How to Play The Race Is On on Guitar?

George Jones - The Race Is On can be played in the key of D using the D, A, B, E7 chords. 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 B, To play B, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 3, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 3, press fret 1 on the D string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 3, let B ring open, mute G. For E7, To play E7, let low E, D, B, high E ring open, mute A, G. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play The Race Is On with the ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑ strumming pattern.

George Jones - The Race Is On Chords

Chord reference D, A, B, E7

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑

I feel tears wellin’ up cold and deep inside Like [D]my heart’s sprung a big [A]break [A]And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful [B]That I may never [E7]shake

[A]Now you might say that I was taking it hard [D]Since you wrote me off with a [A]call [A]But don’t you wager that I’ll hide the sorrow [E7]When I may break right down and [A]bawl

Now the race is [A]on and here comes pride up the backstretch [D]Heartaches are going to the [A]inside [A]My tears are holding back [B]They’re trying not to [E7]fall

[A]My heart’s out of the running [D]True love’s scratched for another’s [A]sake [A]The race is on and it looks like heartaches And the [E7]winner loses [A]all

One day I had ventured in love, [A]never once suspecting What the [D]final results would [A]be How I lived in fear of [E7]waking up each morning And [B]finding that you’d gone from [E7]me

There’s aching and pain in my [A]heart For the day was the [D]one that I hated to [A]face [A]Somebody new came up to win her And I came [E7]out in second [A]place

Now the race is [A]on and here comes pride up the backstretch [D]Heartaches are going to the [A]inside [A]My tears are holding back [B]They’re trying not to [E7]fall

[A]My heart’s out of the running [D]True love’s scratched for another’s [A]sake [A]The race is on and it looks like heartaches And the [E7]winner loses [A]all

Artist George Jones

Album I Get Lonely in a Hurry

Genres Country

Year 1964

Key D

George Jones - The Race Is On can be played in the key of D using the D, A, B, E7 chords.

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 B, To play B, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 3, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 3, press fret 1 on the D string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 3, let B ring open, mute G.
For E7, To play E7, let low E, D, B, high E ring open, mute A, G.

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

You can play The Race Is On with the ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑ strumming pattern.