Heat Of The Wide Afternoon Chords
by Max Stalling
Heat Of The Wide Afternoon by Max Stalling is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
at Of The Wide Afternoon Written & Performed by Max Stalling
From the CD, de Afternoon Blind Nello Records)
Submitted by Wes Wilson ([email protected])
To play along with the CD, capo at the 2nd fret.
Intro Chords: G C D G
G C
Carolina highway, past boroughs and pine breaks
G D
The road long behind me, every signpost reminds me
G C
My eyes have grown heavy, my wheels drone on steady
G C D G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus:
D C G
I been here forever, my whole life at least.
Em
Am D
Trapped between morning optimism and night fleeting dreams.
G C
Here where it matters, where reality looms
G C D G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
G C
This road was a drug when I started way back
G D
Each hill that I killed was like a pill that I took to relax.
G C
Till the peace in the valleys, got a little too peaceful
G D
All the ridges I run and all that I done
G
has left me with eyes full.
G C
Eyes full of the worst, eyes full of the best
G D
Eyes full of the tiredness that won let me rest.
G C
All the places I go to, no place is brand new
G C D G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus
Solo
G C
Some people sit still, some people go fast
G D
Some go right to it, some never get past
G C
Laying a map out, they don plan just assume.
G D G
And wind up forever in the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus
G C
Here where it matters, where reality looms
G C D G
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Outro chords: G C D G