Ashes Ashes Chords

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Ashes Ashes by Katie Costello is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C5, Em 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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  			Intro: G C5 


G                          C5 
The sun is bleeding and the ash is snowing 
Em                  C 
In the distance the fire is growing 
G                          C5 
The trees are shrinking and your heart is sinking 
Em                         C 
Yet you've never felt more alive 

Em        C       G            Em              C       G 
Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear 
    C                          G           C             C5 
And when I didn't know I could be the very same person I want to be 
         C                C5 
With the sun as red as it wants to be 

G                               C5 
The smoke is all consuming, the air of sadness looming 
Em                         C 
Orange and red lick up the sky 
G                                  C5 
Your footprints pick up dust mites and you might not always feel right 
Em                  C 
Yet you know you're alive 

Em        C       G            Em              C       G 
Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear 
    C                          G           C             C5 
And when I didn't know I could be the very same person I want to be 
         C                C5 
With the sun as red as it wants to be 

Em                       G 
Ashes, ashes we fall and float away 
Em                        G 
Ashes, ashes come take my fears away 
Em                        G 
Ashes, ashes we fall and float away 
Em                        G 
Ashes, ashes come take my fears away 

Em        C       G            Em              C       G 
Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear 
    C                          G           C             C5 
And when I didn't know I could be the very same person I want to be 
         C                C5 
With the sun as red as it wants to be 

Em                       G 
Ashes, ashes we fall and float away 
Em                           G 
Ashes, ashes you've taken my fears away 
Em                        C5 
Ashes, Ashes you're but a memory 
                    G 
Of that not-so-gray day 

Outro: C C5 C G 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante