Afternoon High Chords

by A-Ha
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Afternoon High by A-Ha is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C7, Eb, Dm, Bb and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
Text
16
Speed
  			Intro: 
 
F, C7 
 
F       C7                               F 
Ah, the sunlight hits the corner of your eye  
C7                             Eb 
As it bounces off the morning sky  
Dm                              Bb 
The summer in the seventy's fly by, by 
F    C7                                F 
Bye, daylight hits the corners of your mind  
C7                                          Eb 
Steals the thought you thought no one could find  
Dm                                  Bb 
Close your eyes and it will rob you blind, blind  
 
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb         F          C7 
Incidental memories collide 
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb          F         C7 
Sentimental reveries abide  
C7        F 
Afternoon high 
 
C7, F, C7 
 
F   C7                                F 
Ah, daylight hits the corners of your mouth 
C7                                       Eb 
Steals the words that filled you up with doubt 
Dm                            Bb 
Open up and let them all fall out, out  
F   C7                                   F 
Ah, honey smoothes the wrinkles from you bed  
C7                                Eb 
Gone are the indentations of your head  
Dm                               Bb 
Leaving just the frown upon your forehead 
 
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb         F          C7 
Incidental memories collide  
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb          F         C7 
Sentimental reveries abide  
C7               F 
       Afternoon high 
 
C7, F, C7, Bb 
 
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb            F            C7 
Worry works a wrinkle over time  
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb            F              C7 
Open eyes and let it rob you blind 
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, Ah 
Bb         F          C7 
Incidental memories collide  
C7  Bb  Am 
Ah, ah, ah 
Bb             F                    C7 
People tell me you'vee been blinded by 
C7           F     C7 
On afternoon high 
             F     C7 
On afternoon high 
             F     C7 
On afternoon high  
          F     C7  F 
Afternoon high 
 
Løne Wølf 
[email protected] 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante