A Song While You're Away chords by Tyler Childers

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse 1:

D

Up in your nephew's room, playing on his cousin's guitar
  G        D  Bm D
I wrote a song for you
D
You have done drove off with everything I need
  G          D
my box and my tumbleweed

Pre-Chorus:

 Bm      A       E
I picked it up on the way to Flagstaff years ago
   Bm       A
I was hanging on to everything
  E
you had the grace to show

Chorus:

A              Bm
You were young, and you were hungry
You were young, and you were hungry
   D          E F#m A
Lord knows, I was hungry too
    A        Bm
We were both, flat out starving
  D            E F#m A
For something worthwhile to lose

Instrumental:

A  B  D

Verse 2:

D
Looking over the hill, at the lights
of you hometown
 G           D
I wrote this song for you
D
Thinking of the way we met, a girl home from school
   G            D
And a boy, just passing through


Pre-Chorus:

 Bm       A       E
I got a job as a cut man, at a house just down the road
 Bm         A          E
I had never been to town before, and I didn't know a soul

Chorus:

   A        Bm
I was young, and I was hungry
   D          E F#m A
Lord knows, you were hungry too
    A        Bm
We were both, flat out starving
  D            E F#m A
For something worthwhile to lose
      A           Bm
You were my bread, and I was your honey
  D             E F#m A
Up against, the dark red wine
     A        Bm
Trying to hold on, to the lovely
      D         E F#m A
Through the bitter of our times

Instrumentl:

A  Bm  D  E F#m A (2x)

Bridge:

 G      D          E
Agate white wedding dress, and turquoise on your ring
 G         D       E
Upright bass and violin, as you walk the aisle to me



Chorus:
    A        Bm
I was young, and I was hungry
   D          E F#m A
Lord knows, you were hungry too
    A        Bm
We were both, flat out starving
  D            E F#m A
For something worthwhile to lose
      A            Bm
You were my bread, and I was your honey
  D             E F#m A
Up against, the dark red wine
     A        Bm
Trying to hold on, to the lovely
      D         E F#m A
Through the bitter of our times

Outro:


A  Bm  D  E F#m A (2x)