Big Bad World Chords

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Difficulty:	beginner
Tuning:	E A D G B E
Capo:	no capo

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This song is played live with the guitars tuned half a step down. So if you play along
with these chords, it won't sound right. So in order to sound exactly the same you need
to tune your guitar a half step lower.
 
All the chords are standard, exept for the G in the chorus and bridge, that's a bar
chord G, not a standard G :)
 
 
[1st Verse]
 
Am          C    F             C
  Maybe I'm wrong or maybe I'm right,
E            Am                        F                   G
  Maybe it's just too late but this is keeping me awake at night.
Am          C  F             C
  Maybe say yes or maybe say no,
E           Am               F                     G
  Maybe I'm just to shy to admit that it's time to go,
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Am      C                     F                C
  We go out on our own it's a big bad world outside,
G                       Am
Carrying our dreams and all that they mean
F                          G
Trying to make it all worthwhile (x2)
 
 
[2nd Verse]
 
Am        C    F               C
  Maybe believe or maybe don't care,
E                  Am               F                   G
  Sure maybe there is no God in the big white clouds up there,
Am           C   F             C
  Maybe live long or maybe die young,
E               Am                       F                  G
  Or maybe live every day like it's your last day under the sun.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Am      C                     F                C
  We go out on our own it's a big bad world outside,
G                       Am
Carrying our dreams and all that they mean
F                          G
Trying to make it all worthwhile
 
 
[Bridge] (Ooooh-part)
 
Am C F C
G Am F G (x2)
 
 
[Chorus]
 
Am      C                     F                C
  We go out on our own it's a big bad world outside,
G                       Am
Carrying our dreams and all that they mean
F                          G
Trying to make it all worthwhile
 
Am      C                     F                C
  We go out on our own it's a big bad world outside,
G                       Am
Carrying our dreams and all that they mean
F                          G
Trying to make it all worthwhile (x2)
 
Strum Am to finish.
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I feel like this is fine, I just have 1 small correcton you say: E Am F G Maybe it's just too late but this is keeping me awake at night. to me it should be like this: E Am F G Maybe it's just too late but this is keeping me awake at night. same with: E Am F G Or maybe live every day like it's your last day under the sun. I feel like it's this: E Am F G Or maybe live every day like it's your last day under the sun. That's what I do anyway when I play this song along with the original.

what fret is capo on

The first 'Ooooh-part' should be F C Am G F C G I think, the current ones don't seem to fit. And also at the end there is another 'Ooooh-part' but it's a different tune, and the chords are the same as the chorus.