I Can't Seem To Shake These Blues Chords

KeyGm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays446

I Can't Seem To Shake These Blues by Gary Smith Blues Band is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of Gm. It uses the chords Gm, Cm and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Gm
Text
16
Speed
  			Intro 
Gm / Cm / Gm / Dm  Cm Gm 

verse 1 
Gm 
I can’t seem to shake these blues 
Gm 
No matter how I try 
Gm 
I feel so funny every day 
Gm 
And man I don’t know why 
Cm                                  Gm 
Why can’t I be happy like everybody else 
Dm                      Cm               Gm 
I spend most of my time feeling sorry for myself 

verse 2 
Gm 
Well I sing to keep for worrying 
Gm 
And I laugh to keep from crying 
Gm 
Know everyone’s got problems 
Gm 
But I’m most concerned with mine 
Cm                                  Gm 
Why can’t I be happy like everybody else 
Dm                      Cm                Gm 
I spend most of my time feeling sorry for myself 

verse 3 
Gm 
Well sometimes I feel so worried 
Gm 
I don’t know what to do 
Gm 
Got way too much on my mind 
Gm 
To be much good to you 
Cm                                       Gm 
How come I can’t be happy like everybody else 
Dm                      Cm                Gm 
I spend most of my time feeling sorry for myself 
How come I can’t be happy 

Outro 
Gm  Cm  Gm  Dm  Cm Gm 
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante