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Romeo and Juliet in C
Dire Straits
Capo 5
Note: The Fingerpicked guitar in the recording is in the key of F, using open C tuning and capo’d 3rd fret. This arrangement is for standard tuning. To match the tuning of the original recording, use Capo 5.
Intro: / C - - G / F - - G / x4
Verse 1:
C Am (3 beats) G (1 beat)
A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
C Am (2 beats) F (2 beats)
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
G (3 ½ beats) F (1/2 beat) G (2 beats) C (2 beats)
Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade
F G
Says something like you and me babe, how about it?
C (3 beats) G (1 beat) Am (3 beats) G (1 beat)
Juliet says hey it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack
C (3 beats) G (1 beat) Am (2 beats) F (2 beats)
He's underneath the window, she's singing hey la my boyfriend’s back
G (3 ½ beats) F (1/2 beat) G (2 beats) C (2 beats)
you shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that
F G
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?
Chorus 1:
C G Am G F G
D D D U D D D U D D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
Juliet the dice was loaded from the start and I
C G Am G F G
D D D U D D D U D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
bet, and you exploded into my heart. And I
C F Am F
D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
forget, I forget, the movie song
Dm F Am G
D D D U D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Intro Progression x2
C (3 beats) G (1 beat) Am (3 beats) G (1 beat)
Come up on different streets, they both the streets of shame
C (3 beats) G (1 beat) Am (2 beats) F (2 beats)
Both dirty both mean, yes and the dreams just the same
G (3 ½ beats) F (1/2 beat) G (2 beats) C (2 beats)
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
F G
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
C (3 beats) G (1 beat) Am (3 beats) G (1 beat)
Well you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold.
C (3 beats) G (1 beat) Am (2 beats) F (2 beats)
you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
G (3 ½ beats) F (1/2 beat) G (2 beats) C (2 beats)
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin yeah
F (8th note downstrokes, crescendo) G (continue 8th note downstrokes, crescendo)
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him
Chorus 2:
C G Am G F G
D D D U D D D U D D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
Juliet when we made love you used to cry
C G Am G F G
D D D U D D D U D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
you said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die There's a
C F Am F
D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
place for us, you know the movie song
Dm F Am G
D D D U D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?
Intro Progression x2
Verse 3:
C Am (3 beats) G (1 beat)
I can't do the talk, like they talk on the TV
C Am (2 beats) F (2 beats)
I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be.
G (3 ½ beats) F (1/2 beat) G (2 beats) C (2 beats)
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you.
F G
I can't do anything ‘cept be in love with you.
C Am
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
C Am F
All I do is keep the beat--bad company
G (3 ½ beats) F (1/2 beat) G (2 beats) C (2 beats)
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
F (8th note downstrokes, crescendo) G (continue 8th note downstrokes, crescendo
Julie I'd do the stars with you anytime.
Chorus 2
Repeat intro total of 4x
Repeat first stanza of Verse 1
/ F - - - / G - - - / repeat, end on cue
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
