If You Could Break That Chain chords by The Show Ponies

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: A

Difficulty: Novice

The Show Ponies – If You Could Break That Chain
Song in A

CAPO II

Intro:
   G                                 C
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|---------------------------------|
G|---0---0---0---0---0---2---0---0-|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----|
D|---------------------------------|---4---4---4---4---4---2---0-----|
A|---------------------------------|-3---------------------------2-0-|
E|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|---------------------------------|

   G                                 C
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|---------------------------------|
G|---0---0---0---0---0---2---0---0-|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----|
D|---------------------------------|---4---4---4---4---4---2---0-2-0-|
A|---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
E|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|---------------------------------|

Verse 1:
G                                   C                 G
Not craving in a piece of stone, in silver, bronze or gold
   D                                 C              G
My idols meet me at my work and they follow me back home
      G                        C             G
At my altar of profession, the skills I have acquired
               D                             C            G
The sacrifices growing in succession, and my worship is required

Chorus:
         Am              C            D                     G
So I can finally sit and marvel at my slaughtered bulls and lambs
     Em        Em/F#   G                   C
On a shattered slab of marble that somehow makes me
     D              G
That makes me who I am

Interlude with intro riff:
G
C
G
C

Verse 2:
          G                                           C                 G
I’ve only known one way to face this curse, that’s to find my worth within my work
   D                                         C                G
To make my sweat water this earth until they lay me back down in the dirt
     G                                    C                 G
They say a man is made of clay and he was made to rest each seventh day
        D                          C             G
For the sake of my own name I will make myself a home

Chorus:
         Am      Am/B      C                    D             G
So I can see you once I’ve paid my dues and the daily debts I own
          Em      Em/F#  G                       C       D             G
And I can take my rest under a room and have you beg me, beg me not to go

Guitar solo:
G
C    G
D
C    G
G
C    G
D
C    G

Chorus chords:
Am Am/B  C
D        G
Em Em/F# G
C        D
G

Verse 3:
   G                                 C            G
So what then would I be if I stopped doing what I do?
    D                    C            G
And nobody could see the trouble I go through
   G                               C            G
To make something that’s worth the hardship I endured
   D                         C                 G
To live under this curse and work to find it’s cure

Chorus:
        Am          Am/B   C                 D                 G
There’s twenty-nine links around my legs and each one bares my name
  Em       Em/F#   G                 C             D                G
I won’t be worried long if you could break, if you could break that chain

Outro with intro riff:
G
C
G
C
G