On The Beach - Chris Rea
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Tabs and lyrics
Tunning: Standard (E A D G B e)
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Author/Artist: Chris Rea
Title: On the Beach
Album: New Light Through Old Windows
Transcribed by: Jonathan Sharpe
Email: jonathansharpe@another.com

This is just the riff, as sampled by York

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Tunning: Standard (E A D G B e)
Title: On The Beach
Artist: Chris Rea
Tabbed by: Stuart Lowe

*** CAPO 1 ***

Chords, in order of appearance:

Fm 0 2 2 0 0 0
A#m6/C# x 3 4 2 1 0
A#m6/G T2 0 4 2 1 0 (T=Thumb)
C7#9 x 2 1 2 3 x
Bbm7 x 0 2 0 1 0
Cm7 x 2 4 2 3 2
Dbmaj7 x 3 2 0 0 0
Ebsus2 x x 0 2 3 0
C#m x 3 5 5 4 3
G#m7 3 5 3 3 3 3
Ebm7 x x 0 2 1 1
Gb7 3 5 3 4 3 3
Fm9 0 2 0 0 0 2
Bb/C x 2 2 2 2 x

Intro:

Gtr 1, mute:

|---------------|------------------|
|---------------|------------------|
|--------7---9-9|-----------7---9-9|
|----7s9---9----|-------7s9---9----|
|---------------|------------------|
|---------------|------------------|

Gtr 2 + chords:

Fm A#m6/C# C7#9
|-----10-----10-|-10-------------10---|--------------|--------------|
|10s12----------|----12---10s12----12-|--------------|--------------|
|---------------|------11-------------|9-------------|--------------|
|---------------|---------------------|--------------|--------------|
|---------------|---------------------|--------------|--------------|
|---------------|---------------------|--------------|--------------|

Fm A#m6/G C7#9 Fm7 A#m6/G C7#9

Verse 1:

Fm A#m6/G C7#9 Fm A#m6/G C7#9
Between the eyes of love I call your name

Fm A#m6/G C7#9 Fm A#m6/G C7#9
Behind their guarded walls I used to go

Fm A#m6/C# C7#9
Upon a summer wind

Fm A#m6/C# C7#9
There’s a certain melody

Bbm7 Cm7 Dbmaj7 Ebsus2
Takes me back to the place that I know


Fm Dbmaj7 C7#9
On the beach

Fm Dbmaj7 C7#9
Down on the beach

Verse 2:

The secrets of the summer I will keep
The sands of time will blow a mystery
No-one but you and I
Underneath that moonlit sky
Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach, yeh yeh
Oh down on the beach, yeh down on the beach
On the beach, yeh yeh
On the beach

Break:

C#m G#m7 C#m G#m7 C#m G#m7 C#m Bbm7 Cm7

Verse 3:

Fm A#m6/G C7#9 Fm A#m6/G C7#9
Forever in my dreams I will be

Fm Ebm7 Ab7 Dbmaj7 A#m6/G C7#9
Hanging on to this sweet memory

Fm9 Bb/C
A day of strange desire

Fm9 Bb/C
And a night that burned like fire

Bbm7 Cm7 Dbmaj7 Ebsus2
Take me back to the place that I know

Fm Dbmaj9 C7#9
On the beach

Fm Dbmaj9 C7#9
Down on the beach, yeh down on the beach

On the beach, yeh yeh
On the beach


Fm A#m6/C# C7#9 etc, then
Fm Dbmaj7 C7#9

Fm . . . .



Song info
On The Beach
Chris Rea
2001
  • Rock
  • Pop Rock
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