Guitar chords These Days

The song reflects Jackson Brownes feelings of disillusionment and contemplation about his life and the people around him during a time of change in the 60s. It was written when he was 16 and captures a sense of premature aging and contemplating ones own failures.

Key:  C
Introduction:
C
  
G/B
  
Am7
  
G
  
F9M
    x2
     
C
    
G/B
      
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   
Well I've been out walkin'
            
C
  
G/B
       
Am7
      
G
     
F7M
   
And I don't do that much talking, these days
      
C
  
G
 
These days
      
F
 
These days I seem to think a lot
                                  
C
       
G
  
E/G#
 
About the things that I forgot to do, for you
    
Am
                    
F7M
   
And all the times I had a chance to

C
 
G/B
 
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   

     
C
 
G/B
   
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   
Well I had a lover
        
C
       
G/B
   
Am7
    
G
       
F7M
   
It's so hard to risk another these days
      
C
   
G
 
These days
    
F
 
Now if I seem to be afraid
                                     
C
   
G
 
E/G#
 
To live the life that I have made in song
     
Am
                             
F7M
   
Well it's just that I have been losing, so long

C
 
G/B
 
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   
C
 
G/B
 
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   
C
  
G
  
F
 
C
  
G
 
E/G#
 
Am
 
Em
 
F7M
   

      
C
    
G/B
     
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   
Well, I'll keep on movin', moving on
           
C
        
G/B
  
Am7
     
G
     
F7M
   
Things are bound to be improvin' these days
             
C
   
G
 
One of these days
      
F
 
These days I sit on corner stones
                                       
C
       
G
      
E/G#
 
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
         
Am
       
Em
          
F7M
   
Don't confront me with my failures
                      
C
 
G/B
 
Am7
  
G
 
F7M
   
I had not forgotten them

C
 
G/B
 
Am7
  
G
 
F