Long Way Down Chords
Long Way Down by Eleventyseven is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D# with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Bm and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D G
verse 1:
D G D G
One time I shook hands with a pirate
D G D G
He gave me a map to all his gold
D G D G
After a lifetime I finally found it
D G D G
By then I was too old to bring it home
Bm A D (G D, G)
It was a long way down
D G D G
On a snowy night in late December
D G D G
I set out to find some mistletoe
D G D G
She had promised me all kinds of kisses
D G D G
None of them were worth the poems I wrote
Bm A G
It was a long way down
A G D
Long way to fall to have nobody catch ya
A G D
Long way to call to have nobody answer
A G D
Long walk home if you don't know the mountain
G, D, G
Roads
verse 2:
D G D G
One night while playing in a graveyard
D G D G
Somebody's hand reached up and grabbed my leg
D G D G
It was my dearly departed grandpa
D G D G
He said 'I bet you thought that I was dead
Bm A D (G D, G)
I was just a long way down'
D G D G
And on the night before the day that I got married
D G D G
An old man said 'Hey listen to me son
D G D G
Make sure you wanna hold that girl forever
D G D G
'Cuz once you say 'I do' you gotta do it 'till it's done
Bm A G
And it's a long way down'
A G D
Long way to fall to have nobody catch ya
A G D
Long way to call to have nobody answer
A G D
Long walk home if you don't know the mountain
G, D, G
Roads
A G D
A long fall down to Earth from Heaven
A G D
A long walk back to there from Hell
A G D
And sometimes the difference between them is hard to
Bm D G
Tell
verse 3
D G D G
One time I met a tree out in the forest
D G D G
I said 'Tree I wanna be as big as you'
D G D G
He said 'Boy I wish you never had have found me
D G D G
'Cuz that means that lumberjack can find me too
Bm A G D
And it's a long way down'