Mistaken For Strangers by The National ubi_rex@hotmail.com At times you can hear the three notes of the intro chords plucked in the pattern of low-middle-high-middle. On live versions, someone in the band plucks that pattern for the first four lines, then plucks it an octave higher for the two lines that go "showered and blue-blazered..." (Note: I recommend finding a good live version. I think the live is better than the album version, which obscures the guitar.) I've written two ways to play the chords. The first is the easiest, but I saw them live and it looked they played it the second way. They sound the same. I suppose the second is nice if you want to give your guitar a hard strum without worrying about muting the low string. easy live F/A: X032XX 587XXX F/Bb: X132XX 687XXX F/C: X332XX 887XXX Csus4: X330XX 885XXX Intro: F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4 F/A F/Bb You have to do it running but you do everything that they F/C Csus4 ask you to cause you don’t mind seeing F/A F/Bb yourself in a picture as long as you look F/C Csus4 faraway, as long as you look removed F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4 showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4 showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters Dm F You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends Bb F when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Bb F Am Am7 citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under Dm F Oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over. Bb F Surprise, surprise, they wouldn’t wannna watch Bb F Am Am7 another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults F/A F/Bb Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts F/C Csus4 so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves F/A F/Bb so you swear you just saw a feathery F/C Csus4 woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4 showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4 showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters (repeat chorus) www.TAB6.com