May182023

Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
Dm7 A Dm7
      D
The fall, the fall,
        F#m A
the fall
                     D  E A
I keep stumbling back

[Break]
Bm F#m  E A
E F#m E A

[Verse]
E F#m
Ivory bone opera glass
                E A
Angles of attack
You heard blood was thick,
               E F#m
brothers and sisters
But ya don’t know
                   E A
where anybody’s at
Time was a bust,
 you thought you’d
           E F#m
better be tough
            E A
Nobody gets past
            E F#m
The trembling wire

[Chorus]
D         Bm F#m
 All eyes on you now,
     A
on you
                            D
We’re all holding our breath
            F#m          A
All eyes on you now, on you
We’re still holding
           D  E A
 our breath

[Break]
F#m A F#m

[Bridge]
E D                 F#m
We all break a little
    A                D
We all break a little
        Dm7        F#m
We all break a little

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            A
 when we fall
And everybody keeps saying,
        Dm7
 “Get up, get up”
The fall, the fall,
         F#m A Am7
 the fall
               D
“Go on, get up”
The fall, the fall,
         F#m A
the fall

[Outro]
D E A F#m
E A E F#m
E A F#m A
E F#m E A

How to play The Fall: key, chords and progression

These are The Fall chords by Gregory Alan Isakov on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

The Fall by Gregory Alan Isakov sits in A major (three sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯), and you need 7 chords to play it: Dm7, A, D, F#m, E, Bm and Am7.

Most of the song cycles through F#m – E – A – E (vi – V – I – V in A major). In solfa, that is lah – soh – doh – soh. Get these 4 changes smooth and the rest comes quickly.

Good to know: on guitar, F#m and Bm need a barre or movable shape. Take the change into them slowly at first; piano and ukulele players have it easier.