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Contact In Red Square

Blondie

RockAdvanced for beginners8 chords

How to play it

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

G
D××
Em
F
C×
BbDiagram coming soon
CmDiagram coming soon
AbDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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capo II 
intro James Bond theme:  |: 52 10 52 53 10 53 54 10 54 53 53 10 53 :| D 
(52=A string, second fret etc.) 
 
              G             D 
Although I'm young I got a job to do. 
         Em               F     C      G 
Hid the microfilm in the lining of my shoe. 
           D 
Call it a business trip. 
        Em              F                 C    G  Bb  G Bb 
Got to hide inside my trenchcoat and be clever. 
 
          G            D 
I got my papers and a cyanide pill. 
    Em           F    C      G 
My polaroid's a taser in disguise. 
           D                          Em                     F     C     G       Bb   Bb 
There's a base-in-the-hills, and the wheat fields look like Kansas in November. 
 
    Cm           Ab            Bb        F 
Astrovia, sweet comrade, your nation is your gun. 
      Ab                   Bb             Cm       Cm 
Your love reads like the broken code you sent me. 
Cm               Ab                Bb             F 
One last contact in red square, unless I have to run 
         Ab              Bb        Cm       Cm       G       D 
and the long arms of the K.G.B. detect me. 
 
               G            D 
Can't trust a soul, secret messenger,  
          Em                  F       C         G 
just the rules that lie like circuits in your brain  
       D 
and a cool .45. 
     Em              F      C             G     Bb    G   Bb 
The wind is ice and foreign air tastes strange. 
 
  Cm              Ab 
I.C.B.M.*  Bang! Bang! You're dead! 
Bb              F 
No one left to worry. 
Ab              Bb            Cm   Cm 
Kiss me quick, now I have to hurry. 
Cm               Ab                Bb             F  
Our last contact in red square, unless I have to run  
         Ab              Bb        Cm    Cm 
and the long arms of the C.I.A. detect me. 
 
G  Bb  G  Bb  G  Bb  G  Bb  F  G  Hey!  
G  Bb  F  G  Hey!  G  Hey! G  (F) G 
 
        *Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 
          
 

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Chord set

G · D · Em · F · C · Bb · Cm · Ab

Practice tip

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