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Daily Demo: Crazy for You (Madonna cover w/lyrics & chords)

November 4, 2009 by krisis

Cover: Crazy for You (live demo)
Last recorded fall 2002.

There are no Madonna songs released before 1990 that I don’t like. Well, except “The Gambler,” but I don’t think I heard that until I graduated college.

In the 80s there were no iTunes downloads or mix CDs, and the Vision Quest soundtrack that originated “The Gambler” and “Crazy For You” was pretty frigging obscure. While sister soundtrack single “Into the Groove” made an appearance on You Can Dance, “Crazy For You” was a 45-only delight for me.

Until The Immaculate Collection.

Sure, I had all the other songs already (yes, including “Vogue,” it’s on I’m Breathless)(and, no, not “Rescue Me,” but that wasn’t such a big revelation), but suddenly I had “Crazy For You” at my fingertips – on a tape!

Oh, the pleasures of a simpler time – when songs were actually obscure.

As Madonna covers go, “Crazy For You” was always high on my list of tricky songs to achieve along with “Lucky Star” and “Vogue” – it’s boring as a series of half-barres in standard, and it’s impossible to accurately play the intro riff inside of the chords that way.

For the guitar nerds out there, keep reading for chords and instructions on how to play my alternate tuning arrangement.

(In other news, the backing vocals from this are the same as the ones in Tori’s “Tear In Your Hand.”)

I play this song in E B B F# E B – open Esus2 – a tuning I learned from Ani DiFranco. It’s perfect fit for this song!

Tune your A up to B and then lower your D to match. Then tune your G a half-step – it will match the 7th fret on your pair of Bs.

Intro/riff: play the riff inside of strumming the chord
E(s2): 000000, f#: 2, 3, 5
Aadd9: 555000, f#: 5, 3, 2
B: x0000x, b: 7, 9, 5
Aadd9, A/B: 755000

Verse:
E, Aadd9, Badd9: 777000
(at the end of a mid-verse section, use a A/B)

Last two lines of verse:
E, Aadd9, E/G#: 450000
C#m: 999000, G/A: 533000, A/B: 755000

Like so: [E] You’re so close but [Aadd9] still a [E/G#] world [C#] away, but what I’m [G/A] trying to [A/B] say.

Chorus:
E, Aadd9, E/G#, C#m, D6: 10-10-10-0-0-0, Aadd9, E/G#, F#m: 222000, Aadd9

2nd Chorus: start from the F#m of the chorus
C#m, E, F#m, G#m: 444x0x, C#m, D6, Aadd9, E/G#, F#m, Aadd9

Swaying room as the music starts
Strangers making the most of the dark
Two by two their bodies become one

I see you through the smokey air
Can’t you feel the weight of my stare
You’re so close but still a world away
What I’m dying to say, is that

I’m crazy for you, touch me once and you’ll know it’s true
I never wanted anyone like this
It’s all brand new, you’ll feel it in my kiss
I’m crazy for you, crazy for you

Trying hard to control my heart
I walk over to where you are
Eye to eye we need no words at all

Slowly now we begin to move
Every breath I’m deeper into you
Soon we two are standing still in time
If you read my mind, you’ll see

I’m crazy for you, touch me once and you’ll know it’s true
I never wanted anyone like this
It’s all brand new, you’ll feel it in my kiss
I’m crazy for you, crazy for you

Its all brand new, im crazy for you
and you know its true, I’m crazy, crazy for you
Crazy for you baby
I’m crazy for you

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  1. iConJohn says

    November 5, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    I have just about every Madonna lp, cd and 45 up till 1991. The one thing about Crazy for You was that I believe it was released on Geffen Records. I wrestled in high school so I’ve seen Vision Quest many times and never thought that Crazy for You would become somewhat obscure. I’ll download when I get home.

  2. krisis says

    November 5, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    I don’t think it’s obscure any longer – it was on Immaculate and the subsequent Something to Remember ballads disc, and I’m sure the new box as well. It was just relatively obscure for the general consumer pre-Immaculate – and certainly in comparison to a hit song from a movie soundtrack now.

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