It Could Make You Cry Chords
by Brett Dennen
It Could Make You Cry by Brett Dennen is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords C, Am, G, F, Em, C/B, Dm, E and Dm7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Tuning:Standard Strumming Pattern
C Am G
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------1-----------------1----------------------0-----------------------|
G|-------------0-----------------0-------------------------0-----------------|
D|------2----------------2-----------------------0---------------------------|
A|--3----------------0-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------3---------------------------------|
Play this pattern throughout the whole song
Intro: C Am G C (4x)
verse 1
C Am F C Em F G
Snowflakes falling on an old plantation Buzzards circling above a landfill
C Am F C G C
Old friends fall into a conversation Soldiers in the sand are standing still
verse 2
C Am F C Em F
Mermaid walks into a fleet of fishermen Chattering children lift their ears
G
to the sky
C Am F C C/B Am G
Skeptics stare in fascination I have seen so much beauty it could make you
C
cry
Bridge
Dm E Dm7 Am G
Fire on the hillside raging I hear my lover calling
F G
Tears are falling Tears are falling
verse 3
C Am F C Em F
Widows walk with bouquets of roses Cardinals flaunt their feathers as they
G
fly
C Am F C C/B
Women flop with flames under their noses I have seen so much beauty it could
G C
make you cry
Other bridge thingy
F C F G
Why, why, why, why Why, why, why, why Why
Dm E Dm7 Am
Fire on the hillside raging I hear my lover calling Calling
F G
Tears are falling Tears are falling
verse 4
C Am F C Em F
Damsels dressed in all the stylish fashions Trees in the city all strung
G
with lights
C Am F C C/B Am
Broken hearts meet with uncontrollable passion I have seen so much beauty
G C
it could make you cry
Verse 5
C Am F C Em
And the Hare Krishna clattering Chorus in the courtyard Dervishes dancing in
F G
a park nearby
C Am F C
Love professed to the point on a postcard
C C/B Am G C
I have seen so much beauty it could make you cry
C C/B Am G C
I have seen so much beauty it could make you cry
C C/B Am G C
I have seen so much beauty it could make you cry