"If It Makes You Happy" by Sheryl Crow (Chord Chart)

Song Info

  • Key: G major
  • Chord Family: G,G Whiz
  • Skills: Basic Strumming, "Accented" Strum, Open Chords

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INTRO
G---/Gsus4---/G---/Gsus4---/ (X2)


VERSE 1
          G    Gsus4              G    Gsus4
I’ve been long, a long way from here.
G              Gsus4
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitoes,  
    G                            C 
And drank 'til I was thirsty again.  
            G    Gsus4                   G       Gsus4
We went searching through thrift store jungles. 
          G           Gsus4 
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo,
    G                           C 
and Benny Goodman's corset and pen.                         
      C              D
Well OK, I made this up.
  C                            D 
I promised you I'd never give up.


CHORUS
                Am
If it makes you happy,
C                     G    D
   It can't be that baa-aaad.
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                             G      Gsus4
   Then why the hell are you so sad?

G---/Gsus4---/


VERSE 2
          G  Gsus4   G        Gsus4
You get down, real low down.  
    G                 Gsus4
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train. 
     G                         C
Well who hasn't been there before? 
       G    Gsus4           G       Gsus4                    
I come round, around the hard way. 
          G                     Gsus4                                   
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mould off the bread, 
    G                          C
and serve you French toast again.
      C              D
Well OK, I still get stoned. 
    C                               D
I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home.


CHORUS
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                     G    D
   It can't be that baa-aaad.
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                             G   
   Then why the hell are you so sad?
G                   Am
   If it makes you happy,
C                     G    D
   It can't be that baa-aaad.
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                             Em
   Then why the hell are you so sad?


INTERLUDE
Em---/Am---/Am---/Em---/Em---/C---/C---/

G---/Gsus4---/


VERSE 3
             G Gsus4            G     Gsus4
We've been far, far away from here.
G              Gsus4
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitoes,
    G                   C
and everywhere in between.                       
      C           D
Well Ok, we get along.
   C                                  D
So what if right now everything's wrong?  


CHORUS
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                     G    D
   It can't be that baa-aaad.
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                             G
   Then why the hell are you so sad?
                 Am
If it makes you happy,
C                     G    D
   It can't be that baa-aaad.
Am
If it makes you happy,
          

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