Brandi Carlile – Keep Your Heart Young (Guitar)

Capo 4
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This is a different way to play this song, the other chords uploaded are completely correct, but if you don't wish to down-tune, here is a way you can avoid it. [Intro] D [Verse 1]
D                                   G             D
My Grandpa gave a wheat penny and I kept it in my pocket

D                                  A
I had big plans in my back yard to build me a space rocket

D                                          G                   D
I talked to my brother on a fake CB that I made from a tic-tac box

D                                               A             D
I packed my snowballs nice and tight but in the middle I put rocks
[Pre-Chorus]
G                                                          D
Don't trade in your tic-tac box for a ball on the end of a chain

                                                        A
And don't go spending Grandpa's pennies buying into the game
[Chorus]
          G               D
You gotta keep your heart young

A                      Bm
Don't go growing old before your time has come

               G                  D
You can't take back what you have done

             A               D
You've gotta keep your heart young
[Verse 2]
D                                         G                D
Dad took the wheels off of my bike and he pushed me down a hill

                                 A
But speed got the best of me and I took my first spill

D                              G            D
That was back when alcohol was only used on cuts

                                                A                 D
It stung like hell so I jerked my leg and momma said it'd give me guts
[Pre-Chorus]
G                                                          D
Don't trade in your tic-tac box for a ball on the end of a chain

                                                        A
And don't go spending Grandpa's pennies buying into the game
[Chorus]
          G               D
You gotta keep your heart young

A                      Bm
Don't go growing old before your time has come

               G                  D
You can't take back what you have done

             A               D
You've gotta keep your heart young
[Verse 3]
                                          G           D
So take a picture of the one you love and put it in a locket

                                    A
Go dig up your time capsule and the blue prints for your rocket

D                                G                D
Keep in touch on a fake CB, that same old tic-tac box

                                                   A                D
Pack your snowballs a little less tight but in the middle still put rocks
[Chorus]
    G               D
And keep your heart young

A                      Bm
Don't go growing old before your time has come

               G                  D
You can't take back what you have done

             A               D
You've gotta keep your heart young

          G               D
You gotta keep your heart young

    A
Sometimes you don't die quick

     Bm
Just like you wished you'd done

    G                D
The love is a loaded gun

             A               D
You've gotta keep your heart young

               G                  D       Bm
You can't take back what you have done is done

             A               D
You've gotta keep your heart young