Bedside Manner Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays542

Bedside Manner by Dawes is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, C#m, E, F#m and Bm. 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: 

A D C#m E 

D A F#m D 

A              D 
Some time as a much older man 
        C#m                     E 
I will sit down and put on this song. 
    D                 A 
It just might make me cry, 
          F#m                     D 
Or at the very least a tear in my eye. 

  A                     D 
I can't take all these years of my life 
      C#m                E      
To be widdle down into a thought 
     D                   A 
That only appears to the year 
       F#m                D 
I made memories perfectly clear. 

(same as intro and verses) 

Mama, mama 
Mama, mama. 

(same as previous verses) 
I just want to be making my mind, 
Keep from changing my mind not to change. 
Cause I'm greedy as the sea, 
And that's how it always will be. 

I'll be somebody now, and I'll be somebody then, 
And I'll be all of you all in between. 
And then I'll be ready to leave 
When the whole world is taken with me. 

Mama, mama 
Mama, mama. 

Mama, mama 
Mama, mama. 
              Bm                E 
Cause there's so many days in a year. 
            Bm                  E 
And there's so many years in my head. 
     D                        A 
So I think about when I'll be dead, 
             D                      A 
And how those very last moments get spent. 
        D                                                  E 
And if I think about you is that something you think you'd accept? 

(same as previous verses) 

Some time as a much older man 
I will sit down and put on this song. 
It just might make me cry, 
Or at the very least a tear in my eye. 
    	

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