Bedouin Dress Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays461

Bedouin Dress by Fleet Foxes is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, G7, D, Em, Gm6/9, Am 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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G
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G                                 C 
If to borrow is to take and not return 
C                               G 
I have borrowed all my lonesome life 
G       G7        C         D 
And I can't, no I can't get through 
G                                D            G 
The borrower's debt is the only regret of my youth 

 C G D G 

G7 Em Gm6/9 G 

 C G D G 

G                                        C  
And believe me it's not easy when I look back 
C                             G 
Everything I took got soon returned 
G       G7    C            D 
Just to be at Innisfree again 
G                                     D   G 
All of the sirens are driving me over the stern 
G       G7    C            D 
Just to be at Innisfree again 
G                                     D   G 
All of the sirens are driving me over the stern 

C G D G 

Am Em D G Am 
Am Em D G G7 

G C C G 



Am Em D G Am 
Am Em D G  


Bm      Am      Em 
One day at Innisfree 
Bm      G7     C     G 
One day that's mine there 

C G D G 

G7 Em Gm6/9 G 

C G D G 


G                                         C  
In the street one day I saw you among the crowd 
C                      G 
In a geometric pattern dressed 
G        G7    C           D 
Gleaming white just as I recall 
G                            D         G 
Old as I get I will never forget it at all 

G        G7    C           D 
Gleaming white just as I recall 
G                            D         G 
Old as I get I will never forget it at all 

C G D G 

Am Em D G Am 
Am Em D G G7 

G C C G 



Am Em D G Am 
Am Em D G  

Bm      Am      Em 
One day at Innisfree 
Bm      G7     C     G 
One day that's mine there 
    	

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