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Hanging by a Thread/The Day After Christmas Chords

by Nickel Creek
KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays404

Hanging by a Thread/The Day After Christmas by Nickel Creek is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A7, Em, D and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed 
  			Verse: 
A7             Em                                     D 
  There's a kind of emptiness that can fill you  
                 Em                             D 
  There's a kind of hunger that can eat you up  
                  Em                                    D 
  There's a cold and darker side of the moonlight  
                        A7                 D 
  And there's a lonely side of love  



: 
                  G 
  With you here  
                    A7 
  Baby I am strong  
                        D 
  No sign of weakness  
                  G 
  With you gone  
                    A7                   D 
  Baby I am hanging by a thread

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante