🎸 Chord Pretenders - Talk Of The Town

artist : the pretenders
song : talk of the town
album/ dvd : live in london

url’s :

from ’live in london’ ( 2010 ) live concert :

the concert held at london’s ’o2 shepherd’s bush empire’ :

author :
tab annotated by richard grosser ( grosserr@gmail . com )
this has been transcribed as i couldn’t find any chord tabs that authentically
captured chrissie’s rhythm guitar on this song .

tuning :
standard tuning .

intro :
G C/G G C/G G C/G
G Am7 B7 Am7 B7

verse 1 :
B7 G C/G
it’s such a drag , to want something sometime ,
C/G Dsus4/D B7
one thing leads to another , i know .
G C/G Dsus4/D B7
was a time i wanted you for mine , nobody knew .
B7 G C/G
you arrived like the day , passed like a cloud ,
C/G D C/G Dsus4/D
i made a wish . i said it out loud ,
D C/G C/G Dsus4/D
’loud in a cr – o – wd . everybody he – A – rd ,
D C/G Dsus4/D Am7 B7
’twas the talk of the town .

verse 2 :
B7 G C/G
it’s not my place to know what you feel ,
C/G D B7
i’d like to know but why should i .
G C/G Dsus4/D B7
who were you then , who are you n – o – w .
B7 G C/G
common labourer by night , by day highbrow
G C/G Dsus4/D B7
back in my room , i wondered then i
C/G D C/G Dsus4/D
sit on the bed , look at the sky ,
D C/G Dsus4/D
up in the sky , clouds rearrange
D C/G Dsus4/D Am7 B7
like the talk of the town .

chorus :
G D C/G
maybe tomorrow , maybe someday .
G D C/G
maybe tomorrow , maybe someday .
C/G G D C/G
you’ve changed , your place in this world .
C/G G D C/G Am7 B7
you’ve changed , your place in this world .

verse 3 :
B7 G C/G
oh , but it’s hard to live by the rules ,
C/G Dsus4/D B7
i never could , and still never do .
G C/G Dsus4/D B7
the rules and such never bothered you ,
B7 G C/G
you call the shots and they follow .
G C/G Dsus4/D B7
i watch you still from a distance then go
C/G D C/G Dsus4/D
back to my room , you never know .
D C/G C/G Dsus4/D
i want you , i want you but now ,
D C/G Dsus4/D Am7 B7
it’s the talk of the town .

repeat chorus :
G D C/G
maybe tomorrow , maybe someday .
G D C/G
maybe tomorrow , maybe someday .
C/G G D C/G
you’ve changed , your place in this world .
C/G G D C/G Am7 B7
you’ve changed , your place in this world .

( end )