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Ticket To Ride Chords by The Carpenters

Ticket To Ride chords by The Carpenters

Guitar chords with lyrics

  • Capo on 1st
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


ADVICE: this is how John Carpenter did arrange it and did write it down (Capo 1)

Intro:
A/E        E           E  E7/G#    A
D/F#       E/G# E E/D  A/C#        D
D#dim7 G#7 C#m         C#7-9       D    D#dim7
A/E        A/E

Verse 1:
  A                     A                   A            A
I think I'm going to be sad, I think it's today, yeah,
    A11                   A            Bm/A      E
the boy that's driving me mad is going   away
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Chorus:
F#m                  Dmaj7 F#m                  Bm7    C#m7    Dmaj7
He's got a ticket to ride, he's got a ticket to ride,
A/E                  E11               Amaj7/E      E11     Amaj7/E      E11
he's got a ticket to ride and he don't care

Verse 2:
   A                     A                   A            A
He said that living with me was bringing him down, yeah
A11               A                Bm/A      E
He would never be free when I was around

Chorus:
F#m                  Dmaj7 F#m                  Bm7    C#m7    Dmaj7
He's got a ticket to ride, he's got a ticket to ride,
A/E                  E11               A        A
he's got a ticket to ride and he don't care

Bridge:
D7                            D7                D7                                E
Don't know why he's riding so high, he ought to do right, he ought to do right by me
  D7                         D7               D7                    F#m         B7       F#m
before he gets to saying goodbye, he ought to do right, he ought to do right by me

Verse 1: (Reprise)
  A                     A                   A            A
I think I'm going to be sad, I think it's today, yeah,
    A11                   A            Bm/A      E
the boy that's driving me mad is going   away

Chorus:
F#m                  Dmaj7 F#m                  Bm7    C#m7    Dmaj7
He's got a ticket to ride, he's got a ticket to ride,
A/E                  E11               A        E11
he's got a ticket to ride and he don't care,         Outro: care.

Outro 1:
Ama7      E11         X3

Outro 2: (Repeat And Fade Out)
Ama7                  E11
Think I'm going to be sad

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