Forth Worth Blues Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays448

Forth Worth Blues by Steve Earle is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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  			C                     F              C 
In Fort Worth all the neon's shinin bright 
       G7             C 
Pretty lights red and blue 
                         F           C 
They'd shut down all the honky tonks tonight 
                G7               C 
Say a prayer or two if they only knew 


C                   F                C 
You used to say the highway was your home 
            G7              C 
But we both know that ain't true 
                   F               C 
It's just the only place a man can go 
              G7                        C 
When he don't know where he's travelin' to 


F              G                C 
But Colorado's always clean and healing 
F            G                   C 
Tennessee in Spring is green and cool 
                F                C 
It never really was your kind of town 
            G7                         C 
So you went around with the Fort Worth Blues 


C             F                  C 
Somewhere out across the great divide 
                 G7                      C 
Where the sky is wide and the clouds are few 
                  F                C 
A man can see his way clear to the light 
              G7                        C 
Just hold on tight that's all you gotta do 


F                  G                C 
And they say Texas weather's always changin' 
F                       G                  C 
And one thing change'll bring is somethin' new 
                   F               C 
And Houston really ain't too bad a town 
            G7                         C 
So you hung around with the Fort Worth Blues  

SOLO 
        
C                        F          C 
There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight 
       G7                   C 
Silver light over green and blue 
                  F         C 
And every place I travel to find 
                G7                   C 
Some kind of a sign that you've been through 


F                 G                C 
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving 
                  F                C 
And London never fails to leave me blue 
             F                C 
Paris really ain't my kind of town 
            G7                         C 
So I walked around with the Fort Worth Blues 
    	

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100 BPM Andante