Driving whit the breaks on Chords

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Driving whit the breaks on by Del Amitri is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords Eb, Cm, G# and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			     Eb 
Driving through the long night,  
                                                                            Cm 
Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong,  
                                Eb 
Now the kid has gone. 
      
I sit belted up tight,  
                                          Cm             Eb 
She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on.  
    G#                    Bb 
And I might be more of a man if I stopped this in it's tracks  
                     Eb      Cm 
And said, come on, let's go home.  
G# 
But she's got the wheel,  
 Bb                      Cm            G# 
And I've got nothing except what I have on. 

                                                         Eb 
When you're driving with the brakes on, 
                                                           Cm                                                          
When you're swimming with your boots on,  
                                                        G#      Bb 
It's hard to say you love someone,  
                                           Cm             Bb 
And it's hard to say you don't.  


Eb 
Trying to keep the mood right,  
                                                                Cm 
Trying to steer the conversation from  
                               Eb 
The thing we've done.  
                                                                                                                     Cm 
She shuts up the ashtray, and I say it's a long way back now hon  
Eb 
She just yawns.  
G# 
And we might get lost someplace,  

Bb                            Eb            Cm 
So desolate that no one where we're from would ever come.  
G#                 Bb                      Eb 
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on. 


G#                           Eb 
When you're driving with the brakes on,  
                                                                  Cm 
When you're swimming with your boots on,  
                                      G#                 Bb 
It's hard to say you love someone,  
                                                Cm        Bb 
And it's hard to say you don't.  

                                         Eb  Cm  G#   Eb     Cm      G# 
But unless the moon falls   tonight, unless continents collide,  
Eb       Cm        G#    Bb                   Cm      Bb 
Nothing's gonna make me,                            break from her side.  


                             Eb 
Cause when you're driving with the brakes on,  
                                                                  Cm 
When you're swimming with your boots on,  
                                       G#                Bb 
It's hard to say you love someone,  
                                               Cm         G# 
And it's hard to say you don't.  


                              Bb 
It's hard to say you love someone,  
                                               Cm 
And it's hard to say you don't. 


    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante