May The Road Rise To Meet You Chords

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May The Road Rise To Meet You by Cathie Ryan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, D, G/F#, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			Intro 
C  G  D  G 

Verse 

Summertime the sun would shine 
     C                G 
We’d lay out in the field 
C                G              D 
Sheltered in the shadow of a tree 
     G 
We’d write our poems to take along 
    C               G 
And sing out on the road 
    C                G                 D 
And you would always sing this song to me 

Chorus 
        C            D 
May the road rise to meet you 
        G       G/F#    Em 
May the wind be at your back 
        C              D              G    C  G 
May the sun shine down warm upon your land 
        C               D               G            C 
May the rain fall soft upon your face until we meet again 
        Am              D           C 
May god hold you in the palm of his hand 


Instrumental 
C  G  D  C  G 

Verse 

Autumn leaves would leave the tree 
   C                 G 
In colours on the ground 
C                  G            D 
Swirling patterns, beautiful to see 
    G 
I’d lay my head down on your lap 
  C                G 
I would not make a sound 
    C                G                 D 
And you would always sing this song to me 

Chorus 
        C            D 
May the road rise to meet you 
        G       G/F#    Em 
May the wind be at your back 
        C              D              G    C  G 
May the sun shine down warm upon your land 
        C               D               G            C 
May the rain fall soft upon your face until we meet again 
        Am              D           C 
May god hold you in the palm of his hand 

Verse 
    G 
The winter days the tree 
      C             G 
Would shiver in the wind 
C               G                D 
Waiting for the warming touch of spring 
      G 
You’d hold me in the firelight 
     C              G 
We’d stare into the flames 
    C                G              D 
And this is what you always used to sing 

Chorus 
        C            D 
May the road rise to meet you 
        G       G/F#    Em 
May the wind be at your back 
        C              D              G    C  G 
May the sun shine down warm upon your land 
        C               D               G            C 
May the rain fall soft upon your face until we meet again 
        Am              D           C 
May god hold you in the palm of his hand 
        Am              D           C 
May god hold you in the palm of his hand 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante