Cancer Chords
Cancer by My Chemical Romance is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, E7+, E9, B, B4, C#m, Am, A, F#/A#, C5+, F#m, F#m6, F#m7, C#m/G# and E/B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: (E E7+ E9 B)
E B B4 B
Turn away
C#m
If you could get me a drink
Am
Of water 'cause my lips are chapped and faded
E B B4 B
Call my Aunt Marie
C#m
Help her gather all my things
Am
And bury me in all my favorite colors
A F#/A# B
My sisters and my brothers still,
C5+ C#m Am
I will not kiss you
F#m F#m6 F#m7 F#m6 B B4 E
'Cause the hardest part of this is leavin' you
E B B4 B
Now turn away
C#m
'Cause I'm awful just to see
Am
'Cause all my hair's abandoned all my body
E B B4 B
Oh my agony
C#m
Know that I will never marry
Am
Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo
A F#/A# B
But countin' down the days to go
C5+ C#m
It just ain't livin'
Am
And I just hope you know
E
That if you say
C5+
Goodbye today
C#m (C#m C#m/G#)
I'd ask you to be true
F#m F#m6 F#m7 F#m6 B B4 B C#m C5+ E/B F#/A#
'Cause the hardest part of this is leavin' you
F#m F#m6 F#m7 F#m6 B B4 E
'Cause the hardest part of this is leavin' you