I wrote this song using an OPEN G. Below are the chords written out in regular tuning! Please make a video and send it to me. Would love to see how you do! Posting the lyric video so you can play along!
GET UP & MOVE AROUND
words & music by Beth Williams
(The marks ------ were put there to keep chords from moving on page when I saved this. )
INTRO: D G D G
-------------------- ---------- D G D G
Sometimes you gotta put one foot in front of the other
---------- --D G D G
and take one step right after another
----------D G D G
When it’s all you can do to just count one & two
---------------- D G D G D D D D
ya gotta put one foot in front of the other
CHORUS
D D
Don’t just sit there, get up & move around
D D
Don’t just sit there, get up & go downtown
-----------Em Em
Don’t just sit there, don’t sit there, you just sit there
----------------------- D D
Get up & move around
VERSE
D D
All alone in your sorrow, every night & day
----------Em Em
with no hope for tomorrow, and no prayers left to pray
-----------D D
Yeah, I know there’s a heart achin’, breakin’ right in two
---------------F Em D
But there’s only so much healing time can do
----F Em D D
the rest is a test, – its up to you
CHORUS
D D
Don’t just sit there, get up & move around
D D
Don’t just sit there, get up & go downtown
------------Em Em
Don’t just sit there, don’t sit there, you just sit there
--------------------D D
Get up & move around
VERS
--------D D
That dark cloud of loneliness won’t up & disappear
---------------Em Em
with you in front of that TV, heels dug into fear
--------D D
Those four walls are closing in on your worried mind
------F Em D
watch out they’ll leave you – deaf, dumb & blind
-------F Em D
I’m beggin you beggin you, while there’s still time
CHORUS