The Cars – Heartbeat City (Guitar)
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Song: Heartbeat city
Artist: The Cars
Composer: Ric Ocasek
Album: Heartbeat city
In the long bars of Dsus2 in the break you could
emphasise some bass notes onto the chord on the open
and 2nd fret of the 4th and 5th strings, listen to the
bass guitar on the track and improvise freely around
these additional bass notes:
Dsus2 = xx0230
Dsus2/E = xx2230
Dsus2/A = x00230
Dsus2/B = x20230
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers.
Dsus2 = xx0230
Amadd9 = x07500
Dm7 = xx0211 or x57565
Em7 = 022030
Fmaj7 = xx3210 or 133210
G7/F = xx3003 or xx3433 or 120003
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[Intro]
Dsus2 | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 ||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / /:||[x4]
[Verse 1]
Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 Oh, heartbeat city here we come, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 And happy days we count on thumbs, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 And nothing really gets us down, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 As long as Jackie's back in town, Dm7 Em7 Dm7 Em7 I'm glad you made it, I can't com - plain
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 G7/F Oh, Jackie, ...what took you so long... Fmaj7 G7/F ...On just a holi - day? Fmaj7 Oh, Jackie! (Oh, Jackie! Oh, Jackie!) G7/F What took you so long? Fmaj7 G7/F Amadd9 I thought you knew the way (Heartbeat city)
[Verse 2]
Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 The noise electric never stops, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 And all you need is what you've ...got, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 And there's a place for every - one, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 Under heartbeat city's golden sun
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 G7/F (Jackie...) Oh, Jackie! (What took you so long?) Fmaj7 G7/F What took you so long ...on just a holi - day? Fmaj7 Oh, Jackie! (Oh, Jackie! Oh, Jackie!) G7/F (What took you so long?) What took you so long? Fmaj7 G7/F I thought you knew the way
[Break - See info in the header]
Dsus2 ||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x2] Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 Amadd9 | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | Oh, yeh-yeh-yeh! Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | You know... Dm7 Em7 Dm7 Em7 I'm glad you made it, ...I can't com - plain, Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 I missed you so badly ...when you jumped that train
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 G7/F Oh, Jackie! (What took you so long?) Fmaj7 G7/F What took you so long ...on just a holi - day? Fmaj7 G7/F Oh, Jackie! (What took you so long?) G7/F What took you so long?
(So-------------- long!)
Fmaj7 G7/F I thought you blew a - way
(I thought ...you ...blew ...a - way!)
Amadd9
(Heartbeat city) Oh - hoh - hoh![Verse 3]
Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 Amadd9 Heartbeat city lights at night, (Heartbeat city) Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 It's getting closer, ...out of sight, Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 (Heartbeat city) Heartbeat city's on the loose, Amadd9 (Heartbeat city!) Better catch... Dm7 Em7 ...The blue ca - boose, uh - uh! Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 Heartbeat city, ...it's my life
[Coda]
Amadd9 Dm7 Em7 ||: (Heartbeat city!) :|| [Repeats]