Mae Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays420

Mae by The Gaslight Anthem is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, Am and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
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Intro: C G Am F (2x) 


Verse 1:
 
C     
Stay the same, don't ever change 
           G 
Cause I'd miss your ways 
           Am 
With your Bette Davis eyes 
          F             G 
And your mama's party dress 
            C         
While this city pumps it's aching heart 
     G 
For one more drop of blood, 
            Am  
We work our fingers down to dust 
       F                   G 
And we wait for kingdom come 
               C 
With the radio on 



        Am             F 
I wanna see you tonight 
           C           G 
Would you come for a drive? 
         Am        F 
You can lean into me 
         C            G 
If you ain't been in love for a while 


Repeat intro chords 


Verse 2:
 
       C 
I was born beside a river 
      G 
That flows to a raging sea 
           Am  
That will one day serve to quell 
    F                 G 
Or one day be the death of me 
      C        
In my faded jeans and far away eyes 
     G  
And salty carnival kiss 
      Am                      F 
That all my former lovers say 
     G             C 
Was once magnificent 



        Am             F 
I wanna see you tonight 
           C            G 
Would you come for a drive? 
         Am       F 
You can lean into me  
            C               G 
And if you ain't oh if you ain't...  

         Am            F 
I wanna see you tonight 
           C           G 
Would you come for a drive? 
         Am       F 
You can lean into me 
         C            G             C 
If you ain't been in love for a while 


Intro



                 Am              F  
And still this city pumps it's aching heart 
     C                G 
For one more drop of blood 
              Am             F 
We work our fingers down to dust 
         C                 G 
While we wait for kingdom come 
                C      G      Am   
With the radio on 
F               C      G      Am 
With the radio on 
          F               C    G   Am 
It's been so long Mae, so long 
          F                 C   G   Am 
It's been so long Mae, so long 
F                     C 
But since the radio's on... 
    	

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