First Time Uke tab by Hozier

5 Chords used in the song: C#, G#, D#m7, A, F#

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Artist: Hozier

Album: unknown

Difficulty:

6.3

(Intermediate)

Key: C#, A#mChords

Intro C# 
 
Verse 1:


  C#                        G# 
Remember once I told you about 
      D#m7 
How before I heard it from your mouth 
    C#                    G#       
My name would always hit my ears as
   D#m7
such an awful sound
         C#                          G# 
And the soul, if that's what you'd call it 
  D#m7                             C#       
Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as
     G#
a river
      F#             D#m7 
Undiscovered underground 


Pre-Chorus


         C#                   G# 
And the first time that you kissed me 
        D#m7 
I drank dry the River Lithe 
     C#                      G#        
The Liffey would have been softer on my
   D#m7
stomach all the same
          C#               G# 
But you spoke some quick new music 
     D#m7 
That went so far to soothe this soul 
       C#             G#    
As it was and ever shall be,
    D#m7
unearth without a name



 C#           G#        D#m7 
Some part of me must have died 
      C#                  G#           F# 
The first time that you called me, 'Baby' 
      C#          G#        D#m7 
And some part of me came alive 
     C#                    G#     
The first time that you called me,
    F#
'Baby' 


Verse 2:


       C#                 G# 
These days I think I owe my life 
      D#m7                            C# 
To flowers that were left here by my mother 
            G#               
Ain't that like them, giftin'
  F#
life to you again
      C#                 G# 
This life lived mostly underground 
 D#m7 
Unknowin' either sight nor sound 
       C#                 G#            
'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be
   F#
ripped out by the stem 

 
Pre-Chorus


          C#            G# 
Sensing only now it's dyin' 
       D#m7 
Drying out, then drowning blindly 
          C#               G# 
Bloomin' forth its every colour 
        F# 
In the moments it has left 
               C#                G# 
To share the space with simple living things 
 D#m7                                C#    
Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like
         G#
all creation
     F# 
The absence of itself, anyway 

 

 C#           G#        D#m7 
Some part of me must have died 
  C#                  G#          F# 
Each time that you called me, 'Baby' 
     C#            G#         D#m7 
But some part of me stayed alive 
  C#                 G#   
Each time that you called,
   F#
each time that you called

 
Bridge:


      C# 
Come here 
       G#   D#m7 
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la 
           C#          G#    
Whatever keeps you around, it
   F#
keeps you around
 C#     G#              D#m7 
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la 
          C#          G#     
Whatever keeps you around, it
   F#
keeps you around

 
Verse 3:


      C#                         G# 
The last time it was heard out loud 
             D#m7                         
The perfect genius of our hands and mouths
       C#
were shocked
          G#            F# 
To resignation as the arguing declined 
     C#                       G# 
When I was young I used to guess 
           D#m7 
Are there limits to any emptiness? 
   C#               G# 
When was the last time 
            
Come here to
F#
me, when was the last time? 

 

 C#            G#            D#m7 
Some part of me must have died 
     C#               G#          F# 
The final time you called me, 'Baby' 
     C#           G#        D#m7 
But some part of me came alive 
     C#            G#        
The final time you called me,
 F#
'Baby'