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Lauv – 26 Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsF Bb Dm C

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[Intro]
F

[Verse 1]
Bb                F
 Can I tell you a story
        Dm                      C
‘Bout a boy who broke his own heart?
                      Bb          F
And he always blamed everybody else
                          Dm
But the truth is that he did
             C
it to himself
    Bb
He made a couple songs
       F
and they got big
         Dm
And he thought that he could
            C
Do whatever he wanted
       Bb    F
But it all left him with
                Dm  C
a hole in his heart

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[Pre-Chorus]
Bb   F
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Dm              C
Money buys you happiness
   Bb         F
But ooh-ooh-ooh
    Dm               C
It doesn’t buy you time

[Chorus]
     Bb              F
The more that I get older
     Dm              C
The less I wanna be sober
    Bb                 F
And I can’t quit, goddamit
     Dm                C
And maybe I’m just broken
      Bb        F
And I’ll never admit it
         Dm             C
That I wish that I was younger
   Bb                      F
Yeah, twenty-six and I’m rich
Dm                     C
 How the hell did it come to this?

[Verse 2]
Bb                   F
 And I wish I could tell you
       Dm                        C
Everything is perfect, but it’s not
            Bb
I’ve been starin’ at the ceilin’
      F
 for like ten days
         Dm                    C
But I’m pretty sure that I forgot
           Bb
What it’s like to be a person
        F
that doesn’t think
      Dm                      C
That everything he does just sucks
     C               F
Ooh it’s a perfect world
             Dm C
until it’s not

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[Pre-Chorus]
Bb   F
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Dm              C
Money buys you happiness
   Bb         F
But ooh-ooh-ooh
    Dm               C
It doesn’t buy you time

[Chorus]
     Bb              F
The more that I get older
     Dm              C
The less I wanna be sober
    Bb                 F
And I can’t quit, goddamit
     Dm                C
And maybe I’m just broken
      Bb        F
And I’ll never admit it
         Dm             C
That I wish that I was younger
   Bb                      F
Yeah, twenty-six and I’m rich
Dm                     C
 How the hell did it come to this?

[Interlude]
Bb  F  Dm  C
Bb  F  Dm  C

[Outro]
     Bb              F
The more that I get older
     Dm              C
The less I wanna be sober
   Bb                      F
Yeah, twenty-six and I’m rich
Dm                     C
 How the hell did it come to this?

How to play 26: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for 26 by Lauv on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

To play 26 by Lauv, think in F major (one flat: B♭). It takes 4 chords: F, Bb, Dm and C.

The backbone of the song is Bb – F – Dm – C (IV – I – vi – V in F major). In solfa, that is fah – doh – lah – soh. Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes D, G, Bm, A (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.