Late Night Radio Chords

KeyC Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays388

Late Night Radio by John Denver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C 
There’s lonely hearts in Arkansas 

          F 
There’s truckers in Des Moines 

      G                                   C 
All there to keep me company in the early morn 


A world unknown to daytime 

     F 
Is forever going on 

       C             G 
The airwaves of the nation 

          F               C 
Between midnight and the dawn 

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C    F       G     C 
Late night radio 

Am 
Take it everywhere I go 

F                        C 
My best friend when I’m lonely 
       G           C 
Is my late night radio 

- - - 

  C 
Well I turn the dial 

                  F 
A little bit past one-0-one point two 

    G 
In time to catch the news 

                C 
And see who’s shooting who 

Then I hunt around for old songs 

             F 
They’re so good to hear again 

      C             G 
To think of how it was 

         F                 C 
Imagine how it might have been 

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 C    F       G     C 
Late night radio 

Am 
Take it everywhere I go 

F                        C 
My best friend when I’m lonely 
       G           C 
Is my late night radio 

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Am 
La la la I sing along 

           F 
‘cause I never know the words 

   G7 
La la la la la la la la 

     F 
I’d love to call a talk show 

                      C 
But I haven’t got the nerve 

     G            C 
La la la, Oh, oh, oh, radio 


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     C 
The Lord is still my shepherd 

             F 
But these preachers got to go 

      G7 
This time of night my interest 

         C 
Lies in U.F.Os 

So I turn the dial a little 

        F 
Past fifty-six point three 

    C             G7 
To find myself a lullaby 

    F              C 
To rock me off to sleep 

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 C    F       G     C 
Late night radio 

Am 
Take it everywhere I go 

F                        C 
My best friend when I’m lonely 
       G           C 
Is my late night radio 

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 C    F       G     C 
Late night radio 

Am 
Take it everywhere I go 

F                        C 
My best friend when I’m lonely 
       G           C 
Is my late night radio 
    	

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