27 Years Chords
27 Years by Quiet Morning And The Calamity is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro G C G C (x2)
Verse
G C G
Long as I'm alive, I will be my father's son.
C G D
Go from town to town to find my way.
G C G
Playing this guitar and singing songs about these roads,
C G D
I went down from the time I was a child.
G
There was good hearted women.
C G
There was sunshine. There was rain.
C G D
The whole world changed around me - I'm the same.
G C G
Tomorrow is a cloudy shade of all I've done 'til now.
C G D
Drinking all my beer and whiskey 'for I go to lay me down.
C G
The road will give you pleasure. Oh the road will bring you pain.
D C G
The truth of life gets tested as you go along your way.
C G
Days turn quick to night time every hour on the run.
D C G
At 27 years, Lord, give me just another one.
Intro (x2)
Verse
G C G
Got a little lady back at home who misses me.
C D
Freckles in her eyes - her lips so soft and sweet.
G C G
She tells me how she loves me. How she hates to see me go.
C G D
I miss her every hour I am out here on the road.
Intro (x2)
Bridge
Em C D Em
In the first year, I was learning. In the fifth, I joined a band.
Em C D Em
In the tenth, I played for Jesus. Four years down, worked for the man.
Em C D Em
In the fifteenth, was a rock and roller rebel with a dream.
Em C D
Twenty-something's got to give. I've got to do this now for me.
Chorus
Same as intro