• Song:

    Romeo And Juliet

  • Artist:

    Indigo Girls

  • Album:

    Rites Of Passage (Expan...

C   C   Am   Am  
{intro} 
C   C   Am   Am  
{intro} 
 

C {stop}          ( G/B ) Am {stop} 
  A lovestruck Romeo     sings the streets a serenade 
         C {stop}             ( G/B ) Am {stop} 
 Now he's laying everybody low,      he's got a love song that he made 
G              G                           G {stop} 
 He finds a convenient streetlight, and he, he steps out of the shade 

     and he says something like 
F             G       G 
 You and me, babe, how about it? 
 

C              C              Am                   Am 
 Juliet says, Hey, it's Romeo! He nearly gave me a heart attack, yeah well 
C                    C                        Am {stop} 
 He's underneath my window, now she's singing, hey-la, my boyfriend's back 
G              G               G                     G 
 You shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that 
  F                         G       G 
 Oh, anyway, whatcha gonna do about it? 
 

     C   G              F                  
 Juliet,  the dice were loaded from the start 
       C   G            F             
 And I bet, and you exploded into my heart 
           C        G  Am         Am 
 And I forget, I forget the movie song 
G                  G           G                        F 
 When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong 
 

 C   C   Am   Am 
 Julie? 
 C   C   Am   Am  
 {instrumental} 
 

C {stop}                        ( G/B ) Am {stop} 
 We both come up on different streets, and they were both the streets of shame 
                 C {stop}          ( G/B ) Am                   Am 
 You know they're both dirty, both mean,  yes and even the dreams were the same 
G                    G                G                   G 
 Well I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real, so tell me honey 
F                                   G                         G 
 Now how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? 
 

             C                  C      Am                      Am 
 Now you can fall for chains of silver, and you can fall for chains of gold 
              C             C               Am            Am 
 You know you, you fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold 
G                      G                       G                         G    
 Well you promised me everything, and then you, and then you promised me thick 

     and thin 
             F {stop} 
 And now you just turn away and say, Romeo? 
           G                         G 
 I think I used to have a scene with him 
 

         C   G              F                  
 Oh, Juliet,  when we made love you used to cry 
           C                    G                F                 
 You said I love you like the stars above, gonna love you till I die 
           C           G  Am                     Am 
 There's a place for us,   I know you know this song 
G                   G                   G                        F 
 Now when you gonna realize that it was just that the time was wrong? 
 

 C    C      Am        Am 
 Julie,  I'm so in love,  so in love 
C   C   Am   Am 
 Yeah 
 

( G/B ) C                    C  ( G/B ) Am {stop} 
       But I can't do the talk,      like they talk on my TV screen, and 
C              C      ( G/B ) Am                Am 
 I can't do a love song,     not the way you sung them to me 
G              G                  G               G 
 I can't do anything, but I would do anything for you, oh now 
F                      G                 G 
 I can't do anything except be in love with you, yeah now 
 

C            C       Am               Am 
 All I do is miss you and the way you used to be, you know 
C                C             Am {stop} 
 And all I do is keep the beat, I keep bad, bad company 
G                G       G                    G 
 And all I do is kiss you through the bars of this rhyme, well 
 F                           G     G 
 Julie, I'd do the stars with you anytime 
 

         C   G              F                  
 Oh, Juliet,  when we made love you used to cry; you said I 
 C                   G                    F                 
 Love you like the stars above, I'm gonna love you till I die.  There's a 
 C            G          Am        Am 
 Place for us, I know you know the movie song 
G                     G                  G {hold}                 F 
 One day we're gonna realize that it was just that the time was wrong 
 

C     C   Am    Am 
 Julie,    Julie 
C     C   Am   Am  
 Julie 
 

C {stop}                  ( G/B ) Am {stop} 
 Well this lovestruck Romeo      sings the streets a serenade 
     C {stop}             ( G/B ) Am {stop} 
 He's laying everybody low,      he's got a love song that he made 
G {stop}                                      G {stop} 
 He finds a convenient streetlight, and he'll, he'll step out of the shade 
                             n.c. 
 And he'll say something like, you and me, babe, how about it? 
 
 
TAB: 
 
The measures that I wrote as "C  C  Am  Am " go something like this: 
 
  C                      Cmaj9  Am   Asus9 Am Asus Am  Asus9 Am 
   |                        \     |      |       \   /   /    |     /   /  
E 0---0-0---0-0--- | --0---0-0-0-0-0- | 0---0-0-0-----0- | --0---0-----0--- |  
B 1---1-1---1-1--- | --1---1-1-1-1-1- | 1---1-1-0h1---3- | --1---0--h1-1--- |  
G 0---0-0---0-0--- | --0---0-0-0-0-0- | 2---2-2-2-----2- | --2---2-----2--- |  
D 2---2-2---2-2--- | --2---2-0-0-0-0- | 2---2-2-2-----2- | --2---2-----2--- |  
A 3---3-3---3-3--- | --3---3-3-3-2-2- | 0---0-0-0-----0- | --0---0-----0--- |  
E 3---3-3---3-3--- | --3---3-3-3-3-3- | ---------------- | ---------------- |  
  ^   ^   ^   ^    ^   ^   ^   ^    ^   ^   ^   ^    ^   ^   ^   ^ 
  d   d u   u d      u   u d u d u  d   d u d     u    u   u     d 
 
It'll make sense once you try it.  The middle and ring fingers change 
the C chord, and the index finger and pinky mess with the Am. 
 
 
 
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
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