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The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

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Tuning: E A D G B E

Capo: No capo

BPM: 200

    1st Verse
    The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
    Intro                           Take me out tonight
N   F#m            A     B          C#m            B     C#m            B     A         E         
e|--2--------------0----|2---------|4--------------2----|4--------------2----|0---------0---------|
B|--2--------------2----|4---------|5--------------4----|5--------------4----|2---------0---------|
G|--2--------------2----|4---------|6--------------4----|6--------------4----|2---------1---------|
D|--4--------------2----|4---------|6--------------4----|6--------------4----|2---------2---------|
A|--4--------------0----|2---------|4--------------2----|4--------------2----|0---------2---------|
E|--2-------------------|----------|--------------------|--------------------|----------0---------|

          Where there's music and there's people who are young and alive
N   B                    C#m                        B              C#m                       
e|--2----|---------------4----|--------------------|2--------------4----|--------------------|
B|--4----|---------------5----|--------------------|4--------------5----|--------------------|
G|--4----|---------------6----|--------------------|4--------------6----|--------------------|
D|--4----|---------------6----|--------------------|4--------------6----|--------------------|
A|--2----|---------------4----|--------------------|2--------------4----|--------------------|
E|-------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

                                              Driving in your car, I never never want to go home
    B              A          E         B     C#m            B          C#m             B

                                                              Because I haven't got one, anymore
              A                         E          B                               C#m       B

                                                    Take me out tonight
    C#m       B          A         E          B     C#m                                 A

                         Because I want to see people and I want to see lights
         E         B               C#m

                                    Driving in your car, oh please don't drop me home
         A         E     B          C#m                                            A

                                                    Because it's not my home, it's their home, and I'm welcome no more
                              E         B           C#m

              B                               C#m                                 A          E    B

    1st Chorus                      And if a double-decker bus, crashes into us
    F#m            A     B               E                              F#m        A

    To die by your side, is such a heavenly way to die
    B                                   E                          A                              F#m

                                                                         2nd Verse
                    And if a ten ton truck, kills the both of us         To die by your side, well the pleasure the privilege is mine
         B                    E                               A          B

    E                              A                                                    F#m       B

    Take me out tonight                                                            Oh take me anywhere, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
    C#m            B          C#m       B               A    E          B          C#m            B

                         C#m                       B                                    A         E

               And in the darkened underpass, I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
    B                    C#m        B         C#m             B                              A

                                                                              But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask C#m
                                                        E          B

         B                              C#m                        B              A          E         B

          Take me out tonight
          C#m            B               C#m             B         A          E         B

          Oh take me anywhere, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
                    C#m             B                         C#m                  B

                                                    Just driving in your car, I never never want to go home
                   A          E         B           C#m            B          C#m

                                                                                        Because I haven't got one no no no, I haven't got one
    B         A                                                    E         B

         C#m       B          C#m       B               A               E         B

    2nd Chorus                      And if a double-decker bus, crashes into us
    F#m            A     B          E                                                   C#m

          To die by your side, is such a heavenly way to die
    A     B                         E                    A

                                    And if a ten ton truck, kills the both of us
              F#m        B               E                              C#m             A

    Ending
    To die by your side, well the pleasure the privilege is mine
    B                              E                    A

                                    Ending
                                    There is a light and it never goes out there is a light and it never goes out 3x
         F#m             B          C#m            B                    C#m             B

                                                                         F#m
                                                                         Chords    A
         A                                    E                    B     C#m            B

    B    C#m             E
    C#m            B     A         E          B
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Instruments
Guitar
Genres
Pop, Rock
Tracks
1
Tempo
200 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
E A D G B E
Key
E major
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
151
Frets used
Frets 0-6
Published 23 Feb 2019

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The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is a Guitar score arranged by DojiATR and filed under Pop and Rock. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 200 BPM. It is in E major, and the arrangement runs 151 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 6 and there are 5 chord shapes to learn. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

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