Mechanical Bull chords by Zach Bryan

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C

🎸 Intro:


C  F   Am   G


🎸 Verse 1:
C
Took a few years to get here brother
F
Greens are greener in the heat of summer
Am               G               C
Calmness on this evenin' seems a drug
C

Graham and Lucas are having kids while
F
Steve’s busy raising his
      Am            G            C
While I climb out a hole I never dug
C
Likely there’s a spot twenty minutes or so
F
Used to get waisted ridin’ rodeo
Am           G          C
Now it’s all mechanical Bull


🎸 Chorus:
        F
Are the old ways dead?
          C
Or livin’ in my head
           G
There’s  a smile on a photo
         F                Am
Catchin’ dust In your old A-part-ment
F
Are the old ways dead?
   C
Or livin’ in my head?
     G              Am
It’s all veneer and up from here
   F
So take a rest


🎸 Instrumental:

F   C   G
F   Am


🎸 Verse 2:
C
So I’ll set off runnin’ like I said i’s gonna
    F                          Am
And find another rodeo I’m a mechanical bull
        G                    C
Throw a quarter and watch me go
      C
And I get a little sad in the evenins' Knowin’ I’ll
F
never get a beatin’
           Am                   G                   C
Like being young and dumb again in this life’s long rodeo
C
Maybe I’ll move to Texas
       F
Let my soul grow bored and restless
    Am                G            C
And learn to rope and ride like Le Gros
C
Maybe I’ll learn the mando-and
   F
to pick a banjo too
Am                    G                 C
Ride all night on the highways like Two-Show



🎸 Chorus:  (One strum)
        F
Are the old ways dead?
          C
Or livin’ in my head
           G
There’s  a smile on a photo
         F                Am
Catchin’ dust In your old A-part-ment
F
Are the old ways dead?
   C
Or livin’ in my head?
     G              F
It’s all veneer and up from here
   Am
So take a rest


🎸 Instrumental:
F     C


🎸 Bridge:
     G              F
It’s all veneer and up from here
   Am
So take a rest
     G              F
It’s all veneer and up from here
   Am
So take a rest


🎸 Outro:
C
Took a few years to get here brother
F
Greens are greener in the heat of summer
Am               G               C
Calmness on this evenin' seems a drug