Before I Met You Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays448

Before I Met You by Carl Smith is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			C                           F           C 
I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time  

                          G7 
But that was before I met you 

C                      F          C 
I never saw one that I wanted for mine 

             G7           C    
But that was before I met you 

  
F                            C 
I thought I was swinging the world by the tail 

                           G7 
I thought I could never be blue 

  C 
I thought I'd been kissed and  

  F                C 
I thought I'd been loved 

             G7           C 
But that was before I met you 

  
                       F         C 
I wanted to ramble and always be free 

                          G7 
But that was before I met you 

  C                        F         C 
I said that no woman could ever hold me 

             G7           C 
But that was before I met you 

  
 F                            C 
I thought I was swinging the world by the tail 

                           G7 
I thought I could never be blue 

 C 
I thought I'd been kissed and  

  F                C 
I thought I'd been loved 

             G7           C 
But that was before I met you 
    	

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