Once you know exactly how to play it, just reading the chords you see above will work as a reminder.Ī fast car drove the acoustic guitar back into the chartsįast Car is a single from the hugely successful self-entitled debut album Tracy Chapman (’88).įollowing a performance at Nelson Mandela’s televised 70th Birthday Party, Fast Car reached #5 in the U.S. Below you’ll find a guitar lesson from the course discussing how to play the verse, exactly like Tracy Chapman do. However, just reading the chords won’t work as Fast Car is more of a chord riff. However, you want to think of Fast Car as if you’re in the key of G, even when you play that Em during the intro, high up the neck. The chorus chords have fewer extensions, my version adds the bass A for the D chord to compensate for the lack of a bass player when played on just one acoustic guitar.Īpply a capo to fret 2 and you’re actually in the key of A. In the key of G, with some extensions, this becomes: Outro (4:36)įast Car’s chords are simple, using only IV – I – VI – V on a loop for the seemingly never-ending verse. You gotta make a decision, you leave tonight or live and die this way. You got a fast car but is it fast enough so you can fly away. So I remember when we were, Chorus 3 (3:56)Īnd I, I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone. If you got no plans and ain’t going nowhere, so take your fast car and keep on driving. I’d always hoped for better but maybe together you and me’d find it. You stay out drinking till late at the bar, see more of your friends than you do your kids. You got a fast car, I got a job that pays all our bills. So I remember when we were, Chorus 2 (2:59)Īnd I, I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone. We’ll move out of the shelter, buy a bigger house, and live in the suburbs. I know things will get better, you’ll find work and I’ll get promoted. You still ain’t got a job and I work in the market as a checkout girl. You got a fast car, we go cruising to entertain ourselves. So I remember when we were, Chorus 1 (2:01)ĭriving, driving in your car, speed so fast it felt like I was drunk.Ĭity lights lay out before us and your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder,Īnd I, I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone. We gotta make a decision, we leave tonight or live and die this way. You got a fast car, is it fast enough so we can fly away? I said somebody’s got to take care of him, so I quit school and that’s what I did. My mama went off and left him, she wanted more from life than he could give. He says his body’s too old for working, his body’s too young to look like his. See my old man’s got a problem, he lives with the bottle that’s the way it is. You and I can both get jobs, and finally see what it means to be living. Won’t have to drive too far, just across the border and into the city. You got a fast car, I got a plan to get us out of here.īeen working at the convenience store, managed to save just a little bit of money. Maybe we’ll make something but me myself I got nothing to prove. Maybe we make a deal, maybe together we can get somewhere.Īny place is better, starting from zero got nothing to lose. You got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere. | Cmaj7 G5 | Em Esus4 Em D D sus4 D | Cmaj7 G5 | Em Dadd4 | Verse 1 (0:20) | Cmaj7 G5 | Em Dadd4 | Cmaj7 G5 | Em Dadd4 | Fast Car | Chords + Lyrics (capo 2) Intro (0:00)
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