Between a Laugh and a Tear John Mellencamp
The versions online are either taken from the "Rough Harvest" version or are just
wrong in general.
Between A Laugh And A Tear
Scarecrow (1985)
Intro-
[C#] [A] [G#] [B] [F#] [C#] [B]
Riff #1
[G-] [9] [11] [9]
[D-7/11] [11] [9]
Verse-played as regular chords and doubled with a muted guitar
Asus2 (x02200) E C#m Bsus2 (x24400)
[Asus2]With paradise no longer fit for you to[E] live in
[C#m]Your adolescent [Bsus2]dreams are gone
[Asus2]Through the days you feel a little u[E]sed up
[C#m]Don't know where your energy[Bsus2]'s gone wrong
[Asus2]Just your soul feeling a little[E] downhearted
[C#m]Sometimes life is too ridiculou[Bsus2]s to live
[Asus2]Count your friends all on one [E]finger
C#m Bsus2 (x24422)
I know it sounds crazy, it's just the way that we live
...until the "energy's gone wrong" line and then the muted turns into
Riff #2
E-0 0 x x x x x x
B-0 0 5 5 5 5 4 4
[G-2] [2] [4] [4] [6] [6] [4] [4]
D---------------- A---------------- E----------------
End with an x24422 with the "we live"/"swing past" lines
Chorus-
Between a [Asus2]laugh and a [E]tear
[C#m]Smile in the mirror as [Bsus2]you walk by
Between a [Asus2]laugh and a [E]tear
That's as [C#m]good as it gets for us but that [Bsus2]ain't no reason to stop tryin[Asus2]g
The "solo" is played as...
[G-] [9] [11] [9]
[D-7/11] [11] [9]
x3/Then....
[G-] [9] [11] [9] [9] [11] [9] [9] [11b12] [11] [9] [11]
[D-7/11] [7/11] [7/11]
Hope that's clear enough. Questions or comments-BlindTerry333@gmail.com
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