How to Play It Won't Be Like This For Long on Guitar?

Darius Rucker - It Won't Be Like This For Long can be played in the key of G using the G, D, A, Bm, F#m chords. For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E. For D, To play D, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute B. For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the D string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute G, B. For Bm, To play Bm, barre fret 2 from the low E string to the A string with finger 1, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 4, let D, B ring open, mute G. For F#m, To play F#m | Gbm, barre fret 2 from the G string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play It Won't Be Like This For Long with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.

Darius Rucker - It Won’t Be Like This For Long Chords

Chord reference G, D, A, Bm, F#m

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑

[G] [D] [A] [D] [G] [D] [A] [D] He [G]didn’t have to [D]wake up, [A]he’d been up all [D]nite Lying [G]there in bed [D]listening, to his [A]new born baby [Bm]cry [A] He [G]makes a pot of [D]coffee, he [A]splashes water on his [D]face His [G]wife gives him a [D]kiss and says, it [A]gonna be OK [D]

It won’t be [G]like [A]this for [D]long, one [G]day we’ll look back [A]laugh’n At the [F#m]week we brought her [Bm]home, [A]this [G]phase is gonna [D]fly by [A]So [F#m]baby [Bm]just hold [A]on, [G]it won’t [A]be like this for [D]long

Four years [G]later about [D]four thirty, [A]she’s crawling in there [D]bed And when he [G]drops her off at [D]preschool, [A]she’s clinging to his [Bm]leg [A] The [G]teacher peels her [D]off of him, he [A]says what can I [Bm]do [A] She [G]says now don’t you [D]worry, this will only [A]last a week or [D]two

Some day [Bm]soon she’ll be a teenager, and at [A]times he’ll think she hates him Then he’ll [G]walk her down the [D]isle, and raise her [A]vale [F#m] But right [Bm]now she up and cry’n, and the [A]truth is that he don’t mind As he [G]kisses her [D]good night, and she says her [A]prayers

He [G]lays down there [D]beside her, ’til her [A]eyes are finally [D]closed And just [G]watch’n her it [D]breaks his heart, [A]’cause he already [D]knows

It won’t be [G]like [A]this for [D]long, one day [G]soon that little [A]girl is gonna be [F#m]All grown up and [Bm]gone [A]yeah this [G]phase is gonna [D]fly by So [A]he’s try'[F#m]n to ho[Bm]ld on [A] [G]’cause it won’t [A]be like this for [Bm]long [A] [G]It [A]won’t be like this for [D]long

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Artist Darius Rucker

Album Learn to Live

Genres Country

Year 2008

Key G

Darius Rucker - It Won't Be Like This For Long can be played in the key of G using the G, D, A, Bm, F#m chords.

For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E.
For D, To play D, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute B.
For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the D string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute G, B.
For Bm, To play Bm, barre fret 2 from the low E string to the A string with finger 1, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 4, let D, B ring open, mute G.
For F#m, To play F#m | Gbm, barre fret 2 from the G string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play It Won't Be Like This For Long with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.