From Red To Blue

Subject: b/bragg_billy/*
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:24:49 +1000
From: Mackay School Support Centre

"From Red to Blue"
 by
(from the album "William Bloke")

Notes: I suggest playing it using 
barre chords with a rhythm similar 
to that
used in the first bar of the intro. 
On the CD it is actually about a 
quarter
tone lower than shown below (who 
cares right?). The breaks aren't 
quite
perfect but will sound effective 
enough.

Transcribed by: Dean Malone

Intro and end of every verse
e   ----1-----1-----|------------
B   ----1-----1-----|--1---0---1-
G   ----2-----2-----|--2---0-----
D   ----------------|--2---0-----
A   ----------------|0-----------

e|----| 
B|0---| 
G|--0-| 
D|----| 
A|----| 

E   

1-----1-----1-3-|----------------|


F       Am             Gm       
Another day dawns grey, It's 
       Bb
enough to make my spit
F          Am         Bb        
Still we go on our way, just 
     Gm
putting up with it
Continues after the ad
C          Dm         C Bb     
And when I try to make my 
             Gm
feelings known to you
F              Am       Bb      
It sounds like you have changed 
     Gm       F
from red to blue


F             Am          Gm    
Well you're a father now, you 
            Bb
see things in different ways
F         Am           
For every parent will, gain 
Bb                        Gm
perspective on their wilder days
C                  Dm         C 
But that alone does not explain,
Bb                   Gm
 the change I see in you
F              Am       Bb  Gm 
The way you've drifted off from
        F
 red to blue


Dm   C      Bb         F
Sometimes I think to myself
              Bb         F      
Should I vote red for my class or 
   Bb           F
green for our children?
Dm  C        Bb       F
But whatever choice I make
       Bb
I will not foresake        e   
----------------|
                           B   --
                           G   --

 |8---6---5---3-| 
 |9---7---5---3-| 


                           D  10---8----7--5---|  (not quite right -
                           A   ---
                           E   ---

 |-------------|   but sounds good 
 |-------------|                   

 |anyway) 
 |        

F      Am            Gm         
So you bought it all, the best 
    Bb
your money could buy
F                 Am             
And I watched you sell your soul 
Bb               Gm
for their bright shining lie
C             Dm      C Bb     
Where are the principles of the
                    Gm
 friend I thought I knew?
F           Am       Bb   Gm   
I guess you let them fade from 
       F
red to blue


F          Am         Gm        
I hate the compromises that life
        Bb
 forces us to make
F           Am           Bb     
We must all bend a little if we 
    Gm
are not to break
C                  Dm       C 
But the ideals you opted out 
Bb                         Gm
of, I still hold them to be true
F            Am         Bb     Gm   
   F (hold)
I guess they weren't so firmly held 
by you.
                                    
 
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