Apr152020

The SteelDrivers – I Choose You Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression and Tab

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This is the chords of I Choose You by The SteelDrivers on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Intro]
G D Em G C G C D

[Verse]
G D
I choose you
Em G C G
Every day in a hundred different ways
C D
I make the choice to stay
G D Em G
I can hit the open road, run my life away
C D G
But I choose you every day
F C G C
I see lovers all around me giving up and giving in
C G C D
They decided that it’s over before it begins
F C Cm G
Is it easier to stay or is it easier to go
C G C D
I don’t have the answers but there’s one thing that I know

[Chorus]
G D
Is I choose you
Em G C G
Every day in a hundred different ways
C D
I make the choice to stay
G D Em G
I can hit the open road, run my life away
C D G
But I choose you every day

[Instrumental]
G D Em G C G C D
G D Em G C G C D G

[Verse]
F C G C
People wonder how we made it, how we even came this far
C G C D
It’s a wondrous thing to turn around, see where we are
F C Cm G
It’s a good thing love forgives and it’s a blessing love is blind
C G C D
They ask me how we made it, I say one day at a time

[Chorus]
G D
Is I choose you
Em G C G
Every day in a hundred different ways
C D
I make the choice to stay
G D Em G
I can hit the open road, run my life away
C D G
But I choose you every day
G D
I choose you
Em G C G
Every day in a hundred different ways
C D
I make the choice to stay
G D Em G
I can hit the open road, run my life away
C D G
But I choose you every day

How to play I Choose You: key, chords and progression

I Choose You by The SteelDrivers is centred on G major (one sharp: F♯). The song uses 6 chords: G, D, Em, C, F and Cm.

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

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