Break It To Them Gently Chords
Break It To Them Gently by Burton Cummings is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A# with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, D, F#m, Bm and E. 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: A D A D
A F#m
Break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad
Bm E
When you see my baby sister, be as kind as you can
A F#m
Break it to my grandma, said that boy?s wild and bad
Bm
Break it to them gently when you tell ?em
E A
That I won?t be coming home again
D A
Cause I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive
D A
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone
D A
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive
F#m A
God I wanna go home, lord I wish I was home
D A D
A F#m
When you see my lady with the twinkle in her eyes
Bm E
Tell it to her softly and hold her if she cries
A F#m
Tell her that I love her and I will till the day I die
Bm
Tell it to her gently when you tell her
E A
That I won?t be coming home again
E A
I got in too deep with strangers
E A
Thinkin? they could help me find my way
D A
Nobody warned me of the dangers
F#m Bm E
And it?s always the young and foolish that have to pay
A F#m
So break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad
Bm E
Thank them for the good years and all the lovin? that I had
A F#m
Break it to my grandma who said the boy is wild and bad
Bm
Break it to them gently when you tell them
E A
That I won?t be coming home again
D A
I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive
D A
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone
D A
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive
F#m A
Lord I wanna go home, lord I wanna go home
D
You gotta break it to them gently
A
Break it to them gently
D
You gotta break it to them gently
A
Gotta really try to roll ?em
D
You gotta break it to them gently
A
Gotta really try to sooth them
D
Gotta really try to sooth them
A
Gotta really try to roll them
D
You gotta roll it to my mother
A
Gotta roll it to my grandma, gotta roll the old lady
D
Roll it to my mother
A
Roll it to my mother and roll the old lady
D
Roll it to my grandma
A
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady
D
Roll it to my mother
A
Roll it to my mother, gotta roll the old lady
D
Roll it to my mother
A
My sister and my mother and roll the old lady
D
Roll it to my grandma
A
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady...