Taylor Swift – Down Bad Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Taylor Swift – Down Bad Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsBF#G#mE

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[Intro]
B F# G#m E

[Verse 1]
B
 Did you really
         F#
beam me up
G#m
 In a cloud of
          E
sparkling dust
              B
 Just to do experiments on
                 F#
 Tell me I'm the chosen one
 Show me that this world
    G#m
 is bigger than us
 Then sent me back where
   E
 I came from
B
 For a moment,
I knew cosmic love

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[Chorus]
 B
 Now I'm down bad
crying at the gym
 F#
 Everything comes out
 teenage petulance
 G#m
 Fuck it if I can't have him
   E
 I might just die,
 it would make no difference
 B
 Down bad, waking
 up in blood
 F#
 Staring at the sky,
 come back and pick me up
 G#m
 Fck it, if
 I can't have us
   E
 I might just not get up,
               B
 I might stay down bad
 F#
 Fck it if I can't
           G#m
 have him, down bad
 E
 Fck it if I can't have him

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[verse 2]
B
 Did you take all my
      F#
 old clothes
G#m
 Just to leave me here
 E
 naked and alone
                  B
 In a field in my same old town
                       F#
 That somehow seems so hollow
 now

 They'll say I'm nuts if
G#m              E
I talk about the existence
 of you
B
 For a moment
 I was heavenstruck

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[Chorus]
 B
 Now I'm down bad
 crying at the gym
 F#
 Everything comes out
 teenage petulance
 G#m
 Fuck it if I can't have him
(Fck it, if I can't have)
   E
 I might just die,
it would make no difference
 B
 Down bad, waking
 up in blood
 F#
 Staring at the sky,
 come back and pick me up
 G#m
 Fuck it, if I can't have us
   E
 I might just not get up,
               B
 I might stay down bad
(Like I lost my twin)
 F#
 Fuck it if I can't
           G#m
have him, down bad
 E
 Fck it if I can't
have him


[Bridge]
B                         F#
 I loved you hostile takeovers,
                          G#m
 Encounters closer and closer
                        E
 All your indescent exposures
 How dare you say
             B
that it's
 I'll build you a fort
             F#
 on some planet
 Where they can all
           G#m
 understand it
 How dare you think
         E
 it's romantic
 Leaving me safe and
 B
 stranded
        F#
 'Cause fck it I was
          G#m
 in love
    E
 So fck you if I can't
          B F# G#m
have us
        E
 'Cause fck it
I was in love

[Chorus]
 B
 Now I'm down bad
crying at the gym
 F#
 Everything comes out
teenage petulance
 G#m
 Fuck it if
I can't have him
 (Fck it, if I can't have)
   E
 I might just die,
it would make no difference
 B
 Down bad, waking up in blood
 F#
 Staring at the sky,
come back and pick me up
 G#m
 Fuck it, if
I can't have us
   E
 I might just not get up,
              B
I might stay down bad
 (Like I lost my twin)
 F#
 Fck it if I can't
           G#m
 have him, down bad
 E
 Fuck it if I can't
 have him

[Outro]
B F# G#m E

How to play Down Bad: key, chords and progression

These are Down Bad chords by Taylor Swift on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Down Bad by Taylor Swift sits in B major (five sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯), and you need 4 chords to play it: B, F#, G#m and E.

Listen for B – F# – G#m – E (I – V – vi – IV in B major), the “four-chord” progression behind countless pop, rock and worship songs: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – soh – lah – fah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 4th fret and play the shapes G, D, Em, C (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 25% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.

Chord diagrams

B chord on guitar (x24442)
BB D♯ F♯
F# chord on guitar (244322)
F♯F♯ A♯ C♯
G#m chord on guitar (466444)
G♯mG♯ B D♯
E chord on guitar (022100)
EE G♯ B

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Down Bad chords: questions

What key is Down Bad in?

Down Bad by Taylor Swift is in the key of B major (five sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯).

What chords are in Down Bad?

Down Bad uses 4 chords: B, F#, G#m, E.

What is the chord progression of Down Bad?

The main progression is B – F# – G#m – E (I – V – vi – IV), the “four-chord” progression behind countless pop, rock and worship songs.

Is Down Bad easy to play on guitar?

Yes, with a capo: put a capo on the 4th fret and play the shapes G, D, Em, C (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 25% without a capo).

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