Beyond The Blues Chords
by Hayes Carll
Beyond The Blues by Hayes Carll is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Dsus2 and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D G D Dsus2 D
Old man on the corner, singing my life
G D Dsus2 D
He's playing guitar with a rusty old knife
G
Each line that he sings rhymes with the truth
D A G
And the promise of something beyond the blues
D G D Dsus2 D
You and me darling took the long way around
G D Dsus2 D
Across the wide open country, past the heart attack town
G
Hit the fork in the road where we all have to choose
D A G
Between darkness and light, beyond the blues
D G
Beyond the shadows, and the rain
A D
Beyond the darkness, beyond the pain
G D Dsus2 D
You know in your heart there's no way I push through
A
Take a walk with me darling
G
Beyond the blues
Solo
D G D Dsus2 D
That old man on the corner he's been gone for years
G D Dsus2 D
His guitar and knife all rusted with tears
G
There's a song that he gave us that we'll never have to lose
D A G
About another life waiting beyond the blues
D G
Beyond the shadows, and the rain
A D
Beyond the darkness, beyond the pain
G D Dsus2 D
You know in your heart there's no way I push through
A
Take a walk with me darling
G
Beyond the blues
D A
Take a walk with me darling
G
Beyond the blues