All The Small Things | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| N.C G5 F5 |
||: C5 | Csus4 | G5 | N.C F5 :||
Verse 1
| C5 | G5 | F5 | G5 |
All the small things, true care, truth brings.
| C5 | G5 | F5 | G5 |
I’ll take one lift, your ride, best trip.
| C5 | G5 | F5 | G5 |
Always, I know, you’ll be at my show.
| C5 | G5 | F5 | G5 |
Watching, waiting, commiserating.
Chorus 1
| C5 | C5 |
Say it ain’t so, I will not go
| C5 (G) | C5 (F) |
Turn the lights off, carry me home
Chorus tag
||: C5 | C5 | G5 | F5 :|| x2
||: Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na :|| x4
Instrumental 1
||: C5 | Csus4 | G5 | N.C F5 :||
Verse 2
| C5 | G5 | F5 | G5 |
Late night, come home, work sucks, I know.
| C5 | G5 | F5 | G5 |
She left me roses by the stairs, surprises let me know she cares.
Chorus 2
| C5 | C5 |
Just say it ain’t so, I will not go.
| C5 (G) | C5 (F) |
Turn the lights off, carry me home
Chorus 2
||: C5 | C5 | G5 | F5 :|| x2
||: Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na :|| x4
Instrumental 2
||: C | C | Fsus2 | Gsus4 :|| x4
Outro chorus
| C5 | C5 |
Just say it ain’t so, I will not go.
| G5 | F5 |
Turn the lights off, carry me home.
| C5 | C5 |
Keep your head still, I’ll be your thrill.
| G5 | F5 |
The night will go on, my little windmill.
| C5 | C5 |
Just say it ain’t so (na-na, na-na, na-na), I will not go (na-na, na, na).
| G5 | N.C F5 |
Turn the lights off (na-na, na-na, na-na), carry me home (na-na, na, na).
| C5 | C5 |
Keep your head still (na-na, na-na, na-na), I’ll be your thrill (na-na, na, na).
| G5 | N.C F5 |
The night will go on (na-na, na-na, na-na), The night will go on (na-na, na, na).
| C5 | C5 |
My little windmill.
All The Small Things Chords: Learn the progressions
Using only the I, V, and IV chords, mainly in that order, there are just a few subtle tricks to the chords of All The Small Things.
During the intro, we get C5 (I chord), Csus4, G5, a classic punk-style muted string stop, and F5.
If you change these chords to triads, it’s no longer punk—it has to be 5 chords (power chords).
As the verse kicks in, we palm mute the same chords, now without the sus4 and muting before the F5.
The bridge is even simpler, with the guitar holding C5 as the bass moves between G and F.
The chorus is similar to the verse, but now we play C5 for two bars, and G5 and F5 for one bar each.
Green Day’s producer + Outrageous music video = Success
Following in the footsteps of Green Day’s success in the ’90s, Blink-182 released Enema of the State in 1999.
Produced by Jerry Finn, who had also crafted Green Day’s breakthrough album Dookie, the album was a massive success with singles like All The Small Things and What’s My Age Again?
A key factor in the song’s success was undoubtedly the genius music video, where Blink-182 pokes fun at ’90s American boy bands like Backstreet Boys and NSYNC (and Justin Timberlake).
All The Small Things soared on charts worldwide, establishing Blink-182 alongside Green Day, The Offspring, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, No Doubt, Weezer, and Millencolin as hugely successful ’90s punk bands.
Far from the basements where punk had been born in the late ’70s, these bands played stadiums and festivals across the globe.
Study the chords and lyrics of All The Small Things to discover how they did it.
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Following in the commercially successful footsteps of Green Day, Blink-182 made the leap from indie rock skate punk to stadium punk pop.
With hits like All The Small Things and What’s My Age Again? the band took the world by storm, using immature humour and outrageous music videos.
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