Magnolias Chords
Magnolias by Caroline Herring is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, A7, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
nd Fret
Intro: G C G C G
C G
I met you once in a living room in Jackson
C
Thought of you for six years or more
D G
One hour, you were my secret standard
A7 D C
One night, you walked back through my door___
G C G
Your lanky frame was not what I remembered
C
Waking from a long and fitful sleep
D G
But after early morning conversation
A7 D G
I drove to north Texas in disbelief
C G D G
That quaking in my heart was too deep for words
Em Am D
It tremored and it trembled and it ached___
G C
We spoke our peace out on the Golden Gate Bridge
G D G C G D G
And sealed it with a kiss under magnolias
C G
Fortunes not made and not discovered
C
There were mentors, we were protégés
D G
From one rite of passage to another
A7 D C
We roughed through the wellsprings of our early days
G C G
And underneath that surface there was something
C
Only you and I could understand
D G ~ Em
I made my commitment to that long ago
G D G
Standing in the hallway down in Dixieland
C G D G
And that quaking in my heart too deep for words
Em Am D
It tremors and it trembles and it aches___
G C
We spoke our peace out on the Golden Gate Bridge
G D G C G D G
And sealed it with a kiss under magnolias
C G
There's one thing that I love more than Austin
C
Or curving 'round the Frio on her turquoise streets
D G
It's your melancholy dread of Sunday evenings
A7 D C
Your shivering body when it sleeps__
G C G
The future's looking stormy here before us
C
There are wars, calamities and tribulations
D G ~ Em
We'll hatchet down the windows if we have to
G D G
And stand the watch together 'til the morning
C G D G
'Cause that quaking in my heart's too deep for words
Em Am D
It tremors and it trembles and it aches___
G C
We spoke our peace out on the Golden Gate Bridge
G D G C G D G
And sealed it with a kiss under magnolias