Black Tie chords by Grace Petrie

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

G+G
Well it’s a jungle out there

D MajorD            A7A7
The year 2018, I didn’t think

              C majorC        G+G
We’d still be sorting babies into blue and pink

And all our progress

D MajorD
Well I wonder what it means

     A minorAm
That the only girls clothes that work for me

        C majorC
Turn out to be boyfriend jeans

Refrain:

        E minorEm
Well that’s fine

       A7A7
Cause I decline

   C majorC                 G+G
A augmentedA narrow set of rules that just don’t work

          E minorEm
Cause these red lines

       A7A7
They’re not mine


    C majorC               G+G
And if you need me you can find me ironing my shirt

Pre Chorus:

G+G            B minorBm
Cause I’m in black tie tonight

          E minorEm
Get a postcard to my

     C majorC          G+G
Year 11 self in her year 11 hell

                B minorBm
Saying everything’s gonna be alright

E minorEm              C majorC
No you won’t grow out of it you will find the clothes that fit

Chorus:

G+G              D MajorD
And the images that fucked ya

              E minorEm
Were a patriarchal structure

             C majorC
And you never will surrender

             G+G
To a narrow view of gender

               D MajorD
And I swear there’ll come a day

                A7A7
When you won’t worry what they say

            C majorC
On the labels, on the doors

              G+G
You will figure out what’s yours

E minorEm C majorC G+G E minorEm C majorC

Verse 2:

 D MajorD        G+G
And it’s a bloody nightmare

    D MajorD                A7A7
Tryna fight the spread of bigotry and fear

   C majorC                  G+G
That’s uniting Piers Morg-an and Ger-maine Greer

And all our progress

    D MajorD
Yeah I wonder who it’s for

    A7A7
When I dared to utter that trans lives matter

C majorC
Yeah and all I got was a TERF war.


Refrain:

A7A7       E minorEm
Well that’s fine

       A7A7
Cause I decline

C majorC                  G+G
Your narrow set of rules they just don’t work

       E minorEm
These red lines

      A7A7
They’re not mine

   C majorC
And if you need me you can find me ironing my shirt


Pre Chorus:

G+G            B minorBm
Cause I’m in black tie tonight

          E minorEm
Get a postcard to my

     C majorC          G+G
Year 11 self in her year 11 hell

                B minorBm
Saying everything’s gonna be alright

E minorEm              C majorC
No you won’t grow out of it you will find the clothes that fit

Chorus:

G+G              D MajorD
And the images that fucked ya

              E minorEm
Were a patriarchal structure

             C majorC
And you never will surrender

             G+G
To a narrow view of gender

               D MajorD
And I swear there’ll come a day

                A7A7
When you won’t worry what they say

            C majorC
On the labels, on the doors

              G+G
You will figure out what’s yours

        D MajorD      A7A7
You will figure out what’s yours

C majorC
And that it’s got

G minorGm     E minorEm             A7A7
Nothing to do with fitting neatly in a box

     C majorC
That was constructed to make it seem

 B minorBm
Like people come in just two teams

E minorEm                G+G
And anything that’s in between ain’t good enough

D MajorD       C majorC
And you will love

        G+G
And you’ll be loved


Pre Chorus:

G+G               B minorBm
And you’re in black tie tonight

          E minorEm
Get a postcard to my

     C majorC           G+G
Year 11 self in her year 11 hell

                B minorBm
Darling everything’s gonna be alright

E minorEm              C majorC
No you won’t grow out of it you will find the clothes that fit


Final Chorus:

G+G             D MajorD
And the images that fucked ya

              E minorEm
Were a patriarchal structure

              C majorC
No you never will surrender

            G+G
To that narrow view of gender

                 D MajorD
And there’s folks you’ve yet to meet

But you’re exactly up their street

A7A7             C majorC
And they’ve been waiting just as long

              G+G
To hear someone sing this song

               D MajorD
And better days are on their way

                E minorEm
When it won’t matter what they say

             C majorC
On the labels, on the doors

               G+G
You will figure out what’s yours

E minorEm

C majorC  D MajorD            E minorEm
And girl you’re gonna be so happy

C majorC  D MajorD            G+G
And girl you’re gonna be just fine

C majorC  D MajorD            E minorEm
And girl you’re gonna be so happy


E minorEm
Down the line

C majorC
Down the line


D7D7 G+G E minorEm C majorC G+G E minorEm
(repeat to fade)