Bachelor Boy Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays868

Bachelor Boy by Cliff Richard is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, A7 and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			#1. 

D                   G             A                   
When I was young my father said, 'Son, I have something to  
D 
say.' 
                         G            A              D 
And what he told me I'll never forget until my dying day. 
   A7 
he said... 
 D              G                 A                 D 
'Son, you are a bachelor boy, and that's the way to stay. 
                 G            A                D 
Son, you'll be a bachelor boy until your dying day.' 

#2.  
D                    G                   A              
When I was sixteen I fell in love with a girl as sweet as 
D 
can be. 
                 G                  A             D 
But I remembered just in time, what daddy said to me. He said... 


CHORUS: 

#3. 
D                 G                    A                
As time goes by I probably will meet a girl and fall in  
D 
love. 
                              G 
Then I'll get married, have a wife and a child, 
    A                    D      A7        D 
and they'll be my turtle doves. But until then... 
          G             A                   D         
I'll be a bachelor boy, that's the way I'll stay, 
              G             A              D 
happy to be a bachelor boy, until my dying day, Yeah... 
D         G             A                   D 
I'll be a bachelor boy, that's the way I'll stay. 
              G             A              D      D G D G D C D 
Happy to be a bachelor boy, until my dying da...y. 

  

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat. 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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