Airplane chords by David Rawlings

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

words and music by David Rawlings from the album POOR DAVID’S ALMANACK (2017)

capo on 2nd fret, starting with a G+G chord (key of A augmentedA)

Intro:
G+G  |C majorC  |D MajorD  |E minorEm C majorC |

Verse 1:
G+G     C majorC
Listen up to what I say
D MajorD         E minorEm         C majorC
Fill your own cup if you're tired of me
G+G       C majorC
Can't you see that life's a bitch
D MajorD            E minorEm      C majorC
Cause you don't want me, and I can't live?

Verse 2:
G+G      C majorC
A augmentedA heavy load, heavy mind
D MajorD         E minorEm         C majorC
Out on the road we never had too much time
G+G       C majorC
You don't know how it feels
D MajorD       E minorEm         C majorC
To go so slow, rollin' on a rubber wheel

Chorus:
        G+G         C majorC
But if I had an airplane, if I had wings
    D MajorD      E minorEm       C majorC
I'd go flying over every sorrowful thing
      G+G           C majorC
I'd fly to Tennessee just for the day
      D MajorD       E minorEm       C majorC
Lay me down easy, just to while my blues away
      G+G
If I had an airplane


Instrumental:
G+G   |C majorC   |D MajorD   |E minorEm C majorC |
G+G   |C majorC   |D MajorD   |E minorEm C majorC |
E minorEm C majorC |E minorEm C majorC |D MajorD   |D MajorD   |

Chorus:
      G+G         C majorC
If I had an airplane, if I had wings
    D MajorD      E minorEm       C majorC
I'd go flying over every sorrowful thing
      G+G           C majorC
I'd fly to Tennessee just for the day
      D MajorD       E minorEm       C majorC
Lay me down easy, just to while my blues away

Instrumental, Outtro:
E minorEm C majorC |E minorEm C majorC |E minorEm C majorC |D MajorD  | (x2)

      E minorEm   C majorC   E minorEm   C majorC
I'd fly to Tennessee ...
      E minorEm   C majorC   D MajorD
just for the day
      E minorEm    C majorC    E minorEm   C majorC   E minorEm   C majorC   D MajorD