Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkely Dreams Chords & Tabs

Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams


Standard tuning

For every C chord, add a high G (high E string, 3rd fret with your pinky).  Also, if
you like, you can play G/C for the C chords -- it sounds nice. :)


Intro:

G D/F# C

C G/B D/A



Verse:

G                D/F#       C
I should have forgotten you long ago

C          G/B      D/A
But you're in every song I know

G           D/F#      C
Whining and pining is wrong and so

   Am            G/B
On and so forth, of course of course,

    C                  D/A
But no, you can't have a divorce



Chorus:

  G                   D/F#
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems

D/F#     G                 D/F#
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G/B      D/A
In my Busby Berkeley dreams

G                              D/F#
The tears have stained all the pages

   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines

D/F#     G              D/F#
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful

C     G/B      D/A
Busby Berkeley dreams


Verse: 

G           D/F#          C
And now you want to leave me for good

C   G/B       D/A    
I refuse to believe you could

G      D/F#          C
You forget we're not made of wood

     Am              G/B
Well darling you may do your worst
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/magnetic_fields/busby_berkely_dreams_crd.html ]
  C                    D/A
Because you'll have to kill me first



Chorus:

  G                   D/F#
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems

D/F#     G                 D/F#
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G/B      D/A
In my Busby Berkeley dreams

G                              D/F#
The tears have stained all the pages

   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines

D/F#     G              D/F#
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful

C     G/B      D/A
Busby Berkeley dreams



Solo (with number of beats per chord in parenthesis): 
G(2)  D/F#(2)  C(4)
C(2)  G/B(1)  G(1)  D/A(4)
G(2)  D/F#(2)  C(4)
D/A(8) 



Chorus:

  G                   D/F#
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems

D/F#     G                 D/F#
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G/B      D/A
In my Busby Berkeley dreams

G                              D/F#
The tears have stained all the pages

   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines

D/F#     G              D/F#
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful

C     G/B      D/A
Busby Berkeley dreams



Outro:
G                 D/F#   
Do you think it's dangerous

        C     G/B      D/A
To have Busby Berkeley dreams? 



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