Heavenly Blue Chords

KeyD Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays658

Heavenly Blue by Burton Cummings is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, A and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
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Intro: 
D  A  G  
D  A  G  


Verse: 
 D                   A              G 
Heavenly blue shade fallin' from a star  
             D      A  G 
Is there no reason?  
 D                  A                G 
Heavenly blue eye glistening with a tear  
            D       A  G 
Was it displeasin'?  
                   D      A  G 
Or was it just in season?  


                  G         A         D 
'Cause there was never anything to return to  
    G                A         D 
No reason there for hangin' around  
 G                A           D 
Nothin' you were doin' could help me  
                A                      G 
Put both my my feet back down on the ground  
                  D   A   G                            
Now I'm heavenly bluuuuue,  
                  A       D  A  G 
Livin' with the ghost of you-oo-oo 
                  A       D  A  G    D  A  G 
Livin' with the ghost of you-oo-oo 

Verse: 
 D                  A               G 
Heavenly blue days fading with no sound  
            D      A  G 
Sending me reeling  
 D                    A              G 
Heavenly blue night closing in all around  
              D      A  G 
Moments for stealin'  
                  D     A  G 
Such a wonderful feelin'  


               G         A           D 
But there was never anything to get back to  
    G                A        D 
No reason there for hangin' around  
 G                A            D 
Nothing like the time that I found you  
           A           G 
Such an impulsive ingenue  
                   D  A   G 
Makes me heavenly bluuuuuuuue,  
                  A       D  A  G 
Livin' with the ghost of you-oo-oo 
                  A       D  A  G 
Livin' with the ghost of you-oo-oo 
  A       D  A   
Ghost of you 

BREAK: 

       G 
In a story book,  
                    D  A  G 
A story book about you-oo-oo 
                  D    A    G 
Watch me killing dragooooons  
                 D     A     G  
Climbing up the toweeeeeeeeeeeer  

       D               A    G 
In a story book about yoooooooou 

 
               G            A           D 
Oh no there's just nothin' left to get back to  
    G                A          D 
No reason there for stickin' around  
 G                A            D 
Nothing like the time when I found you  
           A           G 
Such an impulsive ingenue  
                   D  A   G 
Makes me heavenly bluuuuuuuue,  
                  A       D  A  G 
Livin' with the ghost of you-oo-oo 
                  A       D  A  G 
Livin' with the ghost of you-oo-oo 


OUTRO: 
D  A  G 
D  A  G 
D  A  G 
D  A  G  - FADE OUT 
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante