Light Year

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This is my first tab, and I've made significant changes based off of a tutorial video by Alex Haitz
(Thank you, Alex!) Google "How to play 'light year' by Gregory Alan Isakov." He explains it really well.
G/C Riff:
Down: G: 3x0003; Up: hammer on to 3x0213, then G/C: 3x0013, hammer on 3x2013
Also, Cmaj7/G: 332000
[Intro]
G/C riff (4x)
[Verse 1]
G Em
I woke you up
A/D G/C
With poetry and stones
G Em
The ragged and the bones
A/D G/C
Strewn around the room
[Verse 2]
G Em
I recall
A/D G/C
Another hazy may
Em G
Take a round in the ring
A/D G/C
Gone hungry for the win...
G/C riff (2x)
[Chorus 1]
G/C G (hammer on 2nd fret on G string)
Here’s the part I just lose everything
G/C Em G Em G/C
And I cracked a spark just to hear you sing...sing
Em G G/C
Sing...
G/C riff (4x)
[Verse 3]
G Em
I took it out
A/D G/C
The papers and the trash
G Em
Old among the cans
A/D G/C
This golden love gone bad
[Verse 4]
G Em
Shined it up
A/D G/C
Aiming at the Sun
Em G
Just a light year from us
A/D G/C
Hop a cab ride and we’re off...
G/C riff (2x)
[Chorus 2]
G/C G (hammer on 2nd fret on G string)
And all the ravens came along to play
G/C Em G Em G/C
The simple notes you sang just went astray
Em G G/C
Astray...
[Bridge]
Am Am D7
Everything was up, it’s coming down
Am Am D7
Everything was up, it’s coming down
Cmaj7/G Em Cmaj7/G
Coming down, coming, coming down, coming...
[Outro]
G/C riff (2x)
G/C riff (2x)
Everything we ever wanted,
(End on G)
Is you

Light Year chords and lyrics

Free chords for Light Year by Gregory Alan Isakov. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

This is my first tab, and I've made significant changes based off of a tutorial video by Alex Haitz 
(Thank you, Alex!) Google "How to play 'light year' by Gregory Alan Isakov." He explains it really well.
G/C Riff:
Down: G: 3x0003; Up: hammer on to 3x0213, then G/C: 3x0013, hammer on 3x2013
Also, Cmaj7/G: 332000
[Intro]
G/C riff (4x)
[Verse 1]
[Verse 2]
G/C riff (2x)
[Chorus 1]
G/C                            G (hammer on 2nd fret on G string)
Here’s the part I just lose everything
G/C riff (4x)
[Verse 3]
[Verse 4]
G/C riff (2x)
[Chorus 2]
G/C                               G (hammer on 2nd fret on G string)
And all the ravens came along to play
[Bridge]
[Outro]
G/C riff  (2x)
G/C riff  (2x)
Everything we ever wanted,
(End on G)
Is you

Light Year Chords by Gregory Alan Isakov

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