Baby Can I Hold You Chords

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Baby Can I Hold You by Billy Bob Thornton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, D/C#, D/B, Bm, Em7 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			INTRO: D  A  D  A 
 
D         D/C#     D/B       Bm 
Sorry, is all that you can't say 
A                 D 
Years gone by and still 
D/C#        D/B     Em7 
Words don't come easily 
     G           A 
Like sorry, like sorry 
 
D              D/C#     D/B       Bm 
Forgive me, is all that you can't say 
A                 D 
Years gone by and still 
D/C#       D/B     Em7 
Words don't come easily 
     G              A 
Like forgive me, forgive me 
 
 
CHORUS: 
                D          Em7        G        D 
But you can say baby, well baby can I hold you tonight 
Em7        G            Bm                       A 
Maybe if I told you the right words, yeah at the right time 
         D 
You'd be mine 
     Em7   A 
Well baby, maybe 
 
  D            D/C#     D/B       Bm 
I love you, is all that you can't say 
A                 D 
Years gone by and still 
D/C#        D/B     Em7 
Words don't come easily 
       G           A 
Like I love you, I love you 
 
 
CHORUS: 
                  D        Em7        G        D 
But you could say baby, oh baby can I hold you tonight 
   Em7        G            Bm                  A 
Oh maybe if I told you the right words, at the right time 
         D 
You'd be mine 
   Em7        G        D 
Oh baby can I hold you tonight 
    Em7        G            Bm                        A 
And maybe if I told you the rights words, yeah at the right time 
         D 
You'd be mine 
     Em7    G    D   Bm  A 
Well yeah...... 
 
 
OUTRO: D D/C# Em7 G (repeat and ad-lip over)  
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante