Title: RENT - RENT Original Broadway Cast Recording
Tabbed by: Kelly Wong
Chords used at bottom of page...
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High, upbeat, driven rock
Eb5 F5 C5 (x3)
C5
D5
How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like
fiction each day?
C5
D5
E5
Headlines, breadlines, blow my mind and now this deadline; eviction or
pay
Gm Gm#5 Gm
RENT!
C5
D5
How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once
sounded right
C5
D5
E5
and rare? But the notes are sour. Where is the power you once had to
ignite the air?
F
C
Gm
Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
And we're hungry and frozen. Some life that we've chosen! How we gonna
pay?
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
How we gonna pay?
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5 Eb F C
How we gonna pay last year's rent?
Eb5 F5 C5
(Spoken) We light candles.
Eb5 F5 C5
C5
(Sung) How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn and it feels
like something's
D5
stuck in your flue? How can you generate heat when you can't feel your
feet and they're turning blue?
F
C
Gm
Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
You light up a mean blaze with posters, and screenplays. How we gonna
pay?
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
How we gonna pay?
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5 Eb F C
How we gonna pay last year's rent?
C7
(rest)
C7
(Spoken) Don't screen, Maureen. It's me, Joanne, your substitue production manager. Hey,
hey, hey! Did you eat?
(rest)
F7
(Sung) Don't change the subject, Maureen. but darling, you haven't eaten
all day. You won't throw up.
(rest)
C7
(Spoken) You won't throw up. The digital delay didn't blow up, exactly. There may have
been one teeny, tiny spark.
(rest)
You're not calling Mark!
C5
D5
How do you stay on your feet when on ev'ry street it's "trick or
treat", and tonight it's trick?
C5
D5
E5
Welcome back to town; oh, I should lie down. Everything's brown, and
uh-oh, I feel sick!
F C
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
Where is he? Gettin' dizzy! How we gonna pay?
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
How we gonna pay?
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5 Eb F C
How we gonna pay last year's rent?
Am G C Am G
Am G C Am
G
C7
(rest)
Allison, baby, you sound sad. I don't believe those two after
everything I've done.
F7
C7
(rest)
Ever since our wedding, I'm dirt. They'll see. I can help them all out
in the long run.
Am Em7
C Am G (rest)
The music ignites tonight with passionate fire. Maureen, I'm not a
theatre person.
Am Em7
C Am
G (rest)
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit. Could never be a
theatre person.
Am Em7
C Am
G
Am
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground, and I'm feeling the heat
of the future's glow.
(rest)
(spoken) Hello, hello? Maureen? Your equipment won't work? Okay, alright, I'll go!
D
E
How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to
your heart?
D
E
F#
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out 'til you're torn
apart. RENT!
D
E
How can you connect in an age where strangers, landlords, lovers, your
own blood cells betray?
D
E
F#
What binds the fabric together when the ragging, shifting winds of
change keep ripping away?
G D
G
D
Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand. Use your camera to spar,
use your guitar.
G D
When they act tough, you call their bluff.
Am Am#5 Am6 Am#5
We're not gonna pay...
Am Am#5 Am6 Am#5
We're not gonna pay...
Am Am#5 Am6 Am#5
Fmaj7 G D F G D F G D
We're not gonna pay... last year's rent, this year's rent, next year's
rent,
F G D
rent rent rent rent rent
F G D Bb C D
We're not gonna pay rent 'cause ev'rything is rent.
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Eb5- (high)x F5-x C5-x D5-x E5-x Gm-3 Gm#5-3 F-1 C-0 Gm6-3 Eb-3 C7-0 x x x
x x 3 4 1 1 5 4 1 3 x 5
7 x 3 3 2 0 3 3 3 1 3 5 7 2 5 5 3 2
5 5 2 1 3 3 5 2 5 x 3 3 5 6 3 (low)x
1 x x 0 3 x 1 x 3 x xF7-1 Am-0 G-3 Em7-0 D-2 E-0 F#-2 Am#5-2 Am6-5
Fmaj7-0 Bb-1 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 2 7 1 3 2
2 0 0 2 1 3 3 5 2
3 1 2 0 0 0 2 4 4 7 3 3 3
0 2 2 x 2 4 4 7 x 1 1 x 3
0 x 0 2 2 5 x 1
Title: Out Tonight -
RENT Original Broadway Cast Recording
Tabbed by: Kelly Wong
Chords used at bottom of page...
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Energetic Rock
A D A D (x2)
A D
What's the time?
A D
Well it's gotta be close to midnight
A D
My body's talking to me
A D
It says, "Time for danger"
A D
It says "I wanna commit a crime
A D
Wanna be the cause of a fight
A D
Wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt
A D
With a stranger"
F D
I've had a knack from way back
A
At breaking the rules once I learn the games
F
Get up - life's too quick
D
I know someplace sick
Esus E
Where this chick'll dance in the flames
F#m D
We don't need any money
F#m D
I always get in for free
C D
You can get in too
E
If you get in with me
D E A
Let's go out tonight
D E A
I have to go out tonight
D
You wanna play?
E
Let's run away
F#m D
We won't be back before it's Christmas day
E Asus A
Take me out tonight (meow)
A D A D
F#m D
When I get a wink from the doorman
F#m D
Do you know how lucky you'll be?
C D E
That you're on line with the feline of Avenue B
D E A
Let's go out tonight
D E A
I have to go out tonight
D
You wanna prowl
E
Be my night owl?
F#m D
Well take my hand we're gonna howl
E Asus
Out tonight
A D E
In the evening I've got to roam
F#m
Can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome
D E
Feels too damn much like home
F#
When the Spanish babies cry
D E
So let's find a bar
F#m G
So dark we forget who we are
A
And all the scars of the
E
Nevers and maybes die
D E A
Let's go out tonight
D E A
I Have to go out tonight
D E
You're sweet wanna hit the street?
F#m D
Wanna wail at the moon like a cat in heat?
E Asus
Just take me out tonight
A D E Asus
Please take me out tonight
D E A
Don't forsake me -- out tonight
D E A
I'll let you make me -- out tonight
Tonight -- tonight -- tonight
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(high) A- 0 D- 2 F- 1 Esus- 0 F#m- 2 C- 0 Asus- 0 G- 3
2 3 1 0 2 1 3 0
2 2 2 2 2 0 2 0
2 0 3 2 4 2 2 0
0 X 3 2 X 3 0 2
(low) X X 1 0 X X X 3
Title: La Vie Boheme
- RENT Original Broadway Cast Recording
Tabbed by: Troy Blanchard
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Title: Musseta's
Waltz - RENT Original Broadway Cast Recording and La Boheme
Tabbed by: Troy Blanchard
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Title: Contact - RENT
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Tabbed by: Troy Blanchard
Eb5 Ab5 Db5 Gb5
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N.C
Eb5
hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet/Wet-wet-wet-read heat. Please don't stop it please
Ab5
Db5
don't please stop stop stop/please-please-please? hot hot sweat sweet wet
touch! Taste!
Gb5
heat/ Sticky steamy tricky stroaking soaking.
the whole thing: Eb5 Ab5 Db5 Gb
then when its ANGEL theres a cool little riff.
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the rest of that cool solo is the Eb minor penatonic.
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