Stories To Tell chords by Dave Barnes

Chords with lyrics

Artist: Dave Barnes
Album: Stories to Tell

Open standard tuning.

The { C9C9 C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7 } run which appears a few times at the end of various parts
(intro, interlude and mid-verses) is played using the following voicings:
C9:  X32013
C:   X32010
Cmaj7: X32000

Intro:
Fmaj7Fmaj7  Cmaj7Cmaj7  Fmaj7Fmaj7  C9C9 C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7


Verse 1:
Cmaj7Cmaj7      Fmaj7Fmaj7
Let's get to bed early
            Cmaj7Cmaj7
Sneak out right before the sunrise
           Fmaj7Fmaj7
We don't need all the goodbyes
           C9C9 C majorC  Cmaj7Cmaj7
We won't be gone for long
        Fmaj7Fmaj7
Oh, baby, don't worry
          Cmaj7Cmaj7
I hid away a little money
          Fmaj7Fmaj7
We don't need much, honey
           Cmaj7Cmaj7
Enough just to get us home

Pre-chorus 1:
      Fmaj   C majorC      G+G
Let's don't wait 'til love comes undone


Chorus:
          C majorC
There's life to be lived
        A minorAm
And stories to tell
      E minorEm
Lessons to learn
       Fmaj7Fmaj7  FF
We don't know yet
      C majorC
Nothing to lack, looking back
    A minorAm          FF   G+G
Knowing that we have lived it well
G+G        Fmaj7Fmaj7
With stories to tell

Interlude:
Fmaj7Fmaj7  Cmaj7Cmaj7  Fmaj7Fmaj7  Cmaj7Cmaj7


Verse 2:
        Fmaj7Fmaj7
What about California
       Cmaj7Cmaj7
LA out by the seaside?
           Fmaj7Fmaj7
Watch the sun turn to moonlight
              C9C9 C majorC  Cmaj7Cmaj7
Then stay up and talk 'til dawn
     Fmaj7Fmaj7
Maybe Carolina
          Cmaj7Cmaj7
Hide out up in the mountains
            Fmaj7Fmaj7
A augmentedA week or two, no one's counting
           Cmaj7Cmaj7
Come back before too long

Pre-chorus 2:
     Fmaj   C majorC      G+G
We won't wait 'til love comes undone


Chorus:
          C majorC
There's life to be lived
        A minorAm
And stories to tell
      E minorEm
Lessons to learn
       Fmaj7Fmaj7  FF
We don't know yet
      C majorC
Nothing to lack, looking back
    A minorAm          FF   G+G
Knowing that we have lived it well
G+G        FF
With stories to tell


Bridge 1:
FF
The sea and the cities
C majorC
The runway lights
A minorAm
The highway humming
G+G
Staying awake all night
FF
How all those mountains
C majorC
Turned to desert sand
A minorAm
Let's just disappear
   G+G
Come on baby, take my hand


Part-chorus:
          C majorC
There's life to be lived
        A minorAm
And stories to tell
      E minorEm
Lessons to learn
       Fmaj7Fmaj7 (let ring)
We don't know yet


Chorus:
          C majorC
There's life to be lived
        A minorAm
And stories to tell
      E minorEm
Lessons to learn
       Fmaj7Fmaj7  FF
We don't know yet
      C majorC
Nothing to lack, looking back
    A minorAm          FF   G+G
Knowing that we have lived it well
G+G        FF
With stories to tell


Bridge 2:
FF
The sea and the cities
C majorC
The runway lights
A minorAm
The highway humming
G+G
Staying awake all night
FF
How all those mountains
C majorC
Turned to desert sand
A minorAm      C9C9 C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7
Let's disappear