Calling Your Name Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays509

Calling Your Name by Hank Williams III is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, D7, G, A and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
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  			VERSE #1 
 D              D7              G                            
I've been up all night and I can't sleep- I've been 
D                        A     A7     D           D7 
 thinking about you and I can't eat- I tried to go outside,  
                G               D              A7 
but it started to rain- And I'm sitting here in tears 
        D      D7 
calling your name 

          G                          D 
Calling your name O lord, I need you now I diden't know how  
             A      A7         D         D7           G 
far I was driffting out- It's been so hard living all alone 
                D           A7                       D 
I need you this time Lord please can you give me a home 
 
 
VERSE #2 
D                      D7                       G 
It's been so hard these last few years with out you- I've  
 D                     A     A7       D         D7 
been wild and I don't have a care- I've caused myself so  
      G               D         A7         D      D7 
much sorrow- So I'm calling this time can I be saved 
 
 
CHORUS: 
 
 
OUTRO           D             A7                       D 
I'm calling this time Lord please can you give me a home 
    	

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