Fire Engine Red Chords
Fire Engine Red by Robert Francis is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, D, G, Bm and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
C D
G Bm
C
C D
Tryin' to get her to stay home
G
was worst than pulling a sword from the stone
Bm
I'm sweating bullets in Palos Verdes
C
Please, don't leave me on my own
C D
I wanted her to be my wife
G
I wanted her to want that life
Bm
It ended the same way it started
C
Behind the door, holding that knife
C C Am
While I'm happy, I was wrong and mislead
C D G
She took me to your lipstick fire engine red
C D
You were brighter than a neon sea
G
of signs that say "no vacancy"
Bm
The few brave men you've let check in
C
still brag about the times they've been
C D
Over the limit, drunk on wine
G
Below the Mason Dixon line
Bm
I promised that I'd start to pray
C
if the police looked the other way
C C Am
And I didn't go to jail, wind up dead
C D G
I prayed each night for your lips fire engine red
C D
They said: "You cannot clear a jump that wide
G
A stunt like that is suicide"
Bm
But when I got the courage to
C
I spent the night alone with you
C D
I think I'm the luckiest guy
G
I used to be too numb to cry
Bm
I don't know how I timed this right
C
You're just the prettiest sight
C C Am
In the movies people change when they bled
C D G
Inside my veins your lipstick's fire engine red
C D
I must admit I'm insecure
G
That's what all those women were for
Bm
I don't wanna be who I am
C
If nobody else gives a damn
C D
We've been together 'bout a year
G
I can't say that don't bring me fear
Bm
I'm scared to come home every night
C
I'm scared to keep the checkbook tight
C C Am
Renting movies in your room, in your bed
C D G
You kissed my cheek, with lipstick fire engine red
C D
You always wear the same perfume
G
It reminds you of the hotel room
Bm
The one in which I swore I knew
C
I'd spent the rest (of) my life with you
C D
But I tell you "you should take it off
G
I don't wanna smell like that stuff"
Bm
Sometimes my heart it gets so dark
C
You sit and watch it fall apart
C C Am
Run a needle through what's left, tie the thread
C D G
Don't let me leave your lipstick fire engine red
C D
What's two people supposed to do
G
When restlessness gets hold of you
Bm
I'm drowning in my drinking cup
C
I can't, I will not give you up
C D
But if flowers never stay and bloom
G
I'd do we in a one bed room
Bm
We're both victims to our fear
C
I'll be a man and hold you near
C C Am
If you leave me, you'll survive in my head
C D G
I won't forget your lipstick's fire engine red