My Wrecking Ball Chords
by Ryan Adams
My Wrecking Ball by Ryan Adams is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords C, C/G, G, G6add11, Fadd9, Am, Fmaj7 and Am/B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Great song off the new album.
I play the C as a C/G and the G as a technically a G6add11 below in the diagram.
Play the Fadd9 in the verses and Chorus with your thumb on the bass note (see chord diagram).
Sounds good if you add a few embellishments such as hammer ons etc.
C/G G Am Fadd9 Fmaj7 Am/B
e|---0----0----0----3-------0-----0-|
b|---1----1----1----1-------1-----1-|
g|---0----0----2----2-------2-----2-|
d|---2----0----2----3-------3-----0-|
a|---3----2----0----x-------x-----2-|
e|---3----3----x----1-------1-----0-|
Intro:
Fadd9 (only strum last 4 strings)
Verse:
Fmaj7 C
Driving through the streets tonight
G Am
It's hot I've got the windows down
Fmaj7 C G
I wish I could call you I wish you were still around
Fmaj7 C
Nothing much left in the tank
G Am
Somehow this thing still drives
Fmaj7 C G
It forgot what it needed but somehow still survives
Bridge:
Am Am/B C Fmaj7 G
And all the walls we built they must come down
Chorus: