Doors - Break On Through Chords & Tabs

Song: Break on through (to the other side)
Artist: The Doors
Album: The Doors (1967)




		play a few times, then start singing 
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You know the day destroys the night, 
Night divides the day

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|-2------2--------2------2----|	<------	riff 1
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Try to run      Try to hide


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|-----------0h1h2-------2--0-2-|
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Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side



(play the verse format again like it is above with these lyrics)
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Chased  our pleasures here,

Dug our treasures there

But can you still recall

The time we cried?

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side


Key board solo arr. for guitar

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|-10--10--10-10--10-10-10-10-10-----5-8-8-8-8-5-8-5-|
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|-10-10--10-10--10-10-10-------7-7--7-7--7-----|
|-10-10--10-10--10-10-10-----5-8-8--8-8--8-7---|
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|-8-8-----------7----8-8----------8----8--8-8----------7-|
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/doors/break_on_through_tab_ver_9.html ]
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|-8-8--------------7-7--|
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   every bo dy             lovesmy ba by
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|-10--10-10-10--------------10--10-10-10------------|
|-11--11-11-11--9-12p9-12---11--11-11-11--9-12p9-12-|
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   every bo dy             lovesmy ba by
|-12--12-12-12--------------12--12-12-12------------|
|-12--12-12-12--------------12--12-12-12------------|
|---------------9-12p9-12-----------------9-12p9-12-|
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here's the part where Jim says "She get!"
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Play the same verse format for the next one


I found an island in your arms

A country in your eyes

Arms are changin'

Eyes are lying

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

(01:53)
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Made the scene from week to week Day to day, hour to hour
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|-16-16--16-16--16-16-16-16---16-16--16-16----16-16-16-16-|
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(play with riff 1)

The Gate is strait, Deep and wide

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through, break on through, (repeat )

 

 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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