Why Try To Change Me Now Chords

KeyG Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays581

Why Try To Change Me Now by Bob Dylan is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords G, Gm6, F#m, Em, A7, Dmaj7, Em7, A, A7/9, F#m7, B7, B7/9, Bm7, Am7, D7, Gmaj7, C9, E7 and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			


Intro: 
G Gm6 F#m  
Em A7 Dmaj7 

  
verse 1 

Em7         A  A7/9      F#m7        B7 
   I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain 
Em7            A  A7/9  F#m7         B7/9 
   I've got some habits even I can't explain 
Em                     Gm6    F#m7        Fo    
   Could start for the corner, turn up in Spain 
Em                A7        Dmaj7     Bm7 
   But why try to change me now? 

    
verse 2 

  Em7         A  A7/9      F#m7        B7          
I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore 
Em7            A  A7/9  F#m7         B7/9 
Cigarette ashes, there they go on the floor 
Em                       Gm6    F#m7        Fo    
I'll go away weekends, leave my keys in the door 
Em             A7        Dmaj7     Bm7 
But why try to change me now? 

      
Bridge 

Am7            D7      Gmaj7 
Why can't I be more conventional? 
       Am7          C9          Gmaj7 
People talk, people stare, so I try 
Bm7                  E7  A               F#m7 
  But that's not for me,  'cause I can't see 
Bm7          E              G          A 
  My kind of crazy world go passing me by 


Outro 

         Em7         A  A7/9      F#m7        B7       
So, let people wonder, let 'em laugh, let 'em frown 
      Em7            A  A7/9  F#m7         B7/9 
You know I'll love you till the moon's upside down 
Em                    Gm6    F#m7        Fo    
Don't you remember I was always your clown? 
Em        A7        Dmaj7     
Why try to change me now? 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante