June Afternoon by Roxette

June Afternoon by Roxette
From the 1995 Greatest Hits: Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus

Tab by marcos.nagato at gmail - feel free to send me any corrections.
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-- author's note --
This is one of the most joyful songs in the world! I wanted to quickly check the chords from another tab that's published out there, but ended up first realizing that the recording is clearly off tune! And then after I retuned my guitar I could properly work on the chords and they were not as simple as initially expected and the bridge was almost all wrong.
I also added a couple of guitar fills and orchestrations done at the end of the song, which definitely add to its magic!

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*** Important: on the original recording all instruments are tuned *UP* 1/4 step. Yes, 1/4!!

Intro:
G C D C
G Em C D

Guitar fill on G string:
G|--0-2-4-2---0---2---0---| (repeat)

 G                               C       D               G Em C D
Didn't I tell you everything is possible in this déjà vu?
  G                           C             D               G Em C D
Try the river boat, the carousel, feed the pigeons, Bar-B-Q
 Em             C              G          D
Look at all the people, happy faces all around
 Em                C            G           D
Smiling, throwing kisses, busy making lazy sounds


Chorus:
           A  D          E        D
It's a bright June afternoon, it never gets dark
A        F#m  D              E
  Wah-wah!   Here comes the sun
            A     D         E              D
Get your green green tambourine, let's play in the park
A        F#m  D              E
  Wah-wah!   Here comes the sun

 G                                  C               D                   G Em C D (with intro guitar fill)
Some folks are on blankets, slowly daydreaming and reaching for their food
 G                               C        D            G Em C D (with intro guitar fill)
Let's go buy an ice-cream and a magazine with an attitude
    Em            C               G                   D
and put on a cassette, we can pretend that you're a star
    Em              C      G               D
cos life's so very simple just like la-la-la


Chorus

           C   G  D
comes the sun

Bridge:
          Em                    Bm
There's a painter painting his masterpiece
                Em               B
There are some squirrels jumping in the trees
           C                      G
There's a wide-eyed boy with a red balloon
       Bm                        D
All my life I've longed for this afternoon


(repeat intro before back to Chorus)

after Chorus 2x:
               A    F#m  D   E
It never gets dark...
               A    F#m  D
Let's play in the park

(there's some orchestration on the back here, doing a phrase in A major such as:)

B|---------2-3-5~--|
G|--2~---4---------|


-> Then there's a small stop with this orchestrated phrase:
G|--4-2-1-2~--2~----4-2-1-2~--|

it comes back to the chorus pattern, adding the same intro phrase one step up (on A):
G|--2-4-6-4---2---4---2---| (repeat)

then there's a similar phrase orchestrated, which goes:
G|--2-4-6-4---2---4---2-----2-4-6-4---2---9~--| (repeat)

and finally the other orchestrated little phrase:
e|--9-10-12--9-10-12~--|

That all gets repeated and fades out!