Just Circumstance chords by Whitney Rose

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
G D C C G D C C


Verse 1:
G                            D
She didn't know what she was gonna do
        C
She was doing it alone, that she knew
G                  D
Four weeks 'til she had to surrender
C
Nineteen, first offender
G                       D
She'd have done anything for that boy
C

Save his life, leave hers destroyed
G                              D
It didn't really matter who was really to blame
C
She was never gonna give his name


Chorus:
Am             Am7     C          D
'Cause all her life, it's been the same
   G          D     C
No pomp, just circumstance
              Am                 D
They all say, "Bless her heart"
D                     G
She never had a chance


Break:
G D C C G D C C


Verse 2:
G                      D
She flipped a coin and hoped for heads
C
A few more nights in her own bed
G                      D
She wasn't getting any sleep at night
C
She couldn't look her mama in the eye
G                                D
She should have known what would happen next
C
She spent her last ten dollars and she took the test
G                    D
She's off to pay for all that blow
C
Turns out she's not alone


Chorus:
Am             Am7     C          D
'Cause all her life, it's been the same
   G          D     C
No pomp, just circumstance
              Am                 D
They all say, "Bless her heart"
D                     G
She never had a chance


Break:
G D C C G D C C


Verse 3:
G                             D
The bed's not much worse than what she had at home
C
She's sixteen weeks and starting to show
G                  D
There ain't no one to lean on
C
Her mama's sick and that boy is gone
G                D
Three years move pretty slow
C
When you're sittin' there staring at a cell window
G                            D
She didn't hold her when she had the chance
C
Just straight into the happy couple's hands



Chorus:
Am             Am7     C          D
'Cause all her life, it's been the same
   G          D     C
No pomp, just circumstance
              Am                 D
They all say, "Bless her heart"
D                     G
She never had a chance


Outro:
G D C C G D C C

G D C C G D C C

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