San Francisco Chords
San Francisco by Hello Saferide is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, F, Am, G and G2. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C F Am
Winter's been real long this year
G
I know, cause I've been there
C F Am
Summer never seemed to come along
G C
and when it did, it felt all wrong
F Am G C
You've been sitting on the sidewalks wondering what went wrong with your life
F Am G
You've been walking to your bedside table and in the top drawer was a knife
F G2 F G2 F
Time to take your sweetheart by the hand and lead him to the Promised Land
G2 F G2
The only place in North America not destroyed by the government
C F G2
San Francisco! You're going
C F G2
San Francisco! We're going
C F G2 C
Don't you know you'll never ever want to turn back
C F Am
I have news for you my friend:
G C
I'm sticking by you until the end
F Am G C
Doctor's ordering you the same prescription, see, that worked wonders for me
F Am G C
I sat by myself in bars, I was driven home in state-owned cars
F Am G
I was filled with so much hate until I saw the Golden Gate
F G2 F G2 F
Until my sweetheart took me by the hand and led me to the Promised Land
G2 F G2
The only place in North America not yet destroyed by the government
C F G2
San Francisco! You're going
C F G2
San Francisco! We're going
C F G2 C
Don't you know you'll never ever want to turn back
F G2 F G2
And it's time to pack your bags and call in sick and bring the toothbrush
F G2 F G2
Withdraw from that savings account what's savings for, time doesn't wait and
F G2 F
Hold the door, I'm coming, all that jazz
G2
like an escape from Alcatraz
C F G2
San Francisco! You're going
C F G2
San Francisco! We're going
C F G2 C
Don't you know you'll never ever want to turn back