Red Is Blue Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays570

Red Is Blue by Ben Folds Five is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Em, G and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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  			(intro 4x) C  Em  G  G7   

 C                G 
    Everything is changing 
 C                G 
    You're looking for the cure 
   C                              Em            G 
   And you feel like you're the loneliest girl in the world 
 C                G 
   Trouble in your head now 
 C                G 
   Don't know what to do 
  C                    Em          G 
   Seems like up is down and red is blue 
    C   Em  G 
    Red is blue 
    C   Em  G 
    Red is blue 
 C                 G 
   Remember when we started 
 C                 G 
   Days when all was fun 
 C                         Em           G 
   All that we could make when life was young 
 C                  G 
   Now you're getting older 
 C                  G 
   Nothing feels the same 
 C                     Em              G 
  You can't even make sense of your own name 
  C          Em   G 
  Because red is blue 
  (Doesn't make much sense) 
      C   Em   G 
  But red is blue 
  (Messing with your head now) 
  C   Em   G 
  Red is blue 

      C  Em  G 
  OohhOohhOohh 
     C  Em  G 
  OohhOohhOohh 

  ( C Em G G7 ) (4x) 

  C                 Em                  G 
   In your heart There's a room where you lock up 
 C                   Em              G 
   All the times and the things that she said 
   C        Em     G 
   And now red is blue What was near is far now 
  C  Em   G 
  Red is blue Like a fallen star 
  C      Em   G 
  And red is blue 

      C  Em  G 
  OohhOohhOohh 
     C  Em  G 
  OohhOohhOohh 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante