I Call Her Heartache Chords

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I Call Her Heartache by Jim Reeves is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D7, G7 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
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Verse 

G                                            D7 
Some call her sweetheart but they just don’t know 
                                        G 
That heartache will follow wherever she goes 
                     G7            C 
I call her heartache I’ll tell you why 
                 G       D7          G 
The first time I saw her she made me cry 

               C                       G 
Yes I call her heartache for a lady so grand 
C                                                  D7 
Means heartaches for a poor boy with thorns in his hands 
G                   G7            C 
Love has many faces love has many names 
              G          D7                  G 
Happiness and heartaches sometimes seems the same 

                                         D7 
I can’t buy her diamonds or dress her in lace 
                                  G 
In society’s manner I’d be out of place 
                             G7        C 
Miss heartache’s no stranger we’ve met before 
                       G          D7         G 
And it seems that each meeting is worse than before 
    	

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