Stand By Your Gun Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays536

Stand By Your Gun by George Ezra is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Dm, D, F, Em, G, Am, Bm, E and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			

(Intro) C Dm (2x) 

(Verse) 
C              D    
I wouldn’t recommend what I have done 
          C              D 
No the prophets pointed out where I went wrong 
        F   Em  F  C        G    Em 
Singing, go figure our true desires 
F            C              Em 
My darling, stand by your gun  


    F 
See we don’t need,  
No nothing more,  
       C 
We’re quite attached to the forty-four, 
F  
Take a chance,  
Am 
Take your words,  
        G                        Bm     G 
We fall down, we go there, we go anywhere,  

C Dm (2x)

(Verse) 
   C                 D 
My mistakes lit like embers on your tongue 
      C                        D 
In the foreground, you’re still busy getting young, 
        F          C       G     Em 
Singing, go figure our true desires, 
F           C              Em 
My darling, stand by your gun 

 
    F 
See we don’t need,  
No nothing more,  
       C 
We’re quite attached to the forty-four, 
F  
Take a chance, 
Am 
Take your words, 
       G                           Bm          C  
We fall down, we go there, we go anywhere singing 

F            C           Em 
Go figure our true desires, 
F            C           Em  
My darling, stand by your gun 


    F 
See we don’t need,  
No nothing more,  
       C 
We’re quite attached to the forty-four,  
F 
Take a chance, 
Am  
Take your words, 
         G  
We fall down, we go there, we go anywhere 

C Em Am (2x) 

C                   Em     
Waste your time, on lessons learned,  
Am 
How long will you go? will you go? will you go? and 
C                   Em         
Waste your time, on lessons learned,  
Am 
How long will you go? will you go? will you go? and 
C                    E 
Waste your time, on lessons learned,  
Am 
How long will you go? will you go? will you go? and 
C                    E 
Waste your time, on lessons learned,  
Am    A 
How long will you go? will you go? will you go? and 
    	

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).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante