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Taylor Swift – The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived Chords

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These are The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived chords by Taylor Swift on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
     F   Bb    F
 Was any of it true
 F      Bb     F
 Gazing at me, starry-eyed
         F
 In your Jehovah's
 Bb      F
 witness suit
        Bb       F
 Who the fuck was that guy?
     Gm       Eb
 You tried to buy
      Bb
some pills
        Gm
 From a friend of
 Eb         Bb
friends of mine
 Gm        Eb      Bb
 They just ghosted you
     Gm       Eb
 Now you know what
     Bb
 it feels like

[Chorus]
Gm                Eb
 And I don't even want you
              Bb
 back, I just want to know
Gm             Eb
 If rusting my sparkling
                Bb
 summer was the goal
Gm                Eb
 And I don't miss what
                   Bb
 we had, but could someone
 give
Gm                Eb
 A message to the smallest
         Bb
 man who ever lived?

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[Verse 2]
     F       Bb      F
 You hung me on your wall
 F          Bb        F
 Stabbed me with your pushpins
    F      Bb        F
 In public showed me off
      F       Bb      F
 Then sank in stoned oblivion
       Gm        Eb        F
 Cause once your queen had come
     Gm        Eb      F
 You treat her like an also-ran
     Gm     Eb      F
 You didn't measure up
    Gm  Eb      F
 In any measure of a man

[Chorus]
Gm                Eb
 And I don't even want
                  Bb
you back, I just want to know
Gm             Eb
 If rusting my sparkling
                Bb
 summer was the goal
Gm                Eb
 And I don't miss what
                   Bb
we had, but could someone
give
Gm                Eb
 A message to the smallest
         Bb
 man who ever lived?

[Bridge]
                      Bb
 Were you sent by someone
               Gm
who wanted me dead?
                      F
 Did you sleep with a gun
                Eb
underneath our bed
                    Bb
 Were you writing a book?
                         Gm
 Were you a sleeper cell spy?
 In 50 years, will this
 F              Eb
 all be declassified?
                        Bb
 You'll confess why you did it
                   Gm
 And I'll say good riddance
                  F
 'Cause it wasn't sexy
                  Eb
once it wasn't forbidden
                          Bb
 I would've died for your sins
                        Gm
 Instead, I just died inside
                 F
 And you deserve prison,
                   Eb
 but you won't get time
                   Bb
 You'll slide into inboxes
                      Gm
 and slip through the bars
                F
 You crashed my party and
             Eb
your rental car
 You said normal girls
      Bb
 were boring
 But you were gone by
     Gm
 the morning
                    F
 You kicked out the stage
lights but you're still
     Eb
performing
                         Bb
 And in plain sight, you hid
                      Gm
 But you are what you did
                 F
 And I'll forget you,
                     Eb
 but I will never forgive
 The smallest man who
   Bb
ever lived

How to play The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived: key, chords and progression

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived by Taylor Swift is in the key of B♭ major (two flats: B♭, E♭). The song uses 4 chords: F, Bb, Gm and Eb.

The progression the song keeps returning to is Gm – Eb – Bb – Gm (vi – IV – I – vi in B♭ major). In solfa, that is lah – fah – doh – lah. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes D, G, Em, C (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 0% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.