Smalltown Boy chords by Dido

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: Bbm

For 🎸 Intro:
 Picking pattern
For

🎸 Verse 1: Picking pattern
For 🎸 Verse 2: Picking pattern
For 🎸 Chorus 1: Picking pattern
For 🎸 Verse 3: First chord strum once + picking pattern + cajon + tambourine
For 🎸 Verse 4: Picking pattern + cajon + tambourine, start strumming pattern on C
For 🎸 Chorus 2: Strumming pattern + cajon + tambourine
For 🎸 Bridge: Strumming pattern + cajon + tambourine
For

🎸 Verse 1: First chord strum once, other chords pick each once on 1, picking pattern on Dm,
then strumming pattern
For 🎸 Chorus: Strumming pattern + cajon + tambourine
For Outro (like Bridge): Strumming pattern + cajon + tambourine

Picking pattern:
 Am   G    Dm   C Cadd9 C
e|------------------1--1-----------|
B|--1--1----3--3----3--3----1--3-1-|
G|--2--2----0--0---2--2--2--0--0-0-|
D|-2--2--2-0--0--00--0--0--2--2----|
A|0--0--0-----------------3--3--3--|
E|--------3--3--3------------------|



🎸 Intro:

Am  G  Dm  C Cadd9 C




🎸 Verse 1:
  Am
You leave in the morning
   G
With everything you own
   Dm      C
In a little black case
 Am
Alone on a platform
  G
The wind and the rain
   Dm   C Cadd9 C
On a sad and lonely
Am  G   Dm  C Cadd9 C
face


🎸 Verse 2:
Am        G
Mother will never understand
    Dm      C Cadd9 C
Why you had to leave
    Am
But the answers you seek
   G         Dm  C
Will never be found at home
  Am
The love that you need
   G         Dm  C
Will never be found at home


🎸 Chorus:
   Am
Run away, turn away
   G          Dm  C
Run away, turn away, run away
   Am
Run away, turn away
   G          Dm  C Cadd9 C
Run away, turn away, run away


🎸 Verse 3:
Am        G
Pushed around and kicked around
     Dm     C
Always a lonely boy
Am
You were the one
      G         Dm
That they'd talk about around town
        C Cadd9 C
As they put you down


🎸 Verse 4:
    Am         G
And as hard as they would try
        Dm      C Cadd9 C
They'd hurt to make you cry
    Am       G
But you never cried to them
       Dm  C
Just to your soul
    Am       G
No, you never cried to them
       Dm  C
Just to your soul


🎸 Chorus:
   Am
Run away, turn away
   G          Dm  C
Run away, turn away, run away
   Am
Run away, turn away
   G          Dm  C
Run away, turn away, run away


🎸 Bridge:
Am G Dm C
Cry
Am G Dm C
Cry
Am G Dm C
Cry
Am G Dm C
Cry




🎸 Verse 1:
  Am
You leave in the morning
   G
With everything you own
   Dm      C
In a little black case
 Am
Alone on a platform
  G
The wind and the rain
   Dm   C
On a sad and lonely
Am  G   Dm  C
face


🎸 Chorus:
   Am
Run away, turn away
   G          Dm  C
Run away, turn away, run away
   Am
Run away, turn away
   G          Dm  C
Run away, turn away, run away


🎸 Outro:
Am G Dm C
Cry
Am G Dm C
Cry
Am G Dm C
Cry
Am G Dm
Cry