30000 Feet Chords
by Ben Rector
30000 Feet by Ben Rector is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, F, G, Dm and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C Am C F C G C
verse 1:
C
14A, window seat, tennis shoes and faded jeans.
C F C
Nervous as he tells me it's his first time on a plane.
C F C
We took off and headed East, I was thumbing through the magazines.
C F C G
He felt like talking and offered me his name.
G F C G
SO I asked him how he was
G F C Dm
And he smiled and said, Well son,
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
It seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
verse 2:
C G C
I've been out a month or so, another night, another show
C F C G
One hundred different cities, they all just seem the same
C F C
He asked me what it must be like, singing songs under the lights
C F C G
Well, it's got its moments, just the same as anything
G C
I miss my town, I miss my wife
F C Dm
But I'm up here with you tonight
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I have loved a pretty girl
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
Good to me
Bridge:
F Am F C
Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now
F C Am Bb G F
Sometimes it takes the sky to see what's the ground
C Am C F C G C
F C
I've been better, I've been worse
Am G
I've chased after pretty girls
F C Dm
Seen a couple places that I never though I't see
F C G Am
I've walked into harder times, and I've walked out the other side
F C F
IT seems like you end up getting what you need
F C F C
Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life's been good to me
C Am C F C G C
Outro