Two Shades Of Hope Acoustic chords by Foy Vance

• Capo on 5th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

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 x32010
Csus2 x30010
Csus2/B x20010
Am7 x02010
G7sus4 323002
Fmaj7 133210
G6sus4 320010
Em7/B x20030
Am7#5 x03010
F 133211

Intro:
C  Csus2  C       Csus2/B    Am7     G7sus4
Fmaj7     G7sus4  Csus2  C   G7sus4  C

Verse:
G6sus4   C                  Em7/B
If there's one thing that I know
Csus2      C             Fmaj7
It is that two shades of hope
C                    Csus2/B
One the enlightening soul
        Am7                  G6sus4
And the other is more like a hangman's rope

Pre-Chorus:
          Fmaj7                      G7sus4
Well it's true, you may reap what you sow
                Am7#5
But not that despair is the all-time low

Chorus:
G7sus4  C                  G7sus4 Csus2 C
Baby,   hope deals the the ha- ardest blows

C  G7sus4  Csus2  C

Verse:
G6sus4    C              Em7/B
There was once someone I loved
        C                    Fmaj7
And his heart overflowed his cup
F       C                    Csus2/B
And his shoes got covered in blood
       Am7
Oh but he never knew
         G6sus4
Cause he only looked up

Pre-Chorus:
     Fmaj7             G7sus4
Well he was a troubled soul
           Am7#5                 Csus2/B  G6sus4
And he saw pain more than most I know

Chorus:
           C                  G7sus4 Csus2  C
Yet it was hope that dealt the ha- ardest blows

C  G7sus4  Csus2  C

Verse:
G6sus4 C                 Em7/B
And    too the girl that holds the hand
     C                Fmaj7
Of a somewhat distant man
F            C                 Csus2/B
Though she’d do everything she can
          Am7                  G6sus4
Still his heart set sail for a distant land

Pre-Chorus:
        Fmaj7                   G7sus4
And she wonders sometimes if he knows
              Am7#5           G6sus4
How she feels like a trampled rose

Chorus:
      C                 G7sus4 Csus2 C
Baby, hope deals the the ha- ardest blows

C  G7sus4  Csus2  C

Instrumental:
C    Csus2/B   Am7   G7sus4
Oooh, oh oh
Fmaj7   G7sus4  Csus2  C   G7sus4  C
Oooh, oh oh

Verse:
G6sus4     C                  Em7/B
Well  some people think their sins
          C                    Fmaj7
Cause the cancer that's eating into them
F       C                 Csus2/B
And the only way they can win
          Am7                   G6sus4
Is by the healing of somebody's hands on their skin

Pre-Chorus:
    Fmaj7 G7sus4            Am7#5           G6sus4
And pra-a-yin, but when the cancer does not go

Chorus:
       C             G7sus4 Csus2 C
Surely hope dealt the ha- ardest blows

C  G7sus4  Csus2  C

Verse:
G6sus4  C                    Em7/B
And now all these truths are sold
     C             Fmaj7
With foundations below them
F         C                  Csus2/B
That were dug out in winter's cold

Bridge:
                 Am7#5             G6sus4        Fmaj7  F G7sus4 Am7#5
When the world stole our young and prayed on the old

Outro:
     C                G7sus4 Csus2 C
Well hope deals in the ha- ardest blows
             Csus4   G6sus4  C
Yet I cannot help myself but hope

G7sus4  Csus2 C

C              Fmaj7
I guess that's why love hurts
G7sus4
And heartache stings
        Am7#5
And despair is never worse
            G7sus4
Than the despair that it brings

    C              G7sus4     Am7#5
But hope deals the ha- ardest blows, dear
    C  G7sus4 Fmaj7
The ha-ardest blows, dear
    G7sus4 Csus2 C    G7sus4
The ha-ardest    blows

C   G7sus4  Csus2  C