Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg


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Play the chords as open chords - apart from the B. This should really be B5, but 
power chords don't sound great on acoustic guitars.

Strumming pattern goes 2 beats and a pause on the E, then 2 beats on both A & B. 
On the bridge "Everyone...", just use a racing down strum.


Intro:    x4 

             
Morning, it’s 

             
another pure &

     
 grey morning
             
Don’t know wha

            
t the day is h

olding
             
When I get upt


ight
             
And I walk rig

             
ht into the pa

             
th of a lightn

   (
ing bolt

Link: (E)  x2

             
Sirens, of an 

            
ambulance come

  
s howling
             
Right through 

             
the centre of 


town and
             
No one blinks 

   
an eye
             
And I look up 

              
to the sky in 

             
the path of a 

       (
lighting bolt

Link: (E)  x2

             
Met her, as th

            
e angels parte

  
d for her
            
But she only b

          
rought me tort

ure
             
But that’s wha

  
t happens
             
When it’s you 

              
who’s standing

             
 in the path o

            (
f a lightning 


bolt

Link:      


Everyone I see

 just wants to

 walk with gri

tted teeth
           
But I just sta

nd by and I wa

it my time
             
They say you g

              
otta toe the l

              
ine they want 

   
the water not 

the wine
             
But when I see

             
 the signs I j

             
ump on that li

        (
ghtning bolt

  (        
e|-7-7-7-10-12
B|------------

             
-12-10-12-    
---------- x4 

 
-7-7-7-|
-------|


             
Chances, peopl

            
e tell you not

         
 to take chanc

es
             
When they tell

             
 you there are

        
n't any answer

s
             
And I was star

                  
ting to agree
             
But I woke up 

              
suddenly in th

            
e path of a li

       (
ghtning bolt

Link: (E)  x2


             
Fortune, peopl

            
e talking all 

      
about fortune
             
Do you make it

             
 or does it ju

   
st call you
             
In the blinkin

        
g of an eye
             
Just another p

              
asser by in th

            
e path of a li

        
ghtning bolt

Link:      

             
Everyone I see

              
 just wants to

 
 walk with gri

tted teeth
           
But I just sta

nd by and I wa

it my time
             
They say you g

              
otta toe the l

              
ine they want 

    
the water not 

the wine
             
But when I see

             
 the signs I j

             
ump on that li

       (
ghtning bolt

  (        
e|-7-7-7-10-12
B|------------

             
-12-10-12-    
---------- x4 

 
-7-7-7-|
-------|


             
It was silent,

            
 I was lying b

            
ack gazing sky

ward
            
When the momen

      
t got shattere

d
             
I remembered w

         
hat she said
             
And then she f

             
led in the pat

             
h of a lightni

   
ng bolt

Outro:    x3 

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