Fire Engine Chords

KeyG Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays530

Fire Engine by Darren Hanlon is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, D7, Bm, Em, Eb and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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Intro

Verse 
       G                                          C                    D 
Ripples round the bar they don't know what to think 
       D7                              Bm                 C             Em 
For prince of the pen has himself a new favourite drink 
C 			      G                      C 
To blow on bruised skin takes away the sting 
                 G                 D            G 
I've half a mind to take him for a fling 
                G                                   C                     D 
The most uncouth of colours that you have ever seen 
D7                               C                     D7 		Eb dim (or B7) 
30mls of vodka lemonade and grenadine 
       Em      C                                G 		          C 
The smoke makes me sick and i don't know where to look 
    	     C       		      G                       D		  G 
There's a church mouse in the corner with her nose stuck in a book 
                            D7          G 
And she says the flavour's flambouyant 
         D               G                      C                 Em 
Each sip sweetly poignant with a wave of the hand and a flick of the fringe 
    D7            G                   D                 G 
It baffles the quibblers, nit-pickers, nut-nibblers 
      C 					   D (C shape 2 frets up) 
An unusual weapon to choose for a binge 

G x4 (with variations) 

	            D7                           G                       D                        G 
Would these words sound the same on high street in broad daylight 
       C          Em 
But nothing escapes the ears of a playwright 
     D7            G                   D                   G 
He listens intently from the backseat of a Bentley 
             C                                                   D (C shape 2 frets up) 
Let this feeling of change take hold of me gently 
                    G                                  C           D 
Now there's fog on the Isis and the poets all gush 
        D7                                     Bm             C                       Em 
This scene is straight from the stroke of an impressionist's brush 
       C		            G                         C 
And now his glass is sat there next to mine 
C            G        D                      G 
30mls of vodka lemonade and grenadine 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante