Bye Bye Blackbird Chords

KeyA Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays434

Bye Bye Blackbird by Joe Cocker is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, E, Amaj7, E7, Bm, Bm7, E7/B, A7, G, F#, Dm, Esus4 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed
  			
 
 

A 
   Pack up all my cares and woes 
E                  A 
   Feeling low, here I go 
A  Amaj7        E    E7 
Bye bye blackbird 

Bm                           BmM7 
    Where somebody waits for me 
Bm7                  E7/B 
    Sugar sweet, so is she 
E     E7           A    A7 
Bye bye blackbird 

A                                  G                 F# 
   No one seems to love or understand me 
Bm Bm7                               Bm7 E7/B Dm Esus4 
   And all the hard luck  stories    -    they keep handing me 
A 
   Where somebody shines the light 
G                           F# 
   I'll be coming on home tonight 
Bm  E              A      E 
    Bye bye blackbird 
                                             
Solo 
Nobody seems to love or understand me 
And all the hard luck stories they keep on handing me 
Where somebody shines the light 
I'm coming on home tonight 
Bye bye blackbird... 
                         D7  A7 
    	

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