May132023

Parker McCollum – Lessons From An Old Man Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
D  G  D  G

[Verse 1]
D
Outrun your wild side
   G                 D
 before you buy that ring
The house on a hill
       G          D
 don't make you a king
Big fancy car get you
 G            Bm
 nowhere real fast
         D
It ain't always the
          G         D
good guy comin' in last

[Chorus]
         G
It ain't all about money,
      D
 but money is nice
        G
There's nothin' wrong with
               D
whiskey, just keep Sundays dry
        Bm7      A
There's makin' a livin'
             G        D
 and there's makin' a life
Em7                    A
Lessons from an old man made
              D   G  D  G
 a young man wise

[Verse 2]
D
5 o'clock comes slow,
         G              D
but the years sure fly by
Don't let 'em tell you
      G               D
that grown men don't cry
The dog's gonna hunt and
     G             Bm
the horse's gonna run
         D
Keep the wind at your back
          G           D
 and your face to the sun

[Chorus]
         G
It ain't all about money,
     D
but money is nice
        G
There's nothin' wrong with
               D
whiskey, just keep Sundays dry
        Bm7      A
There's makin' a livin'
             G        D
 and there's makin' a life
Em7                    A
Lessons from an old man made
 a young man wise

[Solo]
C  D G  D
C  G  A

[Verse 3]
D
Big high crown hat and
   G           D
 a beat-up old Dodge
Can still smell the cigar
         G              D
and the diesel burnin' hot
He'd lean way on back and
 G             Bm
take one more puff

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             D
He'd say, "I don't know it all,
           G       D
 boy, but I know enough."
Said, "I don't know it all,
           G       D
boy, but I know enough."

[Chorus]
         G
It ain't all about money,
      D
 but money is nice
        G
There's nothin' wrong with
               D
 whiskey, just keep Sundays dry
    Bm7       A
And I'm gonna miss him just
 G             D
talkin' 'bout life
Em7                    A
Lessons from an old man made
              D   G
 a young man wise

[Outro]
                 D    G
Made a young man wise
                 D     G
Made a young man wise

How to play Lessons From An Old Man: key, chords and progression

These are Lessons From An Old Man chords by Parker McCollum on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Lessons From An Old Man by Parker McCollum keeps coming home to D major (two sharps: F♯, C♯). You need 7 chords: D, G, Bm, Bm7, A, Em7 and C.

Listen for G – D – G – Bm (IV – I – IV – vi in D major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is fah – doh – fah – lah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Bm and Bm7 are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.