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Megan Moroney – Mustang Or Me Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsC G D EmD/F#

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[Intro]
 C   G   D

[Verse 1]
C
I packed up my two-door Ford,
  G
 he don't love me anymore
   D
I made a phone call home
             Em     D/F#
 and now I'm on my way
        C
And I, cursed his name
down sixty-five
 G
Need new brakes,
                D
and need new tires
             Em      D/F#
And hell, I'm tired

[Chorus]
  C
Who's it gonna be? We're
       G
 both leavin' Tennessee
  D
Two years down the drain,
               Em
 two hundred thousand
         D/F#
on the gauge
    C
A broken taillight,
                  G
a broken heart, how'd
we even get this far?
     D
I'm fightin' back the
                  Em      D/F#
tears runnin' on E
              C
Who's gonna break down
              D          C    G
first, this Mustang or me?

[Verse 2]
    C
I stopped for gas
and cigarettes
        G
Hoods blowin' smoke,
                  D
 I'm smokin' reds
     C
A stranger asked
if I was okay
 G
Laughed it off said,
                     D
 "No, what gave it away?
Was it the leaking oil
        Em           D/F#
or the lonely on my face?"

[Chorus]
  C
Who's it gonna be? We're
       G
both leavin' Tennessee
  D
Two years down the drain,
               Em
 two hundred thousand
         D/F#
on the gauge
    C
A broken taillight,
                   G
 a broken heart, how'd we
even get this far?
     D
I'm fightin' back the
                  Em   D/F#
tears runnin' on E
              C
Who's gonna break down first,
       D          C
this Mustang or me?
   G    D    Em    D/F#

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[Bridge]
     C
One hour to go,
       D
it's gettin' late
      C
I'm flyin' down the
 D
interstate
    G
I thought that I was
       D/F#
gonna make it home
       Em
But I heard our song on
      C      D
 the radio

[Chorus]
  C
Who's it gonna be? We're
       G
both leavin' Tennessee
  D
Two years down the drain,
               Em
 two hundred thousand
         D/F#
on the gauge
    C
A broken taillight,
                   G
 a broken heart, how'd we
even get this far?
     D
I'm fightin' back the
                  Em   D/F#
tears runnin' on E
              C
Who's gonna break down first,
       D          C
this Mustang or me?
   G    D    Em    D/F#

[End]
C   G

How to play Mustang Or Me: key, chords and progression

These are Mustang Or Me chords by Megan Moroney on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Mustang Or Me by Megan Moroney sits in G major (one sharp: F♯), and you need 5 chords to play it: C, G, D, Em and D/F#.

The progression the song keeps returning to is C – G – D – Em (IV – I – V – vi in G major), a rotation of the four-chord pop progression that starts on the IV chord. In solfa, that is fah – doh – soh – lah. 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.