We Don't Call 911 Chords

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We Don't Call 911 by Bellamy Brothers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F, D and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C                         G 
We don’t call 911,  where we come from,  
                                  C 
We still cling to our God and our gun. 
                                              F 
We were taught to stand our ground and not to run,  
             G                C 
No, we don’t call 911,  where we come from. 


Verse 1 
                                          F 
Some friends from the big city stopped by our old country home,  
                G                         C 
He said, “Ain’t you afraid of living, way out here all alone?” 
                                                   F 
“That’s just the way we were raised,” I said,  and all we’ve ever known. 
      G                                         C 
Hell, I can still remember,  when we had no telephone. 


 
C                         G 
We don’t call 911,  where we come from,  
                                  C 
We still cling to our God and our gun. 
                                              F 
We were taught to stand our ground and not to run,  
             G                C 
No, we don’t call 911,  where we come from. 


Verse 2 
                                      F 
This young gal of 80-years was on the Late-Night TV News, 
        G                                C 
And the people in her viewing her,  well they all seen the news. 
                                    F 
They said she was a hero,  when she caught some local bum, 
          G                                                   C 
As he was crawling through her window, and he met her big shotgun. 


C                         G 
We don’t call 911,  where we come from,  
                                  C 
We still cling to our God and our gun. 
                                              F 
We were taught to stand our ground and not to run,  
             G                C 
No, we don’t call 911,  where we come from. 


Instrumental 
C    G    C 
F    G    C 

(Modulate to " D " Chord) 


D                         A 
We don’t call 911,  where we come from,  
                                  D 
We still cling to our God and our gun. 
                                              G 
We were taught to stand our ground and not to run,  
             A                D 
No, we don’t call 911,  where we come from. 


D                         A 
We don’t call 911,  where we come from, 
                                  D 
We still cling to our God and our gun. 
                                              G 
We were taught to stand our ground and not to run, son. 
             A                D 
No, we don’t call 911,  where we come from. 


Outro  
                                              G 
We were taught to stand our ground and not to run, son. 
             A                D 
No, we don’t call 911,  where we come from. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante