The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights guitar tab
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights - Transcribed 15/04/98 by Mike Garoghan
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This song does not obviously lend itself to a solo guitar rendition.
However with the possible exception of the outro I think this works rather well.
E/Eb -021100
E6 -022120
E5 -x02400
Asus2/Ab -002100
Abm -466444 * or E5+G# -4x2400
Dbm7 -x46454 * or C#m7-5 -x42400
Dbm7/E -x46650
F#m -244222
F#maddA -242225
Bsus4/A -x24252
B7 -x24242
B -x24442
A/E -577600
Dbm7add11/E -099999
Dbm7add11/E(2)-09999(11)
Dbm7add11/E(3)-09999(12)
The Downtown Lights
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E5
Sometimes I walk away
E5 Abm Dbm7
When all I really wanna do
E5
Is love and hold you right
E5 Abm Dbm7
There is just one thing I can say
E5 Dbm7
Nobody loves you this way
F#maddA F#m
It's alright
Bsus4/A B7
Can't you see?
E/Eb E6 E/Eb E6
The downtown lights
E5 Abm
In love we're all the same
Dbm7 E5 B
We're walking down an empty street
Abm Dbm7
And with nobody call your name
F#maddA F#m Bsus4/A B7
Empty streets, empty nights
E/Eb E6
The downtown lights
A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How do I know it's true?
E5 Bsus4/A B7
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
E/Eb E6 E/Eb E6
it's alright
E5
Tonight and every night
E5 Abm Dbm7
Let's go walking down this empty street
E5 Dbm7
Let's walk in the cool evening light
F#maddA F#m
Wrong or right
Bsus4/A
Be at my side
Dbm7/E
The downtown lights
F#m
It will be alright
Bsus4/A
It will be alright
E/Eb E6
The downtown lights
E/Eb E6
Yeah, yeah
A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How do I know it's true?
Asus2/Ab E5
It's alright
Bsus4/A B7
It's alright
E/Eb E6
The downtown lights
E/Eb E6
Yeah
E/Eb E6
Yeah
E/Eb E6
Yeah
E/Eb E6
Yeah
E/Eb E6
How do I know you feel it?
E/Eb E6
How do I know you feel it?
E/Eb E6
How do I know you feel it?
E/Eb E6
How do I know it's true?
The downtown lights
Dbm7add11/E
Dbm7add11/E
The neons and the cigarettes
Dbm7add/E(2) Dbm7add11/E(3)
Rented rooms and rented cars
Dbm7add11/E(2)
The crowded streets, the empty bars
Dbm7add11/E
Chimney tops and trumpets
Dbm7add11/E(2)
The golden lights, the loving prayers
Dbm7add11/E(3)
The coloured shoes, the empty trains
Dbm7add11/E(3)
I'm tired of crying on the stairs
Dbm7add11/E(3)
The downtown lights
Yeah, yeah
(You could play C#msus 0(11)9(11)99 over this outro with another guitar playing the top 4 strings as transcribed)
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Amended 13.05.98---------
Asus2 throughout has been replaced with E5.
Alternative to Abm for E5+g# added
Also alternative outro chord of C#msus----------
Thanks due to Ralph DelGuidice -
