2000 Miles by The Pretenders Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for 2000 Miles guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play 2000 Miles by The Pretenders using guitar or guitar.
This song by The Pretenders can also be played by that instruments.
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2000 Miles guitar chords has rhythm and included in Learning to Crawl (1984) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

2000 Miles by The Pretenders Guitar Chords


2000 Miles
The Pretenders
(1983)

(This whole song should be played on a Rickenbacker 12-string or per
“The Isle of View” on an acoustic 12-string! — LM)

The intro lick, that also continues through most of the song,
goes like this:


e|---------2-3-|-0-------2-3-|
b|-3-----------|---3---------|
G|---0---------|-----2-------|
D|-----0-------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|

Try this instead — let the bass notes ring. Note that the timing is
triplets:

t t t t t t t t t t t t


e|--------2-3-0-------2-3-|
4 b|3-------------3---------|
- G|--0-------------0-------|
4 D|----0-------------------|
A|------------3-----0-----|
E|3-----3-----------------|

Then right before the first verse:


e|-------------|
b|-3p1-0-------|
G|-------2-0---|
D|-----------4-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

VERSE 1

[C(add9)] [Dsus2/A]
He’s gone

[C(add9)] [Dsus2/A]
Two thousand miles

[C(add9)] [Dsus2/A] [C(add9)] [Dsus2/A]
Is very far

The snow was falling down
It’s colder day by day
I miss you

[C(add9)] C(add9)1 D ; C(add9)1 x32030
The children were singing
C(add9) D G C(add9) Dsus2/A etc.
He’ll be back at Christmas time

VERSE 2

In these frozen silent nights
Sometimes in a dream
You appear
Outside under the purple sky
Diamonds in the snow
Sparkle
Our hearts were singing
It felt like Christmas time
(The lick at through this next part goes something like this:)


e|-----3-------|-------------|
b|---3---------|-----1-----3-|
G|-0-----------|---0-----2---|
D|---------4-0-|-2-----4-----|
A|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|

BRIDGE

Two thousand [C(add9)]miles

Is very [C(add9)]far through the snow

[C(add9)]I’ll think of you

Wher[C(add9)]ever you go[C(add9)]


e|-------------|
b|-3p1-0-------|
G|-------2-0---|
D|-----------4-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

VERSE 3

He’s gone
Two thousand miles
Is very far
The snow was falling down
It’s colder day by day
I miss you
I can hear people singing
It must be Christmas time
I hear people singing
It must be Christmas time

G: 320033
C(add9): x32033
Dsus2/A: x00230

D: x00232
Dsus4: x00233
C(add9)1: x32030

Suggestions and corrections welcomed as always–

Same here!

Eric Pohl

If you want to learn The Pretenders 2000 Miles guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play 2000 Miles. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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