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Blur – Barbaric Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
C  Bm  G  F
C  Am  Dm F

[Verse]
   C
   Who blinks first
Bm
   You’re going to win
G             F
   The fallen down of
 lovers’ vows
C         Am         Dm    F
   Is the world all around us
               C
   And I would like if
               Bm
you’ve got the time
G     F                C
   To talk to you about what
       Am         Dm         F
 this breakup has done to me

[Chorus]
          C   Dm   C
   I have lost the feeling
       Dm                     Am
that I thought I’d never lose
C                 F      C
   Now where am I going
           C   Dm    C
   At what cost, the feeling
         Dm                     Am
 that I thought I’d never lose
C           F     C
   It is barbaric

[Verse]
      C             Bm
  Now you can’t play to every taste
G            F
  The powder keg of common cause
C        Am       Dm  F
  All of us carry trauma
         C               Bm
  And in lieu of an explanation
G        F
  I will pour oil from the cap
 C       Am          Dm F
 on the pyre of abdication

[Chorus]
           C   Dm
  You have lost
      C                Dm
  The feeling that you thought
                   Am
 you’d never lose
C                   F      C
  Now where are you going, darling
          C   Dm    C
  At what cost, the feeling that
     Dm                       Am
 you thought you’d never lose
C              F     C
  And it is barbaric

[Bridge]
Am                   C
  Empty grove winter darkness
         Ab
  We are taking down the
                G
 scaffolds very soon
           Am
  Crow dappled the lonely
                Ab
baubles on the plain tree
  The can of soup and
                   G
heating up to ten
                  F
  Which leaves me to the part
            G
  Where we agreed om
different dreams

Feel free to use our free Chord Shape Generator to see every chord in this song on guitar, ukulele and piano.

[Chorus]
                        C   Dm
  And that we never had lost the
 C               Dm
 feeling that we thought
                 Am
we’d never lose
C                  F     C
  Now where are we going
          C   Dm    C
  At what cost, the feeling tha
     Dm                      Am
t we thought we’d never lose
C          F     C
  It is barbaric
          C   Dm   C
  We have lost the feeling that
     Dm                      Am
we thought we’d never lose
C                  F     C
  Now where are we going
          C   Dm   C
  We have lost the feeling that
    Dm                      Am
 we thought we’d never lose
C          F      C
  It is barbaric, darling
          C   Dm   C
  We have lost the feeling
         Dm                      Am
that we thought we’d never lose
C                  F     C
  Now where are we going
          C   Dm   C
  We have lost the feeling that
     Dm                      Am
 we thought we’d never lose
C          F     C
  It is barbaric

How to play Barbaric: key, chords and progression

These are Barbaric chords by Blur on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Barbaric by Blur is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 7 chords: C, Bm, G, F, Am, Dm and Ab.

Listen for Dm – C – Dm – Am (ii – I – ii – vi in C major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is reh – doh – reh – lah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Bm, F and Ab are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.