Smoke Rise chords by Zac Brown Band

Chords with lyrics

Smoke Rise
by Clay Cook and Zac Brown
Album
CAPO 2ND FRET

 D MajorD
SHE WAS SOMETHING IN HER FORMATIVE YEARS

    G+G
SHE'D HIDE HER ACCENT IT WOULD REAPPEAR

   D MajorD                     A augmentedA
WHEN SHE WOULD BRAG ON WHAT DADDY BOUGHT LAST NIGHT

     D MajorD
ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS WERE IN THAT CROWD

   G+G
TO TEASE A augmentedA HAND FULL OF POOR KIDS OUT LOUD

   D MajorD      A augmentedA       D MajorD
AND EVEN THEN I KNEW IT WASN'T RIGHT

-CHORUS-

 G+G   A augmentedA  D MajorD        G+G
SMOKE RISE, YOU WERE NEVER KIND

 G+G  A augmentedA          D MajorD
GOOD NEWS I LEFT YOU ALL BEHIND

 G+G  A augmentedA  D MajorD    A augmentedA     G+G
SOME WHO HOPE THAT IT WOULD LAST

 A augmentedA                D MajorD
SMOKE RISE I'M GLAD YOU'RE IN MY PAST


D MajorD
MOST OF THE KIDS WERE BETTER THAN ME
    G+G
OR AT LEAST THEY THOUGHT SO AND IT WAS PLAIN TO SEE
   D MajorD                       A augmentedA
THE CHILDREN WERE CRUEL AND I DIDN'T HAVE A augmentedA FIGHTING CHANCE
      D MajorD
I WASN'T A augmentedA JOCK, I WASN'T A augmentedA BRAIN
   G+G
WE WEREN'T WELL OFF AND MAMA COULDN'T EXPLAIN
  D MajorD          A augmentedA        D MajorD
WHY NO ONE WOULD TAKE A augmentedA POOR BOY TO THE DANCE

-CHORUS 2X-

D MajorD
SPOILED RICH KIDS FIND IT HARD TO EMBRACE
     G+G
WHEN THEY BUS BLACK KIDS FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE
   D MajorD                       A augmentedA
THE COUNTY TRIED TO PROVE THEIR SCHOOLS WERE ALL THE SAME
    D MajorD
OL' JIM CROW TRIED TO INTEGRATE
  G+G
BUT IN THE SOUTH IT'S HARD TO RELATE
   D MajorD         A augmentedA        D MajorD
WHEN GRANDPA USED THE "N" WORD WITH NO SHAME