Olalla Chords

KeyAb Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays545

Olalla by Blanco White is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Ab with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, Bm, Em, A, G and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Ab
Text
16
Speed
  			 
Intro D  Bm  Em  A  
        D  Bm  Em  A 

  D      Bm             Em   A 
Olalla more than a name 
 D                Bm                Em   A 
Rest your eyes and stay in the shade 
 D            Bm             Em   A 
You are hiding over the hill 
 D          Bm             Em  
In a quiet never so still 

A    D              G           Em   
From Olalla to the city lights 
A    D              G                  Em   
Somebody told me to believe in better times 
A    D              G           Em   
From Olalla to the city lights 
 A       Bm           Em   
Somebody told me to believe  
    A 
To believe 

( D  Bm  Em  A )  
( D  Bm  Em  A )   

 D      Bm             Em   A 
Oh Olalla where will you go? 
  D      Bm             Em   A 
If the line ends out on the road 
  D      Bm             Em   A 
There's a story meant to be told 
  D      Bm                  Em   
But the door is shut in the cold 

A    D              G           Em   
From Olalla to the city lights 
A    D              G              Em   
Somebody told me to believe in better times 
A    D              G           Em   
From Olalla to the city lights 
 A       Bm           Em   
Somebody told me to believe 
A         D  Bm  Em 
To believe 
 A         D  Bm  Em 
To believe 
 A         D  Bm  Em 
To believe 
 A         D  Bm  Em   
To believe 

A   D           G       Em 
Oh Olalla on the border line 
A   D                   G 
There is a world down on its knees 
 Em                         A 
For better times 
  D            G             Em   
Oh Olalla don't you fear the night 
 A            Bm         Em   
There's only time left to believe 
  A7       D 
To believe 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante