If You Could Break That Chain chords by The Show Ponies

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A augmentedA

Difficulty: Novice

The Show Ponies – If You Could Break That Chain
Song in A augmentedA

CAPO II

Intro:
  G+G                 C majorC
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
BB|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|---------------------------------|
G+G|---0---0---0---0---0---2---0---0-|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----|
D MajorD|---------------------------------|---4---4---4---4---4---2---0-----|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------|-3---------------------------2-0-|
E MajorE|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|---------------------------------|

  G+G                 C majorC
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
BB|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|---------------------------------|
G+G|---0---0---0---0---0---2---0---0-|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----|
D MajorD|---------------------------------|---4---4---4---4---4---2---0-2-0-|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
E MajorE|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|---------------------------------|

Verse 1:
G+G                  C majorC         G+G
Not craving in a piece of stone, in silver, bronze or gold
  D MajorD                 C majorC       G+G
My idols meet me at my work and they follow me back home
   G+G            C majorC       G+G
At my altar of profession, the skills I have acquired
        D MajorD               C majorC      G+G
The sacrifices growing in succession, and my worship is required

Chorus:
     A minorAm       C majorC      D MajorD           G+G
So I can finally sit and marvel at my slaughtered bulls and lambs
   E minorEm    Em/F#  G+G          C majorC
On a shattered slab of marble that somehow makes me
   D MajorD       G+G
That makes me who I am

Interlude with intro riff:
G+G
C majorC
G+G
C majorC

Verse 2:
     G+G                      C majorC         G+G
I’ve only known one way to face this curse, that’s to find my worth within my work
  D MajorD                     C majorC        G+G
To make my sweat water this earth until they lay me back down in the dirt
   G+G                  C majorC         G+G
They say a man is made of clay and he was made to rest each seventh day
    D MajorD             C majorC       G+G
For the sake of my own name I will make myself a home

Chorus:
     A minorAm   Am/B   C majorC          D MajorD       G+G
So I can see you once I’ve paid my dues and the daily debts I own
     E minorEm   Em/F# G+G            C majorC    D MajorD       G+G
And I can take my rest under a room and have you beg me, beg me not to go

Guitar solo:
G+G
C majorC  G+G
D MajorD
C majorC  G+G
G MajorG
C majorC  G+G
D MajorD
C majorC  G+G

Chorus chords:
A minorAm Am/B C majorC
D MajorD    G+G
E minorEm Em/F# G+G
C majorC    D MajorD
G+G

Verse 3:
  G+G                 C majorC      G+G
So what then would I be if I stopped doing what I do?
  D MajorD          C majorC      G+G
And nobody could see the trouble I go through
  G+G                C majorC      G+G
To make something that’s worth the hardship I endured
  D MajorD             C majorC         G+G
To live under this curse and work to find it’s cure

Chorus:
    A minorAm     Am/B  C majorC         D MajorD         G+G
There’s twenty-nine links around my legs and each one bares my name
 E minorEm    Em/F#  G+G         C majorC       D MajorD        G+G
I won’t be worried long if you could break, if you could break that chain

Outro with intro riff:
G+G
C majorC
G+G
C majorC
G+G