The National – Mistaken For Strangers (Ukulele)

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[email protected] At times you can hear the three notes of the intro chords plucked in the pattern of low-middle-high-middle. On live versions, someone in the band plucks that pattern for the first four lines, then plucks it an octave higher for the two lines that go "showered and blue-blazered..." (Note: I recommend finding a good live version. I think the live is better than the album version, which obscures the guitar.) I've written two ways to play the chords. The first is the easiest, but I saw them live and it looked they played it the second way. They sound the same. I suppose the second is nice if you want to give your guitar a hard strum without worrying about muting the low string. easy live F/A: X032XX 587XXX F/Bb: X132XX 687XXX F/C: X332XX 887XXX Csus4: X330XX 885XXX Intro: F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
            F/A                   F/Bb
You have to do it running but you do everything that they

F/C                  Csus4
ask you to cause you don’t mind seeing

    F/A                  F/Bb
yourself in a picture as long as you look

    F/C                 Csus4
faraway, as long as you look removed

F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters

F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters

        Dm                             F
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends

         Bb                           F
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery

  Bb                    F              Am                    Am7
citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under

       Dm                     F
Oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over.

   Bb                    F
Surprise, surprise, they wouldn’t wannna watch

 Bb                 F                     Am            Am7
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults

        F/A                          F/Bb
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts

            F/C                       Csus4
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves

       F/A                  F/Bb
so you swear you just saw a feathery

      F/C                 Csus4
woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees

F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters

F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
(repeat chorus)