Poison Chords

Key- CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays515

Poison by Bert Jansch is a guitar song. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			This is pretty close but not quite there. From what I can tell, when Bert 
strums those chords, he plays some open high strings that I have not included, which makes me think 
the higher strings have an alternate tuning as well. Butâ?¦ too bad.   


PART I 

e:-----------------------------------------------------------| 
B:---/6-6--------------6-------------------------------------| 
G:---/7-7---5h7p5------5-------------------------------------| 
D:---------------h7-------7------5--3--7-7------7-7----------| 
A:-------------------------------------5-5------5-5----------| 
D:0-------------------------(0)--------0-0------0-0----------|    


PART II 

"ah don't you know that your creator... 

e:-----------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B:-------------------------------0---------------------6p5---------------| 
G:-----------------------------5--------------------------h7-------------| 
D:7-9-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-------7--7----7-9-10-10-------------7-7----| 
A:5-7-8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--------5--5----5-7-8--8--------------5-5----| 
D:0---------------------------------0--0----0---------------------0-0----| 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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