First Time - Hozier, ukulele chords

Published: 2023-12-06 17:47
Selection chords: Sarah Harris

Intro: C#

Verse:
  C#                        G#
Remember once I told you about
      D#m 
How before I heard it from your mouth
    C#                    G#           D#m 
My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound
         C#                          G#
And the soul, if thatʼs what youʼd call it
  D#m                              C#             G#
Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river
      F#             D#m 
Undiscovered underground

Pre-chorus:
         C#                   G#
And the first time that you kissed me
        D#m 
I drank dry the River Lithe
     C#                      G#            D#m 
The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
          C#               G#
But you spoke some quick new music
     D#m 
That went so far to soothe this soul
       C#             G#         D#m 
As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name

Chorus:
 C#           G#        D#m 
Some part of me must have died
      C#                  G#           F#
The first time that you called me, "Baby"
      C#          G#        D#m 
And some part of me came alive
     C#                    G#          F#
The first time that you called me, "Baby"

Verse:
       C#                 G#           D#m 
These days I think I owe my life to flowers
                                      C#
To flowers that were left here by my mother
            G#                  F#
Ainʼt that like them, giftinʼ life to you again
      C#                 G#
This life lived mostly underground
 D#m 
Unknowinʼ either sight nor sound
       C#                 G#                F#
ʼTil reachinʼ up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem

Pre-chorus:
          C#            G#
Sensing only now itʼs dyinʼ
       D#m 
Drying out, then drowning blindly
          C#               G#
Bloominʼ forth its every colour
        F#
In the moments it has left
               C#                G#
To share the space with simple living things
 D#m                                 C#              G#
Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation
     F#
The absence of itself, anyway

Chorus:
 C#           G#        D#m 
Some part of me must have died
  C#                  G#          F#
Each time that you called me, "Baby"
     C#            G#         D#m 
But some part of me stayed alive
  C#                 G#       F#
Each time that you called, each time that you called

Bridge:
      C#
Come here
       G#   D#m 
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
           C#          G#        F#
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
 C#     G#              D#m 
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
          C#          G#         F#
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around

Verse:
      C#                         G#
The last time it was heard out loud
             D#m                                  C#
The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked
          G#            F#
To resignation as the arguing declined
     C#                       G#
When I was young I used to guess
           D#m 
Are there limits to any emptiness?
   C#               G#
When was the last time
             F#
Come here to me, when was the last time?

Chorus:
 C#            G#            D#m 
Some part of me must have died
     C#                    G#          F#
The final time that you called me, "Baby"
     C#           G#        D#m 
But some part of me came alive
     C#          G#          F#
The final you called me, "Baby"