Songs In Red And Gray by Suzanne Vega, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Songs In Red And Gray

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Suzanne Vega (born Suzanne Nadine Vega on 11 July 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American singer-songwriter noted for her eclectic folk-inspired music. Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: " Luka" and "Tom's Diner".

Though born in California, Vega has lived most of her life in New York City. There, she attended the High School of the Performing Arts (the school seen in the feature film musical Fame), where she studied modern dance.

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Title: Title Track
Album: Songs in Red and Gray
Artist: Suzanne Vega
Method: Fingerpicking
Tempo: Andante moderato

Capo on 4th fret

[Chords]
Am x0221x
Asus2 x0220x
Fadd#11 x3220x
G/D x5540x
Csus4 x3300x
E 02210x

[Intro]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x4
G/D Csus4 E

[Verse 1]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
The reproach on your daughter's most beautiful face
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Made me wonder just how she could know
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Of that something that happened between you and me
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
So much more than a long time ago

[Verse 2]
G/D Csus4
Her mother, I can see, lives within her still
G/D Csus4
Cause she looked at me with her eyes
G/D Csus4
Though I had only just met her right then
E
I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise

[Instrumental]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x2

[Verse 1]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Did I break the thread, or did you break the thread?
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Well at this point we could ask who cares
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
As for the promises broken and frayed
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Well it's 19 years late for repairs

[Verse 2]
G/D Csus4
The grey pewter vase held the deep red rose,
G/D Csus4
One piece of coral shone white,
G/D Csus4
By the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat,
E
Is everything I can recall of one night

[Vocal & Instrumental Solo]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x4
G/D Csus4 E

[Verse 1]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Will you please tell me why I remember these things
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
After all of this time, I don't know
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
I must have left all those feelings inside
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Cause that year I had no courage to show

[Verse 2]
G/D Csus4
Was I the name you could never pronounce?
G/D Csus4
Did I even figure at all?
G/D Csus4
All of this happened before she was born
E
Did I shadow her young pencil marks on the wall

[Verse 1]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Still I am sure I was only but one
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Of a number who darkened that door
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Of your home and your heart and your family and wife
Am Asus2 Fadd#11
Who'd been darkened so often before

[Verse 2]
G/D Csus4
And the red leaf it looks to the hard gray stone
G/D Csus4
To each other they know what they mean
G/D Csus4
Somewhere their future is still yet to come
E
In ways that are yet as of now unforeseen

[Outro]
Am Asus2 Fadd#11 x2
G/D Csus4 E