Great Expectations Chords
by Elbow
Great Expectations by Elbow is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em7, Dm7, C, Dm, Em, D/F#, G/C, D, Am and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em7
And if it rains all day
Dm7
Call on you I'll call on you
C
Like I used to
Em7
Slide down beside and wrap you in stories
Dm7
Tailored entirely for you
C
I'll remind you
Em7
We exchanged a vow
Dm C Em Dm Em D/F# G/C
I love you I always will
D Em G/C D Em
A call girl with yesterday eyes was our witness and priest
G/C D
Stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir
Em G/C
Your vow was your smile
As we move down the isle
D Em Am
Of the last bus home
Bm
And this is where I’ll go
Em Dm C
Just when it rains
Em
Blinking and stoned
Rain in your hair
Dm C
You only smoke ‘cause it's something to share
Em
Singing bring on the night
To have and to hold
Dm Em D/F# G/C
The sodium light turning silver to gold
D Em G/C
Spitfire thin and strung like a violin
D Em
I was
G/C
Yours was the face with a grace
D Em
From a different age
G/C
You were the sun in my Sunday morning
D Em G/C
You were the sun in my Sunday morning
D
Telling me never to go
Em G/C
So I'll live on the smile
And move down the isle
D Em Am
Of the last bus home
Dm
And if you're running late
Am
This is where I'll go
Bm
Know I'll always wait