Under Pressure Chords & Tabs

by Queen

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Main Pattern:
BPM: 114
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 202, 101, 1, 202]

[Figure 1]
(Bass line for guitar played with alternating clap to snap,
do this with feet if you do not have four hands)
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D                                   
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|

[Figure 2]
(Played once for Intro and during Verse)
   D                    A                G                A                  
e|------------5-------|---9------------|----7-----------|---5---------------|
B|------7-------------|--------10------|---------8------|--------5----------|
G|----7---7-------7---|-9---9-------9--|--7---7-----7---|-6---6----7-6-4----|
D|--------------------|----------------|----------------|----------------7--|
A|--------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
E|--------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|

[Intro]
D (or Figure 2)
Um boom ba bay
A             
Um boom ba bay
G                    
Um Um boom ba bay bay
A

[Verse 1]
D       
Pressure
        A         
Pushing down on me
         G          
Pressing down on you
           A  
No man ask for
      D       
Under pressure
             A            
That burns a building down
         G            
Splits a family in two
     A                
Puts people on streets

[Bridge]
D           
Um ba ba bay
A           
Um ba ba bay
G          
Dee day duh
A         
Ee day duh

[Verse 2]
           G              
It's the terror of knowing
                A       
What this world is about
    G                     
Watching some good friends
          A          
Screaming let me out!
     G                 A    
Pray tomorrow gets me higher
D                 
Pressure on people
       G  A      
People on streets

[Bridge]
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D                                   
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|
Day day day
da da dup bup bup
Okay
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D                                   
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|

[Verse 3]
D              
Chippin' around
        A                     
Kick my brains round the floor
G                 
These are the days
         A                 
It never rains but it pours
D            
Ee do bay bup
A               
Ee do bay ba bup
G        
Ee do bup
A      
Bay bup
D                
People on streets
       A         
Dee da dee da day
G                
People on streets
       A                   
Dee da dee da dee da dee da

[Verse 4]
         G                
It's the terror of knowing
          A             
What this world is about
G                         
Watching some good friends
          A          
Screaming let me out!
       G     
Pray tomorrow
         A                     
takes me higher, higher, higher
D                 
Pressure on people
       G  A      
People on streets

[Verse 5]
G                      
Turned away from it all
       C        
Like a blind man
G                     C         
Sat on a fence but it don't work
     G                  
Keep coming up with love
            A               
But it's so slashed and torn
C   F
Why?
   GF
Why?
A            
LoveLoveLove!
  A                                           
Insanity laughs, under pressure we're cracking

[Verse 6]
         D              G        A      
Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
             D              G        A      
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
             D         A         D         A
Why can't we give love give love give love?
G         A         D         A         G         A         
Give love give love give love give love give love give love?

[Verse 7]
      G              A             D   
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
         A            G   
And love dares you to care
        A             D           A    
For the people on the edge of the night
         G            A             
And love dares you to change our way
   D        A            
Of caring about ourselves
G           A         
This is our last dance
G           A          
This is our last chance
D    G     A     
This is ourselves
Under pressure
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G                                      
D|---------------------------------| x3
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|
D      A      
Under pressure
D  G  A D
Pressure