The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace with God (Chords)

It’s St Patrick’s Day this week and time for the inevitable Pogues post.

If I Should Fall… rollicks along at a rapid pace which makes changing to the E chord tricky. It makes it easier if you play the A to D change the no hassle way or you could use a different version of E.

If you want to avoid the E chord altogether – I wouldn’t blame you – here are the chords with a copo on the second fret (or D-tuning):

If I Should Fall From Grace (Capo Version)

Suggested Strumming

You can use this for almost all the song:

d – d – d u d u

Which sounds like this (slow then up to tempo):

Strum

The only place you need something different is in the break. Do the main strum on the A, then this once each on the D (or E later in the break) and A:

d u d u

Then back to the main strum for A again.

Twiddly Bits

Here’s tab for a ukulele version of the tune in the intro that crops up a few times in the song:

And here’s how that sounds:

Intro

The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace with God (Chords)