Jun232023

Maisie Peters – Coming Of Age Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Verse 1]
C
Your face in fluorescent
       Am
 looks different in the
daylight
     C
Like was it a love affair
    Am
or just a lot of late nights?
     C
Like you had the speaking
             Am
 parts but I guess I
was the playwright
C        Am
Oh, oh-woah
C
I couldn't escape you
          Am
like the airwaves of
the bassline
      C
And I couldn't erase you
        Am
 like a tattoo on my waistline
C
If it was a first kiss,
           Am
how come it felt like
a snakebite?
C        Am
Oh, oh-woah

[Pre-Chorus]
G
I wish I woulda seen it sooner

[Chorus]
G               C
Why did it take me
(Oh, oh, oh)
G            C
Ages to say it?
(Oh, oh, oh)
G                C
I wasn't your cliché
    Em       D     C
Oh, no, this is my coming
 of age

[Post-chorus]
G
Oh, oh, my coming of age
G
Oh, oh, my coming of age

[Verse 2]
C
I'm caught in new ground
       Am
 and I'm burning all your CDs
  C
Baby, I am the Iliad,
    Am
of course you couldn't read me
   C
So I'll leave you behind,
      Am
 but that don't mean it's easy
C        Am
Oh, oh-woah (Oh, oh, oh)

[Pre-Chorus]
G
I wish I woulda seen it sooner

[Chorus]
G               C
Why did it take me (Oh, oh, oh)
G            C
Ages to say it? (Oh, oh, oh)
G                C
I wasn't your cliché
    Em       D     C
Oh, no, this is my coming of age
G C x2

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[Bridge]
  G
I send my silence away
G
Printing my blood on the page
G
You stole my love and I paid
G
But you couldn't keep
                      Em
what you couldn't take
  D      C
I know I made you the big star
Em          C
  I let you butcher my big heart
    D       C             Em
But it's my song and my stage
    D       C          Em
And it's my coming of age

[Chorus]
G               C
Why did it take me (Oh, oh, oh)
G            C
Ages to say it? (Oh, oh, oh)
G                C
I wasn't your cliché
    Em       D     C
Oh, no, this is my coming of age

[Outro]
G                  C
I wish I could've seen it, God
G                 C
I wish I could've seen it, God
G                 C
I wish I could've seen it, God
           D
But God, I wish I could've
      C
 seen it, God

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How to play Coming Of Age: key, chords and progression

These are Coming Of Age chords by Maisie Peters on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Coming Of Age by Maisie Peters keeps coming home to G major (one sharp: F♯). You need 5 chords: C, Am, G, Em and D.

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

Beginner-friendly: on guitar every chord is an open shape, which makes this a good song to learn early on.