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Mistaken For Strangers by The National
Mistaken For Strangers
At times you can hear the three notes of the intro chords plucked in
the pattern of low-middle-high-middle. On live versions, someone in the
band plucks that pattern for the first four lines, then plucks it an octave
higher for the two lines that go "showered and blue-blazered..."
(Note: I recommend finding a good live version. I think the live is better
than the album version, which obscures the guitar.)
I've written two ways to play the chords. The first is the easiest,
but I saw them live and it looked they played it the second way.
They sound the same. I suppose the second is nice if you want
to give your guitar a hard strum without worrying about muting
the low string.
easy live
F/A: X032XX 587XXX
F/Bb: X132XX 687XXX
F/C: X332XX 887XXX
Csus4: X330XX 885XXX
Intro: F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
F/A F/Bb
You have to do it running but you do everything that they
F/C Csus4
ask you to cause you don™t mind seeing
F/A F/Bb
yourself in a picture as long as you look
F/C Csus4
faraway, as long as you look removed
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
Dm F
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
Bb F
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery
Bb F Am Am7
citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
Dm F
Oh you wouldn™t want an angel watching over.
Bb F
Surprise, surprise, they wouldn™t wannna watch
Bb F Am Am7
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
F/A F/Bb
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
F/C Csus4
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
F/A F/Bb
so you swear you just saw a feathery
F/C Csus4
woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
(repeat chorus)
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version 2
Tuning: Standard
I think it should be pretty obvious which one to play as power chords and which ones to
as full barre chords.
Am Bb C
You have to do it running but you'll do everything that they ask you to
Am
cause you don™t mind seeing yourself in a picture
Bb C
as long as you look faraway, as long as you look removed
Am Bb C
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
Am Bb C
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
Dm F
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
Bb F Bb
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights
F Am A
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
Gm F
well you wouldn™t want an angel watching over
Bb F
surprise, surprise they wouldn™t wanna watch
Bb F Am A
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
And that's really it. All in all, very simple chords.
Supplementary lyrics:
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
so you swear you just saw a feathery woman
carry a blindfolded man through the trees
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn™t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn™t wanna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn™t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn™t wanna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
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