Wildfire chords by Mandolin Orange

Chords with lyrics

This is a super simple but beautiful song. You can play it straight as shown, or if you want to add a little
finesse you could hammer chords and throw is a sus or two. Enjoy!
There's actually two instrumentals in the song, but the first is for mandolin and the second is for lead
guitar. So I just play them as two loops of the chords progression.


Verse 1:

 A augmentedA          G+G
Brave men fall with a battle cry
D MajorD                               A augmentedA
Tears fill the eyes of their loved ones and their brothers in arms
   G+G        D MajorD
So it went, for Joseph Warren

  A augmentedA               G+G
It should have been different, it could have been easy
  D MajorD                           A augmentedA
His rank could have saved him, but a country unborn needs bravery
    G+G      D MajorD
And it spread like wildfire

Chorus:

A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire
A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire


Verse 2:

     A augmentedA        G+G
From the ashes grew sweet liberty
     D MajorD
Like the seeds of the pines when the forest burns
   A augmentedA    G+G       D MajorD
They open up, grow and burn again

  A augmentedA               G+G
It should have been different, it could have been easy
   D MajorD                  A augmentedA
But too much money rolled in to ever end slavery
      G+G        D MajorD
The cry for war spread like wildfire


Chorus:

A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire
A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire

Instrumental:

A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD (x2)


Verse 3:

 A augmentedA        G+G
Civil war came, civil war went
D MajorD
Brother fought brother, the south was spent
     A augmentedA        G+G          D MajorD
But its true demise was hatred, passed down through the years

  A augmentedA               G+G
It should have been different, it could have been easy
   D MajorD                    A augmentedA
But pride has a way of holding too firm to history
    G+G      D MajorD
And it burns like wildfire


Chorus:

A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire
A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire


Instrumental:

A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD (x2)


Verse 4:

A augmentedA        G+G
 I was born a southern son
   D MajorD
In a small southern town where the rebels run wild
A augmentedA                G+G          D MajorD
 They beat their chest and they swear: we're gonna rise again

  A augmentedA               G+G
It should have been different, it could have been easy
  D MajorD                           A augmentedA
The day that old Warren died, hate should have gone with it
      G+G          D MajorD
But here we are, caught in the wildfire


Chorus:

A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD
  Wildfire
A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD