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Zach Bryan – Santa Fe Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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These are Santa Fe chords by Zach Bryan for Piano and Ukulele.

[Intro]
Call up your mother, tell 
her that you're all alone
With some sky out by Santa Fe,
            G Am7 C D G Am7 C D
 New Mexico

[Verse 1]
G                  Am7          
Think I'm going to Santa Fe, the
 C                    D
 type of place you'll know my name
   G                   Am7        
My grandma called just yesterday to
  C                             D
 say she loves the manor I was raised
G                 Am7        
Grown so weary of all of this 
 C                  D
and every day is a precipice
   G                 Am7      
It pissed me off and pissed on 
         C              D
all the friends I ever made

[Chorus]
C            G       D       
Call up your mother, tell her
             Em7
 that you're all alone
     C        G      D       
With some sky out by Santa Fe, 
      Em7
New Mexico
C       G       D           
Hoping, broken, you can find 
     Em7
yourself back home
C       G       D        
Home is broken, drunk and
            Em7
 dirty on a desert road

[Interlude]
C G D Em7
C G D Em7

How to play Santa Fe: key, chords and progression

Santa Fe by Zach Bryan sits in G major (one sharp: F♯), and you need 5 chords to play it: G, Am7, C, D and Em7.

The backbone of the song is G – Am7 – C – D (I – ii7 – IV – V in G major). In solfa, that is doh – reh – fah – soh. Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

Beginner-friendly: every chord is an open chord on guitar, so you can play it without a capo or barre chords.