Motors Too Fast Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays716

Motors Too Fast by James Reyne is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, G, C, C/B, Dm and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			  (Am) 
  He's just a local boy, Modelling for magazines 
  (G)                           (Am) 
  Nun-Chucka - Things are never quite as they seem 
  (Am) 
  He's got throwing stars, He's got silver tops 
  (G) 
  Mamas grabbed her jewellery hidden in the bathroom 
  (Am) 
  Calling the cops 
 
 
  Pre Chorus 
 
 
  (C)                 (C/B)            (Am) 
  Give me somewhere to go dont give me train rides 
  (C)                 (C/B)            (Am) 
  When the shops are all closed dont give me train rides 
 
 
  Chorus 
 
 
  (C) 
  Never gave anyone the slightest notion 
  (Am) 
  Never showed us that the call was cast 
  (Dm) 
  Mama dont want you, daddy dont want you 
  (F)                         (G) 
  Your motors running way to fast 
 
 
 
  Now the mallways shuttered, hanging in the afternoon 
  Drink a little Vodka, Picking up the old man 
  Roundin him round in his room 
 
 
  repeat pre chorus and chorus 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante