Goodbye Twenty-six Year Old Me Chords

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Goodbye Twenty-six Year Old Me by Hank Green is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
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  verse 1 

        C            G          F 
    The day that you died was a good day, 
    C           G             F 
    Hundreds of people wished you on your way,  
         C             G               F 
    Neil Gaiman wrote about you on his blog,  
        C            G        F 
    and you and your girl ate mini corndogs  
 

        F              C            G 
    Oh, goodbye twenty-six-year-old me, 
        F             C               G  
    You made a lot of money and got a masters degree, 
            C         G        F  
    and you married a girl we adore,  
        D     C          G 
    But now I reap the rewards   

  verse 2 

        C             G             F 
    Oh, thank you for all your hard work, Hank  
         C            G               F 
    Your bank account swelled a lot before it shrank,  
        C              G              F 
    But you could have worked maybe a little bit harder,  
          C            G      F 
    Yeah, I could have used a few more thousand dollars  



        F              C            G 
    Oh, goodbye twenty-six-year-old me, 
        F             C               G  
    You made a lot of money and got a masters degree, 
            C         G        F  
    and you married a girl we adore,  
        D     C          G 
    But now I reap the rewards  

  verse 3 

        C                G          F 
    You watched a lot of people get married,  
    C        G      F 
    John and Sarah, John and Amy,  
    C         G      F 
    Ethan and Sarah, Jason and Ashley,  
    C    G       F 
    Holy crap, I bet they'll all have babies.  


        F              C            G 
    Oh, goodbye twenty-six-year-old me, 
        F             C               G  
    You made a lot of money and got a masters degree, 
            C         G        F  
    and you married a girl we adore,  
        D     C          G 
    But now I reap the rewards  
        D     C          G 
    But now I reap the rewards  
          D     C          G 
    Yeah, now I reap the rewards  
     
  OUTRO 

        C            G          F 
    The day that you died was a good day, 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante