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Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Title: God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Words & music: Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin

Transcribed by: Richard Cornish (rcornish@uiuc.edu)

Tune guitar to D-flat ( Db Ab Db F Ab Db )

Chords (shapes relative to tuning)Please see Richards notes (footnote)

E  : 000000
G  : 3x3300
F# : 2x2200
F  : 1x1100
C  : 8x8800
A  : 5x5500

Intro
(Note that the F# carries over into half of the next beat...the F chord 
occupies the rest of the beat but this is for only the first time...this 
pattern of alternative continues through the entire song)

E, G, F#, F
E, G, F#, F

Verse
E,          G,             F#,    F
Where do we go? Nobody knows.
E,          G,              F#,      F
I've got to say I'm on my way down.
E,           G,                F#,     F
God, give me style and give me grace.
E,        G,                F#,    F
God put a smile upon my face.

After-Verse
E, G, F#, F
E, G, F#, F

Verse
E,          G,                F#,    F
Where do we go to draw the line?
E,          G,           F#,      F
I've got to say I wasted all your time, but honey, honey.
E,         G,              F#,       F
Where do I go to fall from grace?
E,        G,              F#,    F
God put a smile upon your face, yeah.

Chorus
C,           C,               G,         A
Now when you work it out, I'm worse than you.
C,             C,             G,     A
Yeah, when you work it out, I wanted to.
C,          C,                G,       A
Now when we work out where to draw the line 
C,         C,    G,      A
Your guess is as good as mine.

After-Chorus
E, G, F#, F
E, G, F#, F

Verse
E,          G,             F#,    F
Where do we go? Nobody knows.
E,         G,                    F#,    F
Don't ever say you're on your way down, well.
E,           G,                 F#,     F
God gave you style and gave you grace
E,        G,              F#,       F
And put a smile upon your face, oh, yeah.

Chorus
C,           C,               G,         A
Now when you work it out, I'm worse than you.
C,             C,             G,     A
Yeah, when you work it out, I wanted to.
C,          C,                G,       A
Now when we work out where to draw the line 
C,         C,    G,      A
Your guess is as good as mine.

After-Chorus     E, G, F#, F

It's as good as mine.
It's as good as mine.
It's as good as mine, no, no, no, no...
It's as good as...

Chorus     C, C, G, A

Miiiine...
It's as good as mine.
It's as good as mine.
It's as good as mine.
It's as good as mine.

Verse
E,          G,           F#,    F
Where do we go? Nobody knows.      
E,         G,                 F#,      F
Don't ever say you're on your way down when
E,           G,                 F#,     F
God gave you style and gave you grace
E,        G,              F#,    F
And put a smile upon your face.

Footnote:
I thought to tab it myself...and what a struggle, but I got it 
I am 99% sure. If you play guitar, let me know if this sounds good. This 
guitar tab is tabbed from MTV2's Coldplay concert. 
I noticed the opening chord is all open, and it sounds really good. 
Usually if its all open, its an open E chord. 
That looks like (from low to high), 022100 for an open E chord, 
but you tune all the strings that are fretted to be higher and thus 
creating an all open string position as an E chord without holding 
and strings down, so your tuning for an open E tuning is E B E D# B E. 
So I tried for a long time with this open E and it sounded kinda like it, 
but not quite. I tried fooling with my capo, barring all the frets, 
and thus creating a whole different open chord with each movement. 
I still couldnt figure it out until I saw their secondguitarist picking 
the 6th fret on the 4th string (on a standard tuning Im guessing) 
and it sounded like it worked with the song. That note is a D flat and 
then I thought to tune all of the strings down to an open D flat tuning,
so in other words, tune your guitar to an open E tuning and then lower all of 
them by 3 half steps (frets). Its a bit confusing, but the tuning is 
(b = flat): Db Ab Db F A D. 
And the tuning sounds exact! When watching Chris play the song live, 
he seems to use his thumb on the base notes and neglect the 2nd string, 
but as long as the chord arrangements are approxmiate. Also, I'm going 
to refer to the chord names as if it was an open E tuning, so the bass 
notes would remain the same. For example, even though an all open arrangement 
of strings is a D flat, I'll refer to it as an E, just because its easier 
in someone's mind that a chord starting with an open note on the 6th 
string is an E chord. I hope you're still with me. 


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