When We Were Close chords by Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: E MajorE

🎸 Intro:

  E minorEm  G+G  D MajorD     E minorEm  G+G  D MajorD  D MajorD
e|--0-0--0-0--2-2--------0-0--0-0--2-2-----------|
BB|--0-0--3-3--3-3--------0-0--3-3--3-3-----------|
G+G|--0-0--0-0--2-2--------0-0--0-0--2-2--2h4p2p0--|
D MajorD|--2-2--0-0--0-0--------2-2--2-2--0-0-----------|
A augmentedA|--2-2--2-2-------------2-2--2-2----------------|
E MajorE|--0-0--3-3-------------0-0--3-3----------------|


🎸 Verse 1:
    E minorEm      G+G         D MajorD
I got a picture of us back when we were close
     E minorEm      G+G      D MajorD
Before we had somebody picking out our clothes
    E minorEm   G+G        D MajorD
But you always dressed in your Sunday best
   E minorEm       G+G        D MajorD
Even when we didn't have nowhere to go
    E minorEm      G+G      D MajorD
I got a picture of us playing in a bar
     E minorEm     G+G       D MajorD
And your shirt cost more than your guitar
    E minorEm    G+G       D MajorD
But you played so heavy and you always let me sing
 E minorEm     G+G          D MajorD
A augmentedA couple even though you were the star

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
I was the worse of the two of us
C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
But Rex's Blues wasn't through with us
C majorC         G+G     D MajorD    A minorAm
You were bound for glory and grown to die
C majorC         E minorEm  G+G
Oh, but why wasn't I?
D MajorD     E minorEm  G+G  D MajorD
Why wasn't I?

🎸 Verse 2:
   E minorEm       G+G       D MajorD
Saw a picture of you laughing with your child
   E minorEm       G+G     D MajorD
And I hope she will remember how you smiled
    E minorEm       G+G        D MajorD
But she probably wasn't old enough, the night somebody sold you stuff
   E minorEm       G+G    D MajorD
That left you on the bathroom tiles
   E minorEm       G+G    D MajorD
Got a picture of you dying in my mind
     E minorEm         G+G       D MajorD
With some ghosts you couldn't bear to leave behind
  E minorEm       G+G         D MajorD
But I can hear your voice ring, as you snap another B-string
    E minorEm       G+G     D MajorD
And you finish off the set with only five
A minorAm                     C majorC
And for a minute there, you're still alive

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
I was the worse of the two of us
C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
But Rex's Blues wasn't through with us
C majorC         G+G     D MajorD    A minorAm
You were bound for glory and grown to die
C majorC         E minorEm  G+G
Oh, but why wasn't I?
D MajorD     E minorEm  G+G   D MajorD
Why wasn't I?

🎸 Solo:
C majorC C G+G D MajorD
C majorC C G+G D MajorD
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA A minorAm
C majorC

🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC       G+G    D MajorD
It's not up to me to forgive you
C majorC            G+G      D MajorD
For the nights that your love had to live through
C majorC        G+G        D MajorD   A minorAm  C majorC
Now you'll never need to look me in the eye

🎸 Outro:
C majorC    G+G      D MajorD
I am the last of the two of us
C majorC         G+G      D MajorD
But the Fort Worth blues isn't through with us
C majorC         G+G    D MajorD    A minorAm
You've traveled beyond the Great Divide
C majorC         E minorEm  G+G
Oh, but why haven't I?
D MajorD     E minorEm  G+G  D MajorD
Why haven't I?
E minorEm G+G D MajorD
E minorEm G+G D MajorD D

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| h  Hammer-on
| p  Pull-off
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