When She's Good, She's Good Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays433

When She's Good, She's Good by Clay Walker is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B, G, G9 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro:	     Drum roll then guitar 1 strums E with guitar 2 on Wah effect 

Verse 1:     E 
	     Plastic black frame glasses and her hair back in a bun 
	     E 
             From 9 to 5 she looks just like a school librarian 
             A 
             But mister, come this Friday, when she’s punching out 
             E					              E (stop) 
             She's ready for love, the hem comes up and the hair comes tumbling down 

Chorus:		          A					      E 
	     When she's good, she's good, when she's bad she's better 
			  A				     E 
             Looks like Hollywood packed inside that sweater 
             B 
             Love me pumps and patent leather 
		          A						 (E) 
             When she’s good, she’s good, but when she's bad she's better 

Break:	     E  E  E  G A  (2x)  - with G9 Wah riff 

Verse 2:     E 
	     She's got a classic custom Mustang, black top love machine 
	     E 
             Factory paint, license plate says ‘77 queen 
             A 
             Weaving through the traffic like she ain't afraid to crash 
             E			        E (stop) 
             Zeppelin on the 8 Track, thunder on the dash 

(Chorus) then Solo over A  E  A  B  D  E 

Verse 3:     E 
	     Come Monday she's all business far as anyone can see 
             E 
             She walks the line, dots her i's and crosses all her t's 
             A 
             Everybody she's thinks she's too uptight to be true 
             E					E (stop) 
             But all along she's sitting on a blood red rose tattoo 

(Chorus)  

Outro:       B 
	    Love me pumps and patent leather 
			 A			           A (stop)		 
	    When's she good, she’s good, but when she's bad she's so much better 

Repeat (Break) with vocal ad lib: Oh when she's bad, she so bad, bad, bad, bad 
		                  She's bad
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante