Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Difficulty: Novice
Verse 1:
E minorEm C majorC G+G
The city lights light up the skies and sidewalks
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And I realized the second they came on
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Surely that must be where all the light goes
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
When it gets dark back home
E minorEm C majorC G+G
All the brunettes in New York City
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And all the hills and rain in Tennessee
E minorEm C majorC G+G
We road through them all for what seemed like years
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
But I was thinking about you and me
Chorus 1:
E minorEm C majorC
Oh Susanna
D MajorD G+G
Don't you cry for me
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
I'm coming home to Alabama because I've got no place else to be
E minorEm C majorC
Oh Susanna
D MajorD G+G
It's me who cries for you
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
Lord I'm coming home to stay and honey you're just passing through
Verse 2:
E minorEm C majorC G+G
I played my guitar out on the shore line
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And the fireworks, they burned our in the bay
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
We drank til July fifth and then we slept right through the sixth
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
And I thought about you all three days
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Then I guess I woke up sometime on a Friday
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And realized that drug store wine, it just don't taste the same
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Without the sweetness of your kiss to end the bottle
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
But man, it damn sure still works wonders on the pain
Chorus 2:
E minorEm C majorC
Oh Susanna
D MajorD G+G
Don't you cry for me
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
I've got bones beneath my skin to keep me who I've got to be
E minorEm C majorC
Oh Susanna
D MajorD G+G
It's me who cries for you
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do
Instrumental Break:
Verse 3:
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Your entrance killed the laughter in the room
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And my presence killed the laughter in you
E minorEm C majorC
And the cue card guy quit yesterday
G+G
You're left without a thing to say
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
You kindly pass on through
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
That's how I'll see you
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
That's how I'll see you
E minorEm D MajorD G+G E minorEm D MajorD G+G
That's the portrait that I'll paint in my head every time I think of you
Bridge:
C majorC
It don't take much for me
G+G C majorC D MajorD
Just a tree line, some cheap wine and a back yard sky
C majorC E minorEm D MajorD A augmentedA C majorC
Hovering over me like forgiveness just dangling on a string
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
It could turn it all around
E minorEm D MajorD G+G
Let's turn it all around
Chorus 3:
E minorEm C majorC
Oh Susanna
D MajorD G+G
Don't you cry for me
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
I've got bones beneath my skin to keep me who I've got to be
E minorEm C majorC
Oh Susanna
D MajorD G+G
It's me who cries for you
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do