Busby Berkeley Dreams - Magnetic Fields

Busby Berkeley 

(29 November 1895-14 March 1976) 

Hollywood film director and musical choreographer.

Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley's works used large numbers of showgirls and props as fantasy elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances. All of this was quite ironic as these were all created during a depression. This song is about being so in love you've lost touch with what's real.

 

Intro:
G D C

C G D

Verse:
G                D          C
I should have forgotten you long ago
C          G        D
But you're in every song I know
G           D         C
Whining and pining is wrong and so
    Am           G
On and so forth, of course of course,
    C                  D
But no, you can't have a divorce

Chorus:
  G                   D
I haven't seen you in ages
    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems
G        C                 G
We still dance on whirling stages
      D     G        D 
In my Busby Berkeley dreams
G                              D
The tears have stained all the pages
   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines
D         G              D
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful
C     G        D
Busby Berkeley dreams

Verse: 
G            D            C
And now you want to leave me for good
C   G         D    
I refuse to believe you could
G      D             C
You forget we're not made of wood
     Am              G
Well darling you may do your worst
  C                    D
Because you'll have to kill me first

Chorus:
  G                   D
I haven't seen you in ages
    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems
G        C                 G
We still dance on whirling stages
      D     G        D 
In my Busby Berkeley dreams
G                              D
The tears have stained all the pages
   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines
D         G              D
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful
C     G        D
Busby Berkeley dreams
Solo (with number of beats per chord in parenthesis): 
G  D(2) C(4)
C  G(1) G(1) D(4)

G  D(2) C(4)
D(8) 


  G                   D
I haven't seen you in ages
    C                       Em 
But it's not as bleak as it seems
G        C                 G
We still dance on whirling stages
      D     G        D 
In my Busby Berkeley dreams
G                              D
The tears have stained all the pages
   C                   Em
Of my True Romance magazines
D         G              D
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful
C     G        D
Busby Berkeley dreams
Outro:
G                 D   
Do you think it's dangerous
        C     G        D
To have Busby Berkeley dreams?