A Rush and a Push Chords
by The Smiths
A Rush and a Push by The Smiths is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm, Bb and Eb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
This piano song that opens up -Strangeways, Here We Come- is quite simple.
It is only three chords really. The intro can be played this way:
(Dm Bb)
E ---1---1---1---1-----------------||
B ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-||
G ---2---2---2---2---3---3---3---3-||
D -0-------0---3-----3---3---3---3-||
A -----0-----------1-------1---3---||
E ---------------------1-----------||
That is basically how the piano plays the intro and possibly the rest of
the song. The lyrics without chords on top just go from Dm to Bb:
HELLO
i am the ghost of troubled joe hung by his pretty white neck
some eighteen months ago
i travelled to a mystical time zone but i missed my bed
so i soon came home, they said:
there is too much caffeine in your blood stream
and a lack of real spice in your life
i said:
leave me alone, because i~m alright, dad
just surprised to be on my own...
Eb Dm
ooh, but don~t mention love
Eb Dm
i~d hate the strain of the pain again
a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours
it has been before so i shall be again
and people who are uglier than you and i
they take what they need and leave
Eb Dm
ooh, but don~t mention love
Eb Dm
i~d hate the pain of the strain all over again
a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours
it has been before so why can~t it be now?
and people who are weaker than you and i
they take what they want from life
Eb Dm
ooh, but don~t mention love
Eb Dm
no, no- don~t mention love
a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours
your youth may be gone but you~re still a young man
so phone me, phone me, phone me
phone me, phone me, phone me
Eb Dm
ooh, i think i~m in love...