Gold chords by Peter Blegvad

Chords with lyrics

Gold - Peter Blegvad (Optional capo at 2nd Fret)

Played slowly

Intro:
D MajorD G/BG/B D MajorD

D MajorD       D/F#D/F#      G(add?7)
Gold would be worthless if it didn?t require
   E minor 7Em7
Such heartbreak to seek it
  A7sus4A7sus4    A7A7
To find it and mine it
D MajorD       D/F#D/F#    G(add?7)
Things remain precious as long as they?re rare
  E minor 7Em7            A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
If gold could be found lying ?round everywhere
      D MajorD E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA
It?d be the lowliest of metals
D MajorD          Asus2Asus2 A augmentedA
Too soft for serious use
Bm7Bm7    Em7/BEm7/B
Pretty of course
  D/F#D/F#    Bb6Bb6
And warm to the touch
    E minor 7Em7
But no longer alluring
      A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
When you?ve handled so much
D MajorD  E minor 7Em7     G+G   A augmentedA D MajorD G/BG/B D MajorD
The lowliest of metals

A minorAm                G+G
Will you come with me through the ice and the snow
  E minor 7Em7
She thought for a minute
   A7sus4A7sus4     A7A7
Then she said let?s go
D MajorD   D/F#D/F#
I rode behind her
  G(add?7)
And she rode ahead
  E minor 7Em7
And all through that winter
  A7sus4A7sus4    A7A7
I?d lose her and find her
  D MajorD
Our rations ran out
  F#F#
Our horses were dead
  G+G             E MajorE
She forgot what gold was and I had to remind her

D MajorD  E minor 7Em7     G+G   A augmentedA
The lowliest of metals
D MajorD          Asus2Asus2 A augmentedA
Too soft for serious use
Bm7Bm7    Em7/BEm7/B
Pretty of course
  D/F#D/F#    Bb6Bb6
And warm to the touch
    E minor 7Em7
But no longer alluring
      A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
When you?ve handled so much
D MajorD  E minor 7Em7     G+G   A augmentedA D MajorD G/BG/B D MajorD
The lowliest of metals

   D MajorD      D/F#D/F# G(add?7)
In a prospector?s shack she lay out of her mind
E minor 7Em7          A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
Describing how simple gold is to find
   A minorAm
Just under the surface
G+G
In zig-zagging veins
  Bb6Bb6             E MajorE
It lies there like branches of midsummer lightning
     D MajorD   D/F#D/F#    G(add?7)
You just open a hole in the crust of the plains
     E minor 7Em7          A7sus4A7sus4    A7A7
She said you reach in and it?s there for the taking
D MajorD E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA D MajorD G/BG/B D MajorD

D MajorD       D/F#D/F#    G(add?7)
Snow blind and starving I sat by her side
E minor 7Em7
As the fever raged in her
    A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
And the storm raged outside
     D MajorD
She said now we are rich
 F#F#
I told her the truth
    B minorBm           E MajorE
All the gold we had found could not crown a tooth
     D MajorD       D/F#D/F#  G(add?7)
She said these things I know without being told
    E MajorE
We are rich in each other
  Bb6Bb6
Now what good is gold

D MajorD      E minor 7Em7   G+G A augmentedA D MajorD G/BG/B D MajorD
It?s the lowliest of metals

   D MajorD      D/F#D/F#     G(add?7)
Well sometimes I dream that the world is reversed
 E minor 7Em7            A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
I dream that accountants are rarer than poets
   D MajorD       D/F#D/F#
That things?ll get better
      G+G
They can?t get any worse
    E minor 7Em7           Bb6Bb6
That a rich man has nothing but dirt in his purse

        D MajorD E minor 7Em7  G+G   A augmentedA
And gold is the lowest of metals
D MajorD          Asus2Asus2 A augmentedA
Too soft for serious use
Bm7Bm7    Em7/BEm7/B
Pretty of course
  D/F#D/F#    Bb6Bb6
And warm to the touch
    E minor 7Em7
But no longer alluring
      A7sus4A7sus4   A7A7
When you?ve handled so much
  D MajorD E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA
The lowliest of metals
  D MajorD E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA
The lowliest of metals
  D MajorD E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA D MajorD G/BG/B D MajorD
The lowliest of metals


This song is deceptively simple, as each verse has variations. On "King Strut", it is
played with a capo. On "Choices Under Pressure" there is no capo, and a chorus is omitted.

Some chords

   Bm7Bm7 Em7/BEm7/B D/F#D/F# Bb6Bb6  G(add?7)
 E MajorE  0  0   0   0   0
 BB  3  2   3   3   3
 G+G  2  0   2   0   0
 D MajorD  0  0   0   0   4
 A augmentedA  2  2   0   1   2
 E MajorE  x  x   2   x   3