Welcome to my tutorial for how to play first day of my life by Bright eyes. This song was a beautiful single released on March 21st 2005 and reached the number 37 on the Uk singles chart. Not exactly a high climber but for an acoustic song of beauty that is at least a decent amount of recognition and the song does deserve to be respected as a classic.
I have here my cover, my video tutorial, the original Bright eyes version and below are my tabbed out chords to play along with with each chords explained in Tab. Hope you enjoy. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions for which song you would like me to do next.

Here is my cover

Here is my tutorial

Here’s my version of the chords

Capo on the 4th fret

C – X32010
E – 022100
Am – X02210
Am/G – 302010
F – XX3321
G – 320033
D7 – XX0212
C/B – X20010
Dm – xx0231
Fm – x03111

Intro

C E Am
F G C

C                 E                        Am             Am/G
This is the first day of my life
F                    G                             C
Swear I was born right in the doorway
C                             E                                            Am
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
D7                        G
They’re spreading blankets on the beach

C                  E                          Am            Am/G
Yours is the first face that I saw
F                    G                       C
Think I was blind before I met you
C                                   E                                              Am
Don’t know where I am, don’t know where I’ve been
D7                         G
But I know where I want to go

C                   G         Am
So I thought I’d let you know
F                                       G
That these things take forever
C C/B           Am
I especially am slow
Dm                                                                                                     C    G    Am   Dm   Fm
But I realized how I need you and I wondered if I could come home

C                           E                               Am
I remember the time you drove all night
F            G                         C
Just to meet me in the morning
C                           E                                                 Am
I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
D7                            G
You felt as if you’d just woke up

C                  E                        Am
And you said, “This is the first day of my life.
F                             G                          C
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you.
C                    E                               Am
Now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you,
D7                      G
And I’d probably be happy.”

C            G           Am
So if you want to be with me
F                                                 G
With these things there’s no telling
C          C/B          Am
We’ll just have to wait and see
Dm                                                                                C
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery

E Am

Dm                                                                                                     C
Besides, maybe this time its different, I mean I really think you like me

E       Am      Dm         Fm

Here is the original song

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Kieran GWAG

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