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Yellow

Boyce Avenue

RockAdvanced for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

BDiagram coming soon
Bsus4Diagram coming soon
F#Diagram coming soon
E○○○
A×○○

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: B Bsus4 B Bsus4       B Bsus4   F#   E   B 
 
B 
Look at the stars 
                        F# 
Look how they shine for you 
                   E 
And everything you do 
                          B 
Yeah, they were all yellow 
 
 
I came along 
                   F# 
I wrote a song for you 
                       E 
And all the things you do 
                      B     Bsus4 
And it was called Yellow 
                   F# 
So then I took my turn 
                         E 
Oh what a thing to have done 
                     B  Bsus4 
And it was all Yellow 
 
 
E       B 
Your skin 
              F# 
Oh yeah, your skin and bones 
E      B         F# 
Turn into something beautiful 
E 
You know 
B           F#          E 
You know I love you so   
                        B Bsus4   F#    E    B Bsus4 
You know I love you so 
 
B           
I swam across 
                    F# 
I jumped across for you 
                   E 
Oh what a thing to do 
                        B 
'Cos you were all yellow 
  
I drew a line 
                  F# 
I drew a line for you 
                   E 
Oh what a thing to do 
                     B  Bsus4 
And it was all yellow 
 
 
E       B 
Your skin 
             F# 
Oh yeah your skin and bones 
E      B         F#         
Turn into something beautiful 
E 
You know 
B             F#              E 
For you I'd bleed myself dry 
                              B Bsus4   F#    E    B Bsus4 
For you I'd bleed myself dry 
 
     B   Bsus4                     F# 
It's true, look how they shine for you 
                        E 
Look how they shine for you 
                      B      Bsus4 
Look how they shine for... 
                         F# 
Look how they shine for you 
                         E 
Look how they shine for you 
 
Look how they shine... 
 
B 
Look at the stars 
                        A 
Look how they shine for you 
                            E 
And all the things that you do

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Chord set

B · Bsus4 · F# · E · A

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.