China Chords
China by Ashtar Command is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, Bsus4 and Asus2. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Melody played the whole song:
e|----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0----0---0---0---0------0----0----0----0--------|
B|--9---9---9---9---7---7---7---7----9---9---9---9---9/10---10---10---10----------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E Bsus4 E Asus2
e|--0---------------0----------------0---------------0----------------------------|
B|--9---------------7----------------9--------------10----------------------------|
G|--9---------------9----------------9---------------9----------------------------|
D|--9---------------9----------------9---------------7----------------------------|
A|--7-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------strum like melody---------------------------------|
E Bsus4
Take it all in instead of writing it down
E Asus2
trying to find a way to get out of this town
E Bsus4
searching for contact waiting on the last act
E Asus2
binding my time because I'll never be back
E Bsus4
hoping to find that I'm one of a kind
E Asus2
willing to settle for some piece of mind
E Bsus4
I'm going to sail to China or move to Carolina
E Asus2
find myself some peace and take myself some time to fall
E Bsus4
and I'll fall and I'll fall for the first pretty girl
E Asus2
and I'll give her my heart and I'll make her my world
Repeat this part 7x - first time a bit lower:
E Bsus4
and we'll dance and dance and dance <---sung the first time over the first part---
all we live and all we are and all our lives we're all unsure
E Asus2
all we do and all we see and all we want and all we need
E Bsus4
all we feel and all we know and all we hide and all we show
E Asus2
all we take and all we give and all we die and all we live
Melody played in the end:
e|--------7-----------------7---------|--------7-----------------7---------|
B|-----------10---9---7~-------10--9--|-----------10---9---7~-------10--9--|
G|--9~--------------------------------|--9~--------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|