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A Good Man Is Hard To Find chords by Tom Waits

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

The most obvious way to play it is by putting a
on the 1st fret and playing D, A, A7, D, D, D7, Em, E, E7, etc. But I lost my capo.. so
the barre version.

It also has a wonderful dooo-dooo-dooo doodoodoo thing going on between verses and in
beginning.. as in:

Chord diagramE MajorE|------6-----6-----6--------|
Chord diagramBB|------8-----8-----8--------|
Chord diagramG+G|------8-----8-----8--------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|---------------------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|---6-----5---------------5-|
Chord diagramE MajorE|---------------8-----6-8---|

Verse 1
  Chord diagramD#D#                  Chord diagramBb majorBb
I always play Russian Roulette in my head
Chord diagramBb7Bb7                 Chord diagramD#D#
Seventeen black and twenty-nine red
    Chord diagramD#D#           Chord diagramD#7D#7
How far from the gutter
                 Chord diagramF minorFm
How far from the pew
     Chord diagramFF        Chord diagramF7F7           Chord diagramBb majorBb        Chord diagramBb7Bb7
I'll always remember to forget about you

Chorus
Chord diagramD#D#                      Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramA augmentedA good man is hard to find
     Chord diagramF minorFm                    Chord diagramBb majorBb
Only strangers sleep in my bed
   Chord diagramD#D#                      Chord diagramC7C7
My favorite words are good-bye
       Chord diagramF minorFm       Chord diagramBb majorBb       Chord diagramD#D#
And my favorite color is red

Verse 2
Chord diagramA augmentedA long dead soldier looks out
From the frame
No one remembers his war; no one
Remembers his name

Verse 3
Go out to the meadow;
Scare off all the crows
It does nothing but rain here,
And nothing will grow

Chorus
Chord diagramA augmentedA good man is hard to find
Only strangers sleep in my bed
My favorite words are good-bye
And my favorite color is
Chord diagramF minorFm                Chord diagramBb majorBb
my favorite color is
Chord diagramF minorFm          Chord diagramBb majorBb       Chord diagramD#D#
my favorite color is red

Other versions of A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Alternative guitar chords and tabs for A sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun by Tom Waits

VersionType
A good man is hard to find (Ver. 2)Chords

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