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Dave Kennedy – Heroes Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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These are Heroes chords by Dave Kennedy on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
D   D7  G  Gm/Bb
D   A7  D  D

[Verse 1]
       D
It's a hard life
        D7
getting by on
G            D
melodies and rhymes,
     D
like all my heroes
D
wrote in
      A       A
their songs.
     D
Just hoping some
D7
day they might
G         Gm/Bb
ask me to play:
        D
what do you do
when your
A7         D     D
heroes are gone?

[Chorus]
        D
Lord, I try to
live
C         G
up to the songs
            D
they left behind,
      D
but I don't
always
D
know how to
      A    A
carry on.
        D
It's so hard to
find
     C
your way when a
G            Gm/Bb
flame fades away.
            D
What do you do
when your
A          D     D
heroes are gone?

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[Interlude]
D   D7  G  Gm/Bb
D   A7  D  D

[Verse 2]
            D
So, pour me one
more for
    D7
the courts and
  G
another for the
D
burbs
          D
while the jukebox
just
      D
keeps rolling
 A      A
along.
    D
And when the last
    D7
one ends
we'll play them
    G     Gm/Bb
all over again
            D
'cause what do you
do when your
A7         D     D
heroes are gone.

[Chorus]
        D
Lord, I try
to live
C
up to the
G
songs they left
  D
behind,
      D
but I don't always
D
know how
         A    A
to carry on.
        D
It's so hard to
find your
C
way when another
G            Gm/Bb
flame fades away.
            D
What do you do
when your
A          D     D
heroes are gone?

[Ending]
              D
Yeah, it's so hard
to find
     C
your way when a
G            Gm/Bb
flame fades away.
            D
What do you do
when your
A         (G)
heroes are gone?
G  Gm   D

Watch: Heroes

From Dave Kennedy - Topic on YouTube. Play along with the chords above.

How to play Heroes: key, chords and progression

Heroes by Dave Kennedy keeps coming home to D major (two sharps: F♯, C♯). You need 8 chords: D, D7, G, Gm/Bb, A7, A, C and Gm.

The progression the song keeps returning to is D – D7 – G – Gm/Bb (I – I7 – IV – iv in D major). In solfa, that is doh – doh – fah – fah. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Beginner-friendly: almost every chord is an open chord on guitar, so you can play it without a capo or barre chords.