Still Doing Time Chords

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Still Doing Time by George Jones is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, E7, A, A7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			         D 
has it been a year since the last time i've seen her my god  
    G                 D 
i could swear it was ten and the ocean ofliquor i drank to  
                         E7                      A 
forget her is gonna kill me but i'll drink til then i've  
        G                                         D 
been living in hell with a bar for a cell still paying for 
              G           D                   A7 
my cheating crime and i've got a long way to go still doing  
  D 
time.          
 
 
                       **chrous** 
A7            D                           D7          G 
still doing time in a honky tonk prison still doing time  
                                     A 
where a man ain't forgiven my poor heart is breaking oh but  
   G                           D                 A7 
there's no escaping each moring i wake up and i find still 
        D        
doing time.  
 
D7                      G 
oh when your caught cheating twice it's twenty to 
            D                          G 
life in a place where the sun never shines and tommorrow  
   D                         A7               D 
you're gonna find me right here still doing time. 
 
                         **repeat chrous** 
    	

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