Seven Years Chords
Seven Years by Natalie Merchant is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords D, A, Bm, G and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
VERSE
D A Bm G
How did I love you? There was no measuring
D A Bm G
Far above this dirty world, far above everything
G A Bm
In your tower over it, you were clean
VERSE
D A Bm G
So warm and insightful were you in my eyes
D A Bm G
I was sure the rightful guardian of my life
G A Bm
Damn you betrayer, how you lied!
G
But for seven years
A D A
You were loved, I laid golden orchid crowns around your feet
G
And for seven years
A D A
I bowed down to touch the ground so holy; your devotee
G Bb Bm
You were, you were all that I could see
VERSE:
D A Bm G
I've got my sight now, I see everything you hid
D A Bm G
So don't you try to right now all the wrong you did
G A Bm
I might forget you, but not forgive
G
But for seven years
A D A
You were loved, I laid golden orchid crowns around your feet
G
And for seven years
A D A
I bowed down to touch the ground so holy; your devotee
G A
And for seven years, you were so revered
D A
I made offerings of anything and everything I had
G Bb Bm
You were, you were all that I could see
OUTRO:
G Bb Bm
You were, you were all that I could see (repeat x4)