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

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

G#m F# C#
G#m F# C#

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

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

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

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

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