Panic Chords
by The Smiths
Panic by The Smiths is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords C, D, Bb, F, G, Em and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C D Bb F
G Em
Panic on the streets of London
G Em
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
C D Bb F
I wonder to myself
G Em
Could life ever be sane again
G Em
On the Leeds side streets that you slip down
C D Bb F
I wonder to myself.
G Em
Hope's may rise under Grasmeres
G Em
But honeypie, you're not safe here
C
So you run down
D Bb F
To the safety of the town.
G Em
But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle,
G Em
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
C D
I wonder to myself.
Bb F Em Bm D
Bb F Em Bm D
G Em
Burn down the disco,
G Em
Hang the blessed D.J.,
C D
Because the music that they constantly play,
G Em
It says nothing to me about my life,
G Em
Hang the blessed D.J.,
C D Bb F
Because the music that they constantly play,
G Em
On the Leeds side streets that you slip down,
G Em
On the provincial towns you jog round,
C D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
C D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
C D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
Bb F G Em
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J.,
G Em
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J.,
C D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
Bb F G Em
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J.,