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/ The Kinks / State of Confusion (1983) / Come Dancing guitar tab

Artist: The Kinks
Song: Come Dancing
Tabbed By Peter Casey

STANDARD TUNING (EADGBE)
CHORDS USED:

G     =   355433
D     =   X5777X
C     =   X3555X
Em    =   X79987


verse:
    G                                       D                   G
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|----3---3---3---3--|----3---3---3---3--|----7---7---7---7--|----3---3---3---3--|
G|----4---4---4---4--|----4---4---4---4--|----7---7---7---7--|----4---4---4---4--|
D|----5---5---5---5--|----5---5---5---5--|----7---7---7---7--|----5---5---5---5--|
A|----------5--------|----------5--------|--5----------------|----------5--------|
E|--3----------------|--3----------------|----------5--------|--3----------------|
        t       t           t       t           t       t           t       t

Note: This pattern just repeats itself, just follow the chord changes and don't be
      afraid to variate a little for flavor.

verse:
G
They put a parking lot on a piece of land
D              G
Where the supermarket used to stand
                                  D
Before that they put up a bowling alley
                                      G
On the site that used to be the local pally
C                          G
That's where the big bands used to come and play
D                    G
My sister went there on a Saturday

chorus1:
     C
Come dancin'
                   G
All her boyfriends used to come and call
             D              C            G
Why not come dancin',  it's only natural

verse:
G
Another Saturday, another date
D                            G
She would be ready but she'd always make him wait
                         D
In the hallway, in anticipation
                                              G
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration.
C                           G
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
D                      G
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek

chorus2:
     C
Come dancin'
                            G
That's how they did it when I was just a kid
                        D           C                 G
And when they said come dancin', my sister always did

bridge:
   Em                 D          C
My sister should have come in at midnight
D      Em               D          C
And my mom would always sit up and wait
D  Em           D       C
It always ended up in a big brawl
D       Em             D        C
When my sister used to get home late

Note: Here I just softly tap-brush against the muffled strings in twos,
      playing the chords.
G
Out of my window I can see them in the moonlight
D                                                    G
Two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate

    Em       D                C
The day they knocked down the pally
D  Em     D          C
My sister stood and cried
D   Em       D                C
The day they knocked down the pally
D  Em         D         C     (tacet)
   Part of my childhood died, just died.

then: Em  D  C  D  x3 (hard strums)

verse:
G
Now I'm grown up and playing in a band
D                                G
And there's a car park where the pally used to stand
C                           G
My sister's married and she lives on an estate
D                         G
Her daughters go out, now it's her turn to wait
C                            G
She knows they get away with things she never could
D                    G
But if I asked her I wonder if she would

chorus3:
     C
Come dancin'
                G
Come on sister, have yourself a ball
                        D             C            G
Don't be afraid to come dancin', it's only natural
     C            G
It's only natural

END WITH A QUICK: D  G (and maybe add a bit of vibrato to the ending G)

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STANDARD TUNING (EADGBE)
CHORDS USED:

G     =   355433
D     =   X5777X
C     =   X3555X
Em    =   X79987


The Kinks albums
1996 To the Bone
1994 The Early Years
1986 Think Visual
1984 Word of Mouth
1983 State of Confusion
1981 Give the People What They Want
1978 Misfits
1973 The Great Lost Kinks Album
1972 Everybody's in Show-Biz
1971 Muswell Hillbillies
1971 Percy (Original Soundtrack)
1970 Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
1969 Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
1968 The Village Green Preservation Society
1967 Something Else by the Kinks
1966 Face to Face
1965 You Really Got Me
1965 The Kink Kontroversy
1964 Kinks
State of Confusion tabs
04Come Dancing tabbass tab

 

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