Climb On The Cross Live chords by Shakey Graves

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

These chords are based specifically on the live version he performs on the KUTX Austin channel with
Rayland Baxter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9BpWuyb1X4

It is tuned down half a step and strummed (the strumming pattern is simple and can be picked up from the video
The trickiest part is during the C majorC of the chorus where he adds a few quick strums but playing along you should
easily pick it up.

Other versions he plays are not tuned down and just in standard. I haven't quite worked out the specific
picking pattern or the initial chord positions he uses so I've stuck to this one but for the most part they
are the same so this is a good, simple jumping off point for all versions.

The chords for the verse are (relative to the capo): A minorAm (barre - 5th fret) - G+G (barre - third fret) G+G (open) -
A minorAm (open). So he plays only two chords but descends the neck using barres and then open chords.

Fingering is thus:

Verse:

A minorAm  577555
G+G   355433
G+G   320033
A minorAm  x02210

Bridge:

D MajorD   xx0232
Dsus4Dsus4 xx0233
E minorEm  022000
C/BC/B  332010

Pre Chorus:

B minorBm  x24432
Bm/Gb 224432
BbmBbm  x13321
A minorAm  x02210
C6(9)/Gb 2x0210

Chorus:

G+G  320033
E minor 7Em7 022030
C/BC/B 332010


Shakey Graves - Climb on the Cross


Verse 1:
   A minorAm    G+G          G+G    A minorAm
Well tell the televangelist she's out of a job
   A minorAm        G+G        G+G     A minorAm
Cause I look good on a cross and I can sure sing along
   A minorAm     G+G     G+G     A minorAm
Overrated, under-educated, simple and dry
   A minorAm     G+G        G+G       A minorAm
Who knew a man's fate was such a hard thing to find

Bridge:
      D MajorD        Dsus4Dsus4   E minor 7Em7    C/BC/B
But now I'm spending all my money on a badge and a gun
        D MajorD        Dsus4Dsus4       E minor 7Em7    C/BC/B
Cause shooting strangers in the back seems like a lot more fun
     D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4       E minor 7Em7  C/BC/B
I'll just walk around pretending I'm the only one

Pre-Chorus:
   B minorBm       Bm/Gb
Never listened to my teacher
    B minorBm      Bm/Gb  BbmBbm  A minorAm
Trusted every word my preacher would say
    B minorBm       Bm/Gb  B minorBm     Bm/Gb BbmBbm A minorAm  C6(9)/Gb
Always thought the crosshair was simply the sun on my face

Chorus:
    G+G      E minorEm      C/BC/B        C/BC/B
But if nothing dies tomorrow why remember yesterday
    G+G        E minorEm         C/BC/B   C/BC/B
When an hour or more of sleep might do you good
     G+G      E minorEm           C/BC/B          C/BC/B
It's the wish I can't remember yeah it's the thing you'll never say
      G+G     E minorEm      C/BC/B   C/BC/B
Oh, and I'd do it all again oh if I could

Verse 2:
       A minorAm     G+G          G+G        A minorAm
So fight your family and friends and let them know you're the best
   A minorAm     G+G     G+G      A minorAm
Yeah tattoo "radical" right across your chest
A minorAm     G+G       G+G    A minorAm
No need for love, you were born to impress

Pre Chorus:
      B minorBm     Bm/Gb    B minorBm      Bm/Gb  BbmBbm  A minorAm
Well, everybody always told me if I made a funny face it would stay
    B minorBm     Bm/Gb        B minorBm      Bm/Gb  BbmBbm A minorAm  C6(9)/Gb
So you better get hip, come and take a liking to me looking this way

Chorus and outro:
           G+G        E minorEm
Yeah, cause it's been years without a memory
   C/BC/B         C/BC/B
Just ears, a nose, a face
       G+G        E minorEm       C/BC/B   C/BC/B
Yeah, just to find out fucking up was in your blood
     G+G      E minorEm
It's the wish I can't remember
     C/BC/B           C/BC/B
It's the thing you'll never say
     G+G     E minorEm         C/BC/B   C/BC/B
And you'd do it all again, oh, if you could
      G+G     E minorEm        C/BC/B   C/BC/B
Yeah, you'd do it all again, oh, if you could
    G+G     E minorEm
Seems a year until tomorrow
   C/BC/B        C/BC/B
Or a week from yesterday
G+G       E minorEm     C/BC/B  C/BC/B
Counting never did me any good
     G+G       E minorEm     C/BC/B          C/BC/B
It’s the wish I can’t remember, the thing you’ll never say
  G+G     E minorEm       C/BC/B   C/BC/B
I’d do it all again,oh, if I could.

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* C6(9)/Gb. I've seen this chord called other things but chord book calls it C6(9)/Gb.
It's fingering is: 2x0210.
Basically after playing Am, move the middle finger on to the second fret of the bottom E, making sure to mute
the A augmentedA string.

** In other versions he seems to play C/BC/B instead of A minorAm at the end of Verse 2 leading into the next pre-chorus

*** I'm not sure if, on this version, he plays the E minorEm on the bridge (he may go straight to C majorC)