Steel Still Rusts chords by Nickelback

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: G

🎸 Intro:

 D  | F  | C  | G  : 2x




🎸 Verse 1:
 D                     F
Best of days livin' a simple life
         C                         G
There's nowhere to go when there's only one stop light
      D                    F
His grandmother told him "Don't you dare sign up
          C                G
They'll ship you away to places we ain't heard of
D             F
 Get a degree, and maybe be a doctor
C                     G
 Just ask your daddy, it won't matter once they got ya
D                      F
 Lifetimes you could spend to find out what she meant
 C                        G
Her final dyin' breath, this is what she said"

🎸 Chorus:
  D                 F
"Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us
C                     G
Ashes to ashes, turns out steel still rusts
  D                   F
Stone carved in your name, no one can really trust
  C                  G
Shoulder another soldier they stole from us
D                F
 Don't ever bend, don't ever crawl
C                 G
 Supposed to stand and never fall
D                   F
 Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us
C                     G
Ashes to ashes, turns out steel still rusts"
D       F                    C
 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
G
 And steel still rusts
D         F                  C     G
 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust


🎸 Verse 2:
    D                   F
A third of his life off in a foreign land
  C                          G
Thanks for your service, sincerely
Uncle Sam
 D                 F
Lost the best of friends he'd ever known
     C                       G
And no line of welcome signs once he got back home
D             F
 He got a job, a doorman at a dive bar
   C               G
Became a bodyguard, protecting famous rock stars
 D                 F
Lost count of the times he's been around the world
  C                      G
Promised grandmama he'd never lose these words


🎸 Chorus:
  D                 F
"Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us
C                     G
Ashes to ashes, turns out steel still rusts
  D                   F
Stone carved in your name, no one can really trust
  C                  G
Shoulder another soldier they stole from us
D                F
 Don't ever bend, don't ever crawl
C                 G
 Supposed to stand and never fall
D                   F
 Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us
C                     G
Ashes to ashes, turns out steel still rusts"
D       F                    C
 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
G
 And steel still rusts
D         F                  C
 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
             G
And dust to dust


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
 Bb  | F  | C  | G  | Bb  | F  | C  | C  :


🎸 Instrumental:
 D  | F  | C  | G  :


🎸 Bridge:
D                  F
 Forever feel the wounds that never heal
      C                        G
When fallen friends are now a line of crosses in a field


🎸 Chorus:
 D                 F
Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us
C                     G
Ashes to ashes, turns out steel still rusts (Steel still rusts)
  D                   F
Stone carved in your name, no one can really trust
  C                  G
Shoulder another soldier they stole from us
D                F
 Don't ever bend, don't ever crawl
C                 G
 Supposed to stand and never fall (And never fall)
 D                 F
Long gone is the praise for those who fought for us
C                     G
Ashes to ashes, turns out steel still rusts
D       F                    C
 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
      G
And steel still rusts (Steel still rusts)
D       F                    C
 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
      G                D
And steel still rusts