Big Boring Wedding Chords

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Big Boring Wedding by Guided By Voices is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, Em, F#m, G and A. 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
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16
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verse 1 

D                Em 
I have entered a shiny new realm 
  F#m                G 
A very different and very spoiled world 
     D                          Em 
It’s with great pleasure I introduce myself 
   F#m                    G 
To come and thank you for such delicious pie 


verse 2 

    D                     Em 
The irony’s sweet bird is paralyzed 
     F#m                 G 
With one good finger you try me on for size 
     D                        Em 
It’s hard to imagine that you just want to leave 
     F#m            G 
With yellow photos, pocket sized 


Bridge 

G                      F#m         Em 
Revealing mobility, of psychedelic eye 
G                           F#m            Em 
Spontaneous and violent but private to the mind 
     A 
With nowhere left to go 

D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 

D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 

verse 3 

    D             Em           F#m         G 
The chandelier is spinning and shaking 
    D             Em      F#m         G 
The vibrachord is already waking 


Bridge 

G                      F#m         Em 
Revealing mobility, of psychedelic eye 
G                           F#m            Em 
Spontaneous and violent but private to the mind 
     A 
With nowhere left to go 


D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 

D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 

D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 

D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 

D                             Em 
Pass the word, the chicks are back 
               F#m 
The chicks are back, yeah 
               G 
The chicks are back 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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