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Zach Bryan – Sober Side Of Sorry Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsE A B C#m

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These are the chords for Sober Side Of Sorry by Zach Bryan on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
E A E A E B E

[Verse 1]
E                A
Dark-hair girl, too much
      E
Jack Daniel's
A        E
I'll be honest right now,
       B            E
 I am too drunk to handle
E
Dark-brown eyes, with
    A       E
 a neck tattoo
       A      E
I am next to you, but
         B              E
I'm a thousand miles away

[Verse 2]
E             A
Wild flowers picked
       E
on a hill-side
A         E
You just let die,
           B          E
I swear I learned to ??

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[Pre Chorus]
E
People come, and they
  A             E
stay, and they go
    A             E
So please let me know
              B        E
 when growing up is so old

[Chorus]
            A
Well, the sober side of
   E           B             C#m
 sorry ain't a safe place to be
            A          E
There's a cigarette rolling
              B              C#m
through the tip of clenched teeth
   A          E
I don't need much,
        B           C#m
just somewhere to sleep
    A              E
Someone please remind me
          B              C#m
who the hell I'm used to be
  A             E
Sober side of sorry ain't a
  B             C#m
 safe place to sleep
 A             E
Sober side of sorry ain't
   B             C#m
a safe place to sleep

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[Chorus]
            A             E
Well, the sober side of sorry
         B             C#m
ain't a safe place to be
            A          E
There's a cigarette rolling
              B              C#m
through the tip of clenched teeth
   A          E
I don't need much,
        B           C#m
just somewhere to be
    A              E
Someone please remind me
         B              C#m
who the hell I'm used to be
  A             E
Sober side of sorry ain't
    B             C#m
 a safe place to sleep
 A             E
Sober side of sorry
         B             C#m
ain't a safe place to sleep

How to play Sober Side Of Sorry: key, chords and progression

Sober Side Of Sorry by Zach Bryan is written in E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯) and moves through 4 chords: E, A, B and C#m.

Listen for A – E – B – C#m (IV – I – V – vi in E major), a rotation of the four-chord pop progression that starts on the IV chord: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is fah – doh – soh – lah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes D, G, A, Bm (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.