Light A Candle For Me Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays500

Light A Candle For Me by Billy Joe Shaver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			INTRO: C 

          G                  F 
Would you light a candle for me, babe 
                                 C 
Even though I have done done you wrong 
     F                    C 
If I called you up around midnight 
          F                   C 
Would you pray with me on the phone 


I recall the winters we weathered 
I felt your heart beat with mine 
You pulled me so deeply inside you 
Our bodies so sweetly entwined 


You know, it hurt me to hurt you 
But I felt my deal goin' down 
Now I'm hung in the hooks of the highway 
I'm gone and I can't turn around 


These devils out here done took me 
'Cause they know that I's a good hearted man 
It's too late to pray for my life now 
But my soul can be saved by your hand 


Would you ligh a candle for me, babe 
And don't snuff it out 'til the dawn 
When that gamey old cock stops his crowin' 
My soul will come wingin' back home 


Like a deaf man gazin' sadly 
At a blind man singin' his song 
There's a world of difference between us 
But the grace of God makes us one 

          G                  F         C 
Would you light a candle for me, babe
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante