Nothing Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays475

Nothing by Daniel Johnston is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Em, C, Am and D7. 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 D Em C 
      (G Am C D D7) 

G 
Not that you want to be 
D 
Out of curiosity 
Em                     C 
Just a corsage of the world 
G                     Am 
I was in love with a girl 
C                         D    D7 
I would the violence foresee 

G 
All that it ought to be 
D 
Blessed by generosity 
Em                            C 
Sure to put your heart in a whirl 
G                        Am 
Stop to pick up a dollar bill 
C                         D      D7 
As the blood drips at the mill 

G 
Have you got fried chicken 
D 
  You ate it up so fast 
Em                          C 
Laid down its life just for you 
G                       Am 
Now you have nothing to do 
C                  D     D7 
Just a television tube 

G 
Oh for goodness sake 
D 
 And the love you make 
Em                      C 
Skipping stones at the lake 
G                       Am 
You have a half baked idea 
    C                        D      D7 
To think we'd be so glad to see ya 

G 
Lost in your lonely room 
D 
  How they grow up and bloom 
Em                        C 
  Young girls in the magazine 
G                           Am 
How they took part in your doom 
C                     D     D7 
Baby step out of the room 

G 
Hunger and lust for life 
D 
  She was like any housewife 
Em                           C 
  Darning the socks with concern 
G                   Am 
Glad you ever were born 
C                      D     D7 
Just to get up in the morn 

G 
While all the while you work 
D 
  Surrounded by amateurs 
Em                          C 
  Craving and love showing fame 
G                         Am 
Thinking your hope was refrained 
C                 D     D7 
In the emotional pain 

G 
Nothing to do but cry 
D 
  As you dry your eyes 
Em                       C 
Watching the soap opera die 
G                             Am 
Longing for the freedom of success 
           C                     D      D7 
When we're all just a temporary guest 

G 
Living in such a mess 
D 
  I'll bring you back again 
Em                             C 
To the flight you used to have been 
G                     Am 
How could you really win 
C                            D     D7 
Pledging your resistance to sin? 

    G 
Applied in the twilight 
D 
  Anything to make it right 
Em                                C 
  When there's nothing left but nothing 
G             Am 
But an empty song 
C                       D     D7 
Why did it have to go wrong 

G 
How it all works out 
D 
  Something about it so 
Em                          C 
  Thinking that love is a crime 
G                     Am 
You were a friend of mine 
C                           D    D7 
Standing there with missed time 

G 
You're gonna make a joke 
D 
  That is sure too follow 
Em               C 
Happy to be that way 
  G                     Am 
Tomorrow is a brand new day 
C                    D    D7 
What do you have to say? 
    (G D Em C) (G Am C D D7) (G) 
Nothing 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante