Sometimes It's Just Your Time Chords

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Sometimes It's Just Your Time by Eric Heatherly is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Am and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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  			Intro. 
G   D  Am   C 
G   D  Am   C 
Verse 1: 
G                 D 
Picked up a buffalo nickel 
Am      C                  G           D         Am         C 
outside Hampton's grocery and video store. 
G               D 
Shined it up on my old jeans  
   Am                       C               G             D     Am  C 
and noticed that buffalo had three legs,    steada  four. 
G 
Mr. Hampton looked it up in a book 
    D 
said son you got some kinda luck 
C                                    D(start strum) 
somebody might of lost five cents but you just found five-hundred bucks 
 

G             D 
Sometimes it's just your time 
     Am                       C 
there aint no reason and there aint no rhyme 
G                 D               Am                      C               C 
Otta the blue the stars align everybodys gotta have there turn to shine. 
 
C   G    Am    C    C    *G  D   Am  C         (*Play chords the same as intro) 
Sometimes   it's   just your time. 
 
Verse2: 
G                                   D 
Five-hundred dollars wouldn't buy me a car 
      Am                           C 
so I sold that nickel and I bought a guitar 
G                D        Am     C 
Taught myself to play 
G                 D        Am                     C 
Hitched a ride to Tennesse just that old gold top gibson and me 
G                        D    Am    C 
and I learned how to wait. 
G 
She found me in a Nashville bar 
D 
tryin' to make a living, wasn't gettin' to far 
C                                        D (start strum) 
The sky opened up when she walked in and walked back out with my heart. 
 
Chorus 2: 
G            D 
Sometimes its just your time 
     Am                       C 
there aint no reason and there aint no rhyme 
G                 D               Am                      C 
Otta the blue the stars align everybodys gotta have there turn to shine. 
G                 D 
Catch your break, accept your fate 
Am                     C       C 
Every dogs gotta have his day. 
C   G  Am  C   C    G 
Sometimes its just your time. 
 
Solo: 
G D Am C 
G D Am C 
 
Bridge: 
G 
I don't worry about when. I won't start now, 
D 
when your number comes up and your light goes out 
C 
I'm still here so I must be blessed 
   D 
And I'm gonna keep rockin' till the good Lord says 
 
End Chorus: 
G            D 
Sometimes its just your time 
     Am                       C 
there aint no reason and there aint no rhyme 
G                D               Am                     ^C 
Otta the blue the stars align everybodys gotta have there turn to shine. 
G                 D 
Catch your break, accept your fate 
Am                C 
Every dogs gotta have his day. 
G            D 
Sometimes its just your time 
     Am                       C 
there aint no reason and there aint no rhyme 
G                 D               Am                      C 
Otta the blue the stars align everybodys gotta have there turn to shine. 
G                 D 
Catch your break, accept your fate 
Am                     C       C 
Every dogs gotta have his day. 
C   G   Am C  C    G (let ring) 
Sometimes its just your time. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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