Low Down Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays762

Low Down by Boz Scaggs is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em9, A13, Dmaj7, A/C#, A/C, B7/5+, F#m9, B13 and D7M. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Em
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16
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Intro:  Em9      A13     (x4) 

verse 1 
Em9                         A13 
Baby's into runnin' 'round, hangin' with the crowd 
Em9                                  A13 
Puttin' your business in the street, talkin' out loud 
Em9                                           A13 
Sayin' he's bought her this and that and how much you done spent 
Em9                           A13 
I swear she must believe it's all heaven-sent 
Em9            A13 
Hey boy, you better bring the chick around 
Em9                         A13 
To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown 

Pre-Chorus 
Em9   A13     Em9                            A13 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who 
Em9      A13    Em9                          A13 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who 

verse 2 
Em9                        A13 
Nothin' you can't handle, nothin' you ain't got 
Em9                             A13 
put your money on the table and drive it off the lot 
Em9                          A13 
Turn on that old lovelight, turn a maybe to a yes 
Em9                       A13 
Same old schoolboy game got you into this mess 
Em9           A13 
Hey son, you better get on back to town 
Em9                         A13 
Face the sad old truth, the dirty lowdown 

Pre-Chorus 
Em9   A13     Em9                            A13 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who 
Em9      A13    Em9                          A13 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who 

Bridge 
Dmaj7   A/C#  A/C   B7/5+ 

verse 3 
Em9      A13 
Come on back down to earth, son 
Em9      A13 
Dig the low-low-low-low-lowdown 

Solo 
F#m9    B13 (x4) 

verse 4 
Em9                      A13 
You ain't got to be bad, got to be cold 
Em9                         A13 
his dog-eat-dog business is surely gettin' old 
Em9                           A13 
Got to have a jones for this, jones for that 
Em9                               A13 
This runnin' with the joneses, boy, it just ain't where it's at 
Em9                      A13 
You gonna come back around 
Em9                         A13 
To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown 

Pre-Chorus 
Em9   A13     Em9                            A13 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who 
Em9      A13    Em9                          A13 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who 

Bridge 
D7M   A/C#  A/C   B7/5+ 

Tag 
Em9                          A13 
I wonder wonder wonder wonder who 
Em9                           A13 
I wonder wonder wonder wonder who 
Em9                   A13              Em9          A13 
Oh look out for that lowdown that dirty dirty dirty lowdown 
    	

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