Rose 1956 Chords

KeyC Capo6st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays504

Rose 1956 by Waxahatchee is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords C, F 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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The entire song is simply 4 chords: C F G F. The F is played as a power chord on the first fret. 
The strumming is very simple and slow until the end of the first verse, where it picks up. 

C                   F                         G              F 
Sharp hangover, it is Christmas Eve. 
It fades and evaporates passing the trains and lakes and trees. 
Your breaths are short and urgent and it is unsettling. 
You got married when you were 15, 15. 

Now I hide out from telephone wires at Waxahatchee creek. 
Your body, weak from smoke and tar and subsequent disease. 
You got married when you were 15, 15. 
No miscalculation, each other's only living means. 
Your arms wane thinner. 
Your legs surrender. 

Sunlight probing, it is Christmas Eve. 
No stitch of shade, we pass by lakes and big Mimosa trees. 
Your breaths are short and urgent  
and it is unsettling. 
You got married when you were 15, 15. 
    	

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