Before You Accuse Me Chords

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Before You Accuse Me by Creedence Clearwater Revival is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, E7, B7, A and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
Speed
  			Intro: E  E7  B7 

  E               E7  A                   E     E7 
Before you accuse me,  take a look at yourself 
  A                  A7                  E     E7 
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself 
    B7 
You say I've been buying another woman clothes 
    A7                             E    B7 
But you've been talking to someone else 

  E           E7   A                           E     E7 
I called your mama  'bout three or four nights ago 
  A               A7                           E     E7 
I called your mama 'bout three or four nights ago 
     B7 
Your mama said, "Son 
A7                        E     B7 
Don't call my daughter no more." 

  E               E7  A                   E      E7 
Before you accuse me,  take a look at yourself 
  A                  A7                  E     E7 
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself 
    B7 
You say I've been buying another woman clothes 
    A7                             E    B7 
But you've been talking to someone else 

E                  E7   A                     E       E7  
Come on back home, baby; try my love one more time 
A                       A7                    E      E7  
Come on back home, baby; try my love one more time 
B7 
You've been gone away so long 
A7                        E    B7 
I'm just about to lose my mind 

  E               E7  A                   E     E7 
Before you accuse me,  take a look at yourself 
  A                  A7                  E     E7 
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself 
    B7 
You say I've been buying another woman clothes 
    A7                             E    B7 
But you've been talking to someone else 

Final: B7  A7  E  E7  A  A7  E 
    	

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