The Best Day Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays561

The Best Day by George Strait is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G                   C 
We loaded up my old stationwagon 
       D                  G 
With a tent a coleman and sleepin' bags 
                     C 
Some fishin' poles a cooler of cokes 
      D              G 
Three days before we had to be back 
            Am                      D 
When you're seven you're in seventh heaven 
                  G 
When you're going campin' in the wild outdoors 
      Am                 C 
As we turned off on that old dirt road 
    Am              D 
He looked at me and swore… 

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G         D           C               Am 
Dad, this could be the best day of my life 
          D                C                        G     D 
I've been dreamin' day and night about the fun we'll have 
     G      Em             C                  Am 
Just me and you doing what I've always wanted to 
        C            Am                D              G 
I'm the luckiest boy alive this is the best day of my life. 

G                      C 
His fifteenth birthday rolled around 
D             G 
Classic cars were his thing 
                                C 
When I pulled in the drive with that old Vette 
  D                      G 
I thought that boy would go insane 
     Am 
When you're in your teens 
     D              G 
Your dreams revolve around four spinnin' wheels 
          Am                        C 
We worked nights on end till it was new again 
          Am             D 
And as he sat behind the wheel… 

(repeat Chorus) 
C                    Am                  D                     G 
Standin' in a little room in back of the church with our tux's on 
C                Am           D 
Lookin' at him I say, I can't believe son that you're grown… 

() 
        G         D            C              Am 
He said Dad, this could be the best day of my life 
          D                C                   G    D 
I've been dreamin' day and night of being like you 
         G      Em           C                 Am 
Now it's me and her watchin' you and Mom I've learned 
         C           Am                 D              G 
I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life 
         C           Am                 D              G 
I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life. 



    	

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