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The Wrong Year Chords

by Decemberists
KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays550

The Wrong Year by Decemberists is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Em and Cmaj7. 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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  			Lyrics are not the best, please post any corrections. 

G D Em Cmaj7 x2 
Verse:  
G              D 
Gray Jean was a river child  
Em              Cmaj7           G D Em Cmaj7 
Born down by the river wild  
G                D 
Said hey, what ya wanna be?  
Em             Cmaj7 
Nobody's gonna intervene 
G D Em Cmaj7 
Chorus:

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante