Blue Skies Over Bad Lands (acoustic) Chords

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Blue Skies Over Bad Lands (acoustic) by Matthew Good is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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C                                 Em                                        
What if you woke up in the middle of the night 
C                             Em 
    And in your bare feet you walked outside 
C                                         Em 
    And realizing that you were awake that you could fly 
    C                  Em 
Out over the world out over the world 

To places that you've only heard of 
See faces that you were sold as murderers 
But just like you they're only lonely boys and girls 
Like all over the world 

What if you could lift them up? 
What if you could make it so that times weren't tough? 
So ever morning when the world woke up 
There'd only be weather on the news 

Am                    C 
And what if you were back in bed? 
Em                         C 
With one of them floating over your head 
Am                       C 
What do you say to your enemies 
    Em                               C 
When you don't know what it is that could have been between you 
Em 
Could have been between you, oh (x4) 


There ain't no blue skies over bad lands 
Even if it ain't raining in the mornings 
But you don't need to fly to understand it 
Just understand understanding 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante