Silhouettes:The Diamonds.
#10 on MERCURY Records in 1957.
INTRO:
G C D
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, hut-hut..
G C D
ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, hut-hut..
#1.
G C
Took a walk and passed your house..
D G
(late last night.)
G C
All the shades were pulled and drawn..
D G
(way down tight.)
G C D
From within, a dim light cast two silhouettes
G C D
on the shade..oh, what a lovely couple they ma-ade.
#2.
G C
Put his arms around your waist..
D G
(held you tight.)
G C
Kisses I could almost taste..
D G
(in the night.)
G C D
Wonder why I'm not the guy, whose silhouette's
G C D
on the shade..I couldn't hide, the tears in my eye-eyes.
(BRIDGE:)
G
Silhouettes (silhouettes)..silhouettes (silhouettes)..
C D
silhouettes (silhouettes)..ty-oh.
G
Silhouettes (silhouettes)..silhouettes (silhouettes)..
C D
silhouettes (silhouettes)..ty-oh.
(INTERLUDE:) G C G D
#3.
G C
Lost control and rang your bell..
D G
(I was sore.)
G C
Let me in or else I'll beat..
D G
(down your door.)
G C D
When two strangers who had been two silhouettes
G C
on the shade..said to my shock, you're on the wrong
D D# C# D#
blo-ock.
#4.
G# C#
Rushed down to your house with wings..
D# G#
(on my feet.)
G# C#
Loved you like I never loved..
D# G#
(you my sweet.)
G# C# D#
Vowed that you and I, would be two silhouettes on
G# C# D#
the shade..all of our days, two silhouettes on the sha-ade.
OUTRO:
G#
Silhouettes (silhouettes)..silhouettes (silhouettes)..
C# D#
silhouettes (silhouettes)..ty-oh.
G#
Silhouettes (silhouettes)..silhouettes (silhouettes)..
C# D#
silhouettes (silhouettes)..ty-oh.
G# C# G#
Two silhouettes....on the....shade...two silhouettes!
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.