Smoke In Our Lights Chords

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Smoke In Our Lights by The Avett Brothers is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, C, Am, Bm, C/B, F and Fm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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             G              D 
You're not a girl, you're a town 
       C           G 
You're snow on the ground 
          G             D       C 
You're my first year in school 
           G          D         Am           C 
You're the words in a song that Hoon sang to me 
     G  D         C             G 
And all around my memories, you dance 

             G              D 
You're not a girl, you're a car 
         C         G 
You're a red Trans Am 
       G           D           C 
You're 90 miles an hour 
G            D                    Am        C 
We never get caught cause there's no cops around 
    G             D          C       
And no roads like this, downtown 


D        C        Bm 
Why'd we have to change 
    Am  C/B  C   D 
It all seems so fine 
      C          Bm 
We'll go our own ways 
     Am   C/B  C 
We're both asking 
D       C        Bm 
Why'd we have to change 
   Am  C/B    C  D 
It all seems so fine 
      C         Bm 
We'll go our own ways 
      Am   C/B  C  F  Fm  C  G  Am 
We're both asking, why 


             G                D            C          G 
You're not a girl, you're the night of the homecoming game 
           G           D 
You're the voice in my head 
     C    
Just begging me to stay 
           G             C         Am     C 
You're the smoke in our lights as we sped away 
   G         D                C 
To catch the moonlight on the graves 


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              G              D 
You're not a girl, you're a waltz 
         C      G 
You're a canopy bed 
        G      D      C 
You're June to August 
           G              C          Am           C 
You're the back and forth sway of the hammock all day 
            G     D           C 
When I asked you what did you say? 


D        C        Bm 
Why'd we have to change 
    Am  C/B  C   D 
It all seems so fine 
      C          Bm 
We'll go our own ways 
     Am   C/B  C 
We're both asking 
D       C        Bm 
Why'd we have to change 
   Am  C/B    C  D 
It all seems so fine 
      C         Bm 
We'll go our own ways 
      Am   C/B  C  F  Fm  C  G  Am 
We're both asking, why 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante