First Time - Hozier, ukulele chords

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

Intro: B

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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