Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt Ukulele Chords

-1-½+½+1

The original recording of the song is in the key of E. You can use the chords in D and put a capo on 2nd fret if you want to play along with the original 🙂

Voice Range: E – G (1 octave + 4 half tones) – how to use this?

 

Intro x4:
D,   D,   A,   G

 

Verse:
DMorning, it’s aAnother pure Ggrey mDorning
Don’t Aknow what the Gday is Dholding
When I Aget uptGight
And I Dwalk right into the Apath of a Glightning Dbolt     A      G

 

D,   D,   A,   G

 

DSiren of an AambulGance comes Dhowling
Right thrAough the ceGnter of tDown and
No one blAinks an eGye
And I lDook up to the sky for the Apath of a ligGhtning bDolt     A      G

 

D,   D,   A,   G

 

DMet her as the aAngels pGarted fDor her
But she oAnly bGrought me tDorture
But tAhat’s what hGappens
When it’s yDou that’s standing in the Apath of a lGightning boDlt     A      G

 

D,   D,    D,   D

 

Chorus:
GEveryone I see just wants the walk with gritted teeth
But I justD stand by and I wait my time
They say you Ggotta toe the line, they want the water not the wine
But when I Dsee the signs I Ajump on that Glightning Dbolt         A      G

 

D,   D,   A,   G    x3

 

Verse:
DChances, people tAell you Gnot to take Dchances
When they tAell you that there Garen’t any aDnswers
And AI was sGtarting to agree
But I Dawoke suddenly in the Apath of a ligGhtning Dbolt     A      G

 

D,   D,   A,   G

 

DFortune, people tAalking aGll about fDortune
Do you Amake it or dGoes it just Dcall you.
In the Ablinking of an Geye
Just anDother passerby in the Apath of a Glightning bDolt     A      G

 

D,   D,    D,   D

 

Chorus:
GEveryone I see just wants the walk with gritted teeth
But I justD stand by and I wait my time
They say you Ggotta toe the line, they want the water not the wine
But when I Dsee the signs I Ajump on that Glightning Dbolt         A      G

 

D,   D,   A,   G    x4

 

Verse:
It was Dsilent, I was Alying Gback gazing skDyward
AWhen the mGoment got sDhattered
I Aremembered what she Gsaid
And Dthen she fled in the pAath of a liGghtning bDolt