Superstar Ukulele Chords

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From: paul.nazaroff@canrem.com (Paul Nazaroff)
 
"Superstar" by the Carpenters (as covered by Sonic Youth)
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  (found on the "If I Were A Carpenter" tribute album)
 
Transcribed by James Nazaroff (jamie.nazaroff@projectx.com)
 
<Intro>
 
Noise, feedback, then:
 
   Fm                               D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
B|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   C#                                  C
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   A#m                              NC----------------------------
 
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9---------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   NC----------------------------------------------------------------|   Fm
e|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
B|-6-------------4----------------|-1--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
 
<Verse>
 
Fm       D#
 Long ago
       C#          C
And oh so far away
          A#m           C#
I fell in love with you
           C
Before the second show
 
 
Fm           D#
Your guitar,
          C#                 C
It sounds so sweet and clear
               A#m          C#
But you're not really there
              C
It's just the radio
 
 
<Chorus>
 
C#                     C           A#m      G#
Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?
C#                       C             A#m   G#
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby.
C#          C     A#m      G#
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby,
  A#m         Fm
I love you, I really do.
 
   Fm                               D#
e|-15-----------13----------------|---------------15----13----15---|
B|--------------------13----------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   C#                                  C
e|-16-----15-----13---------------|-13----11-----------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-------------9------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 
   A#m                              NC-------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
B|-----------6------8------9------|-11-------------9-----------------|
G|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
 
   NC----------------------------------------------------------------|   Fm
e|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
B|-6-------------4----------------|-1--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
 
<Verse>
Fm         D#
Loneliness
          C#         C
Is such a sad affair
          A#m          C#
And I can hardly wait
           C
To be with you again
 
Fm          D#
What to say,
            C#          C
To make you come again?
             A#        C#
Come back to me again,
              C
And play your sad guitar
 
<Chorus>
C#                     C           A#m      G#
 
Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?
C#                       C             A#m   G#
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby.
C#          C     A#m      G#
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby,
  A#m         C#
I love you, I really do.
 
C#                     C           A#m      G#
Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?
C#                       C             A#m   G#
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby.
C#          C     A#m      G#
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby,
  A#m         Fm
I love you, I really do.
 
<more noise, feedback>
<end>
 
Ok, I play this song with a capo on the first fret and use the chords
Em, D, C, B and Am in the verses and C, B, Am, G, and Em in the
choruses. This seems to sound pretty close, but I think that Thurston
Moore tunes his guitars flat (Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb).
 
Anyways, this was close enough for me...
 
... It's your world you can change it.
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