What Blue Chords
What Blue by The Tragically Hip is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords Gadd9, G, C, G6, D, Bm and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
Gadd9 G C G6
e|---5--5----3-----3-----|----------------------|
B|---3--3----3---3---3---|---5--5----3----3-----|
G|---0--0----0-----------|---0--0----0--0---0---|
D|-----------------------|----------------------| x2
A|-----------------------|----------------------|
E|-----------------------|----------------------|
verse 1
Gadd9 G C G6
Ah, it's what love looks like, in a world of reproach
Gadd9 G C G6
Completely absorbed in that too
Gadd9 G C G6
Exciting over fair, always and daily forward
Gadd9 G C G6
Always the power to choose
C D Bm C
In your eyes, what love looks like
C D Em
It's still the longest thing that I do
C D Bm C
In your eyes, the useless nights
C D G
And all the dreary places but what blue
-- repeat intro --
verse 2
Gadd9 G C G6
Oh, I was always too uneasy, too for solitude
Gadd9 G C G6
Too into all the things you can do
Gadd9 G C G6
To come into the open, to come into the light
Gadd9 G C G6
Forward, daily forward for what blue
C D Bm C
In your eyes, what our love looks like
C D Em
It's the longest thing that we do
C D Bm C
In your eyes, all of our dark doors
C D G
Our disenchanted paths but what blue
Solo
verse 3
Gadd9 G C G6
I love you so much, it distorts my life
Gadd9 G C G6
What drove and drives you drove and drives me too
Gadd9 G C G6
When I think I'm clear, I think I'm doing fine
Gadd9 G C G6
Completely absorbed in what blue
C D Bm C
In your eyes, it's what love looks like
C D Em
It's the longest thing that we do
C D Bm C
In your eyes, all the useless nights
C D G C G6
And all the dreary places and what blue
Gadd9 G