Song:      Ordinary world
Artist:    Duran Duran
Composers: John Taylor, Nick Rhodes,
           Simon Le Bon and Warren Cuccurullo
Albums:    The wedding album / Acoustic rewind

Tabbed by DJ  16th May 2022

'The wedding album' track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIACCH20JU

Live TV performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwjoshiS9g4

The 'Acoustic rewind' album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8GS10x_LsI
NOTE:  This acoustic version only has a short
2 bar Intro which uses the chord progression below:

['Acoustic rewind' Intro]
   C#m7           E5    F#7sus4
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

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IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
option for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers

[Intro, Chorus and Coda chords]
B4    = x24400             E    = 022100
F#m11 = 244200 or x44200   Am/C = x32210
D5    = x577xx             B    = x24442
A/C# = x476xx              N.C. = No chords

[Verse chords]
C#m7    = x-4-
E5      = 0-7-
F#7sus4 = x-9-
G#m     = 4664
(The chords in
 emulating the

6-6-0-0     (G
9-9-0-0     (G
11-11-0-0    D
44           E
 brackets are 
 ascending orc

#madd9)= 466446
#m *)  = 466447
#7     = x68686
       = 022100
optional extras
hestral line.)

[Bridge chords] 
C#m7 * = xx6657   C#m     = xx6654   F#7 = xx4320
C#m6   = xx6656   C#madd9 = xx6640

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[Intro]
            
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[Verse 1]
          
Came in from a

              
 rainy Thursda

            
y on the avenu

   
e,
          
      Thought 

              
I heard you ta

               
lking softly,
 
      I turned

 on the lights

,
            
The TV and the

         
 radio,
          
     Still I c

              
an't escape th

             
e ghost of you

[Pre -Chorus]

     What has 

happened to it

 all?  
           
'Crazy!', some

             ( ( *)
 would say,
           
Where is the l

              
ife that I rec

     
og - nise?  (G

one away!)

[Chorus]
            
    But I won'

              
t cry for yest

     
er - day,
              
There's an ord

            
inary world, s

          
omehow, I have

    
 to find,
            
   And as I tr

             
y to make my w

#          
ay to the ordi

     
nary world,
          
I will learn t

           
o sur - vive

[Bridge] 
(See bottom of the page for tablature of the riff)
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| /__/   /__/ 

     
  /__/  /__/  

   
|  /__/  /__/ 

    
 /  /__/ |

[Verse 2]

Passion, or co

incidence,
            
Once prompted 

             
you to say,
          
"Pride will te

              
ar us both apa

        
rt!"
          
Well, now prid

e's gone out t

he window,
            
Cross the roof

              
 tops, ...run 

      
away,
          
Left me in the

              
 vacuum of my 

    
heart!

[Pre-Chorus]

What is happen

ing to me? 
           
'Crazy!', some

      ( ( *)
 would say,
           
Where is my fr

            
iend when I ne

ed you most? (

Gone away!)

[Chorus]
            
    But I won'

              
t cry for yest

     
er - day,
              
There's an ord

            
inary world, s

          
omehow, I have

    
 to find,
            
    And as I t

              
ry to make my 

         
way to the ord

      
inary world,
          
I will learn t

        
o sur - vive

[Break]
           
    Oo - oo, h

#          
oo - oo!   Ah,

           
 ah - hah!
              
Just blow a - 

            
way!  Hey-ee, 


aye - ee, aye!
            
Oh - oo, oh!

      

   

[Verse 3]
          
Papers in the 

              
roadside tell 

            
of suffering a

   
nd greed,
          
Feared today, 

              
forgot tomorro

     
w             

  Mm-mm-mm!
          
Here beside th

              
e news of holy

            
 war and holy 

    
need,
          
Ours is just a

              
 little sorrow

         
ed talk

[Chorus]
            
    And I don'

              
t cry for yest

     
er - day,
              
There's an ord

            
inary world, s

          
omehow, I have

    
 to find,
            
   And as I tr

             
y to make my w

#          
ay to the ordi

     
nary world,
          
I will learn t

        
o sur - vive

[Coda]
         
Every world---

          
- is my world-

          
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----------,
                          (I will learn to sur-vive!)

       
Any world---- 

            
is my world---

          
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----------,
                         (I will learn to sur- vive!)

       
Any world-----

            
-- is my world

          
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[Live ending]
       
Oo- oo!       
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Ah-ah-ah! Oo- 
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oo, oo-oo, oo!
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 Ah-ah, ah!
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 [Bridge Riff]
    C#m7   C#m
e|--7------6--
B|----5------5
G|-------6----
D|-----6------
A|------------
E|------------

6   C#m      C
----4--------0
------5----4--
--6------6----
6------6------
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#madd9       F
-----|--0----0
-4---|----4--2
--6--|-------3
-----|-------4
-----|--------
-----|--------

#7
--0-0--0--|
--2-2--2--|
--3-3--3--|
--4-4--4--|
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