Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Blue Chair (Guitar)
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I think the key 'missing chord' that so many have been searching for is the jazzy and
appropriately 'blue' Em7b5/Bb used in the second line of the chorus, the bridge
and then it's the penultimate chord of the song.
Em7b5/Bb x12030 or x1203x
In the 'boasting of loving' section I think Costello strums F#7 (note NOT F#7 minor) throughout -
I've added alternate chords in brackets that follow the bass line and harmonise but I don't think
Costello plays this.
[Intro stays on D]
D G D Now it's just you and me, my blue friend D And you say that it's you that she's thinking of G F#7 And our affair must end D But if it's you that she's thinking of G F#7 I think my broken heart might mend G F#m C/E G/D Now it's my turn to talk and your turn to think G A Em7b5/Bb Bm Your turn to buy and my turn to drink G F#m C/E G/D Your turn to cry and my turn to sink G Em Down in the Blue Chair G A D Down in the Blue Chair
Now I've made up my mind
I've made my mistake
And I know that she cries for you
When she's barely awake
Well she's going to bend your mind
Well I hope it don't break
[Repeat chorus]
Em Down in the Blue Chair B7/F# Em7/G We can watch our troubles rise B7/F# Em7/G Like smoke into the air Em7b5/Bb D/A And drift up to the ceiling Em Down in the Blue Chair B7/F# Em7/G B7/F# You can feel just like a boy or a man Em7/G Em7b5/Bb D/A The next minute you can find yourself kneeling F#7 Down in the Blue Chair G#m7b5 A6 G#m7b5 They're boasting of loving the daylights F# G#m7b5 Bm right out of her in the small hours Em Down in the Blue Chair F#m G F#m You say that your love lasts forever Em G A A/G A/F# A/E when you know the night is just hours uh ho ho ho ho ho
And still I want her right now
Not any minute, hour or day
And wherever she is tonight
I want her anyway
I suppose she never said to you,
You were just in the way
G F#m C/E G/D Now it's my turn to talk and your turn to think G A Em7b5/Bb Bm Your turn to buy and my turn to drink G F#m C/E G/D Your turn to cry and my turn to sink G Em Down in the Blue Chair G A D Down in the Blue Chair G Bm Down in the Blue Chair Bb A D N.C. Down in the Blue Chair G A D Down in the Blue Chair G A D Down in the Blue Chair G A B7 Down in the Blue Chair Em F#m Down in the blue G Bm Blue becomes you G Em7b5/Bb D Down in the Blue Chair