Things They Do Chords
Things They Do by David Francey is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords C, Am, G and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
th Fret
Intro: C Am G
C F G C
Two little girls, hand in hand
F Am Am-G
Wait in the winter rain
C F G C
They said their good-byes and they opened their eyes
F Am Am-G
And they stared down a westbound train
C F G C
I read in my paper they were feeling so bad
F Am Am-G
About this and the other thing
C F G C
But all I could think of were the parents back home
F Am Am-G C
Waiting on the phone to ring
G C Am Am-G-C
Why do they do the things they do?
G C Am Am-G
Why do they do the things they do?
C F G C
Billy said, "Take them, I won't need them anymore"
F Am Am-G
And we laughed at what we thought was a joke
C F G C
He went down Monday morning to the hardware store
F Am Am-G
And they found him at the end of his rope
C F G C
For a long while after I was walking around
F Am Am-G
With a terrible case of the blues
C F G C
I couldn't hear laughter, I could just hear the sound
F Am Am-G C
Of my feet in that dead man's shoes
G C Am Am-G-C
Why do they do the things they do?
G C Am Am-G-C
Why do they do the things they do?
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