Jul162024

Cigarettes After Sex – Silver Sable Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsBb C Dm F

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These are Silver Sable chords by Cigarettes After Sex on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
Bb   C   Dm  F

[Verse 1]
Bb       C
  Silver Sable
style,
Dm
  Back in a
F
Marvel,
Bb
 Swimsuit
C           Dm
Special from the,
      F
early ‘90s
Bb      C
  Page eleven,
   Dm
the second
 F     Bb
edition, with
 that
C            Dm  F
look on her face
Bb
  Right now it’s
C       Dm
only the, light
         F
from the closet
Bb        C
  And the radio’s
Dm
, just
       F
playing soft hits
Bb
  Need that
C
atmosphere,
Dm
  I need that
F
sweet life
Bb         C
  With its decadent
  Dm F
ways

[Chorus]
Bb           C
Stay with me now,
I don’t
Dm         F
wanna be lonely
Bb           C
Know how you feel
by the
Dm            F
way that you hold me
Bb          C
And when we kiss
    Dm
We don’t need to
 F
close our,
Bb          C
eyes in the dark at
Dm  F
all

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[Verse 2]
Bb       C
  Silver Sable
style,
Dm
  The way you
F
watch
  Bb
me, sipping
C
from your straw
Dm    F
, in 34D
Bb       C
  Whispering the
words
Dm         F
, “vanilla creme
pie”
Bb           C
  To see the look
on
    Dm  F
my face
Bb
  And still it’s
C
only the
Dm
, light from the
F
closet
Bb              C
  While “Number of
the Beast”
Dm           F
, is on your Walkman
Bb          C
  And page eleven’s
 gone
Dm
, see that it’s
F
ripped out
Bb
  And hanging
C           Dm  F
up on your wall…

[Chorus]
Bb           C
Stay with me now,
I don’t
Dm         F
wanna be lonely
Bb           C
Know how you feel
by the
Dm            F
way that you hold
me
Bb          C
And when we kiss
    Dm
We don’t need to
 F
close our,
Bb          C
eyes in the dark
 at
Dm  F
all

[Instrument]
Bb    C    Dm
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-
 F
ooh-ooh
Bb   C    Dm   F

[Chorus]
Bb           C
Stay with me now,
I don’t
Dm         F
wanna be lonely
Bb           C
Know how you feel
by the
Dm
way that you
 F
hold me
Bb          C
And when we kiss
    Dm
We don’t need to
 F
close our,
Bb          C
eyes in the dark at
Dm  F
all

[Outro]
Bb
Eyes in the
C
dark at all
Bb
Eyes in the
C       Dm  F
dark at all
Bb
Eyes in the
C       Dm  F
dark at all
Bb C Dm F x4

How to play Silver Sable: key, chords and progression

Silver Sable by Cigarettes After Sex is written in F major (one flat: B♭) and moves through 4 chords: Bb, C, Dm and F.

The progression the song keeps returning to is Bb – C – Dm – F (IV – V – vi – I in F major). In solfa, that is fah – soh – lah – doh. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes G, A, Bm, D (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.