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Difficulty: absolute beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 4th fret
Author TheJohnCoyne [a] 72.
2 contributors total, last edit on Aug 7, 2017

Chords

G
C
D
Em

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Capo 4
 
Key of G
 
Pretty standard chords. Feel free to replace C major with Cadd9, and any D with
D7. Lyrics might be wrong here and there. Enjoy!
 
[Intro] G
 
 
[Chorus]
      C      G
I'm a man on fire
        C            G
Walking through your street
     C   D
With one guitar
        C       G
And two dancing feet
     C       G
Only one desire
       C       G
That's left in me
           C          D
I want the whole damn world
        C          G (walkdown on low E-string, going from third fret to second fret, to open E)
To come dance with me
 
Em              C          G
Ohhhhhhhh. Come dance with me
 
 
[Verse]
     C          Em
Over murder and pain
         C       G
Come and set you free
     C             Em
Over heartache and shame
        C       G                       C       Em
I wanna see our bodies burning like the old big sun
        C         G                       C        Em
I wanna know what we've been learning and learning from
 
D, G, C
 
C              G       D   G  C
Everybody want safety (safety love)
C              G       D   G    C
Everybody want comfort (comfort love)
C              G        D  G    C
Everybody want certain (certain love)
C             D
Everybody but me
 
 
[Chorus]
      C      G
I'm a man on fire
        C            G
Walking through your street
     C   D
With one guitar
        C       G
And two dancing feet
     C       G
Only one desire
       C       G
That's left in me
           C          D
I want the whole damn world
        C          G (walkdown on low E-string, going from third fret to second fret, to open E)
To come dance with me
 
 
[Break] Em, C, G, D, C, Em, C, G, D, C, E G
 
[Verse]
               C          G
Yay, yay. Come dance with me
     C              Em
Over heartache and rage
     C      G
Come set us free
     C         Em
Over panic and strange
        C       G                       C       Em
I wanna see our bodies burning like the old big sun
        C         G                       C        Em
I wanna know what we've been learning and learning from
 
G, D, C
 
C              G        D  G    C
Everybody want romance (romance love)
C              G       D   G  C
Everybody want safety (safety love)
C              G        D  G    C
Everybody want comfort (comfort love)
C             D
Everybody but me
 
 
[Chorus]
      C      G
I'm a man on fire (he's a man on fire)
        C         G
Walking down your street (walking down your street)
     C      D
With one guitar (With one guitar)
D       C       G
And two dancing feet (two dancing feet)
     C     G
Only one desire (one desire)
       C        G
That's still in me (that's left in me)
G          C          D
I want the whole damn world (I want the whole damn world)
D           C          G
To come and dance with me (come and dance with me yeahhhhh...)
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4 comments
barfingrainbows
For the bracketed parts of the choruses, I play the chords as D G C instead of G D C. It works better in my opinion. Great tab otherwise! :)
+6
brokenfan88
the intro to the second chorus and the second chorus have mixed up chords. please replace g d c with dgc like in the first chorus
+2
lizzygaunt
I think it works without the capo, too.
+1