Cry Pretty chords by Carrie Underwood

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 3)

Tuning: Half-Step Down (D#D# G#G# C#C# F#F# A#A# D#D#)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse:
  G+G
I'm sorry, but I'm just a girl
  B minorBm
Not usually the kind to show my heart to the world
  C majorC
I'm pretty good at keeping it together
 D MajorD
I hold my composure, for worse or for better
   G+G
So I apologize if you don't like what you see
  B minorBm
But sometimes my emotions get the best of me
  C majorC
And falling apart is as human as it gets
  D MajorD
You can't hide it, you can't fight what the truth is

Chorus:
    G+G
You can pretty lie and say it's okay
    B minorBm
You can pretty smile and just walk away
    C majorC
Pretty much fake your way through anything
    D MajorD       G+G
But you can't cry pretty

Verse:
      G+G
Oh no, you can't dress it up in lace or rhinestones
   B minorBm
Don't matter if you're in a crowd or home all alone
      C majorC
Yeah, it's all the same when you're looking in the mirror
 D MajorD
A augmentedA picture of pain, so let it flow like a river

Chorus:
    G+G
You can pretty lie and say it's okay
    B minorBm
You can pretty smile and just walk away
    C majorC
Pretty much fake your way through anything
    D MajorD
But you can't cry pretty
     G+G
You can't turn off the flood when the dam breaks
   B minorBm
When all your mascara is going to waste
   C majorC
When things get ugly, you just gotta face
   Eb MajorEb     D MajorD    G+G
That you can't cry pretty
      B minorBm
Oh no, you can't
  C majorC    Eb MajorEb D MajorD
Ooh, yeah

Chorus:
     G+G
You can't turn off the flood when the dam breaks
   B minorBm
When all your mascara is going to waste
   C majorC
When things get ugly, you just gotta face
     Eb MajorEb   D MajorD    G+G
That you can't cry pretty

Outro:
            B minorBm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
No, you can't cry
C majorC
No, you can't cry
Eb MajorEb     D MajorD G+G       B minorBm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
            C majorC
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, woo
Eb MajorEb
You can't cry
D MajorD            G+G
You can't cry pretty, baby
       B minorBm   C majorC
Oh yeah, woo, woo
    Eb MajorEb   D MajorD   G+G
No, you can't cry pretty, yeah

Other versions of Cry Pretty

Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Cry pretty (Ver. 2) by Carrie Underwood