White Lights Chords
by Ben Howard
White Lights by Ben Howard is a guitar song. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Ben Howard - White Lights
As requested by Wes
Tabbed from youtube clips of Ben's live O2 academy performance
Tuning is in DADAAD (a whole step up from his normal CGCGGC)
Please rate if you like it :)
Intro
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Verse
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I know my dear so painfully clear I know
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but you always fear leaving barren lands to toil
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but I gave myself away so easily you would say I was a kid
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but i'll always be a child through the harshness & the wildness
I will always be faced with ruin
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white light don't break her heart any more
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bright light don't seem to bother her at all
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white light don't break her heart any more
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bright light don't seem to bother her at all
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it all is well, all is good, the crows of eden which your
blackbirds never could
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like you said they would
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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I know my dear, so painfully clear of it all
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but you always fear, leave you baron land to toil
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oh i made my own damn choices, till the bite and all it's poison
as the ball and chain
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and now i came to be a man, not without my fathers hand without
your views that they'll bring
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white light don't break her heart anymore
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bright light don't seem to bother her at all
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white light don't break her heart anymore
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bright light don't seem to bother her at all
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but all is well, all is good, the crows of eden which your
blackbird never could
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like you said they would
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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like you said they would x3
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white light don't break her heart
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anymore bright light don't seem to
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bother her at all white light don't
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break her heart anymore bright light
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don't seem to bother her anymore
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