First Time - Hozier, ukulele chords

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

Intro: A#

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridge:
      A#
Come here
       F   Cm 
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
           A#          F        D#
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
 A#     F              Cm 
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
          A#          F         D#
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around

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

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