Mistress Named Music Chords
by Eric Church
Mistress Named Music by Eric Church is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, D, G, Em and Cadd9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
I still remember Miss Bessie singing
D
Black, wrinkled fingers on ivory keys
C D
Just five years old, my church shoes a-dangling
C G C
Yeah, she's long gone and I'm still chasing this song
G D G D
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines
G D Em D
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride
D G Cadd9 G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it
D G Em D
Married to a dream with a mistress named music
C
No hope and squarely solitary
D
Enough whiskey and Coke, boys, to get me in a bind
C D
Amps juiced, the whole damn block could hear me
C
Even that cop car rolling past
G
By the time they hit the front door
D
I was out the back
G D G D
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines
G D Em D
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride
D G Cadd9 G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it
D G Em D
Married to a dream with a mistress named music
(na na na...............)
D Cadd9 G D D Cadd9 Em D
C
White calloused fingers on bronze and nylon
C D
These same old boots are still tapping time
C D
Not quite the buzz I used to tie on
C G
But 'til I'm gone, I'll be chasing this song
G D G D
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines
G D Em D
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride
D G Cadd9 G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it
D G Em D
Married to a dream with a mistress named music