Bellas Birthday Cake Chords

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Difficulty:	intermediate
Tuning:	Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Capo:	no capo

Author joe_vergency [a] 21.

1 contributor total, last edit on May 29, 2019

Chords

A#dim

B/F#

C#m

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Tuned down a half step.
 
Suggested chord voicings:
A#dim - x12320
B/F#  - 224442
 
[Intro]
C#m
 
[Verse]
C#m   B          E            F#     C#m       B           A#dim
Bella played the bridge every second loneliest night of the year
    A              B           E            D
and took a certain liking to a fella there, Bella
    A                  B                E           D
She said I brought her back to some old better man, fella
     F#                   G#   A
see, Bella she was born today, feeling kinda spry...
 
[Chorus]
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's Birthday Cake was burning, yeah
C#m       A         E    B/F#
Like Lightning,  or Like Fire
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's Birthday Cake was burning...
 
[Intro repeat]
C#m
 
[Verse]
C#m   B        E      F#        C#m       B            A#dim
Bella made her bed in red every loneliest night of the year
A              B            E               D
Tied me to the rages of her rocking chair - Bella
A            B                 E            D
Fed me quiet offer through her ever wares - I'll tell ya
F#                   G#  A
Bella she was born today feeling kinda spry...
 
[Chorus]
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's Birthday Cake was burning, yeah
C#m       A         E    B/F#
Like Lightning,  or Like Fire
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's Birthday Cake was burning
C#m  A        E      B/F#
Ever yearning Forest Fire
 
[Break]
C#m  A  E  B/F#
C#m  A  E  B/F#
 
[Bridge]
     F#            B              F#                  B      (B7)      G#
cool wind over her lines she left unread, spirits and battles won, she said
    G#       C#m               B                     A#dim
and over her mountain tops she ground me off where...I can't remember...
 
[Reprise]
 C#m  B          E             F#     C#m       B            A#dim
Bella played the bridge on the second loneliest night of the year
F#                   G#    A
Bella she was born today...
 
[Outro]
C#m    A      E      B/F#
BELLA, Bella, Bella, Bella, oh
C#m    A      E      B/F#
BELLA, Bella, Bella, Bella, oh
C#m    A      E      B/F#
BELLA, Bella, Bella, Bella, oh
C#m    A      E      B/F#
BELLA, Bella, Bella, Bella, oh
 
C#m     A        E        B/F#
BELLA'S birthday cake was burning
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's BIRTHDAY cake was burning
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's birthday CAKE was burning
C#m     A        E        B/F#
Bella's birthday cake was BURNING
 
C#m               A                E        B/F#
Fifty years gone, Bella's Birthday cake was burning burning.
C#m         A
Fifty years gone
E           B/F#
Fifty years man
C#m               A                E        B/F#
Fifty years gone, Bella's Birthday cake was burning burning burning burning.
C#m
Bella, Bella, woo...
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