The Psychedelic Furs Pretty In Pink (ver 3) chords

Pretty In Pink (ver 3) by The Psychedelic Furs

Pretty in Pink          Psychedelic Furs


Previous versions of the chords for this brilliant song have the verse as D C G A, which is fine 
if you have a bass player to turn your G into Em7 for the first half of the measure by thumping out 
the E bass and then walking up to the G, or to add in the C natural bass into the A for the second 
half of the measure. I play unaccompanied, so I play the full chords with the bass notes. If you 
have any doubt about them, check out the bass tabs, and listen to the original to hear those 
changes: the C natural is especially satisfying: you can play an A major with a C bass, but for 
unaccompanied guitar, I prefer a full C major, which is what I've written in here! 


Verse notes:
Counting individual beats, the verse changes go:
1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4
D                       C 
1  2  3  1  2  3  1  2  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4
Em7      Em7/F#   G     A           C

The Em chords sound best if it's only the bass playing E, so I use:
Em7 0-2-0-0-0-3


Chorus notes:
On the chorus, I also play the solo together with the rhythm guitar, so the chords I've written 
reflect the added F# E and G notes. Counting individual beats, the changes go 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2, so:
 1   2   3    1   2   3    1   2    1   2   3    1   2   3    1   2  
EaddF#        E           EaddF#   F#addG        F#          F#addE
 1   2   3    1   2   3    1   2    1   2   3    1   2   3    1   2  
GaddF#       GaddE        GaddF#   F#addG        F#          F#addE

Chorus chords are:
EaddF#  x-x-2-1-0-2
E       x-x-2-1-0-0
EaddF#  x-x-2-1-0-2
F#addG  x-x-4-3-2-3 
F#      x-x-4-3-2-2 
F#addE  x-x-4-3-2-0
GaddF#  x-x-5-0-0-2
GaddE   x-x-5-0-0-0
GaddF#  x-x-5-0-0-2

For the F# chords, reach your little finger over for the 4th fret on D string(barre the E and B 
strings))I only hit all four strings (including the high E string) on the first beat of the change 
of chord, and strum the other three strings throughout, so there's a nice separation of the riff 
from the rhythm.


Intro notes:
I don't get the B bass into the intro/main riff, but the chord shapes I use work nicely, and are 
as follows (in sequence):
D5 x-x-0-2-3-5
E5 x-x-x-4-5-7
D5 x-x-x-2-3-5
G  3-2-0-0-0-3
A  x-0-2-2-2-0

1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4 
D5          D5          D5       E5    D5    G   
1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4  1  2  3  4
                     A                       D5 (repeat)


 D                         C    
Caroline laughs and it's raining all day
     Em7        Em7/F#    G       A    C        
She loves to be one   of the girls
     D                         C        
She lives in the place in the side of our lives
       Em7       Em7/F#  G     A     C  
Where nothing is  ever  put straight
      D                           C     
She turns herself round and she smiles and she says 
        Em7           Em7/F#   G    A     C     
"This is it that's the end of the joke"
     D                      C   
And loses herself in her dreaming and sleep
        Em7          Em7/F#      G     A        
And her lovers walk through in their coats. She's


EaddF#   E    EaddF#  F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Pretty in pink.
GaddF# GaddE GaddF#F# F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Isn't  she--ee 
EaddF#   E    EaddF#  F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Pretty in pink?
GaddF# GaddE GaddF#F# F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Isn't  she?

D                      C        
All of her lovers all talk of her notes
         Em7         Em7/F#    G     A    C     
And the flowers that they never sent
     D             C    Em7 Em7/F# G    
And wasn't she ee--ea--sy
     A          C         D
And isn't she pretty in pink
     C                     Em7          Em7/F#  
The one who insists he was first in the line
    G   A         C           D
Is the last to remember her name
      C                      Em7           Em7/F#  
He's walking around in this dress that she wore
      G          A    
She is gone but the joke's the same


EaddF#   E    EaddF#  F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Pretty in pink.
GaddF# GaddE GaddF#F# F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Isn't  she--ee 
EaddF#   E    EaddF#  F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Pretty in pink?
GaddF# GaddE GaddF#F# F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Isn't  she?

Interlude and solo: D D G A (repeatedly)

 D                     C        
Caroline talks to you softly sometimes
     Em7         Em7/F#    G     A    C 
She says, "I love you, and too much."
     D                       C  
She doesn't have anything you want to steal
Em7 Em7/F# G  A       C            D
Well,        nothing you can touch.
C         Em7 Em7/F# G       A             C    
 She waves...           she buttons your shirt.
      D                    C    
The traffic is waiting outside
                    Em7 
She hands you this coat
     Em7/F#    G      A         
She gives you her clothes, these cars collide

        Chorus x 2

EaddF#   E    EaddF#  F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Pretty in pink.
GaddF# GaddE GaddF#F# F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Isn't  she--ee 
EaddF#   E    EaddF#  F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Pretty in pink?
GaddF# GaddE GaddF#F# F#addG  F# F#addE
                       Isn't  she?

D D G A (repeat)