Shanghai Cigarettes Chords
by Caitlin Rose
Shanghai Cigarettes by Caitlin Rose is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords G, F, C and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G F C G
1st Verse
G Em
Couldn't wait around just to share a smoke.
G Em
Burned it down to the filter till it burned my throat.
G Em
Made me start to think of what I ought to know,
F C F C
So I put out the fire and I wrote you a note,
G F C G
Said I just smoked the last, from that old pack of Shanghai cigarettes
G Em
Left it all in the past so there's nothing left.
G F Em
Go on, say hello, but I hope you know:
F C F G
This will never be right, and I will never let go.
2nd Verse
G Em
Remember the day the whole thing started?
G Em
And the little gold box in the glove compartment.
G Em
I think I told you so, it was always waiting
F C F C
To be opened at the first sign of breaking
G F C G
And I just smoked the last, from that old pack of Shanghai cigarettes.
G Em
Left it all in the past and there's nothing left.
G F Em
Go on and say hello, but I hope you know
F C F G
This will never be right, and I will never let go.
3rd Verse
G Em
Here we go again, with the long goodbye
G Em
Cause you let the smoke get in your eyes
G Em
Trying to make you quit, will make you wish you didn't start
F C F C
When the box is as empty as the hole in your heart,
G
Cause you just smoked the last
F C G
Of that old pack of Shanghai cigarettes
G Em
Left it all in the past and there's nothing left.
G F Em
Go on and say hello, but I hope you know
F C F C
This will never be right, and I will never let go.
F C F C
This will never be right, and I will never let go.
F C F G
This will never be right, I won't let you go.