Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Chords

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Hand Me Down My Walking Cane by Jerry Lee Lewis is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D7 and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G 
Hand me down my walking cane 

        D7              G  
Hand me down my walking cane 

C 
Hand me down my walking cane 

G 
Lord I’m leaving on the midnight train 

D7                    G  
All my sins are taken away 




Well hand me down my rocking shoes 

             D7                 G 
Well if hand me down my rocking shoes 

C 
Well if hand me down my rocking shoes 

G 
We’ll rock to the rhythm and blues 

D7                    G 
All my sins are taken away 




Well hand me down my white sports coat 

        D7                   G  
Hand me down my white sports coat 

C 
Well hand me down my white sports coat 

G 
We’ll start rocking and boy we’ll go 

D7                    G  
All my sins are taken away 




Well hand me down my walking bone 

        D7              G   
Hand me down my walking bone 

C 
Well hand me down my walking bone 

G 
We start rocking we’ll be a rolling stone 

D7                    G 
All my sins are taken away 
    	

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.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante