Wakin On A Pretty Day Chords
by Kurt Vile
Wakin On A Pretty Day by Kurt Vile is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am, Dm, C2, C3 and Am2. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------5-----------0-----0---------------------------------|
D|----------5h7---7-5-----5-----5-----0-----0-------------0-----0---|
A|-----0--------------3-------3-----3-----5-----5b------3-----3-----|
E|--------------------------------------3-----3------1------1-------|
On second time playing this,
only play to here^
C F
Wakin' in the dawn of day
G F
I gotta think about what I wanna say
C F
Phone ringin' off the shelf
G F
I guess he wanted to kill himself
C F Am F
Wakin' on a pretty day don't know why I ever go away
Dm F C2 G
It's hard to explain
Dm F C3 Am2
My love in these days
C F G F (2x)
C F
You can say I been most all around
G F
But honey, I ain't goin' nowhere
C F
Don't worry 'bout a thing
Am
It's only dyyyyiiiin'
C F
I live along a straight line
Am F
Nothing always comes to mind
Dm F C2 G
To be frank, I'm fried
Dm F C3 Am2 G
But I don't mind
Dm F C2 G
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
C2 C2 F
Yeah yeah yeah -Repeat all yeah's (4x)
e|------0-----|
B|------1-----|
G|------2-----|
D|------2-----|
A|--3-2-0-----|
E|------------|
Am Dm Am F
Been diggin' layin' low, low, low
I'm diggin' layin' low, low, low
Dig, dig in to these lives that we are liviiin'
Livin' low lackadaisically so
Am Dm Am F (4x)
C F G F
C F
Risin' at the crack of dawn
G
I gotta think about what wise cracks I'm gonna drop along the way today
C F
Phone ringin' off the shelf
G
I guess somebody has something they really wanna prove to us today
G C Am2 G
Yeah, yeah yeeaah
C F Am F
Wakin' on a pretty day floating in place
Dm F
No need in sayin' nothing
C2 G
To explain it
Dm F
To my loved ones... today
Am F C2 G
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
C2 C2 F
Yeah yeah yeah