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Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran Chords

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Tuning: E A D G B E

Capo: No capo

BPM: 200

    When I was six years
    Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran Chords    old I broke my leg
N   D                                         G                                                        
e|--2-------------------|--------------------|3-------------------|--------------------|---------------|
B|--3-------------------|--------------------|3-------------------|--------------------|---------------|
G|--2-------------------|--------------------|4-------------------|--------------------|---------------|
D|--0-------------------|--------------------|5-------------------|--------------------|---------------|
A|----------------------|--------------------|5-------------------|--------------------|---------------|
E|----------------------|--------------------|3-------------------|--------------------|---------------|

    And I was running                   from my brother and                       his friends
N   D                                   G                                         Bm                        
e|--2-------------------|---------------3----|--------------------|---------------2----|--------------------|
B|--3-------------------|---------------3----|--------------------|---------------3----|--------------------|
G|--2-------------------|---------------4----|--------------------|---------------4----|--------------------|
D|--0-------------------|---------------5----|--------------------|---------------4----|--------------------|
A|----------------------|---------------5----|--------------------|---------------2----|--------------------|
E|----------------------|---------------3----|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

               And tasted the                 sweet perfume of the                      mountain grass as I
    A          D                              G                                         Bm

                                   rolled down                     I was younger                  then,
                                   A                               D                              G

         take me back to                when I                Found my             heart and broke it
         Bm                             A                     G                    A

                         here            Made friends and     lost them through the years
                         D                                    G

                    And I’ve not                   seen the roaring                fields in so long, I
                    G                              A                               D

                         know I’ve grown                      But I can’t               wait to go home
                         G                                    G                         A

                         I’m on my                 way,      driving at                 ninety
                         D                         G         Bm                         A

    those country
    Down                           lanes           singing to                Tiny Dancer
    D                              G               Bm                        A

    I miss the
    And                  way you make                   me feel              and it’s real
    D                    G                              Bm                   A

    we watched the                 sunset               over the             castle on the hill
    D                              G                    Bm                   A

                    Fifteen years                  old and smoking                 hand-rolled cigarettes
         D          D                              G                               Bm

                                         Running from the law                      through the backfields and
                              A          D                                         G

                                   getting drunk with my                          friends
                                   Bm                                             A

    Had my first                   kiss on a Friday                night, I don’t                      reckon I did it
    D                              G                               Bm                                  A

                               Right, I was younger                      then,          take me back to
                               D                                         G              Bm

                                   when we found                   Weekend              jobs and when we got
                                   A                               G                    A

                         paid            We’d buy cheap spirits and drink them straight
                         D                              G

                    Me and my friends have not thrown                        up in so long,
                              A                                              D

         oh how we’ve grown                   But I can’t               wait to go home
         G                                    G                         A

                                                                                        those country
    I’m on my                 way,      driving at                 ninety               Down
    D                         G         Bm                         A                    D

                                                                                   I miss the
              lanes           singing to                Tiny Dancer                And
              G               Bm                        A                          D

    way you make                   me feel              and it’s real                   we watched the
    G                              Bm                   A                               D

              sunset               over the             castle on the hill
              G                    Bm                   A                                    D

                   Over the             castle on the hill                                        Over the
    D         G    Bm                   A                                          D         G    Bm

                   castle on the hill
                   A                                          Bm        G    D          A

    One friend                left to sell clothes and,                           one works            down by the coast
    Bm                        G                                                   D                    A

                                         One had two                    kids but lives alone,
                                         Bm                             G

              one’s           brother overdosed                    One’s                already on his second wife,
              D               A                                    Bm                   G

                                   one’s just                barely getting by but
                                   D                         A

    These people                   raised me and I-I-I,                      can’t           wait to go home
    Bm                             G                                         D               A

                         I’m on my
                         And                  way,           I still              remember
                         D                    G              Bm                   A

    old country
    These                     lanes when                we did not                know the answers
    D                         G                         Bm                        A

               I miss the
               And                  way you make                   me feel              and it’s real
               D                    G                              Bm                   A

                         we watched the                 sunset               over the             castle on the hill
                         D                              G                    Bm                   A

                                                        Over the             castle on the hill
                              D          D         G    Bm                   A

                                   Over the             castle on the hill
                    D         G    Bm                   A
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Instruments
Guitar
Genres
Pop, Rock
Tracks
1
Tempo
200 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
E A D G B E
Key
D major
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
188
Frets used
Frets 0-5
Published 21 Oct 2018

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Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill [Official Video]

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Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran Chords is a Guitar score arranged by Shivangi and filed under Pop and Rock. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 200 BPM. It is in D major, and the arrangement runs 188 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 5 and there are 4 chord shapes to learn. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

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