Can't Find My Way Home
Words & Music by
Steve Winwood
[Drop D tuning - fingerpick this basic verse vamp: D7sus4/C G/B Gm/Bb D5/A]
D7sus4/C
G/B Gm/Bb
D5/A
Come down off your throne
and leave your body alone.
F G1 D5
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been
waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.
G2
A Asus4 D Dsus4 D
Well, I'm near the end and I
just ain't got the time.
Em1
G3 F#m Em2 D
And I'm wasted and I can't
find my-- way home.
Come down own your own and
leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been
waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.
I'm near the end and I just
ain't got the time.
Oh, and I'm wasted and I
can't find my way home.
CODA:
D7sus4/C G/B Gm/Bb D5/A F G D
[vox
tacit]--------------- But I can't
find my way home.
[repeat for each line]
But I can't find my way
home.
But I can't find my way
home.
But I can't find my way home.
Still, I can't find my way
home.
And I ain't done nothing
wrong,
But I can't find my way
home. [end on D]
Basic
verse lick chords:
D7sus4/C =
x 3 0 0 3 x
G/B = x 2 0 0 3 x
Gm/Bb = x 1 0 0 3 x
D5/A = x 0 0 0 3 x
F = 3
x 0 2 1 x
G1 = 5 x 0 4
3 x
D5 = 0 0 0 2
3 x
G2 = x 2 0 0
3 x
Em1 = 2 2 2 0 0 0
G3 = 5 x 0 4
x x
F#m = 4 x 0 2 x x
Em2 = 2 x 0 0
x x