Chords for Chris Rea on "Dancing with Strangers" | The Story Behind
Tempo:
128.5 bpm
Chords used:
Dm
Am
E
C
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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At this point in time, multitrack had [B] become available to everybody, and we had one in the garage.
playing, and I used to have a plan in my head, just out of fun,
Stratocaster on that side, and there would be a Laurel George Ryko to
slag it out on the other side, as if it's two men.
keyboards on the center and drums.
microphones.
witnessed it, nobody sat
It was just me having fun.
playing, and I used to have a plan in my head, just out of fun,
Stratocaster on that side, and there would be a Laurel George Ryko to
slag it out on the other side, as if it's two men.
keyboards on the center and drums.
microphones.
witnessed it, nobody sat
It was just me having fun.
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Dm
Am
E
C
A
Dm
Am
E
At this point in time, multitrack had [B] become available to everybody, and we had one in the garage.
So I just started writing, _ playing, and I used to have a plan in my head, just out of fun,
that there would be a normal _ Stratocaster on that side, and there would be a Laurel George Ryko to
slag it out on the other side, as if it's two men.
We'd have keyboards on the center and drums.
We made the whole album with three microphones.
Nobody heard it, nobody _ witnessed it, nobody sat
there wondering about what, you know.
It was just me having fun.
[Am] Owen O'Neill was my bass player,
and he was also in Moving Hearts.
I adored Moving Hearts.
I feel, even now to this day,
I still feel sorry for Moving Hearts, because _ _ anybody who ever thinks about Riverdance is
talking about Moving Hearts.
And the sad thing for me one day was to go to watch Riverdance,
it was in its, I don't know, seventh month or something, and the band, who was the band?
It's all Moving Hearts.
_ In the end, they kind of became gamekeepers, you know.
[Gb] But Davy is
still to this day magnificent.
I had to write all the notes out, because he's a traveler,
you know.
He's a proper, _ real Irish traveler, and he makes his own _ whistles and everything.
And he doesn't work with like [Am] dots and sheets, _ manuscripts, but man, he's fantastic.
He [N] can find a bend in a note you wouldn't even dare imagine yourself.
The joys of Christmas
on this record [G] is the Christmas I knew when I was young.
My dad had a coffee bar.
It couldn't
have been worse for me.
_ So we're [E] Irish Italians, we're Wops, that's what we used to get called.
[G] We are [E] over the road from where you get your drill [A] money, _ [Am] and next to a working men's club
and the labor exchange.
_ And all that used to descend [E] on me at four o'clock in that February
horrible [A] afternoon.
_ I used to have to deal with all that.
And you know, that Jimmy that's in the
song, I knew [Eb] very, very well.
It was hell.
It really was hell.
[Dm] _ [E] We'd done the City Hall for the [Dm] first
time in our lives.
And [C] I mean, Newcastle [Am] to us was like Paris.
You know, when you're from Middlesbrough,
[Bb] there [F] is only one higher being, and [C] that is [Am] Newcastle.
We'd done the City Hall, which
[Dm] was very emotional for me, because I'd gone to the City Hall all my life to [Bb] watch [F] Little Fe,
Raikou, Le Van Morrison, and [Dm] now I'm stood on that stage.
And it really [B] did make me feel [Dm] very shaky
and nervous.
The [Em] next day we're driving down to do a [Dm] gig in Sheffield, and we actually drove past
Middlesbrough.
And it was an [C] extremely weird [Am]
experience.
[Dm] The first of many experiences [A] of getting older.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So I just started writing, _ playing, and I used to have a plan in my head, just out of fun,
that there would be a normal _ Stratocaster on that side, and there would be a Laurel George Ryko to
slag it out on the other side, as if it's two men.
We'd have keyboards on the center and drums.
We made the whole album with three microphones.
Nobody heard it, nobody _ witnessed it, nobody sat
there wondering about what, you know.
It was just me having fun.
[Am] Owen O'Neill was my bass player,
and he was also in Moving Hearts.
I adored Moving Hearts.
I feel, even now to this day,
I still feel sorry for Moving Hearts, because _ _ anybody who ever thinks about Riverdance is
talking about Moving Hearts.
And the sad thing for me one day was to go to watch Riverdance,
it was in its, I don't know, seventh month or something, and the band, who was the band?
It's all Moving Hearts.
_ In the end, they kind of became gamekeepers, you know.
[Gb] But Davy is
still to this day magnificent.
I had to write all the notes out, because he's a traveler,
you know.
He's a proper, _ real Irish traveler, and he makes his own _ whistles and everything.
And he doesn't work with like [Am] dots and sheets, _ manuscripts, but man, he's fantastic.
He [N] can find a bend in a note you wouldn't even dare imagine yourself.
The joys of Christmas
on this record [G] is the Christmas I knew when I was young.
My dad had a coffee bar.
It couldn't
have been worse for me.
_ So we're [E] Irish Italians, we're Wops, that's what we used to get called.
[G] We are [E] over the road from where you get your drill [A] money, _ [Am] and next to a working men's club
and the labor exchange.
_ And all that used to descend [E] on me at four o'clock in that February
horrible [A] afternoon.
_ I used to have to deal with all that.
And you know, that Jimmy that's in the
song, I knew [Eb] very, very well.
It was hell.
It really was hell.
[Dm] _ [E] We'd done the City Hall for the [Dm] first
time in our lives.
And [C] I mean, Newcastle [Am] to us was like Paris.
You know, when you're from Middlesbrough,
[Bb] there [F] is only one higher being, and [C] that is [Am] Newcastle.
We'd done the City Hall, which
[Dm] was very emotional for me, because I'd gone to the City Hall all my life to [Bb] watch [F] Little Fe,
Raikou, Le Van Morrison, and [Dm] now I'm stood on that stage.
And it really [B] did make me feel [Dm] very shaky
and nervous.
The [Em] next day we're driving down to do a [Dm] gig in Sheffield, and we actually drove past
Middlesbrough.
And it was an [C] extremely weird [Am]
experience.
[Dm] The first of many experiences [A] of getting older.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _