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Hope Is Just Ahead

Billy Ray Cyrus

RockMedium for beginners7 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

D××
D7××
G
A×
E
F#Diagram coming soon
Bm×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro: D  
 
                      D            D7                             G 
I wondered why I had    the blues,     so I turned on the evening  news 
                             A                                                         D 
Children runnin' from their    school, because of some damn fool had no morals he must   prove 
 
                 D              D7                       G 
Another kid laid   in the blood,   another town drowned     in the flood 
                       A                                                                         D 
Just a tragic trail of    tears, lessons not learned through the years, heaven save us from our     fears 
 
 
              D 
Hope is just    ahead, sorrows just behind us 
                         A                      D 
From what the good book   says, "The truth will   never find us" 
          D/E          D/F#           G                              G/A         Bm 
Who's to      say what       we shall    find, I guess the proof for     sure in     time 
                                A                             D 
Today, let's keep the dreamer's    faith, surely hope is just   ahead 
 
Solo:  D   D   G   G   A   A   D   D  
 
        D                           D   G                       G 
           Yeah, you gotta believe,       gotta keep your faith 
        A                        A  D                   D 
          Get down on your knees      you gotta believe  
 
                   D              D7                        G 
People fightin' in    the streets,    millions with no food    to eat 
                             A                                                             D 
How much longer can we last,    if we learn nothing from our past, these are the questions    that I ask 
 
(Refrão) 
 
Final: 
                                A                                  (D) 
Today, let's keep the dreamer's    faith, surely hope is just ahead 
          
 

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Chord set

D · D7 · G · A · E · F# · Bm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.