Family Of Bones Chords
by The Roches
Family Of Bones by The Roches is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords G, Dm, C, Em, D, F and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
G Dm C Em D G C G C G
F C D Em F C
verse 1
G F C
These tiny bones, I lay them on my life
Em D C G
They are you and you and you
F C
Arranged to be the skeleton of love
G
I sit inside them at attention
C G D
Like a dog waiting for its owner to return
Bridge
G Dm C
A garbage truck could flatten them into the road
G D7 G
Or a wind could scatter them apart
verse 2
F C
These tiny bones, I lay them on my life
Em D C G
They are you and you and you
F C
As fragile as the remnants of a bird
D C
Without the guts
D
Without the word
Bridge
Em F C G C
With rain into the gutter, they could flush away
G C F C
And there, everything I love, would go
verse 3
G F C
These pearl bones, I wish they could be safe
D C G C G
So few, so few
F C D Em F
Hung together with a thin string or something
C
A family of bones