White Room Chords

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Difficulty:	intermediate
Tuning:	E A D G B E
Capo:	no capo

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White Room:Cream.
#6 in 1968.
 
[Intro]
 
Gm    F     Dm    C       Gm    F     Dm    C     Am
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah....Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah.
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Am   Dm          F          G         Bb C     Dm     F G Bb
In a white room, with black curtains, near the station.
           Dm       F       G          Bb C  Dm       F G Bb
Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
       Dm      F        G          Bb C    Dm         F G Bb
Silver horses, run down moonbeams, in your dark eyes.
          Dm      F       G        Bb C   Dm          F G Bb
Dawnlight smiles, on your leaving, my contentment.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
     C            G                Bb        A
I'll wait in this place, where the sun never shines.
C            G               Bb      C             D
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
         Dm          F       G         Bb C   Dm      F G Bb
You said no strings, could secure you, at the station.
         Dm      F        G        Bb C   Dm          F G Bb
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows.
         Dm    F      G         Bb C   Dm             F G Bb
I walked into, such a sad time, at the station.
     Dm          F       G         Bb C   Dm          F G Bb
As I walked out, felt my own need, just beginning.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
     C           G              Bb          A
I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back.
C             G              Bb      C            D
I'll wait for you, where the shadows run from themselves.
 
 
[Interlude]
 
Gm    F     Dm    C       Gm    F     Dm    C     Am
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah....Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah.
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
       Dm     F       G         Bb C   Dm            F G Bb
At the party, she was kindness, in the hard crowd.
   Dm        F        G          Bb C    Dm          F G Bb
Consolation, from the old wound, now forgotten.
       Dm      F           G        Bb C   Dm        F G Bb
Yellow tigers, crouched in jungles, in her dark eyes.
           Dm        F       G        Bb C  Dm       F G Bb
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
     C             G               Bb     A
I'll sleep in this place, with the lonely crowd..
C          G              Bb      C            D
lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves. 
 
 
[Outro]
 
Gm    F    Dm    C       Gm     F     Dm    C     Am
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah....Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah. 
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18 comments

Nice, but I think it works better with once strumed C after the Bb's in the verse, then Dm F G Bb then a one strum C again.

For the verse I prefer to just keep a Dsus2 throughout and move the bass note D-C-B-Bb-C repeat. Very símilar to how Tales of Brave Ulysses is played. Other than the verse it sounds great.

Only D major is at the end of the chorus. Others are all Dm. That’s the magic of the song, the shadows run from themselves emerging from minor, into major D for a moment.