• Song:

    Ordinary World

  • Artist:

    Duran Duran

  • Album:

    The Best Of Duran Duran

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(Note:  This version is transposed -4 semitones from the original because I
find this key easier to play in on piano.  Just set the transpose function 
above to 'up 4 half-steps' if you want the original key.  Also, the chords in parenthesis 
are alternate chords--both sound good, but I like the first best.)


Intro:  G--Dm7--Bb--F/A--Ab/Bb


AmCame (x02210@1)in from a rainy thursday
C (x32010@1)         Don (xx0232@1)the avenue
Am (x02210@1)                              C (x32010@1)  Dthought (xx0232@1)I heard you talking softly
Am (x02210@1)  
I turned on the lights, the tv
C (x32010@1)          Dand (xx0232@1)the radio
Am (x02210@1)                               C (x32010@1)   Dstill (xx0232@1)I can't escape the ghost of you
AmWhat (x02210@1)is happened to it all?
EmCrazy, (022000@1)some say
B7/Eb                      C (x32010@1)    DWhere (xx0232@1)is the life that I recognize?
           Ggone (320003@1)away


G (320003@1)                         Dm7(or Dm)
But I won't cry for yesterday
                        Bbthere's (x1333x@1)an ordinary world
         F/A (x03211@1)      Csomehow (x32010@1)I have to find
G (320003@1)                        Dm7(or Dm)
And as I try to make my way
                     Bbto (x1333x@1)the ordinary world
        F/A (x03211@1)      Ab/Bb    
I will learn to survive



Fill: Am--F/A--D/A


AmPassion (x02210@1)or coincidence
C (x32010@1)                     Donce (xx0232@1)prompted you to say
Am (x02210@1)                            C (x32010@1) D"Pride (xx0232@1)will tear us both apart"
          AmWell (x02210@1)now pride's gone out the window
             C (x32010@1)       Dcross (xx0232@1)the rooftops, runaway
Am (x02210@1)                         C (x32010@1)  Dleft (xx0232@1)me in the vacuum of my heart
AmWhat (x02210@1)is happening to me?
EmCrazy, (022000@1)some say
B7/Eb                       C (x32010@1)      DWhere (xx0232@1)is my friend when I need you most?
         GGone (320003@1)away


G (320003@1)                       Dm7(or Dm)
But I won't cry for yesterday
                         Bbthere's (x1333x@1)an ordinary world
        F/A (x03211@1)       Csomehow (x32010@1)I have to find
G (320003@1)                       Dm7(or Dm)
And as I try to make my way
                   Bbto (x1333x@1)the ordinary world
        F/A (x03211@1)       CI (x32010@1)will learn to survive


(Guitar Solo)  
G--Dm7(or Dm)--Bb--F/A--C
G--Dm7(or Dm)--Bb--F/A--Ab/Bb


(Same pattern for the rest of the song)
Papers in the roadside
tell of suffering and greed
feared today, forgot tomorrow
ooh, here beside the news
of holy war and holy need
ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

every world is my world
(I will learn to survive)
any world is my world
(I will learn to survive)
any world is my world
every world is my world


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