Prodigal Son chords by The Killigans

Chords with lyrics

[Intro]
D MajorD
e|--------5----5-5-5-5-5-5--5----5----5-5-5-5-5--5--|
BB|--------------------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------------------|

[Verse 1]
D MajorD           A augmentedA     D MajorD
Staring at a cross of splintered wood
  B minorBm            A augmentedA
My sins washed away through Christ’s own blood
    B minorBm    D MajorD        G+G        B minorBm
All my blessings gone, though my mind it wanders on
   D MajorD     A augmentedA  D MajorD
Going home in my memory
      G+G
Between the years and the miles
   D MajorD
I am broken and down
     B minorBm          A augmentedA
Bless me father, where do I begin
   B minorBm      D MajorD
On my hands and my knees
   G+G       B minorBm
I go crawling back home
  D MajorD    A augmentedA     D MajorD
To find absolution within

[Solo 1]
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------2-22------------0-----------------------------------|
D MajorD|------0-0h2-4-------4-2--22-2---4---2-0---------------------------|
A augmentedA|-00-2------------------------------------2-222-2-2-2-2-0-00-0-0-0-|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-3-3-2-0--000-----------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------2---------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----------------4—4/5---4-2-0--------0--000-4-2-2-0-0-|2x
A augmentedA|------------------------------2--0-2------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse 2]
D MajorD            A augmentedA     D MajorD
Eighteen years old, but not yet a man
   B minorBm       A augmentedA
With misplaced ideologies
   B minorBm     G+G     D MajorD
Recognizing only God as my equal
         A augmentedA       D MajorD
Left home and disgraced my family
               A augmentedA    D MajorD
With a dream in my head and a restless soul
    B minorBm       A augmentedA
Sensing I would soon be free
     B minorBm         D MajorD
I took to heart my granddads fables
               A augmentedA  D MajorD
They made up the core of my identity
  B minorBm         A augmentedA
For eight long years I tramped through the fallout
  B minorBm      A augmentedA
Of nuclear society
  B minorBm  D MajorD    G+G   D MajorD     B minorBm    A augmentedA  D MajorD
The underclass forgotten mass in a nation of revelry

[Chorus]
D MajorD     G+G    D MajorD    A augmentedA
Fare thee well, my old dear friend
  D MajorD       A augmentedA    B minorBm     G+G
The road goes ever on, but I am going home
    D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD
Back to where it all began

[Solo 1]
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------2-22------------0-----------------------------------|
D MajorD|------0-0h2-4-------4-2--22-2---4---2-0---------------------------|
A augmentedA|-00-2------------------------------------2-222-2-2-2-2-0-00-0-0-0-|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-3-3-2-0--000-----------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------2---------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----------------4—4/5---4-2-0--------0--000-4-2-2-0-0-|2x
A augmentedA|------------------------------2--0-2------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse 3]
   D MajorD       A augmentedA  D MajorD
In a filthy rundown tenement
 B minorBm           A augmentedA
I set out to spread God’s name
       B minorBm     G+G     D MajorD
I thought the word would start the fire
    G+G      A augmentedA    D MajorD
And my voice would fan the flame
                A augmentedA    D MajorD
But I soon learned that in this hopelessness
    B minorBm         A augmentedA
A majorA great many things went unsaid
     B minorBm       A augmentedA   D MajorD
My first lesson was that good intentions
           A augmentedA    D MajorD
Aren’t gonna keep you warm and fed
B minorBm            A augmentedA
With no recourse I took a job at the packing house
  B minorBm         A augmentedA
No one who I could edify
   B minorBm     G+G     D MajorD
As my dreams like leaves in autumn
  G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
Disappeared before my eyes

[Chorus] 2x
D MajorD     G+G    D MajorD    A augmentedA
Fare thee well, my old dear friend
  D MajorD       A augmentedA    B minorBm     G+G
The road goes ever on, but I am going home
    D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD
Back to where it all began

[Solo] (first part goes something like this. Guitar is to distorted to figure out the whole thing)
e|-5-5-5-7p5---5-7p5---5-5-5-7p5---5-7p5---5-7p5---5-7-7-5-5-|
BB|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
G+G|-----------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-----------------------------------------------------------|

e|----------------------------------------------------|
BB|------------------5----------------------5----------|
G+G|-2/4--4-6-7--6--7---7-6----4--4-6-7--6-7----7-6-----|
D MajorD|--------------------------------------------------5-|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------|

e|----------------------------------------------------------|
BB|--------7-10--8-7-10-7----8-7---------8--7---8--10--10-10-|
G+G|-4h7-------------------9------9-7---9------9--------------|
D MajorD|------9---------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------------|

[Chorus] 2x
D MajorD     G+G    D MajorD    A augmentedA
Fare thee well, my old dear friend
  D MajorD       A augmentedA    B minorBm     G+G
The road goes ever on, but I am going home
    D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD
Back to where it all began

    D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD
Back to where it all began

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| h Hammer-on
| / Slide up
| p Pull-off