About A Bruise Chords
by Iron & Wine
About A Bruise by Iron & Wine is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F# with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords C, G, F, Am, Em and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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Intro
C C
C G X2 (Drums Enter)
C G X4
verse 1
C G
A weed believes the garden
C F
Sunday clothes don't fool me
C G C G
The sky is full of our prayer, prayer
C G
When you were making moonlight
C F
The mall cops in Mobile
C G C G
The night fell from their eyes, from their eyes
C G
This is borrowed stone
C F
I'd help you let your hair down
C G C G
Point to birds, then you'd say, "Bang, bang"
C G C F
The sun left every evening, good grass was dying
C G C G
You drew your dawn on the world, on the world
F C
Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
C Am G F
Or walking into water after dark
C G
Your papa saw me coming
C F
"Blood knows when it's worth it,"
C G C G
All you said, you said like a song, a song
C G
Jesus left a best friend
C F
Mine says forget her
C G C G
His field is waiting for wind, for the wind
Break
Em F
Dm Dm
G F
verse 2
C G
Mobile had your moonlight
C F
But that line cook had candy
C G
You let him blow your candle a bit
C G
(Hoo hoo hoo, haha)
C G
Ring a bell that's broken
C F
That sound is loud inside us
C G C G
Flowing farther away, far away
F C
Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
C Am G F
Or walking into water after dark
C G
Love can last a lifetime
C F
This is Alabama
C G C G
Any wheel is forgiving the road, the road
C G C F C
Now you're making music for beautiful people by the sea
C G C G
Who don't need a song, need a song
C G C F C
Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
G C
This is Alabama
End