Playground Love Chords & Tabs

by Air

[Version Description]
Complete chords / intermediate version with suggestions for voicings / link to demo recording.
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Playground Love (Voc: Gordon Tracks) – Air
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Written by: Gordon Tracks/JB Dunckel/N Godin
From: "The Virgin suicides - Original Motion Picture Score" (1999)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
A fascinating song! The chords are multi-layered and some of them are
not easy to play on a guitar But using a capo helps a lot. I think
what I've got here is pretty close, although there are chords about
which I'm not a 100% sure. Suggestions are highly welcome!
If you want to know what this tab sounds like, listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/maguri/playground-love?in=maguri/sets/ultimate-guitar
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capo: 3rd fret
play: Am
key: Cm
For chords in the original key, transpose this tab +3 to Cm (and "use flats")
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CHORDS
Am9 is a tough one. Below, I added alternative voicings
for the Am variations, which might be helpful.
E-A-D-G-B-e
Am7        x-0-2-2-1-3 or x-0-2-0-1-0
Am6        x-0-2-2-1-2 or x-0-4-2-1-0
Am9        x-0-2-4-1-3 or x-0-5-5-0-0
Am/G       3-x-2-2-1-0
Fdim       1(2)0-1-0-x  (2) = optional note: play it or mute the string
F(add9) (t)1-x-3-2-1-3
F/C        x-3-x-2-1-1
B5         x-2-4-4-x(0)
Bb5        x-1-3-3-x(0)
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[Intro]
  Am7   Am6 Am7 Am6 Am9 Am6 Am9 Am6
(vibraphone)

[Verse 1]
C     E7          Am   Am/G
I'm a high school lover
Fdim           E7       F(add9)    D
And you're my favorite flavor
F/C     D    F/C     D   
Love is all,  all my soul
F/C       B5  Bb5    Am  
You're my playground love

[Interlude]
  Am7   Am6 Am7 Am6 Am9 Am6 Am9 Am6
(sax solo)

[Verse 2]
C      E7        Am     Am/G
Yet my hands are shaking
Fdim       E7   F(add9)    D
I feel my body reeling
F/C       D      F/C     D   
Time's no matter, I'm on fire
F/C    B5  Bb5    Am  
On the playground love

[Interlude]
  Am7   Am6 Am7 Am6 Am9 Am6 Am9 Am6
(sax solo)

[Verse 3]
C          E7       Am  Am/G
You're the piece of gold
Fdim          E7     F(add9)    D
That flushes all my soul
F/C   D     F/C     D     
Extra time,  on the ground
F/C       B5  Bb5    Am  
You’re my playground love

[Verse 4]
| C E7 | Am Am/G | Fdim E7 | F(add9) D | D |
(sax solo)
F/CD     F/C D  
Anytime,  anyway
F/C       B5  Bb5    Am  
You're my playground love