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)