Romeo And Juliet (tab) — Dire Straits

Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

The intro starts out with a D-structured F chord: strum and then pick out the first three notes, then strum again. Next, pick the last three notes of the F chord and slide the picking down the E-string to a Bb chord:

Now pick on the E-string back up to the D-struct. F chord and pick those first 3 notes again, then strum. Now quickly move to a downward sweep pick on the F chord barred at the first fret (plus the unfretted E-string note), which leads back to the Bb:

Now it`s back up the E-string to the D-struct F for more of the same (the rest of the band kicks in here and starts to obscure things).

This time on the way back up to the D-struct F we play the A and G notes on the E-string. Then do the D-struct F thing again, then do a quick downward seep-pick on the open C chord, with the high G note added (1st string at 3rd fret). An open E-string then leads to the Bb. Then it`s up to the D-struct F for the start of the lyrics:

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade

Laying everybody low with the love song that he made

Finds a streetlight Steps out of the shade, says something like

you and me, babe, how about it?

Then add that nice little riff:

--------3--1----- Followed by strumming F(1st fret).

Juliet says, "Hey, it`s Romeo! you nearly gave me a `eart attack!"

He`s underneath the window, she`s singing "Hey la my boyfriend`s back

Shouldn`t come around here, singing up at people like that

Anyway, what you gonna do about it?"

Juliet the dice was loaded from the start

And I bet and you exploded into my heart

And I forget, I forget, the movie song

--3-- When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet

And now you can do the downward sweep-picking on the F(1st fret) to get to the Bb, then pick up the E-string to get to the D-struct F again. That`s about it (at least, that`s as much as I`m able to do).

Hope this helps. Again, any corrections/additions/suggestions are welcome.