Famous Blue Raincoat Live Chords

Picking patterns
 
[Verse]
 
C#m picking pattern:
 
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----5-----5-----------------------------------|
G|-------6-----6--------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|-4--------------4-----------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
 
A picking pattern
 
e|-----0---0-------------------------------------|
B|-------2---2-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------|
A|-0------------0--------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
 
 
 F#m7 picking pattern
e|----0-----0-------------------------------------|
B|-------2-----2----------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|-2---------------2------------------------------|
 
G#m7 picking pattern
 
e|--------------------------------4-------------|
B|-----4-----4------5------4--------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|-4------4-----4------4------4-----------------|
 
[Pre-Chorus]
 
C#m picking pattern:
 
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|----5-----5------------------------------------|
G|-------6-----6---------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------|
A|-4--------------4------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
 
D#m picking pattern (building)
 
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|---7-----7-------------------------------------|
G|------8-----8----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------|
A|-6-------------6-------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
 
D#m picking pattern (desert)
 
e|-----------------6---------------------------------|
B|-----7-----7--------7-----7------------------------|
G|--------8-----8--------8----8----------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|-6-----------------------------6-------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|
 
B picking pattern
 
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|----------4--------------------------------|
G|-----4-------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|--2-----2----------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|
 
[Chorus]
 
 
E picking pattern
 
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|----------9--------------------------------------|
G|----9--------9-----------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-7-----7-----------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|
 
B picking pattern
 
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|---------4---------------------------------------|
G|----4-------4------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-2----2------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|
 
C#m picking pattern
 
e|--------------------------------------------------|
B|---------5----------------------------------------|
G|----6-------6-------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|-4----4-------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------|
 
D#m picking pattern
 
e|---------6----------------------------------------|
B|----7-------7-------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|-6----6-------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------|
 
A picking pattern (only play the first 4 as you lead into it)
 
e|--------------5-----------------------------------|
B|---------5------5---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------|
E|-4---5-----5--------------------------------------|
 
G#m7 picking pattern
 
e|---------------4-----------------------------------|
B|------4---4----------------------------------------|
G|--------4---4--------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
E|-4-------------------------------------------------|
 
 
[Intro]
C#m
 
[Verse 1]
      C#m                      A
It's four in the morning, the end of December
F#m7                            G#m7
   I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
C#m                    A
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
       F#m7                     G#m7
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening
 
[Pre-Chorus]
C#m                   D#m                  C#m               D#m
  I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
C#m                  B                          C#m                  B
  You're living for nothing now; I hope you're keeping some kind of record
 
[Chorus 1]
          E                               B
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
                             C#m
She said that you gave it to her
                                    D#m B
That night that you planned to go clear
A                   G#m7
  Did you ever go clear?
 
[Verse 2]
        C#m                       A
Ah, the last time we saw you, you looked so much older
    F#m7                      G#m7
Your famous blue raincoat was torn to shoulder
      C#m                    A
You'd been to the station to meet every train
   F#m7                   G#m7
And you came home without Lili Marlene
 
[Pre-Chorus]
        C#m        D#m        C#m           D#m
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
C#m                 B   C#m               B
  And when she came back she was nobody's wife
 
[Chorus 2]
         E                                  B
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
                   C#m
One more thin gypsy thief
                    D#m B
Well I see Jane's awake
A                   G#m7
  She sends her regards
 
[Verse 3]
     C#m                    A
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
F#m7                    G#m7
   What can I possibly say?
  C#m                   A
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
F#m7                        G#m7
  I'm glad you stood in my way
 
[Pre-Chorus]
C#m                D#m     C#m              D#m
  If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
C#m                   B        C#m               B
  Well, your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free
 
[Chorus 3]
         E                           B
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
                   C#m                       D#m  B
I thought it was there for good so I never tried
     E                               B
And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
                              C#m
She said that you gave it to her
                                     D#m B
That night that you planned to go clear
A                G#m7
  Sincerely, L. Cohen
 
[Outro]
C#m A F#m7 G#m7
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