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Zach Bryan – Bathwater Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsC F G

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These are Bathwater chords by Zach Bryan on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
C F C F C G C

[Verse 1]
C
Coffee cold this
mornin'
F
  You're gettin'
      C
rid of me
     F
Got drunk, fell
asleep
     C
and woke up
    G               C
In Eastern Tennessee

[Verse 2]
C
Woke up on the wrong
side
F                C
  Of a lifelong fight
        F      C
Between who I was, who
  G
I am
And which one's
   C
right

[Verse 3]
C
Baby's out with
the
bathwater
F
He ain't got no
  C
chance
    F
Oklahoma knows the
 C
old ya
     G
So, boy, get up
         C
and dance

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[Verse 4]
C
These songs used
to free me
             F
Now there's nothin'
             C
free in this
     F
Just 808 beats,
what
    C
we used to be
     G
And backdoor
         C
politics

[Verse 5]
C
Now everyone knows
an outlaw
F
  Country to their
 C
core
         F
But the only outlaw
 C
I've known
G               C
 Served in the Corps

[Verse 6]
    F
And I ain't heard
  C
"Shake the Frost"
      G
In a couple years
   C
or more

How to play Bathwater: key, chords and progression

Bathwater by Zach Bryan is built around C major (no sharps or flats), with 3 chords in all: C, F and G.

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

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes A, D, E (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 67% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.