Old Gods chords by Emily Scott Robinson

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse:
 C majorC            FF
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C majorC            G+G
Carry my prayers on the sea
 C majorC             FF
And if you are meant to be mine, love
 C majorC       G+G      C majorC
One day you'll come home to me


🎸 Chorus:
   FF           C majorC
But are you a trick of the memory
     FF            G+G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C majorC            FF
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C majorC     G+G      C majorC
Carry my prayers on the sea

🎸 Verse:
 C majorC                 FF
Your blue eyes are there when I close mine
 C majorC              G+G
I see your sweet face when I dream
 C majorC             FF
My heart is all ragged in pieces
 C majorC      G+G   C majorC
Bleeding at every seam

🎸 Chorus:
   FF           C majorC
And are you a trick of the memory
       FF         G+G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C majorC            FF
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C majorC     G+G       C majorC
Carry my prayers on the sea

🎸 Verse:
 C majorC             FF
I'm down on my knees at a crossing
 C majorC          G+G
Wondering which way to go
 C majorC                 FF
But all roads are dark through the valley
 C majorC        G+G        C majorC
And I'll learn to walk them alone

🎸 Chorus:
   FF           C majorC
And are you a trick of the memory
       FF         G+G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C majorC            FF
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C majorC     G+G       C majorC
Carry my prayers on the sea

🎸 Verse:
  C majorC           FF
No wine and no song can soothe me
   C majorC             G+G
I'm pierced by the arrows of pain
   C majorC             FF
I'll lay in the grass by the mountain
 C majorC        G+G      C majorC
And summon the wind and the rain

🎸 Chorus:
   FF           C majorC
And are you a trick of the memory
       FF         G+G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C majorC            FF
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C majorC     G+G       C majorC
Carry my prayers on the sea
 C majorC            FF
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C majorC      G+G     C majorC
Carry my prayers on the sea