Better Together Chords

by Jack Johnson
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
Capo: 5th fret
Author poiukenstap [a] 71.
16 contributors total, last edit on May 16, 2022
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Chords

C
C/B
Am
Am/G
F
C/E
Dm
G
F#
Dm/F

Strumming

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Capo: 5th fret
 
Intro is the literal fret regardless of capo.
Chords are by shape, over the 5 fret capo.
 
[Intro]
 
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------12-------10------7-----5-----7------10-------12-------10-----|
D|---10/12----12\10----10\7---7\5---5/7---7/10----10/12----12\10--------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
 
[Verse]
C                 C/B
  There's no combination of words
        Am                   Am/G
I could put on the back of a postcard
F              C/E
  No song that I could sing
    Dm            G
But I can try for your heart,
C     C/B                   Am                 Am/G
  Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
       F           C/E
Like a shoe box of photographs
     Dm          G
With sepia-toned loving
C             C/B
  Love is the answer
             Am                       Am/G
At least for most of the questions in my heart like
F            C/E                   Dm
  Why are we here? And where do we go?
                  G
And how come it's so hard?
C                 C/B
  It's not always easy and
          Am            Am/G
Sometimes life can be deceiving
F                   C/E                Dm                  G
  I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together
 
[Chorus]
F                   G                           (F# - F)
  Mmmm, it's always better when we're together
F                         G                           (F# - F)
  Yeah, we'll look at the stars and we're together
F                   G                           (F# - F)
  Well, it's always better when we're together
F                   G                           (F# - F)
  Yeah, it's always better when we're together
 
[Interlude]
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
 
[Verse]
                 C
And all of these moments
           C/B                     Am           Am/G
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight,
      F                    C/E
But I know that they’ll be gone
         Dm            G
When the morning light sings
           C          C/B
And brings new things
      Am               Am/G
For tomorrow night you see
     F               C/E
That they’ll be gone too,
         Dm               G
Too many things I have to do
                    C                 C/B
But if all of these dreams might find their way
        Am             Am/G
Into my day to day scene
       F            C/E
I'd be under the impression
      Dm              G
I was somewhere in between
          C
With only two,
            C/B
Just me and you,
            Am               Am/G
Not so many things we got to do
   F                C/E
Or places we got to be
            Dm              G
We'll sit beneath the mango tree, now
 
[Chorus]
F                   G                           (F# - F)
  Yeah, it's always better when we're together
F                       G                           (F# - F)
  Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
F                   G                           (F# - F)
  Well, it's always better when we're together
F                   G                           (F# - F)
  Yeah, it's always better when we're together
 
[Interlude]
C     C/B     Am        Am/G
  Mmm mmm mm mm mmm mm mm mmm
F          C/E     Dm   G
  Mm mm mm mm mmm mmmm mm mmm
 
[Instrumental]
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
 
[Bridge]
Dm                     G
  I believe in memories they look so
Dm                      G
  So pretty when I sleep hey now and
Dm         G
  When I wake up you look so
  Dm                      G
  Pretty sleeping next to me but there is
F                G
  Not enough time there is no
F                     G
  No song I could sing and there is no
Dm/F                  G
  Combination of words I could say
           Dm/F                     G
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together
 
[Outro]
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
C
 
 
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53 comments
Jonas_08
Ehm, if you're going to play along with the CD version, the capo has to be on fifth fret, not fourth. Other than that, and what mattdot666 said, it's pretty good.
+10
mattdot666
was very good, but i think it just goes from F to G in the chorus and same with the last line in the verse
+9
arturoreyes
Sorry man thats wrong. When I play it (without capo) I go F-Am-Dm-C-Bb-Am-Gm-C and on the chorus just Bb-C 4 times. Its easier to sing to if your gonna sing.
+5