Going Nowhere Tonight chords by Dave Gunning

• Tuning: Drop D
• Key: D
• Difficulty: Advanced 🤯

Intro:
                                 D             D5    D5/C     D             D5    G/D
e|------------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
B|---------------------3--------|---3-----3--------3---------|---3-----3--------3---------|
G|-----------------0-------0----|--------------2-----------2-|--------------2-----------2-|
D|----0--3h0-----0--------------|---0-----0------0-------0---|---0-----0------0-------0---|
A|0h3--------0h3----------------|--------------------0h3-----|--------------------0h2-----|
E|-------------------0-3------3-|0-----0-----0---------------|0-----0-----0---------------|

Verse 1: 0:07
    D
I'm out in the backyard working with wood
G5/E                          D         D/A
Early in the morning when the weather's good
D5                         G/D   G5/D G5/A
Lucky to be living with my heart this full
G5/D                G5/A      D5
Gonna keep the fire burning tonight
      D
I can see you inside through the frost in the window
C/E                           D
Making those cookies with the jam in the middle
                      G      G/D  D5/A
I'm feeling fine as a Bick's dill pickle
D5            D5/A       D5    (D)
Never saw you looking so good

Chorus: 0:31
G5                      D/F#
We'll be alright if the world keeps turnin'
Cadd9                   D
Look at the sky and the stars are burnin'
           D5             Bm
Everything changes by and by
          D               D/A
But we're going nowhere tonight
G                 D/5    G/D
  Going nowhere tonight


Verse 2: 0:46
      D
We're doin' different chores from one another
    Cadd9                D
Had afternoon beer break with your mother
                                 G
The piles getting higher I'll be finished by supper
D               D/A        D    G/D  G/B
Then I'll start workin' on you

Verse 3:
     D
It's Saturday night and we're gonna stay home
      A7sus4                      D
Gonna keep the world out with the lights down low
                       G
And only a moonbeam to see where it goes
       D              Asus4      D    (D)
When I have you right here in my arms


Chorus: 1:08
G5                      D/F#
We'll be alright if the world keeps turnin'
Cadd9                   D
Look at the sky and the stars are burnin'
           D5             Bm
Everything changes by and by
          D               D/A
But we're going nowhere tonight
G                 D/5    G/D
  Going nowhere tonight


Instrumental: 1:23
G   Asus4  D   A7sus4
D              Bm
D   Asus4  D   D


Verse 4: 1:35
        Bm                     G
All the lights of the town got nothin' on you
           D                         Bm
You should see yourself the way I do
                      G
The whole world comes into view
     D5                         Aadd11   N.C.
When you're the only one that I see

Verse 5:
D
It's the middle of the night and the fire still burning
       A7sus4            D
On the side of the wall, shadows converging
D5                    G
You've been teaching, I've been learning
     D           D/A        D5    (D)
I'll put another log in the stove


Outro: 1:58
G                       D
We'll be alright if the world keeps turnin'
A7sus4                  D
Look at the sky and the stars are burnin'
G/D                D5     Bm
Everything changes by and by
          D        Asus4  D/A   G
And we're going nowhere tonight
                           D5
We'll be all right, if the world keeps turning
A7sus4                  D
Look at the sky and the stars are burnin'
G/D                G/D    Bm
Everything changes by and by  .
          D5      G/D           G
But we're going nowhere tonight
      D5              Bm    D5/A
We're going nowhere tonight
D/A             D5
Going nowhere tonight


Instrumental Outro: 2:29
  D                               D
e|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
B|------3-------3----------------|-------------------------------|
G|--2-------2---------0----------|--0----------------------------|
D|----0-------0-------0--3p0-----|0-------1-2-----0--------------|
A|----------------0h3--------0p3-|----0h2---------0--------------|
E|0-------0----------------------|------------3b--0--------------|