(John Deacon)
A Day At The Races (1976)
Some notes on playing below
Intro: D - Dsus4 - D - Dsus4
D-D-G-D-A-ED-ADAA7
Music is playing in the darkness
BmGGm
and a lantern goes swinging by
DAAsus4A
Shadows flickering, my heart's jittering
GDA/EDA
Just you and I
G
Not tonight, come tomorrow
DD7
When everything's sunny and bright
G
No no no, come tomorrow 'cause
EA
then we'll be waiting for the moonlight
GDF7E
We'll go walking in the moonlight
CGBbAA7
Walking in the moonlight
DAA7
Laughter ringing in the darkness
BmGGm
People drinking for days gone by
D
Time don't mean a thing
AAsus4A
When you're by my side
GDA/EDA
Please stay a while
F#Bm
You know I never could forsee the future years
F#
You know I never could see
BmA
Where life was leading me
DAF#
But will we be together forever?
Bm
What will be my love?
EAA7
Can't you see that I just don't know?
-Solo- (Verse chords)
No no, not tonight, not tomorrow
Everything's gonna be alright (sunny and bright)
Wait and see if tomorrow we'll be
as happy as we're feeling tonight
We'll go walking in the moonlight (we'll be happy)
Walking in the moonlight
I can hear the music in the darkness
Floating softly to where we lie
No more questions now
Let's enjoy tonight
GDA/EDA
(Just you and I)
GDAD
Just you and I
D - Dsus4 - D - Dsus4 (play around with these until the end)
Just you and I
Can't you see that we've gotta be together
Be together just you and I just you and I
No more questions just you and I
Notes:
For the last line of the verse, where the chord progression goes like this: G - D - A/E
- D, I like to do a little fast picking on strings 4-6 (low E to D), as the chord
progression sounds kind of awkward.
What I do is:
e|------------------2---|
B|------------------3---|
G|------------------2---|
D|------0-----0---2-0---|
A|----2-----0---0-------|
E|--3-----2-------------|
Of course, these can be strummed, and then it would go (320xxx)-(200xxx)-(x02xxx)-(xx0232)
Another thing, I add the Asus4 to the third line of the verse, just for added color, but
it can easily be skipped.