The Promise Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays610

The Promise by Girls Aloud is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, Am, C, A, Dm and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			E 
Everything he does is better than anything ordinary 
E 
Everything he wants he gets coz everything he does is kinda necessary 
E 
I believe in love, tell me can anything last forever 
E 
Life can live up to love, got a hand on my heart, gonna say it never 


Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade, babe 
Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade 

   
E                                   C                     
Maybe next time I'll take a ride on by  
                 A 
I wanna feel you near 
E                                  C 
Coz I cant play this like I'm into now 
                     A 
My aladdin's lamp is down and I got fear 
              C 
Oh baby right here 


Am                          C        E 
Giving up just looking into windows, yeah 
     Am                            Dm 
I've had enough of wishing I found you 
  C       
Baby, dont you know 
     C                            Am 
I've had as much as I can take of falling, yeah 
C                               D 
Got a lot to learn 'bout riding through 


Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade, babe 
Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade 


C 
Here I am, walking primrose  
                   E         C 
Wondering when I'm gonna see you again 
C 
So here I am, walking primrose  
                   E         C 
Wondering when I'm gonna see you again 


C 
I got my hands all ready to touch your soul 
C                                            E 
I'm gonna get the energy to wire me close to you 
E 
Got my eyes on the prize I see 
C 
Are you watching me baby 
C 
Coz my heart is turning to solid gold 
    C                                      E 
And my head is saying honey too good to be true 
E 
Oh one look in your glitter eyes 
C 
How else telling me everytime 


Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade, babe 
Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade 


E 
Maybe its not that hard to know you 
E 
Maybe we'll make things up and go 
E 
Maybe we'll work things out 
C                                         E 
Theres ony one way up and one way down, I know 
E 
If you wanna convince me, start again 
E                             C 
If you wanna be with me in my arms 

Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade, babe 
Am                              C 
Your gonna make me make me love you  
Am                             C 
Nothing at all, nothing that I do 
A 
Promise me, promise me 
A 
Starting to fade, starting to fade 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante