What Clowns Are We Chords

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What Clowns Are We by Broder Daniel is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em, D and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: G 

Verse 

                G 
What clowns are we 
      C 
What clowns are we 
          Em 
Try to pretend do we 
               D 
What clowns are we 

               G 
What a game is love 
           C 
What a game is love 
                 Em 
What a game that breaks hearts 
              D   
We´re made to play 


    G 
And were do tears go 
C 
When they don´t show 
Am 
Where do years go 
D 
We waste them so 
G 
Who counts the tears 
C 
Who sees your fears 
Am 
Who counts the years 
D             G 
When they disappear 

C Em D 


Verse 

                   G 
What a fool I must be 
              C 
What a fool I must be 
                Em 
Who thought she loved me 
                D 
How could I not see 

                  G 
What a show is it all  
              C 
What a show is it all 
          Em 
Trying to hide it all 
                  D 
What a show is it all  

    G 
And who counts the years 
C 
That disappear 
Am 
Who count the tears 
D 
Who knows your fears 
G 
Where do years go 
C 
We waste them so 
Am 
Where do tears go 
D               G   
When they don´t show 

C                          G         
 Oh they go to work on the heart 
C                             G        
 Needles and nails to make it rot 
C                 G 
 And untie lovers knot 
               D 
They go to the heart 
           Em 
to make it rot 

C G C G D 


Outro 

G 
How can they know 
C 
If you don´t show 
Am 
Who can notice 
D 
Where your heart is 
G 
Who will miss us 
C 
When we´re all gone 
Am 
Who´ll remember 
D          G 
Who we all were 

C Am D 
G C Am D (x2) 
G 
    	

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