{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1130390,"song":"My Good Deed","artist":"Shearwater","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11251371-my-good-deed-chords-by-shearwater/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1130390?type=chord","rating":4.73966,"votes":6,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nI tried to save a girl I truly loved and didn't quite know how to help her.[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]Bm[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nSo now she's sleeping as her parents up above cry over things that they can't tell her.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd when I did my good deed I thought I'd feel unbroken gladness,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nbut standing in the street alone I just felt sinking sadness. [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nGirl, your dad will not us bless, so hang up your veil and dress.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nLook at me and take one guess where the best-intentioned love will lead us.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]Bm[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nI once felt a feeling fully through, though I knew I shouldn't feel it,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nbecause to act on it I'd be a person who should be slapped into a straitjacket.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo every time it comes around I just let it die inside me.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nYou said, I only come around because I just need you to hide me, [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]Bm[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nso we knelt in those dead weeds, sticks and sharp rocks cutting into our knees.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd I thought that we would freeze, but there was just too much warm blood in our bodies.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]Bm[/ch]                                    [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nI'm not going to make you take the pills, though you should really think about it.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]Bm[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nThe fire by which we both were almost killed glowed so beautiful, don't doubt it[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nbut we have to make a choice now; can we glow without it? [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere's a space I tried to fill, but I'm seeing now I never will.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nYou fly around while I stand still, until I slowly just get smaller and smaller.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nI tried to save a girl I truly loved, and I never would desert her.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]Bm[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch] ([ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch])\r\nWhen we both found out that I was dreaming of the day I thoroughly could hurt her.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw myself inside her eyes; this shrinking would-be savior[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nresented her for never needing me and I couldn't wait just to betray her. [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo we drove back to her place from the temporary home that we had made,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I stepped back into the street,[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nfeeling the fullest moment of my life slowly shrink away[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfrom me.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["G","Bm","Em","E","F#","A","Am","D","B7","C","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}