BLUE NILE - "the downtown lights" Tablature

From: "Mike Garoghan" <Mike@psiron.demon.co.uk>
Subject: b/blue_nile/the_downtown_lights.crd
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:25:04 -0000

The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights - Transcribed 15/04/98 by Mike Garoghan
Any comments or corrections please email>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>mike@psiron.demon.co.uk

This song does not obviously lend itself to a solo guitar rendition.
However with the possible exception of the outro I think this works rather
well.

E/Eb -021100
E6 -022120
E5 -x02400
Asus2/Ab -002100
Abm -466444 * or E5+G# -4x2400
Dbm7 -x46454 * or C#m7-5 -x42400
Dbm7/E -x46650
F#m -244222
F#maddA -242225
Bsus4/A -x24252
B7 -x24242
B -x24442
A/E -577600
Dbm7add11/E -099999
Dbm7add11/E(2)-09999(11)
Dbm7add11/E(3)-09999(12)

The Downtown Lights

E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6
E/Eb E6

E5
Sometimes ..........
E5 Abm Dbm7
When all I ...............
E5
Is love .................
E5 Abm Dbm7
There is just ..................
E5 Dbm7
Nobody loves ...........
F#maddA F#m
It's alright
Bsus4/A B7
Can't you see?
E/Eb E6 E/Eb E6
The downtown lights

E5 Abm
In love..................
Dbm7 E5 B
We're walking ...................
Abm Dbm7
And with nobody ..............
F#maddA F#m Bsus4/A B7
Empty streets, ...............
E/Eb E6
The downtown ......

A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How ....................
A/E
How ....................
A/E
How do I ...................

E5 Bsus4/A B7
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
E/Eb E6 E/Eb E6
it's alright

E5
Tonight and.............
E5 Abm Dbm7
Let's go walking ..................
E5 Dbm7
Let's walk ......................
F#maddA F#m
Wrong or ......
Bsus4/A
Be at .........
Dbm7/E
The downtown .......
F#m
It will ..........
Bsus4/A
It will ..........
E/Eb E6
The downtown .......
E/Eb E6
Yeah, yeah

A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How .....................

Asus2/Ab E5
It's alright
Bsus4/A B7
It's alright
E/Eb E6
The downtown lights

E/Eb E6
Yeah x4

A/E
How do I know you feel it?
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How ......................
A/E
How .....................

<---------E drone throughout

Asus2/Ab E5 Asus2/Ab E5
Yeah, yeah
Asus2/Ab E5 Asus2/Ab E5 ------>
The downtown lights

Dbm7add11/E

Dbm7add11/E
The neons.................
Dbm7add/E(2) Dbm7add11/E(3)
Rented rooms and ...........
Dbm7add11/E(2)
The crowded ......................
Dbm7add11/E
Chimney tops............
Dbm7add11/E(2)
The golden lights..................
Dbm7add11/E(3)
The coloured ......................
Dbm7add11/E(3)
I'm tired of ....................
Dbm7add11/E(3)
The downtown ........
Yeah, yeah

(You could play C#msus 0(11)9(11)99 over this outro with another guitar
playing the top 4 strings as transcribed)

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Amended 13.05.98---------
Asus2 throughout has been replaced with E5.
Alternative to Abm for E5+g# added
Also alternative outro chord of C#msus----------
Thanks due to Ralph DelGuidice -<Stimpyz3@earthlink.net>