If You Were a Bluebird Chords

KeyAb CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays464

If You Were a Bluebird by Emmylou Harris is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Ab. It uses the chords Ab, Db and Eb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Ab 
If you were a bluebird you'd be a sad one 
               Db 
I'd give you a true word (??) 
 
But you've already had one 
                Ab 
If you were a bluebird, 
          Eb 
you'd be crying 
Db               Ab 
You'd be flying home 
Ab 
If you were a raindrop,  
 
You'd shine like a rainbow 
                  Db 
And if you were a train stop, 
 
The conductor would sing low 
              Ab 
If you were a raindrop, 
         Eb 
You'd be falling 
Db               Ab 
You'd be calling home 
 
SOLO 
 
Ab 
If you were a hotel  honey  
 
You'd be a grand one 
                  Db 
But, if you hit a slow spell, 
 
Do you think you could stand one 
              Ab 
If you were a hotel, 
                      Eb 
Well I'd lean on your doorbell 
Db                Ab 
I'd call you my home 
Ab 
If I was a highway, 
 
I'd stretch alongside you 
                  Db                       
I'd help you pass byways that had dissatisfied you 
            Ab 
If I was a highway, 
            Eb 
well I'd be stretchin 
Db                 Ab 
I'd be fetchin you home 
 
SOLO 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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