Change chords by Tracy Chapman

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Change  Lyrics and Music by: Tracy Chapman

Intro (2x) |DmDm [*] |Bb majorBb - - - |FF - - - |CIII - - - | [*] = 1st string: --1---1/3--1-0—


Verse 1
    FF       C majorC
If you knew you would die today,
    DmDm [*]     Bb majorBb
If you saw the face of God and Love,
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?

Verse 2
    FF         C majorC
If you knew that love can break you heart,
      DmDm [*]     Bb majorBb
When you’re down so low you cannot fall,
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?

Refrain  G minorGm                  FF [riff 1]  C majorC
How bad, how good does it need to get?
  G minorGm               FF   [riff 1]  C majorC
How many losses, how much regret?
  G minorGm                   FF [riff 1]  C majorC
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
  G minorGm            C majorC
Makes you turn around,  makes you try to explain,
  Bb majorBb                G minorGm
Makes you forgive and forget,  makes you chaaaaaaaaaange?

DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb       FF [riff 2]   C majorC
         Makes you change
DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb       FF [riff 2]   C majorC


Verse 3
    FF          C majorC
If you knew that you would be alone,
DmDm [*]    Bb majorBb
Knowing right, being wrong,
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?

Verse 4
    FF          C majorC
If you knew that you would find a truth,
   DmDm [*]       Bb majorBb
That brings up pain, that can’t be soothed,
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?

Repeat Refrain

Bridge  A augmentedA                 DmDm
Are you so upright you can’t be bent?
      C majorC        A augmentedA              DmDm
If it comes to blows  are you sure you won’t be crawling?
   C majorC           Bb majorBb         C majorC
If not for good, why risk falling?  Why risk falling?

Verse 5
  FF       C majorC
If everything you think you know,
DmDm [*]      Bb majorBb
Makes your life unbearable,
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?
	Verse 6
     FF      C majorC
If you’d broken every rule and vow,
  DmDm [*]      Bb majorBb
And hard times come to bring you down,
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?

Verse 7  (2x)
    FF          C majorC      DmDm [*]    Bb majorBb
If you knew that you would die today,
    FF        C majorC        DmDm [*]    Bb majorBb
If you saw the face of God and Love
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?
     FF     C majorC
Would you change?
     DmDm [*]  Bb majorBb
Would you change?

Outro

     FF      C majorC            DmDm   Bb majorBb      FF (end of FF)
e||-----5---5---5----5---6---5----|-----5---5---5----5---6---5----|
BB||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G+G||---5---5---5---5---------------|---5---5---5---5---------------|
D MajorD||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A augmentedA||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
E MajorE||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|


Riff 1  FF      C majorC
e||-----5---5---5----5---6---5----|
BB||-------------------------------|
G+G||---5---5---5---5---------------|
D MajorD||-------------------------------|
A augmentedA||-------------------------------|
E MajorE||-------------------------------|

Riff 2  FF      C majorC
e||---------------------|
BB||-----1-1-------------|
G+G||----------3-2-0------|
D MajorD||---------------------|
A augmentedA||---------------------|
E MajorE||---------------------|

Chords: Dm: 000231  Bb: 113331 F: 133211 C: 335553 Gm: 355333  A: 577655