{"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":892450,"song":"The Hand That Held Me Down","artist":"Two Gallants","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11607000-the-hand-that-held-me-down-chords-by-two-gallants/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/892450?type=chord","rating":0.12785,"votes":0,"content":"CAPO 4th Fret\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh, the razor in your apple, the affection of your glove[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe prison of your company, the snake oil of your love[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe heights to which you drag me, just to hurl your scorn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe trumpets play the livelong day but they blow so forlorn[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid you hold the hand that held me down?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDid you laugh at my expense?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen there's rust upon your ragged crown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWho will stand at your defense?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd when I unveiled my weakness on your rodeo of tears[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]           \r\nYou stood there so vacantly, your fingers in your ears[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd you left by the morning with all that's left to steal[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut every time you say farewell, there's breadcrumbs at your heels[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid you kiss the hand that held me down?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWas your kindness just pretense?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen there's no-one left for you to clown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWho will stand at your defense?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut it's ashes Lord, it's ashes; soon we all fall down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou take your place among the saints, make not a single sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd on the hills that held our childhood the flowers grow there still[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou lay beneath them pushing weeds and I guess you always will[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCould you be the hand that held me down?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I was sick with common sense[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd now your statuettes are all torn down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere's no-one left for you to lean against[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd ever since you epitaph was spattered on my wall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNo-one comes to call[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey can't stand the stench[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I still sing your praises every time the curtain calls[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe burden on me falls[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYeah, I alone stand at your defense [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]","plain_text":"CAPO 4th Fret\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nEm D Am G D","chords":["D","G","Am","Em","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"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]},"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]}}}