Pawn Shop Guitar Chords

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Pawn Shop Guitar by Bleu Edmondson is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Em and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Tabbed By: Mickey Renfro 
 
Intro: G D Em C 
       G D C D G 
 
 G                       D 
Cold Lonestar beer, and a half pack of smokes 
      Em                               C 
that's all that they payed me for the songs that i wrote 
 G                          D 
Here in thIS bar, well the only care and pain 
  Em                           C 
Cause nobody came to see me or hear me play 
 
       D                       Em 
i'm writing these songs, and singing all these lines 
  C                 D 
over and over, hundreds of times 
G                       D 
i'll never be pretty, i won't get far 
         C                         D         G 
i'm just writing these songs on a pawn shop guitar 
 
 G                         D 
i drove on down to houston for my next show 
  Em                                     C 
some times dont it surprise you how the wheels turn slow 
G                            D 
made it back home without a dollar to pay 
      Em                              C 
for my gas on down to Stephenville the very next day 
 
 
       D                       Em 
i'm writing these songs, and singing all these lines 
  C                 D 
over and over, hundreds of times 
G                       D 
i'll never be pretty, i won't get far 
         C                         D         G 
i'm just writing these songs on a pawn shop guitar  
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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100 BPM Andante