Jason Isbell – Different Days (Guitar Tab)
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Guitar Tab
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Chords
For this song, it is important that the strings are properly muted.
The thumb should be used to mute the low E, and the finger fretting the A string should be resting on the D
string. Otherwise, the chords will sound wrong.
e|------------------------------------------------------8----| B|-----12----10----8----7----5----12----10----8----7----7----| G|-----------------------------------------------------------| D|-x---------------------------------------------------------| A|-----10----9-----7----5----3----10----9-----7----5----8----| E|-x---------------------------------------------------------|
You can also approximate the riff by playing G D C D C.
The riff is carried throughout the verses until the chords take over in the Chorus.
[Verse 1]
G D C D C
Staring at the pictures of the runaways on the wall
G D C D C
Seems like these days, you couldn't run away at all
G D C D C
And even if you did, what you got to run away to?
G D C D C
Just another drunk daddy with a white man's point of view
G D C D C
I can see you in my mind's eye, catching light
G D C D C
Sleep beside the river if we make it out of town tonight
G D C D C
You can strip in Portland from the day you turn sixteen
G D C D C
You got one thing to sell and benzodiazepine
[Chorus]
D G C
Ten years ago, I might have seen you dancing in a different light
D G C
Or offered up my help in different ways
G D C D C
Those were different days
G D C D C
Those wеre different days
[Verse 2]
G D C D C
Had a girl back homе, and we shared a single bed
G D C D C
When I whispered in her ear, she believed every word I said
G D C D C
And if she didn't believe, she didn't dare give me slack
G D C D C
Or it was "Baby, I love you, get off of my goddamn back"
G D C D C
Time went by, and I left, and I left again
G D C D C
Jesus loves a sinner, but the highway loves a sin
G D C D C
My daddy told me, I believe he told me true
G D C D C
That the right thing's always the hardest thing to do
[Chorus]
D G C
Ten years ago, I might have stuck around for another night
D G C
And used her in a thousand different ways
G D C D C
Those were different days
[Bridge]
G D C D C
And the story's only mine to live and die with
G D C D C
And the answer's only mine to come across
G D C D C
But the ghosts that I got scared and I got high with
D
Look a little lost
[Chorus]
D G C
Ten years ago, I might have thought I didn't have the right
D G C
To say the things an outlaw wouldn't say
G D C D C
Those were different days
G D C D C
Those were different days