We Do What We Can chords by Sheryl Crow

Verse 1:

Am9                        E7(#9#5)  E7(b9)
Downstairs they're playing Kenton

Am9               E7     Am9
The house set to swing

Am9          E7#9#5
I lay in my bed

   E7b9       Am9         E7
And listen to everything

Am9               E7(b9#5)
Cause Leo's in rare form tonight

Am9          E7(b9#5)
His trombone sings so sweet

Am9         E7(#9#5)
This is the room

         E7(b9)      Am9
Where they all come to meet


Chorus:

A7
And he said:

Dm7           A/C#  C6
I do what I can

                 G/B
I live for the moment

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

E7(#5)               Am9  A13(b9) A7(#5) A7
Yeah that's who I am

Dm7            A/C#   C6
And isn't it good

           G/B
If we could freeze moments in time

G/B         Bb9(b5)   E7
We all would

              Am9
I do what I can

              Am9
I do what I can


Verse 2:

Am9                         E7(#9#5) E7(b9)
Downstairs he's playing Kenton

Am9               E7
The Magnavox sighs

Am9            E7(#9#5)      E7(b9)
But oh how the music has changed

       Am9          E7
In all of our lives

Am9           E7(b9#5)
He says "nobody listens

Am9          E7(b9#5)
To modern jazz"

Am9         E7(b9#5)   E7(b9)       Am9    A7
And I'll never have what those guys have


Chorus:


A7
And he said:

Dm7           A/C#  C6
I do what I can

               G/B
I work for a living

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

E7(#5)               Am9  A13(b9) A7(#5) A7
Yeah that's who I am

Dm7                 A/C#   C6
And its good to be alive

           G/B
But ev'rything's different

G/B         Bb9(b5)   E7
Since Leo died

              Am9
I do what I can

              E7
I do what I can

Instrumental:

Dm7 Asus Am E7 Asus4sus2 Am

Bridge:


Dm7                      Asus      Am
Is this the end of the modern world?

E7                 Asus4sus2       Am
What could it mean for a young girl

    Dm          Asus         Am
Who sees the pain on his face?

   E7                Asus4sus2  Am
He does what he can

Dm                    Asus       Am
The procession on the T.V. screen

E7           Asus4sus2  Am
What could it possibly mean

      Dm                  Asus
For a man who's come this far

Am              E7  Asus4sus2 Am
Just to turn around

            Fmaj7          Asus         Am
Could there still be life in Kenton's swing

           E7               Asus4sus2 Am
With the Kennedys gone and everything

      Fmaj9         Dm/A               Em7       C/G
Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colors

Dm9      F6               Cmaj9
Democrat grandparents and draft-dodging brothers

Bb9                       E7sus
Riots down the street and discontented mothers

E7            Am    E5 Am9
We do what we can


Verse 3:

Am9              E7(#9#5)
Downstairs it's quiet

Am9              E7(#9#5)
Less alive somehow

Am9         E7(#9#5)    E7(b9)     Am9
Somehow he was everything that I am now


Chorus:


A7
He says:

Dm7           A/C#  C6
I do what I can

               G/B
I work for a living

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

E7(#5)               Am9  A13(b9) A7(#5) A7
Yeah that's who I am

Dm7                 A/C#   C6
And its good to be alive

           G/B
And these are the choices

G/B         Bb9(b5)   E7
We make to survive

                Am
We do what we can