You Never Get What You Want Chords
You Never Get What You Want by Patty Griffin is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, C, D, G and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Capo on the 2nd fret
Intro:
Em C D x4
VERSES:
Em C D
You first found me in my holding pen
Em C D
Stopped to take a look and stuck your finger in
C G D C
I bit one off and you came back again and again ... hey
Em C D
Then the nice people let me out one day
Em C D
And you told me how to act and what to say
C G D C
But you never get what you wanted that way, Did you baby?
CHORUS:
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em C D
And I don't think it's my fault
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em
Do you baby?
VERSES
Everything's always such a mystery
Including your sad little history
Do you still think someone should take responsibility and pay ... hey
Ever since I've known you you've walked that walk
You've broken all the records now you've broken all the clocks, all the clocks
And everytime it breaks my heart to hear you talkin' this way, this way
CHORUS
You never get what you want
You never get what you want
And I don't think it's my fault
You never get what you want
Do you babe, babe, babe, babe
BRIDGE
Am Em
Everybody's been sad, everybody's been tragic
D C
A lot of hard times, A little bit of magic
Am Em
These bitter bitter fruits and these endless hallways
D C
They're killing us baby, we gotta walk away, walk away, walk away,
walk....
Em C D x4
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em C D
You never never get what you want
Em C D
You spend your whole time thinkin' 'bout why I'm so deranged
Em C D
Well honey, why don't you think about that for a change
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em C D
Your whole damn life you never get what you want
Em C D
Not your whole damn life you never get what you want
Em C D
And I don't think it's my fault
Em C D
You never get what you want
Em
Do you baby?
Em
Do you baby?
Em
Do you baby?
Em
Do you baby?
I think that's it. questions or comments, just drop me a line.