Every Reason I Go Back Chords

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Every Reason I Go Back by Jake Owen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, Bm 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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Intro: D G 

     D                G 
It's one way in, it's one way out 
     D                  A 
It's one stop, one cop, one bar town 
          G                        A             D     G 
Where its eight ball winner breaks and the loser racks 

         D                     G 
It's the same old cars and the same old trucks 
    A 
The same old coach with the same bad luck 
       G                  A                 Bm 
But on Friday nights, the home team side is packed 
           A G                      A                 D 
It's every reason that I left and every reason I go back 

               G                   A 
Yeah, it's the same old, same old, nothin's changed 
      D 
Where everybody knows your name 
        G                       A 
It?fs a dirt road trip down the memory lane 
        Bm            A   G 
And old flame I can't get passed 
           Em                 A                     D 
It's every reason that I left and every reason I go back 

Instrumental 
G D G 
         D                          G 
It's the same old questions from my mama's mouth 
        D                            A 
It's my dad's voice, "Hey boy," just wearin' me out about 
G                               A                         D G 
"Yes, sir, yes, ma'am," this is my house y'on't talk back 

         D                           G 
It's the same cheap buddies with the same cheap beard 
    D                       A 
The same cheap shots that I always fear 
         G                A                 Bm 
And it's same old stories still get the all laughs 
           D                      A                 D 
It's every reason that I left and every reason I go back 

               G                   A 
Yeah, it's the same old, same old, nothin?fs changed 
      D 
Where everybody knows your name 
       G                       A 
It's a dirt road trip down the memory lane 
        Bm            A   G 
And old flame I can't get passed 
               Em                 A                  G 
Oh, it's every reason that I left and every reason I go back 

Instrumental 
D D G G A A 
 
               G                   A 
Yeah, it's the same old, same old, nothin's changed 
      D 
Where everybody knows your name 
       G                       A 
It's a dirt road trip down the memory lane 
        Bm      A         G 
And old flame I can't get passed 
           Em                            G                  A 
It's every reason that I left, oh, every reason that I left 
                  D    G 
Every reason I go back 
D   G                        D G D 
Oh, I can't wait to get back 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante