Todd Rundgren – The Want Of A Nail (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro]
            Gm7/C
I've been wrong.

  F/G  Gm/C    F/G   F/Bb
I had  plans   so    big

F/G     Gm7/C
But the devil's in the details,

F/G  Gm7/C     F/G   F/Bb
I    left out one   thing.

G/A         Abmaj9
No one to love me

Abmaj9
(No one to love me)

Abmaj9
No one to love me

               F   Eb2  Cm7  Bb 
And no one to love
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb [Chorus]
        F          Eb2       Cm7       Bb
For the want of a nail the world was lost

     F         Eb2        Cm7      Bb
The want of a nail the world was lost

     F        Eb2    Cm7   Bb
The want of a nail.

     F        Eb2    Cm7   Bb
The want of a nail.
[Verse 1]
          F       Eb2       Cm7       Bb
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost

          F       Eb2       Cm7       Bb
For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost

          F       Eb2         Cm7       Bb
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost

          F       Eb2         Cm7          Bb
For the want of a rider, the message was lost
[Chorus]
        F          Eb2       Cm7       Bb
For the want of a nail the world was lost

     F         Eb2        Cm7      Bb
The want of a nail the world was lost

     F        Eb2    Cm7   Bb
The want of a nail.

     F        Eb2    Cm7   Bb
The want of a nail.
[Verse 2]
          F       Eb2         Cm7          Bb
For the want of a rider, the message was lost

          F       Eb2           Cm7        Bb
For the want of a message, the battle was lost

          F       Eb2         Cm7      Bb
For the want of a battle, the war was lost

          F       Eb2       Cm7         Bb
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost
[Chorus]
          F       Eb2       Cm7        Bb
For the want of a nail (the world was lost)

      F         Eb2       Cm7    Bb
The want of a nail
[Bridge]
 N.C.   F/G    Gm7/C
I've    been   wrong

  F/G    Gm7/C  F/G    F/Bb
I had   plans   so     big.

F/G      Gm7/C
But the devil's in the details,

F/G    Gm7/C   F/G  F/Bb
I left out     one  thing

G/A        Abmaj9
No one to love me.

Abmaj9
(No one to love me)

Abmaj9
No one to love me

               F   Eb2  Cm7  Bb 
And no one to love
F Eb2 Cm7 Bb [Verse 3]
    F           Eb2         Cm7         Bb
What's all this talk about horses and war?

      F             Eb2          Cm7          Bb
Put yourself in the place of the man at the forge

     F         Eb2             Cm7          Bb
And day after day, you live a life without love,

              F       Eb2               Cm7               Bb
Until the morning you can't take it anymore and you don't get up.
[Verse 4]
       F       Eb2                    Cm7              Bb
Multiply it a billion times, spread it all around the world

          F            Eb2            Cm7          Bb
Put the curse of loneliness on every boy and every girl

              F                 Eb2                   Cm7                    Bb
Well until everybody's kicking, everybody's scratching, everything seems to fail

            F
And it was all...
[Chorus]
        F          Eb2       Cm7       Bb
For the want of a nail the world was lost

     F        Eb2       Cm7       Bb
The want of a nail (the world was lost)

     F        Eb2       Cm7       Bb
The want of a nail.

     F        Eb2       Cm7       Bb
The want of a nail.

     F        Eb2       Cm7       Bb
The want of a nail (the world was lost)

     F        Eb2       Cm7       Bb
The want of a nail.

     F        Eb2       Cm7       Bb
The want of a nail.