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Breath ing in,
breath ing out.
How you been?
Set tled down?
Feel ing right?
Feel ing proud?
How’re your kids?
Where are they now?
You build a boat,
you build a life,
you lose your friends,
you lose your wife.
You set tle in
to rou tine.
Where are you?
What does it mean?
If I get too close,
and I’m not how you hoped,
for give my north ern at ti tude.
Oh, I was raised out in the cold.
If the sun don’t rise
till the sum mer time, hoped,
for give my north ern at ti tude.
Oh, I was raised out in the cold.
(Ab)–– Oh, I was raised on lit tle light.
Bought some shit, Oh, I was raised on lit tle light.
(Eb)Oh!
(Bb)Oh!
(Eb)Oh!
(Bb)Oh!
If you get too close,
and I’m not how you hoped,
for give my north ern at ti tude.
Oh, I was raised out in the cold.
If the sun don’t shine
till the sum mer time, hoped,
for give my north ern at ti tude.
Oh, I was raised out in the cold.
Oh, I was raised on lit tle light.
This page shows “Northern Attitude” by Noah Kahan in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Ab at 120 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.
This arrangement sits in Ab major, so your hands will be living on those black keys — get comfortable with the Ab, Db, and Eb chord shapes before you try playing along at full tempo. Your left hand will mostly anchor on root-fifth patterns, but the real challenge is keeping that steady eighth-note pulse smooth at 120 BPM without tensing up your wrist. Watch the transitions between Ab and Fm especially; your pinky needs to land cleanly each time, so drill that two-chord shift hands-separately until it feels automatic. Syncopation in the right-hand melody can sneak up on you during the chorus — slow it down to about 80 BPM first and count the off-beats out loud. Once that's locked in, bring the tempo up gradually. Use sustain pedal lightly on the verse to connect chords, but lift cleanly in busier passages so nothing muddies together. This is a fantastic song for building confidence with flat-key voicings — once Ab feels like home under your fingers, you'll find Db and Eb major pieces far less intimidating.