Wings Of An Angel Chords

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Wings Of An Angel by Mike Bloomfield is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C 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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  			          G                     C 
People if I had the wings of an angel, 
     D                          G 
Over these prison walls I would fly. 
         G                      C 
I'll fly back to the arms of my darling, 
          D                        G 
People in there I will stay till I die. 
 
        G                           C 
Lost my wife, lost my job, dear old mother, 
          D                           G 
People to just sit is me, here I'd to stay, 
        G                         C 
If it's cold and lonesome in this prison, 
      D                           G 
Oh my lord, I must broken, I must pay. 
 
     G                           C 
I am lost like a ship out on the ocean, 
           D                      G 
People I'm lost with my crew in a gale, 
       G                         C 
I'm in drunk and I shock my best body, 
      D                          G 
Man I must spend my life in this jail. 
 
   G                     C 
If I had the wings of an angel, 
     D                          G 
Over these prison walls I would fly. 
         G                      C 
I'll fly back to the arms of my darling, 
              D                        G 
And people in there I will stay till I die. Guitar! 
 
     G                           C 
I am lost like a ship out on the ocean, 
           D                      G 
People I'm lost with my crew in a gale, 
       G                           C 
I'm in drunk, lord I shock my best body, 
      D                          G 
Man I must spend my life in this jail. 
 
G                        C 
If I had the wings of an angel, 
     D                          G 
Over these prison walls I would fly. 
     G                     C 
I'll fly to the arms of my darling, 
         D                        G 
After in there I will stay till I die. 
 
(Fade)  
 
 

    	

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