The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star

Guitar chords and lyrics of Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles
Published 1979
Original key D#m

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Capo first fret

 

| Dm/F | C/E | Dm7 | Am |
| Dm/F | C/E | Dm7 | G |

 

C/E              Dm/F                 G                  G
I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
C/E    Dm/F                 G           G
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
C/E       Dm/F                G                       G
If I was young it didn’t stop you coming through

C/E Dm/F       G
Ow-A-ow-a

 

C/E                  Dm/F              G                  G
They took the credit for your second symphony
C/E          Dm/F                   G                  G
Rewritten by machine and new technology
C/E           Dm/F                  G                        G
And now I understand the problems you can see

C/E    Dm/F      G                G
Ow-a-ow-a      I met your children
C/E   Dm/F     G                     G
Ow-a-ow-a     What did you tell them?

 

C                        F
Video killed the radio star
C                        F
Video killed the radio star

 

C             G/B           F/A
Pictures came and broke your heart
G               Am
Ow-A-A-A-ow

 

C/E               Dm/F           G                  G
And now we meet in an abandoned studio
C/E                Dm/F                G                     G
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
C/E               Dm/F         G                  G
And you remember the jingles used to go

 

C/E     Dm/F    G                   G
Ow-a-ow-a      You were the first one
C/E     Dm/F    G                     G
Ow-a-ow-a      You were the last one

C                        F
Video killed the radio star
C                        F
Video killed the radio star

C        G/B          F/A
In my mind and in my car
C                 G/B            F/A
We can’t rewind we’ve gone too far

G                Am
Ow-A-A-A-ow
G                Am
Ow-A-A-A-ow

 

| Dm/F G | C/E F |
| Dm/F G | C/E F |
| Dm/F G | E/G# Am |
| Dm/F | C/G | Dm7 | G Am F | Am F G |

 

C                        F
Video killed the radio star
C                        F
Video killed the radio star

 

 

C        G/B          F/A
In my mind and in my car
C                 G/B            F/A
We can’t rewind we’ve gone too far
C             G/B           F/A
Pictures came and broke your heart
C/G         G          F* Fadd9 Fadd9
Put the blame on V     T      R

 

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.       C/E Dm     G     G      C/E                     Dm         G

You a————-re a radio sta——ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ar

.       C/E Dm     G     G      C/E                     Dm         G

You a————-re a radio sta——ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ar

 

 

C                        F
Video killed the radio star
C                        F
Video killed the radio star

C                        F
Video killed the radio star
C                        F
Video killed the radio star

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