Nobody Knows chords by The Allman Brothers Band

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D MajorD

Intro:

A5A5


Verse 1:
 G/AG/A  D MajorD            A augmentedA
Nobody knows about what's going on
     G+G
With the wood and the steel
   D MajorD      A5A5
The flesh and the bone
 G/AG/A     D MajorD             A augmentedA
River keeps flowing and the grass still grows
     G+G          D MajorD   A augmentedA   DsusDsus
And the spirit keeps going, nobody knows

Verse 2:
G/AG/A    D MajorD           A augmentedA
Poets they come and the poets they go
  G+G              D MajorD      A5A5
Politicians and preachers they all claim to know
  G/AG/A       D MajorD            A augmentedA
The words that are written and the melody's played
    G+G              D MajorD      A5A5
As the years turn their pages, it all starts to fade

Chorus:
C5/A              D MajorD      A5A5
The oceans still move with the moon and the sky
  G5G5      D MajorD       A5A5
The grass still grows on the hillside

Coda:
Cmaj7Cmaj7        A5A5
Got to believe in believing
 Cmaj7Cmaj7        A5A5
Got to believe in a dream
 D MajorD          A5A5
Freedom is ever deceiving
    Cmaj7Cmaj7   G5G5       D MajorD
Never turning out to be what it seems

Instrumental Bridge:
F7F7 F7F7 Bb/FBb/F FF
  F7F7 Bb/FBb/F FF

Verse 3:
    G/AG/A    D MajorD        A augmentedA
It's amazing how fast our lives go by
     G+G               D MajorD     A augmentedA
Like the flash of the lightning or the blink of an eye
    G/AG/A   D MajorD         A augmentedA
We all fall in love, and we fall into life
  G+G             D MajorD     A5A5
We look for the truth on the edge of a knife

Instrumental:
F7F7 Bb/FBb/F FF
F7F7 Bb/FBb/F FF
G7G7 C majorC   G+G
G7G7 C majorC   G+G

Chorus 2:
 C5/A          D MajorD      A5A5
Heavens turn around the river still flows
 G5G5          D5D5   A minorAm
The spirit keeps going, nobody knows

Instrumental 2:
A5A5 C5/A B5B5 Am7Am7 D MajorD
A minorAm  Am7Am7 D MajorD  A minorAm  A5A5

Chorus:
G/AG/A       D MajorD          A augmentedA
Words that are written and melody's played
    G+G             D MajorD      A5A5
As the years turn their pages, it all start to fade
 G/AG/A           D MajorD       A5A5
Oceans still move with the moon and the sky
  G5G5      D MajorD      A5A5
The grass still grows on the hillside
 Cmaj7Cmaj7      A5A5
Got to believe in believing
 Cmaj7Cmaj7       A5A5
Got to believe in a dream
  D MajorD         A5A5
Freedom is ever deceiving
    Cmaj7Cmaj7     G5G5     D MajorD
Never turning out to be what it seems

Instrumental Outro:
Am7Am7 D MajorD A minorAm
Am7Am7 D MajorD A minorAm
A5A5  D MajorD A5A5