Where Have All The Honest People Gone chords by Charley Crockett

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D MajorD

🎸 Intro:

| D MajorD  A/C#A/C# | E minorEm | A augmentedA | D MajorD |



🎸 Verse 1:
   D MajorD       A/C#A/C#     E minorEm
The people in this city call me country
  A augmentedA                 D MajorD
Because of how I walk and talk and smile
             A/C#A/C#       E minorEm
Well
I don't mind them laughing in the city
     A augmentedA               D MajorD
But the country folks all say I'm citified

🎸 Verse 2:
           A/C#A/C#      E minorEm
The fighting men may say that I'm a coward
  A augmentedA             D MajorD
Because I never push no one around
        A/C#A/C#       E minorEm
Gentle people call me trouble maker
A augmentedA                    D MajorD
 'Cause I'll always fight and stand my ground


🎸 Chorus:
 G+G       F# minorF#m
Funny I don't fit
E minorEm     D/F#D/F#   G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD
 Where have all the honest people gone?


🎸 Verse 3:
          A/C#A/C#       E minorEm
Some pious people point and call me sinner
  A augmentedA                 D MajorD
Because to them I've never seen the lights
         A/C#A/C#     E minorEm
Other folks think of me as a preacher
A augmentedA                D MajorD
I'm just doing what I think is right


🎸 Verse 4:
         A/C#A/C#       E minorEm
Wealthy people think that I am a hobo
 A augmentedA                 D MajorD
Lean and hungry, writing mournful songs
              A/C#A/C#    E minorEm
And the poor, poor people think I am a rich man
   A augmentedA                D MajorD
But really
I'm just trying to get along

🎸 Chorus:
      G+G       F# minorF#m
Yes, it's funny I don't fit
    E minorEm     D/F#D/F#   G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD
Tell me where have all the honest people gone?


🎸 Instrumental:
| E MajorE  B/D#B/D# | F# minorF#m | BB |


🎸 Verse 5:
     E MajorE       B/D#B/D#    F# minorF#m
And the government has given me a number
  BB               E MajorE
To simplify my birth and life and death
           B/D#B/D#       F# minorF#m
And still somebody thinks I'm awful important
 BB                E MajorE
That's enough if she's all I got left


🎸 Chorus:
      A augmentedA       G# minorG#m
Yeah, it's funny I don't fit
F# minorF#m     E/G#   A augmentedA   BB   E MajorE
 Where have all the honest people gone?
   A augmentedA       G# minorG#m
It's funny I don't fit
F# minorF#m     E/G#   A augmentedA   BB   E MajorE
 Where have all the honest people gone?


Ending:
| E MajorE  B/D#B/D# | F# minorF#m | BB | E MajorE | 2x