That Close To You chords by John Prine

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

“That Close to You”
by John Prine
from the album Common Sense


Intro:
A augmentedA
D MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA
D MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA
D MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA
D MajorD G+G   A augmentedA

Verse:
D MajorD       E MajorE
Like a bolt of lightning
        A augmentedA
Like a bolt of thunder
D MajorD       E MajorE
Like a cloudy day
      A augmentedA
Down at the zoo
D MajorD        E MajorE
Like a drowning man
          A augmentedA
That will never go under
       D MajorD  G+G
That close to you, yeah,
       D MajorD
that close to you

Bridge:
F# minorF#m
In the middle of the night
        G+G
You'd ask me to make you smile
           D MajorD
You'd come on like a one-armed child
          A augmentedA     A7A7
With a hole in its shoe, poor you
F# minorF#m
Everybody oughta know
            G+G
It only hurts ya for a little while
        D MajorD
So stop putting yourself on trial
             A augmentedA
For something you didn't do
  A7A7
Not you, to me, can't we be just like

Chorus:
D MajorD     E MajorE            A augmentedA
Lovers and mothers and brothers and sorrow
D MajorD          E MajorE           A augmentedA
Can I find a little something with a nicer view
D MajorD       E MajorE            A augmentedA
I'm hating to plead but I'm begging to borrow
             D MajorD
Just to be that close to you
G+G          D MajorD
Yeah, that close to you

Bridge:
F# minorF#m
In the middle of the night
        G+G
You'd ask me to make you smile
           D MajorD
You'd come on like a one-armed child
          A augmentedA     A7A7
With a hole in its shoe, poor you
F# minorF#m
Everybody oughta know
            G+G
It only hurts ya for a little while
        D MajorD
So stop putting yourself on trial
             A augmentedA
For something you didn't do
  A7A7
Not you, to me, can't we be just like

Chorus:
D MajorD     E MajorE            A augmentedA
Lovers and mothers and brothers and sorrow
D MajorD          E MajorE           A augmentedA
Can I find a little something with a nicer view
D MajorD       E MajorE            A augmentedA
I'm hating to plead but I'm begging to borrow
             D MajorD
Just to be that close to you
G+G          D MajorD
Yeah, that close to you
G+G         D MajorD
Oh, that close to you
G+G          D MajorD
Yeah, that close to you

outro:
A augmentedA    D MajorD