Dont Tell Me Chords

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Dont Tell Me by Buddy Miller is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G, Bm and Asus. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Buddy Miller    vocals/electric guitar 
Emmylou Harris  acoustic guitar/harmony 
Steve Fishell   steel guitar 
Brady Blade     drums 
Darul Johnson   bass 
Phil Madeira    organ 
John Schreiner  piano 
 
 
D  A  G   D  A  G 
 
        D               A 
Tell my heart to stop beating 
        Bm              G 
Tell my mind    not  to think 
        D            A 
Throw a stone in the ocean 
          Bm           G  
Tell that stone not to sink 
G                      D        A    Asus                 
Tell the world to stop turning round 
         G                Bm   A 
Tell the sky not to be so blue 
         G             D       A    Asus  G 
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears 
               D     A      Asus G 
But don't tell me to stop loving you 
           D     A      Asus D    G 
Don't tell me to stop loving you 
                        A  Asus 
Tell the past to be forgotten 
        Bm          G  
Tell my life not to exist 
       D                     A  Asus 
Tell a promise made  to be unspoken 
       Bm                     G 
And my lips not to have been kissed 
G                      D        A                     
Tell the world to stop turning round 
         G                Bm   A 
Tell the sky not to be so blue 
         G             D       A          G 
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears 
               D     A    Asus   G 
But don't tell me to stop loving you 
           D     A    Asus   D     
Don't tell me to stop loving you 
G 
I can't do it 
                  D                        A  Asus A 
I can't stop it's something that love has sealed 
G                D               A       Asus  A 
Only the broken hearted know the way I feel 
 
SOLO 
 
G                      D        A                     
Tell the world to stop turning round 
         G                 Bm   A 
Tell the sky not to be so blue 
         G             D       A          G 
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears 
               D  A       Asus   G 
But don't tell me to stop loving you 
           D  A       Asus   D    G   D 
Don't tell me to stop loving you 
 
From Buddy Miller "Poison Love" CD 
Hightone Records 1997 
Tinker Tunes/Martha Road Music 
 
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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