Hope Is A Dangerous Thing (For A Woman Like Me To Have) - Lana Del Rey, ukulele chords

Published: 2019-01-21 17:26
Selection chords: Sarah Harris

Verse:
      A#m
I was reading Slim Aarons
     G#                      D#
and I got to thinking that I thought
   A#m
Maybe Iʼd get less stressed
G#                    D#
if I was tested less like all of these debutantes
A#m                        G#
Smiling for miles in pink dresses
                   D#
and high heels on white yachts
    A#m      G#     D#
But Iʼm not, baby Iʼm not
    A#m     G#      D#
No, Iʼm not that, Iʼm not

Chorus:
          C#                    D#
Iʼve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown,
         Fm                 C#
twenty-four seven, Sylvia Plath
C#                       D#
Writing in blood on the walls ʼcause the ink
        Fm                       C#
in my pen donʼt work in my notepad
      C#                     D#
Donʼt ask if Iʼm happy, you know
                      G#          D#        C#
that Iʼm not, but at best I can say Iʼm not sad
       C#                   G#
ʼCause hope is a dangerous thing
                  D#
for a woman like me to have
C#                   G#
Hope is a dangerous thing
                   D#
for a woman like me to have

A#m G# D#
A#m G# D#

Verse:
      A#m
I had fifteen-year dances,
        G#                       D#
church basement romances, yeah Iʼve cried
A#m                        G#
Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums
        D#
is the only love Iʼve ever known
  A#m
Except for the stage
         G#                   D#
which I also call home when Iʼm not
A#m                  G#                        D#
Servinʼ up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad
  A#m                        G#
Hello, itʼs the most famous woman
                 D#
you know on the iPad
A#m                      G#
Calling from beyond the grave,
                  D#
I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"

Chorus:
          C#                     D#
Iʼve been tearing up town in my fucking
                   Fm                C#
white gown like a goddamn near sociopath
C#                     D#
Shaking my ass is the only thing
                 Fm                      C#
thatʼs got this black narcissist off my back
    C#                        D#
She couldnʼt care less and I never cared
                 G#          D#      C#
more so thereʼs no more to say about that
       C#                   G#
Except hope is a dangerous thing
                 D#
for a woman like me to have
C#                   G#
Hope is a dangerous thing
                  D#
for a woman with my past

Verse:
          A#m
Thereʼs a new revolution,
    G#                   D#
a loud evolution that I saw
A#m                    G#
Born of confusion and quiet
              D#
collusion of which mostly Iʼve known
  A#m                      G#
A modern day woman with a weak
                     D#
constitution ʼcause Iʼve got
A#m                      G#
Monsters still under my bed
                    D#
that I could never fight off
  A#m                    G#
A gatekeeper carelessly dropping
                D#
the keys on my nights off

Chorus:
          C#                    D#
Iʼve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown,
         Fm                 C#
twenty-four seven, Sylvia Plath
C#                        D#
Writing in blood on your walls
                      Fm                        C#
ʼcause the ink in my pen donʼt look good in my pad
     C#                          D#
They write that Iʼm happy, they know
                    G#             D#        C#
that Iʼm not but at best, you can see Iʼm not sad
    C#                   G#
But hope is a dangerous thing
                  D#
for a woman like me to have
C#                   G#
Hope is a dangerous thing
                   D#
for a woman like me to have

Outro:
C#                   G#
Hope is a dangerous thing
                  D#
for a woman like me to have
    C#     G#         D#
But I have it, yeah I have it
      C#     G#    D#   C#
Yeah, I have it, I have