Chords for Walk On The Wild Side Guitar Lesson - Lou Reed Walk On The Wild Side Chords

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_ _ Hey, Jimmy Dillon here, back with another acoustic lesson.
This is Take a Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed.
Now we've probably all heard the original version of this by now.
It's a classic 70s tune.
But I just heard recently a version by Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians.
And it was more of an acoustic kind of format.
And I thought I might want to share that with you because it's only got three chords.
So that's a three chord wonder.
It's in the key of A.
In this case, you just start with your regular A chord.
And then you go to a D. _
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[A] In the backseat, she was heavy [D] but his daughter.
Then he goes E to [A] A.
But she [E] never ate.
[D] D.
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Hey, babe.
Take a walk on the wild side.
_ Hey, babe.
Take a walk on the wild side.
How the girls go. _
[D] Hey, babe.
_ [A] How the girls go. _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ You're probably asking [D] yourself, what's he doing?
[A] _ Well, this is a_
The thing is, if you know this song at all, you know that the bass line _ [D] _ _
_ [A] is kind of a key to that song.
But since we're approaching easy strumming acoustic guitar stuff here,
I thought, let's see, how can I make that work on an acoustic just playing solo?
And one of the ways to do it is to just take your A chord,
which I choose to play like this,
depending on what I'm doing.
Sometimes I'll play it like this, your standard A.
Sometimes I'll play it like that, which I've shown you.
[B] But in this case, I think it works to just take your first finger [A] and lay it over here.
I'll tell you why, because you can do this move.
By moving up to the seventh fret,
[D] _ you've [A] not really done much, but you've accomplished a lot.
Because you've basically gone from your A all the way up to your four chord,
but in a different _ way, right?
_ And that's in keeping with the rhythm of the song and the vibe of the song.
So, take a walk on the wild side. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ Okay, so that's the verse, the verse sound to it.
And it basically just goes_
Now, what you could do is, if you want to play during the verse,
just do your regular A and D.
I would leave the open E just to get a_ _ _
_ _ So it's like a regular D, but with an open E.
[E] Just leave that [A] high E open.
You'll get this sound. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ Now slide up.
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_ _ _ [D] And if you want to, you can mute [A] the strings here.
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_ _ _ [D] That's where the slide comes [A] in. _
_ Okay?
So, I just wanted to comment on one thing here.
If you're a beginner and this all sounds like a lot to do,
don't worry about it.
Just play just the A and then the D,
but you can leave the E open.
_ So that high E string rings out.
That's enough.
_ Just _ _ take a walk on the wild side.
Okay?
And then when you go to your turnaround,
_ _ [E] A, E, _ [D] D, _ [E] E,
and you're back to the [A] beginning.
So if you're just a beginner and you're just getting going on guitar,
that's okay.
This will work. _ _ _
_ And the [E] strum I'm doing is a [A]
little bit syncopated. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ But I think with that strumming pattern
and you have that sort of jingle jangle of the open E string,
it really lends itself to an acoustic version of this song.
And that's mostly what I've been approaching lately.
So, if you're interested in taking this further,
check out my choruses.
Get online, Jimmy Dillon.
And I've got lots of different in-depth versions
of these kind of songs,
which are really fun to do.
So that's Take a Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed.
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