Forsaken Blues Chords
Forsaken Blues by Shovels And Rope is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, D7, C and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G for 1 measure
D
Well did you come to here to make an account
G
Come here to make renown on my abuses
D D7 G
Will you bare instead the devastated weight of my misuses
C G C Em
Did you ever load a gun and point it at someone
C G Em C
A bond to never be undone
G D G
Well, you're wrong you're wrong now
D
Well forgive me my disservice
G
If my efforts were in earnest I was lying
D
And it was thievery and fornication
D7 G
That delivered me from inclination satisfying
C G
Never did the sun go down
C Em
Without another one coming around
C G Em C
Illuminate what could not be found
G D G
You're wrong you're wrong now
Em G D
You're wroooooonnnnnng (X 3) Now
D
Well my heart was quick to harden
G
When I was kicked out of the garden was I forsaken?
Em
I was washed with a load of shame
G
With only myself to blame was I mistaken
C G
Baby, you called my bluff
C Em
I was never good enough
C G Em C
I was made from lazy weaker stuff,
G D Em C
well you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, You're wrong,
G D G
You're wrong, You're wrong now