Gold - Peter Blegvad (Optional capo at 2nd Fret)
Played slowly
Intro:
D G/B D
D D/F# G(add∆7)
Gold would be worthless if it didn’t require
Em7
Such heartbreak to seek it
A7sus4 A7
To find it and mine it
D D/F# G(add∆7)
Things remain precious as long as they’re rare
Em7 A7sus4 A7
If gold could be found lying ‘round everywhere
D Em7 G A
It’d be the lowliest of metals
D Asus2 A
Too soft for serious use
Bm7 Em7/B
Pretty of course
D/F# Bb6
And warm to the touch
Em7
But no longer alluring
A7sus4 A7
When you’ve handled so much
D Em7 G A D G/B D
The lowliest of metals
Am G
Will you come with me through the ice and the snow
Em7
She thought for a minute
A7sus4 A7
Then she said let’s go
D D/F#
I rode behind her
G(add∆7)
And she rode ahead
Em7
And all through that winter
A7sus4 A7
I’d lose her and find her
D
Our rations ran out
F#
Our horses were dead
G E
She forgot what gold was and I had to remind her
D Em7 G A
The lowliest of metals
D Asus2 A
Too soft for serious use
Bm7 Em7/B
Pretty of course
D/F# Bb6
And warm to the touch
Em7
But no longer alluring
A7sus4 A7
When you’ve handled so much
D Em7 G A D G/B D
The lowliest of metals
D D/F# G(add∆7)
In a prospector’s shack she lay out of her mind
Em7 A7sus4 A7
Describing how simple gold is to find
Am
Just under the surface
G
In zig-zagging veins
Bb6 E
It lies there like branches of midsummer lightning
D D/F# G(add∆7)
You just open a hole in the crust of the plains
Em7 A7sus4 A7
She said you reach in and it’s there for the taking
D Em7 G A D G/B D
D D/F# G(add∆7)
Snow blind and starving I sat by her side
Em7
As the fever raged in her
A7sus4 A7
And the storm raged outside
D
She said now we are rich
F#
I told her the truth
Bm E
All the gold we had found could not crown a tooth
D D/F# G(add∆7)
She said these things I know without being told
E
We are rich in each other
Bb6
Now what good is gold
D Em7 G A D G/B D
It’s the lowliest of metals
D D/F# G(add∆7)
Well sometimes I dream that the world is reversed
Em7 A7sus4 A7
I dream that accountants are rarer than poets
D D/F#
That things’ll get better
G
They can’t get any worse
Em7 Bb6
That a rich man has nothing but dirt in his purse
D Em7 G A
And gold is the lowest of metals
D Asus2 A
Too soft for serious use
Bm7 Em7/B
Pretty of course
D/F# Bb6
And warm to the touch
Em7
But no longer alluring
A7sus4 A7
When you’ve handled so much
D Em7 G A
The lowliest of metals
D Em7 G A
The lowliest of metals
D Em7 G A D G/B D
The lowliest of metals
This song is deceptively simple, as each verse has variations. On "King Strut", it is
played with a capo. On "Choices Under Pressure" there is no capo, and a chorus is omitted.
Some chords
Bm7 Em7/B D/F# Bb6 G(add∆7)
E 0 0 0 0 0
B 3 2 3 3 3
G 2 0 2 0 0
D 0 0 0 0 4
A 2 2 0 1 2
E x x 2 x 3
