Rescue Blues Chords

KeyC Capo6st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays474

Rescue Blues by Ryan Adams is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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 Capo first fret 
(C) (F) (C) (F) 
(C) Everybody wants you to be special (F) 
(C) Everybody wants you to be high (F) 
(F) They throw down a (G) rope when you?re in (Am) trouble (G) baby 
(Am) Screaming (G) save me 
(F) Then they charge you with the rescue blues 
(C) (F) (C) (F) 
(C) Everybody wants to see you suffer (F) 
(C) They know that you need the pain so much (F) 
(F) They throw you up a (G) rope when you?re too high to (Am) cruise (G) baby 
(Am) Lord you lose (G) lady 
(F) Then they charge you with the rescue blues 
(C) (F) (C) (F) 
(G) Everybody (F) wants to see you fall (C) 
(G) That?s why they always (F) love to get you high (C) 
(G) Everybody knows (F) you need the (Am) pain so much lady (G) 
(Am) Keep in touch (G) baby 
(F) Just don?t charge me with your rescue blues 
(C) (F) (C) (F) 
 
Rescue Blues 
Ryan Adams 
Capo sixth fret 
(G) (C) (G) (C) 
(G) Everybody wants you to be special (C) 
(G) Everybody wants you to be high (C) 
(C) They throw down a (D) rope when you?re in (Em) trouble (D) baby 
(Em) Screaming (D) save me 
(C) Then they charge you with the rescue blues 
(G) (C) (G) (C) 
(G) Everybody wants to see you suffer (C) 
(G) They know that you need the pain so much (C) 
(C) They throw you up a (D) rope when you?re too high to (Em) cruise (D) baby 
(Em) Lord you lose (D) lady 
(C) Then they charge you with the rescue blues 
(G) (C) (G) (C) 
(D) Everybody (C) wants to see you fall (G) 
(D) That?s why they always (C) love to get you high (G) 
(D) Everybody knows (C) you need the (Em) pain so much lady (D) 
(Em) Keep in touch (D) baby 
(C) Just don?t charge me with your rescue blues 
(G) (C) (G) (C) 
 
using the  position, here is the main riff, though it changes a lot this is the idea throughout  
e------------------------------------------ 
b------------------------------------------ 
g------0-2h4-2-0--------0-2h4-0h2-0---- 
d-0h2-------------0h2---------------- 
a------------------------------------------ 
e------------------------------------------ 
 

    	

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