What Good Am I Chords
by Bob Dylan
What Good Am I by Bob Dylan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords G, D, Bm and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Capo II
G D 3x
D G D G D
What good am I if I m like all the rest?
G D G D
If I just turn away, when I see how you re dressed
Bm D Bm D
If I shut myself off so, I can t hear you cry
G D G D G D
What good am I?
D G D G D
What good am I if I know and don t do?
G D G D
If I see and don t say, if I look right through you
Bm D G D
If I turn a deaf ear, to the thundering sky
G D G D G D
What good am I?
D G D G D
What good am I while you softly weep?
G D G D
And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep
Bm D Bm D
And I freeze in the moment, like the rest who don t try
G D G D G D
What good am I?
Bm D Bm D
What good am I then, to others and me?
Bm D Bm D
If I ve had every chance, and yet still fail to see?
Bm D Bm D
If my hands are tied, must I not wonder within
Bm D G Em
Who tied them and why and where must I have been?
D G D G D
What good am I if I say foolish things?
G D G D
And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings
Bm D Bm D
And I just turn my back, while you silently die
G D G D G D
What good am I?
G D . . .
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