Everybody Oughta Make A Change Chords

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Everybody Oughta Make A Change by Eric Clapton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, E, D7 and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed
  			A riff 

E |-------------------------------|| 
B |--3--------2-------------------|| 
G |--2--------2-------------------|| 
D |--0-----1--2-------------------|| 
A |--|-----|--|-------------------|| 
E |--|-----|--|-------------------|| 
     |     |__| 
     1     2  &   3      4 

Intro 
|A riff x8 

verse 1 
|A riff               |A riff 
Change in the weather, change in the sea,  
|A riff                      |A riff 
Come back baby, you'll find a change in me.  
    |D    |D                      |A riff      |A riff 
Everybody, we ought to change sometime,  
       |E              |E (2 beats) 
Because sooner or later  
|D                                 |A riff       |A riff 
  We're going down in that lonesome ground. 
|A riff |A riff 

verse 2 
|A riff         |A riff 
I changed suits, I changed shirts,  
|A riff                     |A riff 
I changed, baby, just to get shed of the dirt.  
    |D    |D                      |A riff      |A riff 
Everybody, we ought to change sometime,  
       |E              |E (2 beats) 
Because sooner or later  
|D                                 |A riff       |A riff 
  We're going down in that lonesome ground.  

|A riff |A riff 

verse 3 
|A riff         |A riff 
I changed honey, I changed money,  
|A riff                  |A riff 
I changed people, just to keep from being funny.  
    |D    |D                      |A riff      |A riff 
Everybody, we ought to change sometime,  
       |E              |E (2 beats) 
Because sooner or later  
|D                                 |A riff       |A riff 
  We're going down in that lonesome ground. 

Solo 

|D7     |D7     |A      |A 
|D7     |D7     |A      |A 
|D7     |D7     |A      |A 
|E7     |D7     |NC 

|A riff x4 

verse 4 
|A riff               |A riff 
Change in the weather, change in the sea,  
|A riff                      |A riff 
Come back baby, you'll find a change in me.  
    |D    |D                      |A riff      |A riff 
Everybody, we ought to change sometime,  
       |E              |E (2 beats) 
Because sooner or later  
|D                                 |A riff       |A riff 
  We're going down in that lonesome ground. 

|A riff (repeat to fade) 
    	

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