The Magnetic Fields – Busby Berkely Dreams (Ukulele)

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Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams For every C chord, add a high G (high E string, 3rd fret with your pinky). Also, if you like, you can play G/C for the C chords -- it sounds nice. :) Intro: G D/F# C C G/B D/A Verse:

G                D/F#       C
I should have forgotten you long ago

C          G/B      D/A
But you're in every song I know

G           D/F#      C
Whining and pining is wrong and so

   Am            G/B
On and so forth, of course of course,

    C                  D/A
But no, you can't have a divorce

Chorus:

  G                   D/F#
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems

D/F#     G                 D/F#
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G/B      D/A
In my Busby Berkeley dreams

G                              D/F#
The tears have stained all the pages

   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines

D/F#     G              D/F#
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful

C     G/B      D/A
Busby Berkeley dreams

Verse:

G           D/F#          C
And now you want to leave me for good

C   G/B       D/A    
I refuse to believe you could

G      D/F#          C
You forget we're not made of wood

     Am              G/B
Well darling you may do your worst

  C                    D/A
Because you'll have to kill me first

Chorus:

  G                   D/F#
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems

D/F#     G                 D/F#
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G/B      D/A
In my Busby Berkeley dreams

G                              D/F#
The tears have stained all the pages

   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines

D/F#     G              D/F#
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful

C     G/B      D/A
Busby Berkeley dreams

Solo (with number of beats per chord in parenthesis): G(2) D/F#(2) C(4) C(2) G/B(1) G(1) D/A(4) G(2) D/F#(2) C(4) D/A(8) Chorus:

  G                   D/F#
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems

D/F#     G                 D/F#
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G/B      D/A
In my Busby Berkeley dreams

G                              D/F#
The tears have stained all the pages

   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines

D/F#     G              D/F#
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful

C     G/B      D/A
Busby Berkeley dreams

Outro:

G                 D/F#   
Do you think it's dangerous

        C     G/B      D/A
To have Busby Berkeley dreams?

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