• Song:

    Romeo And Juliet

  • Artist:

    Indigo Girls

  • Album:

    Rites Of Passage (Expan...

C5   C5   A5   A5  
{intro} 
C5   C5   A5   A5  
{intro} 
 

C5 {stop}          ( G5 ) A5 {stop} 
  A lovestruck Romeo     sings the streets a serenade 
         C5 {stop}             ( G5 ) A5 {stop} 
 Now he's laying everybody low,      he's got a love song that he made 
G5              G5                           G5 {stop} 
 He finds a convenient streetlight, and he, he steps out of the shade 

     and he says something like 
F5             G5       G5 
 You and me, babe, how about it? 
 

C5              C5              A5                   A5 
 Juliet says, Hey, it's Romeo! He nearly gave me a heart attack, yeah well 
C5                    C5                        A5 {stop} 
 He's underneath my window, now she's singing, hey-la, my boyfriend's back 
G5              G5               G5                     G5 
 You shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that 
  F5                         G5       G5 
 Oh, anyway, whatcha gonna do about it? 
 

     C5   G5              F5                  
 Juliet,  the dice were loaded from the start 
       C5   G5            F5             
 And I bet, and you exploded into my heart 
           C5        G5  A5         A5 
 And I forget, I forget the movie song 
G5                  G5           G5                        F5 
 When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong 
 

 C5   C5   A5   A5 
 Julie? 
 C5   C5   A5   A5  
 {instrumental} 
 

C5 {stop}                        ( G5 ) A5 {stop} 
 We both come up on different streets, and they were both the streets of shame 
                 C5 {stop}          ( G5 ) A5                   A5 
 You know they're both dirty, both mean,  yes and even the dreams were the same 
G5                    G5                G5                   G5 
 Well I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real, so tell me honey 
F5                                   G5                         G5 
 Now how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? 
 

             C5                  C5      A5                      A5 
 Now you can fall for chains of silver, and you can fall for chains of gold 
              C5             C5               A5            A5 
 You know you, you fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold 
G5                      G5                       G5                         G5    
 Well you promised me everything, and then you, and then you promised me thick 

     and thin 
             F5 {stop} 
 And now you just turn away and say, Romeo? 
           G5                         G5 
 I think I used to have a scene with him 
 

         C5   G5              F5                  
 Oh, Juliet,  when we made love you used to cry 
           C5                    G5                F5                 
 You said I love you like the stars above, gonna love you till I die 
           C5           G5  A5                     A5 
 There's a place for us,   I know you know this song 
G5                   G5                   G5                        F5 
 Now when you gonna realize that it was just that the time was wrong? 
 

 C5    C5      A5        A5 
 Julie,  I'm so in love,  so in love 
C5   C5   A5   A5 
 Yeah 
 

( G5 ) C5                    C5  ( G5 ) A5 {stop} 
       But I can't do the talk,      like they talk on my TV screen, and 
C5              C5      ( G5 ) A5                A5 
 I can't do a love song,     not the way you sung them to me 
G5              G5                  G5               G5 
 I can't do anything, but I would do anything for you, oh now 
F5                      G5                 G5 
 I can't do anything except be in love with you, yeah now 
 

C5            C5       A5               A5 
 All I do is miss you and the way you used to be, you know 
C5                C5             A5 {stop} 
 And all I do is keep the beat, I keep bad, bad company 
G5                G5       G5                    G5 
 And all I do is kiss you through the bars of this rhyme, well 
 F5                           G5     G5 
 Julie, I'd do the stars with you anytime 
 

         C5   G5              F5                  
 Oh, Juliet,  when we made love you used to cry; you said I 
 C5                   G5                    F5                 
 Love you like the stars above, I'm gonna love you till I die.  There's a 
 C5            G5          A5        A5 
 Place for us, I know you know the movie song 
G5                     G5                  G5 {hold}                 F5 
 One day we're gonna realize that it was just that the time was wrong 
 

C5     C5   A5    A5 
 Julie,    Julie 
C5     C5   A5   A5  
 Julie 
 

C5 {stop}                  ( G5 ) A5 {stop} 
 Well this lovestruck Romeo      sings the streets a serenade 
     C5 {stop}             ( G5 ) A5 {stop} 
 He's laying everybody low,      he's got a love song that he made 
G5 {stop}                                      G5 {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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