I Will Follow You Into The Dark Chords

F*  - alternate bass note between F and C
Dm* - alternate bass note between D and A
**  - run down from F to Dm on D string
 
 
[Intro]
Dm  F  Bb  F C
Dm  F  C (bar chord)
Dm  F  A  Dm C
Bb  Bbm  F
 
 
[Verse 1]
F*
Love of mine
        Dm*
Someday you will die
            Bb
But I'll be close behind
            F             C
I'll follow you into the dark
 
   F*
No blinding light
              Dm*
Or tunnels to gates of white
               Bb
Just our hands clasped so tight
         F                   C
Waiting for, the hint of a spark
 
 
[Chorus]
   Dm                 F               Bb            F   C
If heaven and hell decide, that they both are satisfied
  Dm             F               C (bar chord)
Illuminate the "no's", on their vacancy signs
   Dm                   F               A       Dm   C
If there's no one beside you, when your soul embarks
     Bb           Bbm           F*
Then I'll follow you into the dark
 
 
[Verse 2]
   F*
In Catholic school
              Dm*
As vicious as Roman rule
         Bb
I got my knuckles bruised
      F        C
By a lady in black
 
      F*                    Dm                         Bb
And I held my tongue as she told me, "son, fear is the heart of love."
      F          C
So I never went back
 
 
[Chorus]
   Dm                 F               Bb            F   C
If heaven and hell decide, that they both are satisfied
  Dm             F               C (bar chord)
Illuminate the "no's", on their vacancy signs
   Dm                   F               A       Dm   C
If there's no one beside you, when your soul embarks
     Bb           Bbm           F*
Then I'll follow you into the dark
 
 
[Verse 3]
F                          Dm
You and me, have seen everything to see
                Bb
From Bangkok to Calgary
         F              C (bar chord)
And the soles of your shoes
    F                           Dm
Are all worn down, the time for sleep is now
                    Bb
But it's nothing to cry about
               F               C           Dm          Bbm
Because we'll hold each other soon, in the blackest of rooms
 
 
[Chorus]
   Dm                 F               Bb            F   C
If heaven and hell decide, that they both are satisfied
  Dm             F               C (bar chord)
Illuminate the "no's", on their vacancy signs
   Dm                   F               A       Dm   C
If there's no one beside you, when your soul embarks
     Bb           Bbm           F  **  Dm
Then I'll follow you into the dark
     Bb           Bbm              F
Then I'll follow you into the dark
 
 
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This is a great, sparse little folk song that emphasizes the bottom half of the
chords and strums mostly on the upbeats. The way this is done is by picking the bottom
two notes of the chord on the downbeats of the verses.
 
For example, with the F chord, it's played something like this, but the upper half of
the chord is strummed more than once in the rise and fall of the strumming hand:
 
e   1      1
B   1      1
G   2      2
D   3      3
A   3      3
E   x      x
 
The chorus is pretty much exactly like the intro.
X