Bye Bye Blackbird Chords

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Bye Bye Blackbird by Eddie Cantor is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, A7sus4, E6, E, A9, Bm7/5-, E7, E7/6, C#7, C#m7/5-, G7, F#7, B7, F7 and D9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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A
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  			A             A7sus4      A 
Pack up all my cares and woe, 
 
E6     E    A9      A 
Here I go, singin' low -- 
 
A  Bm7/5-  A   E7 
Bye bye      blackbird. 
 
E7 
Where somebody waits for me, 
 
E7       E7/6             E7 
Sugar's sweet, and so is she -- 
 
E7  E7/6  E7    A   AM7 
Bye bye  blackbird. 
 
 
 
Bridge: 
 
C#7            C#m7/5-  C#7    G7   F#7      
No one here can love or understand me; 
 
B7                Bm7/5-    B7       F7  E7 
Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.  
 
 
A              A7sus4      A 
Make my bed and light the light, 
 
E7/6    E7   F#7 
I'll arrive late tonight -- 
 
D9        E7     A   F#7  D9       Bm7/5-  E7  A      
Blackbird,   bye bye,    blackbird,      bye bye. 
 
 

    	

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