I Read A Lot Chords
by Nick Lowe
I Read A Lot by Nick Lowe is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords F#m7, G#m7, A, Am, E, F#m/C#, G#m/Eb, Bm, D, G, E2 and C7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Riff1
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E ----------------|-----------------|
B ----------------|-----------------|
G ----------------|-----------------|
D ----------------|-----------------|
A ------------2--2|-----------------|
E 0--0--4--4------|0----------------|
verse 1
F#m7
I read a lot nowadays
G#m7
Much more than before you left me
A Am
High and dry in a loveless land
E A E RIFF1
With nothing but time on my hands
verse 2
F#m7 F#m/C#
I read a lot not just maga-zines
G#m7 G#m/Eb
But other more serious things
A Am
To get me through the day night-time too
E A E
Whilst wondering how in the world to go on with-out you
Refrain
Bm A D A
Lonely isn't the word for me now
D A G E
Blue doesn't desc-ribe it somehow
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F#m7 F#m/C# G#m7 G#m/Eb A Am E2 A
Blue 's not the word for me now
E A E A E A E A E A E
verse 3
F#m7 F#m/C#
I read a lot I can't put it down
G#m7 G#m/Eb
While others are painting the town
A Am
You'll find me in a world of fantas-y
E A E2 E
Popul-ation one that's me
out
Bm
So if you ask me how I stop
C7
Contemplating what I now have not
F#m7
I'll rep-ly
E
I read a lot