30000 Feet chords by Ben Rector

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

C  C/E  F G Am     C/E  F  C  G
Verse 1:
  C      C/E      F       G       Am
14A, window seat, tennis shoes and faded jeans
    Em           F               C              G
Nervous as he tells me it's his first time on a plane
 C              C/E                 F        G          Am
We took off and headed east; I was thumbing through the magazines
Em              F          C             G
  He felt like talking and offered me his name
      F    C/E Dm  C   G
So I asked him how he was
        F         C/E         F
And he smiled and said, "well son."

Chorus 1:
           F                 C
I've been better, I've been worse
             Am           G
I've chased after pretty girls
        F                   C                 G
Seen a couple places that I never thought I'd see
            F           C                  G       E/G#   Am
I've walked into harder times, I've walked out the other side
         F               C                Am
It seems like you end up getting what you need
      F                 C      Am
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet
 F                  C
Life's been good to me

C C/E F G Am   C/E F C G
Verse 2:
C               C/E           F       G       Am
I've been out a month or so, another night, another show
     C/E              F            C                G
One hundred different cities, they all just seem the same
C                   C/E           F       G     Am
He asked me what it must be like, singing songs under the lights
      Em            F                C       G
Well, it's got its moments, just the same as anything
           F   C/E Dm  C   G
I miss my town, I miss my wife
           F         C/E    F
But I'm up here with you tonight


Chorus 2:
                 F                  C
I said I've been better, I've been worse
       Am            G
I have loved a pretty girl
            F                    C                  G
I've seen a couple places that I never thought I'd see
            F            C                  G      E/G#   Am
I've walked into harder times, I've walked out the other side
         F                C               Am
It seems like you end up getting what you need
      F                 C      Am
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet
F                   C
Life's been good to me
F       C
Good to me

C C/E F G Am   C C/E Dm G/B C

Bridge:
    Dm               Am          Dm             G
Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now
    Dm                 Am     Bb               G
Sometimes it takes the sky to see what's on the ground

C C/E F G Am   C C/E Dm G/B C
Chorus 2:
           F                C
I've been better, I've been worse
            Am           G
I've chased after pretty girls
             F                   C                 G
I've seen a couple places that I never thought I'd see
             F           C                 G       E/G#  Am
I've walked into harder times, I've walked out the other side
          F              C                Am
It seems like you end up getting what you need
       F                 C      Am
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet
 F                  C
Life's been good to me
 F       C
Good to me