Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Prep note: decide what you’re going to do

for vox in the chorus (see below).

I play the riff as:

E 0221xx

A/E 0422xx

Asus4/E 0522xx

Then A/E, E

8 measures drums

Are you ready Steve? Uh huh

Andy? Yeah

Mick? OK

Alright fellas, let’s go!

Riff x 4

Vox on the 6 (F# if the chord is A)

Well Ait’s been getting so hard

Living with the things you do to Eme

Riff x 2

My Adreams are getting so strange

I’d like to tell you everything I Esee

Riff x 2

I write E, but it’s close to NC

EOh I see a man at the back as a matter of fact

His eyes are as red as the sun

And a girl in the corner let no one ignore her ‘cause

Hard stop on “she”

She thinks she’s the passionate one

EOh yeah, it was like

F#Lightning, everybody was Afrightening

And the music was Csoothing and they all started Egrooving

These yeah’s are basically on the 1

EYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

There’s basically no chance of me singing this at pitch,

so I either drop an octave, or descend on F# E D# E.

Great if someone else can sing the real melody an octave

down.

Riff x 4, first two w/o drums

I’m Areaching out for something

Touching nothing’s all I ever Edo

Riff x 2

I Asoftly call you over

When you appear there’s nothing left of Eyou

Riff x 2

ENow the man at the back is ready to crack

As he raises his hands to the sky

And the girl in the corner is everyone’s mourner

She could kill you with a wink of her eye

EOh yeah, it was F#electric, so frightfully Ahectic

And the band started Cleaping ‘cause they all stopped Ebreathing

EYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Bass breakdown and solo more or less on D D# E

EOh yeah

It was like F#lightning, everybody was Afrightening

And the music was Csoothing and they all started Egrooving

EYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

EIt’s, it’s a ballroom blitzD

EIt’s, it’s a ballroom blitzD

EIt’s, it’s a ballroom blitzD

EYeah, it’s a ballroom blitz

Repeat riff a few times