Bb majorBb          DmDm
that must have once been splendid
 Bb majorBb        DmDm
the captain as he died said
      C majorC       Bb majorBb
“Boys, our revels now are ended”
      DmDm     FF
I heard a wild holy band
     Bb majorBb       DmDm
playing jazz that was outrageous,
    Bb majorBb        DmDm
that recalled the days of rapture
     C majorC             Bb majorBb
when our love was still young and contagious


CHORUS:
     Bb majorBb      FF
Keep the river on your right
     C majorC        DmDm
and the highway at your shoulder
     Bb majorBb         FF     C majorC
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     Bb majorBb     DmDm
Keep your eye on the road
 C majorC         DmDm
remember what you told her
        Bb majorBb G minorGm   DmDm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
   DmDm       FF
In a dim-lit motel room
     Bb majorBb      DmDm
two sad lovers were discoursing
    Bb majorBb    DmDm
on the dignity of exile
     C majorC      Bb majorBb
and the merits of divorcing
     DmDm        FF
she said “all certainty is gone”
    Bb majorBb        DmDm
but he leapt up, still denying,
     Bb majorBb        DmDm
cried “I won’t believe the flame I lit
  C majorC      Bb majorBb
is dead or even dying”


VERSE:
 Bb majorBb   DmDm          FF
She left him drooling in the dust
     Bb majorBb        DmDm
and with rucksack packed begun her
Bb majorBb          DmDm
bitter journey to the border
     C majorC        Bb majorBb
which is where I wooed and won her
     DmDm     FF
she was Aphrodite, Helen, Thetis,
Bb majorBb      DmDm
Eve among the satyrs
     Bb majorBb        DmDm
She was Venus in a v-neck sweater
     C majorC      Bb majorBb
she was all that ever mattered


CHORUS:
     Bb majorBb      FF
Keep the river on your right
     C majorC        DmDm
and the highway at your shoulder
     Bb majorBb         FF     C majorC
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     Bb majorBb     DmDm
Keep your eye on the road
 C majorC         DmDm
remember what you told her
        Bb majorBb G minorGm   DmDm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
   DmDm        FF
Like Dean Moriarty’s ghost
      Bb majorBb       DmDm
I came in quest of secret knowledge
    Bb majorBb      DmDm
in the winter of my journey
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
to a crumbling Druid college
     DmDm        FF
there I read the books of lore
   Bb majorBb       DmDm
and contemplated in seclusion
    Bb majorBb       DmDm
but I took my leave embittered,
 C majorC           Bb majorBb
still in love with my illusions


VERSE:
Bb majorBb   DmDm       FF
In the drizzling Irish rain
   Bb majorBb       DmDm
as a tender dawn was breaking
   Bb majorBb       DmDm
in a doorway I stood spellbound by
   C majorC            Bb majorBb
the ancient music they were making
      DmDm         FF
I took my breakfast with the Gods
    Bb majorBb       DmDm
on a blushing summer morning
    Bb majorBb         DmDm
till a wind blew them all away
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
I had misread every warning


CHORUS:
     Bb majorBb      FF
Keep the river on your right
     C majorC        DmDm
and the highway at your shoulder
     Bb majorBb         FF     C majorC
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     Bb majorBb     DmDm
Keep your eye on the road
 C majorC         DmDm
remember what you told her
        Bb majorBb G minorGm   DmDm
this is all in code,  my dear


VERSE:
    DmDm      FF
Under cold electric light
  Bb majorBb        DmDm
I watch the scenes mutating
    Bb majorBb        DmDm
like an old time frontier ballad
   C majorC     Bb majorBb
or a carousel rotating
      DmDm       FF
As if in a moment from a film
 Bb majorBb         DmDm
with astonishing precision
   Bb majorBb       DmDm
the camera zooms in close
    C majorC        Bb majorBb
and a figure comes into vision


VERSE:
     DmDm     FF
I’m in Tokyo, it’s dawn
     Bb majorBb      DmDm
and it’s raining hallelujahs
     Bb majorBb       DmDm
down the bright-lit neon canyons
      C majorC       Bb majorBb
along the sidewalks of Shibuya
   DmDm        FF
I’m trying to take a stance
   Bb majorBb         DmDm
and rise above my contradictions
     Bb majorBb            DmDm
but I’m just a bunch of words in pants
   C majorC         Bb majorBb
and most of those are fiction


CHORUS:
     Bb majorBb      FF
Keep the river on your right
     C majorC        DmDm
and the highway at your shoulder
     Bb majorBb         FF     C majorC
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     Bb majorBb     DmDm
Keep your eye on the road
 C majorC         DmDm
remember what you told her
        Bb majorBb G minorGm   DmDm
this is all in code,  my dear


CHORUS:
     Bb majorBb      FF
Keep the river on your right
     C majorC        DmDm
and the highway at your shoulder
     Bb majorBb         FF     C majorC
and the front line in your sights, pioneer
     Bb majorBb     DmDm
Keep your eye on the road
 C majorC         DmDm
remember what you told her
        Bb majorBb G minorGm   DmDm
this is all in code,  my dear


INSTRUMENTAL/OUTRO/SOLO:

(CHORUS CHORDS - 3x's)

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Bb majorBb FF  C majorC  DmDm Bb majorBb FF  C majorC   Bb majorBb DmDm C majorC  DmDm Bb majorBb G minorGm DmDm
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Long Strange Golden Road chords

"Long strange golden road" is a song off of The Waterboys' 2015 album "Modern Blues".

"Long strange golden road" is written by frontman Mike Scott.

Other versions of Long Strange Golden Road

Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Long strange golden road by The Waterboys