The Want Of A Nail chords by Todd Rundgren
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Intermediate 💪
Key: Bb
Intro:
Gm7/C
I've been wrong.
F/G Gm/C F/G F/Bb
I had plans so big
F/G Gm7/C
But the devil's in the details,
F/G Gm7/C F/G F/Bb
I left out one thing.
G/A Abmaj9
No one to love me
Abmaj9
(No one to love me)
Abmaj9
No one to love me
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
And no one to love
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Chorus:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a nail the world was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail the world was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
Verse 1:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a rider, the message was lost
Chorus:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a nail the world was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail the world was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
Verse 2:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a rider, the message was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a message, the battle was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a battle, the war was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost
Chorus:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a nail (the world was lost)
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail
Bridge:
N.C. F/G Gm7/C
I've been wrong
F/G Gm7/C F/G F/Bb
I had plans so big.
F/G Gm7/C
But the devil's in the details,
F/G Gm7/C F/G F/Bb
I left out one thing
G/A Abmaj9
No one to love me.
Abmaj9
(No one to love me)
Abmaj9
No one to love me
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
And no one to love
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Verse 3:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
What's all this talk about horses and war?
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Put yourself in the place of the man at the forge
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
And day after day, you live a life without love,
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Until the morning you can't take it anymore and you don't get up.
Verse 4:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Multiply it a billion times, spread it all around the world
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Put the curse of loneliness on every boy and every girl
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
Well until everybody's kicking, everybody's scratching, everything seems to fail
F
And it was all
Chorus:
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
For the want of a nail the world was lost
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail (the world was lost)
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail (the world was lost)
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
The want of a nail.
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb
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