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No Strange Delight – Roxy Music
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Written by: Bryan Ferry/Phil Manzanera
From: "Flesh + Blood" (1980)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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INTERLUDE (bass)
[no chord]
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|----------------|----------------|
D|7-6-5-----------|----------------|
A|--------7-6-5---|----------------|
E|----------------|5-4-3---5-4-3---|
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-E
A5 x-0-2-2-x-0
Asus4add13 x-0-2-2-3-2
Amadd9 x-0-2-4-1-0
Asus4 x-0-2-2-3-0
Asus2 x-0-2-2-0-0
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INTRO
(drum box)
| [no chord] | % | % |2/4 % |
| [no chord] | % |
(bass)
| A(m) | % | % | % |
| A(m) | % |
VERSE
Am F
So there goes your life
D A5 [ A ]
Disappeared from ever loving friends
Am F
And now a slave to obsession
D A5 [ A ]
Your strange delight
INTERLUDE (see above)
| [no chord] | % | % | % |
CHORUS
Am
You lie awake
Asus4add13
How your senses ache
Am
Shaking off the night
Asus4add13 [ Am ]
Is there more strange delight?
VERSE
Am F
There goes your self
D A5 (A)
In the clear forever out of line
Am F
And there you'll stay through obsession
D A5 [ Am ]
Your strange delight
INTERLUDE (see above)
| [no chord] | % | % | % |
CHORUS
Am
Can't bear this heat
Asus4add13
Your poor heart skips a beat
Am
Tearing back the years
Asus4add13 [ Am ]
To when you really cared
VERSE
Am F
So where's your soul?
D A5 [ A ]
In the field where every story ends
Am F
And then how plain your obsession
D A
Your strange delight
INTERLUDE (see above)
| [no chord] | % | % | % |
CHORUS
Am
So this is hell
Asus4add13
Not so hard to tell
Amadd9
Better men than I
Asus4add13 [ Am ]
Have tried your strange delight
OUTRO
| Asus4 Am | Asus2 Am | G/A | % |
| Am | % |
Am [ Am ]
Is there no strange delight?
| Am | % | G/A | % |
| Am | % | G/A | % |
Repeat (chords become increasingly unimportant and
the atmosphere rather psychedelic). End on Am.