Mar122020

Starkid – Black Friday – Take Me Back Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression and Tab

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This is the chords of Black Friday – Take Me Back by Starkid on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
[TOM]
G D A
You look just the same
D
As I always remember
G A
All those Friday nights
B
Under the lights
D
Under the bleachers together
G D
You and I were meant to be
G A
Something more than a faded memory
G A D
Till you and I, something divided us
E
If the universe is infinite
Bb
Then it’s definite
G C
There’s an alternate reality
D A
Where we’re now a family

[Chorus]
E A
Take me back in time to love you
C E
Take me back when we were lost
D A
Lost in love and lost in feeling
G A
Without the cost
E A
Take me back in time to high school
E A
Take me back when things were light
E D
Light my heart and light my shadow
A
To make it alright
C G E
Cause I already lost it once
C D
What I already won

[Verse 2]
C D A G
You don’t look the same at all
As I remember
C D
The light has left your eyes
C D
Something is changed
G C
Then you were way more put together
C A
But I remember something someone
C D
Asked me back in school
C D
Tom if you asked me
A C
I’d still go to prom with you
E
The universe is infinite
D
And it’s definite
C F
There’s an alternate reality
G D
Where it’s only you and me.
A D
Take me back in time to love you
G D
Hold me closer than before
A D
Heal my heart and mend what’s broken
C D
To feel you once more

[TOM]
F
Without the cost

[Chorus]
[BECKY (TOM)]
A G
Take me back in time to high school (take me back to high school)
A C
Take me back when things were light (take me back in time)

[BOTH]
A G
Light my heart and light my shadow

[BECKY (TOM)]

C D
For one more night (One more night)

[BOTH]
F A
Cause I already lost it once
F G
What I already won
C E
I’ve lost too much now
A
To care
D G A
But I know that something’s still there

[TOM]
G
I’ll never let you go

[BECKY]
C
I’ll never let you go

[BOTH]
G F
I’ll never let you go now

[JINGLE, JANGLE, KRIS AND NOEL]
A
Just take me back
G
Gotta take me back
A
Just take me back
G
Gotta take me back
A
Just take me back
G
Gotta take me back
A
Just take me back
G C
Gotta take me back in time
A
Just take me back (oh)
G
Gotta take me back in (time)
A
Just take me back (oh)
G
Gotta take me back

[BECKY AND TOM]
E D
In time to love you
A D
Hold me closer than before
A D
Heal my heart and mend what’s broken

[BECKY (TOM)]
C D
To feel you once more (feel you once more)
A E
Take me back in time to high school (take me back to high school)
A G
Take me back in when things were light(take me back in time)

[BOTH]
B G A
Light my heart and light my shadow

[BECKY]
D
To make it alright

[TOM]
C
Make it alright

[BOTH]
B
Alright!

How to play Black Friday – Take Me Back: key, chords and progression

Black Friday – Take Me Back by Starkid is built around D major (two sharps: F♯, C♯), with 8 chords in all: G, D, A, B, E, Bb, C and F.

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

Good to know: B, Bb and F are played as barre or movable shapes on guitar. Practise the change into them slowly; on piano and ukulele the same chords are easier.