Modern Dance chords by Lou Reed

SimplifiedG · Am · C · Cm · Ab

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
Maybe I should
go and live in Amsterdam
G 
In a side street near a big canal
C 
Am 
Spend my evenings in the
C 
Van Gogh Museum
What a dream, Van Gogh Museum

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Verse 2

Maybe its time to see Tangiers

A different life-style,

some some different fears

And maybe I should be in Edinburgh

In a kilt in Edinburgh

Verse 3

Doin' a modern dance

Verse 4
Cm 
G 
Or maybe I should get a farm
in southern France
Where the winds are wispy
and the villagers dance
Am 
And you and I we'd sleep
beneath a moon
C 
Moon in June and sleep till noon

Verse 5
C 
G 
And maybe you and I could fall in love
Regain the spirit that we once had
Am 
You'd let me hold you and
touch the night
C 
That shines so bright,
Cm 
so  bright with fright
G 
Doin' a modern

Verse 6

dance

Doin' a modern dance

Verse 7
Cm 
C 
G 
Shit, maybe I could go to
Yucatan
Where women are women, a man's a man
C 
Ah, no one confused, ever loses place
Cm 
With their place in the human race

Verse 8
G 
Maybe I'm not cut out for city life
The smell of exhaust, the smell of strife
Am 
And maybe you don't wanna be a wife
C 
Cm 
It's not a life being a wife
G 
Doin' a modern

Verse 9

dance

Doin' a modern dance

Verse 10
Cm 
C 
G 
So maybe I should go
to Tanganyika
Where the rivers run,
down mountains tall and steep
Am 
Or go to India to study chants
C 
Cm 
C 
And lose romance to a mantra's dance

Verse 11
G 
I need a guru, I need some law
Explain to me the things we saw
Am 
Why it always comes to this
C 
It's all downhill after the first kiss
G 
Maybe

Verse 12

I should move to Rotterdam

Maybe move to Amsterdam

I should move to Ireland, Italy, Spain

Afghanistan where there is no rain

Verse 13
G 
Or maybe I should just
learn a modern dance
Where roles are shifting the modern dance
Am 
You never touch you don't
know who you're with
C 
Cm 
This week, this month, this time of year
C 
This week, this month,
Cm 
Ab 
Cm 
this time of year
G 
Doin' a modern

Verse 14
dance
You don't know who you're
C 
with modern dance
Cm 
I should move to Pakistan,
go to Afghanistan
G 
Dance, you don't know
who you're with
Dance, you don't know
who you're with
C 
Cm 
Modern dance
And maybe you don't
C 
G 
wanna be a wife
It's not life being a wife
C 
Doin' a modern dance
Cm 
You never touch you don't know
G 
who you're with
Dance, modern dance
C 
The roles are shifting dance
Cm 
You never touch you don't
know who you're with
G 
Dance, modern dance
Maybe you don't wanna be a wife
It's not a life being a wife