David Chords

by Cody Jinks
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 2nd fret
Author matt.russell13 [a] 1,626.
2 contributors total, last edit on May 27, 2025

Chords

A
D
E
F#M
F#M7
Bm
F#m
F#m7

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David
By: Cody Jinks
 
Capo: 2
 
 
Intro:
A  D   A   E   F#M   F#M7
 
          Bm               D
My friend David was a good kid
          A                     E
He had my back I always knew he did
           Bm                   D               A
And he was different than most, and maybe I was too
            Bm                         D
And hanging out with the in crowd just wasn't our thang
            A                            E
There was a whole lot more than we could see on these plains
     Bm                            D               A
Well some people just seem to get stuck, and hang around
     Bm                          D
It's college or trade school for those with the means
        A                                    E
There's never been any small town dreams for those in between 
         Bm                    D                  A
Yeah the poor folks they go to work or they go to war
      Bm               D
I did fifteen hundreds days in the corps 
          A                           E
and I got back nothin looked the same anymore
      Bm                    D                     A
I got on with the local police, it just seemed to fit
            Bm
Things have changed
 
D    A    E    F#m   F#m7   D    A    E
 
        Bm          D
By then David had a daughter and a son 
      A                           E
and a wrap sheet to prove all the time that he'd done
              Bm                   D                A
He was just a burned out beat down shell, of my old friend
         Bm                     D
And on a three day binge he was speeding through town,
      A                          E
and I bumped the wailers just to try and slow him down
          Bm               D               A
He didn't know that it was me, and he took off
              Bm
Oh how things change
 
 
                D                       A
And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
         E                       F#m
It was a hell of a rain I didn't know if he'd drowned,
         D                  A                      E
or if he died on impact. It must have rolled three times
              D             A
Yeah the only thing to make matters worse
            E                   F#m   E
is that his mama's a late night ER    nurse 
           D        A                   E
And he was DOA. She just about lost her mind
 
 
D    A    E    F#m   F#m7   D    A    E
 
 
        Bm                  D
David's wife drops by every once in a while,
    A                        E
and childhood stories always make her smile,
    Bm                   D            A
but somehow we always go back to that day...
 
 
                 D                       A
When I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
         E                       F#m
It was a hell of a rain I didn't know if he'd drowned,
         D                  A                      E
or if he died on impact. It must have rolled three times
         D                  A
Yeah the only thing to make matters worse
            E                   F#m   E
is that his mama's a late night ER    nurse 
           D        A                   E
And he was DOA. She just about lost her mind
 
             Bm
Ain't it the times
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6 comments
tgaume
It's actually played in G, tuned 1/2 a step down (as all Jinks songs are) with a capo on the 5th. There's no D on nurse in the chorus, it goes straight from Em to C. Here's a video of him playing it acoustic at the Luckenbach song swap. https://youtu.be/LebRc8FzbvU
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jaybell88
perfecto dude
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cle4r
I think most of the B's are actually Bm
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