A Hard Lesson To Learn Chords

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A Hard Lesson To Learn by Shooter Jennings is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, E7, A, B, B7 and Em7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro 
E   E7   E   E7   E 

Verse 
E 
Well I heard Jimmy Rogers sing 
      A                        E 
On my daddy's old record machine 
E 
Something bout a when you got love 
                    B 
All you got is love to lose 
       E 
And if I learned one thing about hank 
        A                       E 
Is that him and his kid like to drink 
E                    B                E 
Living whiskey bent, feeling lovesick blues 

Straight to hell 
      A 
I'm a whiskey drinking, new low sinking 
                     E 
Love em and leave em kind 

       A 
And if it's worth keeping, you better believe it 
                       B 
I'm loosing it with my mind 
E 
Anything I pick up from one of them songs 
     A                    E 
Just a new way not to get burnt 
   E 
But it's the same old bottle 
B 
Same old blues 
                        E 
The same hard lesson to learn 

Verse 
       E 
Well I heard that old George Jones 
A                            E 
Bottomed out from all the no shows 
         E                                B7 
Girl I'm watching my heroes run away like hall up pow 
      E 
And a little like a rolling stone 
  A                            E 
I ain't worth it if I gotta be alone 
    E               B                      E 
I'm a lost highway, the devil collects the tolls 
    A 
I'm a whiskey drinking, new low sinking 
                 E 
Love and leaving kind 

       A 
And if it's worth keeping, you better believe it 
                       B 
I'm loosing it with my mind 
E7 
Anything I pick up from one of men song 
A                         E 
Just a new way not to get burnt 
             E7 
But it's the same old bottle 
B 
Same old blues 
   B7                   E 
The same hard lesson to learn 

Solo 
E7   A   Em7   E7   A   B 

E 
Anything I pick up from one of men song 
A                         E 
Just a new way not to get burnt 
             E7 
But it's the same old bottle 
B 
Same old blues 
    E 
The same hard lesson to learn 
         E 
It's the same old bottle 
B 
Same old blues 
    E 
The same hard lesson to learn 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante