Song: Marlene on the wall
Artist: Suzanne Vega
Composer: Suzanne Vega
Album: Suzanne Vega
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
13th June 2017
N.B. Suzanne uses higher inversions of these chords, but for
a single acoustic guitar accompaniment the chords below have
a fuller sound and still retain those open ringing strings.
Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below:
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of F#)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
E = 022100 Em7 = 075700 or 022030
E4 = 022200 Cmaj7 = x35500 or x32000
F#m11 = 044200 Bm11 = x20230
Asus2 = x02200 D6sus2 = x57700
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
=============================================================
[Intro]
E E4 F#m11 Asus2
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
E
Even if I am in love with you,
E4
All this to say, what's it to you?
F#m11
Ob - serve the blood, the rose tattoo,
Asus2
Of the fingerprints on me from you,
E E4
Other evidence has shown that ...you and I are still alone,
F#m11
We ...skirt around the danger zone,
Asus2
And don't talk about it later!
[Chorus]
Em7 Cmaj7
Marlene watches from the wall,
Bm11
Her mocking smile says it all,
Cmaj7
As she records the rise and fall of every soldier passing,
Em7 Cmaj7
But the only soldier now is me,
Bm11
I'm fighting things I cannot see,
Cmaj7
I think it's called my desti - ny that I am changing,
D6sus2 Cmaj7 D6sus2 Cmaj7
Marlene on the wall!
[Verse 2]
E
Well, I walk to your house in the afternoon,
E4
By the butcher's shop, with the sawdust strewn,
F#m11
'Don't give away the goods too soon!'
Asus2
Is what she might have told me,
E
And I tried so hard to resist,
E4
When you held me in your handsome fist,
F#m11
And re - minded me of the night we kissed,
Asus2
And of why I should be leaving!
[Chorus]
Em7 Cmaj7
Marlene watches from the wall,
Bm11
Her mocking smile says it all,
Cmaj7
As she records the rise and fall of every soldier passing,
Em7 Cmaj7
But the only soldier now is me,
Bm11
I'm fighting things I cannot see,
Cmaj7
I think it's called my desti - ny that I am changing,
D6sus2 Cmaj7 D6sus2 Cmaj7
Marlene on the wall!
[Break]
E E4 F#m11 Asus2
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Chorus]
Em7 Cmaj7
Marlene watches from the wall,
Bm11
Her mocking smile says it all,
Cmaj7
As she records the rise and fall of every soldier passing,
Em7 Cmaj7
But the only soldier now is me,
Bm11
I'm fighting things I cannot see,
Cmaj7
I think it's called my desti - ny that I am changing,
D6sus2 Cmaj7 D6sus2 Cmaj7
Marlene on the wall!
[Verse 3]
E
And even if I am in love with you,
E4
All this to say, what's it to you?
F#m11
Ob - serve the blood, the rose tattoo,
Asus2
Of the fingerprints on me from you,
E E4
Other evidence has shown that ...you and I are still alone,
F#m11
We ...skirt around the danger zone,
Asus2
And don't talk about it later!
[Verse 4]
E
And I tried so hard to resist,
E4
When you held me in your handsome fist,
F#m11
And re - minded me of the night we kissed,
Asus2
And of why I should be leaving!
[Chorus]
Em7 Cmaj7
Marlene watches from the wall,
Bm11
Her mocking smile says it all,
Cmaj7
As she records the rise and fall of every man who's been here,
Em7 Cmaj7
But the only one here now is me,
Bm11
I'm fighting things I cannot see,
Cmaj7
I think it's called my desti - ny that I am changing,
D6sus2 Cmaj7
Changing, changing, changing, changing!
[Chorus]
Em7 Cmaj7
Marlene watches from the wall,
Bm11
Her mocking smile says it all,
Cmaj7
As she records the rise and fall of every soldier passing,
Em7 Cmaj7
But the only soldier now is me,
Bm11
I'm fighting things I cannot see,
Cmaj7
I think it's called my desti - ny that I am changing,
D6sus2 Cmaj7
Marlene on the wall!
[Coda]
D6sus2 Cmaj7 D6sus2 Cmaj7 E
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / ||
Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/suzanne_vega/marlene_on_the_wall_chords_2045781