Feb152020

cavetown – Sweet Tooth Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression and Tab

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This is the chords of Sweet Tooth by cavetown on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Intro]
C
F
C
F

[Verse 1]
C F
Feeling sick of myself
C F
Think I’ll try to be someone else
Am D5
Can’t be hard to paint a person
Am F
In my head create a version
C
The parallel
F
C
F

[Verse 2]
C F
Pull my head out the sand
C F
Try as hard as I can
Am D5
Guess I must be satisfactory
Am F C F
You said you love me exactly the way I am
Am F C F
And you know I find it hard to understand
Am F C
Pay a visit to the doctor ’cause I have

[Chorus]
E7 Am
A sweet tooth for you
F Fm C
I’m wide awake
E7 Am F Fm C
The sugar went straight to my brain
E7 Am F Fm C
Feel like a kid, I double tap
E Am
My chest with my fist

[Post-Chorus]
F Fm
I like you
C C E7 F Fm
Say it back
C C E7 F
Say it back
C

[Verse 2]
F C
Never had a cavity
F Am
Never had nobody as sweet as you
D7 E11
Smoother on the edges, good as new
F C F
Gently into it, every rendez-vous
C F
Got myself a brand new pain
C F
It’s like you do
E11 F C
I know every line and curve of your tattoos

[Chorus]
E7 Am
A sweet tooth for you
F Fm C
I’m wide awake
E7 Am F Fm C
The sugar went straight to my brain
E7 Am F Fm C
Feel like a kid, I double tap
E Am
My chest with my fist

[Post-Chorus]
F Fm
I like you
C E7 F Fm
Say it back
C E7 F
Say it back
C

[Verse 3]
E7 Am
Sweet tooth for you
F Fm C
My dreamin’ space
E7 Am F Fm C
It’s filled with scribbles, tore the page
E7 Am F Fm C
Decipher them with colored paint
E7 Am F Fm C
Repair the stitches in my face
E7 Am
Sweet tooth for you
F Fm C
My heart, you do
E7 Am F Fm C
I’ll see you in my garden soon
E7 Am F Fm C
Beneath the skin, it’s cardiac
E Am
The safety pin

[Outro]
F
I like you
Fm C/G
Say it back

How to play Sweet Tooth: key, chords and progression

Sweet Tooth by cavetown is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 10 chords: C, F, Am, D5, E7, Fm, E, D7, E11 and C/G.

The backbone of the song is Am – F – Fm – C (vi – IV – iv – I in C major). In solfa, that is lah – fah – fah – doh. Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

Good to know: F, Fm and E11 are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.