Romeo and Juliet
Dire Straits
Note: The Fingerpicked guitar in the recording is in the key of F, using open C tuning and capo’d 3rd fret. This arrangement is for standard tuning, in the key of G.
Intro: / G - - D / C - - D / x4
Verse 1:
G Em (3 beats) D (1 beat)
A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
G Em (2 beats) C (2 beats)
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
D (3 ½ beats) C (1/2 beat) D (2 beats) G (2 beats)
Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade
C D
Says something like you and me babe, how about it?
G (3 beats) D (1 beat) Em (3 beats) D (1 beat)
Juliet says hey it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack
G (3 beats) D (1 beat) Em (2 beats) C (2 beats)
He's underneath the window, she's singing hey la my boyfriend’s back
D (3 ½ beats) C (1/2 beat) D (2 beats) G (2 beats)
you shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that
C D
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?
Chorus 1:
G D Em D C D
D D D U D D D U D D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
Juliet the dice was loaded from the start and I
G D Em D C D
D D D U D D D U D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
bet, and you exploded into my heart. And I
G C Em C
D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
forget, I forget, the movie song
Am C Em D
D D D U D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Intro Progression x2
G (3 beats) D (1 beat) Em (3 beats) D (1 beat)
Come up on different streets, they both the streets of shame
G (3 beats) D (1 beat) Em (2 beats) C (2 beats)
Both dirty both mean, yes and the dreams just the same
D (3 ½ beats) C (1/2 beat) D (2 beats) G (2 beats)
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
C D
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
G (3 beats) D (1 beat) Em (3 beats) D (1 beat)
Well you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold.
G (3 beats) D (1 beat) Em (2 beats) C (2 beats)
you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
D (3 ½ beats) C (1/2 beat) D (2 beats) G (2 beats)
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin yeah
C (8th note downstrokes, crescendo) D (continue 8th note downstrokes, crescendo)
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him
Chorus 2:
G D Em D C D
D D D U D D D U D D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
Juliet when we made love you used to cry
G D Em D C D
D D D U D D D U D D D D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
you said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die There's a
G C Em C
D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
place for us, you know the movie song
Am C Em D
D D D U D D D U D D D U D D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?
Intro Progression x2
Verse 3:
G Em (3 beats) D (1 beat)
I can't do the talk, like they talk on the TV
G Em (2 beats) C (2 beats)
I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be.
D (3 ½ beats) C (1/2 beat) D (2 beats) G (2 beats)
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you.
C D
I can't do anything ‘cept be in love with you.
G Em
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
G Em C
All I do is keep the beat--bad company
D (3 ½ beats) C (1/2 beat) D (2 beats) G (2 beats)
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
C (8th note downstrokes, crescendo) D (continue 8th note downstrokes, crescendo
Julie I'd do the stars with you anytime.
Chorus 2
Repeat intro total of 4x
Repeat first stanza of Verse 1
/ C - - - / D - - - / repeat, end on cue