Won't Back Down Mat Kearney
Won't Back Down by Mat Kearney
Album: Nothing Left To Lose (2006)
Standard Tuning
(place capo on first fret to make C#2 simpler,
and just ignore the capo for the rest of the chords)
Chords Used:
(if using capo on 1, all 1's = 0's)
Verse:
F# C#2 G#m7* D#sus4
E|--2---1(0)---4-----4(3)-| B|--2---4(3)---4-----4(3)-| G|--3---1(0)---4-----3(2)-| D|--4---3(2)---5-----1(0)-| A|--4---4(3)---5-----X----| E|--2---X------4-----X----|
PreChorus: Chorus:
[Bmaj7] [D#m] [C#] [F#2] [B]
E|--2-- --2(1)--1(0)--| E|--6---7--| B|--4-- --4(3)--2(1)--| B|--9---7--| G|--3-- --3(2)--1(0)--| G|--6---8--| D|--4-- --1(0)--3(2)--| D|--8---9--| A|--2-- --X-----4(3)--| A|--9---9--| E|--X-- --X-----X-----| E|--X---7--|
Other Chords:
[F#sus2] [F#5] [C#5/F] [F#sus2/F] [F#5/D#]
E|---9----X---X(X)----9(8)------X--| B|---9----X---X(X)----9(8)------X--| G|--11----X---6(5)---11(10)----11--| D|--11----4---6(5)---11(10)----11--| A|---9----4---4(3)----9(8)------9--| E|---X----2---1(0)----1(0)-----11--|
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|***G#m7 doesn't have a very easily playable chord form|
|when it comes to the way this song is played, so |
|if you take off the 7th note it's just G#m and sounds |
|close enough, but if your determined to play it right,|
|here's the form: |
|E|--4-- --7-- | |B|--7-- --7-- | |G|--4-- or--8-- | |D|--4-- --6-- | |A|--6-- --0-- | |E|--4--___--X--_______________________________________|
[Verse]
[F#] You woke the morn[C#2]ing up
running off the d[G#m7]arkest night
the longest fight i?ve [D#sus4]seen
[F#] Here goes a chance[C#2] i know
cashing in on [G#m7]all my chips
let all my ships c[D#sus4]ome fly
[Pre-Cborus]
these [Bmaj7]days, a little bit l[D#m]onger that the l[C#2]ast
and all of your [Bmaj7]ways, a little bit s[D#m]tronger than the [C#2]past
and your [Bmaj7]light, found my b[D#m]ottle in the [C#2]night
and [D#m]gave me second l[C#]ife, you [D#m]kept me in this [C#2]fight,
[Cborus]
and I [F#2]won?t back [C#2]down
I [F#2]won?t turn ar[B]ound and around
and I [F#2]won?t back [C#2]down
doesn?t ma[B]tter what comes crashing down
I?m [D#m]still gonna stand my s[C#2]olid ground
[Pre-verse cbords]
[F#sus2] [F#] [F#sus2] [F#5]
[Verse]
[F#] you found me once and f[C#2]or all
i laid it down in the s[G#m7]inking ground
the hopeless un[D#sus4]dertow
[F#] singing out the gentl[C#2]e sound
rattling through my s[G#m7]moking screens
my broken dreams las[D#sus4]t night
[Repeat Pre-Cborus]
[Repeat Cborus]
[Bridge/Outro]
I sing Ha[C#5/F]llelujah, r[F#]ip through my veins
I [F#sus2/F]heard the hammer drop
my[F#5/D#] blood in the rain
Ha[C#5/F]llelujah, c[F#]ame like a train
wh[F#sus2/F]en all is lost
al[F#5/D#]l is left to gain
[Repeat Cborus till end]
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