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Good Help Is So Hard To Find Chords by Death Cab For Cutie

Good Help Is So Hard To Find chords by Death Cab For Cutie

Guitar chords with lyrics

A great live acoustic version of DCFC's Good Help (Is So Hard to Find). Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Q4TfDk-cw

Standard tuning. Capo second fret. Chord shapes relative to capo.

Ben hammers on and off as accents throughout the song, and the switch to the G/C back to the G is quick.
Watch the video for timing. Because there are 10 chords used in the song, I've broken them up into sections.
I hope that makes it more readable. And thanks to my guitar teacher for filling in the holes I originally had
in the chorus.

Verses:
G: 320003
G/C: 3x2013
Em: 022000

Pre-chorus:
Am: x02210
C: x32000
Dadd11: x54030
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Chorus:
x7900x: E5
x5700x: D5
x3500x: C5
02500x: G/B


[Intro]

G               G/C     G
                        Em


[Verse 1]

G                             G/C   G
You'll never have to hear the word "no"
                                          Em
If you keep all your friends on the payroll
The non-disclosure pages signed
Your secret's safe between those lines


[Verse 2]

G                                 G/C  G
The scaffolding will cheer and console you
                                      Em
But remember what your mother told you
That good help is so hard to find
For people that are so refined


[Pre-chorus]

Am
You're trying to turn into the skid
                         C    Dadd11
In this never-ending grid


[Chorus]

          E5    D5   C5    G/B
There's a long, slow fade
     E5 D5    C5    G/B
To a darkened stage
      E5   D5  C5    G/B
And I hear you say
        E5         D5 C5    G/B
"Only a fool gives it away"
        Am
Only a fool would give
        C
Only a fool gives it away


[Verse 3]

G                            G/C   G
You said you wanna stake out your claim
                                       Em
High above the city from where you came
Don't you know the air's so thin?
It starves the brain of oxygen


[Verse 4]

G                       G/C   G
I know it's such a dangerous place
                                                 Em
For there are more ascensions than there is space
Angels causing accidents
The camera phones'll document


[Pre-chorus]

Am
But if I start to levitate
                           C       Dadd11
Pull me down with all your weight


[Chorus]

          E5    D5   C5    G/B
There's a long, slow fade
     E5 D5    C5    G/B
To a darkened stage
      E5   D5  C5    G/B
And I hear you say
        E5         D5 C5    G/B
"Only a fool gives it away"
        Am
Only a fool would give
        C
Only a fool gives it away


G               G/C     G


[Pre-chorus]

Am
You're trying to turn into the skid
                        Em
In this never-ending grid
Am
But you should know it's not ideal
                              C       Dadd11
With all those hands upon the wheel


[Chorus]

          E5    D5   C5    G/B
There's a long, slow fade
     E5 D5    C5    G/B
To a darkened stage
      E5   D5  C5    G/B
And I hear you say
        E5         D5 C5    G/B
"Only a fool gives it away"


          E5    D5   C5    G/B
There's a long, slow fade
     E5 D5    C5    G/B
To a darkened stage
      E5   D5  C5    G/B
And I hear you say
        E5         D5 C5    G/B
"Only a fool gives it away"
        Am
Only a fool would give
        C
Only a fool would give
        C                    G

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