We Do What We Can chords by Sheryl Crow

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

Am9Am9            E7(#9#5) E7(b9)
Downstairs they're playing Kenton

Am9Am9        E7E7   Am9Am9
The house set to swing

Am9Am9     E7#9#5
I lay in my bed

  E7b9E7b9    Am9Am9     E7E7
And listen to everything

Am9Am9        E7(b9#5)
Cause Leo's in rare form tonight

Am9Am9     E7(b9#5)
His trombone sings so sweet

Am9Am9     E7(#9#5)
This is the room

     E7(b9)   Am9Am9
Where they all come to meet

Chorus:

A7A7
And he said:

Dm7Dm7      A/C#A/C# C6C6
I do what I can

         G/BG/B
I live for the moment

G/BG/B        Bb9(b5) E7(#5)
And that's who I am

E7(#5)        Am9Am9 A13(b9) A7(#5) A7A7
Yeah that's who I am

Dm7Dm7      A/C#A/C#  C6C6
And isn't it good

      G/BG/B
If we could freeze moments in time

G/BG/B     Bb9(b5)  E7E7
We all would

       Am9Am9
I do what I can

       Am9Am9
I do what I can

Verse 2:

Am9Am9             E7(#9#5) E7(b9)
Downstairs he's playing Kenton

Am9Am9        E7E7
The Magnavox sighs

Am9Am9      E7(#9#5)   E7(b9)
But oh how the music has changed

    Am9Am9     E7E7
In all of our lives

Am9Am9      E7(b9#5)
He says "nobody listens

Am9Am9     E7(b9#5)
To modern jazz"

Am9Am9     E7(b9#5)  E7(b9)    Am9Am9  A7A7
And I'll never have what those guys have


Chorus:


A7A7
And he said:

Dm7Dm7      A/C#A/C# C6C6
I do what I can

        G/BG/B
I work for a living

G/BG/B        Bb9(b5) E7(#5)
And that's who I am

E7(#5)        Am9Am9 A13(b9) A7(#5) A7A7
Yeah that's who I am

Dm7Dm7         A/C#A/C#  C6C6
And its good to be alive

      G/BG/B
But ev'rything's different

G/BG/B     Bb9(b5)  E7E7
Since Leo died

       Am9Am9
I do what I can

       E7E7
I do what I can

Instrumental:

Dm7Dm7 AsusAsus A minorAm E7E7 Asus4sus2 A minorAm

Bridge:


Dm7Dm7           AsusAsus   A minorAm
Is this the end of the modern world?

E7E7         Asus4sus2    A minorAm
What could it mean for a young girl

  DmDm     AsusAsus     A minorAm
Who sees the pain on his face?

  E7E7        Asus4sus2 A minorAm
He does what he can

DmDm          AsusAsus    A minorAm
The procession on the T.V. screen

E7E7      Asus4sus2 A minorAm
What could it possibly mean

   DmDm         AsusAsus
For a man who's come this far

A minorAm       E7E7 Asus4sus2 A minorAm
Just to turn around

      Fmaj7Fmaj7     AsusAsus     A minorAm
Could there still be life in Kenton's swing

      E7E7        Asus4sus2 A minorAm
With the Kennedys gone and everything

   FMaj9Fmaj9     Dm/A        E minor 7Em7    C/GC/G
Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colors

Dm9Dm9   F6F6        CMaj9Cmaj9
Democrat grandparents and draft-dodging brothers

Bb9Bb9            E7sus
Riots down the street and discontented mothers

E7E7      A minorAm  E5E5 Am9Am9
We do what we can


Verse 3:

Am9Am9       E7(#9#5)
Downstairs it's quiet

Am9Am9       E7(#9#5)
Less alive somehow

Am9Am9     E7(#9#5)  E7(b9)   Am9Am9
Somehow he was everything that I am now


Chorus:


A7A7
He says:

Dm7Dm7      A/C#A/C# C6C6
I do what I can

        G/BG/B
I work for a living

G/BG/B        Bb9(b5) E7(#5)
And that's who I am

E7(#5)        Am9Am9 A13(b9) A7(#5) A7A7
Yeah that's who I am

Dm7Dm7         A/C#A/C#  C6C6
And its good to be alive

      G/BG/B
And these are the choices

G/BG/B     Bb9(b5)  E7E7
We make to survive

        A minorAm
We do what we can