Forever Young Uke tab by Alphaville

5 Chords used in the song: C, G, Am, F, Dm

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Artist: Alphaville

Album: Forever Young

Year: 1984

Difficulty:

2.9

(Beginner)

Key: C, AmChords

Intro: C    G    Am    F    G    Dm    F    Am    C



Verse:
C                  G
  Let’s dance in style let’s dance
      Am
for a while
           F
Heaven can wait we’re only
              G
watching the skies
               Dm                       F
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
                          Am           G    C
Are you going to drop the bomb or not


C             G                      Am
  Let us die young or let us live forever
                  F                       G
We don’t have the power but we never say never
             Dm                   F
Sitting in a sandpit life is a short trip
                    Am        G    C
The music’s for the sad men


C           G                       Am
  Can you imagine when this race is won
                F              G
Turn our golden faces into the sun
             Dm                          F
Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune
                          Am      G    C
The music’s played by the mad men



Chorus:
C          G               Am          F
  Forever young I want to be forever young
G                      Dm            F      G
Do you really want to live forever forever and ever
C          G               Am          F
  Forever young I want to be forever young
G                     Dm             F      G        C      
Do you really want to live forever forever forever young




Verse:
C                G                        Am
  Some are like water some are like the heat
           F                        G
some are a Melody and some are the beat
          Dm                       F
Sooner or later they all will be gone
                    Am       G    C
why don’t they stay young


C                      G             Am
  It’s so hard to get old without a cause
                F                     G
I don’t want to perish like a fading horse
             Dm                F
Youth’s like diamonds in the sun
                   Am    G        C
and diamonds are forever


C           G                         Am
  So many adventures couldn’t happen today
        F                  G
so many songs we forgot to play
        Dm                          F
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
                 Am     G         C
we let them come true




Chorus:
C          G               Am          F
  Forever young I want to be forever young
G                      Dm            F      G
Do you really want to live forever forever and ever
C          G               Am          F
  Forever young I want to be forever young
G                      Dm            F      G        C      
Do you really want to live forever forever forever young



C          G               Am          F
  Forever young I want to be forever young
G                      Dm            F      G
Do you really want to live forever forever and ever


C    G    Am    F    G    Dm    F    Am    G        C
C    G    Am    F    G    Dm    F    Am    G        C

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disacrol

Ended up adapting from Andrea Von Kampen's and go with a very specific picking:
1+4 - 2 3 - 4 3 2. Where - are breaks. this, for each chord.

exception are there last Am - G - C, where I with just 1+4 - 2 3 for Am and G.

12 May 2023

disacrol

By far the best sounding and straightforward tab of it around here! Ideas for Fingerpicking?

23 Apr 2023

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About this song: Forever Young

On the surface, this is a hopeful song celebrating the virtues of youth, but a closer listen reveals a fear of aging and death. The song was written during the Cold War, where the singer is "hoping for the best, but expecting the worst; are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"Alphaville was a German Synthpop/Rock music group. The song was not a big hit when it was released, but has become well known as a result of its use in movies and TV shows. Among its uses: Read more on Last.fm.

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