Dont Let This Touch You Chords

KeyA Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays491

Dont Let This Touch You by Gordon Downie is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords A/C#, Dsus2, A, F#m and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
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A/C#           Dsus2     A 
Don't let this touch you  
A              Dsus2     A/C#       
Don't let this touch you  


verse 1 

A         Dsus2  A         Dsus2 
Words are birds, words are snow  
A      Dsus2   A                    Dsus2 
Words whisper, words don't make the rain go  
A     Dsus2 A        Dsus2 
Wilderness, can't be done  
A    Dsus2  A        Dsus2 
Unfinished, can't be done  


A/C#         A         A/C#  A 
Don't let it touch you  
A              Dsus2     A/C#  
Don't let this touch you  


verse 2 

A         Dsus2   A         Dsus2 
Words are blanks, words are ghosts  
A         Dsus2  A                    Dsus2 
Words are god,   words don't make the rain go  
A      Dsus2  A      Dsus2 
I'm confused, by freedom  
A       Dsus2   A        Dsus2 
What do you do, with freedom?  


Bridge 

  Dsus2                   A 
I heard them in the dark, heard the things they do  
F#m                                  Dsus2  
   I heard the heavy whispers, whispering, ‘don't let this touch you'  
Bm 
   How-how 
A 
   How-how 
F#m 
   How-how 
Dsus2 
   How-how 


A/C#           Dsus2     A 
Don't let this touch you  
A              Dsus2     A/C#       
Don't  
A/C#           Dsus2     A 
Don't let this touch you  
A              Dsus2     A/C#       
Don't  


Outro 
  
Dsus2     A             Dsus2 A      Dsus2 
      His glowing face, ----- by the stove  
A            Dsus2  A                      Dsus2 
  His orange face, --- daddy make the rain go 
A  Dsus2  A  Dsus2 
A  Dsus2  A  Dsus2 
A  Dsus2  A  Dsus2 
A  Dsus2  A  Dsus2 
A 
    	

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).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante