Concrete Blonde - When You Smile (First Version) Chords and Tabs

Concrete Blonde - When You Smile First Version: chords and tabs for the song. Watch chords and tablatures for all songs of the singer (group) Concrete Blonde. Other chords and tabs for the "When You Smile" can find at the bottom of the page.

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Hi folks,
Welcome to todays edition of
"Conrete Blonde for the practicing musician"

This is my interpretation of "When You Smile" off the album
"Mexican Moon" so there are no guarantees but it sounds good
to me.


WHEN YOU SMILE
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N.C.
I dreamed last night I was born a hundred.....
... 'cos I could lose everything in a minute or two, yeah

Ax4
A                  G              A         A
Its not ????? you can stop the years behind..

The A and G above are played something like this:

A                       G
E|----------------|     E|----------------|
B|----------------|     B|----------------|
G|----------------|     G|----------------|
D|-----7-5--------|     D|-------5--------|
A|---7------------|     A|---5------------|
E|-5--------------|     E|-3---3----------|

the A and G repeat over much of the song.

chorus:  (With Distortion)
D5   A5   C5                G5
When you smile,   I don't know what to do
D5         A5        C5        G5
Cos I could lose everything in a minute or two
A5            C5          E5      G5
And it seems like the end of the world
A(as in the intro)
When you smile..

for those that dont know, D5,A5,C5,etc are just
power chords:   D5  x577xx
A5  577xxx
C5  x355xx
G5  355xxx
E5  022xxx

In the chorus Jim sometimes hits the open strings
in his trasnsitions from one chord to another,eg:

D5        A5
E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|-7--7---------------|
D|-7--7------7--7-----|
A|-5--5------7--7-----|
E|---------0-5--5-----|
^
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It doesnt look like much
but it adds a bit of oomph!

Happy playing everyone.
Bye for now
eric