Hands Clean Chords

KeyCadd CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays540

Hands Clean by Alanis Morissette is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Cadd. It uses the chords C, D, Bm, Em and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Cadd
Text
16
Speed
  			VERSE1: 
C                  D 
If it weren't for your maturity  
Bm                       C 
none of this would have happened 
C                  D 
If you weren't so wise beyond your years  
   Bm                    C 
I would've been able to control myself 
C                  D 
If it weren't for my attention  
      Bm                   C 
you wouldn't have been successful and 
C                 D 
If it weren't for me you would 
              Bm            C 
never have amounted to very much 
C   D         Bm      C   
Oooooh this could be messy 
C     D         Bm     C 
But you don't seem to mind 
C   D            Bm           C 
Oooooh don't go telling everybody 
   C      D         Bm      C 
And overlook this supposed crime 
C           D            Bm        C 
We'll fast forward to a few years later 
C          D                Bm       C 
And no one knows except the both of us 
C            D              Bm        C 
And I have honored your request for silence 
     C       D         Bm          C 
And you've washed your hands clean of this 
VERSE2: 
You're essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me 
You're kind of my protégé and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me 
I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian 
I know you sexualize me like a young thing would and I think I like it 
C   D         Bm      C   
Oooooh this could be messy 
C     D         Bm     C 
But you don't seem to mind 
C   D            Bm           C 
Oooooh don't go telling everybody 
   C      D         Bm      C 
And overlook this supposed crime 
C           D            Bm        C 
We'll fast forward to a few years later 
C          D                Bm       C 
And no one knows except the both of us 
C            D              Bm        C 
And I have honored your request for silence 
     C       D         Bm          C 
And you've washed your hands clean of this 
BRIDGE: 
Em                 C            G             
what part of our history's reinvented  
                D 
and under rug swept? 
Em                 C            G      
what part of your memory is selective  
               D 
and tends to forget?     
D 
what with this distance it seems so obvious? 
 
VERSE3: 
Just make sure you don't tell on me especially to members of your family 
We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse 
I wish I could tell the world cuz you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly 
I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body 
C   D         Bm      C   
Oooooh this could be messy 
C     D         Bm     C 
But you don't seem to mind 
C   D            Bm           C 
Oooooh don't go telling everybody 
   C      D         Bm      C 
And overlook this supposed crime 
C           D            Bm        C 
We'll fast forward to a few years later 
C          D                Bm       C 
And no one knows except the both of us 
C            D              Bm        C 
And I have honored your request for silence 
     C       D         Bm          C 
And you've washed your hands clean of this 
    	

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100 BPM Andante