Race Chords
Race by Melanie Martinez is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E with a capo on the 7st fret. It uses the chords E, Am, Caught and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: E Am
Verse:
E
Sweet sweet hold you gently have over me
Am
Caught me with your eyes and lips like sweet honey
E
Too bad I'm not as sweet as her honey tastes
Am Dm
Cause the average girl simply won that race
E
That race you kept on giving me
Am
Left me hanging wanting more till you broke free
E
Bet shes sweet but not as sweet as I could've been
Am Dm
girls like her come and go like the boring wind
Am
But I'm the type that stays
E
with your heart and my heart in many different ways
Am E
I call you making sure that you're alright in the day or in the middle of the night
Am
sorry if that isn't good enough
E
confusion has become a little rough
Am
and I'll be on you like the clothes you wear
E
and run my fingers through your curled gelled hair
Am Dm E
but for now ill let the race be won by the girl without a boy at home
Verse:
E
Hands so purple,
from the knuckle aches,
it's 'cause they,
Am
create fragile hearts to break.
E
But a player, will soon see that
his karma goes bad,
Am
when the girl that he wants,
Dm
stabs him in the back
Am
But I'm the type that stays
E
with your heart and my heart in many different ways
Am E
I call you making sure that you're alright in the day or in the middle of the night
Am
sorry if that isn't good enough
E
confusion has become a little rough
Am
and I'll be on you like the clothes you wear
E
and run my fingers through your curled gelled hair
Am Dm E
but for now ill let the race be won by the girl without a boy at home