Born chords by Nerina Pallot

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

E MajorE  Eb MajorEb  G# minorG#m  BB


🎸 Verse 1:
     E MajorE           Eb MajorEb
Eleventh of May, today is your birthday
  F# minorF#m                C# minorC#m
Wherever you may be in that place we all will go some day
       E MajorE            Eb MajorEb
I think of your Mama
I think of your brother:
   F# minorF#m              C# minorC#m
Your Daddy said you left before you really went away
        E MajorE  Eb MajorEb
And you went away

🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE
We all make a mess of living
    Eb MajorEb
We all try to carry on
G# minorG#m             BB
We try to make the best of it until the day we're done
      E MajorE
We've all got a hurt we're hiding
      Eb MajorEb
We've all got someone we mourn
  G# minorG#m
For me
I am just grateful
   BB
I am grateful you were born
     E MajorE               C# minorC#m
You were born, you were born, you were born

🎸 Verse 2:
       E MajorE        Eb MajorEb
Last time I saw you: in our apartment
F# minorF#m                 C# minorC#m
Putting everything you owned into a bag slung on your back
       E MajorE            Eb MajorEb
I found some pictures, we were just kids, yeah
F# minorF#m                C# minorC#m
Playing hard at grownups 'til our problems got too big
            E MajorE  Eb MajorEb
And you know that they did

🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE
We all make a mess of living
    Eb MajorEb
We all try to carry on
G# minorG#m             BB
We try to make the best of it until the day we're done
      E MajorE
We've all got a hurt we're hiding
      Eb MajorEb
We've all got someone we mourn
  G# minorG#m
For me
I am just grateful
   BB
I am grateful you were born
     E MajorE
You were born, you were born
     Eb MajorEb
You were born, you were born
     G# minorG#m
You were born, you were born
     BB
You were born
You

🎸 Outro:
    E MajorE             Eb MajorEb
I can see you in the half-light laughing like it's alright
G# minorG#m           BB
Frozen in a moment like time's on your side
  E MajorE
I see you when I close my eyes
Eb MajorEb
Maybe we're just ghosts now
G# minorG#m        BB
Maybe we don't realise
            E MajorE
Hmm thank God you were born
             Eb MajorEb
You were born, you were born
                  G# minorG#m
You were born, thank God you were born
             BB
You were born, you were born
                  E MajorE
You were born, thank God you were born
             Eb MajorEb
You were born, you were born
          G# minorG#m
Thank God you were born