Surrender (Acoustic) Chords

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Surrender (Acoustic) by Ashlee Simpson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E5, B, D5, A5 and G5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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E
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16
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  			E5  
Verse 1: E5 all the way through unless indicated of chord change  
  
If that's the way you want it, well there you go  
                                                                     
Baby you can have it all, now that you just let me go, yeah, yeah  
  
B D5 A5 yeah, yeah B D5 A5  
  
on g string this plays in back for the rest of the verse: 7-6h7-6  
                                                        d---------7  
  
E5                          D5  
I waited here for so long, thinkin' that you see  
G5                              A5  
You just kept on runnin' away, you make your misery my company  
  
Pre-Chorus:  
D5     A5         D5                       A5  
Open up your eyes, don't you know you only get one life  
  
Chorus:  
D5 A5  G5      
Ohhhh, you drive me crazy,  
D5 A5   G5    
Ohhhh, you just bring me down  
D5 A5   G5            B  A5         E5   
Look out your window, my sunshine's all around  
G5             A5               B D5 A5        B D5 A5  
All you have to do is just surrender, just surrender  
  
Verse 2:  
once again play the little riff through  
E5  
All the pain in your heart  
D5  
All the tears in your empty soul  
G5  
And when you're spinnin' round and round  
A5  
I'm the psycho going out of control  
  
Pre-Chorus:  
D5   A5            D5             A5          
Open up your eyes, don't you know you'll only waste inside  
  
(Chorus)  
  
B B E5 E5  
  
Bridge:  
B  
You know it doesn't matter what you do  
E5  
Don't you know I'm so over you  
  
(guitar solo) play Chorus chords  
  
(pre-Chorus)  
  
(Chorus 2X)  
     G5   A5      G5      A5              B D5 A5    
just surrender, just surrender, just surrender  
B             D5        A5      B     D5    A5  
If that's the way you want it, well there you go  
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante