Ask Me How I Know Chords

KeyG Capo6st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays713

Ask Me How I Know by Garth Brooks is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords G, Em, C, D, G/F# and D/F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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verse 1 
       G                             Em 
You're stubborn as they come, you'll never settle down 
       C                     G 
You'll always be the one who doesn't stick around 
G                        Em 
You make all the rules, you're set in your ways 
    C                            G 
You gotta have your freedom, you gotta have your space 


          G                            G 
Cause one day you'll meet the girl you swore you'd never find 
      Em 
Start feeling things you never felt and spending all your time 
C                                             G     D 
Trying to figure out how she got this hold on you 
    G 
And when you start to fall, you'll hold onto your pride 
      Em 
Start building up your walls and never let her get inside 
C                                                      G     D 
You'll push her away 'cause that's all you know how to do 
                Em                  D              C 
And then she'll leave and you won't beg her not to go 
             G 
Ask me how I know 

verse 2 
   G                          Em 
Go on and shake your head and tell me that I'm wrong 
          C                             G 
Say, "I'm just another fool and this is just another song" 
    G                         Em 
But I know how you are 'cause I know how I am 
    C                       G 
And I'd give anything to go back and try again 

 
          G                            G 
Cause one day you'll meet the girl you swore you'd never find 
      Em 
Start feeling things you never felt and spending all your time 
C                                             G     D 
Trying to figure out how she got this hold on you 
    G 
And when you start to fall, you'll hold onto your pride 
      Em 
Start building up your walls and never let her get inside 
C                                                      G     D 
You'll push her away 'cause that's all you know how to do 
                Em                  D              C 
And then she'll leave and you won't beg her not to go 
             G       
Ask me how I know 

Bridge 
G G G G D D D D G G/F# 
        Em       D/F#      C    G    G/F# 
And you best put this song on repeat 
      Em       D/F#      C       D 
Maybe then you won't end up like me 

 
          G                            G 
Cause one day you'll meet the girl you swore you'd never find 
      Em 
Start feeling things you never felt and spending all your time 
C                                             G      
Trying to figure out how she got this hold on you 
    G 
And when you start to fall, you'll hold onto your pride 
      Em 
Start building up your walls and never let her get inside 
C                                                      G     D 
You'll push her away 'cause that's all you know how to do 
                Em                  D              C 
And then she'll leave and you won't beg her not to go 
             G       
Ask me how I know 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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