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

 





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