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Ashley McBryde – The Jacket Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression

ChordsE B F#

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This is the chord progression of The Jacket by Ashley McBryde on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

INTRO:
E B F#
E B F#

VERSE:
E B F# B
It’s got a hole in the elbow, bandana pocket
E B F#
Silver button missin’ from the snap at the bottom
E B
I said, “That thing’s seen better days,
F# B
Daddy, you should toss it”
E B F#
And he said “Darlin I can’t”

CHORUS:
E B F# B
This thing is two-thousand bonfires, I hitchhiked to Boulder
E B F#
It’s kept a million raindrops off your mama’s shoulders
E B F# B
My heart on my sleeve, my life in these patches
E B F#
Then he wrapped his arms around me in that old
F# E B F# E B F#
Jean jacket

VERSE:
E B F# B
It’s been a bed for a hound-dog, a picnic blanket
E B
There’s blood on the collar
F#
From a punk who tried to take it from me
E B F# B
Seen Willie Nelson play four or five states
E F#
The best thing Levi ever made

CHORUS:
E B F# B
We strung four miles of barbed wire in Corinth, Mississippi
E B F#
Spent a night in county jail with an old drunk and a hippy
E B F# B
It’s my heart on the sleeve, it’s my life in these patches
E B F#
With his arms wrapped around me in that old
F# E B F# E B F#
Jean jacket

OUTRO:
E B F# B
It ain’t much to look at, but he let me have it
E B F#
So I could feel his arms around me in that old

E B F# E B F#
Jean jacket Jean jacket

(FADE OUT)
E B F# E B F#

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How to play The Jacket: key, chords and progression

The Jacket by Ashley McBryde sits in B major (five sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯), and you need 3 chords to play it: E, B and F#.

The backbone of the song is F# – E – B – F# (V – IV – I – V in B major). In solfa, that is soh – fah – doh – soh. Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes D, A, E (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 33% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.