Children Of Children chords by Jason Isbell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Drop D MajorD

Chords used:

 Verse/Chorus               "Interlude"
 D MajorD Dsus2Dsus2 Dsus4Dsus4 Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm G+G Asus4Asus4 E minorEm  D MajorD  Dm9Dm9  Csus2Csus2 G+G Am(5) C majorC
|-2----0-----3-----3---0---3---0----0--|--2----0-----3----3---5----0----|
|-3----3-----3-----3---1---3---3----0--|--3----6-----3----3---5----1----|
|-2----2-----2-----0---2---0---2----0--|--2----5-----5----4---5----0----|
|-0----0-----0-----2---2---0---2----2--|-------0-------------------2----|
|-0----0-----0-----3---0---5--------2--|---------------------------3----|
|-0----0-----0-------------5--------2--|--------------------------------|
*The E minorEm chords are typically hammered on, necessitating the drop D MajorD tuning, although
the song can easily be modified to play in standard tuning, which Jason tends to do.

Intro:
D MajorD Dsus2Dsus2 A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD

D MajorD
Pictures of the farm before us
A minorAm
Old men in a gospel chorus
E minorEm
Sepia and saddle horses
D MajorD
Easy on the reins

D MajorD
Eighty-one, a motor-inn
A minorAm
Your momma's seventeen again
   E minorEm
She's squinting at at the dusty wind
D MajorD
The anger of the plains

D MajorD Dm9Dm9 Csus2Csus2 G+G  Am(5) G+G  C majorC D MajorD

D MajorD
You and I were almost nothing
A minorAm
Pray to God the gods were bluffing
E minorEm               D MajorD
Seventeen ain't old enough to reason with the pain
D MajorD               A minorAm
How could we expect the two to stay in love,
           E minorEm
When neither knew the meaning of
            D MajorD
The difference between sacred and profane?

Cadd9Cadd9        G+G
I was riding on my mother's hip
             D MajorD  Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD
She was shorter than the corn
Cadd9Cadd9        G+G
And all the years I took from her
       Asus4Asus4  Cadd9Cadd9
Just by being born

D MajorD Dm9Dm9 Csus2Csus2 G+G  Am(5) G+G  C majorC D MajorD
D Dm9Dm9 Csus2Csus2 G+G  Am(5) G+G  C majorC D MajorD

D MajorD
I didn't mean to break the cycle
A minorAm
At seventeen, I went by Michael
E minorEm             D MajorD
No one ever called me by my own name anyway
D MajorD
Five full generations living
A minorAm              E minorEm
All these expectations giving way to one
          D MajorD
So late to have a baby on the way

Cadd9Cadd9          G+G
You were riding on your mother's hip
             D MajorD  Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD
She was shorter than the corn
Cadd9Cadd9         G+G
And all the years you took from her
       Asus4Asus4  Cadd9Cadd9
Just by being born

Outro:
D MajorD A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD (repeat)