Right Way To Do The Wrong Thing Chords

KeyG Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays439

Right Way To Do The Wrong Thing by Cheryl Wheeler is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, Gadd9, C, Am and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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Intro: G  Gadd9  G  Gadd9 

            G                            C     
Somehow the fair-haired boy has lost his place  
                 Am                        D 
Stepped from the golden light, fallen from grace  
          G                    C     
Scattered promises like broken glass  
           Am                     D 
Turned his heart away from all he has 


 
        C                     D 
And you can't believe and you can't explain  
      G                      C     
How a heart can beat and the world can change  
         Am             D 
And it's left you wondering  
             C            D            G 
If there's a right way to do the wrong thing 


             G                           C     
New love's a warm surprise to a sleeping heart  
           Am                                  D 
We tell ourselves the old was wanting from the start  
             G                                  C     
Hot tears in children's eyes, for the nights he calls  
          Am                        D 
Photos of in-law aunts down off the walls 



        C                     D 
And you can't believe and you can't explain  
      G                      C     
How a heart can beat and the world can change  
         Am             D 
And it's left you wondering  
             C            D            G 
If there's a right way to do the wrong thing 


Bridge:
 
Am              C     
Running now, he can't come clean  
    G              D 
And she can't understand what's changing  
Am                  C     
This charade leaves her unknowing  
G              D                   C  D 
Everyday these cracks keep growing deeper 


Instrumental:

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante