Rambling Through The Avenues Of Time Chords & Tabs
Rambling Through The Avenues Of Time Chords
First of all I'd like to say that this is 100% correct, and I'm sure of it because I
the chords which are conveniently listed with the lyrics in the cd jacket-book-thingy. I'm
putting the two together and posting them online.(but I might spell something wrong, so lookout!)
[things in brackets [] are things jemaine says]
This is how I play the chords:
D D/C# D/B D/A G G/F#
A
e - - - - 3 (3) 0 5
B 7 7 7 7 3 (3) 0 5
G 7 7 7 7 4 4 0 6
D 7 7 7 7 5 5 2 7
A 5 4 - (5) 5 5 2 7
E - - 7 5 3 2 0 5
D D/C# D/B D/A
I was wandering through the streets of the city
G G/F# Em A
Rambling through the avenues of time
D D/C# D/B D/A
When from nowhere my eyes fell onto a girl
G G/F# Em A
And by chance her eyes fell onto mine
D D/C# D/B D/A
So I sat and I acted all nonchalant
G G/F# Em A
She smoked her lavender cigarette
D D/C# D/B D/A
Reading the future that lay in my hands
G G/F# Em(strum once, let ring)
My shadow played a bass clarinet
(Bass clarinet plays, no guitar)
[Where are you going with this, Bret?]
D D/C# D/B D/A
We waltzed down a moonlight boulevard
G G/F# Em A
Just two silhouettes in the mist
[Ah, yes?]
D D/C# D/B D/A
Days went by and years went by
G G/F# Em A
Moments went by when we kissed
[When was this?]
D D/C# D/B D/A
She said, "You beard is woven of heartache
G G/F# Em A
And we'll drink for the lonely tonight."
D D/C# D/B D/A
And the moon is a horny old drunkard
G G/F# Em A
[Ah, Bret. Could you please move over to your right?]
(There is no guitar in this next part, but I'm sure you've figured out the pattern by
if you wanna play along anyway)
We drank dandelion wine and we reminisced
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/flight_of_the_conchords/rambling_through_the_avenues_of_time_crd_ver_2.html ]
About the moment when we first met that day
[I'm trying to watch TV]
Then we reminisced about how we first reminisced
[Ah yeah. Sounds a bit gay]
She handed me a broken memory
A keepsake to forevermore say
That brief taste of love is as sweet as any
And with that, she made her way
[Oh yeah. What was her name?]
D D/C# D/B D/A
She said her name was a secret
G G/F# Em A
Then she said her name was Cherie
D D/C# D/B D/A
[Is her middle name Cherie, so it's a Secret Cherie, maybe?]
G G/F# Em A
Mm.. Maybe
[What did she look like?]
D D/C# D/B D/A
She looked like a Parisian river
[What, dirty?]
G G/F# Em A
She looked like a chocolate éclair
[That's rare]
D D/C# D/B D/A
Her eyes were reflections of eyes
[Oh, nice]
G G/F# Em A
And the rainbows danced in her hair
[Oh yeah..]
D D/C# D/B D/A
She reminded me of a winter's morning
[What, frigid?]
G G/F# Em A
Her perfume was eau de toilette
[What's that mean?]
D D/C# D/B D/A
She was comparable to Cleopatra
[Quite old?]
G G/F# Em A
She was like Shakespeare's Juliet
[Thirteen?!]
D D/C# D/B D/A
The bohemians of Soho did pirouettes
G G/F# Em A
As we waltzed through the streets of Manhattan
D D/C# D/B D/A
On rivers of ribbon and sailboats of song
G G/F# Em A
[Bret, did any of this actually happen?]
(guitar drops out here, but I left the bass notes incase you wanna throw them down)
D C# B A
The girl I described, she's as real as the wind
G F# E
It's true I saw her today
A D C# B A
The other details are inventions
G F# E~
Because I prefer her that way
