Cold Cold Heart Chords & Lyrics by Norah Jones
Cold Cold Heart
guitar chords lyrics
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/ Norah Jones / This song is a cover of an old country classic
/ Cold, Cold Heart / by Hank Williams, released as a single in 1951,
/ Come Away With Me / and was simultaneously a big hit for Tony Bennett
/____________________/ in his orchestral adaption.
key: A mixolydian
Think of the verse-part as a modified 12 bar blues structure, instead in
a 5-4-4-3 bars structure; and of the interlude as simply a pause in between.
What Norah Jones' piano improvisation explores is the concept of playing in
the interval of decims (thirds + 1 octave), that is left hand playing and
right hand following synchronously a third + 1 octave above.
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interlude: | A | - | - | - |
verse: | A | - | - | E | - |
| E | - | - | A |
| A | - | - | D |
| E | - | - |
interlude
verse
interlude
verse (piano solo)
interlude
verse
outro: | D9 | - | (repeat till fade out)
LYRICS
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I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream;
yet you're afraid, each thing I do is just some evil scheme.
A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue,
and so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do.
In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind,and melt your cold, cold heart?
[original third verse omitted in this version:]
You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry.
You know you need and want my love; yet you're afraid to try.
Why do you run and hide from life? To try it just ain't smart.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me,
but now I know your heart is shackled to a memory.
The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
I have also submitted a full transcription of the piano and bass part:
tabs./n/norah_jones/cold_cold_heart_guitar_pro.htm
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Jon Sebastian Frederiksen – 2nd /May /14
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