You Can Look (but You Better Not Touch) Chords

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You Can Look (but You Better Not Touch) by Bruce Springsteen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, G and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
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16
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  			Intro: F  C  F  C  F 
       C  F  C  F  C  F  G 

      C                        F             C 
Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall 
                                      F         C 
Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall 
                                 F                  C 
I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it 
                                        F                    C 
A salesman turned around said, "boy you break that thing you bought it" 

         F                      C 
You can look but you better not touch boy 
         F                      C 
You can look but you better not touch 
        F                        Am 
Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy 
         C             F         C         F           C          F          G 
You can look but you better not, oh no you better not, oh no you better not touch 

        C                         F                  C 
Well I came home from work and I switched to Channel 5 
                                         F                C 
There was a pretty little girly looking straight into my eyes 
                                        F                C 
Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen 
                                  F              C 
She didn't get me excited she just made me feel mean 

         F                      C 
You can look but you better not touch boy 
         F                      C 
You can look but you better not touch 
        F                        Am 
Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy 
         C             F         C         F           C          F          G 
You can look but you better not, oh no you better not, oh no you better not touch 

(Intro) 

        C                          F      C 
Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone 
                                      F          C 
I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone 
                                       F             C 
I found a lover's rendezvous, the music low, set to park 
                                      F             C 
I heard a tapping on the window and a voice in the dark 

         F                      C 
You can look but you better not touch boy 
         F                      C 
You can look but you better not touch 
        F                        Am 
Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy 
         C             F         C         F           C          F          G 
You can look but you better not, oh no you better not, oh no you better not touch 

         F                       C 
You can look but you better not touch boy 
         F                       C 
You can look but you better not touch 
        F                        Am 
Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy 
          C            F         C          F          C           F 
You can look but you better not, oh no you better not, oh no you better not 
C          F          C          F          C          F        C  F  G 
Oh no you better not, oh no you better not, oh no you better not 
    	

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