My Only Trouble Chords

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My Only Trouble by Joan Shelley is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em and D. 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
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verse 1 

G 
Once we stretched out so fair 
My hand here, your mouth there 
      C            Em 
As the fog stepped around us 
         C 
There was hay in your hair. 

       G 
And the salt of our skin  
Brined the clay there within 
       C               Em 
It was mine that would harden 
   C 
And then cease to bend. 

G 
When my only trouble 
When my only trouble 
C            D 
When my only trouble 
G 
Is you. 

verse 2 

G 
Now I stand at the wood 
Where the wind bends the pines 
       C                Em 
And the place where you loved me 
          C 
Wears the mark of our spines. 

G 
But when spring still shows 
Brings the tulip and the rose 
      C                Em 
Well, then no one will pity 
  C 
A girl in the throes. 

G 
When my only trouble… 

G 
Now I won't scorn the god 
Who had thickened the fog, 
    C                      Em 
He's the one that brings the thunder 
    C 
When that's all I've got. 

Outro 

G 
When my only trouble… 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

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100 BPM Andante