Nothing Is A Stranger chords by The Walkabouts

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:

E minorEm


Verse 1:
E minorEm
Spent another season in the valley of the bones
C majorC
Higher ground was callin’, callin’ me back home
 E minorEm
A augmentedA hundred and nine answers to a hundred and ten proofs
D MajorD
Back up to my bed o’nails and my leakin’ roof.

Chorus:
G+G         E minorEm
 Hold me sober and hold me still
D MajorD         E minorEm
 Hold my past up against my will
G+G          E minorEm
 Nothing’s wrong when my head is gone
D MajorD      C majorC        E minorEm
Nothing is a stranger to me now.

Verse 2:
E minorEm
All that good behaviour, well I knew it wouldn’t last
    C majorC
At the funeral of fossils I buried up the past
  E minorEm
But just like I predicted well the past came jumping up
D MajorD
Jumped up like a devil who had finally seen enough.

Chorus:
G+G         E minorEm
 Hold me sober and hold me still
D MajorD         E minorEm
 Hold my past up against my will
G+G            E minorEm
 Nothing’s wrong when my head is gone
D MajorD      C majorC        E minorEm  E minorEm
Nothing is a stranger to me now.

Break:
D MajorD   E minorEm                   C majorC
Saw a lighthouse in the wheat fields where I drove off the road
    E minorEm                C majorC
When I got there, there was nothing but darkness in a hole
      D MajorD      E minorEm
And down inside I saw my favourite place
D MajorD              C majorC      E minorEm
Furniture all busted and the arson on her face.

Chorus:
G+G         E minorEm
 Hold me sober and hold me still
D MajorD         E minorEm
 Hold my past up against my will
G+G            E minorEm
 Nothing’s wrong when my head is gone
D MajorD      C majorC       E minorEm  E minorEm
Nothing is a stranger to me now.

Coda:
E minorEm              G+G
 Nothing is a stranger to me; nothing is a stranger to me
D MajorD                E minorEm  D MajorD
 Nothing is a stranger to me-ee now.

Instr:
E minorEm   G+G  E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm
Em   G+G  E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm
Em

Outro:
E minorEm
Spent another season in the valley of the bones

Higher ground was callin’, callin’ me back home.

C majorC G+G E minorEm
(x5 getting slower)