Cheap Seats chords by Emily Scott Robinson

• Capo on 5th

Key: C

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♫ Intro:

G F C G



♫ Verse 1:
         G                                 F
Oh, I’ve been right where you are, putting miles on my car
C                                 G
Driving to some dead-end job each day
G                            F
Smiling for my tips, picking up those extra shifts
C                                 G
Waitressing all my best years away
     Em                Dadd11           C
Some nights I’ll buy a ticket and sit alone
       Em               Dadd11         C
In the Mother Church up in the highest row

♫ Chorus:
           G                         F
I’m in the cheap seats, watching the big show
            C                          G
Hoping that one day I’ll look back and know
           G                        F
That every big dream and every hard prayer
          C                          G
And every long road would deliver me up there
                G        F
Singin’ for the cheap seats
                C        G
Singin’ for the cheap seats

♫ Interlude:
G F C G

♫ Verse 2:
        G                            F
Halfway through a busy night I get a song idea to write
      C                               G
And I slip out back to get the chorus down
    G                        F
Now table twenty eight is complaining about the wait
       C                                G
And my manager just shakes his head and frowns
Em               Dadd11            C
I won’t let them have the best of me
    Em                 Dadd11               C
One day I’ll quit this job and then they’ll see

♫ Chorus:
           G                         F
I’m in the cheap seats, watching the big show
            C                          G
Hoping that one day I’ll look back and know
           G                        F
That every big dream and every hard prayer
          C                          G
And every long road would deliver me up there
                G        F
Singin’ for the cheap seats
                C        G
Singin’ for the cheap seats

♫ Interlude:
G F C G

♫ Verse 3:
       G                              F
I’m so hungry I can taste it, want so badly just to make it
           C                                G
I’ve got a thousand songs inside me left to write
      G                                  F
Gotta find my voice and use it, set true North and do not lose it
    C                                    G
And keep that candle burnin’ through the night
       Em       Dadd11       C
I want everything before I’m ready
          Em             Dadd11        C
And it’ll only come once I am standing steady

♫ Chorus:
              G                        F
Here's to the cheap seats, now I'm the big show
               C                                 G
I wish I could go back and tell that girl that I know
           G                        F
That every big dream and every hard year
          C                          G
And every long road would deliver me up there
                G        F
Singin’ for the cheap seats
                C        G
Singin’ for the cheap seats
                   G        F
Yeah here's to the cheap seats
                   C        G
Yeah here's to the cheap seats