Gold chords by Peter Blegvad

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

Played slowly

Intro:
D  G/B  D

D             D/F#            G(add?7)
Gold would be worthless if it didn?t require
     Em7
Such heartbreak to seek it
   A7sus4       A7
To find it and mine it
D             D/F#        G(add?7)
Things remain precious as long as they're rare
   Em7                       A7sus4      A7
If gold could be found lying ?round everywhere
            D  Em7      G     A
It'd be the lowliest of metals
D                    Asus2 A
Too soft for serious use
Bm7       Em7/B
Pretty of course
    D/F#        Bb6
And warm to the touch
       Em7
But no longer alluring
            A7sus4      A7
When you've handled so much
D   Em7         G     A D G/B D
The lowliest of metals

Am                                G
Will you come with me through the ice and the snow
    Em7
She thought for a minute
     A7sus4         A7
Then she said let's go
D      D/F#
I rode behind her
    G(add?7)
And she rode ahead
    Em7
And all through that winter
    A7sus4       A7
I'd lose her and find her
    D
Our rations ran out
    F#
Our horses were dead
    G                          E
She forgot what gold was and I had to remind her

D   Em7         G     A
The lowliest of metals
D                    Asus2 A
Too soft for serious use
Bm7       Em7/B
Pretty of course
    D/F#        Bb6
And warm to the touch
       Em7
But no longer alluring
            A7sus4      A7
When you've handled so much
D   Em7         G     A D G/B D
The lowliest of metals

     D            D/F#  G(add?7)
In a prospector?s shack she lay out of her mind
Em7                    A7sus4     A7
Describing how simple gold is to find
     Am
Just under the surface
G
In zig-zagging veins
   Bb6                          E
It lies there like branches of midsummer lightning
         D      D/F#        G(add?7)
You just open a hole in the crust of the plains
         Em7                   A7sus4        A7
She said you reach in and it's there for the taking
D  Em7      G     A D G/B D

D              D/F#       G(add?7)
Snow blind and starving I sat by her side
Em7
As the fever raged in her
       A7sus4      A7
And the storm raged outside
         D
She said now we are rich
  F#
I told her the truth
        Bm                      E
All the gold we had found could not crown a tooth
         D              D/F#    G(add?7)
She said these things I know without being told
       E
We are rich in each other
    Bb6
Now what good is gold

D           Em7     G  A D G/B D
It's the lowliest of metals

     D            D/F#          G(add?7)
Well sometimes I dream that the world is reversed
  Em7                       A7sus4     A7
I dream that accountants are rarer than poets
     D             D/F#
That things?ll get better
           G
They can't get any worse
       Em7                      Bb6
That a rich man has nothing but dirt in his purse


                D  Em7    G     A
And gold is the lowest of metals
D                    Asus2 A
Too soft for serious use
Bm7       Em7/B
Pretty of course
    D/F#        Bb6
And warm to the touch
       Em7
But no longer alluring
            A7sus4      A7
When you've handled so much
    D  Em7      G     A
The lowliest of metals
    D  Em7      G     A
The lowliest of metals
    D  Em7      G     A D G/B D
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

      Bm7  Em7/B  D/F#  Bb6    G(add?7)
  E   0    0      0     0      0
  B   3    2      3     3      3
  G   2    0      2     0      0
  D   0    0      0     0      4
  A   2    2      0     1      2
  E   x    x      2     x      3