CHORDS: Jason Isbell – When We Were Close Chords on Piano & Ukulele

These are When We Were Close chords by Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
 Em   G    D
 Em   G    D    D

[Verse 1]
        Em            G
I got a picture of us back
              D
 when we were close
          Em
Before we had somebody
 G           D
 picking out our clothes
        Em     G
But you always dressed
          D
in your Sunday best
     Em             G
Even when we didn't have
            D
nowhere to go
        Em
I got a picture of
    G            D
 us playing in a bar
         Em         G
And your shirt cost more
           D
than your guitar
        Em        G
But you played so heavy and
     D
 you always let me sing
  Em          G
A couple even though
              D
you were the star

[Chorus]
C         G
I was the worse of
     D
the two of us
C         G
But Rex's Blues wasn't
 D
through with us
C                  G
You were bound for glory
     D        Am
and grown to die
C                  Em   G
Oh, but why wasn't I?
D          Em    G    D
Why wasn't I?

[Verse 2]
      Em
Saw a picture of you
 G             D
laughing with your child
      Em
And I hope she will
   G          D
remember how you smiled
        Em
But she probably
        G
wasn't old enough,
      D
 the night somebody
sold you stuff
     Em
That left you on the
 G        D
 bathroom tiles
      Em
Got a picture of you
 G        D
dying in my mind
          Em
With some ghosts you
          G             D
couldn't bear to leave behind
    Em
But I can hear your

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 G
 voice ring,
         D
 as you snap another B-string
        Em
And you finish off
    G          D
the set with only five
Am
And for a minute there,
                     C
 you're still alive

[Chorus]
C         G
I was the worse of
     D
 the two of us
C         G
But Rex's Blues wasn't
 D
 through with us
C                  G
You were bound for glory
      D        Am
 and grown to die
C                  Em   G
Oh, but why wasn't I?
D          Em    G     D
Why wasn't I?

[Solo]
C C G D
C C G D
G D A Am
C

[Verse 3]
C              G
It's not up to me to
    D
 forgive you
C
For the nights that your
 G           D
love had to live through
C                G
Now you'll never need
            D      Am   C
 to look me in the eye

[Outro]
C        G
I am the last of
      D
the two of us
C                  G
But the Fort Worth blues
        D
 isn't through with us
C                 G
You've traveled beyond
     D       Am
the Great Divide
C                  Em   G
Oh, but why haven't I?
D          Em    G    D
Why haven't I?
Em G D
Em G D D

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