Dance Around The Fire Chords
Dance Around The Fire by Slaid Cleaves is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, Em, G, F and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro x2
D - (Gwalk Fdown) - Em
D
Bill’s been thinking a lot these days
G F Em
About the way things used to be
D
He’s never been the kind of man
G F Em D
To put much faith in destiny
D
Sometimes he feels the warmth
G F Em
Of a fire from long ago
D G
Sometimes he steps into the night
F Em D
And all he feels is the winter cold
C G D C
Everybody dance around the fire tonight
C G D
You don’t have to wait ’till it’s your turn
C G D C
Everybody dance a little closer to the flame tonight
G
But don’t get burned
D
Pray that you don’t get burned
D
They met in high school
G F Em
And they never had a doubt
D
There’d be some hard times
G F Em D
But old Bill would find a way to work things out
Katie had a way about her
G F Em
That made old Bill believe
D
A small farm and three kids later
G F Em D
It looked just like the perfect family
C G D C
But one day Bill found out what he should’ve known all along:
G
Things fall apart sometimes
D C D
One minute something’s there and then it’s gone
D
With the kids in bed that night
G F Em
Katie gently shut the door
D
She turned to Bill and said
G F Em D
I’m sorry but I don’t love you anymore
D
And now he spends his days
G F Em
Just like he’s always done
D
You’d never guess the sorrow
G F Em D
That he’s hid so well from everyone
D
The house is empty now
G F Em
The kids grown up and gone
D
And Bill slips into bed at night
G F Em D
With Katie right by his side and they hold on
C G D C
Everybody dance around the fire tonight
C G D
You don’t have to wait ’till it’s your turn
C G D C
Everybody dance a little closer to the flame tonight
G
But don’t get burned
D
Pray that you don’t get burned