Family Name chords by Haunted Like Human

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Bb

Intro:

G


Verse 1:
G                               D/F#        Em          C  G
Your mother, she taught you the stars and their shapes
                                 D/F#            Em     C  G
She passed down the stories that gave them their names
                                             Em     C  Em
The heroes and heathens, their victories and crimes
                             C             G
Still echo from heaven, they call down through time

Chorus:
G                                        Em
There on the porch that your grandfather built
C           G              D/F#        Em
Singing the songs that his grandmother sang
          C                                                   G
There’s a creak in the stairs and it sounds like the family name


Verse 2:
G                           G/B         Em    C  G
The last of the apple trees died in the cold
                           G/B           Em    C  G
A 30-strong orchard, guess that’s how it goes
                                        Em    C  Em
A honeycrisp high court, a call made in haste
                         C           G
A rot from the inside, a slow fall from grace


Chorus:
G                                       G/B        Em
Now you’re swinging in fights that your father has lost
C             G            D/F#          Em
Bruising your knuckles and pride all the same
            C                                                   G
Now there’s blood in your mouth and it tastes like the family name


[Interlude]
G      Em    C  G
D/F#


Bridge:
Em                                                     C
Tangled in the ties that bind, they stretch across the great divide
   G               D/F#
To hold you close
Em                                               C
Tired prayers and lullabies and all the sins you tried to hide
    G                             D/F#
And all the hope you never chose
       Em
Oh, forget-me-nots and columbines
Em
The willow trees and kudzu vines
    G
You never forge a path on your own
       Em                       C
Oh, we reap the things our ancestors sowed


[Out-Chorus]
                  G              D/F#          Em
It’s there in the songs that she taught you to sing
    C            G             D/F#            Em
And there in the bruises, it’s harsh, it’s the same
         C            G               D/F#       Em             C           G D/F# Em
It’s the love and the fights, all the sorrow and pride, all the joy and the pain
         C                                                G
It’s the sun on your skin and it feels like the family name