{"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":623573,"song":"They Werent There","artist":"Missy Higgins","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11574287-they-werent-there-chords-by-missy-higgins/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/623573?type=chord","rating":4.66523,"votes":24,"content":"This is a beautiful song, and these chords sound great acoustically or on a clean \r\nguitar.  They can be picked or strummed to add effect as the song goes on.  It is in regular \r\nno capo.\r\n\r\nChords:\r\n[ch]B[/ch] – X-2-4-4-4-2---|\r\n[ch]G#m[/ch] – 3-5-5-3-3-3-|\r\n[ch]E[/ch] – 0-2-2-1-0-0---|\r\n[ch]F#[/ch] - 2-4-4-3-2-2--|\r\n\r\n\r\nIntro – [ch]B[/ch], [ch]G#m[/ch], [ch]E[/ch], [ch]F#[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]\r\nYou breathed infinity into my world[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nand time was lost up in a cloud and in a whirl.[/tab]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]                                                      [ch]F#[/ch]              \r\n[tab]                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWe dug a hole in the cool grey earth and lay there for the night.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G#m[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen you said, \"wait for me we'll fly the wind,[/tab]\r\n                 [ch]F#[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]F#[/ch]  \r\n[tab]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nwe'll grow old and you'll be stronger without him\" but oh,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G#m[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nnow my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nbut I was alive and now I've drowned.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]                                   [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSo now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]F#[/ch]     \t\t [ch]E[/ch], [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nso they can tell me I was wrong...[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nBut they weren't there beneath your stare,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]B[/ch]                                              [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nany bindings from the world outside that room.[/tab]\r\n[tab] \t\t[ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nAnd they weren't taken by the hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t[ch]E[/ch]\r\nand led through fields of naked land[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t     [ch]B[/ch]\t\t\t\t[ch]F#[/ch]\r\nwhere any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G#m[/ch]   [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nso I couldn't say \"no\".[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]B[/ch], [ch]G#m[/ch], [ch]E[/ch], [ch]F#[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]\t\t\t\t[ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nYou sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could've past for all I knew.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\t\t\t\t\t[ch]F#[/ch]\r\nYou were the blanket of the over-world and so I couldn't say,[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t[ch]B[/ch]\t          [ch]G#m[/ch]\t         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI wouldn't say \"no\". But they all said, \"you're too young to even know,[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t[ch]F#[/ch]\t\t[ch]E[/ch]\t[ch]F#[/ch]\r\njust don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]B[/ch]\t\t[ch]G#m[/ch]\t\t\t  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nbut oh, now, my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]\t   [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nbut I was alive and now I've drowned.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]\t[ch]E[/ch]\t                    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSo now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t     [ch]F#[/ch]\t\t\t[ch]E[/ch], [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nso they can tell me I was wrong...[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nBut they weren't there beneath your stare,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]B[/ch]                                              [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nany bindings from the world outside that room.[/tab]\r\n[tab] \t\t[ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nAnd they weren't taken by the hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t[ch]E[/ch]\r\nand led through fields of naked land[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t     [ch]B[/ch]\t\t\t\t[ch]F#[/ch]\r\nwhere any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nBut they weren't there beneath your stare,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]B[/ch]                                              [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nany bindings from the world outside that room.[/tab]\r\n[tab] \t\t[ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nAnd they weren't taken by the hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t[ch]E[/ch]\r\nand led through fields of naked land[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t     [ch]B[/ch]\t\t\t\t[ch]F#[/ch]\r\nwhere any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G#m[/ch]   [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nso I couldn't say \"no\".[/tab]","plain_text":"This is a beautiful song, and these chords sound great acoustically or on a clean \nguitar.  They can be picked or strummed to add effect as the song goes on.  It is in regular \nno capo.\n\nChords:\nB – X-2-4-4-4-2---|\nG#m – 3-5-5-3-3-3-|\nE – 0-2-2-1-0-0---|\nF# - 2-4-4-3-2-2--|\n\n\nIntro – B, G#m, E, F#\n\n\n\nE                                                      F#              \n\n\n                 F#                       E               F#  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nB, G#m, E, F#","chords":["B","G#m","E","F#"],"chord_diagrams":{"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}