C'est La Vie
Words & Music:
Greg Lake & Pete
Sinfield (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
I've given both Rob
Michel's Am easier version and bloodsucker's more true Dm version power tab
(which is an excellent one). For
the latter, play in drop D tuning and use the open high E string as the
"add 2" drone. For both
versions, use a simple arpeggio that sweeps all 6 six strings. "C'est la Vie" is literally
translated into English as "It's the life", but a better translations
is it's common colloquial usage: "Such is life". It is first on Works, Vol. I.
Dm(add9) C(add9)
Am
G
C'est la vie, have your leaves all turned to brown?
EbM6(#11) C(add9) Dm(add9)
Am
G
Am
Will you scatter them around you? C'est la vie...
Do you love? And
then how am I to know
If you don't let your love show for me? C'est la vie...
CHORUS:
Gm7
Dm(add9) Gm7
Dm(add9)
D
Am D
Am
Oh----, c'est la vie----. Oh----, c'est la vie.
G B
E
Am
Em7b5 E7 Asus4 A
Dm(add9)
Who knows? Who
cares for me--------? C'est la
vie...
In the night, do you light a lover's fire?
Do the ashes of desire for you remain?
Like the sea, there's a love to deep to show.
Took a storm before my love flowed for you. C'est la vie...
CHORUS to DOUBLE-TIME SQUEEZBOX SOLO:
Like a song out of tune and out of time.
All I needed was a rhyme for you. C'est la vie...
Do you give? Do
you live from day to day?
Is there no song I can play for you? C'est la vie...
CHORUS:
Dm version chords (drop D tuning!)
Dm(add9) = 0 0 7 7 6 0 C(add9)
= x 3 5 5 3 3 EbM6(#11)
= x 1 3 0 3 0
Em7b5 = x x 2 0 3 3 to x x 2 0 3 0
E7 = x x 2 1 4 3 to x x 2 1 0 3
Asus4 = x 0 7 7 5 5 A
= x 0 11 9 10 9 Gm7
= 5 x 5 7 8 6