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Tuning: D# G# C# F# A# D#
These chords are based specifically on the live version he performs on the KUTX Austin channel with Rayland Baxter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9BpWuyb1X4 It is tuned down half a step and strummed (the strumming pattern is simple and can be picked up from the video. The trickiest part is during the C of the chorus where he adds a few quick strums but playing along you should easily pick it up. Other versions he plays are not tuned down and just in standard. I haven't quite worked out the specific picking pattern or the initial chord positions he uses so I've stuck to this one but for the most part they are the same so this is a good, simple jumping off point for all versions. The chords for the verse are (relative to the capo): Am (barre - 5th fret) - G (barre - third fret) G (open) - Am (open). So he plays only two chords but descends the neck using barres and then open chords. Fingering is thus: [Verse] Am 577555 G 355433 G 320033 Am x02210 [Bridge] D xx0232 Dsus4 xx0233 Em 022000 C/B 332010 [Pre Chorus] Bm x24432 Bm/Gb 224432 Bbm x13321 Am x02210 C6(9)/Gb 2x0210 [Chorus] G 320033 Em7 022030 C/B 332010 Shakey Graves - Climb on the Cross [Verse 1]
Well Amtell the Gtelevangelist she's Gout of a Amjob CauseAm I look good on a Gcross and I can Gsure sing Amalong OverrAmated, under-Geducated, Gsimple and Amdry Who kAmnew a man's Gfate was such a Ghard thing to Amfind
[Bridge]
But now I'm Dspending all my Dsus4money on a Em7badge and aC/B gun Cause shooting Dstrangers in the Dsus4back seems like a Em7lot more fC/Bun I'll just Dwalk around Dsus4pretending I'm the Em7only oC/Bne
[Pre-Chorus]
Never Bmlistened to my Bm/Gbteacher Trusted Bmevery word my Bm/Gbpreacher Bbmwould Amsay Always Bmthought the crosBm/Gbshair wasBm simply theBm/Gb sun oBbmn my Amface C6(9)/Gb
[Chorus]
But if Gnothing dies Emtomorrow why C/Bremember yesterday C/B When anG hour or more of Emsleep might do you gC/Bood C/B It's the Gwish I can't Emremember yeah it's the C/Bthing you'll never say C/B Oh, and I'd Gdo it all Emagain oh if I C/Bcould C/B
[Verse 2]
So fight your Amfamily and fGriends and let them Gknow you're the Ambest Yeah Amtattoo "radiGcal" right Gacross your Amchest AmNo need for Glove, you were Gborn to iAmmpress
[Pre Chorus]
Well, everyBmbody always Bm/Gbtold me if I Bmmade a funny Bm/Gbface it Bbmwould Amstay So you Bmbetter get Bm/Gbhip, come and take a Bmliking to me Bm/Gblooking Bbmthis Amway C6(9)/Gb
[Chorus and outro]
Yeah, cause it's been Gyears without a Emmemory Just C/Bears, a nose, a face C/B Yeah, just to Gfind out fucking Emup was in your C/Bblood C/B It's the Gwish I can't Emremember It's the C/Bthing you'll never say C/B And you'd Gdo it all Emagain, oh, if you cC/Bould C/B Yeah, you'd Gdo it all Emagain, oh, if you C/Bcould C/B Seems a Gyear until Emtomorrow Or a C/Bweek from yesterdayC/B GCounting never Emdid me any gC/Bood C/B It’s the Gwish I can’t reEmmember, the C/Bthing you’ll never say C/B I’d Gdo it all Emagain,oh, if I C/Bcould. C/B
-------------------------------------------------------- * C6(9)/Gb. I've seen this chord called other things but chord book calls it C6(9)/Gb. It's fingering is: 2x0210. Basically after playing Am, move the middle finger on to the second fret of the bottom E, making sure to mute the A string. ** In other versions he seems to play C/B instead of Am at the end of Verse 2 leading into the next pre-chorus *** I'm not sure if, on this version, he plays the Em on the bridge (he may go straight to C) but the other versions have either an Em or an Em7 and I think it is best left in when playing this one.