Blue Skies Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays594

Blue Skies by Ella Fitzgerald is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, B7, Em7, A7, C#m5-/7, G, C9, D7, G6, Cm, C, D, Gdim and Dm4/7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em
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  			Introdução: Em B7 Em7 A7 C#m5-/7 G Em7 C9  D7  G B7  

       Em        B7      Em7 A7      
Blue skies   smiling at me,  
C#m5-/7       G    Em7   C9  D7    G   B7  
             Em        B7      Em7 A7      
Nothin g but blue skies     do I see.  
Em         B+          Em7   A7  
Bluebirds    singing a song,  
C#m5-/7       G    Em7   C9   D7       G               
Nothing but blue birds      all day long.  
Bridge:  
   G           G6  Cm          G   
Never saw the sun shining so bright,  
C          G     D         G  
Never saw things going so right.  
   G         G6    Cm      G   
Noticing the days hurrying by,  
   C            G        B7            Em  B7  
When you're in love, my, my, how they fly.  
Em         B7              Em7     A7  
Blue days,    all of them gone,   
C#m5-/7      G      C9  D7       G  Gdim Dm4/7 G  
Nothing but blue skies    from now on.  

(Scatting) 

I never saw the sun shining so bright, 
Never saw things going so right. 
Noticing the days hurrying by, 
When you're in love, my, my, how they fly! 


Blue days, all of them gone. 
Nothing but blue skies from now on. 

    	

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