Contact In Red Square Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays434

Contact In Red Square by Blondie is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, Em, F, C, Bb, Cm and Ab. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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capo II 
intro James Bond theme:  |: 52 10 52 53 10 53 54 10 54 53 53 10 53 :| D 
(52=A string, second fret etc.) 

              G             D 
Although I'm young I got a job to do. 
         Em               F     C      G 
Hid the microfilm in the lining of my shoe. 
           D 
Call it a business trip. 
        Em              F                 C    G  Bb  G Bb 
Got to hide inside my trenchcoat and be clever. 

          G            D 
I got my papers and a cyanide pill. 
    Em           F    C      G 
My polaroid's a taser in disguise. 
           D                          Em                     F     C     G       Bb   Bb 
There's a base-in-the-hills, and the wheat fields look like Kansas in November. 

    Cm           Ab            Bb        F 
Astrovia, sweet comrade, your nation is your gun. 
      Ab                   Bb             Cm       Cm 
Your love reads like the broken code you sent me. 
Cm               Ab                Bb             F 
One last contact in red square, unless I have to run 
         Ab              Bb        Cm       Cm       G       D 
and the long arms of the K.G.B. detect me. 

               G            D 
Can't trust a soul, secret messenger,  
          Em                  F       C         G 
just the rules that lie like circuits in your brain  
       D 
and a cool .45. 
     Em              F      C             G     Bb    G   Bb 
The wind is ice and foreign air tastes strange. 

  Cm              Ab 
I.C.B.M.*  Bang! Bang! You're dead! 
Bb              F 
No one left to worry. 
Ab              Bb            Cm   Cm 
Kiss me quick, now I have to hurry. 
Cm               Ab                Bb             F  
Our last contact in red square, unless I have to run  
         Ab              Bb        Cm    Cm 
and the long arms of the C.I.A. detect me. 

G  Bb  G  Bb  G  Bb  G  Bb  F  G  Hey!  
G  Bb  F  G  Hey!  G  Hey! G  (F) G 

        *Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante