The Same Boy You've Always Known Chords

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The Same Boy You've Always Known by The White Stripes is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, C and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Verse 1: 
	 A 
You fell down of course  
D  
 got up of course  
    	     A       D	 
and start it over 
	  A 
forgot my name of course  
D		      A		D	 
  then you started to remember 
C 
pretty tough to think about 
E			  A	A 
the beginning of december 
C				 
pretty tough to think about 
E			A	     D	 
pretty tough to think about  yeah yeah yeah 
			 A	D 
pretty tough to think about  
 
Verse 2: Chords are the same like verse 1 
 
you're looking down again 
then  you look me over 
we're laying down again 
on a blanket in the clover 
The same boy you've always known 
well i guess i havn't grown 
The same boy you've always known 
 
kind of a bridge : 
E 
think of what the past did it could've lasted  
		   A 
so put it in your basket 
E 
hope you know a strong man who can lend you a hand 
 	      A 	 
lowering my casket 
 
Verse 3:same as verse 1 
 
I thought this is just a day 
and soon you'd be returning 
the coldest blue ocean water 
cannot stop my heart and mind  
from burning 
everyone who's in the knows says 
that's exactly how it goes 
and if there's anything good about me 
i'm the only one who knows 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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