Write My Ticket Chords
by Tift Merritt
Write My Ticket by Tift Merritt is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
VERSE I
G C G C
This city must belong to someone, but it don't belong to me
D Em
From the window I got here, I count the traffic through my tears
Am C D
Wanting to write my ticket, write my ticket home
C G
I got to get back in the arms of a man who loves me
C D
I got to get back to the people who have always been proud of me
C G
Take me back, I was wrong
C D G
Write my ticket home
VERSE II
G C G C
A place called Susie's I'm a waitress, Sue says, "Girl you'll get used to all this"
D Em
There is no way she could see how much this cold rain gets to me
Am C D
How much I've traded for a picture in my mind
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Am D
I can hear 'em sittin' 'round jokin'
Am D
"She talks so big, though she come back broken"
G C
Oh, I had to try, I ain't so proud
Am D
I wish I was talkin' 'bout nothin' with'em right now
CHORUS
C G
I got to get back in the arms of a man who loves me
C D
I got to get back to the people who have always been proud of me
C G
Take me back, I was wrong
C D C D C D G C G
Write my ticket, write my ticket, write my ticket home