The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays487

The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right by Misc Soundtrack is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords Cmaj7, G, C and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			
Cmaj7 
The film was a bust but we stayed till the ending 
           G 
Hair all a-mussed but your clothes didn't look so bad 
       Cmaj7 
And back on the street the rain was descending 
     G 
In cold dirty sheets so under the awning we sat 
And then you hailed yourself a yellow cab 
       C   G 
And I sat for a time by the valets in line and I read what you wrote on the card 
   C    G 
Above a cowboy you drew a big talk balloon saying Try not to take it so hard 
            Am                                       C 
But there's this nagging suspicion that won't leave me alone tonight 
           G 
It's just that everything I try to do nothing seems to turn out right 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante