The Minnow & The Trout Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays585

The Minnow & The Trout by A Fine Frenzy is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, Em, G and Gm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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(Intro)  D A 

D 
Help me out, 
              A 
Said the minnow to the trout 
         D 
I was lost and found 
        A 
Myself swimming in your mouth 
    D 
Oh, help me chief, 
         A 
I've got plans for you and me 
   Em 
I swear upon this riverbed, 
      A 
I'll help you feel young again 
G            D 
Oh, not your everyday circumstance 
  G 
The hummingbird 
       A 
Taking coffee with the ants, 
And I said 
D                         G 
Please, I know that we're different 
            D                         G 
But we were one cell in the sea in the beginning 
    D    A     G           D   A   G 
And what we're made of was all the same once 
      D   A    G               D 
We're not that different after all 

D                    A 
Help me up, said the eagle to the duck 
     D              A 
I've fallen from    my nest so high above 
    D                  A 
Oh, help me fly, I am too afraid to try 
Em 
Now saddled with a fear of heights 
A 
I'm praying you can set me right 

G            D 
Oh, not your everyday circumstance 
   G 
The elephant 
        A 
Sharing peanuts with the rats, 
And I said 

D                         G 
Please, I know that we're different 
            D                         G 
But we were one cell in the sea in the beginning 
    D    A     G           D   A   G 
And what we're made of was all the same once 
      D   A    G               D 
We're not that different after all 

( D A ) 

D             Gm     A 
We are tied in history, 
D                    Gm    A 
Wide-connected like a family 
D              Gm     A 
We are tied in history, 
D                    Gm    A   Gm    A 
Wide-connected like a family, a family 

   D                         G 
So Please, I know that we're different 
            D                         G 
But we were one cell in the sea in the beginning 
    D    A     G           D   A   G 
And what we're made of was all the same once 
      D   A    G 
We're not that different 
      D   A    G               D 
We're not that different after all 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante