Song: The chauffeur
Artist: Duran Duran
Album: Rio
Tabbed by DJ
23rd June 2015
TUNING: The original album track is quite flat of concert pitch,
to match use a chromatic tuner and de-tune all strings approx. -40
D = xx0232 B = x24442 C = x32010 Emmaj7 = 021000
G = 320033 B7 = x21202 C7/Bb = x12010
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[Intro]
(G) (B)
| / / / / |[Fade-in]
Em D G B
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x3]
[Verse 1]
Em D G B7
Out on the tar plains ...the glides are moving,
Em D G B
All looking for a new place to drive,
Em D G B7
You sit be - side me, ...so newly charming,
Em D G B
Sweating dewdrops glisten, fresh in your side!
[Chorus]
G B7
And the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
Em B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G B Em B
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
G B Em B7 G B Em B7
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
B7
| / / / / | / / |
[Verse 2]
Em D G B7
Way down the lane a way, living for a - nother day,
Em D G B
The aphids swarm up in the ...drifting haze,
Em D G B7
Swim seagull in the sky to - wards that hollow western isle,
Em D G B
My envied Lady holds you fast in her gaze!
[Chorus]
G B7
And the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
Em B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G B Em B
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Chorus]
G B7
Then the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
Em B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G B Em B B7
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Bridge]
C C7/Bb B B7
Sing------ blue silver-----! | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
Em D G B
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
Em D G B7
And watching lovers part, ...I feel you smiling,
Em D G B
What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind?
Em D
To tear out from your eyes,
G B7
With a thought to stiffen brooding lies,
Em D G B
And I'll only watch you leave me further be - hind!
[Chorus]
G B7
And the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
Em B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G B Em B B7
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Chorus]
G B7
Then the sun drips down, bedding heavy behind,
Em B7
The front of your dress, all shadowy lined,
G B Em B B7
Then the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart!
[Bridge]
C C7/Bb B B7
Sing------ blue silver-----! | / / / / |
C C7/Bb B7
Sing, sing---- blue silver-----!
[Coda - Repeat]
Em D G B7 Em D G B
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x7]
Em D G B7 Emmaj7
| / / / / | / / / / | / ||
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[Some versions have a sample of a narrator over parts of the coda,
taken from a natural history recording, talking about insects]
There's more to this kind of camouflage,
more than just ...colour and shape!
Who's crawling now, ...in the tall grass, near my tent?
