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Chinatown by Gillian Welch

Chords

Capo

4

Difficulty

Beginner 👶

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NOTE:
No need to play the whole D chord; just do a walk down from the G to the Em7 and hit the F# bsss note 
on the E, second fret.


🎸 Intro: 

G  D  Em7  C  G




🎸 Verse 1:
G  D            C            G
Sundown and the bells are warning
      D          Em7   C
Did I miss the mailman again?
G  D     C            G
No-o, he had nothing for me
     D     C
And nobody called today
   G   D        C
And no one knows what to say
G     D      Em7
Black sun is beating down
   C    G
On Chinatown
G  D  Em7  C  G

🎸 Verse 2:
G   D        C        G
All-l of the sweetest flowers
G    D   Em7            C
They grow up on the sunny side
G   D    Em7          C        G
But down here, it's the darkest hour
       D       C
And we run the other way
       G        C
And midnight to yesterday
 G   D          Em7
And we're always upside down
   C     G
In Chinatown
G  D  Em7  C   G

🎸 Verse 3:
G  D      C               G
Oh-h, though I tried to manage
     D      Em7        C
You don't understand my mind
G  D             C           G
Our love used to speak in Spanish
          D         C
There's a poison in the air
    G D      C
And fever's everywhere
G    D        Em7
Bad haze that hangs around
   C     G
In Chinatown

🎸 Outro: 
G      D         Em7
Baa-d haze that hangs around.
C       G
In Chinatown