To Alaska With Love Chords

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To Alaska With Love by Suzzy Roche is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, Bb, G, E7 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
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verse 1 
F 
She tried to push him away  
                C 
With a ten foot pole 
         Bb                    C 
Saying, "I'm just a crusty old doughnut 
            F 
Without any hole" 

Weary and bewildered bachelor  
             C 
How could he know 
Bb                         C 
She'd move her suitcase to his place  
  F 
A year ago 


verse 2 
G 
There he stood in the doorway  
           C 
No clothes wearing 
G 
Asking permission to give all his  
C 
Love and his caring 

Love and care 


verse 3 

Theirs is a real thing 
              F 
A dish in the sink 
             C 
A dog in the stairwell 
         F 
Making a stink 
           E7   F 
They got a true love 
G           F        C   F  C 
So real you can feel it 


verse 4 
    F 
For Christmas he gave her 
                  C 
A silver and gold Jewish star 
   Bb                   C 
He put it on top of the tree 
                     F 
And said, "There you are" 

She giggled and cried  
                              C 
And rolled on the living room floor 
    Bb                    C 
And laughed at all of his jokes 
                    F 
So he told her some more 


Verse 5 
G 
There he stood in the doorway 
             C 
Crumpled and daring 
G 
Asking permission to give all his  
             C 
Love and his caring 

Love and care 


Verse 6 

Theirs is a real thing 
                F 
A working man's shoe 
                    C 
Worn through at the sole 
           F 
As good as new 
           E7   F 
They got a true love 
G           F        C   F  C 
So real you can feel it 


Bridge 
D                                                   Bb 
Five o'clock by the window pane, watching the rain 
      F       C     D   
New York city blues 
                                                      Bb 
Oh, the rain's coming down hard, it's dark out there  
               F            C 
You gotta have something to do 


Verse 7 
   F                                           C 
So one day she said, "I must go to Alaska this winter" 
   Bb                    C 
He yelled and kicked the table 
              G 
His toe got a splinter 
F                                           C 
Still he escorted her up to the gate at the airport 
         Bb                    C                         F 
Saying, "Damn it, I don't understand what you have to go there for" 


Verse 8 
G 
Calendar pages were flipping 
               C 
He stayed home waiting 
         G 
Saying, "Oh, this woman I love is  
       C F C F C 
So irritating" 


Verse 9 

Theirs is a real thing 
               F 
A welcome home kiss 
                 C 
The smell of his whiskers  
             F 
That she did miss 
           E7   F 
They got a true love 
G           F        C  
So real you can feel it 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante