Death Letter chords by The White Stripes
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Capo on 1st
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Key: Abm
🎸 Intro:
Gm x4
🎸 Verse 1:
Gm
I got a letter this morning
Gm Gm
What do you reckon it read?
Gm
It said the gal you love is dead
C C
I got a letter this morning
G G G
What do you reckon it read?
Dm C G Gm Gm
Said "Hurry, Hurry because the gal you love is dead"
Gm
Well I packed up my suitcase
Gm
I took off down the road
Gm Gm
When I got there she was layin' on the cooling board
C
I packed up my suitcase
G G G
And I took off down the road
D C G G G D
When I got there she was layin' on the cooling board
🎸 Instrumental:
G x 4
C Gm G G
Gm x 8
🎸 Verse 2:
Gm Gm
It looked like ten thousand people standing around the burial ground
G G
I didn't know I loved her 'till they began to let her down
C G G G
Looked like ten thousand people standing on the burial ground
D C
I didn't know that I loved her
G G G
'till they began to let her down
Gm
You know it's so hard to love
Gm
Someone that don't love you
Gm
Won't get satisfaction
Gm C
Don't care what you do
C
So hard to love
G G G
Someone that don't love you
D C
Don't look like satisfaction
G Gm G D
Don't care what you do
🎸 Instrumental:
G x 4
C Gm G G
D F G G
G x 4
C Gm G G
D F G G
G x 4
🎸 Verse 3:
G Gm
Well I got up this morning
G
The break of day
Gm
Just hugging the pillows
G
She used to lay
C
Got up this morning
G G G
The break of day
D
Just hugging the pillows
C G
Where my baby used to lay
🎸 Outro:
G D G Published:
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