If Your Prayers Dont Get To Heaven Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays507

If Your Prayers Dont Get To Heaven by Brian Fallon is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, G, C, F, E and C/B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro 

Am G Am Am G Am 

C G F C G F 

Am G Am Am G Am 

C G F C G F 

verse 1 

            C               Am 
I'm packing up, I've gotta move 
          F                 C           G                  Am 
I'm gon' blow a fifty-foot hole in the dark clouds in our room 
              C                     Am 
I'm making a change and starting today 
          F                      C                       G                Am 
I'm gon' roll these dice with a song tonight, I'm gonna whip these blues away 
             Am                  G              F 
And I'm gon' run so far they'll never find me again 

             C                E                 Am                F 
But I ain't leavin', I ain't leavin' 'less I'm leavin' here with you 
           C               E             Am                F 
I've been patient while I waited, but I feel it's time to move 
             Am                 F 
You've been crying, yeah, I've seen you 
        C               G 
Honey, I've been crying too 
         C                    G                Am                 F 
If your prayers don't get to Heaven, I'm gon' keep them safe for you 
         C                    G                Am        C             Am 
If your prayers don't get to Heaven, I'm gon' keep them safe ‘til they do 

Interlude 

Am G Am Am G Am 

C G F C G F 

verse 2 

        C                 Am 
I just wait in cold, cold gray 
       F                   C                G                 Am 
But I know like I've been told, yeah, mama says, “Hold on to hope” 
              C                  Am 
She whispers sweet, "Isn't life lonely?” 
           F                      C                     G                 Am 
You gotta burn that sound of the voices out that wanna bring you to your knees 
          Am                  G               F 
You gotta run so far they'll never find you again 


             C                E                 Am                F 
But I ain't leavin', I ain't leavin' 'less I'm leavin' here with you 
           C               E             Am                F 
I've been patient while I waited, but I feel it's time to move 
             Am                 F 
You've been crying, yeah, I've seen you 
        C               G 
Honey, I've been crying too 
         C                    G                Am                 F 
If your prayers don't get to Heaven, I'm gon' keep them safe for you 
         C                    G                Am        C             Am    G 
If your prayers don't get to Heaven, I'm gon' keep them safe ‘til they do 

Bridge 

     C            C/B      Am           F 
And when I was a child, a dream came to me 
             C           C/B            Am           F 
Well, every soul hanging low found its piece of dignity 
           Am            F               C                    G 
'Til that dream gets to Heaven, you can ride this train for free 
           Am            F               C                 G 
'Til that dream gets to Heaven, you can ride this train on me 
            Am                  G              F 
And we gon' run so far they'll never find us again 


             C                E                 Am                F 
But I ain't leavin', I ain't leavin' 'less I'm leavin' here with you 
           C               E             Am                F 
I've been patient while I waited, but I feel it's time to move 
             Am                 F 
You've been crying, yeah, I've seen you 
        C               G 
Honey, I've been crying too 
         C                    G                Am                 F 
If your prayers don't get to Heaven, I'm gon' keep them safe for you 
         C                    G                Am        G             C   G  Am  F 
If your prayers don't get to Heaven, I'm gon' keep them safe ‘til they do 
        C   G  Am  F 
Til they do 
        C   G  Am  F 
Til they do 
        C   G  Am  F  Am 
Til they do 
    	

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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Metronome

100 BPM Andante