Southern Style Chords

KeyD Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays619

Southern Style by Darius Rucker is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Bm, A and D/F#. 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 --- |G D --- |D |G |D |G 

           D                         G 
Sun kissed hair and not much makeup, high-heeled boots that Dlace up 
G                    D             Bm   
Two first names that came from her grandmas on both Asides 
          D                                G                 D   
She ain't ever read much Faulkner, but she could've been his daughter 
         Bm          A               D   
She grew up on muddy water, southern style 

 
         D                              Bm 
Southern style, free and easy, southern style, warm and breezy 
       G                D                    A 
If you met her, man, be-lieve me, you'd want her to stay a while 
              D                                Bm  
She says, she don't believe in strangers, only  sinners with a savior 
           G             A                   D     G    
'Cause her mom and daddy raised her southern style  

        D                                 G                   D   
She's a Friday night light lover, a Billy Graham fan like her mother 
              G              D           Bm                A 
She wants her daddy and both brothers to walk her down the aisle 
          D                           G                D 
She likes oysters raw for dinner, Lil Wayne and Lynyrd Skynyrd 
          Bm               A                D   
Keeps her tan lines in the winter, southern style 

 
         D                              Bm   
Southern style, free and easy, southern style, warm and breezy 
       G                D                    A   
If you met her, man, be-lieve me, you'd want her to stay a while 
              D                                 Bm 
She says, she  don't believe in strangers, only sinners with a savior 
           G             A                   D    
'Cause her mom and daddy raised her southern  style  

Solo:  |G |G / / A|Bm |A 

 
         D                              Bm    
Southern style, free and easy, southern style, warm and breezy 
       G                D/F#                A  
If you met her, man, be-live me, you'd want her to stay a while 
              D                                Bm  
She says, she don't believe in strangers, only sinners with a savior 
           G             A                   D   
'Cause her mom and daddy raised her southern style 

        D                                      Bm             D   
You can love her, you can hate her, but you're never going to change her 
       G                     A                      D  
If you want her, then you'll take her, --- southern style 

Tag 
         D      G         D       G               D      G      
Southern style,  southern  style,  yeah, southern  style  
D              G D G D G D 
Southern style 
    	

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