Tough To Tie Down Chords

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Tough To Tie Down by Jordan Davis 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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  			Intro: G C 

verse 1 
C		G 
She's got too much run and too much wild 
C 
She don't hold back, no she don't hide 
G 
She's always drifting and always dreaming 
Em			D 
She's good at loving and better at leaving 


C 
Damn those airplanes and 
C 
Damn those fast trains and 
G 
Damn those interstates 
D 
They always keep calling her 
C 
So damn easy for her to leave me 
Em		D			C 
But as long as this world's spinning 'round 
C 
I'm gonna love her 
C			G         C 
Damn she's so tough to tie down 


verse 2 
G 
It's who she is so she can't see 
C 
That her gypsy side is killing me 
G 
And I told myself I should call it quits 
Em			D 
But before I can, she's gone again 


Chorus 
C 
Damn those airplanes and 
C 
Damn those fast trains and 
G 
Damn those interstates 
D 
They always keep calling her 
C 
So damn easy for her to leave me 
Em			D	C 
But as long as this world's spinning 'round 
C 
I'm gonna love her 
C			Em D      C Em D 
Damn she's so tough to tie down 


Bridge 
C			D 
Yeah she knows how to get to me, get to me 
D 
She can get to me, get to me 
C			D 
Yeah she knows just how to leave, how to leave 
D 
She's always leaving me like 


C 
Damn those airplanes and 
C 
Damn those fast trains and 
G 
Damn those interstates 
D 
They always keep calling her 
C 
So damn easy for her to leave me 
Em		D		C 
But as long as this world's spinning 'round 
Em		D		C 
As long as this world's spinning 'round 
C 
I'm gonna love her 
C				  G C 
Damn she's so tough to tie down 


Outro 
G 
Yeah she's always drifting and always dreaming 
C 
She's good at loving but better at leaving 
    	

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