Poor Boy chords by Blind Pilot

Chords with lyrics

Chords Used:
 G/C G/Em  E minorEm  Fmaj7Fmaj7 F minorFm  DmDm   G+G
e|-0-----0-----0-----0-----1-----1-----3-|
BB|-1-----0-----0-----1-----1-----3-----3-|
G+G|-0-----0-----0-----2-----1-----2-----0-|
D MajorD|-2-----2-----2-----3-----3-----0-----0-|
A augmentedA|-3-----2-----2-----3-----3-----x-----2-|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----0-----x-----x-----x-----3-|


Intro: 2x
(C majorC with changing BB string note)
e|-0---0---0---0-|
BB|-1---0---3---1-|
G+G|-0---0---0---0-|
D MajorD|-2---2---2---2-|
A augmentedA|-3---3---3---3-|
E MajorE|-x---x---x---x-|

Intro part2:

G/C G/Em E minorEm Fmaj7Fmaj7

G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7

G/C G/Em E minorEm      Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C   G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Poor boy, why don't you try getting water?

G/C G/Em E minorEm      Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C   G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Poor boy, why don't you try getting sleep?

G/C G/Em   E minorEm      Fmaj7Fmaj7  G/C  G/Em DmDm
I  think if one of us is going to suffer

  Fmaj7Fmaj7      G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Why shouldn't it be me?


G/C G/Em   E minorEm   Fmaj7Fmaj7  G/C  G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Poor boy, your wife is in hard labor

  G/C    G/Em    E minorEm     Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C  G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
The rhythm you know is pulsing and drifting to the grave

G/C      G/Em     E minorEm     Fmaj7Fmaj7     G/C    G/Em DmDm
When you come to you'll be asking yourself just one question

   Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C G/Em DmDm
Was I always this way?

   Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Was I always this way?
G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7 1x

G/C     G/Em   E minorEm     Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C   G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Think back a year when everything stood at the surface

  G/C     G/Em      E minorEm       Fmaj7Fmaj7   G/C  G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
But bandage your cuts 'cause you don't know what swims underneath

G/C G/Em   E minorEm     Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C   G/Em DmDm
Hold tight the bondage of this life is slipping

  Fmaj7Fmaj7      G/C G/Em DmDm
Why shouldn't it be me?

  Fmaj7Fmaj7      G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Why shouldn't it be me?

G/C G/Em DmDm G+G Fmaj7Fmaj7 (hold)

      F minorFm
When I come back

       G/C      G/Em     DmDm   G+G  Fmaj7Fmaj7 (hold)
You'll be the brightest star   in the black

        F minorFm
When there are days

         G/C    G/Em    DmDm  G+G
That you want the call we're all waiting for

   G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Think back

G/C G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7 1x


G/C G/Em   E minorEm   Fmaj7Fmaj7  G/C  G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Poor boy, your wife is in hard labor

G/C G/Em  E minorEm       Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C  G/Em DmDm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Go  buy the flowers you'll leave on its grave

  G/C      G/Em  E minorEm      Fmaj7Fmaj7    G/C    G/Em DmDm
You went with the goal of movement now one thing is different

  Fmaj7Fmaj7     G/C   G/Em  DmDm
You don't want to change

 Fmaj7Fmaj7     G/C (hold)
I don't want to change