The Devil Is All Around Chords
The Devil Is All Around by Shovels And Rope is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G
When the devil is all around, got you crawlin' on the ground
D
On your hands and your knees with an apple in your mouth
C G D G
You will know how far you'll go to make your peace with god
G C G
I got a-wasted and I sat around the fire all day
C G D
See if I could find some one to make love to
G C G
And I barely even noticed how the fibers did tear away
C G D
From the fabric of my being
C G D
But nobody knows it like you do, babe
C G D
Nobody knows it like you do
C G D Em
Nobody knows it like you do, babe
C D G
The lengths we will go to...
G C G
I going down the long road, maybe it's the wrong road
C G D
Either way I've got to find my way back home again
G C G
And it's too late to turn back now, gotta get the ???
C G D
gotta find some way to make it right, oh
C G D
But nobody knows it like you do, babe
C G D
Nobody knows it like you do
C G D Em
Nobody knows it like you do, babe
C D G
The lengths we will go to...
C
G C
There must be some other way, I just don't know
G C
How to get myself back up on that high road
G D
But nobody knows it like you do
G C G
So I'm gonna be a good man, gonna do the best I can
C G D
Though I'm a shell of a man that I once was
G C G
And if I find forgiveness in the eyes of god
C G D
It'll be hard won, I assure you
C G
Cause when the devil is all around, got you crawling on the ground
D
On your hands and your knees with and apple in your mouth
C G D G
You will know how far you'll go to make your peace with god
C G D G
Yeah, you will know how far you'll go to make your peace with god