Jan202018

First Aid Kit – Hem Of Her Dress Chord Progression on Piano, Guitar, Ukulele and Keyboard

ChordsC F G

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This is the lyrics and chord progression of Hem Of Her Dress by First Aid Kit on Piano, Guitar, Ukulele and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
C
So here we go again
F
I know how this one ends
C G
It’s a phone call from someplace far away
C
You say you’ve found yourself
F
Oh in someone else
C G C
And she makes you forget about the rain

[Verse 2]
C
Her eyes are a golden hue
F
And everything you knew
C G
Slips away at the hem of her dress
C
As I was passing by
F
That old mountainside
C G C
It turned to dust at my feet

[Verse 3]
C
So I am incomplete
F
So loud and so discreet
C G
You try to pinpoint me, I guess that was your mistake
C
Too much whiskey
F
Too much honey, too much wine
C G C
I learned some thngs never heal with time

[Verse 4]
C
I’ve been waiting here
F
Feels like a million years
C G
And I’m a photograph that forgot you took
C
But I remember spring
F C
I remember everything
G C
Oh, I guess that’s the way it goes

C F C G C
La la la.

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How to play Hem Of Her Dress: key, chords and progression

Hem Of Her Dress by First Aid Kit is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 3 chords: C, F and G.

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

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes A, D, E (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 67% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.