Do Not Hang Your Head Chords
Do Not Hang Your Head by Elizabeth & The Catapult is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, Em, Gm and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C F Am F (x2)
F C
If ever I do hurt you
F Am Em Am
Make your willows bend
Am Gm D
If ever I deceive you
F C
Darlin, do not hang your head
F C
If ever I betray you
F Am
Cast shadows on your light
D
I pray that you may pardon
F Am C
And forgive me by and by
D F
Oh my, baby cast another light
C D F C
Oh my, baby cast another light
F C
Cause in our greatest conquest
F Am
We are what fate depends
Gm D
That's the heroes we once dreamt of
F C
When we were children in our beds
F Am
And in our greatest triumphs
F Am
We cannot shake the fear
Gm D
That the ones we once treasured
F C
May at any given second disappear
D F C
My dear, may we never disappear
D F C
My dear, may we never disappear
Am C
Cause we are just animals
F
Living in the wild
D
But we too, can be civil friend
Em D
I'd like to try that now
F C
I'd like to try that now
D F C F
F C
So I know I don't deserve you
F Am
But if I ever dare forget
Am D
May you help my heart remember
F Am C
And bring me home again