Boston chords by Patty Griffin

Chords with lyrics

Boston by Patty Griffin
Album: Silver Bell
Track 3
2013


Standard Tuning
Capo on the 4th fret


Chords:

C:   x32010
G:   320003 or 320033
D:   xx0232
E:   022100
A:   x02220

  Intro:  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD  C majorC  x 3  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD

       E MajorE  A augmentedA  x 4


E MajorE        A augmentedA
 I went back to Boston
E MajorE              A augmentedA
 Back to the city you were lost in
E MajorE          A augmentedA
 I went back to the place
              E MajorE  A augmentedA
 Without your face in the stone

E MajorE         A augmentedA
 Walked around Harvard Square
   E MajorE         A augmentedA
 The runaway kids are still hanging out there
         E MajorE
 And I took the red line
 A augmentedA               E MajorE   A augmentedA
 All the way across the River Charles


 C majorC          G+G
 Some things try and try
      D MajorD          C majorC
 But they never fly, and they never fly
   C majorC         G+G
 You reach up from the waves
            D MajorD  C majorC     E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE  A augmentedA
 And find that you're only waving goodbye

E MajorE         A augmentedA
 Went walking in Boston
E MajorE        A augmentedA
 Over a bridge I used to walk on
    E MajorE
 I was looking for my heart
      A augmentedA           E MajorE  A augmentedA
 That I'd flung into that sea of stone

     E MajorE          A augmentedA
 Boston said, you need not apply
E MajorE           A augmentedA
 For your license to fly
       E MajorE            A augmentedA
 Hey, young lady, don't look so surprised
            E MajorE   A augmentedA
 You know you're not alone


 C majorC          G+G
 Some things try and try
      D MajorD          C majorC
 But they never fly, and they never fly
   C majorC         G+G
 You reach up from the waves
            D MajorD  C majorC     E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE  A augmentedA
 And find that you're only waving goodbye


 C majorC  G+G  D MajorD  C majorC  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD  (C majorC)


E MajorE        (A augmentedA)
 It was Memorial Day
E MajorE          (A augmentedA)
 I went to where you lay
             E MajorE
 There were thousands of people
      (A augmentedA)         E MajorE  (A augmentedA)
 Just like you in a giant graveyard

E MajorE         A augmentedA
 You came all of that way
         E MajorE         A augmentedA
 Looking for the sky, you got a slap in the face
      E MajorE        A augmentedA
 You had a desperate need to be loved
              E MajorE
 You just got put in that place
          A augmentedA
 You better know your place, boy


 C majorC          G+G
 Some things try and try
      D MajorD          C majorC
 But they never fly, and they never fly
   C majorC         G+G
 You reach up from the waves
            D MajorD  C majorC     E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE  A augmentedA
 And find that you're only waving goodbye
 E MajorE  A augmentedA
 Only waving
    E MajorE   A augmentedA
 You're only waving
    E MajorE   A augmentedA
 You're only waving
    E MajorE   A augmentedA     C majorC   G+G   D MajorD   C majorC   C majorC   G+G   D MajorD   (C majorC)
 You're only waving goodbye