Emerson Drive - Moments (simplified) guitar chord
MOMENTS
Written by Annie Tate, Sam Tate and Dave Berg
** SIMPLIFIED ARRANGEMENT **
4 beats per chord
` = 2 beats
INTRO:
`D `E7 D
`D `E7 A
I was
VERSE:
E7 E7
Coming to the end of a long long walk when a man crawled out of a cardboard box under the
A E
E Street Bridge followed me on to it
E7 E7
I went out halfway across with that homeless shadow tagging along so I
A E
Dug for some change wouldn't need it anyway he
PRE-CHORUS:
D Bm
Took it lookin' just a bit a-shamed he said you
D D
Know I haven't always been this way I've had my
CHORUS:
A D
Moments days in the sun moments I was second to none
Bm `Esus4 `E
Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do like that
A D
Plane ride coming home from the war that summer my son was born
Bm `Esus4 `E
Memories like a coat so warm a cold wind can't get through
`D `E7 D A
Lookin' at me now you might not know it but I've had my moments
VERSE:
`E7 `D `E7 `D
I stood there tryin' to find my nerve wondering if a single soul on Earth would
A E
Care at all miss me when I'm gone that
`E7 `D `E7 `D
Old man just kept hanging around lookin' at me lookin' down I think he
A E
Recognized that look in my eyes
PRE-CHORUS:
D Bm
Standing with him there I felt a-shamed I said you
D D (E7)
Know I haven't always been this way I've had my
CHORUS:
A D
Moments days in the sun moments I was second to none
Bm `Esus4 `E (D)
Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do like the
A D
Day I walked away from the wine for a woman who became my wife and a
Bm `Esus4 `E
Love that when it was right could always see me through
`D `E7 D A
Lookin' at me now you might not know it I've had my moments I know
BRIDGE:
F#m D
Somewhere 'round a trashcan fire to-night that
Bm `Esus4 `E `
Old man tells his story one more time he says I've had my
CHORUS-LONG:
A D
Moments days in the sun moments I was second to none
Bm `Esus4 `E (D)
Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do like that
A D
Cool night on the E Street Bridge when a young man almost ended it I was
Bm `Esus4 `E
Right there wasn't scared a bit and I helped to pull him through
`D `E7 `D `E7
Lookin' at me now you might not know it oh
`D `E7 D
Lookin' at me now you might not know it I've had my
TAG:
`D `E7 D `D `E7 A
Moments I've had my moments I've had my
`D `E7 D `D `E7 A
Moments I've had my moments
FADE:
`E7 `D `E7 `D A A
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CHORDS:
D E7 A E Bm Esus4 F#m
E|--2---0---0---0---2-----0-----2--|
B|--3---3---2---0---3-----0-----2--|
G|--2---1---2---1---4-----2-----2--|
D|--0---0---2---2---4-----2-----4--|
A|------2---0---2---2-----2-----4--|
E|------0-------0---------0-----2--|
End of the BRIDGE sounds like a 'slow-down' but
in fact stays in time with an extra two beats:
Esus4 E E-0- = open 6th-string
E-0- / / / / = strum
1 + 2 e + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 +
"one more time he says I've had my"
Waynus Of Uranus
January 2007
