After The Colors chords by Hiss Golden Messenger

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 8th

Capo 8


You can vary the bass notes during the picking/strumming of the chords.
Usually the five (D/A, C/GC/G), but he uses some others as well, almost like a walking bass sometimes.


Verse:
D MajorD           C majorC
Exiled on the road tonight
 D MajorD     C majorC
A minorAm I, oh am I
D MajorD               C majorC
Just like a child of the easy lights
D MajorD     C majorC
A minorAm I, oh am I

  D MajorD            C majorC
Oh play the saxophone very sweetly
 D MajorD     C majorC
Do I, ah do I
  D MajorD            C majorC
No I'm not afraid of no darkness
  D MajorD    Am7Am7
Oh am I, am I

Chorus:
  D MajorD      G+G
And seven bold colors
C majorC     D MajorD
All in the rain
  D MajorD       G+G
Oh showed me life
      C majorC        D MajorD
But it was very much in vain
  D MajorD       G+G
Oh after the colors
C majorC     D MajorD
Made me cry
   D MajorD      G+G
And showed the way
     Am7Am7     C majorC
With the rainbow sides


Interlude:
|D MajorD     |Am7Am7     |x4

Verse:
D MajorD          C majorC
Exiled on the road tonight
  D MajorD   C majorC
A minorAm I, am I
  D MajorD             C majorC
Oh in a procession of golden green
  D MajorD       C majorC
put it in the leevee
  D MajorD           C majorC
Oh there's a darkness at hand
   D MajorD   C majorC
oh A minorAm I, am I
  D MajorD              C majorC
A minorAm I to blame for the dark fire
  D MajorD    Am7Am7
A minorAm I, yea am I


Chorus:
 D MajorD      G+G
Seven bold colors
C majorC     D MajorD
All in the rain
  D MajorD       G+G
Oh showed me life
      C majorC        D MajorD
But it was very much in vain
  D MajorD       G+G
Oh after the colors
C majorC     D MajorD
Made me cry
   D MajorD      G+G
And showed the way
     Am7Am7     C majorC
With the rainbow sides


Outro:
|D MajorD     |Am7Am7     |x4