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