People Are Strange

Words & Music:

The Doors

 

Em                 A7                                      B            Em

People are strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone.

Women seem wicked when you're unwanted.  Streets are uneven when you're down.

 

CHORUS:

            B7       G                     B7

When you're strange, faces come out in the rain.

            B7       G                     B7

When you're strange, no-one remembers your name.

            B7

When you're strange.  When you're strange.

 

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE:

 

CHORUS:

 

People are strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone.

Women seem wicked when you're unwanted.  Streets are uneven when you're down.

 

CHORUS:

 

 

Em                           A7

--------|-----------------------------||--------------------------------|

--------|-----------------------------||--------------------------------|

--------|-------------0---------------||-------------2--0---------------|

--------|---------2-----------2-------||------2---------------2---------|

2--0----|-----2------------------2--1-|-0-------------------------2--1--|

------3-|--0--------------------------||--------------------------------|

           People are strange           when you're a  stran-ger

 

A7                            B              Em

----------------------------|-------------------------------|

----------------------------|-------------------------------|  "women seem wicked..." line

------2----------0----------|-------------------------------|  same tab as 1st line

---2-------2----------------|--------------1----------------|  then go to next line

0----------2--------0--1--2-|------2--------------2--0------|

----------------------------|-2---------------0----------3--|

faces look ug-ly              when you're al-one.

                    |--3--|

 

A7                               B               Em

------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

--------2---------------------|-------------------------0-----0------|

---2---------2-----2----------|-----------1----------------2---------|

0---------------------0--1--2-|-----2-------------------------------|

----------------0-------------|--2---------------0-------------------|

Streets look un-   even             When you're down.  When you're

                      |--3--|

 





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