Dec262019

Carbon Leaf – Toast To The New Year Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression and Tab

ChordsF C G D

KeyKeyCapo

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This is the chords of Toast To The New Year by Carbon Leaf on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
F C F C
In the richest of seasons, we’re drenched to the bone.
C F C F G
While the light is still bright, we bring the year to a close.
G F C
Sometimes we’re standing there naked,
C F C F C
frozen in our own past, and winter’s ritual colors.
C F G
She rings out her last
G F C F C
And in the richest of seasons, in these colors we bathe,
C F C F G
we greet the onset of winter and what we know she will take.

[Chorus]
G C G C G
And so you make resolutions, if it’s all just the same
G C G C D
If a wound is a wound, why not just cut myself upon change?

[Verse 2]
F C F C
In black and light, the year is formally closed
C F C F G
Yet still the darkest of seasons shimmer silver and gold
G F C F C
So let’s dress up like penguins, we’ll huddle en masse
C F C F G
We will ring in the new year, we’ll throw a curse to the last

[Chorus 2]
G C G C G
And so we make resolutions, if it’s all just the same
G C G C D
If a wound is a wound, why not just cut myself upon change?
D C G C G
And so a toast to the New Year, and farewell to the last
G C G C D
May we dream ourselves forward, frozen wind at our backs

[Solo]
Em / G / Em / G / Em / G / D

[Chorus 3]
D C G C G
And so a toast to the New Year, and farewell to the last
G C G C D
May we dream ourselves forward, frozen wind at our backs
D C G C G
Another toast to the New Year, may we spring back to life
G C G C D
When the colors start shifting in the burgeoning light
D C G C G
May we spring back to life… may we spring back to life
G C G C D
When the colors start shifting in the burgeoning light

[Outro]
F C F G
In black and white, the year is formally closed.

How to play Toast To The New Year: key, chords and progression

Toast To The New Year by Carbon Leaf is centred on C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 4 chords: F, C, G and D.

The progression the song keeps returning to is F – C – F – G (IV – I – IV – V in C major). In solfa, that is fah – doh – fah – soh. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 5th fret and play the shapes C, G, D, A (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 75% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.