Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: C majorC
Difficulty: Novice
This version is from the Live at Bangor Abbey CD. Don't be put off by the complex-looking chords.
I've charted them below FYI. It's easy enough to substitute more simplified chords & still have it sounding
pretty good.
C majorC x32010
Csus2Csus2 x30010
Csus2/B x20010
Am7Am7 x02010
G7sus4G7sus4 323002
Fmaj7Fmaj7 133210
G6sus4 320010
Em7/BEm7/B x20030
Am7#5 x03010
FF 133211
Intro:
C majorC Csus2Csus2 C majorC Csus2/B Am7Am7 G7sus4G7sus4
Fmaj7Fmaj7 G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 C majorC
Verse:
G6sus4 C majorC Em7/BEm7/B
If there's one thing that I know
Csus2Csus2 C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
It is that two shades of hope
C majorC Csus2/B
One the enlightening soul
Am7Am7 G6sus4
And the other is more like a hangman's rope
Pre-Chorus:
Fmaj7Fmaj7 G7sus4G7sus4
Well it's true, you may reap what you sow
Am7#5
But not that despair is the all-time low
Chorus:
G7sus4G7sus4 C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Baby, hope deals the the ha- ardest blows
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Verse:
G6sus4 C majorC Em7/BEm7/B
There was once someone I loved
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
And his heart overflowed his cup
FF C majorC Csus2/B
And his shoes got covered in blood
Am7Am7
Oh but he never knew
G6sus4
Cause he only looked up
Pre-Chorus:
Fmaj7Fmaj7 G7sus4G7sus4
Well he was a troubled soul
Am7#5 Csus2/B G6sus4
And he saw pain more than most I know
Chorus:
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Yet it was hope that dealt the ha- ardest blows
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Verse:
G6sus4 C majorC Em7/BEm7/B
And too the girl that holds the hand
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
Of a somewhat distant man
FF C majorC Csus2/B
Though she’d do everything she can
Am7Am7 G6sus4
Still his heart set sail for a distant land
Pre-Chorus:
Fmaj7Fmaj7 G7sus4G7sus4
And she wonders sometimes if he knows
Am7#5 G6sus4
How she feels like a trampled rose
Chorus:
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Baby, hope deals the the ha- ardest blows
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Instrumental:
C majorC Csus2/B Am7Am7 G7sus4G7sus4
Oooh, oh oh
Fmaj7Fmaj7 G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 C majorC
Oooh, oh oh
Verse:
G6sus4 C majorC Em7/BEm7/B
Well some people think their sins
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
Cause the cancer that's eating into them
FF C majorC Csus2/B
And the only way they can win
Am7Am7 G6sus4
Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin
Pre-Chorus:
Fmaj7Fmaj7 G7sus4G7sus4 Am7#5 G6sus4
And pra-a-yin, but when the cancer does not go
Chorus:
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Surely hope dealt the ha- ardest blows
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Verse:
G6sus4 C majorC Em7/BEm7/B
And now all these truths are sold
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
With foundations below them
FF C majorC Csus2/B
That were dug out in winter's cold
Bridge:
Am7#5 G6sus4 Fmaj7Fmaj7 FF G7sus4G7sus4 Am7#5
When the world stole our young and prayed on the old
Outro:
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
Well hope deals in the ha- ardest blows
Csus4Csus4 G6sus4 C majorC
Yet I cannot help myself but hope
G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
I guess that's why love hurts
G7sus4G7sus4
And heartache stings
Am7#5
And despair is never worse
G7sus4G7sus4
Than the despair that it brings
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Am7#5
But hope deals the ha- ardest blows, dear
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Fmaj7Fmaj7
The ha-ardest blows, dear
G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC G7sus4G7sus4
The ha-ardest blows
C majorC G7sus4G7sus4 Csus2Csus2 C majorC