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Shotgun Wedding Chords

[Intro 1]
Wedding March (first in minor key, finally resolved to major)
 
[Intro 2]
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[Verse 1]
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 People were standing, all around
D
 At a shot gun wedding, here in this town
    G                D
And I'm a victim, oh yea, of a shotgun wedding
           A
Cause your fathers got a gun
          G
And there ain't no place to run
        D
Shotgun wedding and oh listen to me
 
[Verse 2]
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Well I got to find a job
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You, me, baby makes three
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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun wedding oh yea
           A
Cause your fathers got a gun
          G
And there ain't no place to run
        D
Shotgun wedding and all I could hear that day was
 
[Verse 3]
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“Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?”
                G                 D
My, my, my, my, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun wedding
          A
I looked around, I looked around
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And all I could see was a shotgun wedding ... listen
 
[Verse 4]
      D
But I tried to run from town, but her mother tracked me down
                            G
She said, “Before I meet my maker
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Some man’s gonna make an honest woman of my daughter. 

So it might as well be you
    A                        G
Oh, daddy may be poor, but he owns a forty-four”
        D
Shotgun wedding
            A
And oh, I'm walking up the aisle right now
 
[Verse 5]
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               Here comes the bride singing
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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun.....yea yeaaaa
 
[Outro]
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I could have run away oh no I could be living high
                            G
Nobody could stop me now oh shotgun, shotgun
D
 Just give me one more chance
       A                         G
Let me hear that bass boys, that bass boys
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Breaking my heart, breaking my heart, breaking my heart...
 
(fade out over outro)

Tags: easy guitar chords, song lyrics, Rod Stewart