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Dar Williams – Something To Get Through Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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[Intro]
G A G A

[Verse]
D       G       D       G       D
Wake up and you still feel the same
G       D
It’s hard to move and
you’re a-reeling from the pain
                        G
You say you won’t get better
                A
‘Cause you don’t deserve it,
so you think
                G
And maybe you’ll jump off
                A
Now that you’re standing
at the brink
Bm
But it’s really just a drag
G
It won’t get any worse
Bm
It’s not your special fate
                E
It’s not an evil curse

[Chorus]
                       Bm
It’s just something to get through
        A               D
I’ll bet you will be laughing
With your friends
                        G
In the light of a better day
        A
Laughing away
        Bm
Just not today

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[Verse 2]
D       G       D
When the darkness
      G       D
still won’t turn to dawn
G       D
It’s like the underworld,
              D7
and nothing pulls you up
                        G
You were the brightest one
Yeah, turning the wheel
        A
the other way
                G
Happy to chase those
                A
Glimmers of sun around the day
Bm
Now there are no meadow flowers
G
No colors in the sky
Bm
The dogs are laying low
E
The fountains running dry

[Chorus]
                       Bm
It’s just something to get
through
Em      A               D
I’ll bet you will be laughing
                D7
With your friends
                        G
In the light of a better day
        A
Laughing away
Bm

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[Bridge]
E               Bm
And everyone is having fun,
yeah
Db              F#m
Everyone is having fun
                 D
They’re so over it
                 A
Bounce in their step
             F#m
Back in the ring
                     D
Grieving’s what you got
                      E
It’s not a personal thing

[Pre-Chorus]
G A G A

[Chorus]
                D
And you’ll be laughing
                D7 G
We are your friends
                    A
We’ve been there before
                      Bm
We’re waiting on the shore
              E
So take that ride

[Outro]
             D
Take it and come back
G
Come back soon, yeah
D
Come back
G
Come back soon, yeah
D
Come back
G                D
Come back soon, yeah

How to play Something To Get Through: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Something To Get Through by Dar Williams on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

Something To Get Through by Dar Williams sits in D major (two sharps: F♯, C♯), and you need 9 chords to play it: G, A, D, Bm, E, D7, Em, Db and F#m.

Listen for D – D7 – G – A (I – I7 – IV – V in D major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – doh – fah – soh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Bm, Db and F#m 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.