Best Years Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays448

Best Years by Circa Waves is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, A#, C, D, Em, Bm and Am. 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: G  A#  

G                                             C            
Stand up straight, let your eyes fixate on a prize at the end of the road  
        D                                        G  
It's a long way off if you've never been here before  
G                                         C   
Catch my eye if you dare to try, I've got nothing good on my mind  
      D                             G  
I'm a twenty-something trying to be sure  

     G      Em     D           G  
Yeah we are flying through our best years  
    Em      D         Bm  
And I'm not quite myself, please  
C       Am     Bm  
Take me out tonight  
    C        Am       G  
And lie with me tonight  

     G      Em     D           G  
Yeah we are flying through our best years  
    Em      D         Bm  
And I'm not quite myself, please  
C       Am     Bm  
Take me out tonight  
    C        Am       G  
And lie with me tonight  

G C D G C D  G C D G C   
Oh Oh Oh...  

  G                                            C  
A lonely queue for the late-night fools, I got nothing to declare  
       D                                             G  
Just a bunch of calls and more classics than I can bear  
G                                         C  
Catch my eye if you dare to try, I've got nothing good on my mind  
      D                                 G  
I'm a twenty-something trying not to care  

     G      Em     D           G  
Yeah we are flying through our best years  
    Em      D         Bm  
And I'm not quite myself, please  
C       Am     Bm  
Take me out tonight  
    C        Am       G  
And lie with me tonight  


     G      Em     D           G  
Yeah we are flying through our best years  
    Em      D         Bm  
And I'm not quite myself, please  
C       Am     Bm  
Take me out tonight  
    C        Am       G  
And lie with me tonight  

Instrumental G  C  

     G      Em     D           G  
Yeah we are flying through our best years  
    Em      D         Bm  
And I'm not quite myself, please  
C       Am     Bm  
Take me out tonight  
    C        Am       G  
And lie with me tonight  


     G      Em     D           G  
Yeah we are flying through our best years  
    Em      D         Bm  
And I'm not quite myself, please  
C       Am     Bm  
Take me out tonight  
    C        Am       G  
And lie with me tonight 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante