From Red To Blue Tab by Billy Bragg #-----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# #This OLGA file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation # #of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or # #research. Remember to view this file in Courier, or other monospaced font. # #See http://www.olga.net/faq/ for more information. # #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# Subject: b/bragg_billy/from_red_to_blue.crd Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:24:49 +1000 From: Mackay School Support Centre "From Red to Blue" by Billy Bragg (from the album "William Bloke") Notes: I suggest playing it using barre chords with a rhythm similar to that used in the first bar of the intro. On the CD it is actually about a quarter tone lower than shown below (who cares right?). The breaks aren't quite perfect but will sound effective enough. Transcribed by: Dean Malone Intro and end of every verse e ----1-----1-----|----------------| B ----1-----1-----|--1---0---1-0---| G ----2-----2-----|--2---0-------0-| D ----------------|--2---0---------| A ----------------|0---------------| E 1-----1-----1-3-|----------------| F Am Gm Bb Another day dawns grey, It's enough to make my spit F Am Bb Gm Still we go on our way, just putting up with it C Dm C Bb Gm And when I try to make my feelings known to you F Am Bb Gm F It sounds like you have changed from red to blue F Am Gm Bb Well you're a father now, you see things in different ways F Am Bb Gm For every parent will, gain perspective on their wilder days C Dm C Bb Gm But that alone does not explain, the change I see in you F Am Bb Gm F The way you've drifted off from red to blue Dm C Bb F Sometimes I think to myself Bb F Bb F Should I vote red for my class or green for our children? Dm C Bb F But whatever choice I make Bb I will not foresake e ----------------| B --8---6---5---3-| G --9---7---5---3-| D 10---8----7--5---| (not quite right - A ----------------| but sounds good anyway) E ----------------| F Am Gm Bb So you bought it all, the best your money could buy F Am Bb Gm And I watched you sell your soul for their bright shining lie C Dm C Bb Gm Where are the principles of the friend I thought I knew? F Am Bb Gm F I guess you let them fade from red to blue F Am Gm Bb I hate the compromises that life forces us to make F Am Bb Gm We must all bend a little if we are not to break C Dm C Bb Gm But the ideals you opted out of, I still hold them to be true F Am Bb Gm F (hold) I guess they weren't so firmly held by you. +----------------------------------+ M a c k a y S c h o o l | ************* ### ### ### | S u p p o r t C e n t r e | ********* # # # | | ***** ## ## # | Cnr Goldsmith St and Bridge Road | *** # # # | Mackay Qld 4740 | * ### ### ### | Ph: 575 331 Fax: 573 006 | | | M A C K A Y | +----------------------------------+